#minogame

[fionacreates]

Knitting is apparently trending so i feel the urge to share with you the fact I knit a lot, and apparently rarely take photos of my finished pieces only WIPs (i finish things, i swear…)

#what artists do when they’re not arting #knitting #stephen west #a passion for lace #dear ingene #minogame #dead of night sweater #shawlography #honey stripe scarf #twists and turns

[lowcountry-gothic]

Minogame, by Matthew Meyer. From The Palace of the Dragon King.

#art #matthew meyer #folklore #japan #yokai #minogame #turtles

[third-half]

minogame from hellsinker.

#hellsinker. #minogame

[kits-shrine]

“Would we be able to see it, or would you prefer I give you seedlings to plant?” Ingall asked.

The tip of the turtles long staff whirled underneath the former elf's nose "AHA! Tryin' ta put me to work are ya whippersnapper?!"

#aizawasluckylady #minogame #you cantankerous old coot

[charliescreatures]

Another creature for Librum Prodigiosum ! The Minogame, from Japanese mythology! This legendary turtle can have a tremendous life span- sometimes up to 10,000 years! The most famous one comes from the tale of Urashima Tarō!

#digital art #digital illustration #fantasy #folklore #mythology #librum prodigiosum #monster #art #mythical creatures #japan #japanese mythology #minogame #turtle #turtle art #seaweed tail! #mythologyart

[shadowcaststudio]

Now up is the Art Process video that y'all voted on! Thank you all who voted on my social media platforms. Here's a peak into how I created a digital art piece and some shop talk.

#Legend Catcher #legendcatcher #paranormal #tea #monsters #turtle #minogame #art process #art process video #speed draw #speed paint #digital art #shadowcast studio

[bananajims]

#minogame and blossoms made for Felix while working @frontiertattooparlour #Bananajims #thecirclelondon #Ukiyoe #irezumi #horimono #wabori #japanesetattoo #sohotattoo #londontattoo #ldnttt #tttism #londonartist #londontattoos #tattoolondon #uktta #ninemag #dsrupttt #totaltattoo #uktattoo #tattoouk (at Japan Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CicdJyor-EL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#minogame #bananajims #thecirclelondon #ukiyoe #irezumi #horimono #wabori #japanesetattoo #sohotattoo #londontattoo #ldnttt #tttism #londonartist #londontattoos #tattoolondon #uktta #ninemag #dsrupttt #totaltattoo #uktattoo #tattoouk

[oldgloryflash]

#turtle #minogame #Japanese

[nickysfacts]

Here’s to over 9,000 more years of the Squirtle Squad doing its thing!

💧🐢🇯🇵

#history #squirtle #wartortle #minogame #japan #mythology #turtle #pokemon #good fortune #japanese mythology #ancient #game freak #starter pokemon #kanto #japanese history #myth #nintendo #squirtle squad #super smash bros #ancient japan #wisdom #japanese culture #mythical creatures #ancient history #nickys facts

[hellishgayliath]

this has been in my files for quite a while yeesh

I’m a big fan of both Rottmnt and Pokemon as you can obviously tell lol

So I thought it’d be cool to envision the Squirtle line in the rottmnt art style.

Squirtle’s look is solely based on his Squirtle Squad getup in the anime y’know, headband, shades, etc. I made his skin markings resemble water droplets/bubbles. Squirtle’s and Wartortle’s shell marks are just the hexagonal shapes that come from their original shell.

Wartortle’s look comes a lot from his canon personality, which he’s a bit of a ruffian. They’re known to get into fights and fisticuffs a bit and can be very aggressive, that’s why they have so many scratches and bandages and even chips in their plastron. Their skin markings come from what Wartortle is originally based on which is the minogame, a mythological turtle with seaweed and algae resembling a tail and it’s longevity. Wartortle is actually my favourite of the Squirtle line becuz I for one love the poofy/wispy ear and tail combo.

Blastoise is mainly based on his gigantamax form, cuz I needed alil bit more something to work with. Hence the white triangular markings, the turquoise eyes, the stickers that come from the gigantamax lighting. I did attempt to give him ears, but I didn’t like the way they looked so I tried to make it show with the mask instead (and his triangle marks).

So uh yeah thanks for tuning in to my fangeek time <3

#rottmnt #pokemon #crossover #squirtle #wartortle #blastoise #my art #this was really fun to do and i'm really proud of it #i probably wont do any other turtle like pokemon tho cuz i just wanted to focus on this lineup

[nuveau-deco]

Crane and Tortoise Box. Japanese origin, dated 1894; medium is silver with gold and lacquer; dimensions: 10.5 cm high. From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection, accession number: M18e44.a-b

"This crane and tortoise box was designed and produced to be given to guests at the imperial banquet for the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of the Meiji Emperor and Empress in 1894. Often referred to by the French term “bonbonnière,” the box is decorated with a crane and two tortoises (minogame), historic motifs that convey messages of auspiciousness and longevity across East Asia. …"

(Source: gardnermuseum.org)

#bonbonniere #box #containers #late 1800s #meiji period #japanese design #animal motif #crane #tortoise #birds #reptiles #metal #silver #grey #brown

[omanatascha]

(via GIPHY)

#giphy #happy #cat #smile #flower #mood #spring #garden #april #butterflies #springtime #spring time #catgame #ilovecatgame #spring flowers #hello spring #first day of spring #spring vibes #spring is here #spring equinox #1st day of spring

[adobe-outdesign]

Squirtle line? I actually like the first two stages, but not Blastoise. I miss that fluffy tail Wartortle had and sad Blastoise didn't keep it in.

(Note: This is a rollover review from yesterday; all other asks will be answered tomorrow.)

Squirtle's got a pretty classic design. It's mostly just a normal turtle at this stage—starters often start out fairly plain—but the bipedal stance and curly tail add just enough flavor to keep it from being bland. I also think the use of color here is strong; a nice aqua color for the body to convey the water-typing, and a counter-shaded shell that helps give the body definition. I wouldn't have minded the shell being more of a red than a brown (the anime actually over-saturates it to red constantly), but otherwise I have no real complaints here.

I also want to give a special shout-out to the mouth shape. The beaked look is reminiscent of a snapping turtle, and is just inherently more interesting than having a generic curved happy mouth.

Wartortle, in my opinion, is where the line starts to get interesting. The addition of some lovely feathered ears, coupled with an even curlier tail, now lighter than the body, pushes it from "fairly standard turtle" to "cool monster design". It also gives it a theme; specially, it's based on the minogame, a turtle associated with immortality with seaweed growing from its shell. Hence this 'dex entry:

A few other tweaks, such as a more blue-ish body color and the addition of claws, help further separate it from Squirtle while still keeping it a logical continuation of the elements there. I do think the body's blue color could've stood to be darker for contrast's sake, and the lighter blue might've made more sense as white, but as a whole, I'm a big fan of this design.

If Blastoise always looked completely disconnected from Wartortle to you, that's because: it is. Originally, Blastoise had a pre-evo in the form of what seems to be a sleepy turtle with bubble canons (left), and Wartortle had a more minogame-esq evo (right); both lines were designed by two different people. It's likely they were merged into one line because the original 190 needed to be cut to 150 due to file size restrictions, and two turtles might've seemed redundant.

I can't offer any opinions on these designs designs as all we have are the terrible Gen 1 backsprites, but I have to say that while it does make sense to want to merge the two to keep both designs, it probably would've been better to keep them separate. While the colors and shell designs help with coherency a little, the minogame theme is gone completely, along with all of Squirtle and Wartortle's most distinctive features. In addition, the sudden appearance of guns, different mouth, different tail, segmented forearms, and different underside pattern feels jarring.

This also leads to the side-effect of Wartortle now feeling disconnected; I can potentially see how Squirtle leads into Blastoise, but it's clearly going off in a different direction. While I love Wartortle's design and think it's the strongest of the three, it probably would've been best to adjust it to better fit the new direction when they merged the lines.

All of that said, Blastoise's design in isolation is fine. The design has some good bulk to it that makes sense as a creature with powerful canons, throwing cat ears on a turtle helps it to be a bit less "normal", and the way the guns are integrated into the shell is neat.

I do feel like the guns themselves are too mechanical, as these were the "what exactly is a 'Pokemon'" days. They clearly have machinery in them and can move and adjust position, something only artificially made or modified Pokemon sport nowadays, so it's just weird that Blastoise is basically part cyborg. The actual cannon idea is fine, but it probably would've made more sense if the water came directly out of protrusions in the shell.

Mega Blastoise is at least not too complicated, but honestly, this design never did it for me. I feel like the over-exaggerated top-mounted canon makes it look like it's going to be knocked over by the force of its own blasts. The smaller arm canons with extra shells are interesting, but overshadowed by the larger one too much, and the random pointed chin and "brows" make it look less like Blastoise to me. It's not terrible—better than Venasaur's mega, in that it at least changes things in a meaningful way—but nothing particularly interesting.

Also, why the hell was this not water/steel?

G-max Blastoise, on the other hand, I love—it's one of the few times I prefer a g-max design over a mega. All of the awkwardness of the mega is gone in favor of just giving it a central-mounted cannon, which feels much less forced while still helping to emphasize the guns. This is also compounded by giving the shell a multi-layered shell, which feels like a natural extension of the cannon holes in the original design.

I do however question one of two or the more minor things in the design, such as the random triangles on the legs/tail that add nothing or the underbelly being red, which reduces contrast. I also feel like the cannons would've made more sense and been less cluttered if there was just one larger cannon in each hole instead of two. However, I think this is a strong design as a whole, and I honestly kind of like it more than original Blastoise for at least going all-out and giving us a more unique turtle design.

Overall, I think that Squirtle and Wartortle have a very strong set of designs, but ending with Blastoise makes little sense continuity-wise. Blastoise's mega looks a bit awkward; the g-max is a far superior design. Overall, some solid concepts here only bogged down by Gen 1's file size limitations.

#squirtle #wartortle #blastoise #mega blastoise #pokemon #pokemon reviews #gigantamax blastoise #long post

[kits-shrine]

Ingall made a show of yelping as he rubbed at his poor shines.

"Gold works too." Minogame picked up where he'd left before the boy's cheeky remark threw him. These Otherworlders were trying he likes them.

Inhaling he pointed again at Ingall threateningly "Ya just stay outta my sake stash until I get your juice ready."

#aizawasluckylady #minogame #you cantankerous old coot

[ryo-maybe]

Thinking about the Minogame cameo I spotted years ago in this old touhou doujinshi

#busting it down textual style

[good-morning-czernobog]

So, it's pretty obvious the Teal Mask part of the Scarlet and Violet DLC is based on the fairy tale about Momotaro. I picked it up just by looking at the pokemon shown in preview images. So it feels weird that the Indigo Disk totally changes course with a tournament arc righr? At least that's what it sounded like at first, when they said Blueberry Academy has a focus on pokemon battles.

But as usual I had to see what insights Bulbapedia had about Terapagos. The lovely people on there always have wonderful triva sections for the Pokemon and characters. We'll, Terapagos' mentions a mythical turtle creature called minogame.. a few quick searches revealed some fun connections.

Edit: I FUCKING KNEW IT

minogame is described as a turtle so old that it has seaweed growing of its back. They're symbols of longevity and other attributes like wisdom and happiness (they kinda varied by website I looked at when taking a peak into this).

But minogame also relate to another fairy tale about a boy named Urashima Taro, where a fisherman rescues a turtle that turns out to be a princess, the daughter of Ryujin and she takes him to a palace under the sea. When he gets home he finds that 300 years have passed instead of the 3 days he perceived it as. He ends up opening a jeweled box the princess gave him but told him not to open, the magic escapes and he ages instantly. Ending varies but usually he either turns into a crane (another symbol or longevity), jumps into the sea to rejoin her and is rejuvenated, or crumbles to dust as the lost time catches up.

The kicker here is the Indigo Disk happens to take place at an academy that is...out on the sea!

(don't mind me quickly screenshot ting this from the trailer lol)

And a jeweled box full of magic? Makes sense when jewels have been a big motif in the game, especially the tail end of it.

And one more thing..

That crown it has in the scarlet/violet book might be a terastal hat...meaning it could have its own unique terastalized state. Could be a load of shit too, but it's a fun thought.

#pokemon theory #scarlet violet