Gave up my youth, for my future.
I just want to, rise up stronger.
No way back to the past, Ill step ahead, go right in front of me.
Face the night, I will rise up.
i'm only now just realizing that me having danny vibe w jenny wakeman and the powerpuff girls in my crossovers is basically like if you took a shounen protag and magical girl protags and just had them hangout together
I had the absolute pleasure of watching Belle earlier in January this year, and it hasn’t left my mind ever since. It’s just such a beautiful film. The art is amazing, the themes are amazing, the character design is amazing, the storytelling is amazing, the world of U is amazing, the music is amazing, the voices are amazing, I just love this movie so much and the climax to Suzu’s story made me cry like a baby.
With that aside, I wanted to draw something from the movie but for a while I was too scared to in case I ended up hating it due to how high I hold this movie. But a few months later I finally got the courage to start a redraw!
Here’s the OG screenshot btw
I edited the colors in my version to be slightly less yellow, since that just looked better to me, but I changed nothing else except the artstyle! I even traced the background so that everything would look accurate lmao
Anyhoo, I’ll be off crying to “A Million Miles Away,” so nobody talk to me for the next 24 hours :’)
what has been helpful for me is not thinking "this is okay for me to do" or "i deserve this" but rather "nobody can stop me from doing this and nobody particularly wants to." which now that i write it out does sound kind of pathological in itself but to be honest, if i start thinking in terms of what's "okay" and what's "deserved" then i fall down an obsessive moral staircase without end, splitting hairs til my skull cracks
I just remembered that a Mononoke movie is in production, slated to air in summer 2024. Definitely excited to see this iconic, zany, eerie series return after so many years! The Medicine Seller has a new look, and Hiroshi Kamiya is his VA (yes him again haha). I was a bit sad that his original VA (Takahiro Sakurai) isn't returning, but Kamiya also sounds great in the role, and to be fair, it's been over 15 years since then - Mononoke came out in 2007.
I’m watching Spy x Family and I can’t help but notice that Eden Academy is a dead ringer for Eton College, down to the brick gatehouse and founder statue out front.
Thank you history for making me notice these things.
Dai was never created for Kakashi. She was created for myself.
Dai holds an incredibly special place in my heart as probably my first OC. She was initially an obvious self-insert of who I wanted to be. Initially, someone mature and demure. Her character design constantly changed and was fixed for a long period of time.
In my pre-teen and teen years, Dai was actually “Dark.” A delinquent with short hair with red tips (very common trope but shit I thought she was so cool). It was representative of the rage I had felt for all those years--as well as the loneliness that was there. When the original WWC was created, I wrote it to make it seem like Kakashi would be attracted to this kind of person (who was cold, stand-offish, and stuff). Looking back, it was obviously forced--that kind of attraction doesn’t really fit.
Coming to recent years, Dai’s character has changed drastically while still keeping the elements of who she was growing to be. Now her character feels a lot more fleshed out. A girl who is just trying to get by, who doesn’t want to rely on anyone, but obviously needs to rely on Kakashi--because she is also a survivalist.
She’s more playful, more forgiving, maybe sometimes forces herself to be more mature about things because she had to grow up a lot faster than your regular person.
Would Kakashi like someone like that? Guess we’ll need to find out.
Overall, Dai was never created with Kakashi in mind. Dai was created for me. Truth be told, maybe they would be a couple that wouldn’t be meant to be. But I would like to think that’s a possibility.