Scryed Fanart

[Asuka Was Here]

Oooh, very nice lighting effects on his face. I might have increased the glow on his hair a bit, but other than that, it's very nice. I really like the brown smudges in the background; they create a nice-looking feel of wood in the dark.

Don't worry about the OC, it's fine; and thanks for letting me use them ^^

[orochimaruchan]

I tried to do the lighting in a better way, but ended up giving up and just got lazy.

[Asuka Was Here]

Ah. Yeah, I can understand that; I've done similar things. -.-'
(although, if it were me... I probably would have just turned his hair green ^^ and then counted how many people mistook him for Ryuhou )

[orochimaruchan]

More Cougar...





I wish they'd release a new figure of him instead of another of Scheris....

[Asuka Was Here]

Scheris is more popular with the guys because she has boobs *nod* hence she gets more figurines.
...It is an unfortunate world that we live in, where sex appeal is considered more important to manufacturers than outright coolness.
...Or we could just have a whole bunch of Kazuma figures, because he's both cool and hot

Speaking of smexyness, though, that is a surprisingly hot picture of Cougar. I usually don't find him terribly attractive (though he is darn cool and quite loveable), but that picture is an exception. Possibly because of the way you changed the shape of his face... and his eyes are pretty ^^
I do have one complaint, though - his right shoulder seems almost detached/dislocated. The deltoid needs to be positioned further back and possibly further down his arm; it just looks unnatural where it is now, unless he swims A LOT, which I somehow doubt.

[orochimaruchan]

I know they gave her one cuz she's the token whore of the series and all, they always do that for every series, but I can still complain.

And there's already a lot of Kazuma figures, they aren't obtainable anymore, but I think he had the most out of all of them, something like 3 figures and like 5 garage kits.


Or maybe it's his body, his sexy, sexy body. I like the shape of his face, it's makes him a good kisser, and his eyes are really nice when they're full of emotion...his hair's soft too.........I'm getting off track now......



The only defense I have is that his arm is sticking out, but really, I'm aware of the problem, it was actually worse when I first drew the sketch......

[Asuka Was Here]

Well, I wouldn't quite call her a token whore (though she definitely is in the manga, horrible creation that it is; she's less slutty-looking in the anime).
...I should so totally go into sculpture so I can make my own Kazuma statues

...o...kay... I'll just nod and go along with that *nods*

[orochimaruchan]

Well, technically there's always one in every anime, and Sherice's only real competition is Mimori and Kanami, and Kanami's 8 so we'll just cross her off right now.

I believe that the Scryed manga is actually a Seinen manga so it's for an older audience, 18 and up basically, that explains why the nudity is there. Tenjou Tenge is the same way.

I've thought about doing that, to make my own characters, but then I always remember how boring clay gets.....


I would, my mind isn't exactly sane anymore, but I believe you proved your not that far behind me in the New Layout thread.

[Asuka Was Here]

Kanami is the object of all the pedophile's lolita fantasies, but I prefer not to think about it. Mimori's too... goody-two-shoes for the perverts...
How about Ayase? She's a side character, but she's neither eight nor compulsively pacifistic...

Seinen manga or up, it is nothing short of soft porn. They use any and every excuse to make Scheris naked, stick in ridiculous hentai-boobed (yes, hentai has its own breast size ) characters like Mary Jane, and they ended the series with a psychotic epilogue which involved martians invading and Kazuma blowing up Ryo-ohki from Tenchi Muyo in spaceship form. It was just... bad.

Not far behind, perhaps ^^ ... but half of what I say is in jest, anyway

[orochimaruchan]

She's really plain though, and I don't think popular enough to be counted as competition.


That's exactly what Seinen manga is, it's like porn with a really advanced storyline and possibly fighting. The Scryed manga isn't even near as bad as Tenjou Tenge, I'd never look into it if you can't even stand the Scryed manga.


Yeah.................I don't jest.....

[Asuka Was Here]

I wouldn't exactly call it an advanced storyline... it's more like pure crack. They just seem to make it up as they go along, like, "oh, how about we put in an Egyptyian pyramid?" or, "why don't we send Kazuma back in time to meet some dinosaurs?" It's just... stupid.
No intentions of looking into Tenjou Tenge; I've read enough synopses and seen enough statues/character designs/screenshots in Newtype to know I wouldn't like it. Porn does not amuse me. I'll tolerate mild, infrequent nudity a la Saiyuki, but randomly making girls (or guys) naked for the sake of it is not my cup of tea. Tasteful nudity, I suppose, is all I tolerate.

...Plus, if you take a look at the way they drew boobs in Scryed... yeah, they're not even physically possible. I mean they're not.... big stiff lemon-shaped blobs attached to a girl's chest... I'm gonna shut up now before that gets more awkward o.0'

Ah, but I do. I've honestly never entertained any fantasies beyond cuddling ^^ 'Course, I bet a lot of people would cuddle Kazu-kun, given the chance. They just wouldn't... live... much longer.

[orochimaruchan]

Okay, the Scryed manga sucks, we both know that, but I was talking in general of all other Seinen manga. Like TenTen, it actually has a rather complex storyline, although most of it sucks, it still has it. And the anime is nowhere near as bad as the manga is, similar to how covered up the Scryed anime is to the manga. TenTen has some of the most incredible fight scenes though, which is one of it's saving points. You could always look into the English version of the manga, it's heavily censored which is why I refuse to buy it, not because of what they censored ( basically all nudity and I think a lot of blood), but because censorship in manga is blasphemous, it shouldn't be censored just because it's mature, if it's for 18 and up take precautions to make sure minors can't get it. Like how they wrap the yaoi in the stores.


Since when has anime and manga ever been about physical correctness or things that are actually possible.

I..I like cuddling...Cougar's cuddly............*sits in corner*

[Asuka Was Here]

Ooble. Well, I can definitely agree with you about censorship; it's quite ridiculous. Let people decide for themselves what they do and don't want to see. One of those see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil things. If you don't like it, don't participate. It's silly to try and stuff your morals down someone else's throat.
(Actually, for our anime club, since it's a high-school thing, we had to cover up all of the visible boobs in Saiyuki... but we covered them with easy-to-remove post-it notes, so if anyone wanted to, they could easily see the full, unedited page ).

I'm too preoccupied with other series right now to start buying anything else, really. Between Saiyuki, Loveless, Yami no Matsuei, Hana Kimi, Bleach, Ouran High, Death Note, and whatever I see that has good shelf appeal, I have no room in my wallet for another manga series, much less a silly censored one. Gods, I need a job.
... there's actually a lot of shoujo on that list (if you count shounen-ai as shoujo, as they often overlap). Hana Kimi is my sister's fault, tho' - I'm not interested in the series.

[orochimaruchan]

I had to cut my manga list down to just Bleach and Eyeshield 21 form like 10 different series because I ran out of money. I pick up other incidentals too, like the vols of FMA that have Greed in them, or D-Grayman. But I still pick up Jap tanks for series too.


Kazuma

www.deviantart.com/deviation/37910108/


He looks too old.....


I took a break from drawing to.....draw......

[Asuka Was Here]

My manga list isn't that great, actually - I only but stuff when I come across money now and then, but I buy pretty much every volume I'm missing when I do go shopping And then I end up broke again. Either that, or I spend my money on cosplay materials, and end up broke that way. All in all, my wallet's usually empty -.-'

Eh, he does look a little old, but you could just say he's future!Kazuma
The oekaki is cute, too, although - is it just me, or is his face a little long/tall? Seems like it should be a little rounder to me.

[orochimaruchan]

All my money generally goes toward buying stuff online, and that's about it. I don't even live near a bookstore anymore so I could even get to one to buy manga.



Yes, future!Kazuma, who has been miraculously healed of all his alter induced wounds, just like future!Cougar, who has kids.............


It's an illusion brought upon by where the nose and mouth are, ignore it, I just wanted to draw his expression.

[Asuka Was Here]

I have to get on the highway to get to my nearest bookstore, but it's not a bad drive.
...*thinks* Actually, I take that back. There's one in downtown Fairfield that's about equally far away, but I don't know how to get to it. Anyway, I order all of my DVDs online, but I usually buy books in person.

...is future!Cougar a zombie or something? And whose kids are we talking about? o.0

[orochimaruchan]

I can't drive, so that leaves me rather limited. Since you did see what my room used to look like, it should be obvious that I'm a bit more on the collector side, I even have more since I moved. Which reminds me, still need to take new pictures of my room.......


future!Cougar never died, and nobody you know anyway....I might draw one though.......






I want to see of I could draw him....

[Asuka Was Here]

That's... really, really cute, actually. He looks a little bit chibi-ish, but other than that you did an excellent job. You should draw more Kimi ^^

I can drive, but my car never has any gas in it because I'm broke -.- So in the end, I still have to try and bum rides off of people whenever I can. Why don't you start a thread for people to show off their anime-encrusted rooms and collections or something? *points at anime board*

Oh, I see. ...How exactly did future!Cougar not die, again?

[orochimaruchan]

It is really cute isn't it, even I think it is and I drew it.

I might, but I'd have to get my own pictures first. I don't have a camera I can use so I'd have to use my web cam and there's a lot to take with just a web cam....


Other worldly plot devices, and a new soul, that always helps.






I can't think of anything whitty to say here..........