I haven't been able to do much illustration nor painting at all within the past few months, since storyboarding and animation is consuming my life but I love it so much!
I've been gushing over sakuga AMVs and genga keyframe drawings and expensive-as-heck artbooks from Japan... it's truly awesome to have friends to accidentally stay up til 7am just checking out cool stuff with... Enthusiasm is infectious indeed! If you nerd over that kind of stuff, we gotta become friends! hahaha
Also been trying to catch up with more anime and watching stuff I never would have thought to watch-- Angel Beats (which I started because someone rec'd the OST and was pleasantly surprised), Madoka, Haruhi, etc etc. As for stuff that's currently airing, I've been watching Steins;Gate (my personal fav of this summer season so far), as well as Blue Exorcist and Tiger & Bunny which are entertaining and alright. And the One Piece manga, of course, is way up there on a pedestal... ! If anyone's got suggestions, (especially shorter season stuff that I can marathon easily), then by all means, come at me bro!


The Preorder journal for the Rising Sun Art Book is up! All profits made in the sales will be donated to the Japanese Salvation Army. Please lend your support! [link]
Also, Trigun the Movie: Badlands Rumble will be having a limited release in the USA very soon, starting July! So please support the industry and show the studios that their hard work is being appreciated! Plus, if the reception of the movie is good enough to prove a fanbase still exists, it may even motivate the making of Trigun Maximum as a series, a possibility hinted by Satoshi Nishimura himself.
Info and tickets here! [link]

Lastly I will be at AX from Sat ~ Mon with the awesome Carl aka
EDIT: Here's a helpful guide to AX Artist Alley layout by









And ahhh... Ano Hana, aka the series that people tweeted about crying during the last episode. I've been meaning to watch it but it seems like one of those series that you gotta prepare yourself and watch it with a box of tissues ready or something... ? haha!
As for Welcome to the NHK, wow! So many different formats have been done, and the novel has even been translated.. means it's gotta be good. And in hindsight, 40 chapters/20 episodes isn't bad at all (not after One Piece! ahaha)
Thanks a lot for the recs!
And thanks! It's hard to make out names since the credits get shrunken down to an unreadable size on TV to make room for commercials, LOL. It feels nice to hear someone managed to see it!
Good luck with your internship, it'd be really cool if you get to come down to LA for that! And haha omg, the old days. Thanks! It was great hearing from you, and hope you're doing awesome at school! Take care of your wrists and health and whatnot and enjoy your experiences!!
I hope you are doing well