Ahhh! One of my favourite Japanese artists has just uploaded a heap of new stuff to Pixiv. She used to have a website called Styx (and you can find some of her old pictures tagged with that, on my blog), but it was taken down years ago. I thought her talent had been lost to the world forever. So glad to be proven wrong ♥♥♥
Source: Yuka
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Hey, remember when I took some requests a million years ago? Well here’s the first one. Sorry for the delay, but I’ve had a lot of stuff pile up on me, from college work to crappy file-eating USB sticks.
Anyway! This is for Eriyu, who asked for Ryou and Kaoru doing cute stuff in the real world.
Title: Outlasting The World
Summary: Socially awkward internet boyfriends, finally getting to see that movie about their favourite game. Unofficially set in the Victorious/Veritas ‘verse. 1,520 words.
Posted on LiveJournal, since it’s easier to format long, readable text posts there
Imagine your OTP discovering fanfiction of themselves on the internet.
Went with fanart instead!
Since that seems more likely.
Yes. Perfect awkward internet boyfriends (or almost-boyfriends, in this case).
Good timing too, because I just spent an afternoon being shown sad animal welfare videos in college. But now I am cheered up! ;u;
Day 29 - A list of your collection.
My collection of official stuff is actually kind of small and pathetic:
.hack//G.U. Rebirth
.hack//G.U. Reminisce
.hack//G.U. Redemption
.hack//G.U. Perfect Guidebook
.hack//G.U.+ volumes 4-5 (I’d already read scanlations of the first three, and wasn’t impressed or completionist enough to buy them)
.hack//4koma
I also have three adorable Ryou/Kaoru doujinshi, and a set of .hack//SIGN DVDs I bought years and years ago, which unfortunately turned out to be Chinese bootlegs with terrible nonsense subtitles. No dude, I don’t think you’re really going to the Suzy shop to eat Suzy.
I’m still pining for my own copies of the Black and White Archives, too.
I thought I’d finished these questions ages ago, but it turns out I forgot the last few! So yeah, here’s another.
Day 28 - An unpopular opinion.
I’ve voiced most of my unpopular opinions already, but here’s another: I don’t actually think a real MMO based on The World would be worth playing. Not unless they added a huge amount of new stuff, and didn’t rely on the .hack franchise to draw people in.
Gameplay-wise, IMOQ and G.U. are very limited compared to MMOs like WoW and RO. There’s not much variety in quests or PvP, and I’d rather have 20-30 intricately detailed and themed dungeons, instead of 200-300 randomly generated ones that follow a handful of templates. As console games they’re fine, but as online games they wouldn’t cut it.
Besides that, all the elements that make The World really special - Aura, the Eight Phases, Lost Grounds, AIDA, the Key of the Twilight legends - are things outside the control of the programmers. The only ones that could be replicated are the Lost Grounds, but instead of being truly mysterious, they’d be ‘places deliberately made to look mysterious’. And the characters which brought the .hack series to life, from Tsukasa to Haseo, none of those would be around either. So I just feel that any attempt to make a real The World would fail, as Fragment did, because it wouldn’t be able to live up to the fans’ expectations.
So the poll’s results were announced…
Shino is 3rd…? Seriously…? And Tokio scored lower than Sakuya fffffff
For anyone curious about more of the results (and forgive me for any mistakes, my Japanese is not the greatest):
4. Matsu
5. Endrance
6. Azure Flame Kite
7. Sakuya
8. Tokio
9. Alkaid
10. Sora
11. Tsukasa
12. Aina
13. Atoli
14. ??
15. Ovan
16. Aura
17. …Syake?
18. Blackrose
19. …Hiroshi Matsuyama? Who is apparently the president of CC2, okay then
20. Alberio
Ahaha, this poll is the most ridiculous thing, and almost certainly hacked/rigged in some way. But I like that Aina beat her brother by three places. Also, besides having two PCs in the top ten, Ryou Misaki himself is at 32. Other bizarre results include Henako (24) beating both Pi (28) and Kuhn (30), Elk all the way down at 39, and…Hermit is at 50, no guys that’s not funny D:
I haven’t forgotten this meme! Just been busy with other stuff. Like The Last Story, oh wow best game I’ve played in a long time.
Day 25 - Least favorite .hack.
LINK, for all the usual reasons people hate LINK. Also, I thought the way they treated Endrance crossed a line from ‘annoying’ into ‘downright offensive’, but I’m not in the mood to rant about that.
Trilogy was poorly done as well, since it basically trashed G.U.’s complex story, erased heaps of important characters and plot points, and turned it into a bland Haseo/Atoli lovefest. At least the graphics were pretty though?
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
This is one question I don’t have strong opinions on! I suppose the Japanese cast of G.U. was the best, from what I’ve heard. The English cast wasn’t bad either - some characters, like Haseo and Pi, were great - but the likes of Gaspard and Atoli let them down. Gaspard’s English voice annoys me a bit, but his Japanese voice is the CUTEST THING EVER oh my goodness.
Day 27 - Most epic scene/moment ever.
Endrance being amazing in Sage Palace. I shall not explain this any further, because you should all know what I’m talking about and why I chose it.
…Who am I kidding, I can’t resist. First, there’s the sheer badassery Endrance exhibits - he came up with the plan to beat Sakaki completely on his own, and executed it flawlessly. This is a person who, not long ago, had withdrawn from the world and lost himself in feelings of grief and helplessness, so it’s wonderful to see him develop so much confidence and determination. And all because of Haseo - who accepts him back as an ally instantly, and mere moments later is counting on Endrance’s support again. And then they take down Sakaki, one of my most hated villains ever! And then Endrance gives another of his magical speeches, and and…
The only thing that could elevate it from ‘amazing’ to ‘flawless’ is if Haseo’s response to all that was ‘okay wow you’re totally cool we should date’. Because seriously. So cool ;u;
