To Laura

I had casually mentioned on the rather clear influence of Evanescence's Going Under on one metal arrangement of Plain Asia:

And feeling just like going on a trip through time, I went back and listened to the piece by Evanescence

when suddenly, bam, just like that. A trip down memory's lane.

I thought of a girl I had a crush on way back. And this was after, 4-6 years since I last saw her? (online, since it's really through a particular Pokemon message board (Pokemasters, not sure if they're still alive and kicking)) that we met. And if you ask me to this day, I can't say exactly what it was that made me just feel interested in her.

It seemed like a lifetime ago.

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Perth Trip 2014: Drawing side

A long overdue post, but way back in early May, our whole family went for a trip to the Land Down Under for one week. I had a little side project that I managed to work on: namely, to fill in a sketchbook on the trip.

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4 years of eating danmaku

Wow, it has been a while since we started with the whole series eh? Admittedly others were way into it much longer... but hey.

As has been with previous entries to commemorate the event, I owe it to CROW'SCLAW and a rather long dormant blog on instilling the interest for the series.

It began with these two

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[Drawing] 2hu Labor's Day

I drew these for Labor's Day: Servants and subordinates of Touhou, just taking it easy on their day off.

Perhaps Koakuma and Iku should be in there as well, but didn't really occur for me to put them there. The first piece was done on literally the 11th hour of 1st of May, with the second one drawn about... an hour after the first one is done?

I had fun drawing the part for Yoshika and Nazrin-Shou. Also, a bit of KanColle reference if you noticed haha (hint: Komachi)

From Touhou Project to Kantai Collection

There has been a lot of talk of Kantai Collection, with noticeable jump to the series from hardcore and true blue Touhou fans (present company included), that I feel the time is ripe to talk about this phenomena, in the midst of all the bad ship puns being cranked out now and then (by yours truly, who else?!).

Like so

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The Wind Rises

I have just watched The Wind Rises - a work that is tauted to be Miyazaki's last movie - and I've only realized that there are a few of his past movies which I didn't get to watch (Ponyo being the newer ones post-Princess Mononoke, with a bunch of older works, Graveyard Of The Fireflies being his notable work that I haven't watched yet)

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[Drawing] Don't need them seaplanes!

KanColle Spring Event 2014 started today, and seaplanes, recon planes and high LOS ships are what we seem to need. Amidst slow internet connection - and a bit of excitement over some of the new ships released - I had the idea to draw this.

Kiso must be biting back her words, what’s with the requirement for the event, heh.

And yeah, that’s a Type 0 Observation Seaplane if you were guessing what it was. Even managed to draw the fairy too haha.