Was encouraged by Tulli to post some of my original work here today for portfolio day. Besides GG20s, I'm also developing a cyberpunk story about a rookie cyborg boxer in an alternate 2001 Los Angeles in the style of late-90s anime.
I also have a side project, developing a video game idea on exploring the Pacific ocean and speculative marine sciences.
Also some posters I've done, including a piece I made for The Lovers.
watched treasure planet the other day and never realized this is how they credited the actors and lead animators... i love it. really emphasizes how the animators and voice actors are two halves of one performance
I was gonna post Myunna only alongside the complete Blue Bouquet post, but I actually wanna talk about some translation notes for this character!
Myunna's little blerb sentence thingy used a lot of rice/flour related kanji I didn't fucking know SHIT about.
They describe Myunna as, essentially, "a hardworking novice", but for "novice" they use the word 新米, which literally means new rice/first crop of the year and is a rather unusual term for the word "novice". It's why I decided to also describe him as a "sprout" rather than just a boring "novice".
They also describe him as "身を粉にがんばる" which essentially means "turning one's own body into flour (from effort)". Jisho itself already coined in "to "grind" one's body into dust" so I borrowed the concept of "grinding" from there.
The entire sentence would literally translate into something like "A new rice grinding it's own body into flour (from effort)", so I tried to leave a similar tone.
dunno if that worked lol HUUUGE IMMENSE shoutout to my N2 level senpai who's got an encyclopedic knowledge of weird ass japanese terms and phrases and will 100% get the MEXT internship next year!!!
This has been something I've been working on for quite a while now, as some people who look at my insta story might know, but I'm finally done!! those text messages from s14ep5 are so unhinged, they haunt me every goddamn day. To drop "i love you so much" just to follow it with what essentially is a "no homo.. for u... even tho u r so hot and i like you so much!". exploading them with my mind into a million pieces, okay?
Wait, did you put a photo of Vil and Neige as kids in Eric’s office??
oh good, I was afraid that wasn't going to read properly and people would just be like "what is this supposed to be". :') but yeah! I like to think Eric was pretty fond of Neige as a kid! single dad sees orphan child approximately the same age as his own son and goes "hmm. okay, you guys are going to be friends now." (this did not go as well as he'd hoped.)
(also I do love how it's kind of a running joke that everyone loves Neige except for Vil, who's standing over in the corner and just seething with furious irrational hatred. someday maybe he'll find someone who doesn't think Neige is the best thing since cinnamon rolls.)