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zelskzerker · 3 years

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Majo no Tabitabi Episode 7 is excellent

Well, technically the whole show is. But right here let me talk about Episode 7 in particular. While the first half is hilarious in its own right with Elaina being deprived the happiness of seeing the wall via her own efforts (the instruction of Saya), Saya selfishly professing her love to Elaina on a wall, or the head villagers noting that Elaina isn’t her mother because her chest is smaller, I am going to talk exclusively about the second half. The half which is full of meaningful callbacks and linking of ideas, idol metaphors, and most importantly FETISHISM.

On the topic of callbacks, the big one that happens in this episode is its structure. The episode is divided into two halves with two different episodic stories. This isn’t the first episode to do this however. Previously, episode three did the same thing while connecting its two separate plots by the theme of “deep feelings of love leading to despair”. Episode 7 however connects its episodes on a much brighter theme of “a divided country learning to come together.” It is a simple concept, but a great technique for a show about episodic adventures to be able to do when individual stories may not fill a whole episode block length of time. The second callback nature of the show is its blink-and-you-miss-it style lewd innuendo. It is rather odd the specific hatred of mushrooms that Elaina and Saya share, but it gets across the gay point just as well as if their meetings were punctuated with lillies blooming. Speaking of her yuripal, her reintroduction to Elaina in episode 6 was foreshadowed by the oddly

shaped bread that Elaina comments is “old” and “hard to swallow.” The first descriptor fitting her relationship with Saya and the second describing her thoughts on handling Saya’s blatant love. These subtly lewd jokes always have me keep a close eye on what is going on so that I don’t miss a single shipping point. The show isn’t full of only dirty metaphors though.

Episode 7 has something to say about idols. Via metaphor, of course. It is laid on thick that the reason that This Village (hilarious name) is losing to That Village in sales is due to not having their own grape maiden to slap on their wine. It is true to real life that human faces and bodies lead to improved product sales because they allow form a human connection to be formed. In idol culture it isn’t uncommon to see idols partner with specific brands, leading to a boost in sales. Although not as dark as previous episodes, this episode has its fair share of darkness. Unlike Perfect Blue which shows off the toxic environment and fans in idol culture, Rosemary, the titular grape maiden, shows off what can happen if the idol themselves is toxic. They gain full power of perception and can do no wrong to either the outsiders who just see the good parts or even the insiders who are constantly forced to labor away. Thankfully due to the outside influence of The Traveller Elaina, the toxic idol relationship that separated This and That is uprooted and the two can become one once again. Sometimes an outside factor is needed for us to see the errors in our ways, to make us dare to improve, or to help us down the right path. Perhaps even something new but oddly similar, like Elaina to the grape gardens or Hololive to the idol industry, are good things that help broaden our collective ideas and look towards a brighter future.

Anyways, now for some fetishism to make Haachama proud.

This episode is full of them. Here’s a list.

- Feet. Other than explicitly in the background, implicitly with the fact everyone wants to drink fresh feet juice. I especially enjoy how “step lovingly” is the only brand to start but the almighty Ashen Witch creates a whole new brand to appeal directly to me.

-Breast Envy. Elaina to Rosemary. Seeing Elaina squirm after being on the backfoot about her appearance is new and funny to see.

-Masochism. Everyone from That Village towards Rosemary.

-Milf. See end.

-Women staringly disgustedly at Men. There are lots of background shots of the women of This Village towards the men of This Village.

-Drunken Rampage. Oh no Elaina. This is why powerful children shouldn’t drink. They will do something awesome.

Amongst other things. The blatant fetishes run rampant all over this half of episode 7 show of a theming that is core to anime. It shows off the thing that makes anime, anime. The most endearing quality. What brings otaku back to the world of anime time and time again. The driving force behind creators creating, watchers watching, fappers fapping, and buyers buying.

A great story is the same as any great machination. It truly shines when every tiny gear ticks perfectly in rhythm. With its brilliantly consistent callbacks in writing and episode structure alongside its surprisingly optimistic and wholesome message about seeing what kind of perspective a traveler may provide whirring in sync, all that’s left for Majo no Tabitabi to do is kick up its feet and pop open a bottle of some finely-aged wine.

#majo no tabitabi #episode 7 #wandering witch: the journey of elaina #elaina #Elaina's mom is pretty cute huh? both as grapes and wine

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geeky-elf · 7 years

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Major Graphic Novel Update on REFD

So I have been more motivated than usual this week and with a little more free time, I managed to write two more storyline snippets plus three character designs (third one submitting tomorrow). I'm still figuring out the best title for the whole thing. Right now the one that sticks to me is Rajin: Edge of Darkness, but I feel I can get more creative with it and pick something else, but I'll see. Honestly I need to stay focused with grad school for the time being, but I'm really hoping after graduating and I can start illustrating pages, or at least focus on my art in general just for the sake of improving. Just somethings that I can touch on now: Characters: Skyfyre: Main and first character in the story who becomes possessed with a dragon's soul and gains elemental magic throughout. Eldoron: A sky pirate with a bad history who decides to make his life around building an airship to travel the universe, exploring new worlds, meeting new faces, and ultimately with a goal of vengeance of the eminent dark powers that lie beyond. He is very tech savvy and has a strategic mind. Often combining technology with magic, which is what created Rajin in the first place. Jessie: A Wiccan whose expertise is in alchemy. She can concoct anything from a healing potion to a powerful bomb. Ian: A accident in his youth left him for dead if it wasn't for the help and sacrifice from others to aid in keeping him alive and converting him to a cyborg with super human capabilities. His main purpose is ensuring everything runs the way it's supposed to and inventing new and useful items. He has a geeky and outgoing persionality for the most part, but is plenty happy with himself and his inventions. Pixel: An insectoid like fairy who befriended Eldoron at an early age. She's become a useful companion and guide. Her sense of adventure and need to help others has ensured her to be a useful part of the team. She mainly helps Eldoron, but often aids in other tasks where her small stature is to her advantage Orion: A full blooded elf with a mysterious and rough exterior. Not too much is known about him or his past. He rarely talks and at times can be rather blunt. However the only other crew member that seems to break his barriers is Jessie. He is the knowledge base of the crew and reads during most of his time. He knows everything about every mystical or non mystical race and their history. Orion possesses telekinetic and limited time bending powers. Trish: A nature loving goblin who is almost ninja like with her amazing senses and quickness on her feet. She is sort of the rogue of the crew, and good on stealth related and missions requiring a quick in and out. She loves fantastical creatures of all sizes and often collects them and trains them as her own. She is knowledgeable in Phoenix falconry, gryphon riding, serpent taming, and even dire wolf domestication. The only creature that still remains out of her reach are dragons. They are just too smart and clever she says. She hopes to try to train a wyvern though, being more primitive, she might have more luck. Blaze: Skyfyre's dragon companion who possessed her from within his egg form. He is one of the more powerful fire dragons, but with his link to Sky's elemental magic, he can shift and change to accommodate those needs. (An eastern storm dragon, a fire drake, a furry tundra dragon, a sea serpent, and an earth wyvern). Acheron: One of the main antagonists of the story, but far from the ultimate one. He is elven in magic, but vampiric in it's very nature. He acts as a medium to the dark powers and becomes molded and shaped in their will turning him into a monster who possesses a sense of masochism. He likes making his victims suffer greatly and yearns for the destruction of worlds to spread his evil powers further. Plot synopsis: A mysterious force in the universe, whether its the ether that holds space together or it's more has made outlying planets in worry. As darkness spreads, many are forced to leave or become victims to its power leaving others to fend for themselves. As planets get consumed, parts break off and ricochet through its infinite vacuum. One the broken parts lands on Earth near a small village where an orphaned girl's curiousity takes the best of her. Upon further investigation, she becomes possessed by the mysterious being within it's shells. Turns out that being was a dragon, though starting out as a baby, has great potential for power. As she grows stronger and discovers magic powers of her own that would change her life forever and create many enemies along the way. It's not until a mysterious sky pirate comes to rescue her is when her journey and discovery of her destiny really begin. It's aboard the grand airship, Rajin, where Skyfyre learned about what her role is among many uniquely gifted crew members. The gang will travel to the far reaches of space discovering new planets and making new friends along the way whether they are elven or dwarfish. In the end the fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of these handful of mystical humanoids and beasts alike. Style: The style found in my character designs will be similar to what I hope to accomplish in the comic. Characters that aren't too realistic in nature, but I need to master anatomy still and improve on it overall so I can pull it off that much better especially since I'll be drawing different characters of different ages a lot. The style of the graphic novel itself, will be semi Ike a hero comic book, but it will read more like those such as How to Train you Dragon comics as well as the Last Airbender set. Not pop arting as I want to focus on the illustration side of it all. I want to make the backgrounds detailed while the foreground characters are simple (Miyazaki film like). Setting: About Rajin: Most of everything will take place on Rajin, which is almost a small city in itself. Rajin has everything one would need on long periods of inner space travel. The airship itself is self sustaining powered by magic and technology alike allowing it to fly and keep everyone comfortable. Food is grown on board along with places to train and work on combat and energy based abilities. Plenty of room for Blaze to stretch his wings on and roomy living quarters that can put a luxury apartment complex to shame. Everything is customized to one's own and plenty of rooms and living space on each and every one of the floors that will fit to everyone's needs. There are armor and weapon making and repair places along with those for recreation based use. The airship itself has many amenities that are found on Earth, but also many that are inspired from all over making way for a diverse community to live in harmony and make a home for themselves. Ian has even created robots and tech that make life easier especially to avoid having to walk all the way from one side to the other. About other Homeworlds: While a good chunk will occur on Earth as Sky and Blaze learn to get used to one another and try to find their place in the world without bringing unwanted attention to themselves, the graphic novel will go through many planets and homes to not only distant human related relatives like Eldoron's, but also many mythical beings from animal halflings, to orcs, dwarves, mermaids, centaurs,....you name it they will all appear one way or another. The worlds themselves, will be as unique as them holding an artistic beauty that I really hope to master backgrounds in general by this point because I want to capture the complexity of the natural and artificial side of it all. You will have worlds that aren't anything more than caves, deserts, oceans,...etc. and even those that are completely suburban. Sort of a Futurama/Star Wars feel as many of these outlying worlds are connected and many travel between them and beyond especially in the more advanced regions of tech and discovery you will see more of these connections, while others isolate themselves more. Artist Goals: I've been thinking so much on this project since I was a freshmen in college (almost 8 years ago). Often ideas came to me as I daydreamed in class or on the way to class, but now I've changed a lot of the aspects, but began fitting all the pieces together more and more. My main goal(s) as an artist is to try and master or at least be the best I can at all the mediums available to me whether its painting, colored pencils, sculpting clay or 3D models, animating, plush making,...I want to try them all in my lifetime. I also feel it would be cool even if it's a one time thing for me to publish a graphic novel and maybe a purely written book that goes with it. I'm not sure how long the novel will be, I want to extend it as far as a I can without milking anything to death. Might publish one or two or several depending on where it goes. My main focus now is grad school so I need another year to focus on that and get my degree, but I feel with whatever free time I have I can work towards improving and putting more pieces together. I want to perfect whatever style I can come up with before the illustration process begins. Things that I should focus on: Backgrounds, backgrounds, backgrounds, I need to practice backgrounds so much in terms of accuracy in detail and lighting as well as in perspective especially for big city scenes and such. This will definitely be the hardest goal because I need to improve a lot in terms of drawing and coloring and getting everything right with that. Airship tweaking. I feel the exterior design could use continued work to make it as interesting as I want it to be. I also need to do a floor by floor layout to show all the rooms and areas and even some concept art on how some said areas will look. Character Designs: Lots of thought still needed here, I need to improve on my human based style in terms of making sure anatomy is as accurate as possible while keeping it in almost a Disney-esque sort of way since realism won't be my focus with characters to keep them simple as I focus my time on backgrounds and such. Also figure out how many add on characters will occur as the story progresses and how that will ensure their uniqueness in terms of additional roles on board Rajin. Storyline: It's getting to the point where writting while it helps, I feel I need to start just doing and thinking of further story arcs as a go. Right now I feel I have a nice story idea that should extend for a good chunk of it, but antagonist development and how that leads to end game, is what will be tricky and i have to figure that out too. Right now, it's organized like this: Skyfyre's daily life as a homeless orphan prior to the meteor strike followed by possession of soul and continues forth as Sky trying to get used to her new situation (denial first step of course and avoidance). Blaze grows a little bit with her as they spend several months trying to make a home elsewhere before eventually getting captured by government agencies. Skyfyre is than experimented on and starved to the brink of death in the hands of corrupted people who wish to extract her power. During this time flashbacks to the meteor's origins should occur "The Rescue" (snippet in gallery) will occur as Sky is brought onboard the ship She has trouble adjusting at first "Slow Dance of a Sky Pirate". As she learns to adapt to the new changes and potential destiny gets to know the other crew members better, she begins training with them. Of course in time a relationship slowly builds between her and Eldoron. During the time on the airship spanning a few months, flashbacks to Eldoron's past "Attack of Vimera" will come into play. Several flashbacks for each character will come into play (not necessarily in chronological order where they will be the most significant, I want the reader to piece the parts together and the connections that were formed from beginning to present day). These will take place throughout at different parts, some towards the beginning and some other when Acheron is introduced. Something begins to happen to the airship where some outside force disrupts the magic within the elemental crystals that keep the ship running. It becomes an emergency and they must travel to each of the major elemental based planets to restore their powers one by one starting including a visit to the marine planet. "That Night". Where the relationship between the two grows a little more. It's at these different locations they meet and take on some of the inhabitants that will prove useful as they continue to learn about the growing threat of the darkness spreading Acheron will get introduced at one point followed by many failed fighting attempts including a major climax one "Sky's last Fight" So far this is what I have laid out mainly still a lot of things I hope to extend it upon and fill it with all leading up to a life versus death situation with the final battle. Well that's what I have laid out for now. Changes are bound to occur and will update accordingly. Thanks for reading. Hope you all like the ideas so far. Created at simplydevio.us

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