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Fallen


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A gallery for my original story FALLEN featuring mostly character artwork.

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Samurai Rodeo

Thu Nov 19, 2009, 6:44 PM
I'm posting translated versions of Samurai Rodeo, the comic I submitted to Shounen Magazine, two pages at a time. I was originally going to zip them together, but I realized I myself tend to not read comics if I have to download and unzip them, so each page goes up together. I'm not allowing full-sized versions to go up so people don't print them and sell them or something annoying like that, and that's why I've also got an ugly watermark that goes down the spine.

I'm not using Comic Studio to add the text in, so my own edits are probably of less quality than scanlations, but meh.

I'm not looking for heavy crits, but I'm open to them if you guys have any. I've already heard most of them from my editor and former college professor, and myself, but I won't bite your head off unless I think you're just being a meanie head and calling me out.

For my next comic, I have to do a MUCH MUCH better job. This really isn't my best work... hell, I did better work on my sample pages that I did traditionally:



Me editor told me "YES, do THAT, that was GOOD. Not this crap." So... back to traditional. Though I have to say, using Comic Studio to do the rough pages (the NEEMU as we call it in Japanese) is so much better, it makes buying the program worthwhile.

Sorry for the multiple posts.

  • Mood: Regretful
  • Reading: Bakuman vol. 5
  • Eating: a danish thing with apricot jam

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  • Current Residence: Tokyo, Japan
  • Interests: music, manga, karaoke, etc
  • Favourite movie: Rocky, Bambi, American Beauty, End Of Evangelion, the original Ninja Turtles movie
  • Favourite band or musician: Mötley Crüe, Korn, and Heart
  • Favourite genre of music: heavy metal and hard rock
  • Favourite artist: Alphonse Mucha, Kousuke Fujishima, Hidenori Matsubara, Atsuko Nakajima, Kaori Yuki...
  • Operating System: Mac OSX
  • MP3 player of choice: iTunes and iPod
  • Favourite game: Pokemon!! and Soul Calibur III, Silent Hill and Sakura Taisen I~V
  • Favourite gaming platform: Nintendo DS
  • Favourite cartoon character: Flower (Bambi) and Fifi (Tiny Toons)
  • Personal Quote: "Think of them as very well-rounded pectorals."
  • Tools of the Trade: Copic Markers or my Intuos 4 tablet

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:iconcherriuki:
gonna watch you! ^^ <3

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:iconogawaburukku:
Huzzah! :heart:

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:iconcherriuki:
<3

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:iconyeahgirl11:
I'm just curious- how long have you lived in Japan? Because I've never really heard of anyone who isn't Japanese having permanent residence. :XD:

I don't know much about Japan or manga or anime, so I'm just basically really curious how you was able to have an opportunity to live and work there.

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:iconogawaburukku:
I've lived here for five years now. I got visas to stay here by going to school and then last year after I graduated I got a job, thus getting a work visa. My next visa will probably be a spousal visa, since I'm in a serious relationship with a Japanese man who has stated he plans to marry me, so that takes care of that, I guess. It is really hard to get visas, though, since someone has to sponsor you, OR you have to prove to the government you can support yourself.

I had an aunt die while I was in college, and her inheritance money is really what got me over here. If you don't have a lot of money, it's near impossible to be able to live in Tokyo. Most foreigners I know gave up and went home after so many years... it's kind of a hard culture to get used to for Westerners.

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:iconyeahgirl11:
Damn, you're very fortunate! I didn't even know they had spousal visas- I thought you just became a Japanese citizen when you got married, like many other countries.

I've heard Tokyo is very expensive.:o
If I may ask, how the culture hard to get used to? :?

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:iconogawaburukku:
Let's see... for example, people in America can typically be very rude to strangers. The girl at the cash register doesn't smile, people bump into you, etc. But they are friendly-- it's very VERY easy to make friends in America. In Japan, people are very very polite to strangers; they apologize for everything, the staff at McDonalds all smile, they use polite language, they try to help tourists who are lost.... but they aren't very friendly. They tend to stick with the sort of people they've been with all their lives, and they don't really like making new friends. Not EVERYONE, but if you talk to a total stranger at a bar, they are more likely to try to escape than an American would.

You have to respect people you don't want to respect, you have to say certain things to certain people, you have to use an entirely different way of speaking for certain situations... it is the exact opposite of what I'm used to. I don't think I could sum everything up... try reading a book on Japanese customs, it's crazy. It does NOT stop at taking your shoes off inside a house, haha.

On spousal visas-- you can ask to be a citizen after 10+ years (but they sometimes turn you down), or you can stay on the spousal visa. If I do that, though, I'll have to inform Immigration whenever I choose to leave the country for vacation or something-- I have to get permission, even if I'm married. It SUCKS, but that's just how it is here.

Oh, and yes, it's EXPENSIVE. Xp

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:iconmikinochan:
Great art! ^_^ *watch*
:iconogawaburukku:
Hurray, thank you! :3

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