| 1:10am | Starting Intermediate Japanese | | | | For those who have been reading Lyrical Spark! for a while now, you know that it originally started as my blog for elementary Japanese. This year however I decided to keep my class blog separate but at the end of the year, Lyrical Spark will probably end up cannibalizing it so that I don’t have... |
| 4:14pm | Happy Birthday Miku! | | | | YAY! It’s been a whole year since our virtual singing idol made her debut and started one of the coolest otaku crazes in recent memory. I’ve tried playing with the Vocaloid 2 software but my lack of musical composition training means I can’t participate in the fun of making new songs... |
| 7:30am | Touhou Subterranean Animism Fanart | | | | After playing TH11, I’ve decided that it features some of the weirdest-looking characters in Touhou yet, so I had to draw my own versions. First is Komeiji Koishi with Kaenbyou Rin. Koishi is probably my favorite new character because of her cute design and stalker qualities. I originally thought... |
| 5:01am | iDOLM@STER Fraulein Revoltechs | | | | Time for my first real figure post ever! Today i will be presenting my three Snow Strawberry iDOLM@STER Frauleins. Everyone seems to be familiar with Max Factory’s line of articulate Figmas yet I rarely hear about Kaiyodo’s posable alternatives. Since I own three Fraulein’s and have... | | |
| 12:14am | Lyrics: I Want to Shout Out “I Love Yuri” Yamai ver. | | | | [Nico Nico Link][DDL]Since I'm still on my yuri high after watching Marimite, I felt like romanizing the lyrics to the very relevant song Yuri ga Suki da to Sakebitai. Unfortunately my rusty Japanese sucks so I can't provide a decent translation for the song at this time. Enjoy this wonderful |
| 12:14am | Maria-sama ga Miteru: 3 Series, 3 Days | | | | Gokigenyou~ After four and a half years I have finally jumped onto the Marimite bandwagon and watched the entire anime within the span of a few days. My conclusion: Pure Awesome. Marimite is quite possibly my favorite shoujo series ever; it is heavily character-based and lacks the sexual aspects that... | | |
| 8:55pm | Lyrics: I Want to Shout Out “I Love Yuri” Yamai ver. | | | | [Nico Nico Link][DDL] Since I’m still on my yuri high after watching Marimite, I felt like romanizing the lyrics to the very relevant song Yuri ga Suki da to Sakebitai. Unfortunately my rusty Japanese sucks so I can’t provide a decent translation for the song at this time. Enjoy this wonderful... |
| 8:46pm | Maria-sama ga Miteru: 3 Series, 3 Days | | | | Gokigenyou~ After four and a half years I have finally jumped onto the Marimite bandwagon and watched the entire anime within the span of a few days. My conclusion: Pure Awesome. Marimite is quite possibly my favorite shoujo series ever; it is heavily character-based and lacks the sexual aspects that... | | |
| 9:33pm | Beginner’s CG Tutorial | | | | This tutorial assumes that you have already drawn something so let's do that first. I prefer to draw on paper and redraw the lines in my computer but you can just draw directly in PhotoShop. In general, you want the size of your image to be at least twice as |
| 8:11pm | Beginner’s CG Tutorial | | | | This tutorial assumes that you have already drawn something so let’s do that first. I prefer to draw on paper and redraw the lines in my computer but you can just draw directly in PhotoShop. In general, you want the size of your image to be at least twice as large as the size you plan to release... |
| 10:04pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni Anime Site Online | | | | The website for the anime adaptation of 07th Expansion’s Umineko no Naku Koro ni has officially gone live. The only information at the moment is that a theme song CD will be released at Comiket on August 15 for 1500 yen and that an anime shop will be opening on August 29. Not much else | | |
| 9:23pm | Umineko no Naku Koro ni Anime Site Online | | | | The website for the anime adaptation of 07th Expansion’s Umineko no Naku Koro ni has officially gone live. The only information at the moment is that a theme song CD will be released at Comiket on August 15 for 1500 yen and that an anime shop will be opening on August 29. Not much else to say... |
| 12:33am | First TIP Colored Graphics Completed | | | | After much work, I finally present the first piece graphics to be used in the visual novel side of the Imperium Project! I had not originally planned to color any CGs until I had completed designs for all the characters but because of broken tubes and such, I was not able to do so and |
| 11:21pm | First TIP Colored Graphics Completed | | | | After much work, I finally present the first piece graphics to be used in the visual novel side of the Imperium Project! I had not originally planned to color any CGs until I had completed designs for all the characters but because of broken tubes and such, I was not able to do so and instead ended... |
| 4:05am | Holy Shit | | | | No lead-ins, no explanations this time. Let’s cut to the chase.Early lineart for the GUNDAM 00 SEASON TWO MOBILE SUITS has been RELEASED!That’s right, lil’ Setsuna. You KNOW you want to see this. Commentary straight from a raving Gundam fanboy after the break!First off, clearing up... |
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