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Episode 2 board is coming along

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I made a walkers cicada model! I like how it turned out but I do want to get better at the wing modeling and legs but oh well. If anyone has any tips for modeling low poly stuff it would be greatly appreciated!

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Probably one of the things I love the most about Momokarun is how they're always in sync with each other, they matched each other's energy and they literally share the same brain cells

I love how it's always been like that from the moment they met and it never changed.

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Man… Dandadan is such a good genre blend of fantasy and sci-fi. It explores both through the lens of Japanese history and culture, and it does it really well.

But then it also does typical anime things—like having weird, over-the-top villains get handsy with its underage protagonists.

And the thing is, it’s not the same as the usual “let’s titillate teenage boys” fanservice you see in lower-effort anime. There’s an actual point here. The series is clearly aware of what it’s doing. It’s critiquing how adults—especially institutions—objectify, dismiss, and exploit adolescents. It’s about the way society simultaneously shames and commodifies young people’s bodies and emotions.

Because without the context to know what it’s pushing back against, it just looks like it’s doing the same tired, gross anime thing. And it becomes incredibly difficult to recommend to people who aren’t already familiar with anime and its tropes. You have to preface it with like three disclaimers and a mini lecture on Anime and Japanese culture.

And it’s frustrating. Because it is good. It’s funny and weird and heartfelt and genuinely thoughtful. It cares about its characters. It takes genre seriously without taking itself too seriously. But I still find myself hesitating to bring it up in casual recs because I don’t want to spend twenty minutes explaining why “no, the horny alien thing is part of the point.”

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Here’s a small collection of Dandadan doodles I’ve been slowly scribbling out for the last week or so, I have a few big pieces planned, but I haven’t really had any energy to work on them SO stupid stuff it remains

Don’t have a lot of context for these outside of the fact that I love these characters and their weird found family dynamic ❤️‍🩹

Also — RIP Jin Enjoji, got his shit rocked by a toddler-sized mantis shrimp 🫡

FOLLOW UP I know there’s an Okarun deficiency but I promise I’m on the way to rectifying that

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jinmao 💜💚

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🐟🐟🌕🐟🐟🐟🐟 // swallowtail shiners // gouache on hot press paper

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hgsn + text posts

1/2/3

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when people call its name or something

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best part of KPop Demon Hunters is all the ridiculous faces the girls make

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pre new chapters art

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Relationship Charts!

Worth noting this stuff is subject to change as I develop but the vibes are there

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Anyone else think that fish lures look super pretty and even tasty or just me

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Cope

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The Land Of The Sunken Moon