#dakky's art

[shift-souls-writing]

[On The Horizon]

Character Design (Omitting Spoilers) : Continued

Basic Information (Continued) :

Scarification Location(s) : Right forearm, Between shoulder blades

Height(s) : 5'9" (Human), 6'11 (Wolf), 9'3" (Beast)

Build : Mesomorph

[scribble-brain-aced]

Do you have ocs?

OH BOY DO I

bad quality art, i doodled these in old notebooks from school, so it’s not very good-

i don’t remember what I named most of these OCs, but she’s supposed to be a kind of bratty “everyone loves me” type of character, because she has this superpower where everyone is SUPPOSED to love her. it’s an aura of obsessive, enchanted love. she’s so used to being catering to and fawned over, that she’s genuinely sick of it. she craves hatred, but nobody will give it to her. pretty sure she became a criminal? and honestly, if she were ever hated, she wouldn’t know how to deal with it, and would probably just freak out.

slightly older OC: the COMPLETE opposite of the Aphrodite i just mentioned. she’s incapable of being remembered, no matter how hard she tried. as she grew older, more and more people forgot her, including her own friends and family. she grew bitter, and like most neglected kids, comes to the conclusion that negative attention is better than none, right? she’s also a criminal.. or.. she WOULD be, if law enforcement remembered her. to everyone else, it’s a mystery who set fire to that coffee shop. she does everything she can think of to get attention. that’s also why she’s wearing neon.

…i should bring these two first OCs into a room together and see how they interact.

and the only OC whose name i remember: Dakki!! she started out as a basic experiment because i was curious on how to draw people w/ Treacher Collins Syndrome. except most of the facial differences i noticed, my art style already looks like that so there’s not a big difference-

it’s only obvious in the side profile. she’s a somewhat-sarcastic, but overall polite girl! in middle school, because it’s a breeding ground for insecurity, she tried making a cardboard box head to hide her face, before deciding that she’d feel more awkward wearing it, because NOBODY wears a box on their head, so she never ended up using it. (and she’s absolutely fine w/ her face now!) but she did unlock a passion for making stuff out of cardboard. she started w/ box heads because she could already do that, and eventually became involved in fandom (idk a lot about FF7 but let’s go with that) and started using it to cosplay, mostly armor and wings and stuff. she also really likes ducks, and has made a cardboard duck suit.

aaand that’s all i can remember!

do i love this OCs? with my whole heart

will i ever do anything with them? ..uh. idk. probably not, sadly.

so yeah :)

[enemyoflactose]

Woman art dump

The Girls are

Lovely Labrynth of the Silver Castle

Dark Necrofear

Dakki the Graceful Mayakashi

High Priestess of Prophecy

[zou-labrousse]

Les artistes du dix-neuvième ZOU!

L’Atelier IMIS

Création collective improvisée avec performances de danse, musique et vidéo, présentées au centre de l'installation par Brida Horvath et Pierre Martin et accompagnées de vidéos originales de Stéphane Pogran.

V

" ...en ces temps troublés, il fallait plus qu'une douzaine de justes pour sauver le monde. Il fallait une armée…" Présentation des "Guerriers de la Sérénité" - performance - production continue - et de la fresque " Echelle Un ".

Anna Bonadé

Arts visuels

La cendre, symbole de destruction, où la vie organique ne semble plus exister, celle que l’on devient, lorsque qu’on redevient poussière. C’est à partir de celle-ci que j’ai voulu créer une pièce à l’aspect organique, fragile à la manière d’une peau qui se reconstitue.

Compagnie Ezika

« Trompe-feuilles »

Illusion sonore

En quête d'une nouvelle vie, un.e campeur.se a élu domicile au hameau de La Brousse, loin des perturbations de la ville...Un théâtre sonore saugrenu qui se joue de notre perception du réel De et avec Estelle Coquin et Julien Lot.

Maïa Commère

Arts visuels

Avec les fabulettes, je cherche à vous faire voyager en miniature et fantasmer avec des micro-mondes réalistes tantôt poétiques, tantôt humoristiques, érotiques… « Un univers aussi merveilleux que minuscule ! »

Dakkis

Installation

Expression d'un subtil équilibre, la série PARTICULES résulte d'une intention d'alléger la matière, favorisant une dynamique de la ligne et du mouvement dans l'espace.

Coralie Férioulaud

Durant le festival ZOU c'est avec joie que je présenterai la technique Sgraffito en terre crue au travers de mes créations et d'ateliers.

Laurent Gasparini

Petits mondes

La vie n'a pas de sens sacré, c'est simplement un phénomène impitoyable qui prend place et suit son cours. Parfois, elle nous frappe de sa froideur, alors on développe de la résilience. Cette force nous permet d’apprécier les moments de bonheur que l'on vit ou de s'en créer.

Hortense Gauthier

Déambulation

« DO CYBORGS DREAM TO ELECTRONIC GHOSTS ? »

Une action dansée longue durée entre silence et bruit, dans la lenteur de la déconnexion, pour faire trembler les ondes et les sons inaudibles des fréquences oubliées.

Hortense Gauthier & Antoine Schmitt

Installation sonore

Le cri infini est une installation sonore qui pousse un cri infini. En une tentative de catharsis, elle nous confronte à l'expression primale de la dimension douloureuse du sentiment de vivre. Le cri infini est composé de manière générative à partir d'enregistrement de cris réels de participants de tous horizons.

Armelle Gilet

Atelier de peinture

« De l'Ombre à la Lumière »

Je propose un atelier de peinture à l'encre de chine à la lueur de bougies. Après la lecture d'un texte sur la symbolique de la grotte, j'inviterais les personnes à laisser leur trace à l'encre de chine dans ce passage de transformation de l'ombre à la Lumière.

Michel Gayout

Panneaux texte et images

Pour lancer une discussion sur notre « société du spectacle » actuelle, où ce que nous prenons pour notre réalité quotidienne est de plus en plus le mensonge incarné, dicté par les contraintes éthico-sociales qui nous emprisonnent l’esprit.

Sandra Guillemot

Arts visuels

Création de toiles figuratives ou abstraites mêlant différentes techniques : peinture à l'huile, effets de matière, collages d'affiches et d'objets rouillés.

Brida Horvath

Balade guidée « Entre chien et loup »

Une expérience où les participants sont invités à vivre l'art d'une nouvelle manière en suivant des consignes simples, et deviennent eux-mêmes les interprètes d'une performance qui n'a jamais existé. Un moment de transformation où l'ancien n'existe plus et le nouveau est en train de naître. Un rituel.

Improvox

Performance chorale

Improvisation vocale à 11 chanteurs, en résonance avec les œuvres exposées du festival.

Carey Jeffries

“The Swedish Way” Performance, Improvisation buto contemporain cabaret

Exposition, Dessins inspirés par la danse contact et l’improvisation.

+ Atelier massage Ostéo Wuo Tai, Rolling Compression et Contact Improvisation dance (Pratiques somatiques et relationnelles) Renseignements et réservation 06 33 49 36 87. Tarif 15 € - Prévoir tapis de yoga et vêtements souples.

Philippe Laval

Concert

« Chants cons sous la neige (carbonique) » Guitarisque bruitcoleur, pouète à ses heures, Philippe Laval chante à tort, joue à travers, écoute les murs, et enfonce le clou ! Il faut bien taper sur quelque chose... "Et au fond de l'écriture, c'est la boiterie qui fait le rythme" (Jean Vautrin)

LN Le Cheviller

Installation

« A qui le tour ? »

62 armes nous rappellent que la guerre en Ukraine continue toujours, et nous renvoient à la violence qui nous environne et peut nous toucher à tout moment…

Lee Shar

Installation

La Cintrologie est un cintrétisme, teinté de surcyclage et de symbologie. Les cintres perdent leur fonction première de porte-vêtements pour devenir des cintreboles... "Qui qui veut devenir ce qu'il devrait être doit laisser ce qu'il est maintenant" MaÎtre Eckhart

Trisha McCrae

Installation

Une œuvre sculpturale et vidéo qui intègre un moment dans le temps, dans le cadre d'un voyage allant de la fragmentation à la totalité et à l'éveil de la conscience.

Kristin Noethling

Dessin

Naviguer le paysage en musique. Parcourir la tête. Cheminer. Toujours entre légèreté et agitation. Comment cela se transforme, de la main au dessin, croquis ou essai.

Sophie et Lionel Pardessus

Photographie

Un peu de rêve et de poésie dans un lieu magique. Chaque photo est accompagnée d'une poésie, le parc est idéal pour vous laisser rêver.

Les Papillonnantes

Performance sonore et visuelle

Sandolore Sykes et Anne Foucher se rejoignent pour improviser. Elles font se rencontrer la vidéo et le violon électroacoustique, créant un univers énigmatique.

Angélina Pavlova

Dessin improvisé à partir des mains tendues que m'offre le public. Les courageux qui s'y risquent repartent avec un dessin.

Trib'Art Music Ethnic

Musique

« ..Voyage intuitif sur instruments acoustiques... » ...De l'inspire nait l'expire, engendrant le souffle vibratoire qui s'imprime sur la toile du silence, avec Amour... Avec et par Patricio et Nagi.

Léa Wargny

Dessin

Chaque ombre représentée est un miroir et non une vérité en soi, elle devient ce que l'on voit en elle. À travers les dames en bleu, je dédiabolise des émotions considérées comme négatives par la société patriarcale. En cherchant mon moi profond j'espère créer du lien avec les personnes qui consentent à regarder le leur.

[paperboy-pb]

CLASS 8-C! ....Kind of!

VERY old concept art / doodles of the 8th graders in PB! Well... at least, 9/12 of them. [Originally made in October, 2022]

A lot of these are going to change before you see them in the comic. I like where they're going, but I still need to decide what their conditions are, I want to actually change some so they have prosthetics or mobility aids, etc.

The names should stay, though? Their *entire* attendance list is--

Dakota ("Dakky") Beck-Mendoza

River Chavez [[IMPORTANT]]

Desmond ("Dez") Daniels

Annette Domingo

Jayda Figureoa

Solomon ("Solo") García [[IMPORTANT]]

Alfredo Gonzalez

Hattie Hao

Abdullah ("Dully") Kanaan

Sarah Kandil

Gundham Santander

William Wong

[somethingtizz]

I forgot how much I’ve missed drawing tv heads, so here’s a glow up of Dakkie

[ajisaihora]

Serpent by Vetisx

Deviantart

Twitter

[alstroemeriadissonance]

Masterlist Part 2

Because I apparently hit this (little known) threshold of 100 links per post. Looks like I have posted 100 fics including separate chapters since late September 2021. Holy hell.

Masterlist Part 1 HERE <-- Please go here if this is your first time checking out my stuff!!!

Other links:

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/AlstroemeriaDSNC

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlstroemeriaDS

SFW Vynposting

A Normal Date - Finally having wrangled his tutor into admitting he is reciprocating his feelings, Marius is now bothering Vyn into doing certain things he probably missed out on, given his upbringing. Things like...having a totally normal, ordinary date.

Little Dr. Richter - Vyn discovers Rosa’s new little companion. But wait, why does it look a lot like him?

NXX: Three Men and a Little Lily - Vyn and Rosa are whisked off to the separate overseas business trips, leaving Marius, Artem, and Luke to watch over their darling little princess, five-year-old Lily.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

NXX Turns Into Cat - Each NXX duder turns into a cat. Everyone else—Rosa, mostly—deals with the mess.

Pt 01 - Meowrius | Pt 02 - Vynyaa | Pt 03 - Lukemeow | Pt 04 - Nyaartem

Vynposting (NSFW)

In the shadows, I play your song - PWP set after Electrifying Night. Slight spoilers if you're not aware of how Vyn looks in that event and card story.

Intoxicated - Heavily inspired by the Food for Thought card. Not a card rewrite nor a sequel, but takes place in the gap between Story parts 5 and 6.

Hosanna - You think you need to sin more to catch the attention of a certain demon who masquerades as a priest, but it actually takes more than that.

His beautiful flowers, blooming wildly - VynRosa x Ingrid threesome fic. Jealousy is a helluva thing.

Relief - Rosa is drugged, and her two attending doctors Richter and Yishmir are thrown in for a sexual loop

Marks - Marius is obsessed over his tutor’s beauty mark (VynMarius)

Dance in the Study - Stripper Rosa literally gives newcomer Vyn Richter a housewarming.

Lotus-eaters - Set in Secrets of the Tomb; The Scribe is beset with worries, and the High Priest lends his aid

The Lady and Her Maid - Rosa is stressed out, Vyn (with Kiki’s help) helps her deal with it the cutest/hottest way possible

Chiaroscuro: Pentimento - Sick of having to bear the brunt of their Vyn and Rosa’s mutual pining for each other, Marius takes one for the team and makes great sacrifices to bring his two favorite people together

Series (NSFW)

NXX on Valentine's Day - Situational fics where each NXX boy takes Rosa on a date on Valentine's Day. Spicy stuff happens, as usual. (COMPLETE)

Part 1 (Vyn) | Part 2 (Artem) | Part 3 (Luke) | Part 4 (Marius)

NXX and Emergency Toys - Situational fics where each NXX dude gets so worked up by Rosa that they have to grab something--anything--just to spice things up even more.

Part 1 (Artem) | Part 2 (Vyn)

Fantasies - Rosa and Vyn indulge themselves and each other with their own sexual fantasies. Originally a one-shot ask that just became a series.

Fantasies (Pt 1) | Fantasies ~ ver. Vyn | In the office | In the headquarters | Over the Phone

NXX as Incubi:  Where each LI deals with work stress and/or hang up towards Rosa enough to trigger sexual dreams, where they become incubi who haunt her dreams.

Vyn ( Look at Me, Seek Me, Desire Me, Love Only Me)

Killshot: Assassin hijinks AU where Vyn is ripped out from his life in Stellis early on, due to political turmoil back in his homeland. As Duke Vilhelm de Haspran, he has to deal with assassins sent after him, including a rather inept yet persistent one named Rosa 

Part 1  | Part 2 |

Pillow Talk - Short fiction accompanying the dakki art I commissioned (here)

Heart of the Cards | Neon Jealousy

Close Friends - Rosa is plagued with a strange compulsion to do a certain act, thoroughly distracting her from work. Kiki suggest she seek the help of her closest, most special friend, Dr. Vyn Richter.

Part 1 | Part 2

Special Delivery - Vyn is very, very disappointed when Rosa bailed on their plans for his birthday, only to get something more interesting. And he plans to thoroughly enjoy her birthday surprise...

Part 1 | 

NXX on Blind Tasting - A blind tasting activity where Rosa is the taster, guessing which NXX men she is kissing as she makes out with each of them.

Part 1 | Part 2

Entrapped - series of smutty NSFW fansequels for Vyn’s cards, with their own sort of continuity

Pt 01 Layers| Pt 02 House Call | Pt 03 Invitation | Pt 04 Hot Summer | Pt 05 Straddling, Mounting, Riding | Pt 04 By the Fireplace | Pt 05 The Third Option | Pt 06 Conversations in Winter

NXX for Rent! - Sex Work AU

Luke | Vyn |

[daksart]

Only (S9)0′s kids remember

[deejadabbles]

I saw you talking about your Yugioh Oc’s deck and thought it was super cool so I thought it would be ok if I shared mine : It’s mostly a synchro deck consisting of mayakashi (like Daiki the graceful mayakashi)which are like human forms of DM . They’re zombie types too which is cool . Also the monsters can turn into other Mayakashi like Daiki becomes Yoko the graceful mayakashi stuff like that . It also has 9 tailed fox too,etc . I don’t really know how to use the deck irl but thought I’d share !

Of course it's okay to share! I'm always game to hear from you guys <3

Oooh I've seen some of the Mayakashi cards and honestly some of them are so pretty (I want art of Dakki so much lol) I love the Yokai/Japanese demons n spirits vibes. And I applaud you for having a synchro deck, I built like, one, and almost never use it XD

Also, on your last note, SAME! like I can kick butt in duel links, but irl, with a physical deck, with a gamer bro staring me down?? Nah man, I'd forget half the things I can even do with my card effects lmao

[shift-souls-writing]

[On The Horizon]

Character Design (Omitting Spoilers) :

Basic Information :

Name : Ira Moieniu ('She Who is Retribution')

Age : 28

Race : Werewolf/Shifter

[thegorgonist]

It is excruciatingly hard to create when you are under this constant duress.

 Now is a great time to remind the Black artists and authors in our lives how vital and brilliant they are through direct support.  Buy some books, buy some art, fall in love with them, promote and hype it, now and forever. 

Some suggestions, mostly indie but a few mainstream because we all have different tastes, very heavily in comics and pop culture because that's where I am:

Children's books: https://believeinwonder.weebly.com/ Brian W. Parker is the best children's book illustrator you haven't heard of yet (unless you have heard of him then you already know) https://notsosuper.pub/collections/all https://gumroad.com/backthatelfup (Tristan J Tarwater's Hen and Chick is the middle grade mother-daughter pirate adventure you need) https://sasquatchbooks.com/little-bigfoot/books/curious-encounters/ (I'm honored to have met Jessixa Bagley before she was famous-well, as famous-and she has a new book out and you should buy all of them and die from the cuteness and poignancy!) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624860/brown-sugar-babe-by-charlotte-watson-sherman-illustrated-by-akem/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567578/julian-is-a-mermaid-by-jessica-love/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585658/hair-love-by-matthew-a-cherry-illustrated-by-vashti-harrison/ Leo Dillon has left us but the work he and Diane Dillon created made me the artist I am today and all fantastical illustrators owe him a debt. https://www.harpercollins.com/9780064430975/honey-i-love-and-other-love-poems/

Comics: https://notsosuper.pub/collections/all (Jacques Nyemb does everything so he has to be everywhere <3 ) https://powerandmagicpress.com/ (Joamette Gil helms this publisher that makes intensely beautiful and important work) https://weirdenoughcomics.com/ (great kids' comics and education resource!) https://gumroad.com/backthatelfup (I love Shamsee and also Tristan writes RPGS!) https://onipress.com/products/archival-quality (library ghost!!!) https://www.princesslovepon.com/  (magical girl perfection by Shauna J Grant) https://agentsoftherealm.com/ (college-age magical girls by Mildred Louis) https://www.powells.com/book/-9781683830047 (M F K by Nilah Macgruder, stunning) https://us.macmillan.com/series/checkplease/ (Ngozi Ukazu's cute, snappy, feel-good gay hockey comic!) https://www.patreon.com/dakkycomics www.facebook.com/dakkycomics (a local who I was lucky to meet in person at a con last year--Dakky's comics are so good, and taking inspiration from fonts is just wildly cool)

Artists: https://ko-fi.com/nike_a_go_go/gallery (Nike's work is fantastic and all over my office, buy them a coffee or ten) https://kianamaiart.tumblr.com/ (amazing artist at Disney TV animation who offers resources and insight and really, really funny nerdy comics) https://shop.dominicglover.com/?fbclid=IwAR0kfjZVbe5uecz4k-gAhPH9iHxlCo4ayL48zEGHsScp1A6rUd26E6S7a9Q (one of the slickest, most pro comics people I know, if you crave superheroes you might wanna go shop) http://labillustration.etsy.com (RAT PINS, incredible work!) https://polkadotcuteshop.com/?fbclid=IwAR1xG2MpDlwpONx099JlFjVeitu47sbjcLSvqLL13MrK5p4dx5s9uqEyh7o (so cute you might die) https://cpunltd.com/?fbclid=IwAR1hLtPcdO0D29FTNFbnx0x3lFl6Ckt4cjIrjTiUTZ9keT6Y5v2Uh4RxWaI (cool laser etching and the creator runs a helpful facebook group!) https://www.etsy.com/shop/PlusHiiKawaii?fbclid=IwAR1SZraWs16QykadRDftqcnCjfNzC7AMojXSrXV1GTO3IoslsuhuGYVBv64 (if you are missing conventions and want to look cute, there is a great place to start!)

And we can just make this list longer and longer!

[hapuriainen]

Whoops I totally forgot to post this one! This is for @space-weeb who won the precure dress tournament art raffle, and asked for So Dakki from Houshin Engi in the Chibi Magical Girls style. So here’s some of her designs! 

[s2he-gamewalkthrough]

Part 22: Final Thoughts

I was initially going to make a pretty long post for this last part, detailing all my theories about how to unlock other characters in the game; and possibly other content (which I just couldn’t figure out).

But then I recently found out about this playthrough on nicovideo which basically renders most of my walkthrough kind of pointless. To be honest, I’m not even mad about this, as I can finally experience the Senkaiden 2 game in full.

(final thoughts under the cut)

Though... if anyone DID find this “guide” helpful, or found some use for all the screencaps I posted, then I’ll still be happy. (As a note, you are free to take and use screencaps without my permission. Credit back to the blog would be nice, but using them without credit is also fine. I don’t own anything from this game after all.)

Anyway my final thoughts:

I am not sure if this game is 100% canon to the HE universe--though most likely not. A very small number of characters that weren’t houshined at all are inexplicably brought back to life, and I feel like Dakki acts pretty out of character in this game. WHY is she a bad guy again? I thought she was pretty satisfied being the “Great Mother”? The plot of this game really feels like an excuse to have you fight through the enemies that were already houshined in the manga; and they made Dakki the “ultimate big bad” again just because they couldn’t think of anyone better. Even so, I appreciate that the story focuses on an older Tensho, who was a fairly minor character in the original series. And even if this game is not entirely canon, I do feel like this is a fitting “sequel” of sorts to the Houshin Engi manga. Pretty much everyone gets a happy ending here (minus most of the baddies).

Weird plot stuff (and Dakki’s ooc-ness) aside, this game appears pretty obviously aimed at Houshin Engi fans. There is A LOT of “fanservice” here. You can recruit many of the popular major (and minor!) characters into your party so they can fight alongside you; and there’s all these nice little events and extra snippets of dialogue between characters that reference established in-series relationships. Although games based on manga/anime series usually tend to be either average or “not so great,” I feel like there was a lot of heart put into the Senkaiden 2 game. All the character art looks like it was drawn by Fujiryu and then translated into game graphics. The BGM and overall sprite work is also pretty good quality for its time. Plus this game is pretty darn accurate to the plot of the Houshin Engi manga series.

Of course, Senkaiden 2 is not a perfect game--the game is not that long for an rpg. Furthermore, it also gets padded out with TONS of intentionally tedious dungeon designs and forces you to level grind quite a bit. But just being able to see all the old characters again, and to see Tensho actually grow up, makes all the minor annoyances a moot point. Even though I obviously missed a lot of extra game content, and barely knew what was going on due to my lack of Japanese knowledge, I still greatly enjoyed playing through this game. I’m glad I was able to revisit and revise this walkthrough.

Thanks for visiting this blog, and for reading this post to the end.

[somethingtizz]

Some more oc stuff

[soundlesswind]

Hakyu Houshin Engi Ep 1

Voice: Onoken is using a deeper, gruffer voice than I was expecting actually...I was sort of thinking he’d use a lighter, airy tone. This is way out of the ball park for me. It’s...definitely...not...my preference. Toriumi, I did end up liking as expected, except I’d wish he’d be more careful on certain lines to go softer, but I did realize the animation had to be sped up. Sakurai was my highlight. Naturally he sounds like Sakurai, but he does come quite close to the original Suupuu. Too soft on some instance, though. I’d wish he’d hit the nasal inflections a little more. Everyone else is as I had written last time; sort of passable.

Story: A lot of stuff got skipped and a tons of exposition dialogues were shoved in its place. After all, they did speed run through an entire volume. A couple of unexpected late character cameos as well... Sadly, without the in-between scenes, it kind of makes Taikoubou out to be a thoughtless dumbass, when he isn’t. Scenes were shuffled around. I wasn’t happy with Fugen being thrown in right after Shinkouhyou’s, it didn’t fit in with the context, and interrupted the pace for me. Especially since that scene was a favourite. The handling lacks delicacy.

Art: If it’s one thing I did like about Deen was that they always had the nicest character-designers and promo artists, even if a couple of things end up a little changed. Overall the newer designs capture some specific habits/qualities of Fujisaki’s more recent, thin, sharp lines, but seem to fall in the overall quality department. It’s a more accurate depiction of the style, but it’s not as pristine and polished looking, if that makes sense. If you compare the artwork back then to now, there’s a noticable difference in amount of precision and attention to detail. Small gripe, but I dislike how they draw Bou’s hair and hat.

Animation: Budgeted as expected...XD...also, severe lack of transition scenes. Everything is sped up quite a bit. Any faster and it could compete with Saiki Kusuo.  Lighting control and background tones are comparably some of the better aspects... But overall it’s...more or less expected of a small studio. I did like some of Dakki’s still shots, though. Very floral.

Music: I neither hate it nor like it. Some tracks are a bit tasteless. Some are okay, none of it is excellent thus far. I’m familiar with the composer’s other works but overall, the soundtrack in this show doesn’t really inspire, and is just there to fill in empty space. Though, I will get to enjoy Nagi Yanagi out of all this...

Overall Impression: Not meant to be a replacement, or faithful adaption of the manga...rather it’s definitely an anniversary fanservice for older fans. They’re shoving in at least 20-volumes worth of content in 23 episodes, and I’m still a little salty Raishinshi got cut out. But it’s still a nice bonus. Gets my heart pumping...makes me wanna read the manga...that sort of thing.

Long story short: To new fans: go read the manga first. To older fans: take what you can get. We’re a very niche fanbase. Also, don’t read the ANN reviews.