#viz

[everymangavegeta]

[justharoo]

WELCOME BACK!!! ❤️🤍🖤💛

[midnight-berri]

They will always be THE gals ❤️🤍🖤💛

[beanclam]

i have no idea if people are still following me, but i worked damn hard on this book so I'm showing it off EVERYWHERE.

I did the lineart for Mirrorverse Belle, a graphic novel backstory of Belle from Disney's Mirrorverse game.

It's out April 23!!! Cover and storyboards were donw by Jan Apple, tones done by Umi Miyao.

[matt0044]

Honestly, I feel like "It's a web series, not some Disney spectacle" is the best mentality for RWBY Volume 1. It's rough, it's rugged, it goes it with a lot of heart.

A lot of the critical side of the FNDM seem to have some complaints be about RWBY's ambition in a, "if you can't do it or do it right right away, don't do it at all." It's such a non-risk taking, non-experimental mentality that clashes with how art often is.

Real art, be it one person or collaborative. It can be messy, mistakes are inevitable. But that's what attracts me to stuff like RWBY: the human element. The "low on budget, high on heart" vibe oozing from it.

So long as they're not being a jerk about it, artists should be allowed to get too big for their britches. We mock them but it takes a lot of nerve to essentially tear out a piece of your soul for all to see.

[thecoolguy24601]

She made the microwave into a macrowave

[odioart]

Tatsuki Fujimoto x Odio Chainsaw Man Colorful

[graveweaver]

I'm the Grim Reaper Volume 3 cover! :3

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

VIZ MEDIA MAKES A FORAY INTO THE WESTERN COMIC BOOK MARKET WITH A STUDIO GHIBLI CLASSIC.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a 1988 Viz Select Comics house ad for Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" comic book adaptation, from the 1984 post-apocalyptic fantasy animated feature film of the same name by Studio Ghibli.

PIC #2: Promotional "Nausicaä..." artwork for the North American/Viz Select Comics Monthly market, c. late 1980s. Story & art by Hayao Miyazaki.

Sources: https://readallcomics.com/amazing-heroes-151 & The Arts Mechanical (Wordpress).

[supergirlytreiner]

The Good Ending! (+ some refs for the aliens!)

[bobauthorman]

I just realized why we see so many posts depicting Jaune Arc as this total chick magnet. Because that's the character Jaune is. Or rather, he's the deconstruction of such a character.

See, Jaune's character inspiration is the same as these 'magic girl boyfriends' you see in various manga and anime. This plain vanilla boy who living a normal life but one day stumbles upon a strange, new world, either by literally being transported, or just learning about a hidden civilization. either way, they get embroiled in crazy, intense things, but don't worry! They get a girl, sometimes several with crazy powers to help and protect him, soon becoming ride-or-die for the guy. And soon the guy gains powers of his own, with his character growth being centered around 'being a real man who can protect the weak women who shouldn't be fighting'. His power scales to absurd degrees until he becomes a basic god.

Jaune more or less has the same thing happen to him, as he goes from a civilian life to Beacon Academy, and gets Pyrrha Nikos as a partner to help and even train him. The problem is that Pyrrha gets killed, filling him with much angst, regret and rage. And the other girls he's stuck with don't so much love him as they regard him as a lost puppy in a box. The closest we get to women wanting Jaune THAT WAY is the Thirsty Moms bit in "Sparks". And despite his training, Jaune is always stuck at the bottom tier of Team Remnant, largely due to his inexperience. (How true that is now after V9 is unknown).

Basically, what I'm saying is that Jaune's character is what would happen if a vanilla boy didn't have plot contrivance and raw pheromones to carry him through the hardship and crisis.

[everymangavegeta]

HFF... HFF...

[smellysocksniff]

I love Diz, Viz and Quiz like no one else does

[a-scanner-darkly]

Ferry Zayadi — Cover art direction for The underground magazine Viz (London, 1978-1981)

[sketch-shepherd]

Memes from the official RWBYxVIZ accounts following the good news about RWBY’s survival is exactly what my Monday needed

[matt0044]

Frankly, RWBY is my go-to example of men who write female characters with little to none of the usual pitfalls. Even when they may, there's one element that keeps its head well over water:

The female cast being so extensive as it is.

DireGentleman put it well here but a too common element of certain stories has been that they'll have a few or one female character amongst their sausage fest of a cast. Few of these cases are active intent on the author's part but it does speak to a "male as default" pitfall that is very much rendered invisible by a sphere of normality.

As such, you'll get female commanders in armies where the troops are all shown as male (@swan2swan made a few posts on the "female Stormtrooper" problem) for one and, for a classic example, one female character amongst an ensemble of boys.

Sometimes she's one of them and other times she's an April O'Neil to their Ninja Turtles, a normie to their extraordinary lives. Either way, there won't be much in the way of gender diversity. Especially if it's based on a toy line that subscribes to the "boys or bust" mentality that would rather kill off a profit that pivot.

But that's been dissected better in other posts...

Thankfully, RWBY was created first and foremost as an animated story project before the thought of merchendising was considered since RT wasn't super-duper confident it'd stick. Now it has firmly supplanted Red Vs. Blue as Rooster Teeth's flagship animation (the latter gearing up for its final season even).

This frees it from the shackles of heavily corporatized media that would prefer a toyetic show have a male prescense in the story or one where the female prescense is... palatable.

No character has to be the token girl who's either super bubbly and awkward or super stand-offish before the right guy comes along or rather reserve until the right guy comes along or one of the boys until the right- okay, I've made my point.

And it goes beyond the main cast as there's a smattering of girls and boys among the ensemble so it never feels like they were tacked on when the writers realizes, "Oh sh*t, forgot the estrogen," by Season Four or something.

If anything, Jaune is the token girl but genderflipped. He has healing powers. He has an arc but it all ultimately comes back to the main girls for the bigger plotlines. He's often the normal one that balks at the eccentricities of the girls and their shenanegins.

I mean... HE GREW UP WITH MANY SISTERS AND NO BROTHERS. Does that cliche not ring a bell.

Basically... Jaune is what I feel is the Sakura Haruno of RWBY if I may be so bold.