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i passed this semester so i wanted to treat myself by drawing him <3

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date with a serial killer

pft, i once said i want to draw higuchi with every yotsuba man so here we go? i like drawing scenes because you can interpret them and create a story, but i'm so bad at bgs (￣▽￣)

higuchi was supposed to be smiling at first, but i liked this version more. looks more uncanny. alt ver under the cut vvvv

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genderswapped misa and higuchi :3

male!misa is so cute... i thought it would be fun if he was rlly tall so he's like 190. while fem!higuchi is the same height as normally lol (169).

also i came up with names for them: misaki amane and kyouka higuchi.. very creative i know

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welp i said i was done, but then i drew this yakuza higuchi.. heh

i imagine in this au instead of getting demoted (or maybe in addition to geting demoted. idk how yakuza works) he has to cut off his finger :^) ohohoh

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Do you have a music playlist for Kyosuke Higuchi?

I didn't before, but I do now.

To be fair, I've been meaning to make one for quite some time now but Higuchi (for me anyway) is kind of a hard one musically. And its not because his music taste isn't insanely predictable, that's not the problem. I just find it hard to pick a wide enough selection of songs while still going "yeah, these ones right here". I chose these songs based off of what he'd probably listen to but also if the songs scream Higuchi. I like to imagine he was a rivethead as a young adult (which is how he met Namikawa as the goth scene and industrial scene heavily overlapped in Europe. I like to imagine that Namikawa was travelling and met Higuchi while he was staying in Germany for a while in an underground nightclub, but that's a story for another day lol). As such, he'd probably listen to industrial, EBM etc. and get a taste for bands like KMFDM. I imagine he got a taste for metal later (think 30s, probably through industrial metal like Rammstein and maybe Rob Zombie if you want to argue that) and likes extreme metal and death metal in particular, but I didn't add much in at all because this is off the top of my head.

I did this on a burner account because my main Spotify is shared and also cringe so.

I also have a Shimura playlist if you're interested (which I think is way better).

See, this one's 10x better because it has a massive Drab Majesty interlude and then continues with the playlist.

I'm also currently in the midst of making a Namikawa playlist and a Hatori playlist which I'll probably share whether people like it or not.

(The images I used for both playlists I found on Pinterest a squillion years ago so please don't sue me or kick down my door wielding a pitchfork in your hand).

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I AM VERY MOTIVATED TODAY!!

Have it in my head that Higuchi definitely is not a morning person. Or a night person. Or an any time of the day person really.

I detest Tumblr formatting and my inability to take a proper photograph. On the bright side, I don't hate the drawing.

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heyyy, i'm dumping all my remaining higuchi doodles. i'm probably not gonna draw him anymore cause i moved on from death note (higuchi's still dear to me, i'm just not crazy obsessed - so no drawings).

well in a few years if i decide to rewatch it i might get back into it so stay tuned for that i guess.

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I love how much you love Higuchi! He needs wayyy more content (all the yotsuba group does)

Aw, I'm happy to hear that :^) Yotsubas are pretty niche but I like seeing stuff with them... Since it's on topic I'll share this drawing (I feel like it was cooler in my head so I never posted it)

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i tried drawing some dn characters in arcane style. in the end it's kind of a mix because i used dn proportions and stuff and just tried shading it like in arcane 💀

i'm not happy with how misa turned out but i'm too burned out to redo her. probably my last dn fanart for now.

at first i was only going to do higuchi but i wanted to make a post so i made my top 3 characters. the theme is uhhhh pre timeskip kiras. i guess.

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higuchi death note appreciation post where i dump all my favorite higuchi things (mostly manga, some anime mentions). it's gonna be long, self indulgent and probably not that interesting.

here's all the moments where he's being rude to his coworkers. mainly takahashi and shimura. (also talking shit about his coworkers to misa)

i like this convo with rem, where he gives his motive rant. shame it was cut from the anime, but i get why they did it. also mostly unrelated but i think it's funny that out of all the people who act as kira light would be the only anti-kira one if he wasn't kira. like, if they never had anything to do with the notebook, but kira still existed: misa, higuchi, mikami and takada would still be pro-kira, but light definitely wouldn't if it wasn't him doing the killing :P

oh i love this panel. he's so silly

also: higuchi being so obviously kira at the meetings. bro do you think you're good at hiding it??? you're shit

special mention for L calling higuchi an idiot. light, you're too nice.

oh they read him. it's actually so embarrassing.

oh brother, this guy STINKS. everyone hating on him, so real. and he believes rem, misa and mido are on his side but they're actually not.

he's the biggest murder fan. his only rival for that title in death note is light (and maybe mikami? but mikami mostly kills criminals while light and higuchi target their opps)

i like the whole misa interview. there are no thoughts in higuchi's head. he seems really bored. isn't it in his interest to find out more about L? does he actually not gaf cause he wants to talk to misa in private anyway? or he's pretending to be disinterested to avoid looking sus? is he just stupid?

also something i thought about: higuchi going to the bathroom at the same time as misa and it not being relevant at all. in universe it's a coincidence (i mean misa decides after him so that's not the coincidence, but HIM going in the first place is random) but it's VERY convenient for rem. since she HAS to follow him the conditions for her to actually be able to talk to misa have to be very specific.

if misa was the only one to leave to the bathroom higuchi would notice rem going after her, since she's always near him. so higuchi goes first. i imagine rem waits outside (that's actually funny... think of the hijinks of girl shinigami & guy combo. ever though why light-ryuk and misa-rem are boy-boy and girl-girl? yeah i don't know what point i'm trying to make) or she could even stay in the meeting room and that's fine. so when he gets back she's either already there or she comes back after him but before misa (the second option seems more realistic since rem and misa have a whole ass conversation there, but it's more suspicious). did i think too much about this? probably.

btw i love how he looks in those panels. he looks so ugly lol. ugly-cute. somehow endearing.

the whole date with misa is amazing. misa is making it so awkward and it's awesome. like, from his perspective she wanted to go out with him but then she keeps calling him a creep. he's trying to play it off, but damn. misa you'll always be famous to me.

i actually prefer this scene in the anime, cause it feels longer. also love higuchi looking nervous after coming out as kira. they made him look more rapey in the anime, lunging at misa, but i like how they both look in this shot so it's forgiven i guess.

also i wonder if they actually went for dinner or were they too excited about kira stuff. misa would probably want to leave after getting the evidence, but isn't it weird? ohba i need answers.

this exchange is funny to me. wedy being annoyed that higuchi owns so many cars and L knowing the exact number. yeah i like that higuchi is a car guy.

bonus trivia: his car is a Porsche 911 and the gun is a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver. i think they have different models and i don't know which one exactly he has (my knowledge about guns is zero and they all look the same to me).

him being lefthanded is a cute little detail. like, i don't know why would you give a side villain a trait like that? well, i guess i could say the same about all the little trivia we get in the guidebook about the side characters or even the yotsuba character profiles in the main manga where they say what school they went to or their hobbies. it makes the characters feel more human/complex, i like it.

anyway, the only inconsistency with higuchi being lefthanded is him using the phone. it's usually in his right hand (i wouldn't hold the phone with my non dominant hand). my answer is artistic liberty. and i think it's basically confirmed since a lot of righthanded characters (namikawa, light i think?) for some reason hold the phone with their left? or maybe i'm the weird one and it's normal to hold the phone with your non dominant hand.

not related to him being lefthanded, but when he shoots soichiro he's holding the gun sideways. it's called the side grip and wikipedia states that: "Shooting a gun in this way has no practical benefit under most circumstances and makes proper aiming very difficult, but the style has become somewhat popular in hip hop culture and among street criminals [...]". it's meant to make him look cool and like a gangster. is he doing it on purpose? maybe he saw it in a movie (cute...)

higuchi yelling at the guy from yoshida pro. i love the voice acting here in the anime. i really like both his japanese and english voice... death note dub is good but i deffo prefer watching og ver.

classic kira stuff: predicted killings to prove you're kira. pages above show misa, higuchi and light doing it. i know it's a pretty obvious thing to do but i think it's fun.

the whole plot to catch higuchi is great. ofc it's my favorite part. i love him panicking and just making his situation worse. i kinda feel bad for him cause he's getting played badly.

there's so many things here that i like. higuchi being pragmatic enough to write matsui's name after his fakeout death. him realizing he can't ask his coworkers for help without revealing he's kira. him weaseling out of getting surrounded by 4 people and shooting soichiro. THE CAR CHASE. the car crash (lol). btw he looks relatively unharmed after crashing his car like that.

also i love the way he drifts his car in the anime. it looks way too cool. making a lame guy do something cool is fun.

his last ditch effort hostage/attempted suicide plan. i get secondhand embarrassment everytime. i love how he realizes it's ridiculous and gets so resigned and tries to pull the trigger (sad those panels were cut from the anime. actually a lot of characters' internal thoughts were cut and i wish that wasn't the case)

actually it's kinda sad that the only thing that matters to him is his job. guy doesn't have a life outside it lol. like, he's more afraid of losing his position at yotsuba than idk... getting executed for being a mass murderer?

special mention for light writing down higuchi's name with blood. it's more of a cool light thing, but i'm including it in my higuchi post (if i were to make a light one it would be the whole manga). i love love this scene. helicopter light is awesome.

i like matsu mimicking higuchi here. even using the left hand.

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Made another Higuchi fanart. Can't tell if I fuck with this one. I think my photography skills are influencing my opinion more than the drawing though.

I noticed I had an assignment due and since I'm such a busy man, I decided to in fact not do the assignment and draw Higuchi instead.

This is my "Higuchi teaching Namikawa how to say Rammstein because he speaks German and Namikawa is too goth to know who they are" fanart.

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inspired by this

i loved the idea with the scythe so i wanted to put my own spin on it. the irony is too good!!

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biblically accurate higuchi

and i promise i'll answer that one ask 😭👍

ok bye

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some drawings for my kaiji/death note crossover AU explained here:

the first is a kaiji panel redraw but with light winning in mahjong against higuchi (i also used actual dn panels for this and tweaked them a bit to really make it look like a blend between those two series).

the second drawing is dn characters reimagined in fkmt style (just the ones i wanted to do). L and light are basically kaiji and akagi in wigs XD i think misa turned out so cute! (i referenced mamiya and kazuya's side girls for her, since fkmt basically has one "pretty girl" design...)

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the killers

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some manga panel/anime screenshot redraws (also a couple original doodles) feat my favorite death note guys