Well it’s completed now. Welcome to 2009! I hope you enjoy your stay cause there’s no going back.(and no refunds) I really enjoyed doing the fireworks. It gave me an artificial festive feeling.

Woooohhhhhh party in the streets!!!! *hears fireworks outside of window* WTF?!?!?!!!?

Well, I’m okay as far as I can tell now. Even though I’m sure I won’t be able to make the update before midnight, I won’t give up. In the mean time, I’m going to list some new year resolutions that I hope to achieve……….or not, I’m not making any promises here.

1. Continue updating Allugic (I know this should be a given, but I have had problems with leaving my site all together for a stupid reason or another :/ )
2. Draw more backgrounds with my random character (I’ve avoided this for far too long XD )
3. Get more exposure for my site (Well you know, just a few more people…………who am I kidding, I want thousands of more visitors!! I DESERVE IT!! GIVE EM TO ME DAMN IT!!!?@$#)
4. Don’t procrastinate! (Even though we are such great friends)
5. Draw more landscapes/backgrounds! (yeah I know I mentioned this already, but I’m serious!! How can I be so hesitant to draw something I love to look at??!?!)
6. Go to japan (eh, it’s a long shot, but not impossible)

That’s all I could think of at the moment. I’m going to end it here in hopes of getting the image done before midnight. If I don’t then let this be the last message of 2008.

2008 started out just as bleh as 2007. My shitty job took most of my day time and the only thing I had going for me was my one morning collage class. It wasn’t until I decided to quite my job mid 08 resulting in my complete refocus of my priorities from work and live to school and live. Also at this time, the original host of my site seem to have completely shut down. Resulting in my site doing so as well. At this point I figure it was time for change, it was time for me to get serious about my passion.(again) So I changed my host, changed my site, and changed my approach to how I originally ran my site. The results have been sensational. Never before have I had this many views over the course of a month. As a matter of fact, just in the past 2 months, I’ve been getting double the numbers and even 4x the numbers I normally got pre mid 08.

Well, I just want to say, thank you. Thanks to everyone who continues to return as I have great things plan for 09 and I hope you will be there to witness them.

Later dayz everybody, and happy new years!

Japan SF Convention 1983 in Osaka (Daicon IV) opening animation by Daicon Film (indie of university, origin of Gainax). Warrior is Clarisse d’Cagliostro, and Japanese legendary work like Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (by Hayao Miyazaki). Original of Japanese famous TV drama Densha Otoko (Train Man) title sequence animation; remake edition by staff of those days.

So basicly, it is a music video using the song Twilight by Electric Light Orchestra which was completed for the anime convention Daicon by 4 guys who would eventually create the animation company Gainax. Despite the year this animation was completed in, it is VERY well done and very addicting to watch. But don’t let my word convince you, just take a look for yourself!!

*starts to cry rivers* So……happy………..

The requester ask for an anime version of his wife as a pixie. Besides from a few small detail requests, the image was all ball game for me. i had fun with the image and it only took me the day before Christmas to color it all. lol

You too can request commissions! It’s all in the request/commission page! Knock yourself out!!!

Second Drawing
First Drawing

I tried to be very……um….how do you say……..abstract with this image. It ended up being a victim of one of my many experiments. The drawing it self was a pain though. For some reason I’m finding it very difficult to re draw my old images. Is it because my style is changing? Or is it because I’m getting worst at drawing? Hum….not sure, not sure.

Uggghhhhhhhhh, I hate winter. Even more so due to my situation. (no in door air circulation, no money to buy heater, no money to support huge electric bill = shit out of luck)

But it’s okay, my spirit is still high. Even though I’m like a brick in water when it comes to cold weather, I’ve manage to entertain myself with video games. Now I know this is no excuse for my laziness and I plan to man up as much as I can and get shit done asap. So in the mean time, I figure I might as well inform you guest and anon as to what games are taking most of my time nowadays.

Two games in particle are in a tug-a-war for my attention.(leaving my poor site to sit and watch on the side lines)

Game one is (drum roooolllll) Star Ocean: First Departure for the Playstation Portable.

I’m a pretty huge Star Ocean fan (mostly part 2) so as I began to place the remake of 1 I notice the huge similarity of it with 2.(obviously) So this game has been like reinforced crack for me.(as a matter of fact, I’m going to need my hit again soon) I highly recommend you place this and it’s sequel remake coming out [insert ridiculously stalled Square Enix release date].

The second game is a bit on the adult side, but I have to name it cause it’s just so entertaining to play. Game 2 is Princess Waltz for the pc.

The game is a visual novel (like the ones I made) with card battling elements. The story itself doesn’t exceed too far from your average anime show but I believe through visual novel telling, the story is MUCH more enriching. If you enjoy watching anime (if not, what the hell are you doing here?(I kid, you can stay)) enjoying reading (we’re not talking about sunday newpaper reading, I mean full books) and is over 18 (I guess that cut about 70% of you) I highly recommend giving this game a play. You will laugh, you will cry(from laughter) and maybe even become a fan of visual novels. If all else fails, just keep in mind this game was a hit when it was released in japan. Now we have the english version uncensored.(birthday suit ftw!)

So now that you know what the funk I’ve been up too, I now go back to them. I’ll get back to drawing and other matters in the following days.(I’m almost done with star ocean) Laterz!

For all those j-pop fans out there you may be delighted to know Ayumi Hamasaki will be doing the theme song for the moive. *cough*hugeayumifanhere*cough*