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Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Tite Kubo - Some facts about Bleach characters
In an interview in 2004 issue 42 of JUMP, Kubo Tite gives very random tidbits about several Bleach characters.
"Kurosaki Ichigo - When Ichigo goes to the hair dresser, people ask him about his hair color and since he hates that, he doesn't go to the hair dresser. Normally, Yuzu cuts it.
Kuchiki Rukia - Sometimes people ask me this, in book 5 they announced the semester's final exam scores and regarding Rukia's rank, out of 322 people in the 1st grade, she's 302nd. Besides Japanese, she flunked most of it.
Kon - The plushie body of his is the fake copy of the main character of the popular TV show, "Carnivor Kingdom" named "Ponkichi". It was a prize from the shooting game in the Karakura Town Festival.
Inoue Orihime - Tied with Ichigo, her face is the hardest to draw. She's going to be a very important character later on so, I want to get used to drawing her faster.
Sado Yasutora - He likes music so he rarely watches TV, but the only program he likes the "Carnivor Kingdom" that starts at 8 AM on Sundays. He likes it so much that he bought the DVDs for it.
Ishida Uryuu - The TV program he likes is Don Kanonji's "Bura-Rei". It's not mentioned in the comic, but in chapter 29, the shadow that tried to jump in before Ichigo was Uryuu.
Urahara Kisuke - The rare candy sold only in Urahara shouten, "Space candy". From the name, it sounds like it'll have some strange taste, but inside is only a coca cola tasting candy.
Shihouin Yoruichi - Yoruichi-san cannot drink so much alcohol. She likes milk the most. When she's tired, first she starts with milk. As long as there's milk, she's in a good mood.
Zangetsu - Zangetsu was the most difficult to decide for the appearance. After nitpicking on his hair style and his clothes, the only thing that remained from the original sketch were his shades.
Shiba Ganjyu - He looks good with goggles, so every time he came out with new clothes, I put a new goggle hanging from his neck, but by the next week I forget to draw it.
Ichimaru Gin - In my opinion, I was trying to draw him all creepy since his first appearance, but for some reason he is a man who is very popular amongst women. I envy him.
Kuchiki Byakuya - Within the seireitei, there're only four major noble families including the Kuchiki family that are considered high class noble men. Besides them, the life style of the other nobles are not much different from normal city people.
Zaraki Kenpachi - Tied with Tousen Kaname, out of the BLEACH characters, he has the hardest hair style to draw. I think I'll continue to regret eternally for giving him that hair style.
Hitsugaya Toushirou - He's from the West Rukongai 1st area "Jyunrinan". He is actually friends with Jidanbou and was the one who taught him the "city rules".
Abarai Renji - All his sunglasses are from Seireitei's popular glasses store "Silver dragon fly glasses store" (megane no gin tonbo). Every time he wears it, he gets it broken, but that costs half a year worth his paycheck.
Kira Izuru - All of Seireitei's shinigami are all considered "nobles", but it also has a high, middle, and low class and Izuru is from a low class noble family. He's had a pretty tough time.
Hinamori Momo - I had a tough time trying to decide her name. The name "Hinamori Momo" was decided right before drawing the official comic. During the sketch stage, she had a totally different name.
Yamada Hanatarou - A rather pitiful Hanatarou whose birthday lies on April Fools. Every year, on his birthday a bunch of people keep tricking him the entire day."
"Kurosaki Ichigo - When Ichigo goes to the hair dresser, people ask him about his hair color and since he hates that, he doesn't go to the hair dresser. Normally, Yuzu cuts it.
Kuchiki Rukia - Sometimes people ask me this, in book 5 they announced the semester's final exam scores and regarding Rukia's rank, out of 322 people in the 1st grade, she's 302nd. Besides Japanese, she flunked most of it.
Kon - The plushie body of his is the fake copy of the main character of the popular TV show, "Carnivor Kingdom" named "Ponkichi". It was a prize from the shooting game in the Karakura Town Festival.
Inoue Orihime - Tied with Ichigo, her face is the hardest to draw. She's going to be a very important character later on so, I want to get used to drawing her faster.
Sado Yasutora - He likes music so he rarely watches TV, but the only program he likes the "Carnivor Kingdom" that starts at 8 AM on Sundays. He likes it so much that he bought the DVDs for it.
Ishida Uryuu - The TV program he likes is Don Kanonji's "Bura-Rei". It's not mentioned in the comic, but in chapter 29, the shadow that tried to jump in before Ichigo was Uryuu.
Urahara Kisuke - The rare candy sold only in Urahara shouten, "Space candy". From the name, it sounds like it'll have some strange taste, but inside is only a coca cola tasting candy.
Shihouin Yoruichi - Yoruichi-san cannot drink so much alcohol. She likes milk the most. When she's tired, first she starts with milk. As long as there's milk, she's in a good mood.
Zangetsu - Zangetsu was the most difficult to decide for the appearance. After nitpicking on his hair style and his clothes, the only thing that remained from the original sketch were his shades.
Shiba Ganjyu - He looks good with goggles, so every time he came out with new clothes, I put a new goggle hanging from his neck, but by the next week I forget to draw it.
Ichimaru Gin - In my opinion, I was trying to draw him all creepy since his first appearance, but for some reason he is a man who is very popular amongst women. I envy him.
Kuchiki Byakuya - Within the seireitei, there're only four major noble families including the Kuchiki family that are considered high class noble men. Besides them, the life style of the other nobles are not much different from normal city people.
Zaraki Kenpachi - Tied with Tousen Kaname, out of the BLEACH characters, he has the hardest hair style to draw. I think I'll continue to regret eternally for giving him that hair style.
Hitsugaya Toushirou - He's from the West Rukongai 1st area "Jyunrinan". He is actually friends with Jidanbou and was the one who taught him the "city rules".
Abarai Renji - All his sunglasses are from Seireitei's popular glasses store "Silver dragon fly glasses store" (megane no gin tonbo). Every time he wears it, he gets it broken, but that costs half a year worth his paycheck.
Kira Izuru - All of Seireitei's shinigami are all considered "nobles", but it also has a high, middle, and low class and Izuru is from a low class noble family. He's had a pretty tough time.
Hinamori Momo - I had a tough time trying to decide her name. The name "Hinamori Momo" was decided right before drawing the official comic. During the sketch stage, she had a totally different name.
Yamada Hanatarou - A rather pitiful Hanatarou whose birthday lies on April Fools. Every year, on his birthday a bunch of people keep tricking him the entire day."
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
*** SPOILERS*** Soul Society - A History
Having just finished updating myself with the Bleach manga I decided to create an overview of Soul Society, incorporating the flash backs regarding the origins of the Vizard. If you haven't read the manga yet don't look at this...
I am a massive nerd.
Friday, 30 May 2008
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
London Expo - The full report
So Lou-Lou and I went to London Expo at the weekend. It was my first time there and I was really impressed by how many stalls there were. We had a very thorough look around on Saturday and returned for more on Sunday (I somehow managed to get in for free on Sunday because I blatantly strolled in past the ticket collectors when trying to take a picture of an Optimus Prime cosplayer - see below).
It was also my first time cosplaying - though not very well. My Kuchiki Rukia was so unconvincing that anyone attempting to make conversation with me simply looked at me and said "oh you're... from Soul Society?" hmm. However, Lou-Lou's Inoue Orihime was great and I think she looked beautiful so that made up for it. See below for pictures...
See what I mean?
Check out the authentic hair
Meh
Stay Puft
Some frightening Hello Kitties and a female Pyramid Head
Ken-chan amuses Ichigo and Orihime over lunch
Her 'proton pack' looked heavy...
Contrary to what it looks like, it's a mirrored surface rather than a window revealing his leopard print underwear (I'm looking at you Mat)
Friday, 16 May 2008
London Expo - the debut cosplay
So Lou-Lou and I are going to London Expo next weekend and we're actually going to do the cosplay thing. It's very frightening actually as most people tend to look awful when the try to replicate a perfect, petite, manga character. Unfortunately humans can't look good from every angle and their hair can look crap, and if they're really unluckly they might have a bad case of 'red eye' in photos... So it is with great aprehension that I delve into this world of 'costume play'.
We're going as Rukia and Orihime from Bleach (Lou-Lou as Orihime and myself as Rukia) - see below. The fact that we both have the right colour hair for the characters is a good start at least...
We'll see I suppose - we'll keep you posted...
Friday, 25 April 2008
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
I've been trying to get this manga for some time but every shop I've seen it in seems to have every volume but #1. It sounds awesome: "Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo . . . among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off-you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP-gives them a direct line to the dead . . . the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation.
The five form the Kurosagi ("Black Heron?-their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away-it's a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming!"
Let me know if you see it Lou-Lou!
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Death Note: How to Read
In Japan, Death Note chapter 13: How to Read came with this box to house the other 12 volumes and other goodies. I put off buying my copy for as long as I could in the hopes that it would be released with similar treats over here, but alas Viz Media must think we don't deserve it.
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