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(Last updated 02-05-'12)
I never really update my journal but I'm on DevART about once a month now.

Note: I'm currently to busy to take on another project

I've decided to go all out with a visual novel project.
So I joined Aratta Studios a newly created, international, amateur studio that is focused on creating Visual Novels. It will however be some time until we'll begin promoting the studio and visual novel as I still need to finish the basic plots, characters and so on. I've also got Manga projects which I haven't forgotten about.

Go to the website of Aratta Studios for more information about the studio and visual novel: www.Aratta-Studios.com.


Manga Projects
-I'm currently working together with MoruganKodi, creating the story for his Manga. Chapter 1 is currently being drawn.

-The story for Eldin-Vortex is in it's alpha phase.

-The Manga which I'm creating together with CLICKerror is in the drawing phase.

-The basic story ideas are done for the second manga with CLICKerror.

-The manga I'm creating together with Zendar13 is currently on hold as Zendar isn't able to properly upload art at the moment.


Contact and Info
Best to just write a comment or send a note on DevART
-DevART (Doh)
-My Anime List
-Xfire
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It has been some time again since I wrote a journal. Not that I wasn't active on DevART but just didn't know what to write. SO I wrote this for the few who actually read my journal :)


What I've been up to
I'm still in talks with CLICKerror about a possible story and about Bittersweet. I'm also busy writing a story for Eldin-Vortex which will be a Fantasy one. And last but not least I'm creating a Story for a game which I'm creating with my friends.


Game (called Project Pink Unicorn for now ;P)
It's a Story driven RPG, It's sort of like Dragon Quest, Zelda, Guild Wars and LOL mixed in one game made in 2D (GBA Zelda graphics) and probably available for the PC and iPhone and maybe some other stuff. But it will take a year or two to finish. ;P I'll be doing the story, Characters, map making and overall how the game will be. So skills, combat, lands and so on. Others will be scripting it all from scratch. But we do still need a pixel artists. And I can't start putting in the story until others are done scripting the map/event maker.


New Stories
I guess I've been pretty busy coming up and writing stories. Most of them are just basic stories. So idea of the story it self with some forms of Characters and stuff like plot and so on. Over al just the basic direction of a story. The most notable one is a Fanfic of bleach. This is because I never wrote a Fanfic before because I don't want to steal a story from someone else or alter an already great story. Anyways some info below here.


Sora no Haretsu - 空の破裂
Sora no Haretsu aka Rupture of the sky is the name of the story. If your not familiar with bleach than you probably won't really now what's it about. It won't featuring any of the original characters other than Shuuhei Hisagi which will only be in a few panels so nothing major. The story will play in the Arrancar arc of bleach. It's about a young Shinigami called Akari who's a member of the Sixth Division. Akari has the strenght of a Lieutenant but is just a member because of the fact that she can't really control her powers. Some things happened with her powers when she was still an recruit and she was stationed in a small town in the mortal world as soon as she became a member. Hollows rarely come to the village and there weak if they do come. So Akari is mainly stationed there so she won't case any trouble. The second main Character is an Arrancar named Bikou, he is in fact the former 10th Espada and rebelled against Aizen and hunted by other Arrancars.

To keep it short: Hollows will swarm the village and the Garganta will open in the sky. Akiri will fight off the hollow but will eventually be knocked out. Bikou who is the cause of the troubles and who has already rebelled against Aizen will save Akiri. An important part of the story is that Akiri doesn't know what an Arrancar is because of the fact that she wans't informed about all the stuff that happenend. So she thinks Bikou is a Sinigami of a special unit. And so on and so on.

I want to write more but I don't want it to become a big wall of text, which it will become if I write down the whole story concept ;P. Anyways maybe I'll upload it one day. It's basicly a battle Manga story which uses the Bleach universe and focuses like bleach on the Battles and humour.


As always will update this Journal soon, I'll be checking spelling and grammer and add some stuff so come back later ;P

Remember Comments, Ideas and thoughts are always welcome!
I'm not found of people who burn my thoughts to the ground, but criticism is also welcome. I won't turn a blind eye to it and it's helpful most of the time.
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Well a lot of things happened recently. First of all, my PC died on me again so I wasn't able to do much for some time. And secondly as stated in the title. THE FIRST PAGES AND COVER OF CRYSTAL FLAME ARE DONE AND POSTED!


Crystal Flame
Crystal flame is the Manga project I started together with Kuro-sempai. The manga is drawn by Kuro and the story is one of mine. I'm pretty proud and very happy to say to say that the first page and the cover are posted. You can find them in Kuro's Gallery So do have a look.

But Seriously. I'm so happy right now. This is the first time a full page is drawn of one of my stories and I really REALLY want to thank Kuro and hope we will make many more. But for now I'll focus on Chapter 2 and other stories I need to and want to write.  :D


Bittersweet
Also super excited news. SayNo2u can finely see the end of a very busy period and we can hopefully continue our Manga Project together around the end of May. So I'm also very happy about that. And again for those who don't know the story. It's a Drama, Romance Manga. About a girl who was almost raped by her sempai. She could prefent the rape but goten and cut instead. The girl Yumi has now Shut her heart and it's up to Kaito to open her heart. It's a pretty depresing story but it has an happy end. It's a short story with about 45 pages and the script is pretty much done. And again Story by me and drawn by SayNo. You can read the story in a nutshell here: fav.me/d36zroe


Sorry for the delay
Also I'm sorry I haven't replayed to notes and comments because of the PC crash. I will write a proper response either today or tomorrow. So sorry for the delay.


weeaboo
And last but not least. I didn’t really know what a weeaboo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeaboo was but apparently I am one. :D

[x] You’ve seen at least one anime.
[x] You’ve read at least one manga.
[x] You watch anime/read manga on a regular basis. (Regular basis… More like no life)
[x] You think that anime and western cartoons are two separate things.
[x] You’re in anime club.(well its not a anime club exactly its a doujinshi cirkel)

[ ] You’ve cosplayed at least once.
[ ] You counted Halloween costumes from when you were a kid as cosplay.
[ ] You’ve cosplay in public.
[ ] You’ve been to at least one anime convention.
[ ] You cosplayed there.
[ ] You traveled more than 200 miles to get there.

[x] You like any of the following in particular: sushi, pocky, cheap ramen, ramune
[x] You know that sushi isn’t just raw fish.
[ ] You’ve made bento lunch.
[ ] You’ve made a chara bento.
[ ] You go to the Asian shop on a regular basis.
[ ] You’ve actually been to Japan.
[ ] You’ve been to Japan solely for the anime, videogames or idols.
[x] You’re learning/know Japanese.
[x] You’re learning it to watch anime without subtitles.
[ ] You have various Japanese artbooks.
[ ] You have several doujinshis.
[x] You’re in love with a fictional character made by Japanese people.
[x] You claim you’re married to said fictional character.
[x] Anime is so much better than western cartoons.
[ ] You call all cartoons anime.
[x] Anyone who hates anime is dead to you.

[x] You call characters by their original Japanese names
[x] You call characters by their romaji spelling
[x] You defend Pearl Harbour. (Games ftw)
[ ] You think Japan is the greatest country on Earth. (Well they hunt whales…)
[x] You think that just because they make the best media.
[x] You listen to J-music.
[ ] Exclusively.
[x] You know that it’s pronounced “Gakuto” and not “Gackt”.
[x] You can name all the Vocaloids.
[ ] WITHOUT looking it up.
[x] You like Hetalia.
[x] You think Japan is the best character.
[x] You wear items of anime-related clothing in public.
[x] You play/watch/eat Japanese anything.

[x] You use Japanese honorifics.
[x] To refer to yourself. (To irritate my nephew who hates Anime/Manga)
[x] Your entire room is full of anime merchandise. (Not full but there’s a lot)
[x] You changed your name to something Japanese. (Gokiburi!)
[ ] Legally.
[x] You want to give your kid a Japanese name. (Or Latin like Umbra and Loisia)
[x] You want to name your kid after an anime character.
[x] You’ve considered having surgery to look oriental. (Hahaha yeah and make me a women while you’re at it, good times… good times)
[ ] You’ve had it done.
[x] You stalk the Japanese exchange students.
[ ] You’ve been arrested for doing so.
[ ] You use memes in daily conversation.
[ ] You watch abridged series.
[ ] You get most of the jokes.
[x] You use tildes while typing
[x]You use Japanese emoticons
[ ] You make attempt to Japanese sounding by the Engrish typing.
[ ] You claim you’re Japanese on your dA/Facebook/Myspace/whatever.
[x] You’re not.
[x] You’re not even Asian.
[x] You think doing Japanese stuff helps you get in touch with your heritage, even if you’re not Asain.
[x] You collect anime figures.
[x] You can’t wait for new Anime/Manga releases!
[ ] People call you a weeaboo. (More a no lifer)
[x] You prefer the term otaku.
[ ] You break out into Caramelldansen in public.
[x] You want to date a Japanese person.
[x] You watch Naruto.
[ ] You wear the headbands.
[ ] Every day.
[x] You’re bitching at me because they’re properly called “forehead protectors”
[ ] You bought said headban- erm FOREHEAD PROTECTOR at Hot Topic.
[x] You act out scenes from the show. (From most Anime/Manga in fact, in privet though)
[x] Manga is a form of art, both in drawing as in story.
[x] You wish you owned a real Death Note.
[ ] Touhou rocks your life.
[x] Kingdom Hearts is awesome. (But far from the best of games)
[x] Anime dubs are almost never as good as the original Japanese versions.
[x] Fullmetal Alchemist is the best Anime/Manga Ever!!!
[x] Hiromu Arakawa is God.
[x] It’s seiyu, not voice actor.
[x] You sometimes use Gratuitous Japanese.
[ ] You add “desu” to the end of every sentence.
[ ] The only thing you draw is anime.
[ ] You’re taking an art course, and all you submit is anime.
[ ] All your friends also like anime. {No none :"[ }
[x] You want to become a mangaka.
[x] In Japan.
[ ] Most of your manga/anime is ecchi/hentai.
[x] You know that “hentai” doesn’t mean “porn”.
[x] You write fanfics for English class.
[ ] Yaoi fanfics.
[x] You know nothing about Japanese culture except for anime, videogames, idols, music, porn and schoolgirls.
[x] Everyone says you have no life. (Well… yeah pretty much everyone, including my self)
[x] And it’s true.
[x] Your heart stopped for a seconded when you heard about the Tsunami and Nuclear crisis in Japan!

TOTAL: 60

IF YOUR TOTAL IS:
0-10: You probably hate Japan. You’re not a weeaboo at all, not even close.
10-20: You like SOME Japanese things but, still not a weeaboo.
20-30: At this stage you probably still hate weeaboos. Good news- you’re not one.
30-40: You keep your love of Japanese stuff sensible.
40-50: You’re very likely a Japanophile, but you’re not as annoying as a full-blown weeaboo.
50-60: You’re not a weeaboo just yet, but try and moderate it.
60-70: Weeaboo.
70-80: Please stop it!!!!!!
80-90: STOP HUMPING THE MIKU/KAITO LOVE PILLOW!!!!!!11
90-100: STOP!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF KAMI-SAMA STOP!!!!!
101: Insane asylum tiems.
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It's been some time

So I know it’s been some time since I last posted a Journal. Didn’t really get around to do it. I’ve been pretty busy with Writing Stories and Scripts, doing school work and work related stuff. And I’m still not done with school… But on the bright side, Drawing of Crystal flame as started. You can read more about it below.

I’ve also began working on Kage no Monogatri again and have a lot of new stories. "Kinzoku" is the one I like the most and I’ve written some info about it below.

Lately I’ve been brainstorming about a new story I want to do together with Eldin-Vortex. I haven’t come up with much useful stuff as I haven’t had a spark of inspiration about a "Steam Punk" styled story. As that’s the kind of art Eldin-Vortex likes to draw. So I’ve still have a lot of work to do.

Oh right, I’ve also uploaded an "Poem" or can you call it that? I donno what a poem needs so it can be called a poem but it’s about the history of kage no Monogatari. Read the description for more info.


Crystal Flame

The story it self has changed much from when it was just an idea. So I worked on the story together with Kuro-Senpei who’s drawing the Manga. We pretty much have it figured out and drawing of the first Chapter has started. Kuro has already drawn the cover and the first page of Chapter 1 by now. So this will be the first ever Story that will be drawn and I’m pretty excited about it.


Kage no Monogatari

As I said before, I’ve been working on Kage no Monogatari again. I’ve rewritten a lot of it, One thing is that I removed a lot of races out of the story and I cut a lot of history and back ground of Characters and there ancestors. I like backgrounds, history of characters and races but it was to much. I made it a lot more Basic and I focus a lot more on the present day story of the main Characters. It still needs a lot more work though as I need to rewrite all the Chapters and it wasn’t even done to begin with. But I do made a quick Storyboard basted on all the events that will happen and that’s pretty much done. This means that I have the story from beginning to end (and beyond as it has a "part 2" continuing the story with the son of the formal main Characters)


[New Story]Kinzoku 金属 / 勤続
Name means both Metal as well as Continuous Service
And last but not least I also created a hole new story… Well a bunch of them anyways. But I like this one the most.

It’s my first sci-fi story that I’ve written but it’s a story I’m proud of and it’s working out pretty well. It's pretty much a story about the Kinzoku, Androids created to fight. The story follows the last made Kinzoku and his squad called squad Zero, which is made of defect and weird Kinzoku's who where a waste to throw away as the could still be used. There problems variate from being unable to speak to having so major anger issues and so on.

I want to write a lot more details like the story around the inventor, the Mars colony, the squad members of Squad Zero, The main character and so on and I tried it but... it would become a story of around 3 A4's just to write down the basic story. So I'll make it short. The story plays in the far future and partly on Mars, partly in space and space ships and partly on earth. The Genres are: Sci-fi, Action with some bits of Drama. It has a lot of Blood, Destruction and death. With battles that variate between Guns, man to man combat and large spaceship battles. But it also has a deep story that revolves around the main character (which is an Kinzoku) and will eventually lead to the rebellion and rise of the Kinzoku.

I'll try to write more about it in the future.


Tagged
It also seems that I’ve been tagged some time ago. I’m not much of a tagger myself but I do like to write the stuff so here we go.

Tagged by harlemsdawn

1)Post these rules.
2)Each chosen person must post five favourite character and anime and manga in their journal.

Characters
Ryuuji Takasu (Toradora)
Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Chika Ogiue (Genshiken)
Tomoya Okazaki (Clannad)

Manga
Fullmetal Alchemist
Dengeki Daisy
Genshiken
Kimi ni Todoke
Yankee-kun to Megane-chan
Chibi Vampire

Anime
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Toradora!
Clannad: After Story
Eureka Seven
Bakuman


As always will update this Journal soon, I'll be checking spelling and grammer and add some stuff so come back later ;P

Remember Comments, Ideas and thoughts are always welcome!
I'm not found of people who burn my thoughts to the ground, but criticism is also welcome. I won't turn a blind eye to it and it's helpful most of the time.
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Crystal Flame
Well the Crystal story has a name, it’s called Crystal Flame but the name hasn’t got much to do with the story anymore as a lot has changed, in fact so much has change that I don’t even know where to start. But it’s changed to the better and Kuro-sempai and I have a daily note exchange that’s about one A4 of text it seems.

Chapter 1 is already in script and I have the basic idea written down up to Chapter 5. So I will update the Basic Story and this Journal with some more info about the story and it’s Character in the days to come.


New Previews
I created some nice preview images for the Story ideas. I didn’t really like the genetic DevART literature preview.  It looks a lot better now, but as the saying goes: "Putting sprinkles and topping on a piece of shit doesn’t make it a desert." aka the text inside need so be good. Or it’s just a piece of shit with a nice preview. :D


New/Old Story
I had Uploaded an Zombie story or at least was planning to. But I decided to drop it for now it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to turn out. Therefore it’s on the shelves for now and I uploaded an other older story of mine: Hanako. For more info about it read this: mangaka-roach.deviantart.com/a…


Bruised
In other news I did bruised my toe pretty bad, but I broke it ones so I guess this isn’t anything big. I hit my toe exactly at the same thing when I broke it. Against a table in my house that's standing at the exact same place for over 10 years now. I hate that table…


As always will update this Journal soon, I'll be checking spelling and grammer and add some stuff so come back later ;P

Remember Comments, Ideas and thoughts are always welcome!
I'm not found of people who burn my thoughts to the ground, but criticism is also welcome. I won't turn a blind eye to it and it's helpful most of the time.
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