International Saiyuki Week

[telophase]

I'd enver actually made a real International Saiyuki Week post, so this shall have to do. I've finished the inks for the Koumyo pic.









And the winner for Additional Symbolism^TM? Crows Ravens Corvids! I wanted to have something in the front laft corner, but nothing's working out, mostly because I'd have to draw it in perspective and if you'd seen the two Project Blue Rose pages I'd inked today, you'd understand that I am styaing the hell away from perspective for the rest of the evening.

Now to figure out what style in which to color it. (Obviously, the cherry blossoms will go in during the coloring stage - if I attempted to draw them in now,t hat would be one solid mass of lines. Unless ... hm. I may have an idea.)

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

She's got a serious professional victim thing going on there - dressed in fanservice sexually provocative clothing, yet standing defensively with her thighs clamped together, one arm across her stomach, one hand guarding her crotch, and that sweet-yet-nervous expression on her face. One can't help but think that if maybe she covered up, she'd feel better about the whole thing. Unlike Doku there, who's got that pants-falling-off-and-proud-of-it thing going on. XD

[octopedingenue]

Yaone does seem a heck of a lot more comfortable in her cheongsams (using apropos of nothing I picture I already had uploaded of Yaone and Kanan being Not!Twins), which she does get to wear when she's not fighting at home at Houtou Castle, unlike the rest of the cast who only get one outfit. (Well, Doku has "casual castle wear", too.) But even then she'll still do the arm thing. She's quite businesslike when she's fighting, and she doesn't cringe or slouch unduly, but I think the first time we see her standing with easy confidence is the scene my icon came from in Reload 3. And even then she's standing sideways.

I keep poking at her body language/design to see what it reveals about her because I think it's an interesting contrast art-wise with her as one of the only prominent female characters in the series, because I RP her, and because she's one of the only ongoing characters about whose past before Kougaiji met her we know nothing and this makes me suspicious. (Most people who are not, like, crazy samurai do not respond to their first defeat by threatening ritual suicide, for one thing. And in the anime, Nii tells Kougaiji offhandedly that Yaone killed her entire family and then it's never brought up again, and I have no idea if the anime made that up as it made up a bunch of WTF stuff or if it's an actual character point Minekura just hasn't used.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

When she's allowed to forget herself or becomes sure of something, she seems to gain confidence in her stance - the last two you liked are from the scene where she and Doku make up their minds that they're sticking with Kou through hell or high water and what has he done to deserve such loyalty, I ask? Besides exist in a Japanese feudal context, that is? she squares her shoulders, sticks her chest even farther out, and widens her stance. In the castle, though, I'm sure nobody's at ease or comfortable with Nii running around loose, not to mention the crazy!bitch!queen Whatsherface having strange whims, so she probably goes defensive a lot of the time, but especially when she's nervous or indecisive or worrying.

[octopedingenue]

Kougaiji is a hot nice sweet guy who saved Yaone from being raped and eaten, and Yaone is totally in love with him. And will do crazystupid things for love. I don't know what Doku's excuse is, though. (Unless he's in love with him too.)

Hopefully eventually they will figure out that loving Kou means they also need to tell Kou when he's being an idiot. I WOULD KILL FOR a translation of the brief scene they all have together in Reload 6, since it's their first onscreen interaction since they saved Kou with the power of their love and they seem to be having an involved conversation.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yaone/Kou/Doku = OT3!!1!

[cordialpoison.livejournal.com]

DAMN STRAIGHT.