KURATOWA!!!@*&$
I was given the next couple of books of Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind for my birthday, and the second one was the one in which the bugs eat Kushana’s brother’s ship. Which was all Kuratowa’s fault, so I figured, since she was so happy about it… (snork)
Isn’t it fun to laugh?
Sesshoumaru’s grumpy-ish, right? Konane’s trying to get him to lighten up. Well, perhaps not so much grumpy as ultra-serious. Konane looks pretty good, but I thought her hair was longer. Yes, I like the say she looks here.
Again, I had no idea how Sesshoumaru was dressed.
Water/fox demon boy with light and plant magic!
Uhh… This is the son of Kurama and Rinako. Here he’s about ten years old. Left is his human, red-haired, school-uniformed, blue-eyed body, and on the right is his long-red-haired, golden-eyed, fox-tailed, fin-eared demon form, which can use both plant magic like his father and elementary light magic like his mother. (shrug) He also sings like an angel and is terribly innocent.
Some sort of adventure story could be told about him… Kurama is trapped in the demon world, and Kuuichi must go to “Uncle Yuusuke” and “Aunt Keiko”, with their three kids, to learn how to master his powers. Rinako is not a disciplined teacher, except in music. So he goes off and defeats massively powerful enemies in his quest to free his father.
Also, Prince Koenma is really handsome, and Botan looks good with him, but I never drew a picture of them. Darn.
Rahr!
Kurama attacks some… thing with his rose whip, Hiei is a little freaked out at his quiet, calm friend’s ferocity, and Youko Kurama, holding a rose with his hand in a completely impossible position.
Rinako to the rescue!
Rinako, in two neat outfits. Her school uniform is the upper one, I think, or maybe that’s her ‘hanging around town’ outfit. In Japan, her school outfit would probably not be a monochrome suit like the guys of Yu Yu Hakusho, it would more likely be a kawaii seifuku. Bottom is her ‘save the world’ martial arts outfit. I tried to make her look like she’s dashing off, but it didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted it it. My hands are also too small. I have since learned (and tried to do, with limited success) that hands cover the same area as the face.
Oh, yeah. Also Rinako has light brown hair and light blue eyes.
Another large gathering of cool characters
Another version of Heroes All! With Lyn, too, because she’s so cool. The strange people here are (L-R) Mengil, who was an evil Warhammer Dark Elf who was rather handsome in the White Dwarf article about him. So now he’s a good guy because I say so. Then there’s Legolas, then Kusko, the skinny dude, and Kurama sitting on the ground, explaining botany to Jim from Treasure Planet and his rocket-powered skateboard, and then Sain is sitting on a stump, chatting with the two Hylians: Raven and Link III, and Sain’s taken off his hip-plates. And Lyn is posing because she’s good with a sword.
Lots of hair there
Yoko Kurama and… uh… girlfriend, Rinako. Sorry. I didn’t know about Maya when I made Rinako up. Maya is a girl from the manga Two Shots, about how Kurama and Hiei met, and she had a crush on Kurama but he was forced to delete her memory to keep her from remembering the danger she fell into when an evil demon kidnapped her. So she forgot about him, too.
So Rinako is half Japanese, one quarter Canadian, and one quarter water demon. (What? Even Yuusuke, the hero-nerd, has mysterious demon blood that suddenly manifests itself, I’m told, in season 3 or so) She comes over to finish high-school in Japan, meets the gang, helps Kurama escape from something, learns martial arts and how to use her innate powers, which for some reason includes ‘light’ as well as ‘water’, blah blah blah, and also she plays violin.
Various poses… foxes… roses… light blasts…
See, one day when I was flipping through my friend Bobby’s Nintendo Power, I found a poster advertising a pixelly Gameboy Colour game that had a cool-looking red-head with a thorny vine in it. I forgot what it was called, but I never forgot the red-head. So, one day recent to this picture when I saw a different reference to the red-head, I was interested. His name is Kurama, and his franchise is Yu Yu Hakusho. I developed an ‘original character’ to take the brunt of the flash crush I suddenly got, and her name turned out to be (after some switching back and forth and tweaking) Rinako. I didn’t understand much about YYH, so that fox is supposed to be Kurama’s ‘demon’ form. Rinako wields some kind of light magic, although she never knew about it until she met the guys in YYH.
Water-dragon-boy
Haku! Or, if you like, Kohakunushi Nigihayami! I watched my first Miyazaki movie shortly before drawing this, and I though it was really cool, although Spirited Away is probably a pretty drastic introduction to Miyazaki. This movie was probably my whole introduction to Japanese culture, especially the animated kind.
I drew him in “human-world” clothes because I hoped he’d be able to meet Chihiro again afterwards. This picture isn’t the greatest, though (short legs), but I like the shoes. The colours would be for his shirt, striped white and foam green (like his dragon mane), with pale blue blue jeans and white sneakers.
He’s quite the 12-year-old (in appearance) bishounen in the movie.