4 Webtoon Manhwa Series with Royal Background: Serena, COBYB, Remarried Empress & NYTRS

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Lately I was more into manhwa (Korean comic) than manga (Japanese comic) which used to be my favorite read list.

These are some of manhwa out of many that I currently read with royal /aristocratic backgrounds, such as: Serena, Cry or Better Yet Beg, Remarried Empress, Not Your Typical Reincarnation Story.   

The thing that made me interested in them the most is the colorful and well-drawn art with great story to follow. It's like I enjoy the journey with heartfelt emotions that came straight from the artists themselves. Also the way they arrange each pictures in a chapter with continuous flow from one another which are different than traditional comic with blocking and full page pictures. 

Here are some of the short review on each manhwa I've mentioned above;  
 1. Serena. A story of an aristocrat young lady who inherits her family hotel and wealth. She tries to find out everything  about her family's secret.

2. Cry or Better Yet, Beg. A story of Leyla, an orphan  whom being raised by a gardener in one aristocrat family. She then had twisted relationship with the heir.

3.  Remarried Empress. A story about a queen who had been betrayed by her husband and then decided to remarried with a prince from another kingdom. 

4. Not your typical reincarnation story. A story about a girl who relives her life as a character in the story from the novel she read the day before. She tries to survive all the way until the end. 

Villain in Anime Series

 I love anime (Japanese cartoon series) since I was a child back then. For me it was somehow fascinating to watch someone's imagination and fantasy came to life. Just similar to life, anime series depicted a story which somehow related to life itself or mimicking parts of it. Especially in terms of good and bad, human desires and ambition, etc. In this post I will only write about some villains in some anime series I've watched or at least read in manga (Japanese comic).

There are several characters as seen in the drawing I've made for this post, such as (from top left to right bottom order) Aizen from Bleach, Griffith from Berserk, Makima from Chainsawman, Cossette from Le portrait de petit Cossette, Eren from Attack on Titan, Pain from Naruto, Kaname from Vampire Knight, and Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen. 

These villains were villains with different purposes and reasons. Some were manipulative and bad from the beginning, some were driven by their backgrounds and pitiful fate they've gone through and some were forced by their own condition to turn bad in the process. One thing in common out of all is they were mostly powerful.

Somehow I personally can relate with them in a way of picturing them as characters of some normal human can be in reality. Apart from how evil they were, they live for a purpose in the story.    

   

ANIME PRODIGY CHARACTERS: ITACHI - YORIICHI - L

In every anime I've watched, there is always a prodigy character with special skill or talent that will be loved by anime fans no matter how the ending would be for them in the main story. I chose these 3 characters from 3 different anime which I think shares the same trait and vibe throughout their own anime series. There might be more than just  these 3 but for now, I will write only about them.

Firstly, Uchiha Itachi. The Akatsuki member, the prodigy from his clan and his village, mysterious, powerful but hold a tragic life of being misunderstood because he sacrifice his clan for the sake of peace. He was literally intimidating to everyone around him and that was the most admiring part from his character. Although his ending was death after fighting his own little brother in his dying state, he was famous and loved by fans for he might truly won if he was in his normal condition. Quiet, handsome and unpredictable were some of the obvious part of his character too. I love his character until I drew him many times since the first time he appeared in the Naruto series back then.

The next one would be Tsugikuni Yoriichi. The prodigy from Demon Slayer anime series. He was the legacy in demon slayer corps, the most powerful ever to exist until Muzan himself as the main villain, developed the PTSD after fighting him and nearly killed in the process if he didn't manage to getaway. Yoriichi was a selfless, kind and talented character that came from a noble family and tried to be the black sheep in his family for his twin brother who felt unrivaled by him. He lost everything but he stayed kind 'til the end of his life. the only thing that defeated him was age and not any enemy. He was also the quiet, handsome, mysterious with a super talent no one in the series can ever surpassed even it is the main character himself. I loved him after learning his story in the anime and drew him several times and one of them with Itachi.

The last one would be L or  Lawliett from Deathnote Anime Series. The quiet, mysterious and truly smart man with weird gestures who tried to help to solve the murder cases done by Light Yagami. He was unfairly killed after solving the cases and then provoking the coward villain for his crimes. His legacy lived on and carried out by his successors, M and N. His panda eyes due to lack of sleep, wearing white long sleeve t-shirt and jeans also the way he sat on the chair while weirdly holding the teacup was one of the noticeable signature from him. I just like him for being somehow look like a smart weirdo but nonetheless still intimidating for his enemies.

    

 

Villains who never won in Cartoon Series: Wile E Coyote & Droopy

Classic cartoons that I'm familiar with, tend to show the black and white, good and bad clearly by showing which one is the good one and which one is the bad one. And the bad one always the loser.

The same goes with these two classic cartoon series of Wile E Coyote and Droopy. Wile E Coyote is obviously a coyote who never stop chasing the blue bird as his prey and came up with a bunch of tricks to do so. However, he keeps failing and failing to catch it no matter what.

Meanwhile Droopy is a sheriff who has the duty to catch the wolf as the criminal. The wolf always tried to escape and also do something to harm him but always failed. 

It is as simple as that. It kind of different with nowadays cartoon with more shady grey characters. Anyway, I would still enjoy the cartoon as a lighthearted  entertainment.

These are my fan art drawing for the 2 series.
 

Grant Your Wishes: Fairly Odd Parents X Doraemon

I drew these fan art drawings and combined it here to discuss an oddly similar premise of the series in certain part, which is granting the wishes of the child/ little boy as the protagonist in the story.

Firstly, Fairly Odd Parents, a nickelodeon cartoon series which shares a story of a young boy Timmy who has a couple of fairies as his 'parents' while his real parents were busy with their lives. They often granted his wish with their magic stick. 

Meanwhile Doraemon is a Japanese anime series about a robot cat which came from the future and stays at a young boy named Nobita. Doraemon provide futuristic advance tools to counter any problem Nobita had in his daily life.   

All the more obvious things in their stories are about sharing the common premise of a young boy with his childhood problems such as lack of love from their parents, being bullied by friends, lack of self confidence, daydreamer and more. 

However, the moral value of the story is that nothing can replace what should be there for them and their childhood, not even granting their wishes to fill the void and turn it into real happiness they need. This is my personal point of view as an adult though. Who knows perhaps the creator only want to describe what ifs scenario for children entertainment if they ever get some miracles like this in their lives and I think too much about it. 
 

Little Krishna & Choota Bheem ( Indian Animation & Cartoon TV series)

 Little Krishna is an original 13 standalone episodes animated television series based on the Legend of Hindu deity Krishna. The story revolved around little Krishna as a toddler and then grew bigger as a boy and his ability in defeating all his enemies from monster to other evil things. Despite the good messages the series tried to convey to their audience, however, it was criticized due to some part of the scenes which were inappropriate and might expose to violence for children when Krishna dismissed his enemies. I watched this series in one local TV a few years ago and considered this as a mere entertainment since I'm an adult myself and I do agree some scenes might not be a good thing to show for underage viewers although it is truly based on the true and known Krishna's legend. 

As for Chhota Bheem, it is an Indian cartoon series about a 9 years old strong boy and his friends who help people in their village when the problems occurred anytime. It was also aired in local TV after the little Krishna back then if I'm not mistaken. It was a more proper series for children due to its relation with daily life. 

Both series were famous in India. Personally, I like Little Krishna better than Chhota Bheem, because the animation was good and enjoyable in my eyes to see and also the story was deeper than just any children story. These are my fan art drawings for both series that I did last year.      

Skibidi Toilet & Italian Brainrot Anomali

I drew these fan art drawings because of my nieces' requests. To be honest, I have no idea what are those characters and how weird their appearances are. 

 

Skibidi Toilet was famous a couple of years back from social media stream. It was a game with anthropomorphic shape or a combination of human body with lifeless things such as toilet with human head inside it or human body with camera or other tools as his/her head. 

 

Meanwhile, Italian brainrot anomali was famous after artificial intelligent (AI) application started to become common to use among people. Again, it was about combining things and living creatures into weird characters. Everything we can imagine is somehow possible but it was destructive to the brain itself for how useless it is. Perhaps it was for fun initially but it rather became disturbing as time goes by. Therefore, it would be better not to let the young ones indulged into something like this for far too much and too long due to its effects. As the one who work on art field, something like this somehow ruined my imagination and aesthetically destroyed the original purpose of each creatures and things they messed up as those characters.

 

Some Famous Greek Mythology I draw in My Youtube Channel

 

Here are some of my Greek mythology drawings that I made a few years ago. I chose some of famous Greek mythology or at least the stories which I like as a life lesson. Started from Hades & Persephone, Narcissus & Echo, Eros & Psyche, Orpheus & Eurydice, Medusa and Arachne. I also tell these myths in two languages, English and Bahasa Indonesia. All available at my Youtube channel: noodlemie. 

Actually I made more and they came from other different countries' folklore or legends. I might post another one for this next time.
 

Annual Bday Drawing as a gift for long time Online friend

I met her in one online fan website for Naruto in 2008 and we've been talking through chat online since then. After all these years, a lot of changes in internet culture and several anime, we've come to a special tradition related to our own birthday. We decided to give each other a wish gift in form of a custom drawing every year or annually. We made it based on what we want every year which mostly revolved around our favorite anime characters, our new hobby or other random things. 

 

Here are some drawings I made for her throughout the last 5 years although we've been doing it more than that and other collaboration drawings as well. She's currently into One piece anime and its characters, therefore, it has been there for most of the drawings or all anyway. 

 

 

 

AISCREAM TREND in Drawing

I drew it on a whim just because the song kept playing almost in all mainstream social medias along with some videos or at least some people who followed the trend that time.

I drew once with the reference of the official picture but the 2nd drawing was my own idea for it. All of it just for fun.

Check the drawing process on my Youtube channel: noodlemie