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  

Spongebob Characters as Anime Guys in Drawing

 Some times a few months ago, I came up with this fun idea to draw. I wanted to imagine some characters from Spongebob Squarepants series in anime look. So, I chose four characters which were Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward and Plankton to turn into anime guys and these were the result for them. 

Surprisingly it was fun to do and I did one other type of drawing like this for anime girls from Powerpuff girls. I might add the drawing for it later. 

LABUBU: A Monster Doll went Viral since Last Year

 

Labubu was created by Kasing Lung, a Hong Kong-based artist now living in Belgium, and was inspired by ancient European fairy tales, particularly elf legends, when he was a child as quoted from one article last year. It first appeared in 2013, and in 2019, Kasing Lung partnered with Chinese retailer Pop Mart to produce and market the toy all over the country. 

It went viral because one of the famous member of K-pop girl band Blackpink, Lisa, showed her labubu doll on her social media which considered as indirect representative of toy culture and quite inspiring for designers to create new, unique and engaging characters for public to enjoy. 

This is my fan art drawing as requested by my little niece.

Jiji's Evil Eye ( Dandadan) and Akaza (Demon Slayer)

This was a random fan art drawing that I did back then. It was like a sudden urge to draw them both together since both of them played important part in their anime series recently. 

Jiji's Evil Eye from anime Dandadan was introduced in the second season after Jiji got possessed by Evil Eye while struggling to fight the worm monster in earlier episodes. The appearance and agility of this character's form is far superior with super strength and uncontrollable when he fought and made sure he defeat his opponent. He then, can be stopped after someone pours a hot water on his body. This part was inspired by Ranma1/2 anime. He would turn back into evil eye when he got cold water on his body even only a little. He can not being get rid of from Jiji so far since Jiji was the one who first offer his body to be used out of pity. Therefore, his character can't be define as totally good as Okarun's devil mode but more like shady in between good and evil. 

Meanwhile Akaza is one of the upper demon in Demon Slayer anime series which was the 'kindest' among all demons since he chose not to kill women and children to feed himself. He also basically fight out of duty and not because he was a bad person from his human era. He lost his past memories and being reminded of his life while fighting Tanjiro and Gyu. He in the end chose to be destroyed instead of continue fighting after he remembered everything. He was a likable demon character from the series.

 

 

 

ALICE IN BORDERLAND Manga and Live Action Series on Netflix

I randomly drawing another fan art based on its official manga cover a few weeks ago in my break time. 

I like this Netflix's manga-based dystopian series better compared to Squid Game. Alice in borderland is somewhat unpredictable and not merely depend on luck but also do some thinking to survive. For me, Japan is always better in this genre since long time ago. Although so far I Just watched season 1 and 2, but the season 3 is already available to be watched. 

 

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3 ANIME WITH DEVILS OR DEMONS (Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer & Chainsaw Man)

 

First of all would be Jujutsu kaisen. It is about the curse's energy derived from negative emotions such as fear, anger and hatred and resulting in the birth of curses/noroi, a race of spiritual beings whose primary desire is to bring harm to humanity. They are shown as gruesome monsters, ghosts and yokai/ demons.

Jujutsu sorcerers or shamans are the people who have the power to control the flow of cursed energy and use it against those beings. The main character is Itadori Yoji, an orphan who accidentally swallows part of the body of sukuna. The strongest curse ever or the main villain throughout the series.

 

Next, Kimetsu no yaiba/ Demon Slayer, with Taisho era as the background story, there is a secret society called demon slayers who have fought against demons for centuries. The demons themselves are former humans who were turned into demons by Muzan Kibutsuji as the main villain with his blood. The characteristic of the demon who can't stand the sunlight with red eyes is pretty similar to vampire, although they don't just drink blood but consume human flesh too.They were insanely strong with their blood demon art and are able to regenerate unless being decapitated by special weapons from nichirin. The demon slayers themselves are ordinary humans however they have special breathing style techniques to use to battle those demons. The main character is Kamado Tanjiro, who has only one purpose when he joins the demon slayer corps, which is to kill muzan and help his sister Nezuko find the cure to make her back as ordinary human instead of a devil as she is.

 

The last one is Chainsaw Man. 

The story is set in a world where devils/akuma are born from human fears ( ring a bell?) It also borrowed from a religious story about the 4 horsemen, and all the human disasters from war, weapons and illness. Humans who want to use the devil's power, will make contracts and sacrifice something from them to the devils. Basically to fight or kill devils they use other devil's power as devil hunters. The chainsaw devil is one of the strongest devil who can consume other devil and prevent it from reincarnate back to life. The main character, denji who is supposed to be dead but back to life after pochita the chainsaw devil, albeit the strongest devil lend his heart to him.

 

Similarities: demons/devils, special force to fight against it, ordinary human vs immortal devils, orphan main characters, mc's sad life background, they don't really show special talent in the beginning just a strong will and hardwork. Always have a black haired sidekicks.and most of all, the main problem is from humans themselves as the main source of the problem itself and the beginning of everything.

Hello Jadoo (Korean Cartoon Series)

 

One day my little niece asked me to draw one character from a Korean animated series she recently watched at that time. The series title is Hello Jadoo. I haven't got a time to watch it yet but it got really good review related to parenting and story itself. 

 

So, Jadoo Choi is the main protagonist of Hello Jadoo. She is a 10 year old elementary school student who while attending her classes finds time for adventures.  

Jadoo is a headstrong little tomboy who always tries to do the right thing. While she is a little stubborn and won't hesitate to punch or kick a bully she is fiercely protective of her friends and family. Her loud personality contrasts well with her best friend Minji Gim's personality and more quiet demeanor. Additionally her family reflects her chaotic attitude with her equally headstrong mother, lazy father, and spoiled younger siblings defining her happy and tough personality. Even though curious Jadoo can get a little adorably violent she tries helping others whenever able to. Her amazing character attracts many friends and the occasional suitor, bringing with them new hijinks and fun. 

K-Pop's 1st Animation Movie on Netflix in my PoV: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS

This is actually an animated movie with a simple lighthearted story about a group of girls who have a mission to prevent demons from consuming the people again with their music and it has been done for hundreds of years based on Korean culture which turned into K-pop in the modern days. 

 The demon leader wanted to break the spell and ask his demons if any of them had any idea. Then, a demon guy appeared with some of his friends and told him that he just needed to be the competitor of those demon hunter girls, Huntrix. They disguise themselves as a boy band named Saja boys. 

Long story short, the main girl is half demon, getting close with the demon boy band leader, sparks a love hate thing, battle in songs and demon-real world realms, and all ends well except the demons with sacrifice of love. There are a little bit of background stories, Kpop songs and dances, crazy fans, funny demons. Truly not to be taken seriously because this is as simple as that. I like the costumes, the cat reminded me of Alice in wonderland's cat, the girl band and boy band reminded me of the current most known kpop bands of Blackpink and BTS. That's all. My sister told me that the story is as light as Barbie's animation stories. Just enjoy it without thinking too hard. These are my fan art drawings based on my niece's requests.

 

Tokyo Revengers - My first impression on Live Action Movie

Honestly, I did not know this anime and manga until I watched the first live action movie with real actors instead of the anime itself. The movie was good and managed to spark my curiosity to know further about this series.

The manga was published from 2017 to 2022 and created by Ken Wakui and I already put it on my list for reading since then. I was impressed of how closely the reel characters to the anime or manga characters and the story was kind of inspiring in a way, although it won't ever happen in real life. The main character has the ability to go back to the past and somehow 'fixed' the bitter fate of some people around him. This is the fantasy part which would never happen to us in reality but at least the 'what ifs' in this movie reminded us of how important it is to learn who matters for us and being mature about everything that happen in our lives. We can only plan things but the final result is not necessarily as we want all the time. 

*fan art drawing that I made back then