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Relaxation by °Tens  1 day 16 hours  ago

Relaxation by °Tens 1 day 16 hours ago

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As an animation, Bakemonogatari has a simple, clean art style. But the guest illustrations for the series are anything but simple! So, it's great to see that °Tens took on a more complex illustration and made it his own with vector gradients so fine at points it more resembles painting that vectoring. Do have a look at this beautiful wallpaper!

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~Roxie-Rae 1 minute ago
Ohhhh I see. I bet they will all look really neat when they are done.

$virus9009 2 minutes ago
Well the final result should be full color, but the source could pry have their eyes color or something to start with not sure

~Roxie-Rae 3 minutes ago
So kind of like the color splash pics you sometimes see? Mostly black and white, with just a little color.

$virus9009 5 minutes ago
Not, hard really if you are comfortable in an application that can do vector graphics. For this contest I understand we have to pick a monochrome or black and white scan and then vector it with color, sadly nothing I am currently watching has any scans

~Roxie-Rae 7 minutes ago
Oh okay. I don't know anything about doing scan or stuff like that lol

$virus9009 9 minutes ago
Yeah, am looking for one while I tag the mono's so others can search for them instead of going through the scans page by page or by anime lookin

~Roxie-Rae 11 minutes ago
Are you picking a scan for the contest?

$virus9009 11 minutes ago
Hahah awesome. wow so many monochrome scans ;/ but still havn't found one I like yet.

~Roxie-Rae 13 minutes ago
It is SO easy. Just pick out the stones, put them on jewelry wire, and add a clasp. Sometimes putting the clasp on can be a bit tricky. I just read a little book on how to do it. I've taken some classes, like making earrings and using free form wire

$virus9009 15 minutes ago
There is nothing wrong with that, how hard is it to make some stuff? did it take you a while to learn how?

What manga got u the most?

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~eddokun
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미남이시네요 ~ ♥
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3 years 9 months ago
I don't really buy mangas because they are extremely overpriced but if I think a series is worth getting from reading many volumes of it first I would consider purchasing it but that option is also sometimes rendered due to the fact that some mangas just have too many volumes and it will cost me fortunes to get... but for thos mangas that are around 5 volumes long or so and has a really good storyline hehehe I do love ranma and FMA but those have so many volumes I think i might buy it in Korea when they have those HUGE sale everything for like 2bucks or sumthing hahaha >< I wish FMA is way too popular for that -_-

but yes mangas to me draw attention by first drawing because I love beautiful artwork and interesting concept ^-^ I read just about anything my friends reccomend to me though

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~yosho
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3 years 9 months ago
Took me like 10 seconds before I was completely hooked on Gantz. The story is insane, artwork looks amazing, and the character development is really well done. Definitely one of my personal favorites.

- it is extremely graphic though, so I wouldn't recommend it to everyone.

!Kensai-Kaze
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Gun-owning anime watcher
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Posts: 112
3 years 9 months ago
What caches my eye is either the title or the art of the cover...but usually when I look in em it turns out to be mostly flash and no bang...but now I hunt for mangas that I shread to peices for a pic or two that I like to draw or use in my art, and I read the synopsis on the backs to see if theyre entertaining(to this date I have never bought a trans lated manga)hehehe!

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~DarkInk
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3 years 9 months ago
I looked at the pictures usually and then the story. Sometimes, there are really good story with ugly artworks that just sad. I can't stand HunterXHunter's backgrounds. The artists seem so lazy to draw it. Normally, i dont buy a manga in volume 1. I always started in the middle like Bleach vol. 13, Naruto vol. 7 and Get Backers 9. Rarly, that i ever started in Vol. 1 unless i already know the story and saw the art really good.

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$Rpgraccoon
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3 years 9 months ago
I tend to look at the cover and read the back. Then flip through the manga. (Not Reading) Aftwards I'll probally buy at least 2 volumes.

$asklepios
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3 years 9 months ago
The cover is the point of my interest then the writer who i follow up his or her work

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~-Stephanie-
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3 years 9 months ago
Seem like everybody have different opinion of what their interesting in
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~majuran
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3 years 9 months ago
I dont have any manga books, because i get them from the library...

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~Sinspire
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3 years 9 months ago
A friend of mine (online) suggested that I check a specific one out (Princess Ai) and I ended up liking it quite a bit so I decided to pick up another series, and the rest is just a long history of addictive manga-ing.

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~fantasygirl-lai
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3 years 9 months ago
I just look at the front cover because the manga i got are always sealed in shops..damn... so mainly the style and if the stories are interesting enough.

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$Violanox
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3 years 9 months ago
Ah... I'd have to say Gravitation. I don't own much manga, mainly because the ones I like aren't in English or are in English and are just horribly translated. I own all of Gravitation. Manga and anime. I like to support the mangaka's I like. <3 emoticon

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~wwalchemist
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hey, call me liz, ok? o.o/
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3 years 9 months ago
I love clamp cause the pictures, FMA cause the history and pictures, and neon genesis evangelion cause Ayanami and the pictures,and, well, I really love drawing, so see profissional works is amazing *__*

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~Pokute
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Garouken
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Posts: 284
3 years 9 months ago
Dorohedoro, not many know it, but its my faivourite. The front cover: This really got me excited. Seemed like the perfect manga for me. And now i am hooked, the only bad thing is, the translators take a while to translate it (about 6 or so months for one chapter -_-) they are busy with other more popular manga i guess.

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`chichiri1907
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Sweet Tooth
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3 years 9 months ago
I actually saw Hana-kimi on the store, and i loved the book cover so I decided to go ahead and buy it, and oh my gosh I was the lcjiest person ever, it became so clear that hana kimi was a great series of 28 volumes and its one of my top five favorite mangas :)

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~zankoku
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Should've been a super villain.
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3 years 9 months ago
What, how, and if I buy depends on my mood and who I am with while shopping.(For example; it's hard to sit down and flip through a book when you have a group of antsy people travelling with you. Money, unfortunately, also tends to be a problem when buying) What I love about Border's and other such bookstores is you don't have to buy the books that you read there. However, if a book or Manga that I read has a great enough impact I will save (if I have to) to buy it.

More than plot; I find that well developed characters, dialogue, and artistic style are what draw me in. An excellent example of this (In my humble opinion) is the Blade of the Immortal series. I find that everything about it is enticing and what makes it even better is that after the 14 volumes that I've purchased thus far; I've yet to become bored of it.