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it's not bland at all! im glad my art could inspire such interest!

for facial details and lineart flow my main inspiration is gege / for character design it's fromsoft / inking, colours, compotition in general it's American superheroes comics.

being a comic book nerd along with growing up surrounded by popular animes/mangas of the late 90s - early 2000s can create some interesting combinations. the foundation of my artstyle is very much Bill Willingham's Fables & CLAMP's classics like Card Captor Sakura and Tsubasa.

(i used to be one of those ppl who somehow could actually understand wth is going on this the tsubasa-ccs multiverse subplot / read thousands of comic issues in chronological order) also since we are on this topic am i insane or kurogane/faye is literally the sukugo blue print bruh

it’s kinda implied in canon to me because the finger Yuuji fed to Rika so Yuuta could copy Shrine is his ring finger

-> Sukuna thought Rika ate his last finger instead -> Sukuna realized his mistake when he saw Yuuji’s own ring finger missing

-> if you read into it that’s very well could be an implication that that last finger he lacks is the fourth on left hand.

it just makes everything so poetic, right?? Gojo picking the most romantic holiday in Japan to fight Sukuna & try to reach him with love, all the while holding onto Sukuna’s vena amoris (vein of love) as the final trump card for his allies to bring him down, making the “love is the most twisted curse” / “only a curse can exorcise another curse” lines come full circle.

well, today I found out about a popular theory back then that this shot of Sukuna’s last finger could have been inspired by the MV of a song titled “Why have I never been in love?” by Sakurazaka46…

“Why haven't I been in love before? I've always made fun of it. Because everyone keeps saying "I love you". But after experiencing love, I realize. What do people live for? Meeting, loving, becoming one with each other. Finding my true self, not the one I'm pretending to be.”

got another lovely sukugo c0mm from @/ catbishonen 😭✨🌱

it's because their deference to sukuna reminds me of how mimiko and nanako are with geto. so to me they've always felt like mentor-ward relationship. when the bonus chapter was released i were nodding my head like yeah gege i saw ur vision 😭

im not sure if the japanese text mention it before the bonus chapter, but in that chapter Sukuna does refer to them as 童 (child)

im glad to know there's another island out there mixing up fromsoft and jjk characters and you think of me 😭😭

i actually had to stage some intervention to stop my marika mii from getting too close to my sukuna and gojo miis 😭 they keep asking to move in together 😭😭 like... it's the only time when i actually feel a silver of annoyance at sukugo because no please stay away from my wife. you two have each other :/

also it's really funny when they use lingo from other fandom cuz why do they say these 😭

hi! thank u so much for your kind words!

the only proper answer i could give is it's complicated（´∇｀''）

i think 621 exists in this strange limbo between almost being their own character vs player self-insert/OC. so i flip flop between interpretations while drawing them.

in the end, whatever definition of their relationship will always be drown out in-between their struggles for ideal and personhood. and unlike Rusty, Ayre, Iguazu or other characters, Walter and 621 have this added dynamic of Walter literally being 621's "owner". it's like a sword hanging on both of their heads. and as i said when it came to ships, i kinda prefer ones where they are equals in some way. so i think the closest to romantic portrayal i have of Walter and 621 is actually the AU where they are both brainwashed by Arquebus 😭

yeah i lived in Tokyo for ~2 years for grad school! it's actually why i got sucked into jjk again... there's only so much gojo satoru billboards you can be bombarded with every single day before you remember why you love him in the first place.

i mostly travel between China and Japan + Southeast Asian countries + Australia (like... two times only). i can unserstand Chinese to a degree because we share the same language root, my Japanese is like.... enough to order boba tea and Korean is like my language-in-law cuz i work for a Korean studio, so i know a lot of ppl who speak the language and could translate for me. but all in all i do think i have a good understanding of the nuance in those languages since our countries belong in a same culture sphere, which is how im able to read their fanfics.