All I think about is Death Mark, all of the time

Quite a bit this time around, under the read more as usual ^^

I haven't tackled a majority of this book yet but I did finally take a look at the finale and epilogue, which I was most excited for lol (edit: I reformatted to make it clearer)

It is basically the same, but there are some differences between the game and the novel for these sequences:

1) Mashita says "You... Stupid idiot" before telling Yashiki to grab his arm in the game, which he doesn't do in the novel.

2) The added detail in the novel that Mashita looks at Yashiki with a "listless gaze" after catching his breath is cute, since it shows him adopting an apathetic expression and hiding his emotions, despite the dialogue clearly showing how shaken he is by Yashiki almost dying. We don't get any description of Mashita's expression after they catch their breath in the game.

3) In the novel before asking why Yashiki disobeyed his orders to stay put, Mashita tells Yashiki that Moe is safe at the hospital. Moe replaced Shou's role in the DLC, which makes sense since Shou had been removed from the base game's novelization. It's a nice detail, since it shows how well Mashita understands Yashiki that he would want to quell his anxiety over Moe before chastising him.

4) After Yashiki apologizes to Mashita, we actually get to see that Mashita instantly calms down and is no longer angry with him. Mashita's sigh of relief and the way he leans against the wall also further shows how shaken he was. While the dialogue is the same as in the game, we get much more insight particularly into how Mashita feels in this moment.

5) There is an additional bit of dialogue when Yashiki and Mashita are in the car that was not in the game. They discuss details of the case and Mashita asks if Yashiki connected the dots regarding the identity of the perpetrator of the crime (it is worth noting, the novel goes into the case in a LOT more detail including flashbacks and full names and identities of the characters). When Yashiki responds "I didn't want to know" Mashita "snorted and chuckled softly", instantly understanding what Yashiki was really trying to say without him saying it (ie: that he didn't want to think about it since he found it upsetting). Mashita seems especially fond of Yashiki here, teasing him to ease the tension.

6) In the game Mashita "chuckles dryly" before telling Yashiki that the tall and slender teacher looked like him, but in the novel Mashita is described averting his gaze to the window with "a slight upward curl of one side of his mouth, a dry, deceptive smile" on his face. This made him seem more shy to me, since it is clear that he doesn't want to look directly at Yashiki while indirectly calling him handsome. He also makes eye contact with Yashiki through the mirror in the game, but it is only implied he was looking away to begin with and we don't get to know his expression at all.

7) There is an additional line after Mashita drops Yashiki off at the mansion that was not in the game. After Mashita leaves, Yashiki thinks to himself "At the very last moment, he always puts an unexpected strain on my heart... That's just the kind of person Mashita is." This is in response to the revelation that Mashita had known the details of the case all along and didn't tell Yashiki because he knew he would sympathize too much with the spirit and get himself killed XD I like that we get this additional insight into how Yashiki feels about Mashita after the big reveal.

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One of my favorite headcanons is that Masamune was a chuunibyou for a brief period before he got so embarrassed that he fully retreated into his shell and became an extreme introvert XD

Additional notes under the cut:

So that DMM Scratch lottery commemorating Death Mark's 9th anniversary that I mentioned before had a slight update, they've now posted the prizes! There are no pictures yet at the time of posting this, it's only showing this:

(I will make a post when the images finally do get revealed!)

This is also a lottery event that we'll have to look out for secondhand as the website requires a VPN for people outside of Japan to view, so I'll link to both Buyee and Zenmarket here. (You can also just download a free japan specific VPN off your app store if you're just wanting to see the website yourself. ^^)

But I will still let you know what the prizes are, the probability of winning them, and what characters will be a part of each tier. Under the read more as usual ^^

mary had a little lamb (－ω－) zzZ

or smth; when i mentioned an artwork that could definitely be finished in days yet i let it drag for almost a whole month i meant this one ww

and i ended up doing all of it in the past two days 😭😭; but i said to finish it before this evening so ykw the deadline worked \\ it’s kind of scuffed but i like it so it’s done in my heart ( ⏑‿⏑ ) ⁾⁾

There is something so hysterical about Yashiki being so tolerant of nearly everyone he meets in Death Mark and Shibito Magire EXCEPT for the annoying Chunibyo psychic high schooler XD He gets so fed up with Abe instantly, when he shows up Yashiki is already irritated

Heyyy guys, I hope you're all doing well!!!! I know it's been a while - I hope I haven't turned into a stranger yet, haha... 'xD I'm sorry for disappearing without a word, these past two months haven't been very easy on me.  Without going into detail, me and my family received a couple of bad news which lead to a lot of changes and accomodations to my normal daily life, and I haven't exactly been in a state to think about drawing in that time. It might be getting a little better now - at least I've been able to draw this new piece - but it remains to be seen if I can keep it up or not. So sadly I cannot officially say yet that I am really back. But I hope that I will be soon.

Sooo, about this piece. I was partly inspired by the first cover of the Death Mark 2 manga (I really liked the red eyes and Yashiki's serious stare there), but also by a WIP piece you haven't seen yet - wow, I just checked the date of the first draft and realized it's been almost a whole year since I started that WIP... 'xD This other piece also features Yashiki/Masamune with spider lilies, with the same color sheme of mostly red and black. There's just one detail that I'm still not quite happy with, I hope I can get myself to sit down and fix it some time so I can finally post it - it's really about time, haha. ^^' Anyway, back to today's piece. The three pieces you see here are the first pencil sketch, the digital sketch I did afterwards (to figure out the inking/coloring) and the final traditional piece. I drew this with Masamune in mind more than Yashiki, hence the more serious expression (and also the red eyes make me think more of the Kujou name for some reason). I would have liked to draw him with a black/dark shirt like he is portrayed in the manga, but that wouldn't have worked for this piece - it would have been too much black/dark area and made it hard to tell apart the shirt from the hair/background. There's no real deeper meaning or thought behind this picture - I just wanted to draw a piece with some flowers in it and play around with creating highlights by using one bright color. Also I've seen that "trick" of 'the character's hair merges with the background' by other artists before and wanted to try it out myself. For the colors I brightened the red with a little orange and mixed a bit of blue into the black ink to make it brighter and more harmonious with the red. Originally I had planned to make it completely black but then I thought it would look better if some hair strands would be visible - if only barely - within this huge dark area, and perhaps make it a little "friendlier" to the eye. I really like how it turned out, I think it creates a nice cold/warm-contrast. 

I admit the digital drawing was done with less care than normally (because I'm still not quite back into the "drawing mood"), but to make up for it I spent more time to make the ink piece look good. In the end I realized I would have liked to add some decorative elements to the frame, but do do that I should have left more space for it. I didn't want it to look too cramped so I decided against it. 

Happy Man Mansion Monday everyone!

yashiki trash comic because i want to actually finish drawings instead of spending literal weeks working on one drawing that absolutely could be finished in days orz

so i might do more trash comics where i don’t fuss about how i want them to look and get into . actually drawing

also i was thinking about who could possibly ask for extra sugar when buying an already super sweet drink and then he popped into my mind

Basically what the title says, I waited a bit so that I could have enough to fill a whole post, so here we are! They've made quite a bit of progress it seems! Under the read more as usual ^^

my favourite glasses-wearing amnesiacs o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

i tried challenging myself to draw with colours but lowk it was too hard; one day i'll learn how to use colours but today will not be that day

anyways i really wanted to draw yashiki doing one of bayo's over-the-top poses and so i did