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Amphibia’s ending today, so I wanted to make some fanart for the first time in a while, around each of these guys’ major moments during “All In”

(Which by the way, I think it’s one of my favorite episodes of the series outside of all the episodes that feature Anne’s parents in a prominent role and also True Colors

I did get a little lazy with the backgrounds, but that wasn’t my focus lol

Alright so I gotta get this outta my system before my train of thought goes off a cliff, so here’s my thoughts on RANKING OF KINGS.

I just watched the first five episodes, and I’m not gonna say I was surprised, because I already expected this anime to be great, but the thing is that it’s AMAZING so far.

[Spoilers for Ranking of Kings ahead. If you haven’t watched it, DO IT because I PROMISE you won’t regret it. There’s only 5 episodes so far, it won’t take that long. DO IT]

Also goddamn this is about to be a long post, so buckle the fuckle in I guess.

TL;DR Ranking of Kings is GREAT and the characters are a major reason why

So to sum it up, Ranking of Kings is about a young prince named Boji, who is both deaf and mute. Because of this, as well as his small stature and physical weakness, people around him are constantly looking down on him and ridiculing him.

Or, you would THINK that, at least

Yes, there are a lot of people around him who belittle him on a daily basis, but it turns out that not everyone around him actually looks down on him.

Underestimate him? Absolutely. But it ends up not being as black and white as you would think, and THIS is what I think makes this anime great so far.

Almost right off the bat, we’re introduced to a bunch of characters who say things like “Oh he’s weak, he’s not fit to be king, etc.” One of whom is the Queen, his stepmother Hiling.

You immediately see this woman and think, “Oh, evil stepmother, here we go again.” And for a minute there, it seems like this is going to be the case, as she berates Boji and says that her own son is more fit to be king, and even altering her husband’s will after he names Boji king after his death. So it would make absolute sense to assume she’s gonna be a villain, right?

WRONG.

At one point, Boji got hurt pretty badly, and we a woman go to heal him, but we can’t actually tell who she is. And Kage (The little shadow thing) says something like “Oh man is she gonna hurt him?” But instead she heals him.

The literal thought in my head when I saw this was was “Wait is it the Queen? Nah, probably not, I don’t see why she would do that.” Only to later on be revealed that it was her and proven very wrong.

We find out relatively quickly that the Queen genuinely seems to love Boji, to the point where she ACTUALLY tried to dive out a window in an attempt to save him. We learn that her mindset isn’t that she doesn’t like Boji, but she doesn’t think he’s able to be King. She’s worried that the pressure would be too much for this small, weak boy who can’t even hear or talk. She isn’t looking down on him, at least not out of malice. She has genuine concern for him because she doesn’t see how he would be able to do anything challenging because of his weaknesses. But she still absolutely loves him.

And THIS is the best example of what I think is gonna be the real strength of this series.

GENUINE THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS.

So far, we haven’t gotten ONE SINGLE major character who is all this or all that, all good or all bad. We have characters who are legitimately doing what they think is right.

A Queen who is worried about her disabled son.

A knight who will follow any order, even if he regrets it immediately.

A new King, who wants the same power as his father, but not at the expense of his memory.

His knight and teacher, who knows his duties and will carry them out, even if it means going behind his king’s back, or if it results in his own (apparent) death. 

None of these characters are just a good or bad guy. They are people. And this is what carries a story like this to greatness.

And this is all of course ignoring the main character of the show and his new shadow best friend, Prince Boji and Kage.

Boji is one of the best and well executed hopeful protagonists I’ve ever seen. I’ve always been a sucker for this type of protag, and he is a prime example of how to do it right. You immediately wanna see him succeed, just like Kage does. He’s the type of person who really can win people over to his side just by being who he is. (And it also helps that he happens to be absolutely fucking adorable) He has a real disability, and he has people around him constantly thinking he can’t be good enough because of it. And it hurts him. It really, really hurts him.

But he keeps on a brave face around them, and only really lets himself cry when he’s alone. Whether it’s because he doesn’t want to worry people, or because he has his own pride, I’m not actually sure at the moment. I could easily see it being one or the other, or even both.

And then KAGE, Boji’s best friend (because I said so) and number one backer. This little guy started out bullying Boji and straight-up stealing his clothes for cash. He almost immediately changes his tune when he sees that Boji is REALLY TRYING HIS FUCKING BEST, and immediately tells Boji that he’s always gonna be on his side, and that he is GREAT as he is right now. He’s the first person who ever really acknowledges Boji like this. And it’s of course as heartbreaking as it sounds. (Were I not dead inside, I surely would have cried)

To sum it up (since I have essentially rambled for an entire page at this point) Ranking of Kings is amazing, and the characters are only one part of it that makes it so amazing.

Believe me, I’m doing you a favor by not starting on about the animation. (THOUGH THE ANIMATION IS INCREDIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH IT’S SO EXPRESSIVE AND SMOOTH AND PRETTY)

So yeah, you should watch Ranking of Kings

So yesterday I heard about Oneshot getting a port to Switch, coincidentally about two or three days after I pulled this game for my random fanart kick and drew this

Coincidences, I must say

Sees some redesigns

“I could do this.”

“I should do this.”

And then I did this

So I decided to try my hand at a redesign for Ladybug, featuring Bridgette, because we deserve nice things

I am probably going to rework the design on the torso (I didn’t have any other ideas)

But this is basically supposed to be similar to an actual ladybug. Including the thing I really wanted to draw, which was that jacket, and those gray things dangling down from her back. Those are actually wings! And they work like so

Except it looks better because I just wanted to sketch it out for now. I will do something else with it later

The jacket has a slit down the middle of the back, and the wings basically sprout from under it, (A LOT LIKE AN ACTUAL LADYBUG GEDDIT???)

I dunno I thought it would be cool

Here’s that picture I put at the end of my update earlier. I think it came out really well, honestly. Especially considering it’s one of the first things I actually did in Clip Studio Paint. I wanted to try out the new time-lapse, and it works pretty well. You can check that out here or look at the next post, because I’ll be posting it as well.

So I’m getting back into Pokemon, and I’m thinking about re-reading the manga, but then I somehow took a train of thought to a head-canon for the Pokemon Universe. Well, mostly regarding Red, Blue (Or Green, depending on which version you read) Ash, and Gary.

As we all know, Red is the protagonist for the game and manga, while Blue is his rival. And Ash and Gary were supposed to be the anime equivalent of them, except they’re kinda stupid. And I have a reason why

So in this head-canon, all four of them lived in Pallet Town at the same time. Red and Blue are the same age, while Ash and Gary are possibly like three or four years younger. Red and Ash aren’t related at all, but Ash thinks Red’s like, the coolest guy ever, and tries to copy him, but ultimately ends up acting like that younger sibling that doesn’t really know what he’s doing. And with Blue, since he is also canonically Oak’s grandson, he’s like, Gary’s older cousin or something. So Gary think’s HE’S the coolest guy ever and tries to copy him, but instead of acting cool like Blue, he just comes across as an unbelievable asshole. So now Red and Blue are watching these two dumbasses, and Red is like, “Well that’s flattering I guess” and Blue is looking at his little cousin like “Why the hell are you acting like such an asshole???” And that’s how the four of them live in the same universe or something, idk I feel like I could have phrased this better,

TL;DR

Ash and Gary were the dumb younger sibling types that tried to copy Red and Blue, their cool older sibling archetypes but focused on the wrong aspects of their personalities, and ended up being a dumbass and a jackass respectively

So here’s the one I drew yesterday

Those things on her back are wings, and they go from this

To this

Honestly, I just drew this because I wanted to draw the wings really badly

I guess I don’t really have much to say about this one

Note: Read right to left

And please read the note at the end of this

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Welp, that does it. He’s a sorcerer and we need to burn him

Charmander, I’ll leave that up to you

And important note: I’m going to start releasing this one page at a time. I know I’ve called what I’ve done so far each by their own chapters, but now officially, everything so far is part of the first chapter. I’ll put a note for when the chapter ends