THE PREMIER COLORING OF S4 MEI OMG!!
She’s so gorgeous with this new style!! 😭🙏🏻✨
Actually, I always preferred dark palette for her (perhaps the only thing I’m thankful for S3 is Mei joining the ‘Shadows’ 🙂↕️🖐️) and it’s quite represented here too but white hair 😳 In my alt-S4 AU, it turns raven black under the effect of Smog but holy moly white suits her so much too, I wanna draw both versions now ✨✨
(if only work & uni would give me time….. damn…..)
I didn’t subscribe to the official patreon, so can rely only on the open source info like this but in general, S4 gives me double impressions. As positive — thanks gods S4 is finally at some sort of production, this story got the second breath after 15+ years and I love to see the beloved story back!! And love to see the info that Mei is gonna be «one of the central figures of this new Galactik Football adventure» (possibly Micro-Ice too? 🥹🙏🏻 especially after they disappeared together in the end of S3)
Moreover, I hope creators will explore and extend the world-building. In the beginning of S1, we’ve seen various planets, dived into local traditions (like with Wambas), got a bit about other cataclysms (Unadar is literally split in half), etc — and that was so encouraging to watch and learn more about this verse. Now, if creators would like to make the story more mature and ‘dark’, it seems quite related to explore new and already mentioned locations, nations and people’s nature. I’ve seen something about a new team from the Earth, which was destroyed(?) in this verse, — also entertaining. I feel it would also have smth with kids from the Team Galactik who disappeared as well.
As a separate positive moment — a while ago, I’ve seen someone mentioning that among all SK Micro-Ice could be the only one still playing football and I starve to see my man in action SO MUCH 🥹 I hate how he literally became offscreened, more and more after next new season, and even in S1 we mostly see D’Jok — Tia — Rocket team-ups, while their interactions with Micro-Ice are far less in number… like, even in Snow Kids vs Shadows in episodes 14-15: Micro-Ice got three shiny minutes in the WHOLE match :/ yeah cool couple-goal, sure amazing 30-second decisive goal, but before that… what? That’s just unfair, and I really hope Micro-Ice will finally get the attention and appreciation he deserves 🥺
(a bit of headcanon that he’d get that because — ironically — he’s separated from D’Jok now, from the guy who was closest to him, his family and star but also such a bright light that Micro-Ice was just suppressed like that smaller star in the double, where the larger star outshines its neighbor. I love relationship between Micro-Ice and D’Jok and even see the way their friendship could develop into romance if given a chance, but Micro-Ice really has to grow up as independent person and D’Jok — to stop being ass )
As for negative moments… too soon to say for sure because we’re still in the early production stage, but I’m a quite sad that possibly Micro-Ice, Mei & kids didn’t see the rest of the Snow Kids — and some of them might die before meeting their lost friends again. It’s heartbreaking to miss characters you loved and still love. Also, would be pretty sad if team Paradisia plot line doesn’t get continued: we had Bleylock as the main antagonist in S1, in S2 we have him as supervisor and Harris at his side creating the new powerful weapon, and then in S3 Bleylock is no more but he raised Harris into another monster to deal with now. Minor antagonist was growing the major — it feels quite interesting and keeps the plot together, each next challenge does’t appear out of nowhere. I feel team Paradisia still have stuff to give the audience, especially since they were returned to humans after being possessed by the artificial composite flux and getting unique knowledge… but it doesn’t mean their personalities also changed to good 🤔
(except Nina, Nina is the sunshine)
And, very importantly, I hope all catastrophes caused by Metaflux and Multiflux won’t be just forsaken 😭🙏🏻 Pre-canon Metaflux explosion is the origin of everything, it became the challenge for Snow Kids to return the Breath into this world — and then the explosion in S3. Did the Breath disappear too, knowing the Resonance effect, and Ahito saved the say just by stored amounts of flux? What about consequences for the Planet Shadow in S2? We were briefly informed about numerous casualties but this accident is never mentioned again. We have unexplored issues about Unadar, what happened on the Xenons planet, why Hectonia & Paradisia planets didn’t have their fluxes — while in the beginning we’re told that «every planet in the galaxy has flux»? I passionately hope creators will cover and explore their world-building deeper 🥺
But now so excited about the updates!! Maybe I’ll subscribe to the patreon too in some time 😌
🔗 Art source: the open-access post on Galactik Football S4 Patreon