{"id":280,"date":"2007-05-27T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/05\/27\/blog-070-past-future-circumstances\/"},"modified":"2008-11-19T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:35:01","slug":"blog-070-past-future-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/05\/27\/blog-070-past-future-circumstances\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 070 &gt; Past &#038; Future Circumstances!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01a_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Kako &#038; Mirai Suenaga\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image 001 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hey folks! If you don&#8217;t already know, I follow the otaku blog <a target=new href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/rewards\/eng\/?DCTag=xjaymanx\">DannyChoo.com<\/a>. Not blindly, lol, and not only for otaku news, but also for <em>inspiration<\/em>. And inspiration smacked me yesterday with Danny&#8217;s post on fan art of his mascot Mirai Suenaga. I&#8217;ve had several lingering ideas over the last months &#8212; okay, maybe just one idea, lol &#8212; but I was always too lazy to execute. Well, this time, I was fired up. The idea: Take the amazing and classic <strong><em>His &#038; Her Circumstances (Kare Kano)<\/em><\/strong> image of Yukino and Arima dancing in the high-school hallway (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/03\/blog-006-slice-of-their-life\/\">seen here<\/a>), and fuse it with Mirai. But how? Who would be her partner?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The answer: Her little sister Kako, not yet physically described but nevertheless named by Danny. So I played with my own impressions and ideas of anime for how she might look. <em>And these are the result!!!<\/em> Damn, it&#8217;s been AGES since my last Photoshop composition of this magnitude (hence the laziness, lol). And here, I spent close to 20 hours over 2 days on my laptop &#8212; no pencil or paper or scans, just online sketches, images and screenshots in dozens of layers in Adobe Photoshop  &#8212; but it was definitely worth it!!! Next step: Contact Danny, lol!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Note that Mirai means &#8220;future&#8221;, and if my Japanese-English dictionary is correct, Kako means &#8220;past&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:location.href='http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/v4\/addlink.php?language=eng&#038;method=marklet&#038;url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&#038;title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)\" title=\"Otakurl it!\" >Otakurl it!<\/a> | <a target=new href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/blog_entry\/eng\/887\/Anime+Art\/\">Check out Danny&#8217;s post!<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01b_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Kako &#038; Mirai Suenaga\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image 002 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01c_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Kako &#038; Mirai Suenaga\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image 003 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-toybox-2007\/xjaymanx_mirai_suenaga_01d_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Kako &#038; Mirai Suenaga\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image 004 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>P.P.S. Further notes, lol.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li><strong>Kako<\/strong> &#8211; Her big blue bow is a larger reflection of the blue bows on her sister&#8217;s shirts, and her hair curls refers to her potential &#8220;timestep&#8221; loops in time. Her face is a slight alteration of her sister&#8217;s face, her outstretched arms comes from a <em>Rozen Maiden<\/em> image, and her bent leg comes from a <em>Gunslinger Girl<\/em> wallpaper. For her colors, her golden eyes and hair (with a similarly stubborn and standing tuft, lol) seemed to work best as a lighter foil to her sister&#8217;s stronger orange and brown color scheme. For her dress, an <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em> blue also seemed to work better than green or red or pink when compared to her sister. Now, since Danny&#8217;s blog includes orange, blue and green, I added a flowing green ribbon for a bit of mysterious symbolism. Nature&#8217;s unifying flow of time? Hehehe, nonetheless, I thought Kako should create a feeling of &#8220;the past&#8221; (kako).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mirai<\/strong> &#8211; Based on Danny&#8217;s and Azami-sensei&#8217;s design, her folded right hand comes from a <em>Mahoromatic<\/em> wallpaper, and her V-gesturing left hand comes from an <em>Azumanga Daioh<\/em> wallpaper.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hallway<\/strong> &#8211; Finally, as already mentioned, the overall dance pose in the school hallway comes from the unforgettable <em>His &#038; Her Circumstances (Kare Kano)<\/em> image.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image 001 by xJAYMANx | Click to enlarge Hey folks! If you don&#8217;t already know, I follow the otaku blog DannyChoo.com. Not blindly, lol, and not only for otaku news, but also for inspiration. And inspiration smacked me yesterday with Danny&#8217;s post on fan art of his mascot Mirai Suenaga. I&#8217;ve had several lingering ideas &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/05\/27\/blog-070-past-future-circumstances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,28,62,31,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-art","category-danny-choo","category-experiments","category-kare-kano","category-mirai-suenaga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}