Post #200

God Only Knows by ELISA

What I'm seeing......Is it real?

What I'm feeling......Is it real?

What I'm doing......Is it real?

There is no regrets, satisfy my curiosities

There is a new world waiting, explore my possibilities

There is no guarantee, just improve my abilities

(Go ahead with your own life - Is there any hope in your sight?)

There is a choice to make, setting the right priorities

(You will always be the one, so feel the power

And you should know the sun comes up - For you)

There is no regrets, satisfy my curiosities

There is a new world waiting, explore my possibilities

There is no guarantee, just improve my abilities

There is a choice to make, setting the right priorities

(What is the best you can do? How can you do it?)

I was sitting and thinking the other day

(What is the best you can do? How can you do it?)

If i fail, I won't throw my passion away

(What is the best you can do? How can you do it?)

Just 'cause giving up is not the only way

No matter how it's gonna be, I'll try it anyway

Love is such a sweet illusion (Let's come together)

Can't seem to stop my imagination (Goes on forever)

What a ridiculous situation (Another matter)

But I can't deny, I'm faced with a tricky temptation

In the world that keeps on changing

Don't know why my heart is aching

Gotta handle it, no more hesitation

There can be no turning back

God only knows

"My mind is as free as the wind

But now what I should do is to fall in love"

God only knows

"I don't need that kind of real things

Feels like I'm lost in the labyrinth"

God only knows

"There must be the meaning of life

Somehow unexpected happenings thrill me"

God only knows

"Just believe in myself and my dream

Anyone could be a hero and heroine"
 

God only knows

"Though it's not so easy to get through

Here I am, I'm sure that things will go my way"

God only knows

"My mind is as free as the wind

But now what I should do is to fall in love"

God only knows (Your own happiness, you can find it)

"I don't need need that kind of real things

Feels like I'm lost in the labyrinth"

God only knows (Your infinity, you can feel it)

"There must be the meaning of life

Somehow unexpected happenings thrill me"

God only knows (Opportunity, you can take it)

"Just believe in myself and my dream

Anyone could be a hero and heroine"

God only knows (Toward the future, you can make it)

"Though it's not so easy to get through

Here I am, I'm sure that things will go my way"

Art by Yakuri_Moe

(Sailing, you're sailing away

And now it's blowing, breeze will take you away)

I feel that my spirits rise

I will survive and just stay alive

Enjoy being alone, the isolation is not always so bad

Another day has gone by, every day goes by

In the sky, there'd be a bridge to a bright tomorrow

(You will find your treasure and share your pleasure

Let me tell you......)

(Just keep your vision, your dream, and your soul alive

Be as you are, I will always be right by your side)

Think about my love and my life

In an uncertain world, face to face with myself

Continue to make progress, day by day and step by step

I've got a good feeling

So I'm gonna keep on trying, life will go on......

Durarara!! Ending Parody

You can guess from the title and picture that this will be about the ending song from Durarara!! using Figma in the animation. Well you guessed right... Unless you guessed that I'm making a Saber Lily Can-can dance video, that is. Which I'm not.

But first let's get some things out of the way. Durarara!! is a new anime that started airing in January. I've only started watching it in the middle of February because of all the parody that has been made out of the ending animation. The anime is quite good actually. Different individuals with different background stories all live in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and somehow their lives are all connected in one way or another. The ending song, Trust Me, is done by Yuya Yamashita and a lot of parodies have been made out of this video.

So after seeing so many parodies on YouTube and NicoNicoDouga, I decided to make one of my own. Since I can't draw to save my life I use what I have available; my Figma (and one Revoltech). I needed 15 of them which I do have, but I decided to use one Revoltech because I wanted to use Rei and the Figma isn't out yet. Also, the purpose of making this video is to make a promo video for The Melancholy of Saber Lily comics, lol. So the characters that are in this video is either in the comics or will be there eventually.

Yes, I keep all my Figmas in their original boxes... Which was quite a hassle for this project. Anyway, enough talk... I'll show you the video first.

The Melancholy of Saber Lililily

I started this last Thursday and it took a few hours just to get all the characters off the original background. Taking the pictures took a couple of hours as well. And then I wanted to time the pictures to the song as well. Quite a pain, I tell you. I added the pictures in the beginning instead of the scenery ones in the original video. I also had to change Rei's hands position so it fits properly so that it looks like she's holding Ryomou's legs.

I used this Maria-sama ga Miteru parody art as a basis for my sizing and template for the pictures. I changed the colour a little bit in my version to fit Nanoha and Fate's colours ^^

This is an unused picture for Cute. She's one of the new Figmas that I have to open for this project. She'll be in the comics soon. I have quite the plan for her... Mwahahaha! Oh the MEIKO was supposed to be a size reference, but I didn't really use the reference point, lol.

Nanoha gave me the most trouble! First... I couldn't find her at all! I searched high and low and I decided to give up and created a new roster for the video. It would've worked too, but I think a lot of people made me look for it and I finally found it. Then when I started to pose her, her shoulder started to stiffen up... Seriously, what a pain. I took off her arm to "massage" the shoulder joint.

Another thing I have to add is that even though I thought about making this video on my own, there was already a Durarara video made with Figmas. Ah well... I made it according to my storylines, lol. But anyway, to be fair to MrKammy, here is his version:

Anyway that's it for me... I'm really tired and this project really wiped me out! "Trust Me!"

Yuri Mania 4

Taken from OneManga.com. I would love to scan it myself but I don't wanna ruin my manga...

This is the strip that started it all... This yuri scene from Hidamari Sketch created a slew of parodies of yuri scenes for a lot of series. I didn't start reading Hidamari Sketch until Yen Press licensed the series. To be honest I was blindsided by its release. I heard a little about Hidamari Sketch before but did not know anything about it. So one day I saw it on the store shelf and picked it up out of curiosity, and now it's one of my favourite 4-panel comic series.

This scene above did not appear til the second volume. So it took me a while to realize that this particular scene came from this manga. Though it took me a while to the strip on the left... I didn't connect "yuri" and "lilies" together at the time ^^;

This is also the inspiration for my recent figma 4-panel comic. It was only planned as two panels like the one above but my imagination got the better of me and I made four of them instead. Part 4 is the one that parodied this Hidamari Sketch scene. But do check them all out: Parts 1 & 2 and parts 3 & 4.

And now bring on the parodies!

This is the first one I've ever found. I can't even find this on any picture sites like Gelbooru or Danbooru. So this is a rare one!

You HAVE to have a Lucky Star parody for any parodies! (From Gelbooru.com)

From Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei. Fujiyoshi Harumi and Kitsu Chiri. I really need to watch the anime after the first season... (From Gelbooru.com)

From Rozen Maiden... which I know nothing about... (From Gelbooru.com)

Two pictures from the Touhou series, which I've never really looked into either... (From Gelbooru.com)

I laughed at this one when I found it. I've only started to watch Nanoha StrikerS so I was glad that I knew what's going on here. XD (From Gelbooru.com)

From Gundam 00... HEY! Wait a tick... this isn't yuri! WTF is this doing here?!? (From Gelbooru.com)

UPDATE: Chun created her own parody based on DannyChoo.com. Take a look!