<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461</id><updated>2012-02-16T18:40:47.596-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aozora's Adventure - Official Developers' Blog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-9160251403192466944</id><published>2012-01-31T13:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T14:46:39.767-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Revenge of the Sketches</title><content type='html'>Been a while, hasn't it? Back with the sketches!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now if any of you are asking why I refuse to upload these to deviantART, I don't want people to start flaming these because the anatomy and/or designs of these aren't well-done as any of my digital stuff. That doesn't mean I don't want anyone &lt;i&gt;seeing&lt;/i&gt; them. In fact, I want every of my major followers to notice these one way or another so that they can tell me what I should try fixing on their designs before I start on (that is, &lt;b&gt;if&lt;/b&gt; I start on) basic art of them in any future. In the meantime, here's the new four I have to showcase.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/193e9eb7.jpg?t=1327890372" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This one is the earliest I've done since Saniko; and is possibly another male alternative to Kurayami besides Blake. He is a large demon-esque character and the main antagonist of the "Darkness" side-story, though he does fade into the storyline of the main series later on. Possibly the only character that has similar strength to, if not stronger than any of the higher-ranked members of the Witches, but unlike them, this character always stays in his "transformed" state.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The photo I took of the sketch is of a very shoddy quality, but at least you can still see what the character looks like. :P Moving on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/e8f679d3.jpg?t=1327890372" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This girl is part of the oriental side-story (the one that Amano is the protagonist of). There's not much I can say regarding her appearance, though I did take minor inspiration from one &lt;a href="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/FengShenBangProtagonists.png"&gt;relatively unknown source&lt;/a&gt; [second from left], though the source does have some "advanced" characters. Either way, there's your lead female of the side-story. A Chinese girl that migrates to Japan and performs in Kabuki plays before joining with Amano and venturing alongside him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The oriental side-story takes place in Japan's Sengoku period and is set to include many references and spoofs to ancient (pre-Tokyo) events and stories of both Japanese and Chinese cultures. For those wondering, it won't have much, if any fan-service compared to either the main or Darkness plots since all the characters are pretty much clothed all the way. But I'm sure you'll be finding some busty girl in there somewhere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:78%;"&gt;*absolute embarrassment moment"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ONWARD.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/fde5ccd5.jpg?t=1327890364" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 826px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes I did tell you these were sketches, didn't I? Well either way, as if I needed to pay homage to any more characters that I was not involved in designing, here's our third "Mascot" character, Nack. A small chubby man-child with a battery-powered propeller on his pilot's cap. Not much to say about him either, he just follows Aozora and delivers news to him should any major threat appear. Of course this does lead to Aozora sometimes popping Nack one on occasion, either intentional or on accident.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/28e2c8ed.jpg?t=1327890363" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And here comes our final offender for the night. the tan-skinned light sand haired-name not announced. &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fighter-tedd/id362773580?mt=8"&gt;Now where have I heard of this color combo&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He is probably one of the series' many parodies and shoutouts to the ever-so-loved &lt;i&gt;Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan&lt;/i&gt;, sporting an outfit with a similar color scheme and appearance (but not exact) and a thing for piloting large mechas, much like Simon's child form, the one that he uses most frequently is a large "stomper", somewhat like Mecha-Legs from &lt;i&gt;Rayman 3,&lt;/i&gt; though more advanced. He's a frequent villain in the series, though not as threatening as the A.C.E.S. or any of the witches or demons. And whenever he's defeated by Aozora, you can expect him and his stomper to be back for revenge. Even without the stomper, he's pretty furious with the series' many gun variants.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That's all for today. If you like, leave me your thoughts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-9160251403192466944?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/9160251403192466944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=9160251403192466944' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/9160251403192466944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/9160251403192466944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2012/01/revenge-of-sketches.html' title='Revenge of the Sketches'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-9039421594005353224</id><published>2011-12-05T16:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T17:24:56.182-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A plethora of sketches!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Update: Added some names to the un-named characters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Just updating real quick with sketches I've drawn since the past few weeks.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 1: Genroy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0054.jpg?t=1319857265" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 826px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 2: Name TBA&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0055.jpg?t=1319857263" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 3: Name TBA&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0056.jpg?t=1319857265" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 4: Name TBA&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0058-1.jpg?t=1319857265" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 5: TaiYang&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0060.jpg?t=1319857267" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 6: Orochi (Orocho if the "i" at the end is not suited for his gender)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0061.jpg?t=1319857269" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 7: Kenta (Kento if the "a" at the end is not suited for his gender)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0062.jpg?t=1319857269" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 8: Name TBA&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0076.jpg?t=1323054454" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 826px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 9: Name TBA&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0079.jpg?t=1323054454" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 10: Masayoshi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0080.jpg?t=1323054452" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Character 11: Saniko&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/IMG_0082.jpg?t=1323054456" style="height: 826px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just for clarification issues or whatnot, there is a reason why I have to write "heterosexual" under all these characters just for &lt;i&gt;that certain fanbase&lt;/i&gt; to not come under the assumption that my characters are "homo gay".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is also a reason why I ask for criticism on my character designs; so I can &lt;i&gt;make them better&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gooday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-9039421594005353224?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/9039421594005353224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=9039421594005353224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/9039421594005353224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/9039421594005353224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/12/plethora-of-sketches.html' title='A plethora of sketches!'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5143958710151424962</id><published>2011-11-03T18:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T18:41:20.704-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gotobuki Sketch Enhancement</title><content type='html'>Only a bit minor for an update, but I decided to shade in my sketch of Gotobuki that I did in early September.&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/708710bc.jpg?t=1320370625" alt="708710bc.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In actuality, it's still the same guy, just with the darker parts being identifiable. I'm also posting this because I 'm planning to draw up Gotobuki for my next legit piece of art. From there I can hopefully show off his claws and other features.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wish me luck!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5143958710151424962?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5143958710151424962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5143958710151424962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5143958710151424962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5143958710151424962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/11/gotobuki-sketch-enhancement.html' title='Gotobuki Sketch Enhancement'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-2733262410577006926</id><published>2011-10-22T05:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T06:11:39.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Commission/Fan art Update</title><content type='html'>Long time no see, buddies. I've decided to showcase a few more art that I've gotten over the course of the last month.&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/997e4a95.jpg?t=1316056035" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 662px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This little cute pic was made for me by &lt;a href="http://liquid10.deviantart.com/"&gt;Liquid10&lt;/a&gt;, who's always been quite kind to me, even in situations where I turn irate for any reason. As you can tell, it was intended to be a birthday gift for me (wish other of my friends did that), however it was sorta delayed until September. Regardless, L10 put his faith into Keisha and Sakaki as he does with all his and his friends' characters. Thanks again, pal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now for the stuff that I actually had to pay for.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Superjustinbrosvinzenznf.png?t=1318653718" alt="Superjustinbrosvinzenznf.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is art of Vinzenz, a recent character of mine that I commissioned &lt;a href="http://haychel.deviantart.com/"&gt;Haychel&lt;/a&gt; to draw, which once it was completed, sparked a bit of controversy from a previous commissioner that commissioned &lt;i&gt;Rosenkreuzstilette &lt;/i&gt;(Had quite a history convincing people I liked that series, and so on). But in honesty, who cares.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The pic overall is of great quality, and the original sketch I did up was enough to get the full detail on the colors and whatnot. Overall, a good effort that doesn't disappoint.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Ranaka.jpg?t=1319285955" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 763px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This last pic is from &lt;a href="http://jastur-axmus.deviantart.com/"&gt;Jastur-Axmus&lt;/a&gt; is of a character whom is also a recent OC of mine, Ranaka. She's one of those sexual female villain characters I cannot stop making (it's a passion!). It's a beautiful piece that shows off my favorite human female body part (*gulps*), and has a great posing, coloring and shading job. Only thing is that the background, as simple as it may seem, really can distract from the actual character, and I feel as if the buttocks could have been a little more rounded, but like I always say, no one is perfect.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Okay, that's all or now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-2733262410577006926?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/2733262410577006926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=2733262410577006926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2733262410577006926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2733262410577006926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/10/commissionfan-art-update.html' title='Commission/Fan art Update'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-1218688377461256942</id><published>2011-09-30T08:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-30T20:33:37.270-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Modern mages in 21st century. What else?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Here's another sketch that I'm sure not many people will see since I'm so underrated.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Picture2.png?t=1317340879" alt="Picture2.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is another character with magenta-maroon hair and mid-dark skin, whom I'm deciding to call Zesiro. He's a 20-year old male mage/wizard, and like all of my male characters to this date, he's heterosexual, only fancying in having love to a female. He's a resident of a town in Europe, where one of the later plots of the &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; series takes place. As with all of my other mage/wizard/witch/sorcerer characters, he has many different abilities at his disposal. But unlike the other characters of this type, he does not have an alternative transformation, rather he can adjust his own body parts for any scenario he needs, provided it's a simple transformation to one or more of his body parts and not something complex. (Think of Eve from &lt;i&gt;Black Cat&lt;/i&gt; and you'll get it)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well I'm running out of time, so I'll wrap it up here. Catch 'ya later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-1218688377461256942?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/1218688377461256942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=1218688377461256942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/1218688377461256942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/1218688377461256942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/modern-mages-in-21st-century-what-else.html' title='Modern mages in 21st century. What else?'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-2846287111471276093</id><published>2011-09-24T12:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-24T17:55:34.628-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Aquatic Life is Miracle x100.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE:&lt;/b&gt; Some parts about this post may become a little strange, rarely for a blog like this where I rarely bring up anything strange. If you are somehow disgusted by the following dialogue, my biggest apologies. I promise this will be the only time I will discuss something that comes close to the miracle of life, unless I must bring it up again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ah yes, Mermaids. As one of the world's most beloved mythological hybrids, they simply need no introduction. But for a little brief saying, all mythological hybrid creatures are basically humans with the lower half of their body, where their legs would normally be, as the lower half of a specific animal/aquatic creature, and given several traits of the animal they resemble. In the case of mermaids and their male merman counterparts, they have the lower half of their bodies as fish tails, and the ability of unlimited breath underwater.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For how I interpret mythological hybrids (mostly limited to centaurs, nagas/lamias, and of course mermaids/mermen) in my works, mainly in NSFW territory, they should be more realistic to the animals they represent. Besides just looking like they are, they share most, if not all the original traits, including their diets, anatomical structure, and reproduction methods. If the animal it represents has horns, it has horns. If it has a tail, it has a tail. If it has sharp teeth, it has sharp teeth. If it reproduces through eggs, then I'll leave you to imagine the scenario. The only major difference with hybrids is alongside the upper human body, the ability to cumulate better with humans and other types of hybrid species, a trait not usually associated with the animal kingdom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But before I turn this into a fantasized mammalogy class complete with explicit stuff, hybrids that are based of carnivorous animals, like centaur-lions and nagas, are the nasty faces of these hybrids. While there are friendly varieties that don't choose to eat specific hybrid species, like my own Ziki, these carnivorous hybrids will often attack and eat their victims alive. In the case of females killing and feasting on males, they will "make love" to the male before killing and devouring them. Rarely, the good-hearted female naga may allow the male victim to live, often keeping it as a secret from the rest of the tribe. This whole story also works with the lesser-known male nagas killing a female.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I've already given you enough stories to vomit to today. After you're finished with the toilet, let's start focusing on mermaids only and the ones that will appear in Aozora's Adventure. Afterwards, I'll say a few last words before I close the post.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mermaids aren't common in this world, although they do exist. They were more or less creatures brought to Earth due to a very complex European science experiment to bring mythological hybrids into reality by combining genes and DNA with both humans and animals. They created two creatures, a single white mermaid and white merman (as white is supposably every color put together, according to spectrums), and released them into the ocean to mate and spread off offspring through the seven seas. So to sum this up, they were treated as endangered species, and by several months, mermaids and mermen began to grow intelligence and construct underwater cities and temples, and developed basic combat skills to fight off predators of basic fish and other enemies. The mermaids/mermen are not "magic" and thus cannot transform their fish tails into human legs and do the same (or vice versa) to other humans and mermaids. While female mermaids do possess good singing skills, it is not possible for them to sing to distract/lure away/lure to death people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The main and most well-known mermaid of the series would be this one: Nanami.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/AsAMermaidChara.jpg?t=1316889402" alt="AsAMermaidChara.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;The blue and somewhat snooty mermaid was one of the earlier mermaids born from the experiment, with an age equivalent to a 22-year-old healthy human female. She is one of the few high-ranked elite mermaid warriors in the oceans to be a female, and had learned how to move on land by slithering her tail like a snake (yea, don't know if that's a jumping the shark moment, but hey, she can breathe on air since she has the traits of not only fish, but also humans).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Her main weapon is (what a shock) a trident that not only can do basic strikes thanks to its long size and sharpness, but it's also infused with electricity, which allows for heavy powerful strikes. Well this electricity is an alternative kind that doesn't conduct in water (well it does, but it only goes such a distance before it dies down). As you'd expect, she's stronger in aquatic environments because that's where she spends most of her life in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Strange to think this is the first major mermaid character since after all the ones from my reject of a "franchise" got thrown down the toilet. Well at least this one doesn't look like a &lt;i&gt;Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch&lt;/i&gt; knockoff, which I'm proud of myself for giving her so much shite to wear, besides just a shell bra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;Well that's it for now. Hopefully I'll get to writing more bios of the characters on the Wiki, including of the recent ones. As for the previous character in the last post, I'm leaning over to calling him "Vinzenz" (yeah, a German name. Not only the Japanese can think of good names).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "&gt;See ya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-2846287111471276093?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/2846287111471276093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=2846287111471276093' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2846287111471276093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2846287111471276093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/aquatic-life-is-miracle-x100.html' title='Aquatic Life is Miracle x100.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-605612290913264647</id><published>2011-09-20T15:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-20T18:38:51.899-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Everyone loves a good Transformation fetish.</title><content type='html'>Yea I'm here with another darn update. Expect these to come and go quite often. I know no one really reads this blog, but not only do I want to show you the sketch, I also wanted to explain some things.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As I had stated previously, people seem to think I'm fading into oblivion since I'm not updating my deviantART gallery often. Your answer as to why I'm busy is because I get sidetracked &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; too easily nowadays, plus since I'm somewhat losing the interest of drawing knowing that I won't get much (if any) positive feedback, especially from those I want to get praised by since I've followed them for a good damn long time, and even tried to give them a good laugh once in a while. I'm not attempting to stir up trouble, so I won't go ahead and reveal whom is it that I want commenting, favoriting, and critiquing my art; but if you know me, you might be able to figure it out if you or someone you know is a wanted critic/fan/friend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Speaking of criticism, I promise the new art I submit to deviantART will incorporate several tidbits of criticism I had received in my last art of Fakhriya. It will continue to have the less-blocky lineart, as well as sharper finer edges, plus will have the dual-layer cell shading in all areas, not just parts I feel are necessary to have such. I'll continue to take critiques on future works just so I don't feel like a coward with no life, including this one that I'm doing based on the sketch I did last Friday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I do not aim to be the world's greatest artist. Very few people have even accomplished such a feat, and since it would take me years and years, I'm just not going to bother with it. It's not possible to please every single person on this planet, as everyone will develop different opinions over various subjects, my art style and &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure &lt;/i&gt;included. Just as I said I'm not aiming to be the world's perfect artist, I'm also not aiming to make my OC's become the greatest creations on the planet and thus, possibly get the licenses from fellow webcomic/doujin artists to have their characters make major cameos in the series. Please just get those facts deep into your brain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now before I go and show you today's sketch, I need to point out a thing with all of my characters. All of my characters are heterosexual, meaning that none of them will develop a sexual relationship/interest in another character of the same gender, despite several of the males having slim and smooth designs and/or outfits. Take Higure for instance; even though he's dressed in a latex violet jumpsuit, he's not homosexual, he's just an excessively active fighter with a lust for busty females. Though I do know that when some trolls/haters call someone like this "gay," they're referring to the design being crappy in their opinion, and in rare cases: jealously.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So now that I made my point, here's the sketch. Note that I modified it in Photoshop to make it easier to tell the skin from the armor. If you must see the original, it's &lt;a href="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/AsADarknessWarriorDraft.jpg"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/AsADarknessWarriorDraftedit.jpg?t=1316558855" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 903px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Lazy editing is lazy. :B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's another character that should be a homage to most of you fellow otakus. A speedy modern barbarian warrior from the Darkness sub-series with great strength and his main weapon of choice is a large sword that is almost the same size as he is. While he is part of the team of Darkness protagonists, he does not spend much time with his allies and prefers to work alone (yea common cliche) unless his allies are in desperate need. In combat, he is clad in flexible but strong white, grey, and black metallic steel armor that reveals most of his skin, as if I'm not making enough &lt;i&gt;Witchblade&lt;/i&gt; homages already with loads of fan-service with the busty female characters; wait until you see Kurayami's transformed state. Now I give the traits of the Witch/Clone/Dualblade to a male character from a completely different series, let alone an Indie one? Well the &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; series is also a parody series, and the transformation is triggered by excessive stress, anger, and worry; though I cannot conform it's identical to or different than &lt;i&gt;Witchblade&lt;/i&gt; because I have never seen the &lt;i&gt;Witchblade&lt;/i&gt; anime, and thus don't know what causes the transformation in that series. Much like &lt;i&gt;Witchblade&lt;/i&gt;, the transformation causes the user to shed the majority of his/her clothing, and the reason why I say majority is because in the Aozora's Adventure series, specific characters who have this "grow armor" transformation, shared between Kurayami, Blake, Adelvina, the un-named fifth witch, and this character only shed their existing clothing and grow new fabric/latex alongside the hard armor, giving the viewer a naked silhouette just before the armor forms from their skin. To give an example of this, Adelvina, when undergoing her transformation, grows a black catsuit with red highlights with ruby-colored armor wrapped around it, the same kind this character shown above has. The ruby armor also grows around her two spherical ponytails, allowing Adelvina better control of them in attacks, and giving her the ability to sprout spikes from them. Yea, that's how I use my imagination to the limits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways back to this character. Once transformed, this character is granted great strength from the armor that sprouted on his body and black pants, plus he can call upon his giant sword, which he holds in his hands with pretty much no trouble at all. It can be swung at great speeds, even with just one hand, and can also be controlled with his mind to float and arc in the air. The sword is capable of firing powerful white atomic blasts, which require the user to charge before firing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Okay, I think I said enough about this guy. Of course I didn't give him a name yet since I'm just so lazy. :P See you next time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-605612290913264647?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/605612290913264647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=605612290913264647' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/605612290913264647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/605612290913264647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/everyone-loves-good-transformation.html' title='Everyone loves a good Transformation fetish.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5073006284203699914</id><published>2011-09-16T17:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T19:32:12.972-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I has a new character?</title><content type='html'>Whoops, hit Enter a little too early. XD&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But yea, let us begin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm here with an all-out new sketcharoo, on the second TGIF of this school year. Thankfully this isn't of an antagonist, but of a character that becomes a major protagonist later in the series.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Picture14-1.png?t=1316217910" alt="Picture14-1.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yea, I'm literally throwing in this character because I feel as if every major series needs to follow the red-haired half-naked fighter cliche established in &lt;i&gt;Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan &lt;/i&gt;(yea, big Yoko Littner fan :B). Though she's not really a woman hailing from a tribe as her appearance may state, she just dresses as shown so she can look hot and kick ass for today's standards. And I've decided to include a rear view of her so you can also see her nice... er... You can figure it out. ^^;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Feedback and good Japanese name suggestions requested.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5073006284203699914?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5073006284203699914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5073006284203699914' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5073006284203699914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5073006284203699914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-has-new-charac.html' title='I has a new character?'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-2511746750020622693</id><published>2011-09-15T18:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T18:53:37.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Meet the very possible next hot woman in the series.</title><content type='html'>A woman that had went through two designs before I settled on this one; Introducing: Ranaka.&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Picture14.png?t=1316137438" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 669px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Much like the goth boy I had shown previously (whom I've decided to call Gotobuki), she will be an antagonist for the "Darkness" side-chapter. Much like Kurayami, she has a very (er... Slutty?") appearance, wearing mostly a fishnet outfit with a bra made from vest fabric and blue-violet jeans torn in the back, for sex appeal, even if she's not into being "sexy" as much as Britly is. Like all Darkness characters, she can use large numbers of different magic and spells, though I haven't conformed what her powers will be, but let's just say it'll allow multiple fan-service shots with what she does with her melee skills.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'll leave you to your opinions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-2511746750020622693?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/2511746750020622693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=2511746750020622693' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2511746750020622693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2511746750020622693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/meet-very-possible-next-hot-woman-in.html' title='Meet the very possible next hot woman in the series.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-6015732690899443256</id><published>2011-09-12T15:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-12T18:25:41.944-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Unoriginality: Exactly what doujins have.</title><content type='html'>And of course that's judging by &lt;i&gt;Rosenkreuzstilette&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yea I got a few sketches drawn, and I decided to upload them. Go figure. Though for these, I sort of had mixed reactions towards the first sketch, but for the second one, they were more positive. In fact, I originally did not intend to upload the first sketch because it just seemed so "bad". You'll see why in a moment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.yfrog.com/img612/6143/i8zzov.jpg" style="width: 720px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the first one, which I did last Friday, and made small edits to today. When designing her, I had the White Mage from Square Enix' &lt;i&gt;Final Fantasy&lt;/i&gt; series, and &lt;a href="http://kupo707.deviantart.com/"&gt;Matt Roszak&lt;/a&gt; (whom is a person I deeply regret trolling back in '09)'s Natalie, from the &lt;i&gt;Epic Battle Fantasy&lt;/i&gt; flash game series. She's supposed to be a badass-type princess wielding a long staff and uses a large variety of magic attacks and such, but the way I drew her, she looks like a cross between Spirita Rosenberg and Pamela Arwig (both from &lt;i&gt;Rosenkreuzstilette&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So yea, unless anyone wants to (try to) re-draw her, I'm going to keep her out of the series until I come up with a good concept for a badass princess. Anyways moving on...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.yfrog.com/img857/5070/g91l.jpg" style="width: 720px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yea I know this one looks like shit with how the iPod Touch's camera took it, but hopefully you should be able to see it and the accompanying font just fine. If I need to transcribe it so it can be read, just let me know.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways, this is kind of like a businessman, but it's not. It's a man is his late 20's who enjoys gambling and classic pop music, so much that he uses his dance techniques and a deck of playing cards to kick ass. Yea I had him on the mind for quite some time, and thanks to the fact that I have the ability to sketch decent rough drafts, I can finally show him to you guys.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oh yeah his appearance;... He was inspired by some guy that I remember being from some kind of advertising video for a car of some sorts. (three "some"s in a row XD) I don't remember what it was off, but I remember long ago seeing a Youtube Poop made from it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So that's it for today. And oh yeah, Japanese names are still deeply wanted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-6015732690899443256?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/6015732690899443256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=6015732690899443256' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/6015732690899443256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/6015732690899443256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/unoriginality-exactly-what-doujins-have.html' title='Unoriginality: Exactly what doujins have.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-587465336968255424</id><published>2011-09-08T17:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T18:02:14.324-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another character concept?</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Why yes.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of all things, I've got another character drafted out today. Sorry ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to be in school for quite some time, so expect these during my downtime. And what is it I have this time?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://a.yfrog.com/img859/5669/dc8su.jpg" style="width: 720px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This character I had mentioned some time ago, so that means it's not an entirely new concept; just one I haven't revealed yet. This is a rough draft (in designing purposes) for another character from the series. Believe it or not, he's an antagonist of the "Darkness" sub-chapter, whose appearance is based on a specific person I know of in real life, combined with several sick gothic traits. He's an altered human being with an almost permeant grin on his mouth, with a greatly torn up outfit. His lack of eyes in his sockets, his long tongue, and the eyeball that sometimes shoots out is the result of an experiment gone wrong. Just like the grand majority of the characters in this sub-series, he is a magic user. What else would you be if you originated from a world filled with technology and ancient gothic structures amok?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And yea, I understand that I'm not the greatest character designer ever. Keep in mind this may not be his final appearance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Plus... Name suggestions anyone?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-587465336968255424?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/587465336968255424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=587465336968255424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/587465336968255424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/587465336968255424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/another-character-concept.html' title='Another character concept?'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-298412276715625725</id><published>2011-09-07T19:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T03:26:35.729-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Witch #5 rough sketch showcase.</title><content type='html'>Yea I missed a few week's worth of new stuff from the series, but I'll get to that later. For now, let me show you something that I drew up in school today.&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Picture9.png?t=1315449072" alt="Picture9.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sorry if the pic is small, the scanner that I've had for a while now is starting to show it's age, so I was only able to get a preview scan, what you see here, and upload it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This character is the only remaining member of the witch clan that Kurayami leads. He's like an inspired mashup of several human male characters from a number of sources, specializing in using a trio of daggers to attack. I will reveal his witch form in text sometime later. In the meantime, feel free to suggest improvements and changes to him to make him more original, or not as homosexual looking. As for his footwear; basic brown boots.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-298412276715625725?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/298412276715625725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=298412276715625725' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/298412276715625725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/298412276715625725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/09/witch-5-rough-sketch-showcase.html' title='Witch #5 rough sketch showcase.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-1067206369723694</id><published>2011-07-26T19:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-26T20:11:01.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Aozora's Liquid10 2011 Montage Cameo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Yea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, every-time I see fanart of one of my own characters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, no matter how big or small&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, it's going here. Live with it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;So what am I here to state? Well it's not as major as the Blake picture I showcased the other day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, but it has Aozora and Joker to say the least. What am I talking about?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://fav.me/d41plx9"&gt;Liquid10's recent OC montage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;that's what. Well looking for the two is more like a Where's Waldo scenario. They're crammed into the back with a mad bunch of other OC's belonging to Liquid10's friends. But I can't really complain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, there's perhaps around 100 characters splotched into the image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, and if all of them were the same size&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, it'd be more crowed then than a boy's changing room during a busy collage day. So to make things simple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, I cropped the image into the part that shows Aozora ready to kick some nuts and bolts and the Joker preparing for a sneak attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;, greying out any of the other characters not involved with my indie series.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/AozorasLiquid10Montagecameo.jpg?t=1311736142" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 457px; height: 292px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;Now do the world a favor and go support Liquid10's masterpiece. There's other beloved OC's that need love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-1067206369723694?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/1067206369723694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=1067206369723694' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/1067206369723694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/1067206369723694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/07/aozoras-liquid10-2011-montage-cameo.html' title='Aozora&apos;s Liquid10 2011 Montage Cameo'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-3890954176969517490</id><published>2011-07-24T19:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-24T20:03:48.224-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blake, according to atamask</title><content type='html'>I got a new commissioned piece from deviantArtist &lt;a href="http://atamask.deviantart.com/"&gt;Atamask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, of none other than Blake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;, the male witch antagonist. Self-explanatory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/commission__blake_by_atamask-d41jceb.png?t=1311562223" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 852px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;Yea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;, it was actually a very cheap price. Only for $20 I got this in return. It's badass. The background perfectly reflects Blake's color scheme and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt; personality (I need to get off my lazy ass and write a detailed biography of him).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;Go show Atamask your support&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;. Simple as that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-3890954176969517490?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/3890954176969517490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=3890954176969517490' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3890954176969517490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3890954176969517490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/07/blake-according-to-atamask.html' title='Blake, according to atamask'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5822261079548783275</id><published>2011-07-16T20:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T20:25:07.167-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our favorite Witches of Evil on vacation (slight NSFW)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;For $31 USD, I was able to commission deviantARTist &lt;a href="http://skyraptor.deviantart.com/"&gt;Skyraptor&lt;/a&gt; to draw up some group artwork of Kurayami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;, Adelvina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;, and Alisha (the later whom was designed by &lt;a href="http://simirrorofshadows.deviantart.com"&gt;SimirrorofShadows&lt;/a&gt;). out on the beach after a long day at their dark brisk mansion. He calls the piece "Sunset Girls".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/1-SunsetGirls.jpg?t=1310872451" alt="1-SunsetGirls.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;Yea you can tell a lot of people really fancy the queen of darkness (at least for this indie series). It's also the first time we see Alisha in full color following SimirrorofShadow's original sketch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt; but I'm thing the hair and eyes should be a little more yellowish. And I also want to note the body paint patterns on Kurayami are entirely absent. No problem with that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;, guess you can say they just washed off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: medium;"&gt;But aside from that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;, Skyraptor did an amazing job portraying the three witches. Speaking of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;, Skyraptor also provided me with some additional bonus artwork. See for yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/1-beachgirls.jpg?t=1310871712" style="height: 852px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/1-BasicKurayami.jpg?t=1310871676" style="height: 805px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/1-BasicAdelvina.jpg?t=1310871676" style="height: 805px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; "&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/1-BASICaLISHA.jpg?t=1310871719" style="height: 805px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5822261079548783275?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5822261079548783275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5822261079548783275' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5822261079548783275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5822261079548783275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/07/our-favorite-witches-of-evil-on.html' title='Our favorite Witches of Evil on vacation (slight NSFW)'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5220855007161799400</id><published>2011-07-07T11:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-07T14:24:58.133-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New early concept drafts.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;As I had promis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, during my trip to upstate New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, I drew up some rough drafts of potential characters for the series. Note that these are rough drafts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, so they don't look as professionally done as my art on deviantART&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, but I was away from my computer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, so I didn't really have access to Photoshop and Poser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;. But anyways&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, here they are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, and feel free to critique their design and modify it to your liking. And for crying out loud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, don't criticize them for the bad anatomy. They're just rough drafts!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;First: The well-anticipated "darkness" side-story protagonist. Here with the pencil sketch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, his main colors appear to be lighter than they really are. Plus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, I forgot to mention he also wears a torn-up tuxedo at times rather than the lather jacket. As you can see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, he's a male gothic punk similar to Blake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, but this character is not a villain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, despite being from the same dimension.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/AsADarknessProtagonistEarlyConcept.jpg?t=1310061659" alt="AsARockCharaConcepts.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;Then we have the other two characters. These come from the regular universe; no alternative dimensions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, but they are slightly inspired by two characters that perhaps no one knows. The arabian-styled girl on the left is based on (but not a direct rip-off/homage of) the slutty dark-skinned (sorry for the bad interpretation) egyptian boss from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  line-height: 18px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Crayon Shin-Chan: Arashi o Yobu: Nendororo n Daihenshin&lt;/i&gt; (image &lt;a href="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/ShinChanDesertBoss.png"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). And sure enough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, this girl too&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, has the same personality as the woman whom she is based on (though the way I drew my character&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, she looks like she's 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, when in reality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, she's supposed to be in the early 20's).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;The second character is based on my friend &lt;a href="http://caisbarlin69.deviantart.com/"&gt;CaisBarlin69&lt;/a&gt;'s original character&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, &lt;a href="http://fav.me/d2kw7h8"&gt;Cais Barlin&lt;/a&gt;. However&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, there are several noticeable differences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, like this guy being a wild punk rock-star whom uses a guitar that shoots sonic booms (hmm... where have I heard this before?).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/AsARockCharaConcepts.jpg?t=1310061657" style="height: 685px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;Please note my friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, that I'm not trying to be unoriginal here. I'm attempting to create my own characters so I don't have to steal those from others. And apparently there are the (non-final) designs I came up with during my weekend vacation. Like 'em or not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, they're here to say. If you feel as if they're not detailed or designed well enough and originally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;, go ahead and leave your opinions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5220855007161799400?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5220855007161799400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5220855007161799400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5220855007161799400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5220855007161799400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-early-concept-drafts.html' title='New early concept drafts.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5119584929667482802</id><published>2011-06-17T16:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-17T16:49:46.999-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From hell these girls came...</title><content type='html'>Yea. More commissioned pieces. I swea&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;r they're meant to please people. It's like you getting fanart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, though not for free. Anyways we have two commissioned pieces from &lt;a href="http://sprite37.deviantart.com/"&gt;Sprite37&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://fbende.deviantart.com/"&gt;FBende&lt;/a&gt;. We got series antagonist Kurayami and recently-designed protagonist Mara from these two spectacular artists. Hopefully over the summer I'll have more money to blow on commissions and hopefully increase the series' popularity. And the &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Advneture Re-Vamp Project&lt;/i&gt; is in the works&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;, but has not started yet. In the meantime&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;, here are the two images I got. Be sure to head over to each of their dA accounts to give them proper praise and feedback!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;(Sprite37's Kurayami)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/kurayami_by_sprite37-d3iyiju.jpg?t=1308219718" alt="kurayami_by_sprite37-d3iyiju.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;(FBende's Mara)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/mara_by_fbende-d3j6gk7.jpg?t=1308353741" alt="kurayami_by_sprite37-d3iyiju.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5119584929667482802?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5119584929667482802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5119584929667482802' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5119584929667482802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5119584929667482802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-hell-these-girls-came.html' title='From hell these girls came...'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-4163719873398077520</id><published>2011-06-02T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T14:59:00.866-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Money makes the world go 'round, and they buy commishes.</title><content type='html'>As ironic as it sounds, I recently got this supa-tacular Aozora chibi from popular deviantART user &lt;a href="http://bluc.deviantart.com/"&gt;BluC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="-webkit-user-select: none" src="http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww104/Puttychan/super.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And I also wanted to mention that I think Aozora should somewhat resemble both Ryan and IceCreamMouth's interoperation's, but based on the climate (in his world) his jacket and shirt will change to either Ryan's in the summer, and IceCreamMouth's in the winter. The boots will also undergo this as well, but they will be longer in the winter. Sorry if this change is somewhat upsetting, but remember, this is &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; series.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-4163719873398077520?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/4163719873398077520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=4163719873398077520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/4163719873398077520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/4163719873398077520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/money-makes-world-go-round-and-they-buy.html' title='Money makes the world go &apos;round, and they buy commishes.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5474137654702700935</id><published>2011-05-26T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-26T15:32:05.501-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Neo-er Aozora?</title><content type='html'>That's mighty darn right. If you've been paying attention to my deviantART account, you might have noticed that &lt;a href="http://Superjustinbros.deviantart.com/art/Neo-Aozora-210065682"&gt;my new Aozora art is complete&lt;/a&gt;, which was generally Ryan's proposed re-design. Less than three days later, I'm given this by a good pal of mine (whom also happens to give me quite an amount of critiques, all constructive) known as &lt;a href="http://icecreammouth.deviantart.com/"&gt;Icecreammouth&lt;/a&gt;, showing his interpretation of Ryan's design.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/superjustinbro__s_neo_aozora_by_icecreammouth-d3h9d9d.png?t=1306437919" alt="superjustinbro__s_neo_aozora_by_icecreammouth-d3h9d9d.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At least he decided to put my art of Aozora up along with his. Saves me some trouble. But otherwise, this third re-imagining replaces the metal ear plates with larger black ones, increased the depth of the goggles, gave Aozora a different jacket that matches his pilot cap (not helmet), changed the belt, and integrates the single belt over the boots, so it looks like it's actually part of the boot itself. Do I like this design? Well, take a wild guess.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes! Of course I do! :D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now let me bargain on this for a sec. Sure I do accept most, if not every critique I receive, but once again, it's how critiques here work. I'm not going to draw Aozora again anytime soon since I just finished up art of him, and I wanna work on something else. For you Kurayami lovers out there, I got good news for you. There is new art of her in progress. It's NSFW, so if you can't tolerate that sort of art, then I'd recommend just not looking at it entirely. Otherwise, the Aozora's Adventure Re-Vamp project is looking strong.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5474137654702700935?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5474137654702700935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5474137654702700935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5474137654702700935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5474137654702700935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/05/neo-er-aozora.html' title='Neo-er Aozora?'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-3287715055719361139</id><published>2011-05-03T11:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-04T14:12:23.609-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Aozora's Adventure may be going through re-vamp session in summer.</title><content type='html'>Yep, because &lt;b&gt;FINALLY&lt;/b&gt; someone bothered to look at my series and write up some constructive criticism!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yep, that's right. One of my buds from school, Ryan McConnachie (please don't look him up, for his own safety! When he creates a new DA account, I'll link to it!), wrote up some comments and suggestions for the &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; series and gave them to me today. To say the least, I'm happy that someone actually thought well enough into the series that he suggested some things I could improve on to make the series hopefully stand out much more than it already is, whatever that means.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, let me explain, unlike what a lot of people on deviantART would assume, I don't mind criticism or take it as something negative. I know that criticism serves the purpose of helping someone improve by suggesting changes they could implement into whatever they created. But apparently, when someone is first introduced to it, usually it means the person didn't like the final outcome and is requesting changes. But in most case scenarios you'd already be too deep in progress of something or already finished it to the point where you're not willing to go back and make changes. Then there are the people that just show no interest into lending out a hand by simply stating "it sucks" without giving a proper reason why. Even if you don't like someone's artwork enough to at least give it a favorite, it would be nice to explain why exactly you do not like the art. But if it's for a pointless reason, such as "I don't like this character," then that would be the time to ignore rather than be a wuss.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But in this scenario, I can roll out the suggested changes slowly. Not right this minute since I'd have to go and edit pretty much this blog, my main blog, and the Wiki in response to the series name change. But for now, let me discuss the changes that Ryan had requested.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/RyansAozora.png?t=1304458393" alt="RyansAozora.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is his interpretation of the series' protagonist, Aozora. It takes my initial design and adds a couple new features. First, Aozora's pilot cap is given a slight change, his blonde hair is much longer and now shoots out the front and back ends of his head, he now wears a leather jacket imprinted with his personal logo, a different belt, saggier jeans, and more exotic-looking boots, rather than the cyan shoes he wore previously. I like this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/RyansJoker.png?t=1304459121" alt="RyansAozora.png " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the other character he drew. As you can see, this is supposed to be Joker, one of the series' main antagonists initially designed by SimirrorofShadows, but unlike with Aozora's enhancement, this one appears to take away every trait that Joker has. This one is more roudy and less calm, he looks a lot younger, and it just doesn't suit his calm personality. As a remake of Skye, this could work, but as the leader of a professional clan of assassins named after card suits, not really.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then we came to the criticism itself. Below is a exact word-for-word transistion. Note I'm not trying to make him sound like a criminal, just wanted everyone to understand what he's saying. Again, he's not a bad dude, trust me! ;_;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; Notes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;- You should update the wiki with a detailed plot summery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:small;"&gt;- I can revise and assist you with your plot and characters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:small;"&gt;- When crafting a story, give it a moral to teach. An overall central theme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:small;"&gt; -Do NOT make this theme: "Teamwork" "Friendship" "Never Give Up" etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:'courier new';font-size:small;"&gt;- Give your characters defining traits. For example:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Laharl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:16px;"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- hates sexy women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- Loves his Overlordship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- Has an iconic evil laugh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Adell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- hates women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- uses things only in his "own style"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- extremely earnest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(NIS always does this)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;- Consider renaming the series. Perhaps just to "Aozora"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;- Lots of sexy women! I don't know how many you have planned, but you might want to give a few of them... smaller "features"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;[picture of Keisha with large breasts, struggling and saying ("Rrrr...")]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Not many actual women could have breasts like that and stand up straight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'courier new';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So yeah. There it is. In reply, I state the following. Again, no harm intended in any way. Remember this is &lt;b&gt;my&lt;/b&gt; series, so I can do whatever the kcuf I want with it. If any extremely popular webcomic artist or a fan of those types of people want to complain, SU.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Aozora's Adventure was always intended to be a collaborative effort, where people I know, plus a couple of others, designed characters to help with expanding the roster. Some of them were actually pretty well-done, while others were like "meh". The main cast of characters, Aozora, Zik, Sakaki, and Satoru, were all designed when the series &lt;i&gt;just&lt;/i&gt; launched following the cancelation of my previous failed experiment, &lt;i&gt;Super Justin.&lt;/i&gt; So my character-designing skills were a little shallow back then. I wouldn't mind re-designing some of these characters, or relying on others. Again, just to make sure I'm not lazy, I'm not requiring anyone here to design any characters, but it would be nice if I could get some real good artists, webcomic authors, and/or character designers. Even if I have to pay a good fine, unless it's over $50 or they don't allow me commissioning that kind of stuff.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; -Same for the plot, but I'm pretty much in control of that. :P&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-I never intended the series to have a theme of any kind. I just wanted the series to be created just so I could have some characters that I could call my own. Plus, now that you mention it, I would probably never have intended to have one of the three themes Ryan described. Sure I am planning to have some casual moments where the main characters attend school and stuff, but not have an entire episode/chapter focused on a "Slice of Life" story. I want the &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; series to be action-packed, violent, comedic, and simply interesting. Unlike &lt;i&gt;Super Justin,&lt;/i&gt; I am not aiming to make Aozora kid-friendly, but more for teenagers and adults, which is what shonen manga and most anime not bastardized by 4kids is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; -Plus, Aozora's Adventure is somewhat supposed to be a parody/spoof/tribute to/of some of the major anime series I know of. Kind of like all those &lt;i&gt;Mega Man&lt;/i&gt;-styled doujin games that surfaced in the late 2000's.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Most, if not all of the characters all have their own traits, but I have never bothered to implement or write them on the Wiki. They're there, but just,.. not there. ^^; Maybe in the future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-I am considering to rename the series just &lt;i&gt;Jitsuwa. Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; initially started as &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt;, then &lt;i&gt;Zora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt;, then what it's known as now. Because Wikia doesn't let you change the name of your wiki in the blink of an eye and create an appropriate re-direct to the newer version, this may take a little longer than expected. Of course, I'm open to any more exotic titles, but we'll see where things go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-The "lots of sexy women" tag-line is a staple of a good number of T/M-rated anime and video game series, which are entirely fiction and are thus, often not supposed to be realistic. And Keisha's breasts are average-sized, not oversized. Kurayami has her figure the way it is because she's supposed to be quick, swift, and powerful, sort of like a hybrid of Masane Amaha of&lt;i&gt; Witchblade&lt;/i&gt; and Bayonetta from &lt;i&gt;the game of the same name&lt;/i&gt;. Same goes for Britly. I can probably drop the breast size of Kurayami and, Britly by short amounts, but remember, it's fiction, so don't expect things to be realistic unless you're making a biography anime. In these cases, none of the characters can't or shouldn't really struggle or topple over with that breast size. Besides, breasts can get that big in anime and I don't see the females struggling. :|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So yea, that's a wrap. I'll discuss more about these changes and a few other tid-bits about the series in the future. If he creates an account on dA, I'll go discuss these changes in more depth. For now, get!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Oh sorry, was that rude of me? Well, What about "good bye?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-3287715055719361139?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/3287715055719361139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=3287715055719361139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3287715055719361139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3287715055719361139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/05/aozoras-adventure-may-be-going-through.html' title='Aozora&apos;s Adventure may be going through re-vamp session in summer.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-947314900370669239</id><published>2011-04-06T18:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T15:34:04.983-07:00</updated><title type='text'>About the side stories of the series.</title><content type='html'>Since I just recently added some concepts to the series, I decided to better explain what plots will unfold throughout my OC series.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;First, the one we all know, the main plot story with Aozora, Satoru, and the rest of the gang, which takes place in the near future, during a time when (of course) a league of assassins known as the A. C. E. S. attempts to terrorize Japan, and a few months later, the eight witches that I haven't even done the concept for the fifth. Self explanatory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The second of these plots is more or less a prequel to the entire series, starring Aozora's ancestor from the 1700's, Amano. When (of course again) Asia is the target of an unknown evil, Amano steps into a Japanese town, is told of the threats, and then embarks on a journey to settle the score.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amano &lt;a href="http://aozoraadventure.wikia.com/wiki/Amano"&gt;I already have an article of on my personal Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, so no need to describe him again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But about the other characters in this prequel story?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well... first off, one idea that I think could work as an ally to Amano is an eleven-year-old wearing an yellow kimono with black outlingings, large, beady eyes, and brown mushroom-shaped hair. It's supposed to be a take-on of the semi-main protagonist of the Japanese children's novel "&lt;i&gt;The Classroom with an Alien in it"&lt;/i&gt; which I &lt;a href="http://superjustintheblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/weird-japanese-novel-whats-it-called.html"&gt;had showcased last year on my main blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This pic should explain better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/Photo5.jpg?t=1302141961" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 465px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes, I really got this lazy, and just pulled out Photobooth. Don't really feel like wasting time, especially at 10 in the evening. And note my character will not be an exact interpretation of this guy, just somewhat similar in shape and size, plus with an added interest in &lt;i&gt;Hanafuda&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another character whom I was thinking of putting in was a large (no offense) guy wearing a purple kimono, who has the shape of a sumo fighter, with the traditional Asian black ponytail. Besides him, there are two other allies to Amano that I'm considering to add, one a badass male warrior character, in a dark-blue kimono, with a red and yellow outfit, and a glamorous female who wields a parasol.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The antagonists consist of one leader, and five other members. One of them is a woman with dark pale violet hair done in the traditional Chinese woman fashion who can strike a humorous chuckle when overjoyed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But overall, how did I get this idea? Well, near the end of August, I attended this Japanese/oriental themed festival where the book described above could be purchased (as well as several Japanese-language manga, none that I'm familiar with though.). I heard oriental-themed music, and because music gets my motivation going, bang. The oriental-themed story was born, though I wouldn't release the concepts about two months after. I'll reveal more about this concept in the future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyways, onto the newest idea I had developed this week:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was thinking of doing another spinoff series focusing on a new clan of protagonists and antagonists. The protagonists consist of six gothic characters wearing dark hair colors, their planed concepts shown below.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The main entry of this gang is a 20-year old that has somewhat of a zany personality, has long, spiky, dark navy blue hair with the outlines drawn in neon blue, blue evilish eyes, sharp teeth, a very well-detailed outfit made of a open dark blue tuxedo (with a strange shape), some yellow belts wrapped around parts of it, and black, saggy long jeans with blue patterns. I don't really know how to describe him as of yet, so I'll wait for when I try to draw him before I showcase his appearance. Other than that, I also want to mention he's an expert in guns and swords, and adores killing and fighting things with such.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His closest ally, at this time, is a Jamaican-esque dark-skinned guy (whose main color scheme is red and varying shades of orange) that has pyrokinesis. His short but thick dreadlocks are bright orange, drawn with red highlights, which gets brighter of dimmer depending on his state and power. I haven't really decided on what outfit to give him as of yet, but I want it to have some relation to his suggested color scheme, but not to the point where he looks like an exact replica of Blake. :P&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The third character will be the love interest of the main character of this side-story, and will share a somewhat similar appearance to Sakaki, but not down to the exact detail. This girl will have much darker and shorter hair (with possibly an added ponytail), many tattoos and markings on her skin, and a more revealing (but still well detailed) outfit, plus a serious, badass personality.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One other character that I think would do well is a 16-year old "loli-devil girl" like Etna from &lt;i&gt;Disgaea&lt;/i&gt; and Luste Teuber from &lt;i&gt;Rosenkreuzstilette&lt;/i&gt;. She won't have wings, but she would have some form of black and green pointed tail (which can be used to attack). She has bushy, neon green hair, pointy ears, a small bikini top (to cover her flat breasts, a large gauntlet on her right hand that reaches up to her shoulder, and navy blue jeans that are entirely absent on only her right side, with the left (intact) side being very messy, with multiple wrinkles and some patches. Like Etna and Luste, she is joyfull and playful, but can get upset easily.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are two other protagonists I'd like to consider adding alongside these four, both male.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As for the antagonists, I haven't thought of one for this new side-story, but I do have apossible idea for an assistant of the main antagonist. He has no eyeballs (somewhat like 2-D from&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt; the &lt;/span&gt;Gorillaz&lt;/i&gt; band), so he has a black band and long, black hair with yellow streaks covering the empty sockets, and a wicked smile. As a spooky taunt, sometimes when he sticks his tongue out, a moving eyeball appears on top of the tip, alongside his razor-sharp teeth. He has a very large gun as his main weapon of choice. His colors consist of mainly dark pale yellow, black, and some maroon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So now that I summed up the current roster of characters, I'll talk about the setting; the place where these characters reside.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The main setting is an alternative universe that is mostly filled with many urban areas that are well-advanced in technological aspects, as well as a great numbers of castles, dungeons, and towers modeled after the traditional classic gothic structure. The lightest it ever gets in this world is mid sunrise/set, and lighting is common. On top of that, the vast desert plains, forests, mountains, and abandoned castles and dungeons are filled with various strange monsters and creatures. And unlike our dimension, the ones that reside in this world are much more strange, darker, and more vicious.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The two dimensions are linked via (what else but) dimensional portals, something created by Toshi after meeting a strange person (whom I have no concepts for). To further connect the two worlds, this is where Kurayami and the other Withches initially originated, using their black magic to warp to our dimension. In that dimension, they remained in their transformed states forever, and getting sick of their times there, they warped in desire to cause ruckus in Aozora's world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So that's what I got for now. I wish I could co-lab with some of my good friends on this idea, but something tells me I'd better be off on my own. If you want to help, be my guest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-947314900370669239?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/947314900370669239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=947314900370669239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/947314900370669239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/947314900370669239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/04/about-side-stories-of-series.html' title='About the side stories of the series.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-6214406310192670152</id><published>2011-04-03T08:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T08:09:28.837-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anatema's Keisha</title><content type='html'>Well, you waited, and &lt;a href="http://anatemaworks.deviantart.com/"&gt;Anatema&lt;/a&gt; is back with some Keisha art.&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/keishacustom.jpg?t=1301843183" alt="keishacustom.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Keisha's eyes look a little distorted here, but I still like it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-6214406310192670152?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/6214406310192670152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=6214406310192670152' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/6214406310192670152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/6214406310192670152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/04/anatemas-keisha.html' title='Anatema&apos;s Keisha'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-7288532733451161145</id><published>2011-04-02T11:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T11:36:02.936-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anatema's Sakaki</title><content type='html'>So last Thrusday I got this picture of Sakaki from Mexican artist &lt;a href="http://anatemaworks.deviantart.com/"&gt;AnatemaWorks&lt;/a&gt;, and to say the least, it's not half bad.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8035/sakaki.jpg"&gt;See for yourself:...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He/She also stated that they are working on a Keisha one as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-7288532733451161145?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/7288532733451161145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=7288532733451161145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/7288532733451161145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/7288532733451161145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/04/so-last-thrusday-i-got-this-picture-of.html' title='Anatema&apos;s Sakaki'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-3573224105316364390</id><published>2011-03-25T14:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T15:57:29.928-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Update after SUCH a long delay.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Well, hey everyone. I'm back, and ready for a big (art-wise) update.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;For starters, Toshi's concept artwork has been completed recently... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;img style="-webkit-user-select: none; cursor: -webkit-zoom-in; " src="http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110315214834/aozoraadventure/images/3/3f/Toshi.png" width="335" height="835" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;...which knocks the roster of missing characters down to one: The fifth member of my evil witch gang. Speaking of [the] witches...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/justincomissioncopia-1.jpg?t=1301087265" alt="justincomissioncopia-1.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;For a measly $31 bucks, I was able to commission one of my recent friends &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mistahuchiha.deviantart.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;mistachiha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; to draw up this picture for me, which shows series antagonists Kurayami and Adelvina, showin' off their backs. Probably the most beautiful of the fanarts I got regarding the series. Well worth the money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;img id="fullImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/ComissionKurayami-1.jpg?t=1302217022" alt="ComissionKurayami-1.jpg " galleryimg="no" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Then there's this one from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://jastur-axmus.deviantart.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Jastur-Axmus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, who originally designed Britly a year and a half ago. A very pleasant render of Kurayami, still living up to her sexiness. The transparent hair on Kurayami is a nice touch (though not a real feature in the series), and the background is well-detailed. I love this one. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;img id="fullSizedImage" class="media" galleryimg="no" alt="" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/com_superjustinbros_britly_by_alascarmesis-d3b33ax.png?t=1302217022" style="height: 819px; width: 620px; visibility: visible; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;And for only $10 dollars, I got this bust-up of Britly from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://alascarmesis.deviantart.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;alascarmesis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. Pretty well-done for a traditional artwork, if you ask me. The bumps/wings on her head should be longer, and there are two white parts that weren't cut out, but I'm not going to complain, especially to a guy like this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I'm hoping to commission these guys again in the near future, and maybe a few other great artists, since no one seems to have the will to draw these characters, especially with how much effort I put into designing Kurayami and Adelvina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-3573224105316364390?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/3573224105316364390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=3573224105316364390' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3573224105316364390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3573224105316364390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-after-such-long-delay.html' title='Update after SUCH a long delay.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5658097447621926751</id><published>2011-01-06T12:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-06T12:43:10.669-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New fanart... Thanks Sam!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Recently I got fanart of &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; character Amano from my good friend &lt;a href="http://shichimeito-zoku.com/"&gt;Sam Bros.&lt;/a&gt; Thank you very much, my friend. This is so awesome. ^__^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac331/Superjustinbros/amano_fanart300res_print_quality.jpg?t=1294346433" alt="" galleryimg="no" style="width: 620px; height: 802px;" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5658097447621926751?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5658097447621926751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5658097447621926751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5658097447621926751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5658097447621926751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-fanart-thanks-sam.html' title='New fanart... Thanks Sam!'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-3165004297367026359</id><published>2011-01-04T03:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T03:22:45.405-08:00</updated><title type='text'>And yet more fanart. Ho Rah.</title><content type='html'>Well, it appears some more people were kind enough to draw the characters from my series.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="543"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=189310018&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=189310018&amp;amp;width=1337" height="543" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/189310018/"&gt;Commission for SuperJustinBros&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://simirrorofshadows.deviantart.com/"&gt;SimirrorofShadows&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="894"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=189132627&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=189132627&amp;amp;width=1337" height="894" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/189132627/"&gt;Gift Sketch - Adelvina&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://simirrorofshadows.deviantart.com/"&gt;SimirrorofShadows&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=189647735&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=189647735&amp;amp;width=1337" height="400" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/189647735/"&gt;I Choose You&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://newtypemo.deviantart.com/"&gt;Newtypemo&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="536"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=190797803&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=190797803&amp;amp;width=1337" height="536" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/190797803/"&gt;Gift for SuperJustinBros&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://liquid10.deviantart.com/"&gt;Liquid10&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-3165004297367026359?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/3165004297367026359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=3165004297367026359' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3165004297367026359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/3165004297367026359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2011/01/and-yet-more-fanart-ho-rah.html' title='And yet more fanart. Ho Rah.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-8184281693384851073</id><published>2010-11-15T12:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-15T12:15:51.501-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some official artwork that I forgot to put here...</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="450" height="781"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=180745752&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=180745752&amp;amp;width=1337" height="781" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/180745752/"&gt;Kurayami concept art &amp;quot;Norm&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="900"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=185034478&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=185034478&amp;amp;width=1337" height="900" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/185034478/"&gt;AA: Amano Concept art&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-8184281693384851073?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/8184281693384851073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=8184281693384851073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/8184281693384851073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/8184281693384851073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-official-artwork-that-i-forgot-to.html' title='Some official artwork that I forgot to put here...'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-2691861834337257598</id><published>2010-09-21T04:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T04:14:56.205-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More new concept Artwork</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="450" height="1060"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=179960536&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=179960536&amp;amp;width=1337" height="1060" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/179960536/"&gt;AA: Xun Concept &amp;quot;Norm.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-2691861834337257598?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/2691861834337257598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=2691861834337257598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2691861834337257598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/2691861834337257598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-new-concept-artwork.html' title='More new concept Artwork'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-266774812887298326</id><published>2010-08-28T10:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-09T14:14:22.036-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Character Designers WANTED</title><content type='html'>Well, hello once again everyone. I have some big messages to let out regarding the witch characters of my &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt; series. Turns out, the hunt for the remaining three members isn't going too well. I have been receiving many designs over the past few months from my loving friends, some good and some not-so-good. So I'm going to list the three concepts that I am currently aiming for dealing with these missing three characters, to ensure that everyone that wants to help me out knows what designs I'm scouting out.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#6600CC;"&gt;Leader&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;~*TAKEN*~&lt;/span&gt; An extremely slutty-looking (sorry for my vocabulary) and well-designed 21-year old female with large breasts (well, not &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; large, but larger than average) whom in witch form wears an outfit that reveals a great amount (but not all) of her skin, and has large hips. Her main color is a combination of dark grey/black and violet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;Co-Leader&lt;/span&gt;: An well-designed 22-year old male with a oh-so-called "handsome" appearance and admiration for women, but not to the point where he is considered "gay" or "greatly perverted." His main color scheme is red &amp;amp; black, with minor uses of grey.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#006600;"&gt;Third (standard) Member&lt;/span&gt;: A male badass (again, sorry for the use of slight profanity)-type person that is around 19 years of age. Similar to the co-leader, but different colors and appearance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remember, this isn't a contest. This is something I'm doing &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; because of my lack of creating good character designs but to give my friends and fans to participate in the series as a character designer and help me achieve the success I've always dreamed off, while like I said, sharing some of that success for themselves. As this isn't a contest, any design I receive (which shows both the character's two forms, or one on each image) will immediately be accepted into the series, unless I reject it for the character not following the qualifications above, or not being designed well enough (or not sexy enough for the leader).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So if you have enough time on your hands, or if you want to help a bro out and lend a hand, then I would suggest maybe volunteering and coming up with a design I could use that match my described predictions above. Of course, if you have much better things to do than help me out and design someone that I could use for my own series, then fine, do whatever you want. But if just so happens no one seems interested or comes up with any good designs that seem useful to me, then I'll have to try and create my own characters, which I don't want to do so everyone can have a chance to be credited within the series, but if I have to create them myself and struggle with possible faults and mistakes, I will.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remember, I'm not forcing a single person to help out. I'm simply asking for assistance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-266774812887298326?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/266774812887298326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=266774812887298326' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/266774812887298326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/266774812887298326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/08/character-designers-wanted.html' title='Character Designers WANTED'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-512866196289836579</id><published>2010-08-27T19:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T19:49:18.453-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Character Artwork</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone. Today I decided to draw up a new character from &lt;i&gt;Aozora's Adventure&lt;/i&gt;. Well, okay, Not today, but I did start on it a few days ago and uploaded it today. Here is Adelvina, a member of the witch gang. I'll have her witch uniform uploaded hopefully soon, but as for now her is her normal form. Enjoy, everyone. :)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="776"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=177072997&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=177072997&amp;amp;width=1337" height="776" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/177072997/"&gt;AA: Adelvina Concept &amp;quot;Norm.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-512866196289836579?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/512866196289836579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=512866196289836579' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/512866196289836579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/512866196289836579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-character-artwork.html' title='New Character Artwork'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-4565744232932192002</id><published>2010-08-22T10:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-23T05:09:00.879-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A somewhat important announcement.</title><content type='html'>Well, look who's back and ready for more action. That's right. It's time to update this site with a blog update!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For those of you that have read my recent Super Justin: the Blog and/or my latest journal entry over at deviantART should know I had changed the name of my series from &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa &lt;/i&gt;to &lt;i&gt;Zora's Adventure. &lt;/i&gt;But thinking back, I decided to make a couple last-minute changes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To be honest, the reason why the title was changed to begin with was because of how complicated it is to pronounce the series' title in full length. So I'll give you a quick little rundown. Aozora Jitsuwa is pronounced as "A-Zor-Ra," while Jitsuwa is pronounced as "Jits-Su-Wa."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So now the title of my series will be from this day forward, "&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aozora's Adventure,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;" while for Japanese audiences, it will still be &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; should a Japanese version of the series ever be produced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And because of this, Zora will go back to being called Aozora. Now I can understand that his name may sound like  a name intended for females, but I find it well suitable for males as well (I guess it does go with both genders). Plus, it perfectly fits Aozora's appearance and personality, as (according to &lt;a href="http://billion.deviantart.com/"&gt;billion&lt;/a&gt;) "Aozora" is a compound word from "aoi" (Blue, Aozora's main color) and "sora" (sky, the pilot's headgear he wears on his head and the wing logo on his shirt). If you find it unfitting to call him "Aozora", then feel free to refer to him as Zora if it's going to confuse the living heck out of you (I don't care). I plan on making a small amount of adjustments to his appearance and color scheme so he is placed in an outfit that better suits his gender, so hopefully that will come forth someday before Christmas, depending on how much desire I have to re-draw Aozora.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And for those not amused about the sudden changes to the series and Aozora's name, remember, this is &lt;b&gt;my&lt;/b&gt; series. So therefore as it's founder, I'm in pretty much complete control of everything about it, and several of it's characters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As for the contest, yes. It has ended, but I will still be accepting entries, which if I like the design, will immediately be placed in the series without judgement. I still would like to design the lead male and female myself, however, so as of the time I'm writing this, only two more fan-made witch designs can be accepted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well. That's all I've got for now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-4565744232932192002?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/4565744232932192002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=4565744232932192002' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/4565744232932192002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/4565744232932192002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/08/as-somewhat-important-announcement.html' title='A somewhat important announcement.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-52117420968398386</id><published>2010-08-13T07:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T07:52:07.397-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More Official Concept Artwork</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="450" height="909"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=174124562&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=174124562&amp;amp;width=1337" height="909" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/174124562/"&gt;AJ: Moriya Concept Art&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="991"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=175112632&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=175112632&amp;amp;width=1337" height="991" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/175112632/"&gt;Aj: Skye Concept Art&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-52117420968398386?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/52117420968398386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=52117420968398386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/52117420968398386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/52117420968398386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-official-concept-artwork.html' title='More Official Concept Artwork'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-8260720520922238380</id><published>2010-07-28T19:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-28T19:33:49.372-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Keisha + Sakaki fan-artwork</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone. I just though I'd let everyone know that I recently received amazing &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt; fanart from &lt;a href="http://gux-wrath-the-savior.deviantart.com/"&gt;gux-wrath-the-savior&lt;/a&gt; (Britly's designer), who I've been good friends with for quite some time. We did an art trade, and this was his part. I must say, it's gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. Take a look for yourselves. (warning: may contain Keisha's undies and Sakaki's rear end)&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="377"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=173136149&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=173136149&amp;amp;width=1337" height="377" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/173136149/"&gt;Sakaki y Kaisha&lt;/a&gt; by ~&lt;a class="u" href="http://gux-wrath-the-savior.deviantart.com/"&gt;gux-wrath-the-savior&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-8260720520922238380?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/8260720520922238380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=8260720520922238380' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/8260720520922238380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/8260720520922238380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/07/keisha-sakaki-fan-artwork.html' title='Keisha + Sakaki fan-artwork'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-9007926490422604117</id><published>2010-07-23T16:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T16:56:46.945-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sakaki updated concept art</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hey everyone. Here is updated concept artwork of Sakaki, the first female designed for the &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt; series.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="828"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=172461122&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=172461122&amp;amp;width=1337" height="828" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/172461122/"&gt;AJ: Sakaki Concept Art&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-9007926490422604117?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/9007926490422604117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=9007926490422604117' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/9007926490422604117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/9007926490422604117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/07/sakaki-updated-concept-art.html' title='Sakaki updated concept art'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-1363942602516585209</id><published>2010-07-07T13:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T13:46:30.153-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Higure's New Concept artwork</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hello everyone. I am here with a small update. I decided to draw updated concept artwork of &lt;a href="http://iyo-oki.deviantart.com/"&gt;Iyo-Oki&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt; character, Higure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="829"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=170430788&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=170430788&amp;amp;width=1337" height="829" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/170430788/"&gt;AJ: Higure Concept Art&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-1363942602516585209?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/1363942602516585209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=1363942602516585209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/1363942602516585209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/1363942602516585209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/07/higures-new-concept-artwork.html' title='Higure&apos;s New Concept artwork'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-6859191184911590884</id><published>2010-06-21T17:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T19:45:33.669-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Aozora Jitsuwa Character Design Contest 2: Witches</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hello everyone. I am here to explain the main concept of this new contest I'm starting to help design another antagonizing group, that generally is a group of eight evil witches and will act as rivals to both Aozora, his friends and the Jetters, and the A.C.E.S. Each member will have two forms, the first being typical casual wear, the other being the character in his/her transformed state, when they resemble (somewhat) of a real anime-styled witch. (think Fumiko from &lt;i&gt;Shikigami no Shiro&lt;/i&gt;, and Jiro from &lt;i&gt;Black Blood Brothers&lt;/i&gt;, but much, much different.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So here's how it works:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*You simply draw your entry in two outfits; the basic casual wear, and the transformed witch outfit. You are allowed to submit them one-after-the-other, but they must appear to be the same size and have the same hair/eye color. (in other words, same character, but different and more detailed outfit.) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&lt;b&gt;~NEW~ &lt;/b&gt;If you are only able to make the character's witch transformation, and not his/her normal form by the deadline, then I will create a human form myself of your entry should it be one if the winners of the contest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&lt;b&gt;~NEW~&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; If you cannot draw the character in either form for the contest, you may write a written description of the character.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*The character's appearance must be appropriate (13+). If the character's privates are clearly visible and uncovered, your character will be disqualified from the contest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*The character must be between the ages of 11-30.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*If you like, you may submit both a male and a female for the contest. It is very unlikely both characters will be accepted, but it gives you a little more of an opportunity of winning. (I'm &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; forcing you to do only one gender!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*The character must not be holding or using a broom or basic black/white wand. If you want to make the character use a wand in his/her attacks, it must be &lt;b&gt;well-detailed&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;at least half the size of a character&lt;/b&gt;. As for hats, they're allowed, but &lt;i&gt;please&lt;/i&gt; be creative with those as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*If your entry does not fit the requirements but I still like it, I will edit it myself in my official concept artwork when (that is, &lt;i&gt;if&lt;/i&gt;) he/she gets drawn by me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Simpliy put, take your time, and put as much effort as you possibly can in designing your character. When you're done and your character is ready to be entered, contact me in any way or form possible on my deviantART account (Comment/Note), or send me an e-mail with your submission if you do not have a deviantART account.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The deadline will be &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;September 3rd, 2010,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; but the deadline may be changedd for any reason&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt; If something happens where I get very few entries by the deadline, I might end up starting another round of the contest, just like with the Jetter contest I held last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Once the deadline passes, I will then rate each entry based on their overall appearance, and the top 8 will get to be in &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt;, and all related media (games, manga, animations, anything). The first  and second place winners (1st being for females only, second for males only) will be declared the main leader and co-leader of the gang. The third-eighth place winners will still be in the series, and will receive average-sized features.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, I wish best of luck to all those that are entering the contest. If you have no desire of participating, you can always help out in naming the witch gang, since I haven't actually come up with one as of yet. ^^;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you would like to spread the word about this contest, please do so.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-6859191184911590884?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/6859191184911590884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=6859191184911590884' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/6859191184911590884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/6859191184911590884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/06/aozora-jitsuwa-character-design-contest.html' title='Aozora Jitsuwa Character Design Contest 2: Witches'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5736021137690324814</id><published>2010-06-15T18:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-15T18:31:20.657-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fanart by Liquid10</title><content type='html'>Hello. Today I am here to feature a piece of Aozora Jitsuwa fanart done by a friend of mine named &lt;a href="http://liquid10.deviantart.com/"&gt;Liquid10&lt;/a&gt;. The other day, I had requested to do something special for my upcoming-at-the-time birthday, and he completed it the day directly after that special day. To be honest, it's a good piece, as it simply is a gang of Aozora's friends, family, and mortal enemies. It's brilliantly colored, but besides the green on Redd's outfit being too bright, the only problem I see is that some of the characters are not the correct size. (Aozora, Britly, Kokoro, Zidra, Redd, Beta, and Simon are too small/short, while Club, Heart, and Joker are too large.)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But anyways, I'll leave you with the full image to see for yourselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="309"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=167740352&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=167740352&amp;amp;width=1337" height="309" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/167740352/"&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa Group Shot&lt;/a&gt; by ~&lt;a class="u" href="http://liquid10.deviantart.com/"&gt;Liquid10&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5736021137690324814?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5736021137690324814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5736021137690324814' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5736021137690324814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5736021137690324814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/06/fanart-by-liquid10.html' title='Fanart by Liquid10'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-8532008524182094060</id><published>2010-06-14T13:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T13:33:53.012-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New concept artwork.</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="450" height="333"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="id=167650699&amp;amp;width=1337"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" flashvars="id=167650699&amp;amp;width=1337" height="333" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/167650699/"&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa -Traditional-&lt;/a&gt; by *&lt;a class="u" href="http://superjustinbros.deviantart.com/"&gt;Superjustinbros&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;deviant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deviantart.com"&gt;ART&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-8532008524182094060?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/8532008524182094060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=8532008524182094060' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/8532008524182094060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/8532008524182094060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-concept-artwork.html' title='New concept artwork.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1591317405792518461.post-5527017729133730155</id><published>2010-06-12T06:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-12T06:40:42.617-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome.</title><content type='html'>Hello. This is the official blog for the &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt; series, were I'll post anything related to the series on this blog. My other blog, &lt;a href="http://superjustintheblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Super Justin: the Blog&lt;/a&gt;, will be used for harsh life situations and major gallery updates, among other things. This blog will be for &lt;i&gt;Aozora Jitsuwa&lt;/i&gt;-exclusive content.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1591317405792518461-5527017729133730155?l=aozorasadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5527017729133730155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1591317405792518461&amp;postID=5527017729133730155' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5527017729133730155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1591317405792518461/posts/default/5527017729133730155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aozorasadventure.blogspot.com/2010/06/welcome.html' title='Welcome.'/><author><name>Justin De Lucia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07314461141921880109</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MgCWi16Kt3U/SwHS7xu-rJI/AAAAAAAAAGg/urFITcrerf8/S220/RKSContestentry.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
