sarracenian

Birthday poem (Shanghai Combat Revue short-comic)

Added 2024-04-04 01:18:06 +0000 UTC

This took way longer than I'd like aw man

Oh well, at least I did it. I've noticed though that I've gotten to that point in drawing these characters that it almost feels like second nature now, so that's cool.

I do wanna draw more stuff with only Yue Ying and Wu Shuang. I kinda like what they have going, probably 'cause I think I definitely subconsciously injected some of the old GohanxVidel dynamic, which I really enjoyed and am still Very miffed that Videl just quietly got ejected out of story relevancy and is now just a different type of character now in basically every later Dragon Ball media. Ah well.

I like to imagine for the hypothetical Sakura Wars game these characters are from, you think Guan Qinglang would be easy to win points with through flattery, but in actuality it has to go through some weird mind-games first (a la Sumire in ST1).
But then, I like to imagine Every character in this ST outsourced spinoff game are actually hard to deal with & require some mental gymnastic. Imagine ST1 Sumire, ST1 Remake Maria, ST3 Lobelia and ST5 Subaru all in one game. Just pure insanity, nobody has a good time.

EDIT:

OH I forgot to actually explain the last page;
The letter for Guan Qinglang is (roughly) based on the story of Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms, when he was eager to challenge Ma Chao, so Zhuge Liang wrote a letter praising Guan Yu to stroke his ego a bit and to avoid any possible quarrel between Guan Yu and Ma Chao in the future. Guan Yu liked the letter so much he went to show it off to others for a bit. It was a funny story.