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Ah Rei. My favorite super underutilized character.

Every now and then I’m reminded of the balloon boy hate fanart I saw back around 2014-2016 I think and that gave me inspiration to draw Rei as it because I thought it’d be funny.

He really did absolutely nothing for the plot besides just be canon fodder didn’t he.

Original image below ⬇️

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It should be noted that during Project Eden’s Garden’s pre-production. Kai’s talent was originally the ultimate lucky student.

Kinda dark am I right?

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“Fake it till’ ya make it!”

More NOA art, I’ve been thinking of them a lot, maybe too much. (Typical brain worms)

Here is the link to NOA’s original ref sheet for more information

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Guess who finally made an ENAsona, yup! It’s me.

“ENA: The Admired. Most ENAs out there aren’t very popular with outside entities. But something about NOA is just so endearing that most (though not all) are able to put their distaste aside for just a moment. Maybe it’s their sense of fashion? Their sense of humor? Their composure? How they talk and act semi-normally (despite half their face being white- wait how do they do that? That’s not right?) perhaps they’re just very understanding of other people’s feelings. Regardless it’s better to leave it a mystery. More endearing with some unknowns…

Though, they seem a bit on-edge as of late. Best to leave them alone for a while. Nobody wants to see NOA angry…”

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Three 30 day trials? I’d like me some of those!

Various ENAs + some concept sketches

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I love how Jojolion implies that SBR verse Shotaro Ishinomori might have a stand

Wait a minute, your right. Shotaro being mentioned once in JJN does confirm he exists, and with his status as a King Of Manga he’d probably have a pretty good stand on top of that.

(……I kinda wanna draw that later maybe)

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Ena Dream BBQ goes to the world of the Minecraft movie. Let’s see what happens when you mix hot lava and chiBA T ROO M

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Time to get to work

When I tell you that I have had the most embarrassing fictional crush on Ena after playing Dream BBQ a week ago- oh boy… I am a so tongue tied over this girl- Go play Ena Dream BBQ now please it’s sooooo good.

Also fun fact the turtles in the background were made during a VisDev class of mine that I wanted to use here because I liked it so much.

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Guess who spent the weekend playing END dream bbq and had a blast doing so

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Out of all the characters in Android Kikaider, I honestly think Ichiro is the most interesting in my opinion, not because of anything he does (he’s so underutilized) but more so because his personality and the way he was made have a lot of interesting moral implications.

Ichiro’s whole thing is basically just “what if Jiro had no conscious circuit?” And as such he’s a lot more aggressive and apathetic as you would expect. Except unlike Saburo or the other robot grunts, I’ve noticed that there’s these small instances where he seems to show some level compassion for other characters. Like in the manga where he’s introduced the first thing he does when he realizes Jiro is his long lost brother is go in for a group hug while shouting in delight. Or in the anime where he seems genuinely worried for Mieko and Rei when they get captured.

The dude clearly seems to be capable (to some extent) of caring for others, even if his lack of a heart makes it way harder. And ever since I got into Kikaider and watched 01 it’s been a thought that’s been rotating in my head ever since.

Maybe I’m thinking about things too hard. Gotta keep things as simple as possible as he says.

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I’ve been meaning to send an ask I’m just shy lol but since I saw someone else I figure eh why not: how did you discover Kikaider? This fandom is small so I always like asking how people discovered these silly little series we’d never see otherwise. (Mine simply was a friend rec it to me cause they’d think I’d like it and they were right x p)

It’s a bit of an odd answer, I got into cyborg 009 a while back and after I finish a piece of media I usually like to binge YTvideos/fanart of whatever media afterwards as a treat. So I did that with 009 as well, one of those videos was one by raelefae(YT) where they talk about different versions of Jet. And in that video for a BRIEF moment they mentioned android Kikaider(which served as my introduction). Some time later I got board and decided to check out this “Kikaider thingy” I had heard was supposedly made by the same guy who made cyborg 009.

And that’s how I got here

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I have Autism, do you have it?

Why yes I do, I suppose at this point with some of the recent Kikaider posts it’s start to become more obvious.

Being autistic while watching Kikaider really made it an interesting watch.

I sometimes tend to struggle with both relating to bot neurotypicals and other autists (such as with things like having different special interests or different viewpoints) and tend to feel left out in both groups. So when I was watching Kikaider and saw how Jiro was also feeling left out (with both humans and machines) it made me relate to him a lot.

I honestly wasn’t expecting anyone to ask this question but thanks for asking

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A small doodle dump of some drawings I made over the past couple of weeks I felt like sharing. It should be noted that the first two images are OC drawings (besides the Gappy)

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I thought about this image this morning and knew I had to make it for the world to see.

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I finished the animation. I don’t really know what else to say. Oh! I also made the BG music incase if anyone was wondering.

Working on the colors was a bit of a challenge with all the different lighting in the room.

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A WIP of a anime clip redraw for Android Kikaider. I really like this anime and I wanted to practice animation, so this was made. I’m planning on coloring and adding backgrounds but for here this is just the line art.

I love the conversation between Jiro and Miyuki here as this is the first time Jiro met someone who accepted him for who he was and didn’t immediately judge him. Episode 5 overall is probably my favorite episode honestly.

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Sibling doodles,

Also thank you to all the ppl who liked and re-blogged my Kikaider posts today, like seriously I got so much traction in such a short amount of time. I don’t get a lot of that, so every like, re-blog, comment always makes my day!

It’s good to know the Kikaider fandom is, sort of not-completely-dead.