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Wakfu s3 and s4 art books kind of suck (in terms of character art)

I’m going to say it…

I don’t think I’ll like the Season 5 Wakfu art book 💀

💖The season 1 was the best (if you own the whole collection. I own five volumes. I want vol 3 and vol 8).✨

😔 We never got a season 2 art book. 😭 No OVA art book/zine. 🫤 The Season 3 art book was fine. 😐 The Season 4 art book was not valuable to me…honestly maybe season 3 and 4 art books are about the same 🤷‍♀️ HOWEVER, the season 4 art book has adult Yugo (so that's a plus!)lol

For context - I could have bought the season 3 art book. I held it in my hands. But when I looked at it, flipped through it…I didn’t find anything of value to me inside of it.

What is valuable to me? Character art.

They LACK concept art and sketches. They only have art from the show. Okay, the season 3 art book has SOME oncept art for the NEW characters, but I want to see the concept art for EVERYONE. I want to see the sketches! I wanted to see if they played with Amalia’s look in season 3 before deciding to for that final look. I love her OVA look more and thought that’d be her season 3 look.

Art books are supposed to inspire and inform.

As an illustrator, I didn’t get much inspiration from the season 3-4 art books for Wakfu. They’re good references for drawing the characters if you lack a computer, phone, tablet, library, and WiFi—but that’s about it.

A part of me wonders if they make these books because it's a decent cash grab. 👀🤷‍♀️

I also wonder if…

they don’t have much to show (I doubt).

whoever puts these together just don’t gather good content for it.

the curator is just bad at putting together art books. Porbably having no frame of reference of TV art books currently out. If this is true they should not be putting an art book together.

Additionally…The designs since season 3 have been lackluster. 😬

Dull. Uninspired. The characters are not giving the ✨..the pizzazz that the season 1 characters gave. Even Amalia season 3 kinda feels like a downgrade. It's a cute outfit that has meaning (the orange leaf) but, I feel it could have been better.

Also that pants comment in the season 3 art book felt like bullshit.

I LOVED that she was feminine. There is nothing wrong with being feminine. You can be feminine and still wear pants and shorts. It kind of feels narrowminded, but maybe I'm misreading (probably not though). I'd rather them just say that it's cheaper/easier to animate pants and leave it there.

The only good thing about the season 4 art book is adult Yugo references. Am I wrong? 🤔 However, I feel like they could have pushed his design more as well.

As a matter of fact, my guess is that they pick the dull character designs because it’s easier (and more importantly cheaper) to animate simple designs than complex ones.

A simple design can still be appealing though - Echo, Amalia (s3), Toxine, etc.

Among my TV art book collection wakfu season 3 & 4 books are my least favorite. Books I have barely opened since getting.

Side note: The Dofus film art book is nice too.

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Got some funky new shit on the Newgrounds account... if you're over 18 of course ;3

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News screens of Welsh&Shedar

Video:

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🌱💞

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I'm terribly sorry guys that the last "meme" came out *coughs* six months ago..well, that's how it turned out..there will be more later

In the meantime, here's something

part 5🎉

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4,

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Yugo and Joris going full on Dad Mode with their family.

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Did you see what they did with Welsh & Shedar?

I'm certainly not a Vanga, but something tells me that this duo would look like this

You can beat me for saying this, but i LOVE ankama's original style and hate the modern anime style.... it's too bright and lifeless shit for me...

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What!?

WHATTTTTTT

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Annecy & Ankama

I am at the ANNECY ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL in Annecy France.

I watched the first 10 mins of wakfu season 5, welsh & sheddar, and etc.

All i have to say is...

Wakfu - I think they showed the scrapped version that had nothing to do with the Brotherhood of Tofu. It was interesting and a nice build to the world. I think it would make for a good mini seperate series.

Welsh & Shedar - It was very anime styled. Personally, I like the Ankama art style. It sticks out when put next to modern Japanese anime, but with this style, it looks aligned. I don't really watch anime so I have not much to say. It looks interesting.

Morkishen - This looked fun. It was a comedic-action about a skull guy who wants his own dungeon. There is a iop in the series (of course).

We also got a QnA after the showings. There are a lot of questions I wanted to ask like…

According to fans online, there is a lot of inconsistency what do you have to say about that?

Wouldn’t the Sadidas be okay in the great flood since plants adapt over time?

Even without the eliacube/eliasphere would you agree that Amalia and Yugo would be a powerful couple since they both wield magic. Given that Yugo can manipulate Wakfu couldn’t he essentially even combine powers with Amalia essentially well

People say that the woman in Wakfu, Eva and Amalia aren’t written well. If Wakfu was never cancelled back in 2009-2011 would we have gotten a more developed storyline for the girls. Would we have learned more about Amalias mother and her influence. How much story was axed? And would you consider doing another manga to fill in those gaps? To better show if Eva even wanted a family, to better show the romantics of yumalia, to give us more papa Ruel.

However, instead I asked,

With the budget, is there plans for a new opening sequence given that an new opening theme has been produced?

The answer to that is

Yes, there will be two introductions. That is according to the person who translated for me (since I don’t understand French either).

I was nervous, and panicked okay. Maybe someone can ask that last one if it hasn’t already been answered (which I’m sure it has).

I got to speak with the Japanese team and they were cool! I wish I got her IG. I did get their signature so when I draw something over it, I'll post it on Twitter.

If the Catsuka dude was there, he probably got all the details. So hopefully he was there and will spill the deets but I think he was elsewhere.

I think this will be my last festival/convention/expo. I am no longer into them like I was 6 years ago. It was cool getting to see Ankama up close. I filled my inner nerdy-teen-girls dream as much as I could. I can close this chapter of my life.

The next time I go to one of these, I will have to be invited.

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LIVEREAD: WAKFU, THE GREAT WAVE [TOME 2, Chapter 8-10]

Yugo are you stupid.

Ok I don't want to liveblog the rest of this because the conflict between aurora and amalia just makes me sad bro.

Anyway I missed this in my copy (I think it's hard to see?) but in printed editions this painting is visible, confirming that apparently, eventually Khan did reproduce. F

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LIVEREAD: WAKFU, THE GREAT WAVE [TOME 2, Chapter 8 part 1]

Wow no way i didnt know that. Nice anime eyes btw ghsjdhgdf.

He's so smug it makes me crazy. Genuinely, it makes me insane. God. "Kerub and I"... they make me sick. He's so proud of living with his dadsonthing for 600 years.

Heartbreaking: kerubim infected him with being a hoarder.

What the HELL are these flying books bro.

WHAT.

IS THIS THE ORIGINAL BOOKWALKER

So smug... dude.

This manga confirms joris as the twelvian equivalent of A. lost media wiki; B. the fuckers that hoard lost media and never release it (choose the one that you think applies)

What's next? Wikipedia editor Joris?

God fucking dammit. Btw I swear I didn't write the wikipedia remark on purpose. I hadn't reread this manga in months.

A likely thing for a guy who based his entire identity around living with two demigods to say.

TAP TAP :)

WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS TO BEGIN WITH!!!!!

Joris likes cartography truthers stay winning.

AGAIN WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE THIS. DONT GIVE US THIS CHILL EXPRESSION.

Of course they'd have secret passages... inside the secret library inside the secret portal. And of course this thing is only fit for Kerubim and Joris. Atcham please crash out.

BJSDHFKBJHDKFJHDLFLBJKLDSJKLDGDFMT

This really puts into perspective just how tiny he is... Trying to draw canon typical Joris is enough torture that I gave up ages ago.

He's able to cast fire! Once again, insane shit I added to my fics turns out not to be out of the realm of possibility. Thank god.

HE LITERALLY HAS NO CLOSE FRIENDS EXCEPT KERUBIM AND ATCHAM. FUCKING RIP BOZO.

Statuette of khan! Self explanatory why he'd have this.

A painting of Asalar. Maybe to keep record of how his enemy looks like?

Down from it, we see baby Joris's drawing of what he thought his parents might look like... Not a painting of Jahash or Julith, just his own ocs. I think it's cute that this place, that seems to be pretty important to him, doesn't have his actual parents. It's not like he knew them well. Idk, it's a neat detail that says something about Joris's feelings on them in a subtle way.

Saving the best and juiciest for last, we have Zabelle. When this comic first came out, multiple crepinjurgenites had mini-freakouts that Tot might have gone actually off the rails insane and might be giving Joris a love interest. Which would be bad given Tot's trackrecord with romance writing. And also Joris's whole shtick.

However, I am very happy to announce they... REMOVED A (likely) IOP (Zabel) and made him into a sexy dragon lady queen. No fucking way. If they also don't give her an ex-husband/a dead husband/a far away husband/a son/a boyfriend... I don't know what would happen to the world, if that were to happen.

I approve of this. I don't know what to think about the anime style (might be fun! might be bad! can't be worse than bestiale!) but it does have actually nice looking female characters. which is already a glow up from bestiale and s4.

I'm expecting fanart of Bechamel the Catgirl and Zabelle making out at my desk by midday, mister! Not because this is in-character or makes any sense. I just like to sexualize and objectify women.

Joris being a newborn when this happened explains a lot about the timeline of events.

[nodding sagely] the fucking yass twins.

This too, I foresaw. Joris has similar opinions but understands the shitfucked reality of Yugo's life.

VBSDFKBSDFOIGUOSDFIJGSFJGIDSKLFHGKDLF

whatever you say cute.

I choose not to comment on the lore retcon nightmares going on here because I dont car anymore.

oh my god his grabbablle waist

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LIVEREAD: WAKFU, THE GREAT WAVE [TOME 2, Chapter 7]

This is like watching a slow train crash you cannot stop. Joris loves & respects Yugo and Amalia a lot.... btw. Atcham's gay little pose...

Atcham: ????????????????

NOT THE TIME TO GLOAT LUIS.

Standing on his tippy-toes...

So dramaticcc gsdsgsdg. All because grougalorasalar got the ebony dofus in the divorce proceedings. Fuck this baka life.

SHES SO SCANDALIZED lmao. At least he's not calling them hairy, #character development #growth

[comes up with 30 far more lore friendly explainations for why Atcham isn't freaked tf out by this, instead of accepting that Ankama don't give a fuck]

HES SO GOOFY I CANT I NEED TO DUNK HIM IN MILK AND THROW HIM AGAINST A WALL LMAO—

r/pettyrevenge

i need to be sedated.... kerubim DOES canonically dislike fleas. except for her. must be annoying for her sdgjhdglsfg.

Some things just never change, huh?

r/pettyrevenge 2. anyway, i think by now these kids think Atcham and Kerubim are like his manservants or something, lfndsjksdhffd.

HE HATES KERUBIM AND ATCHAM SO MUCH.....

I WANT AN ATCHAM STORY IN THE STYLE OF AUX TRESORS SO BAD AND THE FACT I'LL NEVER HAVE IT MAKES ME DEEPLY DEPRESSED.

He's just gonna put this in his collection of "items to remember by immortals who are dead and/or will die eventually" isn't he... Oh well.

He's cute so I forgive him.

HE HATES THEM SO MUCH

Their bond is pure and holy.. to me.

he HATES them.

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LIVEREAD: WAKFU, THE GREAT WAVE [TOME 2, Chapters 1-6]

Wow it sure has been a while and a mental health episode and a cancellation and a blocking 20 people and a failed attempt at translating a book (I WILL! I PROMISE! AFTER I WRITE MY COURSE PAPER) since my last post huh.

...Oh well. It's a good thing I waited because we got some nice info I can share here.

And yes, I skipped chapters 1 and 2 of this tome. I am here mostly for julith and crepinjurgens, not Tot's wild ride.

All I can say about chapter 3 is that I think Julith's ressurection was probably not a perfect one. I think she might just be a mindless puppet. It doesn't feel... normal, that she should stop like this; while my commentary on chapter 4 stops at my surprise for the new nickname for 'Salar. It's nice to finally have an official one, hehe.

Now to the meat and potatoes of this blog.

The fucking gasp I gusped reading this. Sorry I mean sorry I mean sorry I mean. "my little salesman" hes so... It's unbearable how he is. It's genuinely so hard. I wish I had commentary on what exactly this makes me feel, but you needed to be inside my head all those months ago to fully get it. He's calling the 600yo guy that pretends to be his dad his little salesman. If I was joris i'd just take us both out...

I'm still waiting for the long awaited long predicted Joris Jurgen crashout, chat. btw I love how the translators didn't even bother with any onamatopoeia or quirky text. Like Sure. Everyone in the world knows what bonfll and hé mean.

Joris... kill them. and be reincarnated as a lotus flower.

I will be the first to say that it'll be sad if Tot forgot the ecaflip reincarnation lore of his own franchise. but for now im choosing to read this as just cute banter.

Cutie patootie...

For a while I hoped that maybe we'd finally see and example of a k0--mortal character we knew reincarnating and ngl, I really hope this is like... some sort of a next life for Lilotte? All that reincarnation lore just not to implement it for angst purposes feels like a waste.

It's probably not lilotte even in spirit, but a man can dream jdlgdlg.

Honestly.... im mostly screenshotting this here bc I feel like this is a nice screenshot to ref from. sjgdkljfg

I wish I had more to say but they're so nice... And also, I wonder if they saw this ouginak. Shouldn't they be freaking tf out too? Unless, as always Tot Forgot. Oh well.

Big fan of Joris being haunted

Also a big fan of Kerubim being haunted

Inside me are two wolves. One of them thinks using orphan mistreatment as a plot point is extremely cliche. Another wolf thinks Joris's love might turn all these orphans into post-waven's military supersolders which would make my jokes about him being "training and conscripting orphans" level of evil literally real.

It would be so awesome. It would be so cool.

To my knowledge, this is the first time Joris's surname is dropped in Wakfu.

I feel a bit bad for thinking this, but Joris saving the orphans is still a bit cliche. I hope it goes somewhere more interesting later. Like him imparting some insane beliefs onto those kids.

IVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THAT joris wouldn't want to be called master outside of work. I think he prefers just "Joris" when it comes to kids and housekeepers.

I love his impulsive idealism. Genuinely. he WOULD pick up random orphans and be like "you live with me now".

This also confirms to me that crepinjurgens are rich as hell. Though we already kinda knew that.

SHE LOOKS SO SMUG hjghskjdghsdg... While Joris is still the cutest ever.

I love to see happiness vaporate from his eyes.

also ATCHAM AND KERUBIM ATCHAM AND KERUBIM worried worried atcham and kerubim. <33 HEART.

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Sorry I didn't have any in-depth commentary. I'm not sorry for my absence of translation struggles though sgjfgd. I've been very unhappy in this fandom, and had a very unhealthy relationship with it, so I've been working to change that. I wish I could say more about what I meaan exactly, but it's quite boring honestly. Then there's the fact that modern Krosmoz kinda sucks ass (yet all the people who concentrate on it sucking ass are mostly unbearable and annoying despite being objectively right).

If you're still here, and consider me a friend or a mutual, thank you for sticking around. Even if just for this blog! You don't have to follow my personal accounts to be my friend or mutual.

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La figaggine di Asalar, continua!! 😍✨💜✨💜

FUCK HOW GOOD HE IS

Well, it's delicious

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Idk I just rlly like joris and you have a lot of joris on your blog. Here, have a free follow and some treats 🥮🍡🍧🍦🍰🍮🍭🍬🍫🍩🍪

Yaay! Welcome to the Joris fun club! :D

And we'll share the treats yeahhhhh

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Btw! I have some old but cool art of these two

in season 4 they had some good, undisclosed chemistry...I like that

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Original idea by @keewy10