r/touhou • u/FloweringHermit HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING • Nov 16 '14

Weekly Character Art Thread #39 Sekibanki

Weekly art thread #39, Sekibanki

Welcome to the weekly character art thread, here you can post original art that you made.

Here's how it works. You can place art submissions

  1. Current week's submissions: Here you can post the good for if you want to make it a race to finish in that week, if you can't, don't worry, since that brings us to....

  2. Past week's submissions: here you can post art containing the past week's character. You can also post any submissions containing any past character here, from the previous week to the very first one with Kazami Yuuka

  3. Free for all art posts: Here, you can post whatever you want. It doesn't even have to be touhou related. It can be animals, plants, anatomy or just other touhou scenarios or characters.

In addition to that, you're welcome to discuss things like asking advice, ask how someone did something, and anything else that fits the conversation.

There's also 2 additional sections for other things

  • Discussion and planning: here you can brainstorm with other people for ideas, discuss the character, or anything else that feels appropriate. You can also ask for art tutorials here. I'll do my best to find you something, but anyone else is welcome to chime in and help.

  • Feedback and complaints: Tell me what you think can be done to improve, or anything else relating to the art threads. Please don't complain to me about you hemorrhoids or anything like that

Other things to note:

Each week, this’ll be synced up to the same character as the music threads. There will be Exceptions how ever, such as non specific themes, or if the character was used in an art thread recently. In these cases, a random character that has already been used in the music thread will be the focus.

RULES

  1. If you made it, you can post it. Don't worry about your skill level, you gotta start somewhere if you wanna get better. You can also post a friend's or relatives art, but with their permission.

  2. Be excellent to each other.

  3. The theme character should be in it if you're submitting it in the "Current week's submission" section, but apart from that, you can have any other characters you want in addition to that, and any setting. There's no deadline, but if you're late, you can put it in the next one, just say it's the character from the last week.

  4. Gore is allowed, but you’ll need to write in the comment that it has gore.

  5. NSFW is also permitted, but you'll have to tag it as NSFW.

Other things you can submit: You can submit art tutorials, and I’ll save them to a document, and link it here for easy access to help. I'll try to update them when I have the time.

Link to art tutorials

Link to Art thread Masterlist

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u/FloweringHermit HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING Nov 19 '14

Wow! I was actually right!

I've actually never seen gundam. I only knew what it was because of this

http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/836300?tags=parent%3A1596654

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u/FloweringHermit HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING HONG MEILING Nov 19 '14

Incidentally, what's a good spot to get into gundam?

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u/CyberDagger Chicks Dig Giant Robots Nov 19 '14

There's plenty of them. Gundam is a lot like Final Fantasy in that despite belonging to the same franchise, most stories are self-contained, taking place in different universes.

Now, I'll just start out with a disclaimer that not all I'm saying here is personal experience. I'm writing about what I perceive to be the fandom's consensus in the parts I have no personal experience with.

With that out of the way, let's begin:

If you don't mind dated animation (let's keep in mind that it first aired in 1979), I definitely recommend watching the original Mobile Suit Gundam. It was the first to present the giant robot as a military vehicle instead of a unique tool of a superhero of sorts. It also features Char Aznable, a character so iconic that the number of later characters that paid homage to him is staggering. There is a triology of compilation movies that condenses the story and edits out some of the sillier elements of the original series, so that is a possibility.

If you decide to go for the original, its sequel series Zeta Gundam is generally considered to be great and definitely worth watching. The one after that, Gundam ZZ, not so much. The first half of it is mostly filler, and even after it picks up on the second half, it doesn't really do much. You can go straight from Zeta Gundam to the Char's Couterattack movie without missing out on much. Zeta does a good job laying the groundwork for the events of Char's Counterattack anyway.

If you want a more modern entry point, there are some, of course. Gundam Seed (2002) is considered a good show, and it deliberately parallels the original in various places. It gets some points deducted from it for its overreliance on stock footage, though. It also deals with the theme of genetic manipulation, and the creation of an elite class of designer babies, a la Gattaca. Keep in mind, though, that while Gundam Seed receives overall positive feedback, its sequel series, Gundam Seed Destiny, is pretty much universally considered an abomination. It's worth noting, Gundam Seed got an HD remaster fairly recently, with some scenes retouched and some redrawn stuff, effectively getting rid of the stock footage problem.

I would also say that Gundam 00 (2007) is a good entry point. It follows a paramilitary organization that seeks to end all wars. Also, bing an anime featuring giant robots that aired in 2007 and is split into two parts, it is kind of seen as belonging in a group of sorts with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Code Geass, to the point that when Banpresto made Super Robot Wars Z2 as a two-parter game, it decided to focus the story on those three.

And any talk about an entry point into Gundam is not complete without a mention of Gundam Wing (1995). It was many kids' first experience with Gundam, thanks to Toonami, and while much of its praise is colored by nostalgia goggles, it's still worth taking a look at.

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u/VarioussiteTARDISES Pattern Select, R.H.B, Engage! Nov 21 '14

The mention of TTGL seems extremely out of place to me.

After all, TTGL has the reputation of featuring the largest measurable giant robot in fiction (Though a certain subreddit we both know has created something MUCh larger...), and is a full-blown Super Robot series, whereas pretty much everything else mentioned is Real-type, I think?