So no pattern, but ANIME REVIEW: Girls Und Panzer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I'm doing an Anime Review on Girls Und Panzer if you don't recall, a while ago I reviewed anime such as HSD: Kenichi, The Wallflower, Junjou Romantica, and Rave Master, but today's anime is nothing like any of the aforementioned.

(characters pictured Left to Rightt: Yukari Akiyama, Hana Isuzu, Miho Nishizumi, Saori Takebe, and Mako Reizei)

Girls Und Panzer follows the story of Miho Nishizumi, and her 4 friends, pictured above. The first episode kicks off with the girls already mid battle, riding in a Pazer 4 tank. Miho is looking out the top of the tank, and radioing orders to several other tanks, which are also full of high school aged girls. As they formulate a plan, we are flashed back to Miho waking up, and heading out to her first day at her new school, Oorai Girls Academy. As the day progresses, Miho meets two girls who want to be her friends right away, one is upbeat and talkative Saori Takebe, who, like most girls her age, is all about romance and gossip. The other is Hana Isuzu, a quiet, polite and pleasant girl from a rich family.

It soon is time for the students of Oorai to pick their elective classes, and while the three initially want to do flower arrangement, a talent Hana's family is known for, after a short assembly in the gym about how the school will be bringing back "Tankery", Hana and Saori have changed their minds. Miho on the other hand seems to want to avoid Tankery at all costs, and feeling sympathetic, the other two select flower arrangement as well for their electives.

The next day, the student council bursts into Miho's classroom demanding an explanation as to why Miho didn't choose Tankery, and then proceed to literally bully her into changing her elective. Thus begins the Oorai Girls Academy's newly revived Tankery class. Once in class, the three meet a girl who's as passionate about tanks as my dad is about cars, her name is Yukari Akiyama, and later on we're introduced to Mako Reizei, a narcoleptic girl who has really good grades, but poor attendance. After nearly running Mako over with their tank in class, she hops on in and drives the thing to safety like a pro. Now, I don't want to give you a play by play of every episode, but after a while the girls are entered into a tankery tournament that gets into Miho's back story and why the Student Council (who also take Tankery) was so adamant about her taking Tankery.

Overall, it's an endearing, comedic story about high school girls in tanks. Don't pass this one up just because of its ridiculous nature, it's animation quality is good, the voices sound unnatural at first, but they grow on you over time, and the theme songs are super catchy! Not to mention, it's only 13 episodes, so it's a really quick watch.

With relate-able characters, a fun, yet emotional story, and good writing, I give Girls Und Panzer very high marks, probably an 8/10.

No patterns, but there is art! .....and rambling

I still haven't gotten around to finishing my two WIP patterns (Ventus and the Digimon one), and I have a few more that I really want to do now that I finished watching the complete series of Girls Und Panzer (seriously, check it out!!!!). I will be writing an anime review of Girls Und Panzer within the next week or so (If I don't forget...which I probably will).

Anyway, last post I left you with a WIP of my painting of Elsa from Frozen, and it is now complete and posted up on my Deviantart page!!!! But instead of forcing you to click a link or something just to see it, I'm gonna be nice and embed it in here! (and then beg you to be my watcher on DA srsly~~ I love it when ppl comment on stuff and no one ever really does so check me out at http://www.kakashi-copycat-kun.deviantart.com I'D Really appreciate it!!!) Now that I'm done with that shameless and blatant plug, here is the finished product!

I was gonna use my shimmery paints, but I couldn't find them when I was painting it, however I found them the day after I painted her and was a little dissappointed. She still looks pretty though~~~

And now I warn you....this is another plug, but just like the one before, it comes with a pretty picture! (or several....) Now hear me out! (please???). My dream in life is to draw manga. I know its silly and unrealistic...I've heard that line many times, but I've always loved manga, and I love to draw, so it would be my dream job. Freshman year of High School, Ami and I decided to try to write a manga, she would write, and I would draw. So I came up with two characters...Who I loved. Their names were Keki and Suteki. This is the first drawing I ever did of them, almost 5 years ago.

Since then, over the years, my art style has improved and become more original, and so have the character designs, though their personalities have remained pretty constant. They've also been joined by quite a few more characters. The premise is this: Keki and Suteki are just out of College and fresh on the Culinary scene, Suteki, a rather unenthusiastic boy who is infatuated with Keki, is talked into helping her with becoming a famous Tv Chef! On the road to stardom we learn all about Suteki's rough life on the street, Keki's life as a rich man's daughter and the rivalry formed between her and her Ex-best friend, and a pair of twins torn apart by a grudge one of them won't let go. Haha I make it sound so dramatic, but I've only got about 10 pages actually drawn for the current attempt, (I tried once before 5 years ago, but the art style was so bad that when looking back it made me sick and I started over). You if you really want to go in-depth and learn more please visit my secondary Deviantart Account: http://www.keki-to-suteki.deviantart.com ! But if you just want an overview or want more info before you decide, I'm going to post what the current characters look like! And a bit about them!

Keki Usagi, an upbeat girl who comes from money, but isn't afraid to help those in need. She's kind and hard working, baking is her passion!

Suteki Neko, an unmotivated boy with exceptional intelligence. He was raised on the streets and knows a thing or two about how to survive. He's dependable and caring, despite his rather tough exterior. His passion is cooking meat and karaoke!

Ichigo Inu, a shallow rich girl who loves to shop and cosplay, she's Keki's current best friend and does her best to stick by her friend's decisions.

Mashumaro "Mashu" Byakko, an orphan boy who grew up with Suteki, rather oblivious when it comes to the kitchen, but a good kid. He's really book smart.

Orenji Tora, a tough guy who loves rock music and chilling with friends. He has a crush on Mashu ("but don't let anybody know that 'kay??"). He's very protective of the things that matter to him.

Ohashi Bara, she used to be Keki's closest friend, until a disagreement severed their bond. She's got a heart of ice and revenge is the only thing on her mind.

Naifu Bara, Ohashi's twin brother and the one who does her dirty work. He loves his sister dearly, otherwise he wouldn't put up with all this "revenge stuff". He enjoy's metal music, punk fashion, and cosplay. He's otaku to the core, but he doesn't show it.


Now that all that MEGA SPAM IN A CAN is over with. I really hope someone read this far and gives my comic a read. I've been trying so hard to get opinions on it from people who aren't related to me/don't know me personally, that way they'll be unbiased. If this was a big waste of your time I'm sorry, but thanks anyway for taking the time to read it and I'll leave you with this cute picture and call it a night!

I'll try to have a pattern by my next post!

Frozen fanart WIP and my new 3DS! (plus KH Re:Coded)

So When I went to see Frozen again with my friends, I decided to use my first paycheck from my new job to buy a 3DS, I used to have an old DS Lite, but I played that thing so much it stopped working in the 8th grade. I figured it was about time I got a new one, so I could revisit all my old Naruto games, and get the handheld Kingdom Hearts Games. At the Wal-mart where I got the DS, I was lucky enough to see Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded on the shelf, and so I picked that up too!
I really really love how it switches playing styles from fighting monsters Mario style to old school Final Fantasy, and the regular KH free roaming fighting style depending on the world you're in! Some levels are tough to get used to, but I definitely like the fact that Olympus is the Final Fantasy style world, it's always been one of my favorites, but I'm stuck fighting Cerberus with Hercules, and it's not easy! If anyone has any tips, I'm a lvl 17 almost 18 and I'd love it if you could comment some tips! Thanks in advance to anyone who answers, but if no one does, no harm done, I'll probably lvl grind to like a 30 and then take him on again!

Now that I'm done blabbering about my game, I decided to post today because I started drawing fanart from Frozen! I was in a really Princessy mood, so I sstarted sketching out Elsa. I think I'll paint this one with my shimmery watercolors to really convey the Iciness. I haven't drawn much Disney in a long time, but I really like the art and animation styles for this movie!

I don't really have anything important to say, so have a good night, and happy stitching/perlering/beingwildandcrazy/existing!

A not very interesting post, about a pattern WIP you all saw coming...oh and Happy 2014!

Happy 2014 everyone! Have you made any New Year's Resolutions? ...I haven't really other than to finish some projects and try once again to get into art school (though with my job, finding time to build a portfolio is really hard). I went and saw Frozen too btw, (and am going to see again tomorrow with a friend). Elsa is my kind of character! I hope to cosplay her too!!!! She's so awesome, and "Let it Go" was my favorite song from the movie!

Anyway, I finally started my Ventus pattern, though it's not looking quite right. I had to put Matt and Gabumon away for now, because no matter what Matt's feet were either too big, or too small proportionally...

Here's what Ventus looks like so far. I plan to stitch him on a nice pale green fabric to go along with Aqua and Terra! I think I'm going to do quite a few of these Kingdom Hearts pillows, they're just so cute and I really think they look nice (not to mention all my gamer friends are so jealous!)

I was going to do some more perlers of Missy-Tannenbaum's sprites, but my pegboards, sadly enough were melted beyond use (thanks to my sister Ami using them to make MLP headbands of unicorn horns and pony ears). That's all for this really boring and short post, I hope to have more later! See ya!

Some cosplay updates and a plush

So I haven't gotten any real cross stitching done, but I had an amazing Christmas! I got Shiro Amano's "The Art of Kingdom Hearts" which as an artist, I love to pieces!! I really enjoy looking at art books and the like.
As a present, I made this plush for my grandma, which she loved! It's a Kokopeli, they're a Navajo Indian spirit that plays the flute. My family goes down to New Mexico every year (did I mention that before...I kind think so) and that culture is pretty predominant there, it's really fascinating, if you have the time, you guys should visit! Anyway, it's made out of felt and it's super cute!

And while we're on the topic of plush, as a Christmas present for my boyfriend, David, I made him a paopu plush and sent it to where he lives (he lives in another state so I couldn't just give it to him). The day he got it, he posted this picture with the caption "My gf made me a Paopu fruit plushie and she has one. So now we both have one and no matter how far apart we are we are always connected." Isn't he a charmer!~

Now onto Cosplay talk!! I got my black vest for Riku done, and the majority of his white vest, it just needs trim, a collar, and another zipper. The dual separating zipper on the black vest was a real pain, I accidentally pulled both the zipper pulls off and had to fight with it and a pair of pliers to get it to work right again, all in all it's really rewarding to have it this far along!

I know this post isn't really all that entertaining, but I hope to finish up some patterns and start stitching again soon! In the meantime, I have to get ready for work.....uggghhh long shifts :(

See ya!

Cosplay, plushie, and perler beads!~

So Today was my day off from work (I have another tomorrow, but it's dedicated to last minute holiday shopping *nervous laugh* ) and I spent it doing some more crafty stuff. :) First off, my sister Ami (Alicia) and I have already decided our cosplays for next November XD and I'm cosplaying the uber sexy Riku from Kingdom Hearts II, while she will be Sora, and my friend Logan will be Leon (the Kingdom Hearts version of Squall from FFVIII).

Riku is honestly one of my favorite video game characters of all time. He starts out in the first game as this bratty, arrogant, know-it-all kind of character that is the main protagonist, Sora's, best friend and Rival. You know, they fight, they play, they taunt and tease each other, and when shit starts getting really serious, Riku winds up falling victim to the Villain's evil ploy and becoming their pawn, while in his own way trying to save his friend Kairi. Sora winds up putting his life on the line repeatedly to save both Riku and Kairi. Throughout the following games, Riku is shown trying his best to redeem himself after his mistake of going down the path of evil. In KH II we don't see Riku til almost the end of the game, he had given up his normal form for one more suited to the darkness he was using in order to protect Sora and Kairi from the back ground. We get me FAVORITE (most fangirly ever) cutscenes (Which I'm embedding below), and his path to redemption continues in the most Recent game: Dream Drop Distance.

Here's that MEGA DAAAWWW-SOME cutscene


Anyway, what all that leads up to me saying is, aside from the double Zipper for the front, I made Riku's inner Vest today. That makes me really happy!!!
Here's a pic of that, and a pic of Riku in his form once he's freed from the Darkness.

To go along with all that, I made a Paopu fruit plushie! In the game, this star shaped fruit has a special meaning. It is said, that if two people share this fruit, their destinies will become intertwined, and they'll remain a part of each other's lives, no matter what.

I made this one to share with my Sora~ I love her and I hope my Twin is a part of my life as long as I live.

the last thing I have to post today is an updated picture of my collection of FFVIII perler bead magnets! I just have one of Rinoa and Squall dancing to make, and one of Rinoa and her dog :) I would have gone ahead and made them, but once again I'm out of black beads X| anyway, I saw that Missy-Tannenbaum is doing some Kingdom Hearts patterns, and needless to say I"M SOOOOOO EXCITED TO MAKE THEM <3 <3 <3 anyway, I probably shouldn't have had so much sugar before making this post today, and should drink some tea to calm down. See you all later~!

Aqua's finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And some more FFVIII perler beads!

I feel like I should start off this post with the best news! I finished my Aqua cross stitch and turned her into a pillow <3 She looks so super cute next to Terra! I'm surprised I managed to get her done before Christmas, after all, I'm working full time now at a Subway restaurant. I'm going to make sure to finish the Digimon pattern before I begin my Ventus pattern.

Next off, I have beaded all the FFVIII characters in their normal outfits by Missy-Tannenbaum and I plan to do the variations of Selphie, Squall, and Rinoa later tonight (when my friend who invited himself in, leaves...) I have turned them all into magnets, and when I came home from work yesterday, they had been switched from the arrangement in the picture to Zell having killed all the other characters and standing on top of Edea. It was a big pick me up :)

I know this post is pretty short, but I felt it was about time I posted something exciting! In case I don't post again until they're over, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!