☾ I’ll wait for you ( All we gotta do 繋ぐ旋律 ) ☽ I’ll wait for you ( All we gotta do is connect the melodies)
after a week, i finished it! . * ･ ｡ﾟ☆━੧༼ •́ ヮ •̀ ༽୨ i did a song crossover with one of my favorite songs, Tsuki, by the hip hop rap group FAKE TYPE. it’s a really sincere and calming song that i love so much, and i always give it a listen when things are blue for me. i couldn’t help but do a little screencap redraw with puzzleshipping with it! it’s really fun trying to draw in their style too. found the english translation here!
i haven't been on this account in the longest time. it's probably been years since i've stopped making content for YGO, but the news of Takahashi's passing hit me a lot that i decided i wanted to come back here and say something about it. this is going to be long, and i don't want to hide it under a read more. i don't feel like this needs to be hidden.
yu-gi-oh was more than just a comfort to me during my time in college. it was a major influence on my life; my identity as both a person and an artist. unlike many people out there, i didn't get into it until i got out of high school. though i wasn't a die-hard fan, but it kind of helped me figure out who i was. i made some life-changing discoveries i guess, about the kind of person i wanted to be. i was always someone who didn't feel comfortable in their own shoes, who would swap and try out new ones to see if it fit, but it never lasted for long, not until i got into yugioh. the series attributes to who i am today, both in (nick/pen)name and presence online. it's still a major influence in my own art style that never really leaves. it was there for me when i was in my first few years of college trying to adjust to the life of adulthood. to growing up, i suppose. as a struggling art student at art school, i would often watch episodes of duel monsters and zexal during my lunch/dinner breaks, and was even allowed to play/listen to them during silent study periods in class while i did life-drawing. it made me want to start collecting things for every fandom i've ever been in to commemorate that i was there. that i loved something. that i loved it. i've been in many different fandoms in the past, but to me, i think YGO was one of the real ones. it was one of the ones that really had a vise-grip on me for ages, and it still does.
during my time in the fandom, i really wanted to push myself to connect with more creators and make more friends, and i was able to do that. because of the franchise, i met wonderful folks, i networked, i participated in projects for something that i loved and cherished, i loved and i've lost during my time of being in the fandom. but those memories and experiences helped shape who i am today. it taught me something, and to me, it meant something. there was a time i felt like i couldn't look back at my time in the fandom because there were so many memories attached to the series that i felt like i didn't want to return to, but deep down, the series has so much of an impact on me that i couldn't just completely let it go. i guess it's only until after you've lost something that you truly realize how much it was special to you. it was when i woke up this morning to see the news of takahashi-sensei's passing that i realized how much yugioh meant to me, even if a part of me could no longer return to it. i told myself i couldn't go back to it, but the reality is i could always return to it, as someone who could look back fondly at the love i had for it. the love i had for the characters who i've loved (you can safely assume who that is from my name alone), the stories that continue to inspire me and the messages behind all of them.
i could've chosen another piece i made to send out my love and condolences for him, but this one was the first and only one i thought of after a few hours of processing things. i'm still processing his death, and it's still incredibly saddening to me. this is my love letter to the series and his legacy. i don't think words can ever be enough to show my gratitude to him and his works.
thank you for being such a pivotal force in my life, even if it was only for a few years. rest in peace, takahashi-sensei. ❤️
