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ImagenAshyun's absolutely lame fanart blog. No, really, they're all lame.

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You know what? I realized I passed up on a great opportunity of drawing Great Tiger (or any other Punch-Out!! boxer) when that one bout with Mike Tyson took place November of last year. But as I was doodling, I realized something even better:

If Great Tiger was 29 during Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! in 1987, he would have been 66 by the 2024 bout. Long retired from boxing by then as well, likely kicking back a nice comfortable life in Mumbai with no regrets to his boxing and magic career.

Well, no regrets until he actually bothered to watch the fight. Wasted sixteen minutes of his life.

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This is stupid.

No wait.

This is stupider.

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Don't make me go through my old-ass RP blogs to find the context of this scenario. Maybe Don insulted Tiger's inability to cook and it forced him to prove him wrong... and Tiger ended up burning his flat down instead.

Look, Tiger strikes me as the kind of magic person who'd forget how doorknobs worked if you remove his magic. I'll bet he slides around the ring because he forgot how to walk normally.

Drawn 2015.

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Do you still do Punch Out art? Or do fandom stuff?

Not as of late, though I am surprised the fandom is still going on—just with lots of new faces as opposed to the usual crowd that brought me to Tumblr about ten years ago.

I may, not sure. I’m not as deep in the fandom as I used to be, but I feel I can contribute in ways unique to me. We’ll see. I know folks like my Great Tiger stuff back in the day because of my research, and I am perhaps the only person who insists on sticking to the 80s as the primary setting of the games. It has been a while.

But again, we’ll see. If folks are willing to have me (especially the modern fandom), then I may drop a piece or two. Maybe even redraw some comics. God knows that one Glass Joe and Von Kaiser piece desperately needs an update since I’m significantly better at drawing in general since.

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This blog has been known for its Punch-Out!! and StarFox art, and I tend to get super bored of the usual prompts with Inktober and its variants, so instead, I'm going to try to draw a favorite character of mine for every day of October, starting with my favorite video games for the year of 2024.

-Immy's Inktober '24-

#2: Phoenix Wright from the 'Ace Attorney' series

...I couldn't get the taser and whip to fit in the center artwork, so...

Oh, shit, I forgot Frank Sahwit's toupee!

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This blog has been known for its Punch-Out!! and StarFox art, and I tend to get super bored of the usual prompts with Inktober and its variants, so instead, I'm going to try to draw a favorite character of mine for every day of October, starting with my favorite video games for the year of 2024.

-Immy's Inktober '24-

#1: Princess Zelda from 'The Legend of Zelda' series

No, I haven't gotten Echoes of Wisdom yet, DON'T REMIND ME ;_;

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It's been a while, hasn't it?

Happy Holidays, everyone.

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I've been doing mostly fully original art and writing nowadays. Hence why this blog has been quiet. The Punch-Out!! fandom I was a part of have all moved on, it seems, but that's all right. I remember and love you all still. You gave me some of the best memories I've ever had. And I welcome the new generations these days.

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Wow, these are old. Also

Super Macho Wario Nipples. You're welcome.

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No context needed. I don't even remember what it was.

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Yeah, I don't remember why I drew this or what the context of this doodle is, but it probably makes it even funnier.

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Has this been done yet?

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How the rest of the WVBA sees Little Mac.

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Hello! Just wanted to drop in your inbox and say that you make some of the best Peppy Hare art I've seen in a while. Glad to see that more people love Peppy here! Keep up the great work! 😊

Thank you so very much! Space Rabbit Dad does need more love!

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Drawn for @the-great-tiger-of-mumbai. Guess who got dragged by the bandwagon and had to fight tooth and nail to ride it properly.

Don't ask me to draw the whole WVBA as Among Us crewmates, very few have distinguishing enough features to tell who is who outside of their suits (except maybe Soda carries around his bottle everywhere he goes). Though if you wanna try it yourselves, feel free. In fact, I encourage it.

Aran is sus 100% 24/7, don't @ me.

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So when the Nintendo gigaleaks took place and friends and I took a look at the dummied out Star Fox 2 sprites, we couldn't help but notice a long-faced lady bunny among them. At first I speculated it would have been Lucy because of her long face in Command, but then I am reminded that in the continuity of the SNES games, Peppy was significantly younger. And given that the Japanese website for Star Fox 64 confirmed the existence of Vivian Hare then, I couldn't help but scream at the idea that Star Fox 2 could have been the official debut of Peppy's beloved, as characters that were to appear in that game (namely Star Wolf) would later appear in the N64 game instead when SF2 was dropped.

Of course, it's all speculation, but you can't convince me that Vivian could have been a Star Fox member alongside Miyu and Fay otherwise. I WON'T HAVE IT. Except I would have to because as far as I know, it's retconned. A goddamn shame too.

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Am I one of the cool kids now?