#shogi

[emeraldthelynx]

Had literately no reason to draw Shogi looking this angsty. Eh, good color experiment at least.

[emeraldthelynx]

I got some gel pens as a gift! Have the buddies

[croptoptux]

棋桜 -KIOU-｜公式サイト

『棋桜（KIOU）』は、魅力的なキャラクターと本格将棋対局を同時に楽しめる新感覚の将棋ゲームアプリです。和×ファンタジーの世界観の中で、自分だけの物語と盤上の駆け引きを楽しもう！

So apparantly jyantama but it's shogi exists now. do i need to take one for the team?

[emeraldthelynx]

Shogi here is the main human protagonist of Metapets. As mentioned before, he never wanted to get another virtual pet after his old one died. He chooses to save an abandoned MetaPet V4 regardless this decision and ultimately becomes attached despite his best efforts. Shogi is pretty relaxed, and likes to stay in his comfort zone, which includes skateboarding, reading comics and game guides, and playing videogames. (Believe it or not, he does like to smile.)

[emeraldthelynx]

No, that's no fanart. Those are OCs, and OCs for something big I'm currently working on. I've always wanted to make comics. In fact, a large part of why I began to take art seriously was because I wanted to draw comics. So… I guess this is a convoluted way of saying I'm going to try making a webcomic!

Metapets is about Shogi, a 14-year-old who promised himself to never get attached to a virtual pet again. However, when he's faced with a broken MetaPet V4 that's been thrown away, he breaks his promise and chooses to raise just one more.

Metapets are, by design, the perfect match to their owners, known as 'pals' among the Metapets. Shogi's new pet, Pitchy, does not match his pal. Shogi must re-learn what he's missed in the Metapets scene since the deletion of his last pet, and despite his best efforts, becomes attached to Pitchy along the way.

I don't know when I'll start posting the actual comic, but I'm going to try to post more pieces of art of the characters, along with bits of lore. (Teasers if you will.) I hope you've enjoyed, and if you have any questions, please ask away!

[kibyoshi]

this but with weiqi and shogi

[jayjtheunsuspiciousmelodicathem]

it started with riichi mahjong, i taught it to my friend and her flatmates

today I'm playing go with one of said flatmates

and in the future i will be teaching them hanafuda games and shogi

i have accidentally become their japanese game dealer

[tenjin-no-shinja]

This past weekend was the Japan Fesival! Which is always a fun event to witness. And is a great way for me to get a bit of the matsuri vibes :)

Every year they always have mikoshi that they tote around the festival at the end of each day. This year they also had a model of a shrine too that was made by the students who help run the event.

Another thing they do is workshops. I attended a workshop on Kōdō, which is the meditative practice around Japanese incense. It was partially sponsored by Shoyeido, a really famous Japanese incense company. They had a fun game at the end where we had to guess if two pots of incense were the same or different. And at the end we all received samplers. I also went and bought a premium sampler pack, and chatted with the vendor quite a bit, and he gave me a second free sampler pack. It was very nice of him.

I also attended a Shogi workshop. Shogi is the Japanese form of chess. It has a long history with the samurai class. Hatomori Hachimangū actually has a hall dedicated to Shogi with a massive Shogi piece that was donated there.

But I ended up playing with another beginner and won :D which was fun.

The final workshop I sat in on was the Karuta workshop. I attend every year because the runner also holds a kimono meetup after it. It's such a neat game and one day I hope to actually be able to play it decently.

More to follow :D

A picture of the kimono I wore on the second day, which also got me many compliments.