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I'm using Google Translate for all text. Sorry if I got it wrong! Sometimes it is 🇯🇵.

I've pretty much stopped drawing now, but I still hope that something I created will catch someone's eye someday.

💬 2 🔁 14 ❤️ 44 · English - 深宇宙衛星シーホース · My past works are gradually getting buried, but you can see them all in my portfolio!　In addition,

#outer wilds

I just finished reading the first volume of Inherit the Stars. It was incredibly interesting.

Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of videos about outer space, planets, dimensions, and the origins of humanity and Earth, so it was easier for me to imagine and understand the various ideas and problems explored in this novel. I’m amazed that a work like this existed even before I was born.

I was worried that science fiction might be too difficult for me to understand, but even someone like me, without much scientific knowledge, was able to follow it. Still, I think that’s something I can say now only because I encountered Outer Wilds and became a little interested in space-related topics. I feel that there’s a certain timing to reading books — a point in life when you’re able to properly understand and appreciate them.

I used to think I wasn’t particularly interested in science fiction, but after encountering Outer Wilds, I realized that I had actually watched many movies that would probably be classified as “SF” long before that. The reason I never noticed was because I didn’t think of them as science fiction; in my mind, they were mysteries, suspense stories, or human dramas. Even Inherit the Stars feels closer to a mystery to me, but at the same time, more than any other work I’ve experienced, it also gives me the feeling of “So this is what science fiction is.” It was an interesting discovery to realize that maybe I actually do like SF after all.

Right now, I’m reading the second book in the series, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede.

#diary #google translate #Even while reading this novel I still get strong Outer Wilds vibes from it.

@miyeyu, thanks for tagging me!

I’m not totally sure about the rules, but I guess I’m supposed to name seven characters from games I like (one character per game)? A lot of these are from older games, so there might not be many people who recognize them.

Which of my seven favorite characters is your favorite?

Sundown Kid (Live A Live)

The Minstrel (Romancing SaGa series)

Gallows Carradine (Wild Arms 3)

Sans (Undertale)

Slate (Outer Wilds)

Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)

Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

Voting ended onMay 18

I don’t actually become obsessively attached to specific characters very often, so it’s pretty rare for me to create fan works in the first place.

As a side note, I just found out that Naruhodo-kun was localized as Phoenix Wright in English, and that genuinely made me laugh.I had no idea they changed his name that much. 😆 so he’s literally a phoenix? 😂

I’m not tagging anyone else!

#diary #google translate

A little while ago, I went to see the movie. After watching it once, I couldn’t get Grace’s face out of my mind, so I ended up going again… And now I feel like rereading the original novel, and I’m sure that once I finish the book, I’ll want to watch the movie again—thus completing the loop. Sigh…　

By the way, quite a few people seem to feel that Outer Wilds and Project Hail Mary share a certain something. It might be the theme of “encounters,” or “sound,” or many other things—but I also thought it was a funny coincidence that Rocky is a lifeform made of something like rock (or was it metal?). The Hearthians are all named after minerals, after all.

If we pointed the Signalscope toward deep space, perhaps we might hear an Eridian song drifting in from somewhere. It’s the kind of daydream I can’t help but have.

#diary #google translate

I just want to make a single bound copy of my manuscript for myself, but I’ve completely run out of energy to draw a cover… haha Honestly, I’m starting to feel like a simple text-only cover would be perfectly fine at this point.

…Right, as I mentioned before, I’ve replaced the post where I was serializing the manga with some sketches.They’re really just doodles, so I don’t think they’re particularly interesting, but feel free to take a look if you’re curious!

💬 2 🔁 34 ❤️ 93 · 【Beyond the sky】Final chapter① · This post has been replaced with a sketch. You can view the completed version in the pos

By the way, the speech bubbles in the sketches are in Japanese, but the lettering I do for comics is probably hard to read even for fellow Japanese people. Sometimes I can’t even read my own handwriting myself, haha. Normally I write a bit more legibly (though I still wouldn’t call it good), but when I’m drawing comics in particular, I think my hand just can’t keep up with the speed my brain is working at.

It somehow feels meaningful that I finished this manga at a time when both the film Project Hail Mary and the crewed Artemis II mission are getting a lot of attention… haha. Just now, I watched as the spacecraft reached the far side of the Moon, lost communication, and then came back online. Meanwhile, I’m on my way to work lol.

#diary

It might seem a bit dramatic for fan work, but creating Beyond the Sky holds a very special meaning for me.

That’s because I began it with a firm resolve: that this would be my final creative work. A lot of sad things happened, and my health wasn’t great—I was truly feeling down for a while. Even so, I made that decision, and now that I’ve finished it, that resolve hasn’t changed.

But there’s one thing I want to allow myself. That this doesn’t have to mean I’ll stop creating forever.

After I’ve had enough rest, and once the sadness has fully healed—if I’m ever moved so deeply by something again—then, within what my health allows, I’d like to love it in the only way I know how: by creating.

My time on Tumblr brought me immense comfort—enough to make me want to love something again, even in the midst of apathy and loneliness.

#text #google translate #Just a little side note so I’ll write it here

Finished it! Wow!

#It’s a little early but I’m going to post the update anyway.

I hesitated quite a bit. Even after finishing it, I still can’t quite shake the feeling that there might have been a better way to present it… but this is probably the best I can do right now. I don’t think the final page will take that long.

Since the visuals had been feeling pretty heavy and dense, I toned down the screentones and went for a simpler atmosphere—one that directly hits you with the stark, airless darkness of space, like the Attlerock.

#manuscript #google translate

Wip. 34／35　

I’ve finished the line art, but it’ll take a bit more time to complete. I might be able to post an update around Thursday.

#manuscript #I redrew it a lot—over and over again.

I couldn’t finish the drawing 🥲

Good night!

I had the day off yesterday, so I spent the whole day drawing. I was mostly stubbornly redoing the page I lost, but I got so frustrated that it actually fired me up lol Honestly, how does the human mind even work 😂 Thanks to that, I somehow managed to update on the same day. I’m kinda impressed with myself 😆

There are only about two updates left (probably). It should definitely be finished within April. Once the series is over, I’m thinking of keeping it only in my portfolio where it can be viewed in high quality. That’s partly to protect the images, but I also want to keep the original posts from the serialization. So I plan to replace all the current watermarked images with sketches instead.

People took the time to tag it and leave comments, so I don’t want to delete those posts. They’re important memories, after all.

I had a rough time, but since the lost page 33 has only a few panels, I think I can manage.

I hope I can still update today.

The file I was working on this morning got deleted 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I was so close to finishing the line art… I don’t think I can recover from this 🫠

Wip. 32／35

It looks correct if you use a ruler.

#manuscript

wip. 31／35

It might be the consequence of not drawing for a while, but I’m having a hard time getting it right and have been redrawing it many times more than this 😓

Skills really do decline fast.Maybe a little compromise is necessary in order to keep moving forward.

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By the way, I’m really looking forward to the upcoming movie Project Hail Mary, but it looks like I won’t be able to see it until around mid-April. I hope I can make it in before it leaves theaters. I wonder if it’ll be so popular that they extend the run, haha.

#manuscript

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