音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

"The end of summer". Usually there's no such a thing but only a sudden weather change.
Being about 25 last week with a strong sunlight, now it had been cloudy + rainy for almost the whole week. Which definitely made me happy.
Meanwhile, the darker days also brought me a little change in music I wanted to loop.
Solely based on my current memory, the best one in an autumn rainy day has to be...
"人工庭園は翆緑石の雨に霞む" from "Yorlga II". Plus, taking a deeper consideration in its lyrics, it's giving me more stimuli... >///<
In case of classical music, Tchaikovsky and Chopin will be a good choice. But it's generally more abstract and harder to form a sharp "concept art" (I've tried with "Dumka Op. 59" and ended with nothing).

Apparently this stimulated my brain to air-sketch my next piece. Perhaps a while ago I also had some vague design ideas, though never came out so clear.
Right now, I believe this is the first time I'm writing it down, I'm focusing on the remake of "Last Show" I did based on KOKIA's "最終上映" back to 7 years ago. It had been largely redrawn comparing to the first time. As I said before, I'm becoming more and more used to multi-chars, so was this time. It did take a while to have the rearrangement, which ended up by combining two other old works -- also with large renovations. Now I had the same problem again. While I finished the character part within basically 3 days (on Sep. 4), I left them in my hard drive until last night without even thinking for a suitable background. Was such blank time necessary? I didn't know and I'm not intending to figure that out. The only thing I was sure about was the original background won't ever work, since that wasn't me who drawing it. So last night, when I eventually out of anime or gameplay videos to watch, I decided to resume.
Only talking about the outcome, it went pretty smoothly, and I gave it a boost this morning, to make it more "complicated": To fit the inspiration song, certainly there should be film strips -- flying around a music box, the pocket-watch-ish round type. The "assembly" itself was fun, since I mainly grabbed all elements from google image and applied scaling and/or distorting. But when the final makeup is done, just looking at all those rough edges or remaining pixel speckles or discontinuous tones/hues/shades going away does put me into a great mood. Ideally, some old film noise effect will make the entire thing even better (I highly expect it), but whether I can make it remains in question.
↑ Many points along with the second remake~

Things I forgot to bring up since last time:

"Kobayashi-san chi no Maidragon". First knew about it was from its OST, by Ito Masumi. The music is good, so is the anime!
↓ I especially like this pair! xD

Maybe I shall mention it here together (since that's what they're playing in the above gif), I've reached the counter-stop in Dark Souls in last week!
To me, the most annoying boss is the Gravelord Neet. Four kings are actually easier, and I always skip the fight with Kalameet..

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I must have bookmarked this page quite a while ago, maybe even back to last year, but never remember to test it out.
But it's working perfectly: to ignore the shebang line on my testing windows+apache server. Another reason to not use php! xD

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Photoviewer is the classic. It runs faster, and easier to zoom in/out. Glad to get it back on win10!

I'm sure next time I'll be bringing the finished "last show remake"~

↑今回のタイトルはあっさりで決めた！

- Can you change your iris colour?
- Yes of course, in the 2D world!

In the past a few weeks, I had just realised a serious problem, that none of my girls has the blue eye colour! °A°
This shall not be allowed. Although I had forgotten how I decided the final palette, maybe 10 years ago, and regardless I had undergone a (sort of) style-change 3 years ago, I need another revolution, solely for the eye colours.

In the real world, eye colour isn't of the first things I'd notice. Never, that I can't even tell my colleagues' eye colours. Real people have no fun -- bearing with an otaku's heart. But in the imaginary side, you have endless choices with combinations between hair/eye colours, so why not take more time and find the most colourful versions? I think I was possessed since seeing Ciel's pretty blue eye, and liked the staff's colouring work. So much possessed that I eventually updated my colouring pre-sets.

↓ Only many were changed, and now I have the blue~ Though I don't believe this is the final version, especially for those I haven't tested using my past works.

I'm glad that this was made before I finishing up the second inspiration from "kinema mosaic", and I also edited the earlier piece "revive -remake-" (which made it the 3rd time of editing.). However, after that, I lost my intention to continue fixing works even those came in this year (literally only 1 needs fixing, but involving 2 characters, so, maybe later...).

あの子だけをここまでやってて、他の子たちはどうかお許しを！！ >///<
だって、あの子の色だけはキレイな青なんですから☆

Continuing from last section, surprisingly it only took me about a month to finish the second "kinema mosaic" inspiration:

色硝子の裏側に乙女たちの音合わせ
Literally as "Maidens' tuning behind the stained glass".

Really I'm using more and more text while naming my drawings. No wonder whose habit I got it from. -_-''

Am I still supposed to write some liner notes?
Obviously, and repeated for the third time in this entry, that the inspiration was Mitose Noriko's "Kinema Mosaic", as the second work, after May 2014.

There is something special in this song, not only the gorgeous string overlays, but also all its flats and sharps. Musically it's driving my fingers nuts, and visually it keeps giving me blur, vague and abstract ideas. The last time inspiration was merely a warm-up, to have a quick touch with dim light and interior of an antiquely decorated room. This time, one was not to mimic the previous work too much, and two was I had no clue on what kind of background I was going to draw, I had a simpler overall design. Originally I even placed a few candles but I took them away because I was lazy I'm no good at rendering light effects. I ever thought about to put something on the floor, but replaced with a tiled pattern, as if I did, the only thing I'd leave there would be some shining stuff... but I never meant to draw a secret ritual! lol

One thing I didn't expect was, stained glass appeared in both works! Purely out of coincidence, but doesn't it mean it's a symbol while dealing with Taishou-Romance? （ ﾟ∀ﾟ ） Like just said, the big problem was still the light effect through a piece of coloured glass. I did put many efforts to render the shadow on the ground, but, maybe it's not what one would see in reality. So just don't be picky and focus too much on the details.. xD;

No need to have many words about the characters -- following the standard settings.
A major change in mind was, originally I wished to use military uniforms, it would be hard to tell since the instruments would hide many featuring parts, and thus I didn't go further.

-- Plus, I wonder whether that's a great coincidence that I listened binaria's "花紺青" at the same night!
And Piccolo is staring at a bug on the wall, hiding behind my monitor. ( ﾟДﾟ)ｻﾜﾘﾃｪｪ

Maybe I've mentioned previously, that Akiko's C92 preview didn't stimulate my mind too much, so I guess, the next one would be a remake. I've forgotten why I picked up "revive" as my first remake, but right now, I don't know which one I shall work with. What I've decided is, I won't remake anything that's done after I began using ClipStudio, so timely no touch after "chromatique magicians". And I myself do prefer choose earlier more shitty works as it's fun to have a big difference. The current issue is, I'm more enjoying drawing multiple characters, but before I didn't.
Another possible way is to reassemble and remake, as long as they can be joined in smooth.

This span does give me sometime to enjoy Shin-Yomawari though. I'm never used to it's "R" key for running system, which is so different from other games that use the "X" key. My death count does get increased many times because of this..
But I won't complain too much for this. Most of my attention is in how much evil NipponIchi had put inside the game. Comparing with Yomawari, this one definitely has more evil and more jumping scares (and more traps that the mansion made me believing I was in Sen's fortress). Although both had showed its negative aura since the tutorial... not bad though!

The story is almost like parallel to Yomawari, and it becomes the most obvious since the end of chapter 4. Personally I like chapter 5, the giant crab-ish monster that blocks the way, my favourite monster~（*´▽｀*）

８／２１　ピンホールから見たミニサイズの部分食

I still think Shikata Akiko's "Umineko" song is the best for (total) solar eclipse viewing!

８／２８　ピンクの夕空と薄明光線(ほとんど撮れなかったが)

Speaking of the just past total solar eclipse, I deeply love this shot taken by KAGAYA♥

↑タイトルは結構適当ですけど…

Last Thursday (or Friday), I eventually realised that comiket was going to be coming day. Wasn't it usually at the end of August? Did it change recently or just because my memory got some problem and messed up?

But, since Haruka had her new high quality canoe release as usual, and Akiko's preview of the coming album "Ayashi" (although the orgel track isn't as delicious as I'd expect), I'm fine with it.
Speaking of Haruka's canoe unit, I'm assuming they're making a long story through all these albums, but sadly, I never paid much attention -- I might if they're in one single album though -- I just can't stay focused. In this sense, a concept album suits me much better. Then it comes to "Ayashi". Be frank, it's not that impressive compared to when I fist listened to the "wokashi" preview. There's somthing not enough.

Or is that my sense in music starting to fade out...?

No, you won't know how much I got hyped when I looped "The for kings" or "Knight Artorias" on the train for weeks. Great feelings indeed, which also made me changing files of my player the first time since the end of last December.
Although right in these days, I've been switched to loop "Lacrimosa" (yet once again I failed to finish their 3rd and 4th albums). The sense retains sharp.

Back to the "something".
It must be the dark aura hidden in the depth. The exact reason stopped me catching up with Kalafina, which immediately attracted me through the overlaying thick darkness. Naturally I always wish for it, and so shall I be the same this time. To me, the first impression from the title "Ayashi" was, that could be an excellent counterpart to "wokashi", but still there will be some dark songs. It has to be!
Even more ideally, could "かくれんぼ" be turned into a full vocal version, like "オトシモノ"? (*´∀｀)

However, due to the lack of dark touch, my motivation was totally quenched for imagine something new. So I can stay at ease and finish staining the coloured glass I made for "Kinema Mosaic" 2nd! I got 80% done in an unexpected quick speed within two days only, but suddenly this was suspended again, because I with all my capriciousness wanted a decent score of this song itself. I tried to search online, and had absolutely no luck.
Which meant I had no choice but to get one myself. Not being confident, but this was something I can somewhat handle, at a certain level. I didn't think doing this before, simply because the piece as a whole "scares" me. When >2 strings mix up, to me it seems impossible to split out each single melody line easily.

What's different about this piece, was also the key, with so many temporary sharps or flats. Although I myself put 2 flats and assumed it's a G minor, who knows what the true key it might be? (つд⊂)
The digital tunes never sound good, well, at least I said "decent", so it made me feeling less stressed out for "forgetting" the so artistic interlude part. My attempt told me I can't work it out, unless I spend much more time which I didn't want to. Moreover, sometimes I made the chords up just to make the overall thing sounds richer.. << No way I'm going back.
However, better than nothing. If someday, they decide to publish the original score, I'll definitely buy it!
Together at the same time, I considered to get a decent duet arrange for "serenato", but soon I dropped the plan.
↑こんなことは、「愛」がなければできない！

Summer brings up horror!
But, regardless of season, as long as it's horror I'd love to see☆

↑I wonder if I'm the only fool who didn't realise you could turn the screen around? ← Apparently I never realised what the so-called "360° video" means..

Hopefully this time I can get to play it longer. Such type of games only give you the best experience at the first round after all. Still, I'm going to play it, unfortunately (not ready for PS4 yet). Just hope they don't kill a cat in the introduction. -_-||

I was planning to write this journal back to last Sunday, but...
who would expect that Kuroshitsuji hacked into my mind and I'm still pretty off-track..!!
I'll allow this since the last time I got so burnt up for an anime was 2 or 3 years ago, with Steins;Gate. However, since the end of last summer, my progress in playing its original game never proceeded. I didn't make it a sort of belief. Simply, I'd like to retain things stay uniformed on my mind. If the first encounter was an anime, then it's getting a bit hard for me to accept other types of media. Although it's not an absolute, shall it never go across the border -- no live action, musical, etc.
There's no fun to transform a perfect 2D imagination into the real 3D, but not vice versa. ^^;