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21 Animanga multifandom
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somein30. I've had too many fandoms over the years to mix TV shows, films, anime, animated shows and games all in one post, so I settled on anime/manga only, since I've been on a major anime binge since September and there's no sign of stopping yet. I'd say this is semi-extra hard mode, since I included both fandoms and styles, but the styles are not in order ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I wrote down a list of styles I remember doing, but I honestly couldn't tell you WHEN I did them since I only have my icons from 2014 onwards, and I started around... 2003. So I iconned fandoms chronologically, but styles are more mix-and-match for whenever they suited the image I chose to icon.
The rainbow effect over the entire post was something I felt I had to do, since I've been doing rainbow posts for a long long time and NOT having it in this nostalgia theme would be just... wrong. Also, I love doing rainbow posts.
Textlessness was not deliberate, but I think it does fit the style journey theme, since text is my nemesis. I even went back to check and apparently the last time I added text to an icon out of my own free will (meaning, not because it was a theme) was mid-2018, which sounds about right lol
Some ramblings about fandoms/icons under the spoiler tag!
1.
Fandom: Sailor Moon (1994-1995?) - my first one! If you count a bunch of 7-8 year old girls obsessing over a show airing on TV lol. But I do think it set me up for a life of fandomness.
Style: One of the first styles I remember using - cut out with a 2-3px white stroke, on a solid background. Usually there would also be a thicker white border and a 1px darker border around it, but since its 2020 not 2005 now, let's not do that anymore.
2.
Fandom: Slayers (2003-2004) - my first Actual Fandom. This was pre-LJ and I barely spoke English back then, so I mostly operated on message boards and tiny fandom websites... thankfully none of my icons from back then survive to this day, because they were Really Really Bad, Even For 2003. But that aside, Slayers fandom was one of my favorites to be in.
Style: A basic cutout + solid background + shadow is something I always default to when I have no special idea for a full-body image and this is what happened here too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3.
Fandom: Fullmetal Achemist (2004) - ahh, FMA. It's one of my favorite stories to this day, and I'm honestly a bit sad that I discovered it so early because it gave me unreasonable expectations for other animanga. I iconned the hellll out of it back in the day, but I think it was still before I joined LJ?
Style: Red-yellow-blue, my one true love when it comes to color schemes for single icons. When in doubt, go red-yellow-blue. I've used it a loooot over the years.
4.
Fandom: Bleach (2005) - I was totally in love with this manga up until it got really bad after the Aizen arc. But the early years were great, and I remember having a lot of fun in this fandom.
Style: This icon is an attempt at recreating something I used to do in late 00s that included contrasting light textures both in the background and on top... it used to look different, it embodies the spirit of that style I guess?
5.
Fandom: xxxHolic (2006) - discovering xxxHolic and TRC sent me on a massssssive Clamp bender, I think I read everything they ever released.... their mangas are kinda cliche and have way too many plot twists, but their storytelling is top notch. And the visual style of xxxHolic is just amazing.
Style: Ahhh manga coloring, my greatest iconmaking love. There is just something about taking a b&w manga page and turning it into a colorful icon exactly the way you want it to look... I wish I had more time for it, and my old tablet, which was way better than the cheapo one I picked recently. I remember making many, many icons that were just basic manga coloring with no textures/brushes/text etc, and that's what I did here.
6.
Fandom: TRC (2006) - same as above, since those two mangas are interconnected and I read them at the same time.
Style: Who else remembers the radioactive cyan/red colorings that were super popular around maybe 2007-2008? People shared .psds of the coloring so there were tons of icons that had the same exact values applied to them and they allllll looked nasty. I tried to recreate that but less... eyeburning. Also, textures with unreadable handwritten text and some random dots/lines were my jam back then and honestly I want to bring them back, I like this look still.
7.
Fandom: Tanemura Arina's mangas (2006) - the guilty pleasure fandom. Her mangas are so cheesy but at the same time, totally fun? I'm not super into the romance bits, but the plots and fantasy elements won me over. Doesn't hurt that the art is totally gorgeous and a huge pleasure to icon.
Style: I think this style was popular among animanga makers around 2010-2012 or so... very vibrant, few light textures, but overall simple and focused on highlighting the beauty of the screencap/artwork.
8.
Fandom: Gunnm (2007) - the fandom that was not a fandom, because this manga is criminally underrated. Idk if it had any significant popularity when it was published in English, but when I read it as it was published in my country, literally no one was talking about it here... which is a shame because it's GREAT. It started my love for cyberpunk.
Style: Around 2015-2016 I started using difference layers a lot... I discovered what happens when you set a layer with a white element to difference and it blew my miiiind. And then my mind was blown again when I checked what happens if you experiment with channels on the difference layer. So many colors! Still one of my favorite techniques to use when I feel like making something more complex.
9.
Fandom: Hikaru no Go (2007) - this was a time when I got into 2 sports mangas - HnG and Prince of Tennis. Chose to icon only one of them here, and I picked HnG because years later, I have a lot more sentiment for it than for PoT.... for a manga about tennis, PoT just got super weird in the end.
Style: Manga coloring + negative space. I don't really go for extreme negative space since it's tricky to use well, but thentheiconquest started I REALLY wanted to get on those rogue points, so around that time I remember using this technique a lot. (TIQ, I miss u ;_;)
10.
Fandom: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007) - ahh TTGL. The one anime I would recommend to anyone anytime, the visual style, craziness of the plot, and amazing characters just stole my heart. This wasn't really a fandom I got involved in (if there even was one, idk), but to this day I'm happy to see it mentioned somewhere so I think it deserved a spot.
Style: RAINBOW. Where a rainbow does not technically belong. I started doing this in tumblr posts around 2013 and then it migrated to icons, just making weird happy edits and adding rainbows to things.
11.
Fandom: Gundam 00 (2008) - this fandom was wiiild. I love all things sci-fi so I was into it from the start, but the memes that developed, theories, shipping drama.... I'm glad I was there for it. I don't remember iconing it much for some reason, but I was definitely invested in other parts of it.
Style: It happens a few times in this post, but in this icon it was deliberate - blending the subject with the background, both through coloring and lighting and just plain blurring/masking the edges of the cutout. I remember doing this a bunch around 2010/2011 maybe...?
12.
Fandom: Natsume Yuujinchou (2009) - I miss this fandom, it was as peaceful as this anime. I recall discussing episodes in a LJ comm as they aired, and there was never any drama or arguments, which was honestly refreshing, since the 00s were when the craziest fandom/ship wars happened.
Style: This was an attempt at recreating one of my earliest iconing techniques from around 2005/2006, in which every screencap/image got the same treatment: beige soft light layer, pastel blue soft light layer, merge all visible layers, blur, set as soft light. The result was a brownish blurry mess but I kept with that style for a solid year or two lmao. Obviously it's toned down here, and I picked a dark image so that it wouldn't get super washed out, but that is the style.
13.
Fandom: Kuragehime (2010) - I honestly have no idea how I got into this fandom, because I have zero interest in fashion or romance manga. And yet? The characters are so relatable and charming that I felt I had no choice but to fall into it.
Style: Another very early style, from maybe 2006-2007? A rough outline around the character made with polygonal lass tool, and a patterned background that matches the colors of the image. I used to always add the ubiquitous 3px-white, 1px-dark border but I don't think there is any way to make that look attractive so let's not bring that back lol
14.
Fandom: Pandora Hearts (2010ish...?) - I... don't remember what this was about. Whatsoever. I remember being obsessed with this manga, making tons of icons, generally participating in the fandom, but.... the plot actually eludes me. I think it got super weird in the end and I erased it from my memory somehow. But the art was super pretty and what I do remember that the character I iconned here was secretly a deceitful manipulator, which is my favorite character type, so I have vague fond memories of him lol
Style: The white decorative element over a colorful icon! I think there were posts where 50% of my icons had that in some way, I loooved this style. I feel it kinda fell out of use recently, but wasn't it really popular a few years ago?
15.
Fandom: Durarara!! (2010) - I got super involved in this fandom, particularly in Izaya/Shizuo ship, to the point of starting a doujin translation group with a friend and having a feud with another group who accused us of stealing their projects haha. I think I iconned it a lot too, the art is pretty and I honestly liked almost every character. Celty won for the icon appearance since shipping aside, she was my fave.
Style: Another icon with difference layer, plus the yellow-cyan-magenta color scheme, which is also something I use a lot.
16.
Fandom: Free! (2016) - Free! was like a fandom one night stand for me hah. I watched both seasons in some ridiculously short amount of time, read some fanfics, made some icons, and then mostly forgot it existed but looked back on it with fond memories whenever I saw a mention. It was fun! And iirc I can blame![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jsfunction for it entirely lol
Style: My other great iconing love, painting over anime screencaps to give them different lighting. This was originally a night scene! But I wanted an orange icon for the rainbow, so I turned it into a sunset with sunset illumination over the characters. Another thing I wish I had more time for, but it does get a bit time consuming to do...
17.
Fandom: Haikyuu!! (2016) - sports anime were always my weakness (all those shippable characters man), and Haikyuu!! is another one in a long line... it doesn't help that it's just SO GOOD. Do I care about volleyball? Not at all. But even when the episodes are entirely filled with volleyball scenes, this anime manages to keep me interested, proabably because every single character is lovable and all ships are great. (fun fact: I have a tattoo inspired by it)
Style: the Generic Anime Icon, behold. I think I made literally hundreds of these, just super basic coloring, character either cut out or left in the original background, a single light texture or no textures at all. Most often I'd make these for ongoing anime series, as episodes were airing, when fandoms would want current icons to use in discussions or whatnot.... Not really a ~flashy~ challenge icon style but I used it A LOT so I wanted to include it. And the screencap is so adorable that it works without much decoration anyway :v
18.
Fandom: Yuuri!! on ice (2017) - this was the first time I watched a LGBT-themed anime and genuinely enjoyed it, I think. When I started watching, I actually had no idea it would be an actual gay love story - I thought it would be just another baity anime aimed at attracting female fans, but then... they actually got together? That was such a great moment in the fandom, I remember staying up realllllly late on a workday to read the discussions and reactions. Definitely one of my favorite fandoms to date, hope season 2 will come out eventually :D
Style: Another-screencap-as-background was my go-to technique for when I had no idea what to do to make a full-body cut out icon more interesting.
19.
Fandom: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019) - This hit just when I was craving a fantasy-action story after rewatching FMA and it filled that void sooo well. An emotional journey with a pair of siblings and their companions, in a finished, coherent story that has no filler, no bs 'arcs' and wraps up well without tacking on unnecessary new villains? SIGN ME UP. Can't wait till the rest of it is adapted into anime!
Style: More manga coloring! I was making the icons chronologically and tbh at this point I ran out of past styles to include, so. It was one of my main styles over the years so I feel it should be represented in this post!
20.
Fandom: Promare (2019) - I did not expect a random anime action film to drag me into a fandom, but Promare was just WILD. I went in ready to watch an action bromance flick, but instead got an actual action romance wrapped in amazing visual style and great soundtrack. And it actually has a decently sized fandom so it was an unexpected treat, and I had to icon it here. Love those dumb gays ♥
Style: Honestlllly, this is just an icon in my current style. But since it's the end of a timeline, I guess that fits? This is why I said it's semi-extra hard mode, I did not do the style part that well at all lol
21.
Fandom: My Hero Academia (2020) - so I avoided this for the longest time, since the idea of a hero school seemed kind of dumb and immature to me. But I was unemployed for a while in this trash fire of a year, and I needed something to do, so I cracked and it was an unexpectedly pleasant experience... I'm still not 100% sold on the general idea, but the plot is fun and the characters are interesting, so I might end up getting more into in the future.
Style: Just more pure manga coloring, decided to use it for the last icon since that's something I want to do more of in the future. Hopefully :v
I don't actually expect anyone to read all of this, but if you did, congrats! I honestly just wanted to ramble about fandoms for a bit.
01-07 08-14 15-21 Ahhh I couldn't resist the nostalgia theme at
somein30. I've had too many fandoms over the years to mix TV shows, films, anime, animated shows and games all in one post, so I settled on anime/manga only, since I've been on a major anime binge since September and there's no sign of stopping yet. I'd say this is semi-extra hard mode, since I included both fandoms and styles, but the styles are not in order ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I wrote down a list of styles I remember doing, but I honestly couldn't tell you WHEN I did them since I only have my icons from 2014 onwards, and I started around... 2003. So I iconned fandoms chronologically, but styles are more mix-and-match for whenever they suited the image I chose to icon. The rainbow effect over the entire post was something I felt I had to do, since I've been doing rainbow posts for a long long time and NOT having it in this nostalgia theme would be just... wrong. Also, I love doing rainbow posts.
Textlessness was not deliberate, but I think it does fit the style journey theme, since text is my nemesis. I even went back to check and apparently the last time I added text to an icon out of my own free will (meaning, not because it was a theme) was mid-2018, which sounds about right lol
Some ramblings about fandoms/icons under the spoiler tag!
1.
Fandom: Sailor Moon (1994-1995?) - my first one! If you count a bunch of 7-8 year old girls obsessing over a show airing on TV lol. But I do think it set me up for a life of fandomness.
Style: One of the first styles I remember using - cut out with a 2-3px white stroke, on a solid background. Usually there would also be a thicker white border and a 1px darker border around it, but since its 2020 not 2005 now, let's not do that anymore.
2.
Fandom: Slayers (2003-2004) - my first Actual Fandom. This was pre-LJ and I barely spoke English back then, so I mostly operated on message boards and tiny fandom websites... thankfully none of my icons from back then survive to this day, because they were Really Really Bad, Even For 2003. But that aside, Slayers fandom was one of my favorites to be in.
Style: A basic cutout + solid background + shadow is something I always default to when I have no special idea for a full-body image and this is what happened here too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
3.
Fandom: Fullmetal Achemist (2004) - ahh, FMA. It's one of my favorite stories to this day, and I'm honestly a bit sad that I discovered it so early because it gave me unreasonable expectations for other animanga. I iconned the hellll out of it back in the day, but I think it was still before I joined LJ?
Style: Red-yellow-blue, my one true love when it comes to color schemes for single icons. When in doubt, go red-yellow-blue. I've used it a loooot over the years.
4.
Fandom: Bleach (2005) - I was totally in love with this manga up until it got really bad after the Aizen arc. But the early years were great, and I remember having a lot of fun in this fandom.
Style: This icon is an attempt at recreating something I used to do in late 00s that included contrasting light textures both in the background and on top... it used to look different, it embodies the spirit of that style I guess?
5.
Fandom: xxxHolic (2006) - discovering xxxHolic and TRC sent me on a massssssive Clamp bender, I think I read everything they ever released.... their mangas are kinda cliche and have way too many plot twists, but their storytelling is top notch. And the visual style of xxxHolic is just amazing.
Style: Ahhh manga coloring, my greatest iconmaking love. There is just something about taking a b&w manga page and turning it into a colorful icon exactly the way you want it to look... I wish I had more time for it, and my old tablet, which was way better than the cheapo one I picked recently. I remember making many, many icons that were just basic manga coloring with no textures/brushes/text etc, and that's what I did here.
6.
Fandom: TRC (2006) - same as above, since those two mangas are interconnected and I read them at the same time.
Style: Who else remembers the radioactive cyan/red colorings that were super popular around maybe 2007-2008? People shared .psds of the coloring so there were tons of icons that had the same exact values applied to them and they allllll looked nasty. I tried to recreate that but less... eyeburning. Also, textures with unreadable handwritten text and some random dots/lines were my jam back then and honestly I want to bring them back, I like this look still.
7.
Fandom: Tanemura Arina's mangas (2006) - the guilty pleasure fandom. Her mangas are so cheesy but at the same time, totally fun? I'm not super into the romance bits, but the plots and fantasy elements won me over. Doesn't hurt that the art is totally gorgeous and a huge pleasure to icon.
Style: I think this style was popular among animanga makers around 2010-2012 or so... very vibrant, few light textures, but overall simple and focused on highlighting the beauty of the screencap/artwork.
8.
Fandom: Gunnm (2007) - the fandom that was not a fandom, because this manga is criminally underrated. Idk if it had any significant popularity when it was published in English, but when I read it as it was published in my country, literally no one was talking about it here... which is a shame because it's GREAT. It started my love for cyberpunk.
Style: Around 2015-2016 I started using difference layers a lot... I discovered what happens when you set a layer with a white element to difference and it blew my miiiind. And then my mind was blown again when I checked what happens if you experiment with channels on the difference layer. So many colors! Still one of my favorite techniques to use when I feel like making something more complex.
9.
Fandom: Hikaru no Go (2007) - this was a time when I got into 2 sports mangas - HnG and Prince of Tennis. Chose to icon only one of them here, and I picked HnG because years later, I have a lot more sentiment for it than for PoT.... for a manga about tennis, PoT just got super weird in the end.
Style: Manga coloring + negative space. I don't really go for extreme negative space since it's tricky to use well, but then
theiconquest started I REALLY wanted to get on those rogue points, so around that time I remember using this technique a lot. (TIQ, I miss u ;_;) 10.
Fandom: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007) - ahh TTGL. The one anime I would recommend to anyone anytime, the visual style, craziness of the plot, and amazing characters just stole my heart. This wasn't really a fandom I got involved in (if there even was one, idk), but to this day I'm happy to see it mentioned somewhere so I think it deserved a spot.
Style: RAINBOW. Where a rainbow does not technically belong. I started doing this in tumblr posts around 2013 and then it migrated to icons, just making weird happy edits and adding rainbows to things.
11.
Fandom: Gundam 00 (2008) - this fandom was wiiild. I love all things sci-fi so I was into it from the start, but the memes that developed, theories, shipping drama.... I'm glad I was there for it. I don't remember iconing it much for some reason, but I was definitely invested in other parts of it.
Style: It happens a few times in this post, but in this icon it was deliberate - blending the subject with the background, both through coloring and lighting and just plain blurring/masking the edges of the cutout. I remember doing this a bunch around 2010/2011 maybe...?
12.
Fandom: Natsume Yuujinchou (2009) - I miss this fandom, it was as peaceful as this anime. I recall discussing episodes in a LJ comm as they aired, and there was never any drama or arguments, which was honestly refreshing, since the 00s were when the craziest fandom/ship wars happened.
Style: This was an attempt at recreating one of my earliest iconing techniques from around 2005/2006, in which every screencap/image got the same treatment: beige soft light layer, pastel blue soft light layer, merge all visible layers, blur, set as soft light. The result was a brownish blurry mess but I kept with that style for a solid year or two lmao. Obviously it's toned down here, and I picked a dark image so that it wouldn't get super washed out, but that is the style.
13.
Fandom: Kuragehime (2010) - I honestly have no idea how I got into this fandom, because I have zero interest in fashion or romance manga. And yet? The characters are so relatable and charming that I felt I had no choice but to fall into it.
Style: Another very early style, from maybe 2006-2007? A rough outline around the character made with polygonal lass tool, and a patterned background that matches the colors of the image. I used to always add the ubiquitous 3px-white, 1px-dark border but I don't think there is any way to make that look attractive so let's not bring that back lol
14.
Fandom: Pandora Hearts (2010ish...?) - I... don't remember what this was about. Whatsoever. I remember being obsessed with this manga, making tons of icons, generally participating in the fandom, but.... the plot actually eludes me. I think it got super weird in the end and I erased it from my memory somehow. But the art was super pretty and what I do remember that the character I iconned here was secretly a deceitful manipulator, which is my favorite character type, so I have vague fond memories of him lol
Style: The white decorative element over a colorful icon! I think there were posts where 50% of my icons had that in some way, I loooved this style. I feel it kinda fell out of use recently, but wasn't it really popular a few years ago?
15.
Fandom: Durarara!! (2010) - I got super involved in this fandom, particularly in Izaya/Shizuo ship, to the point of starting a doujin translation group with a friend and having a feud with another group who accused us of stealing their projects haha. I think I iconned it a lot too, the art is pretty and I honestly liked almost every character. Celty won for the icon appearance since shipping aside, she was my fave.
Style: Another icon with difference layer, plus the yellow-cyan-magenta color scheme, which is also something I use a lot.
16.
Fandom: Free! (2016) - Free! was like a fandom one night stand for me hah. I watched both seasons in some ridiculously short amount of time, read some fanfics, made some icons, and then mostly forgot it existed but looked back on it with fond memories whenever I saw a mention. It was fun! And iirc I can blame
jsfunction for it entirely lol Style: My other great iconing love, painting over anime screencaps to give them different lighting. This was originally a night scene! But I wanted an orange icon for the rainbow, so I turned it into a sunset with sunset illumination over the characters. Another thing I wish I had more time for, but it does get a bit time consuming to do...
17.
Fandom: Haikyuu!! (2016) - sports anime were always my weakness (all those shippable characters man), and Haikyuu!! is another one in a long line... it doesn't help that it's just SO GOOD. Do I care about volleyball? Not at all. But even when the episodes are entirely filled with volleyball scenes, this anime manages to keep me interested, proabably because every single character is lovable and all ships are great. (fun fact: I have a tattoo inspired by it)
Style: the Generic Anime Icon, behold. I think I made literally hundreds of these, just super basic coloring, character either cut out or left in the original background, a single light texture or no textures at all. Most often I'd make these for ongoing anime series, as episodes were airing, when fandoms would want current icons to use in discussions or whatnot.... Not really a ~flashy~ challenge icon style but I used it A LOT so I wanted to include it. And the screencap is so adorable that it works without much decoration anyway :v
18.
Fandom: Yuuri!! on ice (2017) - this was the first time I watched a LGBT-themed anime and genuinely enjoyed it, I think. When I started watching, I actually had no idea it would be an actual gay love story - I thought it would be just another baity anime aimed at attracting female fans, but then... they actually got together? That was such a great moment in the fandom, I remember staying up realllllly late on a workday to read the discussions and reactions. Definitely one of my favorite fandoms to date, hope season 2 will come out eventually :D
Style: Another-screencap-as-background was my go-to technique for when I had no idea what to do to make a full-body cut out icon more interesting.
19.
Fandom: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019) - This hit just when I was craving a fantasy-action story after rewatching FMA and it filled that void sooo well. An emotional journey with a pair of siblings and their companions, in a finished, coherent story that has no filler, no bs 'arcs' and wraps up well without tacking on unnecessary new villains? SIGN ME UP. Can't wait till the rest of it is adapted into anime!
Style: More manga coloring! I was making the icons chronologically and tbh at this point I ran out of past styles to include, so. It was one of my main styles over the years so I feel it should be represented in this post!
20.
Fandom: Promare (2019) - I did not expect a random anime action film to drag me into a fandom, but Promare was just WILD. I went in ready to watch an action bromance flick, but instead got an actual action romance wrapped in amazing visual style and great soundtrack. And it actually has a decently sized fandom so it was an unexpected treat, and I had to icon it here. Love those dumb gays ♥
Style: Honestlllly, this is just an icon in my current style. But since it's the end of a timeline, I guess that fits? This is why I said it's semi-extra hard mode, I did not do the style part that well at all lol
21.
Fandom: My Hero Academia (2020) - so I avoided this for the longest time, since the idea of a hero school seemed kind of dumb and immature to me. But I was unemployed for a while in this trash fire of a year, and I needed something to do, so I cracked and it was an unexpectedly pleasant experience... I'm still not 100% sold on the general idea, but the plot is fun and the characters are interesting, so I might end up getting more into in the future.
Style: Just more pure manga coloring, decided to use it for the last icon since that's something I want to do more of in the future. Hopefully :v
I don't actually expect anyone to read all of this, but if you did, congrats! I honestly just wanted to ramble about fandoms for a bit.
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PS: Your coloring is on point!
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AAHHH!This post makes me miss watching some of these animes, maybe it's time to rewatch some of those. XD
Daaaamn,xxxHolic was always beautiful and stood out!I remember looking at the coloured manga icons of that time in awe because it was magical!
Sadly I do have to say I agree about Bleach just losing it after the Aizen arc. *sigh* I had hopes! I love the colouring and action pose in the icon!
The TTGL and Gundam icons look great!
I love iconing Kuraghime even though I never finished watching because of the outfits and your icon really works perfectly with the style of that animanga!
Wait,I thought my brain couldn't handle the story/plot of Pandora hearts even though I liked it...for what I don't even know?!Now I see someone else too,lol!
DRRR was one of a kind,I don't even know how to explain it to someone who hasn't watched it enough to make them interested in it.
I see what you mean about Haikyuu!I went in like ah okay,let's give it a try even though I didn't care about volleyball but I was so engrossed and loved many of the characters to pieces!Your Kenma icon is super cute!
I've heard about Kimetsu no Yaiba but have yet to watch it.Love that combo of colours in the icon.
The Promare icon looks so good,I have never heard of it and usually don't watch anime films but your description is making me want to!
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Hardest thing about doing a timeline of fandoms is not going back to rewatch so much stuff. I don't have the time, but.... I have a need....
Yeah I'm convinced only the author of PH had any idea what was even going on there. I remember art being pretty, and characters being fun, but the plot was just ???
It was such a popular manga back then too, and I'm pretty sure most people discussing the plot in LJ comms were just faking it for real.
I DEFINITELY recommend Promare, especially if you liked TTGL since it's the same studio/creators.... and the style is similar. It's just 2h of pure fun.
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These are of course so pretty! I've always envied your coloring and use of light <3
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Thank you ♥
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Ok, so I gotta get this out of the way first, I hate to ask this but since the sets are supposed to be 5-20 icons, is it ok if I just exclude the last icon, or would you prefer another one? I know you don't like this since it breaks the rainbow, so I hate having to do this :/ (I don't know if there really even needs to be an upper limit to icons, this could definitely be discussed - my reasoning was that some "quantity over quality" type maker, you know kinda like I used to be as a starting iconer, could just make a set of 200 icons for every challenge and that's too much for anyone to code or even look at in the polls imo. But seeing a genuinely great post like this with just one too many makes me question if that is a necessary limitation at all?? or should it just be raised a little bit, maybe to 30?)
Anyway, this set is seriously AMAZING. I cant believe you've had that many animanga fandoms alone??!? I also love that you did a semi extra hard mode, it was interesting to learn more about your style progress! I just remember you being perfect as long as I can remember. Somehow I'm stunned that iconing even existed in 2003! But of course it did, userpics had to come from somewhere :D
Wow you put a lot of effort into the fandom/style descriptions too, which I was hoping some would do. Of course I had to read them, you have awesomely clear and exact memories of the styles you used to do! Mine were just a random mess until I stumbled upon my current style, which is why I gave up on any extra hard attempts almost immediately :p
My favorites are ALL OF THEM but I'll try to mention a few things I especially love! The simple decorations in 3 work super well and bring so much to the composition, love the slight grunginess too. The lighting and coloring in 4 are seriously magic and I love how the lighting enhances the sense of motion in the icon. 5 is WOW, I have no idea how you do manga colorings, I wouldn't know this even is one if I hadn't just read it, it could easily just be an anime screencap. Just damn, the lighting! The coloring in 6 is great and I approve of the random lines/unreadable text, bringing them back sounds good to me, they look lovely in this icon :D
I'm a sucker for vibrant pink/yellow combo so my eye went to 8 immediately, love the broders, and the difference trick sounds awesome and super creative. The side crop and minimalism in 9 look gorgeously clean, all the rogue points for this one <3 (I miss TIQ too... damn, I remember making a set of 100 icons for the first challenge which definitely broke the rules, I just got too excited xD)
I also love everything about 14 - the glowy vibrant coloring is absolutely stunning and I love the compositon. And deceitful manipulators are the best.
ahh the Rinharu icon is so cute and romantic, I love the soft sunset look that you somehow managed to bring into a night scene :O I love that I got you into a one night stand with Free! :D I take it you didn't watch Starting days or the third season that came out in 2018? That season was a giant convoluted mess so no loss there if you didn't. There were literally like 20 unnecessary characters involved, they just threw everything at the wall lmao. Anyway, I love the blending and texture use in 18. The composition and extra bright coloring in 20 stand out to me as well, really love this icon.
Basically everything is amazing, thank you so much for entering! <3<3
(lol the tag)
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And for the future, well I can see myself making another post like this if it was allowed, but I can also just make 20 icon sets like everyone else who READ THE RULES so no pressure. Sorry for putting you in the awkward position of having to enforce the rules D:
Ahhh but that aside, yeahhhh I'm an anime fandom beast :D And I started my fandom ~journey~ around 20 years ago so I've had a loooot of time to get into many different ones... I'm pretty sure even this list is missing like 10 more shows I cared about back in the day, but I just forgot about them over the years.
Iconing in 2003 was (for me at least), cropping a picture, resizing it (in paint! so it was gross and pixelly!) and uploading as an 'icon' lol. It was not pretty and I'm glad they were hosted on some little private servers of tiny fandom websites that disappeared off the face of the internet.... those were some dark days dude. I'm glad I ended up joining LJ and getting into actual iconmaking.
Tbh I'm surprised anyone read the fandom ramblings, I wrote so much and it's all so rambly too haha. Though on the other hand, I do love reading other people's.
I know Free! had a 3rd season (and a film?), but nope I've yet to watch it.... it's on my 'someday if I'm ever super bored' list, but I heard it's not very good from a few people (and now you), so I'm not particularly inclined to try it anytime soon. If I end up wanting to revisit those gays, I'll probably just watch s1 and and s2 again instead :D
Thank youuu :D ♥
(and sorry again for breaking the rules)
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Yeah, there's a Free! movie called Starting Days which introduces the s3 cast, but isn't very interesting cause it's set during their time as kids. Kids are boring D:
Iconing in 2003 was (for me at least), cropping a picture, resizing it (in paint! so it was gross and pixelly!) and uploading as an 'icon' lol
OH NO, this brings back painful (and dumb) memories. So, I had already transitioned to PS from Gimp. But I couldn't for some reason figure out how to resize images in PS, so I always started my iconing process the same way: I resized a Farscape screencap in Paint, always to 20% exactly, it's not like we need any experimenting with crops; that is the number. Then I copypasted it into PS as a base and started putting on crappy coloring and textures. Somehow I never realized that this makes my icons grainy and awful, all my icons looked like this but I just thought that was normal... Never occurred to me that some programs may have superior resizing algorithms over others. WELL, thankfully I met a guy who was also into Photoshop and showed how easy it is to resize stuff in PS. How tf did I miss this piece of information in the first place since i did read tutorials and it's not like a very hidden feature anyway, I have no idea. xD
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I love how everyone everywhere agrees about post-Aizen Bleach being bad. How did that manga even last so long?
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And even though I have watched like half of a single fandom from this post, I have almost admired your painting/coloring skills! My favourites are 2, 10 and 19 - such an eye-catching colors! I love the romantic "driving into the sunset" feel you went for in 16 and great composition in 18 too, I love far/close crops in the same icon.
Great job! ♥
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I especially like 3 (yes primary colors!), 5, (you colored it? Wow, manga coloring is a skill all in itself), 12, 14, 15, 16 (yes, that coloring turned out so soft!), and 20 (great composition).
Also, now I want to watch Promare. :D
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