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Four panel Christmas Bleach omake! Every comic in WSJ had one! Thanks to Annie for finding it and Pikeish for translating it. It's posted in the IchiRuki FC at BA HERE. Iba... LOL. Now we're waiting for a picture of the spine with Rukia on it! Won't someone take a pic of it, please? It's said you can see Chad's muscles in it so he's the third guy in the 2010 Year of Bleach line-up.

I took a break from drawing Nnoitra every five seconds, because the most recent episode made me a bit sad, after weeks of being frustrated with it. I conveyed it through Byakkun :)


Kuchiki Byakuya on my dA

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You probaly see a load of bootleg (un-offical) stuff on ebay and stuff right?
Its sometimes hard to tell if its offical or not.
But most of the times things that are un-offical are obvious.

Anyway, I was on google and found this website:

http://www.salesmanb2b.com/index.php/list/i/a/shugo-chara.html

They call themselves the one of the largest shugo chara sellers,
when all they sell is bootleg!?

What do you guys think?
The shugo chara stuff on the website aren't quality merch at all.
Im so glad we've got stormfaerie to help us with our shopping (:

here at sunbell

more here COLOR OF DESPAIR

Thank you Syn and Zan for the update and poster images about movie 4 that came out with this week's Bleach chapter. Looks like the movie is going to feature Ichigo big bad Hollow form and is coming out next December. We'll be told more about the movie in the next issue of WSJ (two weeks from now--there's a break for Xmas) Side one of the poster with bloody Hollowfied Ichigo (click to enlarge) is hella cool with nifty textures and blood spatterings. Very creepy. The other side of the poster (click to enlarge) features a standard Kubo spread of amazing composition and fun perspective--does anyone want to comment on Aizen's swirly versus Ichigo's flowy and how the beam divides the deep hole from the upper city? Wait--what's Tousen doing there? If this is the movie, does Tousen live? Only two years to wait for a sub in English. *sigh*
pikeish  of text on the poster. The movie poster side features Ichigo's Hollow in "sumie-style" the poster says and it was drawn by Kudo, not Kubo (the other side, the one with Ichigo and the three villians is classic Kubo). Sumie style was used in ancient Japanese art to represent hell and demons like this picture of Emna.
( announcement text ) There was also a 4-panel Christmas omake of Ichigo in SS that came along with this chapter but hasn't surfaced yet and we don't have pictures of the spine yet either. I'll have those for you when they appear. All we know is that the spine is Rukia and it looks like Chad is going to be the third character of the year on the spine of 2010 WSJ Year of Bleach.

Mostly a flashback concerning Kouga and how he rebelled against Soul Society

( HA HA! I love being right! )

Edit: Fixed broken cut

Shugo Chara!: 80
- [39] Ikuto
    → [18] ickle Ikuto (1 with Utau)
- [19] Nikaidou
    → [02] ickle Nikaidou (1 with text)
- [07] Kukai
- [01] Kukai + Tadase
- [05] Tadase
    → [01] ickle Tadase
- [01] Rima
- [08] Chara
    → [01] Miki
    → [01] Suu
    → [01] Kiseki
    → [01] El
    → [01] Musashi
    → [03] Yoru
Gundam Wing: 6
killer7 (Dan Smith): 6
Miscellaneous: 10



( I may have gotten a little carried away )

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This French sentence is highly connoted; it's used in law courts, asking the jurors their conviction about the innocence or culpability of a man. It's meant to ask what is your own opinion, that you have deep inside of you, about this story. This is also something I have in my signature in BA, for more than a year now.


( Facts as they are )

( important!wordy!blah and more blah! )


I welcome comments to this manifesto here before I link it to the user page. I could change some things depending on what sort of feedback I get.

Hello, I'm a long-time lurker (this place is a great lurkdom), and I think this is my first time ever opening a post here. I've been interested in Koto's international exchange of having Rukia in different cultural costumes for a while now, but I've been so busy with school that I only recently have time to draw anything for fun at all. I'm so happy to finally finish this one and contribute to the community.

Here is the picture.

If anyone is familiar with my drawings, they'll know that I mainly draw Byakuya/Hisana, so I can't resist putting Hisana in costume here as well. Have the Kuchiki sisters in Vietnamese ao dai. Hope it's still okay. Two for the price of one! :D

Alright, so I am not sure if this has been discussed before, but I have two questions regarding Soul Society, as I am not sure what to think.


1. The fact that Soul Society is clearly Japanese is due to Kubo's nationality and stands as a kind of logical mistake? I mean, it's not only that everyone dresses Japanese way, talk Japanese, but there wasn't even one character that had none-Japanese name. Or are there more Soul Societies? Like, for Europe, America etc.? Or is it universal? If so, then where are people of other countries?


2. I know shinigami live a long life, but are they actually immortal? If so, then they cannot have children - mortality drives reproductive capacity, that's how it is. But seeing the mechanism of noble houses... Byakuya had a grandfather, so clearly we see generations and thus the ability to bear children. So maybe the ammount of births is controlled? Like in China? And if it isn't, but shinigami are still immortal, to balance the births and deaths, shinigami would have to die by the same number as children are born. And it may be it, seeing as they die a lot and because they are soldiers, they don't really think of having kids - but the hectic time Soul Society has right now is due to Aizen, which only lasts for two hundred years. What about earlier, then?
That's not a problem if they are indded mortal - they age, after all, and somehow, it doesn't sound fun to remain an old man/woman for eternity.