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ROTHY Dakini! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Dakini!
#76: Mar 9th 2024 at 7:58:56 AM

He still had the circles around his eyes in his cameo at the end of Pandemonium, so he must have fixed his sleep schedule in about 2 years, haha. Then again, that same page he's on has the Unicorn Fox who was supposed to be Prakasha's original design, so maybe Sho didn't plan him showing up again initially.

An artist friend of mine does like the art style change, but hasn't been impressed by most of the character designs so far. That's probably because of the much lower concentration of Rare One characters, aside from Thunder Beasts. He does like Shankha and Higanbana though.

"It's just like... a series of overlapping curses..." - Flower Knight Dakini
Unnerving_Posterior Since: Feb, 2019
#77: Mar 9th 2024 at 8:28:09 PM

I assume your friend's problem is with the non-Rare One critters being boring to look at. I do get where they're coming from — I found the regular critters' designs more charming under the simpler, more childlike pre-hiatus art style, what with the use of black bead eyes and other elements. The post-hiatus art style, meanwhile, is a lot more pretty and detailed, but also more animesque. Characters looking more animesque and detailed is not a bad thing. In fact, I adore how there's a very realistic-looking bulldog man who sticks out like a sore thumb in chapter 12 of Dakini. But some of the new ones end up looking generic while lacking that "kid's drawing" charm.

I'll admit that I felt the same way as your friend before, but the current style grew on me eventually. That said, you can't deny that Sho is very good at drawing monsters with intricate designs, and their skill at this hasn't diminished in the slightest.

Edited by Unnerving_Posterior on Mar 10th 2024 at 10:45:57 AM

ROTHY Dakini! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Dakini!
#78: Apr 17th 2024 at 7:15:18 AM

The first part of Chapter 16 has been released.

I don't have the time to run it through my translator app at the moment, but there are some massive confirmations of lore here, including Sakasabane making a cameo.

Sho mentioned that the total page count for this chapter is 151, so this is going to be a beefy lore drop chapter.

Edited by ROTHY on Apr 17th 2024 at 12:21:10 PM

"It's just like... a series of overlapping curses..." - Flower Knight Dakini
Unnerving_Posterior Since: Feb, 2019
#79: Apr 17th 2024 at 9:10:46 PM

Remember how I brough up NieR a lot? When I posted all those song suggestions for the soundtracks of hypothetical Hiyokoverse adaptations? After giving Chapter 16 a quick look on the Note website, the lore of the Hiyokoverse — humorously enough — is starting to give off some strong vibes similar to the lore and setting of the first NieR game.

Edited by Unnerving_Posterior on Apr 21st 2024 at 8:21:37 AM

ROTHY Dakini! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Dakini!
#80: May 1st 2024 at 9:28:31 PM

The English version of Chapter 14 has been released. There was some issues with the file Sho shared, so that's why I didn't report on it until now.

We've got more insight into Crain and the Sparnin Brigade's deal, as well as getting to see the first confrontation between Dakini and Higanbana.

"It's just like... a series of overlapping curses..." - Flower Knight Dakini
Unnerving_Posterior Since: Feb, 2019
#81: May 2nd 2024 at 9:35:08 PM

So "Higanbana" is the name for the Thunder Beast with the threads coming out of her irises after all. Huh.

Quick question. Would you say that Sho wanted to deconstruct the idea of the Laser Guided Tyke Bomb with Dakini and her sisters? A recurring theme I notice is that being bred solely to carry out their mother's vendetta against the Sky Golems is a big source of misery for the Thunder Beasts. Dakini is highly deadly but emotionally fragile, and is affected quite badly by seeing the places she loves be reduced to rubble due to her fixation on killing Golems. Higanbana is aparently obsessed with stealing Dakini's sword to prove she's not a failure. And Damini one day gets a concussion, forgets about her mission as a result, falls in love with a fox man, raises a family together with him, and is genuinely happier because of it.

Edited by Unnerving_Posterior on May 4th 2024 at 1:17:55 AM

ROTHY Dakini! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Dakini!
#82: May 3rd 2024 at 9:08:29 AM

Still not yet confirmed what her name is, but you can see why that's been her fan nickname.

I absolutely agree that the Thunder Beasts are not having a good time after being raised like that. Whatever they're implying with Kayoh's ancestry seems to indicate that there's been a long history of regular people and Thunder Beasts interbreeding.

"It's just like... a series of overlapping curses..." - Flower Knight Dakini
Unnerving_Posterior Since: Feb, 2019
#83: May 6th 2024 at 6:13:46 PM

Just for fun; if an Abridged-style parody of Sho's works (à la Team Four Star) were to be made, what jokes would you come up with?

Edited by Unnerving_Posterior on May 7th 2024 at 5:52:06 AM

ROTHY Dakini! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Dakini!
#84: May 7th 2024 at 7:15:31 AM

    The Jackalope 
Mustela: "Your head's full of delusions, Jacka. Your penguin dinosaurs ain't real, your superheroes aren't real, and Sakasabane ain't real!"

Jacka: "That's not true! Sakasabane leaves me presents all the time!"

Mustela: "And how's he getting inside your house?"

Jacka: "Silent explosives and time magic!"

    Pandemonium 
Zipher: "All this stuff I thought was magic is just... things you don't understand?"

Domika "Yes..."

Zipher: "Then... The medicine water, the containers, and Brow yelling those weird phrases-"

Domika: "Actually, Brow's just straight up possessed. Everything else is right though."

(And ironically, Brow's possession is the one thing the one thing the Sparnin Brigade don't believe.)

     Dakini 

Anytime Dakini says something we don't hear, the subtitles show what she's really saying, and she can be quite wordy.

Edited by ROTHY on May 9th 2024 at 7:00:32 AM

"It's just like... a series of overlapping curses..." - Flower Knight Dakini
Unnerving_Posterior Since: Feb, 2019
#85: May 8th 2024 at 11:53:06 AM

[up] I don't have as many ideas for dialogue yet, but I can think of a couple of gags and running jokes:

  • I love your take of Sakasabane being the Santa Claus figure of the Hiyokoverse. I think that in addition, it would be funnier if they just call him "Dragon Santa," and folklore says he'll either give you presents or burn your house down depending on how you behave.
  • Everyone mistaking Beatha for an alcoholic because he keeps moping on about "Whiskey" all the time. He is an alcoholic, though. He just prefers to drown his childhood trauma in brandy.
  • Brow acting like a Not-So-Imaginary Friend who dissapears whenever Zipher isn't looking, since in the source material Brow doesn't interact with anyone else until the village meeting in chapter 7 of Pandemonium.
  • The lunches retrieved from the excavation site that the village lives on being, for some mysterious reason, Ben's Originalâ„¢ 90-minute microwavable mushroom risotto. All of it. Having only shitty microwave risotto to eat has driven the villagers a little cuckoo, and Domika randomly launches into a rant about "risotto for lunch, risotto for dinner, risotto coming out of my nose AND OUT MY GODDAMN C[bleep]NT AND I DON'T KNOW WHO BEN EVEN IS!"
  • The border guards of Karacuma getting high off of huffing their glue guns.
  • Yatagarasu showing the research team holograms of the Precursors we know as humanity, but everyone immediately starts screaming in horror at the "hairless monkeys" like they just saw Cthulhu.
  • Optionally, every dog person in the Hitokoverse speaking with German accents, because I noticed how most of the named dog characters have German names.

Edited by Unnerving_Posterior on May 8th 2024 at 1:28:08 AM

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