Naoto coaster done  :)  (of course, I had this all sketched out before Persona 4 Golden had that whole epilogue thing, but I still like how novel Naoto looks).  It might be hard to see around the edge, but it says, “I am a woman, and a detective,” because for some reason there’s this idea going around that now that Naoto seems comfortable with being a woman (be it the novel or the Golden epilogue), that makes her less bad ass.  Thinking that way just proves her original point of thinking she needed to be a man to get any respect.  Why are we assuming she’s suddenly not as cool because she accepts herself?  Come on, this is the same Naoto who helped put the pieces together for Namatame, who called Adachi out for his crimes, and who stood with us against Izanami, and that was all AFTER the big reveal.  At what point did she become less bad ass?  And no, pointing out her being flustered over getting on stage in a swimsuit or getting in a hot springs doesn’t count, being shy does not make a person less awesome.  

And no, I’m absolutely not against the idea of Naoto being trans, I already spoke my piece about that in which I don’t really care how you interpret her (or him), Naoto is amazing no matter what.  The point of the coaster is to say hey, the girl interpretation of Naoto Shirogane does not ruin her awesome status for me.  She can still kick ass, still does, and still will.

Um… now that that rambling is done… enjoy the coaster?

Progress pictures of the Jack Frost mirror I’m making.  I originally was going to leave it at the four woodburned ones, but after realizing that there’s many more Jacks out there, I thought they all needed love.

The only ones I didn’t include are the ones in Soul Hackers, who look like the standard Jack Frost but are just different colors, which wouldn’t really work on a woodburning since I’m not going to paint it.  

Debating on either painting the Shin Megami logo on the glass, or painting “HEE HOO” on it  ^^  Leaning more towards “Hee Hoo”  :)

You’re working on a Jack Frost mirror, you have four of them burned on there, then as you’re looking for reference pictures for Raidou Jack you find like five other ones too.

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… sigh  *starts sketching the other ones*  The robot one is kinda cute, though  ^^ 

A coaster to match with these: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4y28mbFjY1rt1zjto1_500.jpg

Of course now I have the idea of woodburning the actual cards onto blocks, I may try with one of them if I have time  ^^

Urm… yeah, uh… cross-dressing Kanji coaster!  I don’t know where I got the idea of just having the hair and scar, but then I felt it was missing something so… get bent? I dunno, I’m rather fond of crossdressing Kanji (or any form of Kanji, really…) so… ta da?  And it’s heart-shaped because… o.k. you know what, I don’t need a reason, please to be getting bent!

A sort of close of picture from the massive post I made of coasters.  Playing with shading with a woodburner is fun  :)  I also feel the need to paint Naoto’s hat no matter what I’m doing for her, I don’t know why  ^^;;;

Sadly I didn’t get to the entire team, but I do have two more on the way: Adachi and Yukiko (with those weird glasses).  It’s convention crunch time, so yeah, this blog is going to be full of random things I’ll be selling at Anime Iowa.  

You know, maybe they’re right, maybe Atlus is an awful company.  Think about it!

1.  The fact that you can name your character whatever you want, means that you can name him something offensive, which is just outrageous!  This means you can walk around being called horrible things for all the world to see.  Oh, and the fact that this boy is a blank slate to begin with shows their opinion of teenage boys: that they are blank and can’t think for themselves, they need someone to guide them.

2.  The fact that everyone needs glasses clearly, clearly shows that Atlus thinks that we, as people, can’t see the truth, and that we need help.  Assholes.

3.  The fact that Adachi is the bad guy shows what they think of the police.  Police are evil, evil people, at Atlus knows this, since a police officer is the bad guy here.  Nevermind the fact that Dojima and Naoto are good detectives, ADACHI is a clear statement against “the man,” or… something.

4.  Don’t get me started on their opinion about gas station attendants!

Please understand that I’m being silly, I love Atlus… even if they think I need glasses.  Although, getting together and baking cupcakes to send to the company ala Mass Effect 3 might be fun, we can make Teddie shaped ones!

Making progress!  Anime Iowa is soon so things need to be woodburned and ready to sell.  First up is – surprise surprise – Persona things!  The first coaster is of Minato and Thanatos, the second is of Naoto.  Expect much, muuuuuch more Persona things being posted soon.  This is going to be like a craft blog for the rest of the month  :)

Or why every fandom hurts… sometimes.  Yes, said in that “Everybody hurts” song melody.

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More pictures of Persona 4 Arena and just the Atlus area in general from E3.  There were red and yellow couches in the middle where you could sit that had free candy though blue couches would’ve just blew my mind, they still fit the color scheme though  As you can see, the walls were decorated with P4 Arena, and there was a giant T.V. overhead that played trailers to Atlus games (mostly Persona 4 related, let’s face it, the Atlus area was mostly Persona 4 con).  

The badge holder has already been posted, so no need to post mine.

As you can see, there were also Atlus booth babes, which I thought was kinda cute (I didn’t expect there to be any) it would’ve been super ridiculously cool if they had Teddie ears or something.  The Chie picture, I was mostly trying to show the badge from Destructoid of P4 being nominated for best fighter.  It’s got tough competition with Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Street Fighter X Tekken for the Vita, and I’m not sure if they’re counting Injustice since it wasn’t playable, but from watching the demo they were showing… wow, just… fighters are REALLY making a comeback!

I played more P4 and I think I’m getting better!  I was amused when one of the boys asked if I played “these games” and I just kind of chuckled like, “Oh yeah,” then proceeded to beat the crap out of him with Chie, to which he was like, “Oh shit.”  I tried Naoto again and I’m at least learning to put her gun away, lol!  Chie is just a warrior though, I really, really like using her, but I’m the type that wants the small and fast characters  ^^  Kanji is still an unfair jerk, definitely the one where you think the attack is over then his persona comes crashing down to stab you with a lightning bolt.  

There was this guy there who was really pretty amazing with Naoto, and we chatted about Persona 4 in general while fighting.  It’s really cool how each character’s intro sayings seem to change depending on who they’re fighting, it’s like, they REMEMBER that this group is a group of friends.  Kanji, of course, gets flustered around Naoto.  But hell, even YOSUKE says something different to Naoto compared to like, Chie or whatever, and his interaction with her is pretty limited in P4.  He actually calls her a “pint-sized detective,” which… yeah, he would TOTALLY call her that and get his ass kicked for it  I also tried the fight stick, which was fun too, but I’m use to sticks having six buttons and this one just has four.  But they really are the only four buttons you use, so that makes sense.  

And yes, in the dub, that’s Johnny Yong Bosch as Souji/Yu.  I’m not sure what they’ll do for the anime, if they do anything at all, since him and Adachi are the same.  It’s kinda weird hearing Souji/Yu talk, not because it’s a bad voice or anything, but because as far as P4 dubs go I’m use to him being silent.  Now he has a voice!