I just found out this morning that FUNimation is losing the license to Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The movie sequel to the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime is going, too. A metaphorical dark cloud has been hanging over my head ever since.
So, now I guess I'd better buy all the "Brotherhood" DVDs. I hope I have the money for that. I was hoping they'd put out some special edition type thing before the license expired. That's what I was saving up for. I couldn't care less about the movie. It was awful.
Still, that's the least of my worries. From what I hear, the license is reverting back to Aniplex, which is a company that likes to jack up the prices on DVDs, sell them for a limited time, and then just sit on their properties as the titles waste away. I'm afraid that the series will be largely forgotten after that happens.
Then again, it's probably largely forgotten as far as Japan is concerned. I read a blog detailing that Japanese audiences are much less sentimental about their series than American audiences. Of course, anime and manga is made for Japanese consumers. The foreign markets are just added bonuses. This makes sense, but it also makes me feel powerless.
I had a feeling that this would happen someday. I just never expected it so soon. This is the worst Groundhog Day ever!
I just subscribed to FUNimation the other day. My name there is (surprise!) KebaFox. Feel free to add me as a friend.
What brought on this subscription is two things. The first is that they extended the free trial period to 30 days, and I wanted to take advantage of that. The second is that FUNi is going to lose their license to Baccano! in, like, a week, and that anime has been on my list for some time. I'm finally watching it, and it's very intriguing. Violent, but intriguing.
Only time will tell whether I continue my subscription after the trial period ends. I probably won't, though.
In other news, I still have an art block. I have two traditional drawings in the works, and two of the three Challenge prizes sketched and scanned, but once I finish those (and that third Challenge prize), I have no clue what to do next.
My problem, as I've stated before, isn't subject matter. It's situations. I've looked up those "draw the squad" memes, but most of them are absolutely silly. If anyone comes across any group pictures or prompt meme-type-things that I might find inspiring, please link them. Thanks.
And I don't mean the building kind.
I've just been having trouble coming up with ideas. I want to draw characters, but I have no idea what they should be doing. I haven't written anything in ages. Heck, I don't even feel like posting last year's sketches or my Survival Instincts draft. Is "posting block" a thing?
There is some good news. I set up an account on Picarto. After a lot of frustration, I got it to work. If I can do a livestream on Tuesday, I will. It'll be for those Challenge prizes that should have been finished by now. I haven't even sketched the third one. But the first two are sketched. Hopefully, that will help me with my various blocks. Maybe.
OK, so I want to enter this contest. I even have a picture. The picture may or may not be done. What I mean by that is that I have no clue whether it's good enough. I thought it was winning material until I saw this one picture by someone roughly half my age who had madd skillz.
I realize there's only so much I can do right now as far as technique is concerned. I'd like a second opinion (and a third, and a fourth) as to what I could do better, but I don't know if I can actually make it better. At least not without scrapping a lot of my work.
Really, I don't know what I'm trying to say. I know I'm agonizing over this way too much. It's not like I'm super-invested with the contest. I know my chances of winning are slim. And even in the off chance that I win, what then? Do I lose the rights to my work? Will it end up in the hole that is DevantART, posted by 100 people that aren't me? Still, I want to enter, and I don't know why.
I saw the new Star Wars finally yesterday. I've been feeling all nostalgic ever since. When I was a kid, Star Wars sparked my imagination. It's what inspired me to create stories.
Now I've been thinking about all those old stories I created (OK, so I only linked to two pictures of the same character-- I don't have any others) and I want to do something with them. No, I'm not going to rewrite the stories. As much as I hate to say it, stories like Pwekeyes (my Star Wars ripoff) and Happiness (my Sailor Moon ripoff) are beyond help. I want to do some kind of weird sci-fi AU thing with all my OCs-- a six-way crossover, if you will. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I promise I won't start anything until my three ongoing stories are compete. After all, I want to include characters from those series. Maybe by that time, I'll actually have a plot.
Dang, somebody help me.
