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Screenshotsofdespair: Assorted Kamen Rider Edition

I'll never understand people using "it looks like a PS2 game" as an insult. Bitch, this is PEAK aesthetic

do you know what is the magazine that the artwork "emerged" comes from? (related, i feel so robed that this design wasn't used for cherub, i mean, do really like SH Cherub, but imagined having this creature in your party)

This is credited in Digital Devil Apocalypse for a magazine called "M2 Discovery." Pretty difficult to find information about due to its fairly mundane name. Its covers all say "Discovery" in romaji but also render it in katakana as "ディスカヴァリー" precisely (as opposed to ディスカバリー, which is how it is misspelled in DDA). It styles itself as a "Mediamix Magazine" (メディアミックスマガジン); the "M2" probably refers to this.

I couldn't find the issue with Emerge but this interesting cover popped up after I found the right spelling:

An issue, volume 26, from November 1996 with SMT2 Michael featuring a "Devil's Compendium" feature that's continued from the previous month's issue. Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything else about the magazine.

I'm personally not that hot on Emerge's cherub as a demon design, but I feel it wasn't intended to be one. Kaneko with some greater artistic freedom going wild.

UPDATE: Added Discovery Jan. 1997 Volume 28 featuring Emerge on the cover, found by Vesk.

I feel like a lot of the biblically accurate angel crowd seem to feel like depictions of angels are too "boring" or they're not religious themselves and think angels are only depicted in the Bible/Christianity. Which is doing such a big disrespect to the gorgeous Jewish and Islamic artwork of angels from hundreds of years ago!

Oh yeah, I saw this all the time when researching this for the Fan Myths last year. Any jokey memes about it are inevitably founded in earnestness.

Even here, "boring babi halo dog" is much closer to reality (relatively) than some imagined "eldritch" nightmare which as a concept has barely been around for 100 years. 😭 At this point, it's basically a test to see who does or doesn't possess enough perspective to see through the meme.

You're right though. While I can't think of much Jewish angel art prior to the 20th century, angels in Islam are imagined quite beautifully with their often kaleidoscopic bird wings.

Can I stop getting attached to depressed lonely boys with trauma surrounding crowns please

...Akira Toriyama died, honestly, of all the people i i thought we might lose this year, no, THIS DECADE, that man was definitely the very last one. Rest in Power

I really thought he would experience Shigeru Mizuki levels of longevity. This one hit me hard, not like any artist or celebrity death in my lifetime. Just instantly felt numb and empty. As a toddler, drawing shovel-faced Dragon Ball caricatures in spiral bound notebooks was my formative experience with visual art and the bedrock for anything I've drawn or observed about art ever since. Only Kenji Watanabe's early TCG work had a comparable hold over me. Growing older and realizing that he was genuinely one of the greatest comic draughtsman and designers who ever lived ensured that impact would survive into adulthood. Can't believe he's already gone.

R.I.P.

I wonder if I’ll ever let go of the fact that they used nephilim in the singular when it is in fact the plural

KIRBY + SONIC

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