I Think Im Cooking But Im Actually Not

Spoilers for DRV3!

This idea was plaguing my brain since I heard this song!

Papercraft commission of Kokichi and Kaito from Danganronpa! I really need to play these games - the art looks super distinctive, these two sound like interesting foils for each other, and I want to see how the plot plays out!

putting my animation degree to use

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAITO🎉🎉🎉

Boo! It's October so that means it Halloween. My costume is the official Danganronpa artist.

Find it funny how over half of my top five characters have little fangs (Kokichi's fangs are harder to notice than the others but they're there)

Left - 2024 redraw Right - 2019 first original art

I redrew my version of Adira from Tangled the Series, if she got the moonstone!

I love Tenko, I love her soooo much. But someone please take her out that outfit. The tutu cropped top combination is horrendous.

Like I can accept she has bad taste in fashion, but in a comfort over function kind of way. Not… that…

some saimaki doodles :]

All the references I used/ put into this piece!!

(Disclaimer: All of this is based on the stories I was told. When googling I found vastly different information. Which makes sense, Hinduism is the oldest standing religion. Some things I say not be the widespread belief, but it what I was told and believed.)

That being said!

This is a reference to Lord Vishnu and his bull Nandi.

Vishnu is the lord of destruction, destined to end the world when it’s “done” basically.

I felt this fit Kokichi because of the theory Tsumugi wrote him to be the master mind.

I added a snake on his collar to show he was supposed to be Vishnu. The red tassel is supposed the be a “third eye” of sorts. (Originally I was going to portray him as Brahman who has several heads to represent wisdom, but I changed it. That’s why he has the several masks. I guess it could represent him “playing god”.) I also made his sash the toilet paper. That’s also why he looks blue (that and the purple looked weird against the yellow.)

Nandi’s story is where my version splits from the ones I’ve seen online. Basically Nandi was a boy gifted from Vishnu to a farmer who couldn’t have children. The crops started to suffer and the farmer fell ill, so Nandi prayed to Vishnu in order to help. Vishnu eventually came and fixed the crops, but took Nandi and turned him into a bull to use as a steed. Very depressing stuff.

I figured this was pretty Gonta-core (especially considering there’s some telling where Vishnu attacks using Nandi. There’s also a tradition where you whisper secrets into Nandi’s ear, which fits the whole “Gonta knows the secret of the outside world” thing.

I added a Swastika as a sort of contrast for the tragedy. It Hinduism (and many other religions) it’s seen as a symbol of peace and prosperity. So here it’s sorta like a heart sticker on a gushing wound.

In the west, Swastikas were corrupted into a symbol of hatred. I think it fit since Gonta’s sacrifice and intentions were turn into hatred for Kokichi in the group.

Anyway that’s it! If there’s questions feel free to comment or DM me. It’s pretty late so there might be some mistakes I missed, so just point them out so I can fix them.