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Backgrounds for my Mononoke parody animatic...which is almost certainly not going to be finished before the movie comes out! T_T
I finished these early June and it feels so good to finally share them. So much the details were cropped in the shots, so I'm glad they see the light of day!
Give him a gold star, he tried ⭐️
Frames from my WIP animatic! You can find more of them under my animatic tag!
More stills from my animatic! Kame's not impressed with Kon-Kusuriuri's drinking habits.
Late night Procreate doodle of extrapolating on my angsty Mononoke AU in which Kon-Kusuriuri inherits the role of the sword spirit after Shingi dies. I cleaned up in Photoshop! Original sketch below the cut:
More stills from my animatic! Kame's not impressed with Kon-Kusuriuri's drinking habits.
More stills from my animatic! Instead of uploading them all at once, I'll space them out in a span of a few days.
Hm. This takes some explaining. I shared this illustration of Kon-Kusu inheriting the role of Shingi on Twitter, and shirousagi_mono wrote a story inspired by that idea! And I in turn was inspired to translate that story and drew some supplemental visuals for it!
English transcript below the cut.
If the spirit of an exorcism sword dies in combat, the mononoke still needs to be cut down. In such extenuating circumstances, would the medicine seller be promoted to a divine status to fulfill that duty?
↓Partial process video below the cut! ↓
Translation: This is a story about Shingi and ☷ inspired by this illustration by Tiffany Hayashi (@purplealmonds ). I'll leave it to your imagination to decide if it's a dream, the past, or the future.
[Source]
My English translation of the fic and a transcript of the original text are below the cut! As a disclaimer, I am not in no way an expert at translating Japanese, and I took some creative liberties with the text.
EDIT: My translation here absolutely mangled parts of the narrative so I've deleted it. Please refer to this new post (with accompanying illustrations) for a more accurate version!
If the spirit of an exorcism sword dies in combat, the mononoke still needs to be cut down. In such extenuating circumstances, would the medicine seller be promoted to a divine status to fulfill that duty?
↓Partial process video below the cut! ↓
A few frames from my WIP animatic! Maybe I'll finish it before the end of the year (highly unlikely) or before the second movie comes out (also unlikely)!
Sketched a scene from @/mani_monoh's (Twitter) Mononoke fanfic.
Update: I colored it!
Their arrival was met with much fanfare, the locals drawn to them like moths to a flame. I originally wanted a much more muted palette for this, but I was suddenly enamored with the aesthetic of risograph and the colors got away from me. 😅🌈
✏️Work in progress
Debating whether or not I should keep the lineart. I'm accustomed to illustrating in a line-less style but the sketch is so clean...
Either way, wish me luck in coloring in 13 characters haha
Relight the lantern 🏮🕯️
Sky 🤝 モノノ怪
This mostly pertains to Ri-Kusuriuri from the 2007 anime, but I found some influences in Kun-Kusuriuri from the 2024 movie as well.
Kohl makeup resembles the medicine seller's eyeliner. The lines extending from that eyeliner resemble the eyes of Ra and Horus representing the sun (Yang) and moon (Yin) respectively.
That's just scratching the surface. More thoughts below the cut!
Burdened with a growing suspicion that Kitagawa is some sort of ghost.
I would love to hear your thoughts
That is my hunch as well! Unlike the other women in the ooku who have earth or plant based names (Kame aside), Kitagawa, which translates to "North River", is the only one who has a purely water-based name. I wrote up a breakdown of all the name meanings over a month ago here!
If Kitagawa is already completely one with the water, a.k.a. the Karakasa, there is good reason to believe that she is already dead. I believe that in the movie synopsis they talk about kind of yet-to-be-described 'tragedy' that happened right before Kame and Asa were hired.
More thoughts beneath the cut. It's my thoughts based on released trailers, but potential spoiler warnings ahead.
