Mewling's Sports Manga Special!

[dulciloquy]

10 sports, 16 series, 240 icons. Yes, I have no brain.

[ 72 ] Ookiku Furikabutte
[ 48 ] Slam Dunk
[ 42 ] Eyeshield 21
[ 21 ] Hajime no Ippo
[ 09 ] Beniiro Hero
[ 09 ] REAL
[ 09 ] Whistle!
[ 06 ] Rookies
[ 24 ] Misc. ( 3 each of: Ahiru no Sora, Giant Step, P2 Ping Pong, Prince of Tennis, Power!, Purikyu, Sasameke, Yuuto )

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Comments

[dulciloquy]

^_^ Merci!

[butterflyishida]

zomg, such gorgeous icons!! I loved all of them, even if I only came for and took some ES21 ones.

ES 002 cracked me up horribly. Poor Jumonji...one of the few with any brains in that whole opperation.

The Shin one (035) gave me shivers. It really shows off his intensity. What image is the teary one of Mamori from?

[dulciloquy]

It was especially funny when Kuroki said "keep it down or the Seibu guys'll hear!". *sigh* I'm really fond of Jumonji these days.

The picture of Mamori was on the back of the Japanese volume 18 (I think). I got the scan from mangahelpers. It might be part of a chapter cover, I don't know.

[garowyn]

More Slam Dunk from you -- awesome! Taking 2, 23, 30, 31, 38 of SD, and 2 from PoT. Great work! I will definitely remember to credit.

How is REAL? I've been thinking of looking into it. Looks good.

[dulciloquy]

Thank-you!

Well, it's Inoue Takehiko, so of course it's good. It's quite different from Slam Dunk in that it focuses less on the basketball, and quite a bit on the background of the characters, and their own stories. There's Nomiya, a high school drop out who played basketball. He picked up a girl and got into an accident, leaving him with just a scar and her unable to walk. He then meets Kiyoharu, an ex-sprinter who due to a bone disease lost his leg and now plays wheelchair basketball. And finally Hisanobu, the jerk captain of Nomiya's high school basketball team who considered himself an A-rank guy who becomes paraplegic due to an accident. And is still a jerk.

It's a bit more like Rookies than some of the other sports manga here. I don't recall any games lasting more than a few pages, because the story is more about the development of the characters. A mature sports manga, I suppose, which is reflected by the fact Omanga is scanlating it. It's great that although it's about disabled people, it isn't a pity-fest

[garowyn]

No problem about the rambling. ^_^ It's got me thinking about how many anime fans there are out there into all the current ones, not knowing they're missing one or two of the better series out there.

Sounds great. Thanks for the info!

[sleepingfingers]

I love your coloring! Thank you for the Oofuri and Whistle! icons. :)

[dulciloquy]

Thank-you! Spread the sports manga love!

[svaro]

I am definetly gonna take at least one of the Eyeshield icons (and credit!).
And now, I shall spazz on how much I love these icons.
GAAAH I love how you colored the manga spreads with flat, solid colors... And the cropping of the images gets across incredible moods, too.. For the Eyeshield 37 & 38, you used the same image, right? I was suprised by how the different effects made different moods stand out. Like for me, 37 looks more somber, while 38 has more of a look of shock.

OH THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL.

[dulciloquy]

Kyaa, thank-you so much! Actually, the es21 icons in this bactch are my favourites, because, like Naruto, the art from the manga series lends itself really well to icon making. The manga-ka from both series have a very good sense of light-and-dark balance. I'm still new to Photoshop, and it was much fun playing with those last 12 es21 icons. It's almost all selective colouring.

Fuu. Thank-you so much for the nice comment.