Scans, scans and scans
I... meant to just scan the Persona 3 official manga's 1st chapter but I have the tendency to scan a bunch of things at once if I ever started scanning something (because most of the time I'm too lazy to scan anything) so, uh... You people get loads of stuff this time.
Dragon Shadow Spell novel
Coloured artworks are by Takano Hironori (the game's character designer) while the B&W ones are drawn by Marui Yuuichirou.
Cover
The characters (finally we get Shizui's artwork on paper!)
Colour poster (Tatsuki and Laika VS Giganto Beast)
B&W: Shizui sitting on top of Suihi (SHIZUI OUT OF HIS UNIFORM YEESSS!! *__*)
B&W: The new girls in the novel
B&W: Kaito and 'Madoka'
B&W: Tatsuki and Laika
B&W: Kaito and 'Madoka' (I like this scene)
B&W: Kaito and 'Madoka' (but I love this scene the most)
Thoughts on the novel (spoilers for both novel and the online Bonus Scenario!):
I like what Flight-Plan is doing by showing us more stories for this game by going through the novel and the Bonus Scenarios on the website. After reading the novel and the online Bonus Scenario, we can see that they go in one straight line towards the game. The online Bonus Scenario happened a few days (maybe a week or two) after the novel and the game starts off probably a week or two after the online BS, too. A lot of things I've been wondering about in the game finally got answered through these two medias. Questions like why Kaito wasn't in school, how did he cope with his powers before Suihi came up with Dragunar Mode and so on.
Also, you get to see a lot more friendship moments between Shizui and Kaito. Shizui didn't show up enough in the game for us to understand his character and I thought he was suspicious in the game but it does turn out he cares for Kaito deeply inside. *pushes aside urges to pair the two up* So, um, after reading the online BS and knowing more of what goes on in Shizui's head, I realized I like him a lot. ;_; *gives him a hug* If the game does get a sequel and he makes another appearance there, I hope he doesn't show up with a bad matrix infection...
Speaking of sequels, if there's one I bet Aki will show up there. As a varliant too! XD Kaname, too, but that's only if someone visits Kaito's school. But wow, to see Kaito having such a deep connection with his ancestor is quite... wow. Ancestor-san, I wanna draw you someday! ;_; And I had to LOL on how Avie turns out to be the main villain in the novel. Since both Avie and Laika use guns and both like using the computer, I bet these two always race to outbid each other on online gun auctions without knowing who's on the other side. :P "Argh, it's that Varliant_Mania again! Stop trying to steal my auctions!" "Argh, it's that Cat_Lover again! Don't you ever give up!?"
Persona 3 official manga series chapter 1 (Artist: Soukabe Shuuji)
*copy/pastes what she wrote on the GF P3 board*
The first chapter is more like a prologue/preview chapter, where it starts off from [spoilers!]thebattlewiththelastfullmoonshadow[/spoilers] while also showing some scenes of when the hero first coming into the dorm. The whole chapter kinda has an abstract feel to it, kinda like the game's opening anime, with some monologues here and there.
Art looks great, but I kinda don't like the artist's choice of screentones. (thin lineart with big-dot screentones don't go together!!) Action scenes are too messy that I can't make out where is what unless I stae long enough. But overall, the manga kinda captures the same feel you get in the game. Except that now the hero speaks for himself, of course. And he gets the name Arisato Minato.
April Dengeki Maou cover
P3 booklet cover (old artwork)
Page 8 (Arisato moving to the dorm)
Page 9
Page 10
Page 11
Page 12 (Junpei!)
Page 13 (And as a Junpei/HeroArisato fangirl, I had to laugh and squee at this page XDD)
Page 15 (for the Arisato/Aegis fans~)
Page 17 (LOL, Arisato stole Junpei's sword)
Page 18
Page 21 (Soukougeki~! But ROFLOL, Junpei doesn't know what to do 'cause he's weaponless. XDDD)
Page 23 (despite the messiness in this page that you can't tell what's going on at first glance, it's actually a cool scene, where Arisato stabbed the shadow with the sword and in the next page shot his head for his Persona)
Page 33 (Most beautiful page in this chapter, in my opinion)
Page 34 (... Soukabe-sensei isn't secretly a Junpei/Arisato fan, right? :P)
Page 36 (Ryouji~!! <3<3)
..... It's so weird to call the Hero by a name now! I mean, come on, I named him "Hayato" in my game and the comic anthologies call him "Shujinkou" only and now we have an "Arisato"! We might as well call him Bob too from now on. :P
Kingdom Hearts 2 novels
Eeer, yeah, finally got around to scanning these.
Volume 3
Cover
Back cover: Minnie and Daisy
Poster: Leon and Cloud
B&W: Beast Castle (Sora grinning like an idiot here makes me want to grin like an idiot too)
B&W: Disney Castle
B&W: Timeless River
B&W: Donald and Daisy at Disney Castle
B&W: Xemnas meets...!? (SPOILERS! Scene that's not in game!)
Volume 4
Cover
Back cover: Namine and Kairi (And the yuri fanboys cheer)
Poster: The other Trinity
B&W: Leon, Cid and Merlin (I like Leon's face expression XD)
B&W: Sora, Hayner and Pence in the computer room
B&W: Kairi kicking ass
B&W: Maleficient and Pete
B&W: The final battle
March Ultra Jump
This mag is for wenlet. Don't worry about your books' spine, I was careful to not open them wide. *_*;
Mini Artbook (just scanned artworks by my favourite artists... and some extras)
Miggy
Oh!Great (brief nudity)
Wada Rco (just scanned this because I know ultra_butterfly is a fan of Wada)
Miwa Shirow (panty shots! 8D)
Itoh Yu (erm, I just scanned this because I keep hearing about this manga almost everywhere too. need to find an old copy of it...)
DOGS chapter 17 (I dunno if there's someone out there scanning the DOGS chapters or not but I scanned some pages anyway)
I like Haine's face in the middle panel
3rd last page
2nd last page
Last page
This whole chapter has no screentones. It's so funny to see Badou with no screentone in his hair. XD
Okay, done. OTL *exhausted now*
Dragon Shadow Spell novel
Coloured artworks are by Takano Hironori (the game's character designer) while the B&W ones are drawn by Marui Yuuichirou.
Cover
The characters (finally we get Shizui's artwork on paper!)
Colour poster (Tatsuki and Laika VS Giganto Beast)
B&W: Shizui sitting on top of Suihi (SHIZUI OUT OF HIS UNIFORM YEESSS!! *__*)
B&W: The new girls in the novel
B&W: Kaito and 'Madoka'
B&W: Tatsuki and Laika
B&W: Kaito and 'Madoka' (I like this scene)
B&W: Kaito and 'Madoka' (but I love this scene the most)
Thoughts on the novel (spoilers for both novel and the online Bonus Scenario!):
I like what Flight-Plan is doing by showing us more stories for this game by going through the novel and the Bonus Scenarios on the website. After reading the novel and the online Bonus Scenario, we can see that they go in one straight line towards the game. The online Bonus Scenario happened a few days (maybe a week or two) after the novel and the game starts off probably a week or two after the online BS, too. A lot of things I've been wondering about in the game finally got answered through these two medias. Questions like why Kaito wasn't in school, how did he cope with his powers before Suihi came up with Dragunar Mode and so on.
Also, you get to see a lot more friendship moments between Shizui and Kaito. Shizui didn't show up enough in the game for us to understand his character and I thought he was suspicious in the game but it does turn out he cares for Kaito deeply inside. *pushes aside urges to pair the two up* So, um, after reading the online BS and knowing more of what goes on in Shizui's head, I realized I like him a lot. ;_; *gives him a hug* If the game does get a sequel and he makes another appearance there, I hope he doesn't show up with a bad matrix infection...
Speaking of sequels, if there's one I bet Aki will show up there. As a varliant too! XD Kaname, too, but that's only if someone visits Kaito's school. But wow, to see Kaito having such a deep connection with his ancestor is quite... wow. Ancestor-san, I wanna draw you someday! ;_; And I had to LOL on how Avie turns out to be the main villain in the novel. Since both Avie and Laika use guns and both like using the computer, I bet these two always race to outbid each other on online gun auctions without knowing who's on the other side. :P "Argh, it's that Varliant_Mania again! Stop trying to steal my auctions!" "Argh, it's that Cat_Lover again! Don't you ever give up!?"
Persona 3 official manga series chapter 1 (Artist: Soukabe Shuuji)
*copy/pastes what she wrote on the GF P3 board*
The first chapter is more like a prologue/preview chapter, where it starts off from [spoilers!]thebattlewiththelastfullmoonshadow[/spoilers] while also showing some scenes of when the hero first coming into the dorm. The whole chapter kinda has an abstract feel to it, kinda like the game's opening anime, with some monologues here and there.
Art looks great, but I kinda don't like the artist's choice of screentones. (thin lineart with big-dot screentones don't go together!!) Action scenes are too messy that I can't make out where is what unless I stae long enough. But overall, the manga kinda captures the same feel you get in the game. Except that now the hero speaks for himself, of course. And he gets the name Arisato Minato.
April Dengeki Maou cover
P3 booklet cover (old artwork)
Page 8 (Arisato moving to the dorm)
Page 9
Page 10
Page 11
Page 12 (Junpei!)
Page 13 (And as a Junpei/HeroArisato fangirl, I had to laugh and squee at this page XDD)
Page 15 (for the Arisato/Aegis fans~)
Page 17 (LOL, Arisato stole Junpei's sword)
Page 18
Page 21 (Soukougeki~! But ROFLOL, Junpei doesn't know what to do 'cause he's weaponless. XDDD)
Page 23 (despite the messiness in this page that you can't tell what's going on at first glance, it's actually a cool scene, where Arisato stabbed the shadow with the sword and in the next page shot his head for his Persona)
Page 33 (Most beautiful page in this chapter, in my opinion)
Page 34 (... Soukabe-sensei isn't secretly a Junpei/Arisato fan, right? :P)
Page 36 (Ryouji~!! <3<3)
..... It's so weird to call the Hero by a name now! I mean, come on, I named him "Hayato" in my game and the comic anthologies call him "Shujinkou" only and now we have an "Arisato"! We might as well call him Bob too from now on. :P
Kingdom Hearts 2 novels
Eeer, yeah, finally got around to scanning these.
Volume 3
Cover
Back cover: Minnie and Daisy
Poster: Leon and Cloud
B&W: Beast Castle (Sora grinning like an idiot here makes me want to grin like an idiot too)
B&W: Disney Castle
B&W: Timeless River
B&W: Donald and Daisy at Disney Castle
B&W: Xemnas meets...!? (SPOILERS! Scene that's not in game!)
Volume 4
Cover
Back cover: Namine and Kairi (And the yuri fanboys cheer)
Poster: The other Trinity
B&W: Leon, Cid and Merlin (I like Leon's face expression XD)
B&W: Sora, Hayner and Pence in the computer room
B&W: Kairi kicking ass
B&W: Maleficient and Pete
B&W: The final battle
March Ultra Jump
This mag is for wenlet. Don't worry about your books' spine, I was careful to not open them wide. *_*;
Mini Artbook (just scanned artworks by my favourite artists... and some extras)
Miggy
Oh!Great (brief nudity)
Wada Rco (just scanned this because I know ultra_butterfly is a fan of Wada)
Miwa Shirow (panty shots! 8D)
Itoh Yu (erm, I just scanned this because I keep hearing about this manga almost everywhere too. need to find an old copy of it...)
DOGS chapter 17 (I dunno if there's someone out there scanning the DOGS chapters or not but I scanned some pages anyway)
I like Haine's face in the middle panel
3rd last page
2nd last page
Last page
This whole chapter has no screentones. It's so funny to see Badou with no screentone in his hair. XD
Okay, done. OTL *exhausted now*