some more asakiku doodles (guess who didn’t know that was a thing until this morning??)
also most of you might not know but I did my university dissertation about pirates and LEMME TELL U ABOUT JAPAN KICKING ASS AT BEING PIRATES way to go island buddy
Anonymous asked: You like Japan best? That's cool! Now I'm curious though, what is the general feeling of the English towards the Japanese?
Gosh, that’s hard to answer- I can’t speak for everyone, but my impression with most people is that of admiration. There are a lot of businesses who are trying to remodel their economics and public relation services off Japanese models and we’ve had entire art movements that have been influenced by their culture, although our efforts were never anywhere near the quality of the original. I guess the feeling that I’ve encountered time and again is that of “wow, I wish our country was more like that…”
Which makes it even more surprising and flattering when Japanese people visit our country and say such kind things, especially when they love something that, we imagine, is relatively obscure on a global scale.
Basically I’ve never met anyone from the UK with a bad thing to say about Japan, we’re pretty much a low-key fan club (and according to my history lessons we have been for a pretty darn long time) :Tb
APH doodles to warm up (Japan how do draw your perfect hair)
also a head’s up I’m off visiting my sister from tomorrow through to tuesday, I’ll update the comic in the morning but I’ll be away for a while!
Misnaming aside (England does not a UK make...) I actually really do like the caricature of the UK! A lot of the personality-of-the-nation observations are really dead on, although frankly I think it’s a little rose-tinted (and I will fight you to the death on the point of fish and chips being delicious). The fact that he’s critically tsundere and ghost obsessed is all too adorably real. As for the whole EU thing, the country really seems to be massively split about it… it’s scary…
This is the finished product of a old picture I started sometime last year.
I had the idea that during England’s tweens/early teens when he first started self teaching himself magic he would noticed this man lingering around watching significant figures of history or talking to young men and women who would later go missing or befall madness. He figures out over the years that the man is a fae creature and is preying on his citizens thus leading to this scene.