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Neganium
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[2007-08-11 02:53:35 +0000 UTC]
"It's Neg!! But to no effect..."
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 4141; Deviations: 50; Watchers: 53
Watching: 130; Pageviews: 13308; Comments Made: 2285; Friends: 130
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: I don't tend to like any one artist; just a piece of art itself.Favorite movies: How to Train Your Dragon; The Lion King
Favorite TV shows: Invader Zim; Danny Phantom; A:TLA; Detective Conan; Kaitou Joker
Favorite bands / musical artists: My personal tastes kind of vary. I don't much care about bands or artists on a personal level,.
Favorite books: The Harry Potter series (YES I know it's flawed, and the author sucks; please shut up about it)
Favorite writers: I don't get to read enough books anymore to really say. Once again, I care very little about them on a personal level, unless they're horrid people.
Favorite games: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Majora's Mask
Favorite gaming platform: Back in the day, I was usually about Nintendo consoles, since those were the games I tended to want, and I could only afford so much. Nowadays I'm into (free) PC games, bc I'm broke.
Tools of the Trade: Wacom Intuos Pro (Small); mechanical pencil; colored pencils; traditional pencils; Faber Castell PITT Artist Pens; crayons; MyPaint; Krita; occasionally GIMP 2.8
Other Interests: How To Train Your Dragon; dragons in general; My Little Pony; crossovers; cryptids and the paranormal; fantasizing about living somewhere nicer, or having enough money to afford the things I want or need
# Social Links
https://meganegz.tumblr.com/https://twitter.com/negzplace
# About me
Hellooooooooooo there. :3 I've been a bit more active lately.And look- my art now comes in color! Ooooooooh...
Oh, an important thing to note: do not, I repeat, do NOT post my artwork anywhere else without my express and explicit permission first! You must ask, and unless I made it specifically for you, or unless stated otherwise, the answer will probably be "NO"! Anything that I have allowed anyone to use must put credit where credit is due, which consists of a link to my deviantART page, or to my Tumblr (preferably the former, as the latter is subject to change every now and then)!
This has been a PSA. Thank you for your time, and if you have any questions (provided they aren't stupid or obvious questions), feel free to ask me, and I'll answer if I can.
Current icon made by Kattling
# Comments
Comments: 198
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Aw, thank you!! Most of it is kind of old (though I did store away the oldest of it); still, thanks a lot, and I'm glad you think so! ^w^
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You're very welcome.
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Hey, do you know where I can find the "Demented Cobalt" episode?
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Nowhere online that I know of; sorry.
I downloaded it from a box/cloud type service of someone who had a set or two of the collection. It's since been taken down... and the thing was private (exclusive to a select few), anyways.
I've been seeing a torrent around when I looked for it once, but it seems kind of suspect, and I'm not completely sure if it is what it claims to be or not. :<
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That's a shame.
But, it may be possible for you to send me the episode through stash.
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I... don't think so.
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I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. And I'm very sure that that isn't even legal.
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Maybe someday we'll get the subtitled series we deserve. Until then, Β―\_(γ)_/Β― idk man
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Hopefully that happens soon.
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Unlikely. I'm actually rather curious as to why it hasn't already been done...
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Me too.
Maybe it's just that people are lazy nowadays.
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Naw; people just don't care enough. Far beyond me why; you'd think that they'd have done it on principle- first proper anime series, first one with the beginnings "anime" look?
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I had finally watched the episode "Brother Jetto", and I would like to share my thoughts.
For starters, I found the live action/animated introduction interesting. It wasn't really live action though. It was just a live-action background with animated characters. Didn't understand the reason for it, but...whatever.
Cobalt's english voice actually sort of fit him. Pretty close to how I imagined his voice to sound. He sounds much older than Astro (who was voiced by an actual boy in the 60's dub.)
But the rhino scene, oh boy. That fight scene practically made the whole episode for me. XD. Cobalt literally goes Deadpool and breaks the fourth wall near the end of the fight. To be honest, Cobalt was a better fighter than I thought he would be. He ain't no pushover.
In conclusion, It was an overall enjoyable episode, and it has aged pretty well (despite the more rudimentary animation techniques).
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Animated characters on a live-action background isn't something that's seen a lot anymore, except for CGI because you know. Although, technically the only live-action bit was the opening of the door; the rest of the time it was simply a photo of the Mushi Productions building!
I never really liked his English voice; he sounds too old. And Astro wasn't voiced by a boy; he was voiced by a grown woman, one Billie-Lou Watt! (I think I spelled that right...) She's been in other things, and also voiced the 1960's English dub Kimba. (With very little difference between the two, I might add. :T) She also voiced a lot of extras in both shows, I believe.
I like Cobalt's Japanese voice better. He's still voiced by a male, and therefore still sounds a little older than he should... But this fellow was a lot younger; I forget his name, but I believe a friend once told me that he was 17 when he voiced this part! He managed to make Cobalt sound youthful, at least, and sometimes even squeaky and adorable.
I feel like I once told you (or somebody) that Cobalt was certainly no slouch when it came to fighting. (It might've been someone else I told this, actually, but I cannot remember whom, or if it wasn't just a general statement that I had made about the character.) Granted, in the English dub at least, he doesn't seem to much care for it; but that certainly does not mean that he is incapable of defending himself, or others, as the need may be. In fact, he seemed more ready and willing to fight when it seemed like somebody else was in danger. He's just a friendly, slightly gullible dude that would really rather get along with everybody, but who will wreck your shit if he's been had or if you attack helpless citizens or his friends.
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Huh. I just thought.that Astro's voice actor was a boy because of the name. Man, are names confusing.
I do believe I have heard Cobalt's original Japanese voice before, though. I think I was on this clip I found on youtube:
youtu.be/AOtXP-R6gu8
But now that you mentioned it, the original voice DOES sound a lot better.
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Ah yes, that clip. One of the only ones you can find online anywhere with Cobalt's voice in Japanese. (Unless maybe if you know where to look, I'm sure. Although even then it probably isn't free.)
I have a few Japanese eps with Cobalt in them. One even sort of revolves around him (Demented Cobalt). I don't really know how to extract a clip from them via video editing, though...
But yeah, he at least sounds a bit more childlike. Never actually saw the episode this clip is from, but I know which one it is; although not by name, exactly. I've forgotten it, mostly; but it has to do with a merry-go-round- which, incidentally, is partially why they are arguing in this clip; as you can see, they all seem to want to go on different rides. Uran wants to ride the Merry-Go-Round; guess who wins? (Btw I'm not sure what Cobalt and Atom want to ride; though judging from the backgrounds I'd say that Atom might want to ride the ferris wheel (or it's just the backdrop, and Atom just doesn't want to go on the rides his siblings want), and that Cobalt wants to ride a... swing-type thing? Like those boat thingies?? Or maybe a catapult ride; I've already forgotten what I could see there...)
Girls can also be named Billie and Bobbie! Usually you can tell which is which by how it is spelled. And any name is gender-neutral if you want it to be; social conventions be damned.
(It also helps to look the names up; idk if I ever thought the same thing as you, but I can understand the mistake, almost- her name was Billie Lou Watt! She is since deceased, back in 2001, I believe. Or sometime in the early 2000's, anyway. She was also a soap star for a while, too!)
Gilbert Mack, Cobalt's (Jetto's) English VA, was also the voice of "Mr. Pompous" (AKA Shunsaku Ban, or Higeoyaji (I think), or Mr. Mustachio- the 80's English version had him under the truly appalling nickname of "Daddy Walrus"- although it's probably only terrible to me bc of those folks on Tumblr that have ruined the word "daddy" for everybody. :T). He was probably much to old for the role he was playing with Cobalt/Jetto. Sometimes his voice sounds too deep, and it cracks a lot- although that can be said to suit the character, personally... For all its faults, though, Cobalt, at least, was a fairly well written character (never mind the fact that some of his lines were poorly executed). You should watch "A Deep Deep Secret" next; it's another Cobalt-centric episode- in fact it's the only other one in the whole English dub; idk how many there were in the Japanese version, but I already know of at least one more, and there were probably plenty of them where he at least featured prominently.
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Interesting. I do believe that the name "Zoran" is also androgynous. Is that correct? I remember that you had a debate with another user about that subject.
Also, this is funny, but 60's Astro's English VA also played as Eustace's mom in Courage the Cowardly Dog. XD
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Idk. Not technically, I don't think; but that guy was pissing me off. They were the same person that would repeatedly insist, with little to no prompting whatsoever, that Cobalt and Chi-tan were "obsolete". Chi-tan, I can understand; assuming the same of Cobalt, on the other hand, I cannot forgive. At least not when you're trying to cram it down people's throats at every opportunity. Β That was probably how they got banned from the boards, or something like it; that certainly wasn't the only trouble they started. Granted, I probably could have avoided the argument by replying directly on the post of the person I actually was trying to address, instead of replying on the reply posted by the person I was arguing with. :T
Yeah, I'd heard about that; I didn't actually watch that show much growing up, though. I didn't have cable or satellite, you see; as a matter of fact, I still don't. It's kind of lame, but I kind of doubt that we'll ever have it, due to some others' attitudes towards the idea. And I can see where they're coming from, kind of, but still... I'd kind of like to see some of the shows I like when the come on, ya feel? Especially since the Reboot will more than likely air on one of these channels, since they finally nixed Saturday morning cartoons on network television sometime last year. And you can't put ad block on a TV... at least I don't think so...
Apparently, Youtube had an HTML5 player, as well. I wonder, then, why it lags so much more than on Kiss Anime and Kiss Cartoon? Perhaps it's the type of player being used... They still seem to be different types, after all; or maybe I don't have that as the player for Youtube? Guh, I don't know nothing about this technology shit.
Back on the subject of Courage, I don't think I ever really liked the show that much, anyways... In fact, I seem to dislike a lot of the Cartoon Network "golden age" of cartoons, like the Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, and maybe Samurai Jack (I still haven't seen a lot of that one yet; but it holds the most promise. The other two, on the other hand, I've seen enough to know that it's bland and sometimes even questionable...). I like some older Nickolodean stuff, though, like Invader Zim, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Danny Phantom.
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You mean the fellow with Uran as his profile pic, right? I know him, too. He's too much of a Tezuka purist, TBH. In fact, he instantly rejected the reboot soley because "it wasn't by Tezuka productions". I pity him, sometimes.
I also like Avatar and Invader Zim. If I get the chance, I might do a redesign of the Irken race.
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I've considered something of a hybridization of Irken and human, due to Zim experimenting with human DNA in order to enhance his disguise in certain AUs. I think I drew it a couple of times, but it's been a while.
Oh, god... I think they blocked me on here bc of that (admittedly unnecessary) argument about Uran's name, so I haven't spoken to them in a while- or them me- not that I'd ever want to. I haven't seen them post anything recently, either, so... yeah. I don't like to talk shit, especially when, while we haven't dropped any names, it's still obvious who we're talking about (and likely to an outside observer, to boot). That's kind of a silly reason to dismiss something out of hand, though. Although it sounds like something I might do as a kid, if something I loved was suddenly thrust into the hands of somebody else. In the case of the Zelda series, it's actually a pretty valid fear; although apparently it's already happened a few times, and with some positive results to boot: the Oracles games were made primarily by Capcom, I believe (and something called Flagship Studios, I think? it's been a while since I looked those up), as well as the Four Swords spinoffs and Minish Cap. So, not always a bad thing. Cautious optimism, if nothing else!
That's kind of the policy I have here, actually. Although I must say that the look has definitely grown on me; hard for it not to, considering that I always thought that the animation was pretty swell.
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Oh, my god! The dude actually blocked you? What kind of douche blocks someone over a name? Geez.
I also agree with you on the design. It grew on me as well. I also noticed that he has the same color palette as the original (green shirt=green belt).
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Well, to be fair, I was the unfair asshole instigator in this scenario. I wasn't nice about it, either, iirc. Not after a certain point.
It's the wrong shade of green, and there's some cyan on it, but yeah, I guess.
Btw, in regards to the Reboot, MAGIC, the convention that the teaser debuted at last year, happens on the 27th this month, and will have new information regarding the series, although so far they've been kinda cagey about what, exactly. Although they keep repeating the line about announcing broadcasting partners, so that's probably going to be at least one thing that gets mentioned. I hope they show us a bit more than that, though- hopefully some new animation; although I'd settle for still images and concept art of the series, like... more characters and stuff, and more images of Astro (there's only so many decent images that one can pull for gifs, icons, and blog headers from a single video, ya know).
MAGIC has its own website, as well as a Facebook page. It in and of itself is very new, as this is only the second time the convention has been held. One of the companies responsible for the Reboot, Shibuya Productions, sponsors the event, and is planning to show off some of their work, just like last year. It's held in Monaco; it's apparently free to attend, but it's limited by space- and in my case, by a great deal of distance and travel fees. :T Not to mention there is likely to be one hell of a language barrier... (They speak French there in Monaco.)
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Oh, man.
But I have good news. I've heard news of older characters returning in the reboot. So, I would like to say that it will be cloudy with a chance of Cobalt (or Uran).
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Those are probably just rumors. They haven't said anything much about the series outside of what was put out on the various company websites last year. Speaking of which, since Caribara Animation and Shibuya Productions both have a page dedicated to the show (not to mention it has its own website and newsletter), I wonder if Tezuka Pro. has a page on it. Probably not, since their role in the whole shebang is very passive at best. And someone would likely have found it already, if that were in fact the case. But maybe they'll put a page up after the show releases; they do have separate pages for all the different versions of Astro Boy- as well as several for all the OVAs and such that have released for the series. These can only be found on the Japanese site, though, as most of these only released in Japan. It's too bad that most translators are not up to making Japanese understandable... I think it's a problem with like, diction and syntax (if I'm using that latter word correctly idk shit about grammar and stuff).
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Aldo, I have a question. When did the series "Little Astro Boy" come out? 2014?
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"Aldo"? Is that a typo?
And yeah, like, April or May 2014, I think. (Or maybe even March...) It debuted on Channels TV, in Nigeria. Some people were able to stream it on Youtube, but others (like myself) had difficulty with that until somebody found a mobile site that we could watch it on. There were still some notorious difficulties when a few of the episodes ran, though, that curiously repeated themselves exactly when the series reaired in June of that year. (I'm not sure if it's come back at all since; I used to check, but I haven't seen it. Since it came out on DVD in Japan in like, October or something last year, I stopped feeling that it mattered.)
Why do you ask?
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Yeah, the also was a typo. XD.
I just wanted to ask, just out of curiosity is all.
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You haven't really been active lately. What's going on?
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Huh? Nothing, I guess. I don't post a whole lot on dA in general, really; I thought that you knew that.
As for not saying anything, you haven't said anything to me. And I usually only initiate if I have something to say on one of your Astro Boy drawings.
I don't like starting conversations very much, typically. That does not mean that I do not like talking; but the conversation is very stilted when there's nothing to talk about.
Also I am kind of tired rn...
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Okay. I suppose I understand what you are talking about. I'm currently trying to think about a good design for Jetter Mars.
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I've been thinking about trying the same, for funsies (it's ultimately up to you what to do with ur own Au, after all).
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You know, the funny thing is that the official Jetter Mars timeline is basically just an alternate timeline of the Astro Boy universe. I realized that because I looked in the Jetter Mars wiki, and I noticed that many of the major characters in Astro Boy exist in Jetter Mars, including Dr. Tenma (he appears as an antagonist in one episode, where he kidnaps Mars and attempts to modify him into a robotic duplicate of Tobio) and Detective Gumshoe/Hawashi (being a cop prejudiced against robots, as usual ). Even Tobio, the kid who dies and becomes Astro boy in the original timeline, exists in the Jetter Mars universe (even though he dies in the Jetter Mars timeline as well). Interesting, isn't it?
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Tawashi is actually the guy who replaces Yamanoue as the head of the Ministry of Defense, not a member of law enforcement. But yeah, a lot of these characters show up- mostly because they're a part of Tezuka's "Star System". Most of them don't take the leading roles in anything else, as far as I know, so most of who he uses here, can be used. And I think that cameos, even very brief ones of the more famous leads, are acceptable, or something. He was able to get away with using AB in certain scenes a couple of times. (Mostly as a fountain one or two times; and once as Tobio himself- though apparently, a photo of this version of Tobio exists that is somewhat different in appearance to the flashback scene in question...)
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Oh. Right. Almost forgot about Tezuka's star system.
Justin Roiland tends to do something somewhat similar. His characters Rick and Morty were reused several times in his past work LONG before they were even given their current names.
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I'm not that interested in hearing about Rick and Morty, tbh. There are various reasons why, all of which are probably stupid, and that I don't want to go into rn. Or at all. Ever.
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Here's my next headcanon. This one will probably be my most interesting one.
I decided to categorize Astro, Atlas, Cobalt and Uran as a special type of robot: the Hominiform robot.
The Hominiform robot (or H-Bot for short) is a very recent type of robot invented by Dr. Bill Tenma, the minister of science, in the year 2003. There are three notable individual robots of this type; Atlas, Tobio βAstroβ Tenma, Cobalt Jetto, Uran, and to a possible extent, Jetter Mars.
Hominiform robots are partially known for their rather controversial history. The first Hominiform robot, named Atlas, was responsible for the murder of Dr. Tenmaβs son, and reports of Atlas-related sightings and murders continue to this very day. However, despite this, the presence of βcrime-fightingβ H-Bots such as Astro may one day end all controversy.
The Hominiform robot is the most advanced type of robot ever created. Unlike older robots, Hominiforms possess a extremely complex AI, which allows them to have emotions and free will. They are also capable of bearing the memories and personality traits of a deceased individual (with Astro being a good example). Another distinctive trait seen in Hominiform robots is their nano-mechanical surrogates, which mimic organic tissue and musculature almost perfectly. The body is supported by an articulated endoskeleton made of xenotanium, a metal that is lighter than aluminum, but far more durable than steel.
All Hominiform robots run on energy generated by a rare metallic element found in space called βImmortiteβ. This element constantly produces an infinite amount of energy, which is known for being very powerful and clean. Regardless of how much energy is taken from the element, the energy almost instantly replenishes itself. Immortite ingots are often placed within the chest cavities of the robots, where the energy apparatus is located. Energy generated by the Immortite ingot is carried throughout the robotβs body via synthetic blood, veins and arteries. As a result, the βbloodβ of a Hominiform robot is often bluish in color.
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Hm, fascinating! You gave them blood, like I've done before! (Although Cobalt was the only one whose blood was blue at all. He's typically very blue in many ways, no matter what I do.) As for their bodies, this begs the question of how come they aren't able to age like humans, if they're so similar? I'd imagine that they even have the ability to heal wounds, if they have them (would probably be hard to do, but certainly not impossible).
In most other forms of canon, Astro can run out of energy, or at least run low. I wonder how this would work here... maybe being suppressed, or something? And in every version, he is able to sleep- in the 2003 version, in fact, he requires it, and can even dream (unlike in previous versions, where the bullshit factoid of "robots don't dream" was prevalent). In some versions, he can also eat- sort of. Idk if it is ever necessary in some versions, though. (And in the 2003 version, he is never actually seen eating, even though he's seen with food a lot, so idk if he can there in canon or not; I tend to let him be able to, though, if only for the pleasure of eating if nothing else.)
How are you going to handle Mars in this? (And that's five robots, not three.) You should probably learn more about him. A few subbed episodes do exist, but the subs themselves are translated from the other dub versions of the series (of which there isn't an English version, sorry), so the quality is spotty at best, and downright inaccurate at worst. You can still get the general idea of the plot from most of them, but a lot of the dialogue in the subtitles does not match up to what is actually being said (I do not speak Japanese, but I've picked up enough things here and there to know what is not being said in those scenes). The entirety of the series is available in a torrent, along with subs for some of the episodes (but not all). You can still probably learn a few things from it; there's also a few threads on a website called AstroBoy Online, with screenshots and a few details (but not as nearly as there needs to be, as the poster cannot understand Japanese, either). (Also I don't recommend staying there; there is at least one unsavory element that hangs around there, but everyone regards them as a friend when they really shouldn't. You can make an account there if you wish, but...)
All of this is rather fascinating, and I appreciate all the thought that goes into this! Sometimes some of my ideas exist in a sort of "just because" fashion, because I am not smart enough to come up with a plausible reason for how a certain thing works; they just have this particular thing, and it works because it does. (It's probably not quite as simple as that, but...)
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