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| Japanese fanartist extraordinaire; Napo! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 4 2007, 10:17 PM (2,108 Views) | |
| Raijin | Jun 4 2007, 10:17 PM Post #1 |
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So a while back my little Name Origins side-project accidently led me to a japanese oekaki board acting as the gallery/forum for this guy calling himself Napo who caught my interest for his Rockman fanart which wasn't just high-quality, but high variety. This guy gives unique and thoughtful looks at lots of obscure characters from every MM series. Not quite as obscure as the Mech's focus gets, but he seems like the kinda guy that would make a PC RM look good if he knew they existed. I've spread this around on AIM a bit in the past few months, so a lot of you already watch the gallery. Vulcan's even using one of Napo's pieces as an avatar. What made me want to finally share this find with the whole forum was the discovery that three days ago he sorta hit the fandom big-time by getting one of his arts posted on the official anniversary site. Yeah, I know, not as impressive now since a couple of our own greater community members made it in (one of them, disproportionately twice, even) but since Napo's art is officially viewable to the whole fandom now, and I'm sure anyone who's seen that pic already has been itching to see more from this artist, I figure now is as good a time as any. His oekaki board. It's usually updated at least once a week. His Rockman gallery. Not updated as often, but has most of the best stuff. Check out the entire page dedicated to MM3. You know why I like this guy's work so much. Finally, his Official Anniversary entry. Pretty much the highlight of the entire project. As you can tell from just the first page of his board, he can be pandering to the flavor of the month crowd with Starforce stuff one moment and then pandering to your nostalgia the next with a heavily battle-damaged Morph Moth. I'm not usually one to get all fanboyish over some fanartist that I can't even communicate with, but this guy's stuff isn't just good, it's often inspirational, especially for the team community. Unlike your average fanartist, this guy gives face time to the side-characters more than the main characters, and that's awesome to fans like us. |
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| Cyros | Jun 4 2007, 10:51 PM Post #2 |
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Yeah, his art rocks. And after checking out his actual Rockman page, I decided to change my avatar to one of his images. Take a wild guess which one... Scary, isn't it? |
![]() :Flashman :Armored Armadillo"I just want to stay home and eat chips." ~ Turboman, The Dr. Wily Show | |
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| Jet | Jun 4 2007, 11:33 PM Post #3 |
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Self Proclaimed Oddball
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Dang! That is some sweet fanart there. I'll have to keep a watch on his gallery now. Thanks for sharing this Raijin. |
![]() :Bright BabeI'm CentuarGal of the Armored Assassins. I'm also the Reploid Rebellions Shield Sheldon. Yeah. That's my sig... | |
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| Pegasus EXE | Jun 4 2007, 11:36 PM Post #4 |
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Back from the "Dead"
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Holy shite, that's amazing *Saves a couple images* Thanks for showing us Raijin |
Airman.EXE of Grave
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| Proto Stryker | Jun 5 2007, 02:05 AM Post #5 |
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Chargin' mah Strykerz
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Great, now I have to add ANOTHER bookmark to my FireFox stuff. 8D |
| Ascendant Androids - Chargeman | |
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| Rebel40000 | Jun 5 2007, 09:46 AM Post #6 |
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Zvarri!
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I can't even look at his art without getting consumed by it. "Just one more page," I keep telling myself... the next thing I know I've gone through 25 of 'em. |
![]() "Take a good look, everyone! Unable to find a rival worthy of my genius, I was forced to create one by myself! Here I am! The tragic clown..." Magna Centipede of Code: Island Attackers Ring Man of Cossack's Comrades | |
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| Saturn Ballad | Jun 5 2007, 11:48 AM Post #7 |
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//Tina Belcher groan//
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Nice. That's where I got my Ito picture.
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| Alice Vulcan | Jun 5 2007, 02:20 PM Post #8 |
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Dark Soul
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I've been personally saving all the pictures from his oekaki for a month now. Unfortunately, by time I decided to start doing that everything before image 90 had been deleted. What a bummer... oh well, his art is still awesome. I'm loving the new one with Iris, it really brings out all the sorrow she must have felt. |
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| Jade | Jun 5 2007, 02:27 PM Post #9 |
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Dancing Mad
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Oh god... what's with that semi-Yaoi pic of Launcher and Volt Kraken? :blink: "Ha!! I knew it!!!" SHUT UP, VILE!!! ... Just kidding there. Seriously, though. That stuff is incredible. |
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| Alice Vulcan | Jun 5 2007, 02:32 PM Post #10 |
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Dark Soul
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About that, didn't Capcom at one point say they're brothers? |
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| Hunter_Chameleon | Jun 5 2007, 02:33 PM Post #11 |
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The Communist Merc
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Will it make it worse if I say they're supposed to be brothers (as hinted in X5) ? Anyways, this art is just great, and I'll never thank Naoshi (or was it Iga ?) enough for the link. At times, I consider changing my avatar to the Quint picture, but well, I'll keep this one no matter what. |
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Now a full-time Communist. Combatron Chronicles - Transformers RP awaits you ! | |
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| Jade | Jun 5 2007, 02:40 PM Post #12 |
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Dancing Mad
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Are they? Now that I didn't know. I assumed that they were good friends or something. |
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| Rebel40000 | Jun 5 2007, 04:40 PM Post #13 |
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Zvarri!
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That's what I remember it being, with X's conversation with Kraken in X5. |
![]() "Take a good look, everyone! Unable to find a rival worthy of my genius, I was forced to create one by myself! Here I am! The tragic clown..." Magna Centipede of Code: Island Attackers Ring Man of Cossack's Comrades | |
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| Raijin | Jun 5 2007, 06:06 PM Post #14 |
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I think he keeps them all anyway and adds his favourites to the Rockman section eventually. Of course there's still who knows how many oekakis we'll never see just because he didn't think they were worth archiving online. Too bad. At least there's plenty of great stuff that's still up to fill that void. |
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| Proto Stryker | Jun 5 2007, 07:42 PM Post #15 |
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Chargin' mah Strykerz
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My avie looks so much better when it's larger. X3 |
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| Iga | Jun 6 2007, 09:44 PM Post #16 |
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Psychoheretic
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That was Naoshi, who showed me at the same time. =P Yeah, reading this thread made me want to change my avie back. This guy is absolutely phenomenal. |
| WW, 7M | |
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| Mahajarah | Jun 6 2007, 10:02 PM Post #17 |
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HUZZAH!
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| Raijin | Jun 6 2007, 10:40 PM Post #18 |
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Babelfish/Google translator will give you some rough strokes, but it's still going to be fairly incomprehensible. It might help if you're just looking for key words in his description or something. |
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| Rebel40000 | Jun 6 2007, 10:57 PM Post #19 |
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Zvarri!
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Hmm, wonder if I can find those old pics of Magna again. EDIT: Found it, but I kinda like the picture of Ring more right now...
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| Amethyst Nighthut | Jun 7 2007, 11:09 AM Post #20 |
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Nebuala Agent
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Okay... he's good. He actually made Quint look like he could be a threat! |
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| Alice Vulcan | Jun 7 2007, 02:08 PM Post #21 |
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Dark Soul
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...regardless of still having a pogostick... |
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| Blazeman | Jun 7 2007, 02:09 PM Post #22 |
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Lowly Bandit
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More like Half Pogostick, Half Pneumatic Drill, right? |
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| Hunter_Chameleon | Jun 7 2007, 02:41 PM Post #23 |
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The Communist Merc
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I don't know how to take this... :P |
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Now a full-time Communist. Combatron Chronicles - Transformers RP awaits you ! | |
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| Prince_Pluto | Jun 7 2007, 09:35 PM Post #24 |
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Random fluff
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I don't know really. No matter what, he would still be a barrel of laughs after reading Series 3...... |
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| Rebel40000 | Jun 8 2007, 12:52 AM Post #25 |
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Zvarri!
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Take it as one of the greatest compliments EVER. The chances of getting another quite like it is slim to none. |
![]() "Take a good look, everyone! Unable to find a rival worthy of my genius, I was forced to create one by myself! Here I am! The tragic clown..." Magna Centipede of Code: Island Attackers Ring Man of Cossack's Comrades | |
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| Pegasus EXE | Jun 8 2007, 06:39 AM Post #26 |
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Back from the "Dead"
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He should draw more Airman, and perhaps a Crashman o.o the only Airman I found was the emo Airman, where he's..crying..for some reason |
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| Raijin | Jun 8 2007, 06:09 PM Post #27 |
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I like to think that one is actually PC Waveman. |
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| Raijin | Jun 17 2007, 09:38 PM Post #28 |
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I used to think we were never going to make some kind of contact with this guy, but it looks like he made contact with us first. Check out today's post on his oekaki blog (with the picture of the Ryuusei afro guy watching himself on TV and dropping his drink. He has a link to the Rockman Strategy page. The Mechanical Maniacs RMS page. He's friggin' linking to our site! He's been here! Could fanart of the Constellation droids, PC RMs, and the Dreamwave RMs be far behind? Either way, goes to show how awesome Gauntlet's RMS coverage is if even japanese fans are finding it a useful reference. |
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| Gauntlet101010 | Jun 17 2007, 09:50 PM Post #29 |
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MM3: Shadowman
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Heh, yeah, I noticed that too. I'm not kidding around when I say we're the only site with any useful information on the game. I can't even find any foreign sites with info on it, to the degree that I have. |
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MM3: Mechanical Maniacs | |
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| Raijin | Jun 17 2007, 09:54 PM Post #30 |
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If I understand the babelfish translation (which I may very well not), he's remarking on the fact Ryuusei wasn't the first Rockman game to have constellation-themed bosses. Not sure if it's something he just discovered now, or something he knew for a while that he was just pointing out to others that didn't. |
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That's where I got my Ito picture.







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