Oh like Death Note and Detective Conan.

@Lumaria: Yeah, I have a bad habbit of never creating character design sheets before starting a story, so my characters rarely look consistent and they change haphazardly from page to page. These aren't finalized though so I can fix the issues you mentioned.

@Orchid: Thanks! The guy is a cop, not sure what you mean by police manga. The guy has the ability to "redo" his actions by going back 5 minutes into the past.

I started an Instagram account around a week ago. Well, restarted is a better term for it. I had an account for 3 years but it wasn't going anywhere, stuck at like 40 followers and losing followers each time I posted. This one seems to be going good, mostly because I'm doing One Piece fanart because no one seemed to care enough about my original artwork. If anyone is interested I can post my account name on here.

Note: It is read from left to right, so those more accustomed to manga than comic books might feel a bit lost.

There was a small local comic book competition I took part in. This was a story I've had in my mind for quite some time, and I felt it best fit the 10-page limit of the competition. My heart wasn't in most of the pages so you'll notice some pages are worse than others. Feel free to give me your thoughts, I'd appreciate them.

Out of curiosity. What manga influenced you the most into creating your own?

My username sort of gives it away but it was Dragon Ball Z. I remember finishing it and switching over to GT, getting disappointed by how everything wrapped up, and wanting to create a fan fiction of that universe. By then Dragon Ball was practically the only anime/manga I'd seen, but when I started to watch other things I eventually abandoned the idea of creating a fan fiction and decided I'd create my own story. So I'd say DBZ planted the idea of creating a manga in my head, but I would say Death Note was what made me want to create an original one. Not the most interesting inspirations, but I guess we all have to start somewhere.

The second title doesn't know what it wants to be. Its just a continuation and feels like a what-if situation.

In the original anime, Okabe gave up trying to save Kurisu, but he received a video message from an older Okabe that told him not to give up and explained to him the "fool the world" plan. S;G 0 is the story of that Okabe. The Okabe from the video message was once the same Okabe on the rooftop. He gave up, started wearing all black and became depressed, and eventually found the solution for saving Kurisu and sent a video message to the past. I'm sure you understand this, but I needed to highlight how important this version of Okabe is to the original series.

So even if it does feel like a "what if" scenario as you described it, it isn't, because it actually happened. The Okabe in S;G 0 needed to exist, to fail, to grow older and to send the message that opened the door to Steins Gate.

The biggest mistake this series does is make Okabe (who was once a lovable and energetic main character) into a boring normal and overly depressed character.

I wouldn't call it a mistake considering anything other than a depressed and lifeless Okabe wouldn't make sense, but I understand where you're coming from.

In addition to all of this, there is a forced romance with this new character that used to be Makise's old friend. A few character push for this romance and it doesn't feel appropriate considering that Okarin eventually had feelings for Makise and the feelings were returned.

I agree with this. Both visual novels had this obsession with creating love angles. Almost every optional ending from the original visual novel had Okabe hook up with a different girl. I'm not a fan of Maho in 0, despite her rather important role. Way too many girls that are almost all somehow falling for Okabe.

I actually played the S;G 0 Visual Novel and while I won't spoil anything that hasn't been revealed in the anime yet, I'll leave a few of my thoughts on it.

Compared to the visual novel, the anime so far has been excellent. While with the original, the visual novel was superior to the anime, the reverse is true for 0, as its visual novel was extremely messy, rushed and made almost no sense in a lot of aspects. The anime has been handling it exceptionally.

I'll also say that between the original and 0, 0 is my favorite. The original had an edge by being fresh and a lot more simple, but 0 just gets so much better from here on out. There was a turning point in the original anime, at episode 12 or 13 if I remember correctly, where we suddenly went from a comedic show about time travel to a crushing story of someone trying to save his friend at all costs. That's all I'll say. If the anime doesn't screw itself over the upcoming few episodes, it should be an incredible ride towards the finish line.

Just dropping by to say that I'm still alive. Life has just been beyond terrible.
Might slowly start to post art again in the coming few days.

I recently found myself enjoying videogames again. I'm currently active with Destiny 2 on the PS4, logging in every 2 or 3 days to do weekly challenges, and I'm also playing through Assassin's Creed Origins. The new Need For Speed's coming out in a few days too. Favorite game of the year so far has to be Nier: Automata. Persona 5 is a close second.

Is anyone here a gamer? What do you enjoy playing and what are you currently invested in?

The picture with Luffy's face and the "One Piece" lettering were cropped out of a random chapter. I also cropped the pointing finger but inverted its colors. The "Ch. 882/end" and "One Piece will be on break next week" were done using the Anime Ace 2.0 font, but I skewed it so that it's straight rather than the usual italic nature of the font.