Before jumping into the main subject, I'd like to tranquilise you (in case it bothers). I'm finally settling up with this blog template, so you won't be seeing much variation from now on for a while.

So yes, as the title suggests, I've been redeeming myself lately. The protagonist of my redemption is none less than manga & anime. But wait there. I'm not even near saying I like that.

Manga & Anime follows the "more of the same" philosophy. People are always eager to see more of the same stuff. When you open someone's gallery you're looking for other works from that person, but basically you're looking forward to seeing more of the same style of art. Why, you wouldn't expect seeing Van Gogh's deviantART account flooding with japanese styled watercolours, now, would you? It's comprehensible enough, in my opinion.

With Manga and Anime, things are exactly the same. We must agree that animes in general don't boast of the greatest intellectually developed plots, so everyone can understand them. That invariably brings if not fans, religious followers of the plots. And when you think something's good you can barely find a defect on it. So the art style becomes fantastic, even if it's not all that good.

Manga and Anime are now the latest of fashion among children, preteens, teens and even some young adults throughout the globe. It's simple and successful! So even if the style does't float in artistic finesse, you can most certainly bet on them to fill your pageviews rate (and your sorry little ego) to the top.

Having that in mind, my friends, I'm in the brink of taking the decision to swallow up my pride and start sucking japan's cock and drawing manga. Not there yet, but eventually, maybe...

This week's feature (yes, I'll try posting once a week) will be two friends of mine who also happen to be two manga artists.

, a very well concepted and known manga-artist in deviantART who's got an innate artistic talent, an impressively captive eye and does divine work with only his mouse.

, a really young and already much flattered manga-artist who came to deviantART very unpretentiously and is now glittering with a starry prodigy treatment from flooding nihon-fangirls over deviantART.

So these are my features: