More than a year ago, The Little Dinosaur Dooly was uploaded onto youtube. I watched it long time ago when I was very young, like 5~ 6 years old, and I was able to watch it again few months ago. Surprisingly I really enjoyed it even though it's meant for a much younger audience. As I understand it, Koreans consider Dooly as the iconic symbol of Korean animation like Pikachu and Gundam.

You can find out more about it here.


3:51 - "I'll be late again... Hey what's this?!? Eh? Huh!"

4:01 - "KDS (referring to Korean Broadcasting System) Necessary & Immediate News: Antarctic iceberg entered the Han River. It's completely pollution-free ice!"

4:10 - "Pollution-free?!?" "Pollution-free?!?" (Koreans used to be obsessed with this kind of stuff during the late 80s & 90s)

4:23 - "The Ice has been quickly reduced to a skeleton... Does ice have bones too?" (funny statement of the obvious)

4:42 - "Ahh? Big brother, take a look at that!" "What..." "There's an abandoned doll on the riverbank." "Big brother, I want to have it." "Aii.. It's dirty." "We can clean it up. (I think students back then were taught by their school teachers to value & keep their toys for as long as possible in conduct & ethics class.) Please pick up up! Quickly!" "Gosh. It's quite heavy as it seems to have been soaked in water."

5:21 - "Go Gil-dong (Dad's name.)"


5:37 - "Wife, I came home.... Oh wait, she's away at her relatives'. Oh god. It's hot. It's hot. Let's see if there's a cool beer. Eh? Ok, at least this will do."

6:04 - "Mmm... Wow it's cold. Mmm.... Wow it's delicious. I had closed this (fridge door.) before... AHHHH!"

6:40 - "Dad! What's wrong?" "Ah jaja over there!"

6:56 - "Big brother, that's the doll that we picked up at the bank of a stream." "Yea you're right. Seems like it's not a doll."
7:00 - "It's a dino dino dino dino! You better leave immediately!? Hyee-dong, it's dangerous! Move aside! Hyee-dong, it's dangerous! Hyee-dong, NO!"

7:30 - "NOOOO! You think dumb kids like you can keep an animal that looks like a dino? Absolutely not." "Dad, but it's cute!" "Cute? You ugly one!" "Dad! Please allow us!"

7:51 - "Nonono. You might catch a disease." "Then it just needs to get a shot." "Is shot free?" "DAD!" "NO!" "DAD!" NO!" "DAD!" "NO!"

8:12 - "No! Yes! Yes!" "Yay, he says 'yes'!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes! Yes!"

8:22 - "Big brother (It's like 'onii-chan' in Japanese. It's used by a younger sister to refer to an older brother or, more recently, her boyfriend.), what should we call him?" "Well, Grandeur Gundam Vegitta..." "Stop joking." "What about 'Happy' or 'Ori'?" "Pffs. You think this is a dog?


8:34 - "Heh, Dooly." "Dooly?" "Ohh, Dooly?" "Wow, you can talk!" "Huhh, mom! Mom! Mom!" "So it's a dino?" "Ehhh hey no way! What kind of dino is this small?" "It must be a cat!"

8:58 - "My wife isn't coming back soon from her relatives & she's looking after a luckless old man. Wow what's that noise? God, what an annoying one."

9:17 - "All right. Let's eat. Where's my spoon?"

0:17 - "Look at that!"

0:21 - "Come here!" "Let's watch TV"
0:27 - "You dirty one... What is all this? Without spilling all over the place, please eat quickly."

0:35 - "You can do as you please." "You young little one!"

0:50 - "Well then, what's this?" "Tail." "Well this is great! We'll trash it."

1:17 - "Please go home and live well, amen!" "You seem to be very happy." "Yes I am. That little bastard.... our home... Oii!!!" "Please close/raise your chin, your inside shows."
1:45 - "The little bastard wants to joke with me." "Wipe off your sweats with this." "Thank you."

2:48 - "You came back home?"

2:48 - "How can I drive out that bastard...? Poke him in the butt? Or put this-sized stone into his rice..."

3:17 - "No! No! No! ..... Ahhhh! No! No!"
3:40 - "It's yours, sir." "You spray on my rice!?!" "But I caught the fly." "But what about my rice, my rice, my rice, rice!!" "Ok... ok... If I cook it's fine." "What can you do?! What can you do!? What! ... All right. You better do it right!"

5:46 - "Water please." "It's in the refrigerator..." "Water!" "Does he not have a hand or feet? Does being an adult mean everything? God. Here!"

6:06 - "The loser (in rock-paper-scissor) gets to do the dish washing." "Since you made the food, you should finish it up."

6:15 - "If I had committed a sin, it's that I don't have money, I don't have a home, and I have nowhere to go."

6:40 - "Why spray on the rice that one eats?"
6:48 - "Wow it's an Archaeopteryx! Archaeopteryx!" "Why this ghost-bird forgetting noise?!" "You're not an Archaeopteryx?" "This body is .... that escaped the circus.. No, no, no, an ostrich from Africa, Thoch!" "Is digging into garbage a queenly thing?" "I didn't!" "Are you hungry?" "I didn't!"

7:10 - "There's no rice, but I will get you some ramen noodle, so please wait."
7:30 - "It's a large bird! A large one!" "Ahhhg! How can you touch a woman's butt without caution?"

7:46 - "God, this misbehaving one! I've got to fix his ways!"

8:24 - "What is this? Why did a large chicken come inside? .... And why did you come in again?" "Hehehe, she's my friend. Please greet him, it's our mister." "How are you doing, I'm Thoch."

8:36 - "So what?" "Don't mind him, he's usually like that." "What! Animals in front of me! What are you? You want to take beatings in place of your friend? Get the hell out!"

8:53- "Dad is there something wrong?" "Sis, mister (your dad) only dislikes me. I didn't do anything wrong!"


0:02 - "That little wretch!" "It's a huge illness to hit little children. Sir, you will die sick because you abuse little children." "What?!?" "If you die, ho ho I'll have to take your house."

0:20 - "Didn't I tell you... that his temper is dirty. He can't understand any joke." "He's so scary, bud." "Get lost!"
0:38 - "It's all right. It's all right. We can just go back when he's asleep. You'll stay with me until I can go back?" "Sure." "Thanks a lot." "It's not a big deal."

0:60 - "Where's your house?" "I don't have one." "You don't? Why?" "Because I was in a circus group." "Circus?" "Mhm. Wouldn't I be the bird star/new star at Las Vegas?"

3:14 - "Wow then you'll be able to do tricks very well!" "Of course!" "Spinning dishes, acrobatics, jumping through flame wheel, etc." "Wow! So I am with a really great person!" "Should I demonstrate?" "Yes yes please."

3:38 - "The most important thing with Acrobatics is throwing and catching well." "Wow!" "You should try it. It's not that a big deal." "Would I be able to do it as well?" "Self-confidence is important. Focus!" "Focus?" "Start!" "Start."
4:00 - "It's working, it's working it's working, it's working! How is it?" "Huhh... He's doing this that took me a whole year in just one try! .... eh hem. What did I tell you? That you could do it! But anyone can do that much. It's beginner's skill. You should do at least this much."

4:30 - "Waaah aha! I wanna do it too!" "xxx xxx! Those people make a good person into a bad one, really!"

5:00 - "There are a lot of stars.. How happy would the people living in those far-away stars' lands be?" "Who lives there?" "No one lives there?" "They say if you look from up close it's just a lump of fire." "It's a falling star! falling star! How unlucky would be someone who gets hit by a falling star?" "It falls again there." "It would be nice to get hit by something other than a falling star."

5:39 - "It seems like the mister's house.. The falling star must have heeded to our wishes!" "Humph! He's just sleeping very well."

6:00 - "Let's save a person!" "Uggh, bean paste smell!" "This guy seems like the 'falling star'."


6:20 - "Gosh! It still smells. What star is this?" "Ours is called 'Earth'..." "Ahhh, 'Earth' star!" "You look very strange." "From my perspective, you guys all look very queer. Do earth star people all look like you?" "That might be the case." "Big brother... pee (?)" "This is animal-that-does-what?" "Hwee Dong-hee." "Dog Dong-ee?" "Hwee Dong-hee!" "Ohh, Dog Dong-ee? Can I eat it? That is much more vicious than it looks! Why are you like that?"

7:04 - "Hahaha! What's your name?" "Doner/Donald. I currently reside at K'an-thak star tens of thousands of light years away." "K'an-thak star?" "Yes. Because the time cosmos broke down i fell down to this place."

7:21 - "Time cosmos? What is that" "You don't even have time cosmos? You're very ignorant! Time cosmos is a machine that lets you travel to space in the past and the future." "Aha! Time machine?" "You at least know time machine? In our star time machine is old stuff." "Does time machine thing really exist?"

7:43 - Well, I told you time machine is old stuff!" "Time cosmos... Oh no! Gae-dong-ee destroyed the time cosmos! It's a very rude animal! I don't know what to do. I really don't know!"

8:07 - "We're going to wake him up! We're going to wake him up!" "Nobody's hurt? Neighborhood people!" "Wait. What is this? Hey you why did you come to our house again?" "Sir, sir, your underwear, your underwear." "You could eat this properly since it's fully grown." "Hehe, he's my friend, Doner/Donald." "What? Friend again?" "

8:35- "Hurry and greet him." "What is that?" "It's our mister." "What is that?" "That is... well... living together with us at the house...." "Ohh! Pet!" "You can think like you want. Quickly greet him!" "Do you greet a pet on earth?" "Just greet him!" "How-dy-doo-dy. How-dy-doo-dy!"

9:11- "Your pets are like that?" "No. He's only like that when I'm eating and when I've brought a friend." "Strange. Why can't you do anything to a pet on earth?" "It didn't get proper education, that's why." "Fine let me teach him a lesson/fix his behavior!"

9:52- "That thing came in again?" "What's his name?" "Gil-dong! Gil-dong!" "Hey gil-dong, bite this! Bite this!"

Umm so long time no see. This is a 2~3 min long webtoon about a convenience store (a.k.a. "supermarket" in Konglish). It's like the producers ran out of good ideas so they decided to inspire kids to become store keepers. (They recently did a program about a Korean-Eastern European couple who supposedly live happily together running a convenience store...)

I've tried to translate it (post edit - nvm don't watch it, it's terrible):

(it starts out with a typical cheesy anime-ish song)


0:21 - "Wara Family" (Wara / 와라 means "come" ?)

0:55 - "딸랑이는 종소리와 어서오세요 즐거운 인사" (Jingling bell sound & friendly greeting)

1:00 - "잠시 쉬어가셔도 좋아요 없는게 없는 당신의 쉼터" (It's okay for you to stay and rest for a bit .... your rest place that lacks any lacking)

1:09 - "안녕하세요 무얼찾고있나요" (Hello what are you looking for?)

1:12 - "망설이지 말고 제게 말해봐요" (Tell me without hestitating)

1:16 - "언제나 어디서나 함께하는" (Anytime anywhere together)

1:22 - "하루가 담긴 여러분의 편의점" (Containing the day's episodes... everyone's convenience store)

1:27 - "피곤한 아침에도 고단한 저녁에도" (On lazy mornings and tiring evenings)

1:33 - "당신을 위해 always with you" (Always with you for you ....)

1:46 - "1화 신분증... 미성년자는 안돼요" (Ep. 1 Identification. Minors Not Allowed)

1:54 - RADIO: "그래서 이번엘범은 좀 성숙한 분이기로 드러왔습니다." (So this time the album came with some mature look) - not sure if this is right

1:56 - RADIO: "네, 이번엘범 title 제목이?" (Ok. This album's title is..?)

1:99 - RADIO: "오빠앞에서 짝짝공이라고 하는건데요." (It's called 'In front of your boyfriend .... tight') ???

2:02 - RADIO: "아... 오빠앞에서 짝짝공이요? 네... 참 더렆게 성숙하네요." (Oh, " " " " " " " " " " " " ? Yeah sure, it sounds inappropriate/dirty)

2:11 - RADIO: "그런데 xxx 소녀가 오빠의 마음을 사로잡기 위헤 애쓴다면..." (So, if an xxx girl tries real hard to capture the boyfriend's/ your mind...)

2:30 - "헤... 허 어서오세요." (Eh, heh! Come on in)

2:41 - "...일한갑 주세요." (A pack of cigarette please)


2:47 - "허... 생긴거는 아루리 봐도 봐도 고등인데... 아버지 심부른인가?" (Gasp. By appearance he's undeniably a high school student... Is it an errand for his father?)

2:49 - "아 저 손님, 실으지만, 신분증좀 보여주시겠서요? (Excuse me Mr. Customer, but could you show me your identification?"


2:51 - "아 저 신분증이요?" (Ah my ID?)

2:53 - "죄송합니다만, 너무 어려보여서요." (I'm sorry, it's because you look so young/immature.)

2:57 - "아 궨찬해요. 제가 오낙 동안이라 그런 오해를 자주 받거든요. 하 하. 여기요." (Oh it's okay. I get misunderstood like that all the time. Here.)

3:08 - "내가 오해를 했구나. 궨히 미얀해지내." (I apparently misunderstood. I feel sorry now.)

3:16 - "어.. 어........ 손님... 맞일레요?" (Uh...........huh! Mr. Customer, do you wanna get beat up?)

3:33 - "사진 가리면 ............녀석 ............" (If you cover the photo, .................) - can't understand the last part

3:48 - "형 신분증이라고?" (It's your brother's ID?)

3:51 - "예..." (Yes mam)

3:52 - "애인이냐?" (Is he a grownup/etc...?)

3:54 - "당현이죠." (Of cou ..... rse not.)


4:17 - "엔딩 후에도 뭔가 있슬텐대.. 보기실으면 말던가...." (There should be something after ending... If you don't want to look, don't.)

(Wow it's got an ending song too.... the songs are like 3 min out of a 6 min video... Well, I didn't get anything out of the 1st episode.)

I haven't been able to find a good anime or manhwa for a while now, but I found these rlly funny videos:

Gusts Of Popular Feeling: A comic take on Kim Yu-na

For those who haven't read that blog post, I think it's worth while for me to talk about.

Compare the manhwa illustration of Kim Yuna to her real-life photo:

The manhwa version doesn't come close to looking the real Kim! How can the artist justify Kim's green eyes, brown hair, and a Caucasian nose? Indeed such features would better suit the tastes of the average manga/manhwa fans, although a comic like this would be read mostly by kids who will only become confused by this inaccurate depiction of her race. The drawing just looks really annoying to me.

Dassault Rafale

I posted it @ animepaper & got various responses, & I liked jenny713's the most:

The machine parts are pretty cool. think you need some more work on anatomy though. also work on detailing the facial area. the nose and mouth area should be more distinct. hair could be a little bit more detailed. the eyes look pretty good. maybe just add in pupils and little shine would make it better. the arms seem too long and too skinny. the main problem on the body is the shoulder to chest area. the neck seems too long, but maybe that's because the shoulders are misplaced.

F-18 Hornet

They look pretty good on paper, but when I tried to vector them on the computer they became much worse. Would buying a tablet help (I currently vector using a mouse)?

(In Korean: 월요일 소년)

Myung-ee Joo's story begins from around the time when she is in 5th grade. Her passion is handsome mature men; she has a pretty boy picture collection & more impressively blogs about the male sex. Apparently Myung-ee just transferred to a new school; she meets the class president, Yu-da Lee (i.e. Eee; Lee is Chinese spelling), for the first time when she accidentally pushes him over on the way to school. Yu-da is a very popular boy, but some kids avoid him because he does not have mom and dad.

On the way back home, Myung-ee is revealed by Yu-da that they are similar in some ways. For one thing, their eyes turn red and become itchy at night. Soon they reach Yu-da's home, where Yuda's grandfather greets them. Myung-ee turns away in shock when the old man makes some mean jokes about her looks, and she bumps into a tall and handsome 10th grade guy by name of Ryu (Japanese name?). He is supposedly the most popular guy in a nearby high school, and strangely he offers to go out with Myung-ee the next day.

To her disappointment, Ryu does not come to pick her up after school. Ryu is in fact a fox (what?) who likes to eat the livers (what?!?) of rabbits (what!?!) from the moon (...the fox should also like other things i.e. insects), which would include Myung-ee and Yuda. Luckily for Myung-ee, Ryu is severely wounded or killed by a female humanoid rabbit (humanoid rob.. robo... robot) while attempting to eat Yuda.

Yuda then recovers a forgotten memory of how his parents died. He cries and collapses.

The story fast-forwards to Myeong-ee's transfer to a high school in 10th grade. She is still obsessed with handsome boys, as expected, and she takes pictures of them with her camera phone.
Myeong-ee also learns that Yu-da attends this school, and he is the class secretary and a member of the student council. Although Myeong-ee seems to want to dislike Yu-da, she admits that he is kind of cute and takes picture of him along with the other student council members. When she tries to approach him, however, Yu-da says he does not know her or even the elementary school that they had gone together with. This surprises and angers Myeong-ee because she thinks that Yu-da is trying to ignore her, but she eventually realizes that Yu-da is being honest with her.

That night Myeong-ee is visited (or rather attacked) by Sae-eun Won, who is one of the student council members. Luckily another rabbit wearing a mask of Robot Taekwon V comes to her rescue. The "fox" flees, and Myeong-ee presses Mr. Tae-kwon V to explain to her about the deal with rabbits being food for the foxes, etc. So basically, rabbits used to live on the moon long ago, but when they were invaded by the foxes they had to flee to Earth. The foxes followed them to Earth, and so the rabbits formed the "Soon-la Army" to counter the foxes (...y didn't they do that on the moon to begin with?). 2 of the 3 members of the student council (Jin-soo Jung and Sae-eun Won) are foxes, but Yu-da is a rabbit. The foxes let Yu-da leave because he is a special type - a black rabbit. They erased his memory and is protecting him until he is a full-grown adult, so that their queen, Hang-ah, can regain her powers that she had lost after drinking an elixir of immortality. Sae-eun is always around Yu-da as a watch guard but pretends to be Yu-da's best friend.

The next day Myeong-ee is bullied by some girls for having been a bit too emotional around Yu-da the day before. They take away her underwear and post it on a bulletin in a hallway. Yu-da makes them hand over the underwear to him so that he can return it to Myeong-ee and puts it in a bag. When Myeong-ee sees Sae-eun standing near Yu-da, she calls Sae-eun a "dog" and a "shaggy," and tells him to get lost. In response, Sae-eun takes out the panty and teases her about its strawberry patterns, causing Myeong-ee to lash out at him in tears. Yu-da holds her back and apologizes for his "friend," saying that Sae-eun does not mean to hurt her.

Meanwhile, Sae-eun is engaged in a fight with another boy, whose voice Myeong-ee recognizes to be Mr. Tae-kwon V's. The fight is interrupted when a strong wind reveals Myeong-ee's bottom naked; Mr. Tae-kwon V starts crying and apologizes, "I'm sorry! .... I saw your bumbum."

• Visual quality: 8/10
• General plot: 6.5/10
• Comedy elements: 6/7
• Action elements: 3/4
• Mystery elements: 2/2
  
• Otaku elements: 5.5/6
• Realness: 2/4

Overall: (7.7/10)

sry I couldn't blog for a while (2 months). I'll have plenty of time to blog during the summer now.

the mouse, my favorite

the cat (i.e. neko-mimi) wants to eat u

I could try to turn these into vectors on the computer, but I really don't want to fry my brain & it always turns out that vectors look very different (--> worse) from the pencil drawing.

The main reason why I didn't blog at all recently is that I'm currently working on a small-length amateur comic (with pencils) & I've been trying to draw people more realistically (i.e. Asians don't have pointy small nose) while also pursuing the same level of cuteness or beauty of the simplified anime characters. I'd describe the style as counter-anime & so far it's been really hard to draw.