Today’s the due date for Femmegasm guest comics, peeps. As of the moment, I only have one, so I could definitely use a few more. Please send them to pembrokewkorgi@gmail.com
Oh, and before I begin my WTF are you wearing, Makoto rant, I would like to give some props to Green Wiggly, who actually came up with Shelly’s line in panel 2.
Now, let’s get to the subject of today’s comic, Blazblue’s Makoto…
Well, first let’s talk about Makoto. If you play Noelle’s story mode in Blazblue, then you’ll meet up with Makoto as she appears on the left. She is one of Noelle’s classmates and serves little purpose outside showing us what Noelle’s school life is like and the friends she had. Makoto wears a rather anime styled school uniform, seems to like little boys a lot, REALLY likes making that hand guesture, and is some weird random squirrel girl. Why is she a squirrel girl? Don’t know, never got explained, and I don’t expect it to. Anyways, her squirrel qualities and overall cute design did make her rather memorable.
Now flash to the present with the soon to be released (in Japan) Blazblue sequel, Blazblue: Continuum Shift, where it’s been announced that Makoto will be a playable character available via DLC. When I first heard about this I was kinda, “Hey, Makoto! I remember her!” and mild intrigue. This got followed with DISAPPOINT!
I mean, I already have issues with having to pay for additonal characters in a fighting game, but worst of all LOOK AT THE OUTFIT SHE’S WEARING IN THE GAME (the one on the right), it’s absolutely dreadful. I’ve seen Dead Or Alive characters wear more than that. Not just that, but the whole outfit is poorly designed, looks ridiculously terrible, and the designers should be ashamed of themselves. I mean, not only does she look like she’s missing 2/3s of her outfit, she seems to be wearing more clothing on her legs and feet than the rest of her entire body. It just looks plain terrible, like she got dressed by Tifa Lockhearts slutty retarded aunt or something. Not to mention that little clothing can’t be helpful in battle. What? You say they’re doing it for fanservice reasons? Let’s talk about fanservice, shall we?
Okay, fighting games have had fanservice practically from the start, so why is this design still bad? Because even with fanservice ampted up to it’s highest with games like King of Fighters, Dead or Alive, and Soul Calibur, the designs still manage to make the well designed outfits that are striking, stylish, and memorable, no matter how much bouncy cleavage Mai Shiranui wants to show you or however little clothing Tina Armstrong wants to wear. The outfits still manage to look good and at least not completely retarded. Makoto’s outfit doesn’t have any of this, it just looks bad, half assed, and embarrassing. There’s nothing redeeming to it, it even makes Wonder Woman’s new costume look good (though WW’s outfit could probably use more fanservice).
Lastly, let’s talk about the pose in this picture. When you pose someone, you tend to want to focus on their strong points ESPECIALLY if you are going for fanservice. For example, looking at this picture, Makoto’s strong points are either going to be her breasts or her legs, but they didn’t focus on either, they focussed on her ass, which is by far her weakest point. Why? Because she doesn’t have much of an ass, it’s flat, flatter than flat, it’s nonesistent, her lack of ass and hips almost makes it look like she doesn’t have either an her upper torso just kinda’ goes into her legs without a middle section, it’s not a good place to focus at all. At least put a little junk in her trunk before you do that. And yes, you can focus on her her breasts and still make a tasteful looking picture.
So yeah, it’s a horrible design, big deal, right? Right. I’m just disappointed because all the previous characters in Blazblue have had such amazing designs, that it just depresses me to see such a horrendous designed given the okay for this game. I guess they all can’t be gold.
Tuesday will get the first guest comic and an update to the fanart section. I can’t wait! Can you?
And there goes the fourth wall… again.
Regarding Makoto, Kelli has more ass than her (despite what Wiggly says).
Don’t tell Kelli I said that, though.
Maybe guys dig the fluffy tail. I do….
Lawl, furry.
Dunno. My gripe comes more with the fact that it looks like her tail is coming out of her butt. I’ve seen that A LOT lately for some reason? Isn’t a tail supposed to come out of the bottom of the spine? You know…the TAILbone?
I didn’t really have much of a problem with the suit, even if it is a little nonexistent, Though I CAN see what you’re saying about it being a hindrance in battle. But given the choice between the two, I’d much rather see her in the left attire.
And woo, guest comics! Woo fanart! Hope to see some good ones! (And it’s not a plug at mine, I’m honestly hopeful for submissions you may have gotten. The last ones were pretty choice.(
BOOOOOOBS….
Hey! I take offense to that. I happen to like…
…Wonder Woman’s new costume. Makoto, on the other hand, needs to eat a sandwich.
And put on a shirt.
Like the boots, like the stockings, like the gloves, hate everything else clothing-wise.
The upper half I wouldn’t mind too much, stupid as it may be, but they fact they put her in a thong and a little strip of paper (I refuse to call that a skirt) is just…. argh….. it hurts my brain!
ReWW: The jacket is weird. I don’t mind the leggings, but the top is not bad and the braclets-cum gauntlets are awesome. I approve of this redesign on that alone.
I don’t mind them taking the character in a less fanservicey direction anyway, because I kinda think it’s counterproductive for a character that was designed to be a feminist icon and female empowerment figure to dress like a pole dancer. Granted, she doesn’t need to dress like a lumberjack either, but I think this costume is a good compromise, which sadly will probably be retconned out of existence within six months due to fanboy purist* whining and the weight of tradition.
*NOTE: I am not calling Robbie (Or anyone else here necessarily) a fanboy, a purist or a whiner. If you don’t like Wonder Woman’s costume on purely aesthetic grounds, good. If you don’t like it because she doesn’t show enough leg, then you’re being silly.
To be clear, if there’s a problem with this outfit, I think that perhaps it is too casual. You could see someone walking down the street in this outfit and not think it was at all unusual. That is a weird quality in a hero’s outfit, but there are much worse problems to have.
Okay, now it occurs to me. Her new costume makes her look like Detective Eliza Maza from Gargoyles!
Ha ha. I’ll be honest with you guys, I really don’t mind WW’s outfit all that much, in fact I actually think it’s kinda cool looking (though I do have a few issues with it). I mainly made the comment about it 1) to be topical and 2) in an attempt to be funny (thus the fanservice comment).
I’m just mad that there’s 60 DOLLARS worth of DLC
DAMN
Most of the BlazBlue designs are crap anyways, save for Bang, Litchi and Tager.
Guilty Gear had way more original and memorable designs.
I’m ignoring your statement on the grounds that you didn’t mention Tao.
Ok, Tao too, cuz I can’t resist the cat girls. Alright, and Hakumen, cuz he’s coo.
But Carl, Ragna, Jin, Nu, Rachel… blah.
Apparently Rachel’s butler is gonna be a DLC character too, and he looks badass, but then we got another one of the heroes, Trinity, that is also gonna be a DLC character, and she is just really, really, really, horrible design.
On the other hand, I love Squirrel Girls, and I hope MvC3 has Squirrel Girl.
Well, other than being a catgirl (yeah, have a weakness for them, too), Tao is the most uniwue looking catgirl ever designed.
I like Ragna and Rachel. ;_;
The 1 thing I like about Ragna is his opening of his story mode.
Shit… shit..
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Christian tonfas!
The power of Christ compells thee… to look ridiculous.
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Makoto looks awesome. Although her outfit is a tad skimpy, it stills looks good on her.