05 - Destinies of the Elements omake

Finally, what you've all been waiting for!
(Yeah right.)
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While Arkh was in Tenshinron's Tavern, he met Kaede and bought him a drink. He took one sip of it and then was KO for awhile. Arkh had to drag him up to his room. <_<

I decided to create a Deviantart account. Thought I'd try it out.

Applying for Your First Game Industry Job

I got this very interesting article from Game Career Guide about how to apply for your first job in the game industry. But I think it's more for application of one of those big names in the game industry (EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft etc).

Time Magazine Interview with Takaya Natsuki (Author of Fruits Basket)

Fruits Basket is a very nice manga about the life of a first year high school student Honda Tohru and her relationship with several people of the Souma family who have a curse that turns them into members of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals when hugged by the opposite sex.

I'm currently reading the manga, though I did watch the Fruits Basket anime which was aired around 2001. The story is still on-going.

Here's an excerpt from the interview with Takaya Natsuki which I have a keen interest in (mainly, manga story writing and drawing):

TIME: How do you define manga in terms of storyline, characters and visual style?

NT: I try to make it so that I don't hold a firm definition. Rather than be locked into that and have my creations become clumsy and awkward, I want everything to have a certain softness — a freedom.

TIME: What do you think about manga being attempted by non-Japanese creators? Do you consider it manga or another form?

NT: Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding. I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

Reading Eye Movement

Here's a few tips on how to read a person's thoughts by reading his/her eyes.

The direction the person moves his or her eyes can often determine whether the answer is from memory or not. It works the best with visual thoughts. A person will typically look upward to the left if reaching into memory and to the right if creating the answer or constructing imaged images.

Although most people follow this left-right rule, there are some who are just the opposite. It is good to determine which is which before jumping to conclusions. You can find out the correct directions of a person by asking some leading questions like "What was the color of your first car?" to get a response from memory, and "What is your opinion of the President?" to get a creative response.

An interesting way to see if someone's lying to you about something. :)