Aki-chan's Life
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A visit to the Grandparents - "This is where Mama came from?" - 207
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"Danke für Alles, Mama. Mach's gut." - if you want to have it copy-pastable for the translator of your choice. ;)
Though... checking that myself, seems the latter tends to be translated as "take care", which I guess isn't technically wrong, but I'd go with "farewell" here.
Like with Kyoko's picture, where I was unsure whether to have Asuka on it, I thought quite a while whether to have the second picture be just of Aki, Aki and Shinji or all three of them. Eventually went with the second option (with a slight more focus on Aki), since I figured it's a pic for Asuka here. And she's kinda symbolized by the connectors already.
So, yeah... as for those... while I was considering to redo the "veil attached to them" for the wedding again, if you remember waaay back in her first appearance in chapter 1, I already commented on how I only had her wear them at this point because I was used to draw them on her, and kinda forgot that she doesn't really have any reason to do so anymore. So... this seemed like the best opportunity to finally follow through with it (was a bit tricky to hide this in the previous pages though :P).
Which is impeccable timing, since only a few weeks ago, I finally realized that I always drew them wrong all these years: I thought that black line only dipped down a bit and then circled around at the back, but it just goes down all the way. ^^;
On the upside; you know, whatever you think of a certain recent movie - at least it finally showed that they are indeed clips. At least I don't think there was any official art depicting that before, and while I was always in the clip camp, there were certainly some fan depictions of them also being on a "magically vanishing beneath the hair" head band like Shinji and Rei's variants.
And well, that's that...
Once more is "the longest chapter yet" done. I still somehow doubt that will keep going, but that's what I always say, so who knows? ^^;
Certainly hadn't expected it, when for the longest time, I only had the idea of "Grandparents fainting at the rising (re-)introductions of Asuka, her fiance/husband and their grandchild" (not even the details - heck, for the longest time, I wasn't sure whether to fully show the Grandparents or rather just have them conveniently covered in comedic fashion since they were only faceless voices in the Anime) and to use the chance of presenting a less stereotypical side of Germany. Granted, in the end I had to cut back on the latter (or move it into the bonus pages) to finally get things moving at all. And while the script kept being tricky to the point I even had to take a mid-chapter break, in the end, I'm quite happy with end result. Re-reading T2t and realizing that I kinda skipped over her reacting to losing Kyoko again was probably the best thing happening there, and combined with being able to build up on my more unusual take of the step-mom maybe not being all that evil, yeah, I'd dare say that worked out nicely - even if it shifts focus a bit from Aki to Asuka.
But yeah, if you've been around long enough or at least checked the comments... you probably also know that means: longer break. I don't want to jinx it again by "hoping it will be less than last time", but... well, I guess I have now already. :P
I definitely do hope that it's not gonna be 3 years again though. And on the plus side, I do have more for the next script than I had for this one at the end of chapter 4 (even if it's still not much).
I also have something else in mind for in-between (aside from hopefully finally getting to do more of the pics I want to do), but I'm not sure yet if that will be here, since it's both out of the current timeline and maybe a bit big for the bonus section. But I don't want to tease too much (probably too late already?), since I don't know yet how, when or even if that will be released, since I feel I'd have to up my background game quite a bit (ruined city, anyone? ;) ) to be happy with it.
Thanks again to you all for sticking around, the great comments and just being here with me and this little family for so long. :)
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