The mosquitoes are back 🦟🎾

I didn't manage to sleep very well from Friday to Saturday, so I preferred to rest rather than do any physical activity. Anyway, the new anime season started in January, with some continuations I had been wanting to watch, and there will still be more throughout this year.

From the 2025 seasons that continued:

Gnosia, returned with Part 2, focusing on Setsu and Yuri's concerns about their mission to collect information that connects the various characters. It ended on a cliffhanger where the truth will be revealed. I think Gnosia will be treated as something created by humans and that this "cyberization" mentioned by one of the earlier characters is similar to the Gnosia attacks at the end of each voting phase. Now it’s just a matter of waiting to find out.

To Your Eternity, had a good episode. It was about time to show how people from other eras are trying to survive in this modern world, and how each person wants to follow their own dream or path in life. This seems to affect Fushi a lot, since he doesn’t understand this human side.

Now for the new seasons and returning continuations:

Golden Kamuy, had a very good episode and the situations remain funny and over-the-top.

Shibou Yuugi, surprised me. I didn't even know this work existed. This episode is very well constructed and really managed to hold my attention.

Jujutsu Kaisen, is finally back. I had to watch a recap of the previous season. I almost felt like rewatching it because it’s such a great arc, but I've been short on time lately.

Trigun, my favorite anime, is back. It's good to see a different approach in this post destruction arc and to see Milly showing up. I'm curious about the new human colonial ships, because if I remember correctly, Earth was already gone and the Seed project was the last hope in the 1998 Trigun. I still haven't read the manga to this day, but I know it's different from the 1998 and 2023 anime versions.

Among the ones I've already watched, I'll also keep watching Sentenced to Be a Hero. That makes a total of 7 anime... but Frieren is still coming, so 8 anime, and I might be forgetting one more... ah, Fire Force. That one I'll leave to watch the final season later. There's already too much anime for me to keep up with... ah, this cycle, the eternal cycle. D: 

This time I didn't manage to play much either. I wanted to get through Stage 6 all the way to the end, but I only managed to play up to Stage 8 with many deaths. The normal difficulty level of this game is already hard.

This set also originates from the Tkool Blog, a set created for the Battler versions for RMVX that was later added to the RMVX/Ace RTP.

Monster2_1&5, the Plant, both Battler designs in the VX and Ace versions are very similar, so I thought about mixing details from both designs into just 1.

No pain while running... for now 🏃‍♂️🏋️‍♂️

Today I managed to run after going to the gym. But I still haven't been able to do the 12 repetitions on the pull up bar again, I'm having trouble even reaching 10 reps. Taking a break from physical activities is not a good idea.

Monster1_7, the Death 💀, across its four designs always has these red details around the dark cloak and carries a scythe. I left only the Face/Bust version without the scythe. Among them, my favorite, the one that conveys the strongest sense of presence and fear, is the Battler VX version. However, I should have extended the cloak further downward when pixeling it, because when I compare it side by side with the other designs, him looks like a small.
Monster1_8, the Maō or Devil King 😈, appears in the Battler folder as Darklord. He has interesting variations, I liked all of them. For me, the Battler VX Ace version is the most imposing. In fact, in his Battler image, he is posing on the throne with a dragon or some creature behind it. What bothered me was the horn, even though it does make him unique.

I still haven't gotten back into my rhythm 🏃‍♂️🏊‍♂️🏋️‍♂️

I'm still having a hard time when training, staying inactive for a long time because of the end of the year isn't good. I don't want to miss a single day so I can recover the rhythm I had.

Monster1_5, the Fire Demon 🔥 according to her, or Ifrit in the Battler folder. He has "small" differences between his designs.
I'm thinking about deleting the 1st Battler VX Ace design or changing it to make it more unique, maybe more muscular.
The 2nd design refers to the Battler VX , where he has a light yellow to orange beard, the same color as his skin.
The 3rd design is the Face/Bust, which looks like an Ifrit with skin burns and remnants of hair...
The 4th design, to follow the original Character, I run into the same problem when turning a Chibi into a tall sprite. I followed the flame pixels at the top and bottom to edit later and gradually filled in what was missing in my own way, trying to keep the same proportions as the original Character. I actually liked the result hmmm.

Monster1_6, the Ice Queen ❄ according to her, or Icelady in the Battler folder. She already has more interesting differences. The order of the designs is the same as always, from left to right:
1st (Battler VX Ace), I tried to give volume to her butt thighs and then slim them down with the tight dress, which then flares out to the sides. Her skin is dark blue, her hair is light blue and the tips are a pink/purple tone that gives her an interesting highlight;
2nd (Battler VX), she looks like a different character, with ice on her hands and legs as if she’s ready for battle;
3rd (Face/Bust), she almost looks naked, but she isn't. Her skin is white leaning toward blue, just like her outfit, but I ended up making the skin more bluish to create contrast with the outfit and her curves... *cough *cough 🤭;
4th (Character), I followed the original details and it was only here that I noticed the hair below the shoulder. This outfit without details ended up looking like a jumpsuit with boots :/.
Only after finishing the 1st one did I notice that a detail was missing, the white fabric that runs between her shoulder and forearm. I'll change it later and check if it looks good. For all of them, except the 4th, I had to keep the standard human RTP skin first and only then change it to blue, so I wouldn't get confused during the pixel art process.

No creativity for a title 🙃

I woke up, looked out the window, and saw heavy rain again... D:

I decided to leave my workout for later and get ahead on my work and studies.

Monster1_3, the Orc, the design versions are quite diverse. The Battler VX Ace version has a head very similar to the Character version, with the difference that it wears leather armor and uses a ring on the exposed tooth. The Battler VX version looks a lot like those Dark Fantasy or Tolkien style orcs. The Face/Bust version is the most different among them, it looks younger, has hair and has two exposed teeth on each side, in addition to the outfit having other details. The Character version, however, suffers from the same issue where, when the design is enlarged, some details seem unfinished or empty.

Monster1_4, the Imp, unlike the Orc, there are few differences between its designs. The first is the Battler VX version, the second is the Face/Bust + Battler VX Ace version. And... for the first time, I didn't make a version similar to the Character one. I believe there wouldn’t be much difference due to the sprite’s height, so it's unlikely that I'll do it in the future...

Getting back to normal 🏃‍♂️🏊‍♂️🏋️‍♂️

Today I managed to get back to training, I swam and worked out at the gym. But I had some difficulty, I felt more tired today.

Now I'm going to start with the Monster sets, in the VX Ace version, 2 Monster sets and 2 $BigMonster sets were added.
Monster1_1, the Ghost, the most noticeable design difference is the Face/Bust compared to the Character/Battler. In the Battler VX Ace, the Ghost wears a hood, in the Face/Bust version it does as well, but with a different shape and color tones. I'm considering keeping only 2 versions, the Face/Bust and the Character with an extra layer on top to add the hood 🤔.
Monster1_2, the Skeleton, for this character I made all the versions, the expression of the first sprite is creepy hahaha. The difference among the four designs is the head...

A very rainy morning 🌧 ... no training 😑

Instead of writing and constantly taking screenshots of the gameplay, I thought about using my YouTube channel again to release the gameplays. It's more practical, I don't need to pause all the time, and it's better than describing every single detail. This time it will be a game I really wanted to play, but unfortunately the software or engine it was made with was specific to the East, so errors happened when trying to launch it because the Windows locale didn't recognize the changes between "." and ",". However, the developer released a version on the Godot Engine and I ended up postponing the gameplay, so much so that it has already received a few updates 😅.

I died so many times on Stages 5 and 6... I almost gave up... the video was over an hour and a half long, I had to chop it all up and removed my many deaths on Stage 6... 😭

Game: 砂漠の国の冒険記～アルと地底の迷宮～[ Adventures in Sandland*: Al and the Underground Labyrinth ]

Author: 瀬加井 勇 (爛漫堂) / Isamu Sekai (RANMANDO)

Available [Version 2.10]: http://ww5.tiki.ne.jp/~ranmando/sandland/index.htm

*Name of site is Sandland, so, I thinking adaptation of "Desert Kingdom" or "Desert Country" for Sandland sounds better, for me. If that's wrong, edit later.

Gnosia, the episodes are now focused on each character, it looks like the season will take a while to end...

To Your Eternity, these last episodes have been very interesting, debating life and why some people wish to give up living even with so many things available, but unfortunately it's a cruel world where certain material goods and services are far from being accessible to many of those people who think about giving up.

Spy x Family, I hadn't commented on the latest episode, but before its premiere I ended up going to Shueisha's Manga Plus and read the rest of the arc that the anime adapts and a bit more, which made me even more excited for new chapters. Since I'm reading the manga, I'll stop commenting because of spoilers.
The problem with seasonal anime releases following the seasons of the year is that new interesting ones always appear, like Sentenced to Be a Hero and other long awaited continuations, making the cycle of watching anime series or live action shows endless 😅. Speaking of real people, I watched the latest season of Stranger Things and honestly, I didn't like it. I was expecting a well made series conclusion, but it felt like they didn't respect the very rules of the world they created during the great previous seasons.

Since I already posted the Horse because of the Riding set, I'll continue with the Animal set. Because the animals are reduced or have a Chibi like appearance due to the 32x32 frame of the set, I had to adjust some sizes, such as the width of their heads and their length as well. Like the Butterfly, I tried to add detail to the black color following the reference of a real blue Butterfly. I ended up adding the bell to the cow and other changes to differentiate it... maybe I'll remove these detail later.