HardcoreHunter
Saw this old Adult Swim bumper
I realize that I watched Trigun for the first time 20 years ago on my 14th birthday march 31st. Weird how it both seems both not long ago and really long ago. I was still chicken pecking at the keyboard to type on newgrounds, and didn't start using sites like ASMB or 4chan for another 2 years. Even starting the bleach comic and making this account 11 years ago doesn't seem like it was that long.
Where I've Been
Sorry for pretty much the year without updates from me. I've had some people DM me asking how I've been doing; so I figure I may as well do an update. The past year I've primarily been hanging out on twitch. Talking with and interacting in the vtuber community and discords. I've even been writing the lore for some vtubers, have about 30 VIP, and even Mod some channels. I will say that I have been around the internet for a while. As communities go twitch vtubing community is the most welcoming and least toxic community I have seen. There is still toxicity, but it's usually contained to that streamer making it easy to avoid. Though if you are looking for fun communities to be a part of I highly recommend smaller vtubers on twitch. Many are very welcoming and I can give some suggestions if anyone would like. Even though I am not always in here; I do still check in fairly regularly.
Long time no update
Some may know already, but my health has never been the best; this year especially. So far this year I've had a lung biopsy, was diagnosed with skin cancer and had two operations to remove that, got banned from a forum where I knew many people for over a decade for telling off some trolls for making fun of my cancer, and just got results that I am covid positive despite all my attempts at isolation. As of now I do believe I'm recovering well, better than I would have expected in fact as my original thought was that I would have just died. I'll share some of my personal experience with recovery. First overwhelming fatigue and hot and cold flashes. I had 5 days where all I did was sweat and feel like I was freezing. When I say sweat I mean sweat. I had to switch to the couch for a night and set up fans in my room because my bed and pillows were soaked through with sweat. I was also having wheezing and a sharp stabbing pain in my chest. At that point I decided to go to the ER.
At the ER my fever was gone. The doctors were treating this more like seasonal bronchitis; but also did the covid test which came back positive. Treatment so far has just been high dose prednisone and Motrin. They said that all the treatment they have right now are simply to control swelling and to return to the ER if breathing worsens or my fever returns.
Right now I would say that the fatigue is still really noticeable. Wheezing isn't as deep, but still feel sore from coughing and the overall fatigue. As for how I caught it, I know it was from my brother who always coughs but says he isn't sick. The number of people I had to call was 3 that I have been in contact with the last couple of weeks. So it really adds to the annoyance that I went all these steps to avoid people the past year and this is how I catch it. That's life though and it is what it is. My dad also got sick, but he insists that he's fine.
The doctor I talked with said that I can leave quarantine Tuesday on the condition that I don't have another fever between now and then.
The End of BHTSY
>Why is the series ending
We had planned this for a while. Around the time of chapter 9 we had decided to end the series with ch11. I talked to Gairon about some plot points, and he liked the idea; so we set the beginning of the end in motion.
>Are you two falling out?
No, there isn't any drama between us. We'll still be communicating, and working together on some deviations in the future.
>What about BHTSY
The series as it is in chapters is done. However BHTSY will still go on in some form. That will most likely be Omake/yonkoma type pages. So don't lose hope on never seeing the boobies uniforms again. Gairon and Myself may also write up some yonkoma type skits for other series that aren't Bleach.
>why was 11 so plot heavy and long
First off we felt that for us to end this series properly it would need to be long. I think when we first started we felt that we could do this in 120 pages....We got almost double that. Either way we knew it was going to be longer than the 25-30 page chapters we had been doings. The two things I tried to emulate with Bleach, I think went too "well" with chapter 11. A lot of people know that I am at times overly critical when it came to bleach, despite my enjoyment of the world and characters. The final arc had me feeling annoyed as all hell, so many elements that I didn't like with the Blood war, I pretty much emulated in ch11. Jumping between multiple stories, introduction to characters that do nothing or are quickly forgotten, a big bad who keeps getting power-ups, an overly long plot that is lasting forever by taking place in a single day etc. All that pretty much made it's way into ch11. Still I tried to always have humor and ecchi. At times though I do feel that the plot emulating how I felt about bleach, got in the way of what I originally wrote BHTSY for, and that was how enjoyable filler should be made. A lot of this chapter went the kill la kill route and lampooned plot heavy series. However like with kill la kill, there is a point that it stops lampooning the tropes of a plot heavy series and suddenly has become a plot heavy series. I never did feel that the series fully lost sight of it, however I have read the comments and understand that the wait between pages sometimes made it feel like story lines were hanging around longer than they were welcome. I sometimes can look at the dates for a 4 page story, which may have been a slow month where we had to take breaks, and realize that wow, it sure would have sucked to have been waiting for that for two months, but when you're just binge reading it's nothing. All in all, I think that we handled the balance well, but there were always the comments like below.
>There needed to be more fan service
We heard you and it's always there, you're just spoiled; there was fanservice every 2-3 pages. It isn't everyone but it never ends. This is pretty much the dilemma I think of fanservice/ecchi in series. Pretty much the more you show the more people will want to see it progress. You'll even hit a point where Nudity doesn't even feel like fan service. Gairon and Myself are kinda on opposite sides of this. I'm in the camp of almost nudity, someone being just barely naked I think does more for the imagination than seeing full nudity, and leaves room for it to possibly go further. When you see full uncensored nudity though, it's much harder for fans to go back to being excited seeing the characters in little dress or looking risky. Gairon though sympathies with many of you who want more fanservice/sex. DA has also tightened their rules over the years limiting what can be shown, along with other sites like tumblr and even Newgrounds.
I may write up another journal to address more questions, but it's getting rather late right now. Either way I'd like to thank everyone for reading this, and talking with us for the last 8 years. It really would never have gone on as long as it has without your support.