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I wanted to share with you guys the plush of Kitty that I commissioned from Squisherific, a very talented plush artist on DeviantArt. I’d been hoping to find someone like her for ages, and I found her page quite by accident when I was idly searching DA for, of all things, Stephen Colbert. Kitty now makes the fifth plush I’ve commissioned from her (and the tenth I’ve commissioned total, though half of them were gifts for other people), the other four being Kurumi (of course), Maya (a demon girl from an RPG I ran a while back), Melanie (a gift for my good friend Suichiro), and Octavia (my D&D character). Aaaaaanyway, here’s Kitty!
Offering plushies like this for sale is kind of a pipe dream unless (until!) Neko Machi makes it much bigger, but if you have the money to spare and you want a custom plushie made, I can’t recommend Squisherific’s services highly enough. And I certainly won’t object to more Neko Machi plushies being made. :3 (Pheleon is another very good plush artist, but she isn’t accepting commissions currently.)
I’m a big fan of Japanese 4-panel (yon-koma/４コマ) manga, enough to use the format for Neko Machi, and enough that I’m working on a role-playing game (Raspberry Heaven) that actually uses it in the rules. Like a lot of American anime fans, I originally came across 4-panel manga in Azumanga Daioh, but it’s a pretty venerable format, and there are all kinds of 4-panel manga you might not have heard of.
Seeking inspiration for my pet projects, I’ve wound up accumulating quite a collection, so I wanted to share these our readers. There are a fair number of spinoff 4-koma based on existing titles (including Haruhi Suzumiya, Clannad, Sgt. Frog, etc.), but for this post I’m sticking to stand-alone titles. Also, not a few are only available in Japanese.
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