12.14.2025 - Finally got around to actually writing something on this page. It's December and I've finished scripting chapter t-09. I've started drafting the name (Storyboard) and I've really learnt a few things since volume 1 that leave me feeling a little embarrassed to only be cementing those in my knowledge now. I can finally really appreciate how panels present time and how the shape and/or ratio of panels indicate different stretches of time, different sensations of time passing. (Shingo Yamashita recently tweeted something related to this here and here.)

(Copy pasting the tweet in case they get deleted):
"パクろうと思って久しぶりにピンポンを読み返していて思ったけど、映像っぽい連続的コマ割りの時に一番小さいコマの「コマの小ささ」をアニメだと表現できないんだなって気づいたね…1-2frにすると認識できないし6frにすると比重が高すぎる" -yama
"勢いのある漫画のコマ割りを読んでいるときの印象はカットではなく僕はOLに近いと思っている、ものすごいはやいOL。そう、走馬灯のような。" -yama

Aside from that, I have to admit, though the storyboard is coming together and I've already learned a couple things, I can't help but feel like my heart isn't quite in this chapter just yet. I've just come back from completing a few animation jobs and it's holiday season so my mind is a little all over the place. I have to refocus and put everything into each one of these chapters or else I'll really regret it years down the line.

12.24.2025 - I finished the first draft storyboard for chapter 9. I still need to review and commit some dialogue/speech bubble placements. Im taking a slight detour to wrap up a couple jobs (sorry) and actually doing a bit of animating for Ill of You. I have this animation test in the oven.

Please watch Gou Miyagi's skateboarding videos. 1 2

My Christmas present this year will be the mastery of a demon which has possessed me since adolescency atpQuan. I am ready to begin time travelling.