Thursday, June 13, 2024

Serious cyber incidence: Nico Nico Douga system down

 

The whole system down of Dwango Co,. Ltd. & Kadokawa group is a serious incidence especially in Japanese network. All the websites and the whole network server of Japanese video posting sites Nico Nico Douga (the potential competitor of YouTube) is completely down, and the recovery will take at least 1 month plus. This cyber incidence should be considered as a national cricis of Japan as Nobuhiro Tsuzi, the outsourced agent of the cyber security department of Japanese police, and Hiroyuki Nishimura, one of the initial founders, say. The vulnerability of Japanese server centre and the cyber security is questioned. Also, the shut-down of Nico Nico Douga causes the significant loss of the opportunity for the market competition and the entertainment creators. There are also various resources of BGM and pictures shared among many creators including YouTubers are stored in Nico Nico sites. Mr Tsuzi and Mr Nishimura, one of the initial founders, suspect it will take more and this cyber incidence is considerably serious.

 

Sunday, June 09, 2024

Three Witches in Touhou Project


 

9th of June is the day of Patchouli Knowledge (6 9 can be pronounced as Mu-Kyu in Japanese), and then I have drawn three witch girls in Touhou Project. ... The average IQ seems to be high with this member.


 
There is an interesting phenomenon in these forums. Illustrations of multiple specific characters tend to earn more Likes than those of a single character or anonymous characters.  It is challenging to compete with the AI drawings nowadays . However, it is considerably difficult to command these AI tools such as Stable Diffusion to successfully output the multiple specific characters which requires multiple trials of these outputs until the desired one comes up. I guess that this is one of the reasons why the hand-made illustrations with the multiple characters tend to attract more Likes. 
 




 

Friday, June 07, 2024

Parsee Mizuhashi in Touhou Project with A wedding dress costume

 


Another June bride season special!
I have drawn a wedding dress costume of Parsee Mizuhashi as per request.
Her original clothing design is reflected to this dress design.