It’s been a quiet month on my blog, primarily due to my yokai book taking up nearly 100% of my time, leaving me none to write here — but also because I’m beginning to see how social networking is making blogs obsolete. It’s a lot easier for me to make a quick post to my Facebook page than it is for me to write up a long, detailed post here. On the same note, interacting with the Facebook page is easier than posting comments on a blog. With that in mind I am pondering the direction to take my blog, as it will definitely need a redesign to coincide with the read of Night Parade. I think the way to go is more integration with social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ in order to make communication with fans easier, while using this website as more of a portolio with updates solely about my artwork. This kind of conforms to the way I have been using it in recent months: fewer updates on the blog, but each update will have more substance and be related to my artwork. Other kinds of posts seem more suited to the environment of social networking sites, so you’ll see them on Facebook, Google+ and so on!

Halloween Ecchan

Anyway, on to the main topic of this post! The October edition of Ecchan.

Obviously I wanted to do a Halloween-themed Ecchan, which you can see to the right. The story doesn’t have anything to do with Halloween, but it’s nice to keep up with the seasons somehow, especially considering that Japan is so in-touch with seasonal changes that to let them go by unnoticed seems weird.

This month continues the same topic as before. Here is the script:

Panel 1: CDラジカセこわれたから、買ったんだ！
“My CD player broke, so I bought this!
Panel 2:これはどうやって捨てるの？
How do we throw this away?
Panel 3:小型家電は「燃やせないごみ」だよ。
Small consumer electronics go in “nonburnable garbage!”
Panel 4: 電池は必ず取り出して、有害ごみ(※)として捨てるよ。
Make sure you take out the batteries, and treat them as hazardous garbage!

Ecchan #7