Making Manga

Hi,

This is my new artwork:

I hope you like it and it will make you smile even a little.

Hariana

Or “The book of the broken hearten gods” is a new manga project that i am working on. I have the basic plot and the main characters thought out. The 2 main characters are already drawn and i am now refining them. In order to start to actually write the first chapter – which already has a preliminary idea and form – i have to finish creating all the main characters. I want to make a group of 5 up to 7 characters (3 of them which will appear the most) on which i will focus. I want to make also some good negative characters. But i want to take it step by step.

I will post here some of my sketches of two of my characters: the priestess/warrior and her antagonist. For now are sketches, but soon enough i will post some digital work on this manga. I hope you will like it and that you will encourage it!

Now that you have a glimpse of what will contain, you just have to wait the real deal – or updates to the status

Hariana

Hi,

Today is the opening of Otaku fest – a Romanian festival made for manga and anime fans, where there are a lot of manga and anime related products, books…they also have a cos-play competition and a lot of fun things to do (playing games, drawing). However, this year they thought to make things even more interesting and they organised an opening concert in the first day of the festival (the festival begins Friday and it ends Sunday). The rock band invited to concert is Anli Pollicino. I have listend to some of their songs and i think that they are quite talented, but am still anxious to see them live. I will tell you more tomorrow after i’ve seen them in concert.

See you soon guys!

Hariana

“Later edit”:

Well,  these are after event opinions i went to “The Silver Church” club and i was very pleased with the location. The opening of the event was a “bondage” show – a very bad one, but when the concert started, we all forgot about it. The concert was very good and lasted for about 50 minutes and then the “recall” for another 15 minutes. They were very good and very beautiful! I was amazed because they were all very female-like, so i wondered if i had mistaken and they really were girls, but when i heard their voice – male voices, then the doubt disappeared. The concert was very good and lively! At the end though i was a little upset because i wanted an autograph and they announced that due to fatigue they can’t give any!! But well…it doesn’t really matter – the nice memories remain, and the pictures, of course (i will post some of them in a couple of days).

Sayounara!

Here are some pictures from the concert: http://makingmanga.com/2010/05/anli-pollicino-pictures/

Hello there,

I am currently working at editing manga pages from Glass Mask chapters. Well, i am not very productive, but i can tell you that i enjoy doing “good deeds”, so if you are a fan of Glass Mask, just go to shi-ki.org, and you will find there the translated manga. There is a whole team working so you can read more Glass Mask chapters!

I’ll wait you there.

Oh, if you don’t know what Glass Mask is:

This is a story about a girl named Maya that discovers she has a real passion for acting. In the years to come she consolidates her ability as an actor, but also encounters many hardships. This is a manga about passion, about love and self sacrifice, about the entertainment world and their intrigues, but most important, this is about being a professional.

Well, if you need more infos, just ask me!

Hariana

P.S. I edit this manga pages in Adobe Photoshop; to see how i do this, see this 2 parts tutorial:

http://makingmanga.com/2010/02/editing-a-manga-pagefor-dummies-part-one/

http://makingmanga.com/2010/02/editing-a-manga-page-for-dummies-part-2/

Hi,

Yesterday was my birthday and i am 23 now. I was very happy to receive “Happy Birthday” calls and to hear from persons i haven’t heard from for so long.
The thing that made me even more happy was my birthday “party” – a nice evening meal with my friends and then with my family. I received a lot of presents, which is why i like this period of the year the most: i like to be the only one receiving presents.
One of my precious presents was a set of japanese ceramics (rice bowl, soup bowl, rice spoon, and a plate) and some nice designed chopsticks, and a paper fan. Oh, and also a beautiful box, to keep all this in it 
Well, now that my passion for japan was once again nurtured, i have new forces to learn japanese and to improve my drawing skills.
What made me a little bit sad, was that some friends of mine haven’t called me yet…but i’m still waiting 

What was a little bit nasty, was doing the dishes after  my little birthday party…there were piles of them!! And it took me a while until i finished. But it worth it!

Anyway, i hope that me going old, also means me getting more mature and finding the path i want and making me happy in the future or something like that!

Thanks for reading,

Hariana

Hello guys, today i thought that it is time to show you how i did the little clouds from my sausage character from “Turtle and Sausage” series.

This little clouds are made in Adobe Illustrator and it requires some basic skills. The level of this tutorial is a beginner one.

Let’s begin!

Open a new document – i usually use Illustrator’s Web preset.

Then select the Ellipse tool (press L on your keyboard), and draw some ellipses as shown in the image below.

Then, to fill the uncovered spots between the ellipses, just take Pen Tool, and draw a form that unites them.

With Selection Tool(V), select all the forms that you have just drawn, and go to Pathfinder and choose the first option – Unite.

Now, let’s make some changes:  go to stroke and choose black (it doesn’t really matter the color,  we will change it anyway later – just don’t choose “none”); for fill color, choose “none”.

With your form still selected, go to Brush Panel (if you can’t find it, go to Window>Brushes, or press F5 on your keyboard) and choose a brush (just by clicking on it, while the object  is still selected).

Now that you know how your cloud’s border looks like, let’s make this a little bit more professional: let’s change the stroke into a nice path. Go to Object>Expand Appearance. Then, you will see that your stroke is now a path. Now go to Pathfinder, and click Unite, so that the overlapping paths to disappear.

Now copy and paste in front (Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+F). This will make an exact copy of our cloud boundary. With this copy selected, go to Object>Compound Path>Release. This will have as a result, a black cloud. Select the the exterior black cloud (if you can’t see it, go to Layer’s panel), and delete it. Then select the interior black cloud and give it a nice gray to white gradient.

After this just select the cloud’s border path and give it a nice blue to white gradient.

Add 3 or 4 little crescent forms with a blue to white gradient, then group this together, and then make 2 or  copies. And voila your little clouds!!

I hope you liked my tutorial as well as my little clouds, and if you have any questions, i wait for your comments.

Thanks,

Hariana

Shopping is very nice and relaxing only when you don’t want to buy something. Because for me, when i have some items that i want to buy the perspective changes completely: i always search a lot and seldom find what i want. Most of the time i’m very picky about what i am buying: i want to be exactly how i imagined the object, it has to have a low price, to be of quality and to find it fast ) Well, this is the ideal.

Today i went shopping and it was a nightmare! I wanted to buy some nice shoes and a pair of sport shoes. Total failure! I didn’t find any pair to match my mental image for the shoes. As for the sport shoes, i found 2 pairs – one at adidas  and one at another shop, but guess what! I wear number 35 at shoes, and they only have from 36, or 37 upwards. How can that be?? They sent me at the children collection (i’m 23)!! This depressed me, so i bought myself a beautiful and very elegant skirt and a blouse to match it. But guess what? I don’t have shoes to wear them with! This is quite of ironical!

I hope tomorrow will be more lucky. Wish me good luck!

Yesterday I was at a Japanese Tea Ceremony demonstration, performed by Michiko Nojiri sensei (representing Urasenke school from Rome). I like Tea Ceremony very much and this is why I was very anxious to get there, but I was at the point of missing the start. They gave us tea and cookies (that were delicious). And at the end we asked Nojiri sensei some questions. That was super! <3

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll try to explain a little.

Japanese Tea Ceremony (also called Way of Tea) is actually a cultural ceremony, where one communicate by gestures and contemplate everything, establishing a spiritual connection. This involves the preparation of tea – matcha tea (a powder made from green tea). As I have been told (and read), this habit came from china, along with the tea itself, and at first it was drank in Chinese manner. As the time passed the Japanese people started to modify this custom and put into its spirit: the introspection, contemplation, relation with the objects, relation with other persons and with one’s self. Or as Murata Jukou sees it, Tea Ceremony “is characterized by humility, restraint, simplicity, naturalism, profundity, imperfection, and asymmetry [emphasizing] simple, unadorned objects and architectural space, and [celebrating] the mellow beauty that time and care impart to materials.”

There is a well established order in everything involved in the tea ceremony: first the host has to prepare the room and garden for the ceremony – to be clean and pure. The purification is made with water. After that, well chosen objects are set in place in a perfect order and harmony. Also, the room is enriched with chebana faced towards the guests (simple styled ikebana, used for the tea ceremony) and calligraphy in the form of a hanging scroll.

As the guests arrive, they enter the room and one after another admire the chebana, the hanging scroll and then the utensils chosen for the ceremony by the host. They not only contemplate, but also respect these objects, and pay their respects by a bow. Then the host eneters, salutes the guests and so, the tea ceremony begins: first the host gives cookies to the first guest and prepares tea for him. After that the host gives the tea to the guest, and then offers cookies to the second guest and the process continues. The guest can share the tea, but only if he is invited by the first guest to drink.

The tea prepared in this ceremony has a bitter taste and a green moose at the surface. At first you dislike it, but after drinking it several times, you get used to it. The cookies are made of rice flour.

It is very important to speak as little as it can be, so that the guests and the host can contemplate the sound of water and to study every movement, smell.

For some more informations, consult wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony

For me, it was a nice experience, even though I didn’t actually took part at a tea ceremony, but  was always a spectator. I am glad that they thought of us and gave us cookies and tea too, and considered us guests too. <3

Thank you for reading, and I hope I’ll have a new occasion to see another tea ceremony soon, so that I can learn even more about it and then share that with you!

Hariana

Hi,

I was looking on the internet and i thought that i have so many sites that i use and i think that they are very useful, and i thought that you might want to know them too (if you don’t know them already).

Reading manga online

For this purpose i use mainly One Manga and i really like it. They are quite well organised, have a lot of manga, and have some of the most popular manga updated weekly as they appear in Japan: Naruto, Bleach, One Piece etc. Their website address is www.onemanga.com

Next up is Manga.Gamestotal.com here i read a very nice manhwa (Korean manga) called The Bride of The Water God.

Manga Fox has a very nice website. And it is very easy to navigate trough it. You can also change your “skin”.

I also like Manga Hut where i was reading 100% Perfect Girl, but lately the site doesn’t work

Another site where you can read online manga: Homeunix Manga

Watching anime online

For this i manly use Crunchyroll where they have a lot of good quality anime videos uploaded by the producers! There you can see Naruto Shippuuden (and other cool anime) one week after it appears in Japan for free in HQ, or exactly when it appears in Japan if you gen an anime membership and in this way you also support the creators.

I used AnimeCrazy to see Inuyasha’s final act and i only have good words for them!!

MegaVideo also has high quality videos, but they have a time limit, and then you just have to wait 72 min. to watch again or pay for  membership.

There is Veoh…but in Romania it has no longer license :-<

Mangaka

Hisaya Nakajo (Hana Kimi’s artist) – http://www.wild-vanilla.com/ very nice but it is all in Japanese.

For Rumiko Takahashi’s new work: http://www.shonensunday.com/series/rinne/?trwredir.

Learning Japanese

Read the Kanji, Denshi Jisho (online dictionary), Kanji Alive and Joyo Kanji.

Buy from Japan: http://www.flutterscape.com/.

I buy my mangas from here (only for Romanians): http://www.mangashop.ro/.

For Blythe Dolls try the official site:

www.juniemoonshop.com

or www.thevalleyofthedolls.com for Blythe but also for other adorable dolls!

Another site from where you can buy dolls from is Dream of Dolls website. I found there so many beautiful dolls that i became a little bit sad that i didn’t had the money to buy one, but this will change soon >:).

That is about it…i’ll update if i find some new interesting sites.

Hariana

In this post i will show you the evolution of a drawing.

First is sketching what you want to do on paper (or on your computer):

Then you scan i imported it into a program computer – Adobe Illustrator to ink it:

Then add some basic colors:

After this you just have to add some shadows and some highlights – i did this in Adobe Photoshop, and Voila!

Well, i like to use Adobe Illustrator for shadows and highlights too, but i just tried to use PS instead.

Thanks,

Hariana

Hi,

This is a drawing that i did some time ago, and i finally made it in color.

I did the coloring in Adobe Photoshop.

I will be waiting for your comments!

Hariana

Hello,

Today I am going to show you everything about Adobe Illustrator’s Pen Tool. I hope you will find this tutorial useful, and i hope that it will be easy to understand.

Pen Tool is one of the most difficult tools in Adobe Illustrator - after Mesh Tool probably – and this is why most people avoid it. Actually you can find this tool in other programs too, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks,  Corel Draw, etc. and is based on Bézier curve principle (a parametric curve). It is used to draw smooth , easy to modify, vectorial curves. There are several numbers of tools which help you modify this curves, but we will get to this later on in the tutorial. First, you can see in the image below what is the icon for Pen Tool and where it is placed on tools panel.

Now that we know where to find our tool, we can start discovering what it can do. First, let’s set the fill none and stroke black for our upcoming paths.

With Pen Tool you can make curves or straight lines. To actually do the lines, you just click on the artboard – to make the straight lines, or click and drag – to make the curved ones. Either way, each time you click/click – drag you create a point on your artboard called “anchor point”. The Anchor point looks just like a little square – it is filled with color when it is made last, or when it is selected; otherwise it is like a white square with stroke. Here is a single anchor point:

You can make straight lines, just by clicking around like in the image below:

To make curved lines you click and then drag in the direction that you want your line to curve, like drawing a tangent for the curve you want to draw. If you want to make a hill just drag to the top; to make a valley drag downwards.

The secret of making smooth curves is to put as few anchor points as you can and always place them at the sides of the curves, not at their tops/bottoms. See two examples of correct and incorrect placing of anchor points below:

If you want to know how far to drag you must think at this: the farther you drag, the steeper the curve will be. This is all because the beginning of the curve will always stick to the handle, and the longer the handle is more (on a longer distance) will the curve stick to it:

If you left a path open, just go with the Pen Tool over an anchor point (at one end of the path) and when you see the slash under the cursor icon just click/click-drag an than you can just continue your curve as you wish.

We have seen how to create the paths, but what if you make some mistakes, or you just thik of modifiing the curves you just made? I will tell you how to do this and what are the tools used for this kind of job.

1. To modify the curbing of a line segment, selecting anchor points, moving anchor points, deleting points or paths or repositioning the handles we use Direct Selection Tool (A);

2. To convert a smooth point into a corner point or vice versa we use Convert Anchor Point Tool (Shift+C);

3. To add anchor points we use Add Anchor Point Tool (+);

4. To delete anchor points we use Delete Anchor Point Tool (-);

Note: we find tools 2, 3, and 4 in the drop down menu of Pen Tool in Tools’ Panel.

5. To split a path into several paths just use Scissors Tool (C);

Note: tool number 5 is found in Eraser Tool‘s drop down menu.

6. To erase parts  of a line segment we use Path Eraser Tool – placed in Pencil Tool drop down menu.

Select an anchor point by clicking once on it. To select more drag and drop to make a selection rectangle that includes the anchor points you want to select. Or you can just ckick on every anchor point you want to select while holding down Shift Key on your keyboard.

If you want to modify curved lines you just have to use Direct Selection Tool (A) and drag the curve with it. This however will work this way (changing the way a line curves) only for curved lines. For straight lines the same techinique will simply move the line.

With Direct Selection Tool (A) you can move an anchor point or more.  To move the selected anchor point/points, just go to one of the lines between the selected anchor points and just drag and drop them wherever you want.

To delete anchor points or line segments, just select the anchor points you want to delete (or the anchor points at the end of the line segment that you want to delete) and then hit Delete Key on your keyboard.

To convert a smooth point into a corner point just click on the anchor point that you want to modify with Convert Anchor Point Tool (Shift+C). To make a smooth point from a corner point click and drag on the anchor point that you want to modify. Then just play with the handles because they can be moved individually with this tool.

To add anchor points just click with Add Anchor Points Tool (+) on your path, where you want to place the new points.

To delete anchor points just click with Delete Anchor Points Tool (-) on the anchor points that you want to delete.

We use the Path Eraser Tool to erase only a part of a segment, by passing the tool several times above the part of the line that we want to erase. It is like using an eraser on a pencil line. This also make from one line two separate segments, and the path also separates.

Scissor Tool (C) splits a path into two paths. Just click on the path where you want to split it and click there. Afterwards you will have two different paths. But, unlike the Path Eraser Tool it will not erase any part of the path.

Tips:

Hold Shift Key while making a new anchor point by clicking, and the new anchor point will be aligned  with the previous one.

Hold Shift Key while making a new anchor point by click-drag and the handling will be oriented at 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270,  315 degrees

To make a corner point when making a curve (not waiting until after the curve is done to modify it with Convert Anchor Point Tool), just click on the last point that you have done with Pen Tool once, and then just make another point to see the result.

That’s it folks, thanks for reading and I hope it helped you.

For any questions, just leave a comment!!

Hariana

Hi,

Today i’m going to show you how to ink an artwork with Adobe Illustrator. Here is the drawing i am going to ink:

figure 1

This is already inked with traditional ink, but i want to make from it a vector. You can also use a pencil sketch. There are two methods of inking with Illustrator:  you can use Live Trace (Object>Live Trace>Make) – but, i think is will have a nicer look doing it traditionally —> just use Pen Tool, Pencil or Brush Tool to trace manually the outlines.

Open

Open a new Illustrator file – web preset if you will use the art for web, or print preset for printing. Then place your artwork into the new file by going to File>Place. After placing your file successfully, resize now your artwork to fit into your artboard; to do that, just go to the Tool’s Panel and select the black arrow Selection Tool or just press V on your keyboard. Then click on your artwork to select it – it will appear a rectangle at it’s boundaries and on that rectangle some default anchor points (at the corners and at the middle of the segments): this anchor points will allow you to resize the artwork. Just click and drag on the anchor points and see what happens. To keep it’s proportions just keep Shift key on your keyboard selected while doing the resizing from one of the corners. Now that we made the artwork the size we need, let’s move it: also with the Selection Tool (click-drag-drop the image where you want it to be).

When all resizing and placing is over, go into the Layer’s Panel – if you don’t have it on the bar on the right, then go to Widow>Layers or press F7 – and lock the layer (now you only have one layer created, and contains your artwork) by clicking on the blank square placed between the Visibility Toggle and the icon of the layer (see figure 2 for details). Locking the layer will now make the layer impossible to edit (if you want to edit it, just click again on the Toggle Lock icon), and you won’t move or modify your layer by mistake.

figure 2

We will now create a new layer by clicking on Create New Layer icon placed at the bottom of the Layer’s Panel (again see figure 2 for more details). This new layer will be placed above the layer you just locked, so the elements that will be created inside it will be also placed above the ones existing in Layer 1.

Trace

For tracing i prefer using Pen Tool (P) – you find it on the Tools Panel on the left. Now we will begin to follow the outline of our artwork with paths and anchor points. For a full tutorial about Pen Tool click here. It doesn’t matter if you let the paths open, because later on we will make a little trick to close them . Use the Pen Tool with Stroke only – choose none for Fill color (from Color’s Panel). Note that when making paths a new sublayer is created automatically for every path you make. The sublayer is placed into the currently selected layer.

After tracing all the lines that make the outline of the artwork, select all the lines you’ve made and go to Brush’s Panel (if you can’t find it go to Window>Brushes or press F5 on your keyboard) and – with all the lines selected! – choose a brush there by pressing on it. See what happened? All the lines you have selected have now the stroke changed into the brush you have selected. Now play a little with some brushes and widths to obtain the effect you want.

After having obtained a nice stroke for your lines, now we will change the lines – which are open paths – into closed paths. To do that, go to Object>Expand or Expand Appearance: this will automatically make your strokes into paths – this is why it is very important that you have made your paths only with stroke and without any fill. Now go to Pathfinder and click the “Unite” button – see figure 3 (again, if you can’t find the panel, just go to Window>Pathfinder or press Shift+Ctrl+F9 on your keyboard). This way, you will unite all the paths into one single path.

figure 3

figure 4

Here is my final result:

Tips:

• if you want to move easier on the artboard’s surface when you have zoomed in, just use Hand Tool (H) or just press Space bar on your keyboard and then drag and drop your artboard until you get to see the area that you want;
• when working with Pen Tool (P) you can keep Alt pressed and it will appear Convert Anchor Point Tool (Shift+C) and you can work with it as you wish (but just while Alt button is pressed);
• also when working with Pen Tool (P) you can keep Control pressed and it will appear Selection Tool (V) and you can work with it while Control button is pressed.

Now you can color your artwork. Don’t know how to do that? Just wait my next tutorial.

Thanks for reading, and i’ll be waiting for feedback!

Hariana

Motivation

I started earlier to build a manga character out of myself.  You could ask “why?”, so i will try to answer as clearly as i can later on in the post.

Well, if you’ve read some manga, you surely saw that every artist has a character that shows them doing stuff that they do and want us to let us know they do …to be more specific: they describe some actions with the aid of their manga drawing, but in order to do that, first they must come up with a character that represents them. Usually these characters are very simple, with messy hair and drawn in chibi style.

So? “Why do you want to make yourself a manga character again?” Well, because i plan on drawing some more, and especially in manga style – i’ve already started “Turtle and Sausage” series and i have some more projects (more elaborate) in plan; i also want to make myself a more personalized web design portfolio that contains in some images drawn by myself in manga style, but i also want to make the readers feel closer to me; this idea actually came because of my twitter page…i wanted to give my twitter followers a piece of my mind – visually speaking. I don’t know if i convinced you, but i have one final – strong motif: i want to!

How to build the manga image of yourself

Well, this is kind of tricky – this is what made me write a tutorial on this theme. When i thought of “how should i make myself look like” only one answer came to my mind “beautiful”. And i thought that this is not the point of this – to make a beautiful manga character – but to make one with my personality, style and features. I thought for a moment, tried to doodle a little but i realized: this is not me! these doodles were some manga style drawings that had nothing to do with me. So, instead of doodling some more, i actually started a brainstorm with the main subject: ME.

Basically i started to make a list with my characteristics:

1. Looks:

- face: small eyes, small pink lips, big nose – i’m not going to use this feature ), black and very well defined eyebrows –> expressiveness;

- body: small body, big bottom ;

- brown eyes and black hair.

2. Relational: talkative, friendly, a little bit mean sometimes.

3. Emotional: understanding, i can put myself into other persons’ shoes, but i’m also selfish sometimes. A little bit crazy!

This is what you should do too: ask yourself what are your main characteristics and write them down to have a starting point. Also, try to keep them ordered by having them grouped by categories – just like i did – it helps you a lot when you start the actual drawing. If you don’t know what to write, just ask your friends – it will also be a good thing for you to see how other people see you; and may be it will help you even more than your own list, because this way you will see what your most powerful characteristic is.

For example, when i asked a friend of mine what is his opinion of me he said: “you have a strong personality and you have an interesting way of imposing your points of view”. Well…my strong personality is well known Let’s get back to the main topic!

Now that you wrote this down let’s get to the next level: building your actual image. For starters let’s just choose one physic characteristic: in my case small eyes, and think how can we make them look small. I had a little brainstorming , because all i thought was “chibi has big eyes!!” and i didn’t know how to actually make them little. And i started to look at some pictures of myself – especially when i was smiling, or laughing – and i noticed that my small eyes were reduced to two lines. So there was my answer – just draw the eyes like they are closed. this kind of trick – looking at pictures of you works for every other feature of yours..just look at pictures of yourself and find out what is repeating, what is associated with you. It is not difficult, but it takes some time and patience.

Now, at my closed eyes i added a small mouth, some defined eyebrows, and – a little bit bigger bottom :”> As for the clothes, i thought of my most comfortable clothes and shoes and i also did the hair as i always like to keep it See a picture of my manga image below:

Manga Me

The writing are notes for the elements – i really like to add notes to everything.

Next i drew again the same character, only bigger. Then i just took another piece of paper and placed it on top of the bigger drawing (drawing nr 2 in the figure below) and fixed one nto another with some paper clips; on the window i started to trace very slowly and carefully fine lines just above the lines of the drawing on the back (professional mangakas use light-boxes, but for amateurs it is enough to use the window). This way i’m making the base for my inking: a clean paper, without any eraser traces, so that will not absorb the ink – well mine absorbed some ink, because it was paper for pencils not for ink, but you can find paper for ink at your local stationary.

Then, i just took the pen and the black ink and started to trace my drawing really slow and patiently. Lastly i just signed the paper and took the camera so i can show it to you guys! Voila:

Only now begins the true fun: i’m going to adapt “me” for my portfolio, twitter page, blog and whatever will come to my mind. To do that i will make it vectorial in Adobe Illustrator.

Thank you for reading,

See my other posts too!

Hariana

Even though i’ already know how InuYasha will end – i read the manga – i still wait the final episode with emotion, and i don’t have any patience.

I really love how the final act is made, because it is very active, and it was very nice drawn, but the most important thing – the style is no different from the style of the previous seasons. It has the most important events in the manga, however if you haven’t read the manga it is a little bit tricky, because you don’t get to know how InuYasha decovers how to cut trough his demonic vortex with his Dragon Scaled Tessaiga, instead he just uses the technique. Also there are other little parts missing, but overall the outcome is very good.

I was afraid that the characters won’t have the same voices that i really loved, but they did, and i was really happy! I really like all the voices of the characters, because i think they are really matched to the characters!

Anyway it is just great and just can’t wait the final episode :X

Hariana