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Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil – #0002

funny_bunny — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:37:57 +0000

“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears.”

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil Issue #0002 – A Serpent Stung Me

funny_bunny: It’s fun finals time! That means it’s fun drawing time for me! But no one else is around because they’re all study or not even in town! SOME ARE VERY VERY RESPONSIBLE AND SOME ARE VERY VERY BAD. But nde is here!

nde: Yeah.

funny_bunny: nde, are you sad that you have not made your appearance in megaten doujinshi yet?

nde: No. Prophet will figure something out.

funny_bunny: YOU won’t figure something out?

nde: You know I can’t write comedy.

funny_bunny: And you think ye wee sibling can?? YOU THINK I CAN? UNBELIEVABLE. Oh oh, so PP was the thinker behind this! Wait! Read ze comic before this point! No panel-panel-panel-panel breakdowns, just straight up chat-chit! Ok, MAU!

nde: Everyone wanted the summoner to be killed off early so all the demons could do anything they wanted.

funny_bunny: BUT HOW TO KILL?

nde: Then Prophet saw a bag of White Rabbit Candy that wasn’t thrown out yet. So that was that.

funny_bunny: OBJECTION, cameo! That was for Aerith’s Bitch, you rascal!

nde: I guess this one was self-explanatory.

funny_bunny: No REAL in-jokes here! Was SUPPOSED to be done AEONS ago. But I had to carefully hone my art to the point of perfection, as you may see here.

nde: I think people forgot about the contamination scandal by now.

funny_bunny: YOU didn’t forget. MOI didn’t forget!

nde: That’s true.

funny_bunny: Usagiten! Melamine! Style from TOTAN KOBAKO! SKETCHBOOK!

nde: Maybe this and other projects will be worked on soon.

funny_bunny: NAAHHHHH. Too busy with SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF INKY.

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Bonus #001

prettyprophet — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:57:22 +0000

“…and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That’s flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.”

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Bonus Issue #001 – Learn Not to Burn

Kawaii Pattycakes: I like to say sugoi. And this is the most sugoi of all.

prettyprophet: Some people, should they discover that their friends are drawing rape fantasies featuring said people, would freak out and run the hell away. Needless to say, I’m not one of those people.

funny_bunny: I would hope not. We couldn’t BEAR to be without you!

prettyprophet: Remember how we said ‘no more doujinshi’? We were lying. Well, Funny was lying.

Kawaii Pattycakes: A little secret FUNNY thing for Happo Bijin’s Sweet Body!

funny_bunny: So funny, it’s MONEY.

prettyprophet: If you haven’t clicked the comic yet, please do. Please fucking do. Got it? Yeah. Ed finally got Funny to do porn. I know, I know, Funny’s did this before. This is nothing new. But drawing his friends, although copied from hentai artists, and slipping it into releases? Yeah, that’s Funny for you.

Kawaii Pattycakes: Aren’t you flattered? I like Pyro Jack’s breasts more than your breasts.

prettyprophet: Thanks, slut. Anyways, since it was me who ‘starred’ in this shit, I’m explaining it, fuck off Funny.

Panel One

For those not in the know: the Incubus is Ed, Baphomet is Ink, Nyx is Lavie, and Pyro’s me. Even though this is ostensibly Megaten, I emphasize the fact that pretty much everything is taken from random bits of our lives. Yes, World Tree Madness, blah blah blah, but we ditched it for Usagiten.

So this conversation really did happen. If you know Ed, this shouldn’t surprise you one bit. Funny copied off Nekoi Mie for Pyro’s face, mainly because of our wonderful discussion on relations between Nekoi and Chika Umino. PS: Umino’s not Nekoi, so Pat, shut it.

Panel Two

This probably came from one of our talks on what was under the Pyro Jack’s cloak. Funny’s in love with Mechafetus and remembered that Pyro girl. Don’t ask me how that turned into him copying off the hentai circle Zettai Shoujo. Pat loves Raita, the artist. And before you go, “Oh Pat’s a girl, what is she, a lesbo dyke??”…this is the girl who INSISTED funbuns to do Sweet Body. You know what she also insists? Fucking yaoi by the bish-load. Look, Pat and Ed, they know their obscure asian shit, even more than me.

Panel Three

Oh Nekoi, you’re a darling. Yes, this came from a Nekoi Mie doujinshi, I forget which one. Funny forgets which one. And Pat is completely in her Melty Blood zone so I can’t get her attention. Oh, the moment I start talking about doujinshi she snaps out of it. Here we go: Digital Love. Hey, I recognize this. I think funny was going to use it for the Umino Rabbit Reveal…but we chose the FLCL instead because…it’s fucking FLCL porn.

Also, ‘boss’. I’m not even bothering to explain that.

Panel Four

In reality, I never did hear Ed talk about wanting to rape me. What happened was me and Pat (not me and Lavie) walked up to them and Funny, who was there, just points at Ed and goes, “ED WANTS TO RAPE YOU”. And Ed? He’s all, “Tadow bitch. Whacha gonna do?” And that was essentially that.

No, the entire issue wasn’t really about Ed’s rape fantasies although I bet funny had a kick drawing them. Everything is about the punchline from Lavie: “Rape. It isn’t funny.” Ok, here I go with a long-ass explanation for all you kids out there.

It was me, Pat, Ed, and Funny. We were sitting around before class started, I don’t know why Ed was there because he wasn’t in the class, whatever. So Ed and Pat are arguing because apparently Pat tried to rape Ed by lacing his drink the other night. Pat, in a moment of bizarre rationalism, counters with the fact that Ed hit her up with absinthe “just to see what she’d do”. I’m not joking, that’s all he wanted to know; I was there and I brought her to my house. Anyways, so we were sitting there, talking about whether or not Ed raping Pat would actually be rape, considering that a) she enjoys it b) Ed’s her boyfriend c) she’s as equally likely to try some sort of fucked up sexual shit with him. Light topic, lots of laughs.

Class ends. We all get ready to leave. Out of NOWHERE, this one guy with loads of sweat on his forehead who we’ve seen once or twice in the class, just stops in front of us and says, “Rape. It’s not funny.”

Now if it was just me, Pat and Funny, we would’ve been like “Wtf yo, get out.” Funny would’ve definitely cracked up. No, it wasn’t just us.

Ed just freezes and stares right into the guy’s eyes, gives his trademark sneer, and says: “Bitch, it’s hilarious.”

So that was the first and last time that one guy ever talked to us. Probably because we constantly repeat that phrase everyday now. Whenever someone mentions rape? “Shut the fuck up. Rape? Not funny!” In a way, it’s kinda scary because if there was ever a “shit’s about to go down” moment in a fucking linguistics class…that would be it. Plus if that kid goes off the deep end, we’d be on his hit list.

And now you all know the story behind that line.

funny_bunny: Wow, I really liked that story! Especially because I was in it!

Kawaii Pattycakes: I miss that guy. He once wore a Castlevania tee!

prettyprophet: Oh, you mean like Nate’s Castlevania tee? Fucking gross.

Kawaii Pattycakes: That’s exactly it!

prettyprophet: Ok, I don’t know where we’re going with this anymore. Um, Ed got Funny into a rape fantasy which was really just a medium so Funny could use the rape line. This was all Ed and Funny because I wouldn’t have let that shit slide. Course, since Funbuns is chief, if he wants to draw his friends in sexual misadventures, he can. He can because I can’t stop him. What I can do, is ridicule him mercilessly in later issues.

funny_bunny: Good gameplan!

Kawaii Pattycakes: Thumbs up! WHEN’S YAOI?

funny_bunny: NO MORE DOUJINSHI! OPERATION BIGTIME SHOWTIME BEGINS.

prettyprophet: It’s a go-go.

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil – #0001

prettyprophet — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:49:38 +0000

“The wind wakes unknown
Secrets to the surface
nani ka ga ima kawari sou de
shitsu kushi ta mono subete o tsunagi awase tara
tobira ga hirai ta (I-I-I see again!)”

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil COLOR Cover (designed by edthefucker)
Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil Issue #0001 – Reality is a Harsh Mistress

prettyprophet: Hey kids, come for your cake.

funny_bunny: It is filled with Vitamin M.

Kawaii Pattycakes: MEGATEN!!1

prettyprophet: Fuck, I’m falling asleep. Alright, cover is in color, courtesy of Ed. I’m not even going to explain that.

edthefucker: What, bitch, explain. It’s billion times better than that gay shit you did for Etrian.

prettyprophet: We had a gajillion more references than yours. Elmer Fudd, hm? Elmer fuck off.

funny_bunny: Nothing is better than DARK HOUR.

Kawaii Pattycakes: Sorry Ed-o, P3 = rawk.

edthefucker: Shit on all of you. Get out. Get the fuck out.

funny_bunny: It’s cold outside!

prettyprophet: It’s cold inside. Funbuns, turn on the heat.

funny_bunny: NEVER.

prettyprophet: Since Ink and Lavie aren’t here, and I don’t feel like explaining, we leave everything to Chief Funbuns. Take it.

edthefucker: Take it like the bitch you are.

funny_bunny: Ooooo you talk so dirty.

Panel One

Pixie! SMT pentagram! Mass Destruction by SHOJI MEGURO! QUOTES FROM EPIC OF GILGAMESH!

Panel Two

MEGATEN NOCTURNE SUMMONING! Hey look, I have that shirt. Not as REVEALING THOUGH.

Panel Three

Kaneko art! Of the LATEST PIXIE. I love you too, Pixie, for you dia my soul! Look nde, grubby hands and FINGERNAILS. Nails must be long and pink and dainty like mine.

Panel Four

Hey, who drew my penis that long? I don’t EVEN HAVE a penis, fufufu!

edthefucker: That was the worst fucking explanation I’ve ever heard. But this comic’s a piece of shit anyways.

prettyprophet: Ignore ed, he happens to have too many beads up his ass. Anyways, there’s your incoherent explanation by Funbuns. It’s your usual style steal from Totan Kobako and Okota. The bishie pixie was…actually just drawn by funny freestyle. I guess the eyes are kinda Kaneko.

funny_bunny: Arms from LOVELESS.

Kawaii Pattycakes: OMG THAT HAS THE BEST ARTBOOK EVER.

prettyprophet: Better than Lily Hoshino’s?

Kawaii Pattycakes: Rarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr they both make me SQUEE!!!!!

edthefucker: They make her wet too.

prettyprophet: I prefer Hoshino…but that’s like saying I’d rather get shot in the head than pulled apart by bulls.

funny_bunny: Bull penis!

prettyprophet: Sammi Cheng’s married, yo.

edthefucker: What a whore.

Kawaii Pattycakes: We NEED to watch Tea Fight. Erika Toda’s in it! ERIKA TODA.

prettyprophet: We know. I was the one who told you. Shut up.

funny_bunny: NO MORE DOUJINSHI FOR LONG TIME!

Kawaii Pattycakes: Or should we say…DIFFERENT KINDS OF DOUJINSHI! FUFUFUFUFUFU!

prettyprophet: Let’s just say we got something big and completely non-game related in the wings. And we need to do it fast.

edthefucker: You guys are going to fuck it up. Faggot funny.

funny_bunny: Don’t worry! Thumbs up!

prettyprophet: So yeah, No More Comics 2: Desperate Struggle. 2010. Peace out.

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil – GENESIS

funny_bunny — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:41:24 +0000

“Call it what you will–
a revelation from God, or a curse of the Demon King.
The fact remains that our world came to an end.”

Rebirth of the Rabbit: Symphony for the Devil Issue #0000 – April is the Cruellest Month

prettyprophet: Hey, guess why funny drew this. C’mon, shouldn’t be hard.

funny_bunny: To sell to wealthy oilmen?

Killer Ink: To ignore papers.

prettyprophet: To piss me off.

nde: We all like Megaten.

prettyprophet: That we fucking do. Anyways, this was bound to happen sooner or later. Once funny saw me and nde in Jack Bros. costume…it broke him.

funny_bunny: Don’t forget the SWEET BODY slapdash!

Killer Ink: Not many saw that.

prettyprophet: Yeah, no one goes to those posts for some reason, despite it having MAJOR NUDITY. Jeez, horndogs, here it is and you don’t want it? Fine.

funny_bunny: Now the Thousand Rabbits present…USAGITEN!

nde: Rebirth of the Rabbit.

Killer Ink: Symphony for the Devil.

prettyprophet: And we know it’s ‘RESURRECTION’. We picked ‘Rebirth’ because it’s got less syllables.

Killer Ink: Though if we were to stick with syllables, it should be ‘Usaten’.

funny_bunny: USAGITEN. DON’T ARGUE WITH THE FUEHRER.

prettyprophet: Christ, I’m glad Pat ain’t here. She’d be all up in arms over ‘proper’ Jap romanization. Fuck that.

funny_bunny: You know who I wish WAS here? ed. I could really use COD4.

prettyprophet: Oh, you goddamn brokeass. Alright, info time. Funbuns was drawing Megaten for no reason in class because that’s the kind of idiot he is. Boom, next day he’s all, “Let’s do it. Let’s do Megaten doujinshi.” Look, I don’t even care anymore that we have several open comic projects. Why? Funny’s the artist. So unless Ink feels like taking up the tablet…which he is adamantly refusing right now…we’ll just do whatever funny want’s to do. Doesn’t matter to me; it’s really all the same material. In-jokes, geek jokes, random shit from funny, whatever. Slip in some social commentary and we’re good.

“Symphony for the Devil” is a play off “Sympathy for the Devil” and the “April is the cruellest month” is from T.S. Eliot. Sidenote: Eliot was featured in Nocturne‘s initial hour by way of Hikawa explaining why April is the “cruellest month”. Props to localization or actually from the original script? Who knows? Ink, take the panels.

Killer Ink:

Panel One

Funny did something different here, tracing Kaneko’s Pixie (Kazuma Kaneko Works I version). Perhaps he got lazy. Or as he’s saying, because he rarely traces and wanted to see what it’d be like. Chino Hills was chosen due to it having the lowest population of California. ’199X’ is a reference to Shin Megami Tensei‘s date.

Image taken from Be Your True Mind.

Panel Two

The wallpapers are from To Love-Ru and Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. The figures between the monitors are from Kotobukiya’s (funny: KOTOBUKKAKE) Megami Tensei Trading Figures Box Set #6. Shown (left to right) are Astaroth, Odin, Lakshmi, Pixie, Barong, and Thor. The mousepads with breasts as rests came from ed’s collection. The Tetris keyboard was drawn on impulse. The improbable amount of wires was drawn because prophet says that wires represent technology.

Images from Anime Wallpapers.com.

Panel Three

Funny wanted to draw Network Terminals for no reason, even though SftD appears to be focused on a cross between the very original Megami Tensei and possibly Shin Megami Tensei (prophet: Yeah right, this shit is crisscrossing EVERYWHERE). There’s a Pepsi Terminal, a Playboy Terminal, and a regular Network Terminal. The summoner was randomly generated through our visual dislikes; I dislike double-chins, funny dislikes neckbeards, nde dislikes grubby hands, ed dislikes fat people, prophet dislikes sweat, and Pat dislikes balding (funny: Lavie dislikes NOTHING in particular because she’s too nice and if you’re really shy and blushing, she might let you touch her boobies).

Panel Four

‘Amala Network’ is from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Rice Crispies reference in the sound effects. The three demons displayed are (left to right) Baphomet, Nyx, and XXX. Models are myself, Lavie, and funny, respectively. funny does not wish for the XXX demon to be named yet, for some unknown reason. The shirt Demon XXX is wearing is a King of Games Kid Icarus tee. The game Demon XXX is playing is Persona 4. The lyrics are from the introduction song, “Pursuing My True Self”.

Styles used for this, and overall, were from Totan Kobako’s Sketchbook and Okota’s Tsukihime/Fate Stay doujinshi.

prettyprophet: Wow, you are so fucking dry and boring. Ok, Ink, you’re doing the panel explanations from now on.

Killer Ink: I don’t feel like this is an honor.

prettyprophet: It’s not. Anyways, we did the four panel deal this time because…fuck you, Pat. Four panels = more concise.

funny_bunny: Also, I’ve decided EVERYONE’s demon!

Killer Ink: He spent hours doing so.

prettyprophet: Shit you not. And he’s got papers due, unsurprisingly.

funny_bunny: YOU CAN’T JUST PICK ANY DEMON, THEY MUST BE CAREFULLY SCREENED TO PERFECTION.

prettyprophet: The sad thing is…funny really did put thought into this. Most of it, anyways.

funny_bunny: And now! FACE THE TRUE ENEMY!

prettyprophet: Atlus, WHERE’S MEGATEN PROPER?