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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 8h

Super great character collection! Love how much of Amano's designs you kept in with this expressive, clean style - I've just been replaying that game, and it's very fun seeing them all like this! Rock on!

IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 10h

2025-09 - Hana and Mei, from the manga Cross Play Love: Otaku X Punk! I love this manga, it's wild! Romcom where the main two hate each other, except when they crossdress and don't know the other does, and they're the perfect couple. Lots of cute, lots of personality, silly, dumb, and fun. Love it!

Hana and Mei from Cross Play Love, Hana has blight hair, her bangs separated by braids, and is wearing a cute vest, and Mei has raven black straight hair with bangs that cut off sharply, and two long strands framing her face and sharp eyes. Both are back-to-back, blushing at each other's presence.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 1d

I could see that! Now I gotta imagine Captain Rose as Tron Bonne, hm hm..

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 1d

It'd take some effort with all the specific motion control, but I'd love to see them port this someday so more people could play it!

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 1d

2025 - 8 - Zack and Wiki! A weird, fun Capcom experiment that I felt was a cool possible evolution to the Point-And-Click puzzler genre. Pirates, treasure hunting, and magical transformations! Your enemies become your items of use! Got good memories of this Wii game.

Zack and Wiki, with Zack as a girl! Twintails, more human proportions, long legs, no longer bare-chested, sitting on a stump that is curiously maybe sentient? Hmm..

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 4d

2025 - 7 - 'Lucyphur'! from Poison Elves, where there's a fun little bit where a magical mishap causes Luciphur to becomes 'Lucyphur' - about all I know about that series, but I collected those issues!

A pissed off female elf with long, solid black hair with frizzy edges, wearing metal arm guards, a chain-mail-like shirt, and leather pants with exposed sides.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 5d

Heck yeah! Enjoy!

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 5d

2025-6 - Shredders! Specifically, the movie one, who still has one of the aura-filled villain intros of all time. And Super Shredder, the coolest design despite the unfortunately short 'fight'. Also unfortunate, my Shredder 63 is basically just Azula with smaller Zuko scars. Blast it!

Oh no, Shredder from Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze, has taken in the Ooze! But the doctor explains that he's enhanced it. Shredder then transforms... into a Super Shredder... that's Rule 63'd! Same giant razor-saw pauldrons, but a more fishnet ninja look throughout and exposed belly and Azula-ish hair. Shredder is confused. Also, a cool Neca Super Shredder figure, because I want to show it off!

Female Shredder in front of the Foot Clan kids, speechifying like a cult leader, and saying that she is their Mother. She's got an Azula-like haircut, small spikey shoulder pads, and is reaching out. Also the coolest cape that I couldn't capture well enough in ink, dang it.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 6d

It's really well-animated and creative and full of all-out craziness, with monsters and aliens and ghosts, and the best thing is the relationships between the characters. First ep gets a little vulgar, and past that it's a great ride.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 6d

2025-05 - Okarun, from Dandadan! I'm certain it's big enough there's been R63s ('missing balls' being so easy a catalyst), but whatever, I wanted to draw him! Barely had to make a design difference!

Okarun from Dandadan, Rule 63 - just a nerd with circle glasses, messy hair and boobs that I think are too big I hope you forgive me.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 7d

From the comic, 'Die'! Unless you meant setting, then from Stafford in the UK!

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 7d

2025-4 - DIE! By Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans - a very cool, though-provoking, D&D inspired story. And this is Ash, who's stuck as a girl in a fantasy game (again) with their estranged trauma-ridden group of friends, and it's anything but fun and games. I really enjoyed it and really like Ash!

The words 'DIE' are bordered in red, said by a woman with curled, flowing, shoulder-length white hair, covering up one eye. She's dressed in black with highlights of red, with a shoulder cape and a collar that splits into spikes that rise above her head. Next panel reveals she's just explaining the comic she's from, 'Die', made by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, a super fun, if heady and dark graphic novel! She's very happy in the last panel, holding up a DIE omnibus, which is how I read the story.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 8d

Fun to hear! And I didn't realize they made 3 of those - gonna check 'em out! Are they more possible to beat than the original?

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 8d

2025-3 - Blaster Master! One of my fave games (and books) of the childhood years. Had the coolest NES tank (SOPHIA 3rd), the silliest intro with a pet frog, and a main character design I didn't know about 'til recently that works great for R63. Still haven't beat that game legit!

Brush pen drawing of the Famicom Blaster Master protagonist as a girl - short but voluminous hair, raised shoulder pad on the left, skin-tight plug suit otherwise, and an awesome tank (SOPHIA 3rd) with four gear-looking wheels, also a frog and a monster thing that moves on two legs with a big mouth and a bow because it is also Rule 63'd. As is the frog. And the tank.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 11d

New #1s can feel more appealing. I can always use jumping-on points, and I actually do like when there's some volume difference between significant eras in a comic run. But too many new #1s are just obvious marketing tricks for sales and can make archiving or finding issues confusing down the line.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 11d

2025-2 - Grey Gargoyle! I don't know much about 'Paula' Duvall, except they're alarmingly French, jobs for just about anyone, and can turn people into stone at a touch, which I think is enough to be a big fan.

French woman made of stone, wearing blue panties, gloves, cape and face-mask, reaching out to touch you, while leaning on a female Thor to show what'll become of you next. Also cute, stone ponytail.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 12d

Might try doing Rule 63s for October that I haven't seen yet - still rusty, but fun to get back to physical media. This time, Sissel, from Ghost Trick! Been watching Snapcube2's playthrough, and it's still such a fun underrated game.

Inked in brush pen - Sharply dressed girl in suit and open button-up shirt, wearing sharp sunglasses and sharp greased up hair leading to an angular point. A black cat and Pomeranian hang out in the back.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 20d

Half-redraw, half-continuation of Arthur's Hero 01, more words, more strawberries, more misunderstandings, and hopefully with better anatomy!

Link looks down at this strange maiden that's been following him - He'd just finished fighting off a strange horde of new monsters in a strange new body, but _she_ was the strangest of all. She was looking up at him with nothing but her underwear, patterned with strawberries, completely silent... beckoning? Oh dear... Link remembered this was how he expected Zelda to react to his heroics, long ago, and he had gotten used to her denying him this fantastical reaction, and now here it was, in his face. What used to be a dream was now a little embarrassing and awkward and flattering? I mean, she was very cute, sure! But, I mean, then again! If Zelda wasn't going to... No! Okay, nevermind! But maybe?

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 22d

I did! And both AI Sominium games are so clever, and also very anime and silly and dark! Aiba is my fave!

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 22d

True! But also, she's beside Gaku in the collage, so-

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 22d

Been playing a lot of Hundred Line Academy, a game by the 999 and Danganronpa guys, and it's anime sci-fi bonkers - so, have some Rule 63 of it!
It's a good time! But long! And silly! And kinda dark and nasty about mind-control stuff! And has twists up the wazoo!

Takumi Sumino from Hundred Line is a girl, with a girl Defense Academy uniform. The scene mimics the dramagic Choices scene of the game, where the player decides what Takumi should do - Some are reasonable for someone seeking the protection of humanity, and others are indulgent and silly.

Takumi Sumino, and all the rest of the Defense Academy students are all girls now, for some reason! Hemoanima nonsense, I'm sure! All of them respond in their own ways to the changes, and some should get fuller scenes to show off their assets more, my bad. Takumi is front and center in casual clothes and longer hair and skirt.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 26d

I mighta jumped on the hype, heh - fun issue! The main story was pretty standard superhero fare, but kinda cool how normal feeling it all was, and most of the jokes were fun!

Def liked the Cap/WW story - a hint of a world where DC/Marvel was always intertwined became real fun to imagine!

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks! They're fun! I have seen others do them better and would love to level up even more, though - I'll work on that!

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 27d

Maple, Link, and frills!

Maple and Link crash again! A fight is about to break out again, but Link breaks script wondering about Maple's broom and vacuum. Maple reveals her maid outfit, a frilly, ribbony version of her Witch outfit, and is quite pleased when Link compliments her. But this whole discussion took too long, and for some reason, items can't just lie there, they disappear after awhile, and now they've both lost everything! Except their appreciation for cute outfits.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks a bunch! That's good cake!

Mindwipe @mindwipe.bsky.social · 28d

A drawing of "Super Sister" baking a birthday cake for my friend ICS!

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