ICON MEME
Mikage's picks:
1. This one isn't actually my Excel at all; it's the second Excel at a fancy party for ACROSS's fancy electronics company. I have that icon and a bunch of robo!Excel's business suit icons (though I deleted most of 'em) because I turned her into her evil robot clone back before it actually happened in English. So I guess if anybody ever apps the other Excel, she'll be set.
2. Just an average morning in the life of Excel. I added in the blood when I colored it, 'cause blood is funny. I'm always a little surprised and confused when I remember that their apartment actually has a washing machine. They probably got it out of the trash.
3. This is from episode 13 of the anime. I don't like the anime all that much, but Excel does a lot of hilarious things and would probably have a lot more random animated icnos if I weren't so lazy and so addicted to coloring manga. My moonspeak isn't good enough to tell you what it says on the drum.
1. PONYROPE. I drew fanart of ACROSS as My Little Ponies (I don't really remember, but was probably inspired by Gai Little Pony), and subsequently Excel and Il Palazzo turned into ponies. I need to get all of ACROSS in on another ponying sometime.
2. This was from... I can't remember whether it was CFUD's first Christmas or second, but there was a big "COUNSELORS ARE SANTA" post, so I made him a nice Santa icon.
3. Il Palazzo comes from a time before people thought that digital watches were a pretty neat idea.
1 and 3 are from the Utena Saturn game, which is about all I can offer by way of explanation. I wish I could play it. It looks like such amazing crack. :(
2. I... honestly don't remember where this icon is from, since I am way too lazy to do my own capping, but I really really love it.
1. This is from one of the fanbooks. There's a little 4koma and in this panel Ema is like, "Studying abroad is awesome! There's a girl my age who's a prosecutor!" After that she sees Franziska whipping somebody and is like DDDDDDDD:!!!
2. I don't remember what the context of this icon is. There's this super-awesome Japanese PW webcomic that I steal a lot of art from. I REGRET NOTHING.
3. I made this from the Goodbye Mr. Turnabout video. I don't see as how I had much of a choice.
Emperor Stelas's picks:
1. This is from... one of the DVD menus? I think? I actually stole it from somebody else, haha. It's nice to have an icon to ROCK OUT with, though.
2. SAD TERIHA IS SAD. I like making retardedly emo icons of Excel's retarded emo. Is that so wrong? I need to make her turn amnesiac for a week and just run around being semi-waify and running away from her own shadow.
3. I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS COPY OF YOUNG KING OURS THAT I ICONNED THE COVER AND THERE WILL BE SO MUCH SPAZZING ON MY JOURNAL JUST YOU WAIT.
1. I'm slowly but surely weeding out my anime icons, but I just don't have the heart to get rid of this one, 'cause it's Il Palazzo is basking in his own glory.
2. I wish this were a real picture, haha. It's actually from some of Rikdo's art from Fifth of a bunch of people in an onsen that I slapped Il Palazzo hair on so I could make onsen posts.
3. Il Palazzo riding the bus is one of my favorite things that ever happened. Originally I iconed that panel specifically to have the keywords, "WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?" At some point I realized that it would shoop nicely into this icon of God's, so I changed the original icon to this one.
1. I had to make Shiouji scan big chunks of volume 12 so I could have "talking to Shiouji" icons. In case you're wondering, yeah, I ship it.
2. I'm... not even sure why I have this icon. It's not very useful at all.
3. From the cover of Daitenzin! All three of my Excel Saga characters have Daitenzin icons mixed in with their regular ones. Because I can.
1. Oh Utena movie, with your gratuitous flashbacks to Touga getting pedo'd. I don't like the Utena movie at all, but it would be silly NOT to make a Pedobear icon where opportunity for a Pedobear icon exists, you know?
2. Ash was the first one of the Utena cast to have a box icon, so Nanami could stalk her brother properly, so I got inspired and made box icons for the rest of the cast. Saionji's is actually my favorite.
3. I wish I had any idea what this was, haha. Dang Saturn game being in moonspeak and also being a Saturn game. But there are screencaps of Chu-Chu pwning the whole student council.
1. One of my few Franziska icons that's actual canon art, haha. YOU'D BETTER NOT EAT THAT CHRISTMAS CHEESECAKE, SCRUFFY. The keywords are because Mia did 90% of my Franziska keywords. Also I have no idea wtf she's wearing there.
2. This one's from a hilariously OOC Japanese fansite, where Franziska blushes a lot in Phoenix's manly arms (also where I got her kitty icons). She's actually in a maid outfit in the full picture.
3. The fanbooks are dang awesome. SOMEDAY I WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE THIS ICON.
Lina's picks:
1. Excel infiltrating televisionnnn! The sunglasses are a disguise, which generally works in the Excel Saga world. I usually forget I have this icon.
2. The same as the princess icon above, it's not really Excel.
3. I made this icon for Loveless Weekend. Excel and Ash were Team Sasowme (which is typo-ese for "awesome"), and she has a duel disc because they thought that Loveless fighting involved playing children's card games. GOOD TIMES.
1. From the second Pokemon weekend! Empoleon is basically Il Palazzo in Pokemon form, so that's the Pokemon he has. Its names is Chill Palazzo and Excel is training it now.
2. I have NEVER gotten a chance to use this icon ICly (outside of playercest AU). But it comes from my absolute favorite Excel Saga AU story, where everybody works at ACROSS hospital and Il Palazzo is the greatest (and only the second most unethical) doctor ever.
3. There's not a story with this one or anything. Just Il Palazzo's shoulderpadless personality bein' real purty.
1. At the end of one of the chapters, it has Iwata's progress with Misaki in dating sim form. He's not doing too well.
2. So Shiouji and I were in a Cry Wolf game and we were getting SLAUGHTERED by Shigure, who was the wolf. Rather than actually trying to clear our good name, we just decided to fellate Shigure as much as possible. I made this icon (Shiouji also has one to match) so they could better cheer him on.
3. From the cover of volume 17. Which is the first time that Daitenzin actually has sentai transformation sequences. Which probably says something about the pacing of Excel Saga.
1. Nanami watching Touga in the shower. Sadly, he is not singing show tunes. More importantly, where is his penis?
2. Koyasu's laughter brings me girlish glee. I love this icon way too much. Girlish glee for everyonnne.
3. Touga is a rich person and rich people play golf. Or were they were playing croquet in the post I made this icon for...? Did I ever actually get to use this icon? Fushigi mystery.
1. I believe this was originally from a forum? Just another adorable stolen Japanese fanart. XD
2. Once again, Goodbye Mr. Turnabout is maybe the best thing ever.
3. This is Franziska's pet laser sugar glider, Captain Zappy, which Ema gave her to remember her by back when I dropped her that one time. She still has him, and has taught him to answer to commands in German.
1. This one isn't actually my Excel at all; it's the second Excel at a fancy party for ACROSS's fancy electronics company. I have that icon and a bunch of robo!Excel's business suit icons (though I deleted most of 'em) because I turned her into her evil robot clone back before it actually happened in English. So I guess if anybody ever apps the other Excel, she'll be set.
2. Just an average morning in the life of Excel. I added in the blood when I colored it, 'cause blood is funny. I'm always a little surprised and confused when I remember that their apartment actually has a washing machine. They probably got it out of the trash.
3. This is from episode 13 of the anime. I don't like the anime all that much, but Excel does a lot of hilarious things and would probably have a lot more random animated icnos if I weren't so lazy and so addicted to coloring manga. My moonspeak isn't good enough to tell you what it says on the drum.
1. PONYROPE. I drew fanart of ACROSS as My Little Ponies (I don't really remember, but was probably inspired by Gai Little Pony), and subsequently Excel and Il Palazzo turned into ponies. I need to get all of ACROSS in on another ponying sometime.
2. This was from... I can't remember whether it was CFUD's first Christmas or second, but there was a big "COUNSELORS ARE SANTA" post, so I made him a nice Santa icon.
3. Il Palazzo comes from a time before people thought that digital watches were a pretty neat idea.
1 and 3 are from the Utena Saturn game, which is about all I can offer by way of explanation. I wish I could play it. It looks like such amazing crack. :(
2. I... honestly don't remember where this icon is from, since I am way too lazy to do my own capping, but I really really love it.
1. This is from one of the fanbooks. There's a little 4koma and in this panel Ema is like, "Studying abroad is awesome! There's a girl my age who's a prosecutor!" After that she sees Franziska whipping somebody and is like DDDDDDDD:!!!
2. I don't remember what the context of this icon is. There's this super-awesome Japanese PW webcomic that I steal a lot of art from. I REGRET NOTHING.
3. I made this from the Goodbye Mr. Turnabout video. I don't see as how I had much of a choice.
Emperor Stelas's picks:
1. This is from... one of the DVD menus? I think? I actually stole it from somebody else, haha. It's nice to have an icon to ROCK OUT with, though.
2. SAD TERIHA IS SAD. I like making retardedly emo icons of Excel's retarded emo. Is that so wrong? I need to make her turn amnesiac for a week and just run around being semi-waify and running away from her own shadow.
3. I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS COPY OF YOUNG KING OURS THAT I ICONNED THE COVER AND THERE WILL BE SO MUCH SPAZZING ON MY JOURNAL JUST YOU WAIT.
1. I'm slowly but surely weeding out my anime icons, but I just don't have the heart to get rid of this one, 'cause it's Il Palazzo is basking in his own glory.
2. I wish this were a real picture, haha. It's actually from some of Rikdo's art from Fifth of a bunch of people in an onsen that I slapped Il Palazzo hair on so I could make onsen posts.
3. Il Palazzo riding the bus is one of my favorite things that ever happened. Originally I iconed that panel specifically to have the keywords, "WHAT IF GOD WAS ONE OF US?" At some point I realized that it would shoop nicely into this icon of God's, so I changed the original icon to this one.
1. I had to make Shiouji scan big chunks of volume 12 so I could have "talking to Shiouji" icons. In case you're wondering, yeah, I ship it.
2. I'm... not even sure why I have this icon. It's not very useful at all.
3. From the cover of Daitenzin! All three of my Excel Saga characters have Daitenzin icons mixed in with their regular ones. Because I can.
1. Oh Utena movie, with your gratuitous flashbacks to Touga getting pedo'd. I don't like the Utena movie at all, but it would be silly NOT to make a Pedobear icon where opportunity for a Pedobear icon exists, you know?
2. Ash was the first one of the Utena cast to have a box icon, so Nanami could stalk her brother properly, so I got inspired and made box icons for the rest of the cast. Saionji's is actually my favorite.
3. I wish I had any idea what this was, haha. Dang Saturn game being in moonspeak and also being a Saturn game. But there are screencaps of Chu-Chu pwning the whole student council.
1. One of my few Franziska icons that's actual canon art, haha. YOU'D BETTER NOT EAT THAT CHRISTMAS CHEESECAKE, SCRUFFY. The keywords are because Mia did 90% of my Franziska keywords. Also I have no idea wtf she's wearing there.
2. This one's from a hilariously OOC Japanese fansite, where Franziska blushes a lot in Phoenix's manly arms (also where I got her kitty icons). She's actually in a maid outfit in the full picture.
3. The fanbooks are dang awesome. SOMEDAY I WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE THIS ICON.
Lina's picks:
1. Excel infiltrating televisionnnn! The sunglasses are a disguise, which generally works in the Excel Saga world. I usually forget I have this icon.
2. The same as the princess icon above, it's not really Excel.
3. I made this icon for Loveless Weekend. Excel and Ash were Team Sasowme (which is typo-ese for "awesome"), and she has a duel disc because they thought that Loveless fighting involved playing children's card games. GOOD TIMES.
1. From the second Pokemon weekend! Empoleon is basically Il Palazzo in Pokemon form, so that's the Pokemon he has. Its names is Chill Palazzo and Excel is training it now.
2. I have NEVER gotten a chance to use this icon ICly (outside of playercest AU). But it comes from my absolute favorite Excel Saga AU story, where everybody works at ACROSS hospital and Il Palazzo is the greatest (and only the second most unethical) doctor ever.
3. There's not a story with this one or anything. Just Il Palazzo's shoulderpadless personality bein' real purty.
1. At the end of one of the chapters, it has Iwata's progress with Misaki in dating sim form. He's not doing too well.
2. So Shiouji and I were in a Cry Wolf game and we were getting SLAUGHTERED by Shigure, who was the wolf. Rather than actually trying to clear our good name, we just decided to fellate Shigure as much as possible. I made this icon (Shiouji also has one to match) so they could better cheer him on.
3. From the cover of volume 17. Which is the first time that Daitenzin actually has sentai transformation sequences. Which probably says something about the pacing of Excel Saga.
1. Nanami watching Touga in the shower. Sadly, he is not singing show tunes. More importantly, where is his penis?
2. Koyasu's laughter brings me girlish glee. I love this icon way too much. Girlish glee for everyonnne.
3. Touga is a rich person and rich people play golf. Or were they were playing croquet in the post I made this icon for...? Did I ever actually get to use this icon? Fushigi mystery.
1. I believe this was originally from a forum? Just another adorable stolen Japanese fanart. XD
2. Once again, Goodbye Mr. Turnabout is maybe the best thing ever.
3. This is Franziska's pet laser sugar glider, Captain Zappy, which Ema gave her to remember her by back when I dropped her that one time. She still has him, and has taught him to answer to commands in German.