/kemono/ - Kemono

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Poor anon.
I've seen a series of first person drawings from the perspective of some sort of secret operative fighting youkai on the streets of Japan. And I feel like it had fluffy girls in some of the pictures, but I might be misremembering, and it will take forever to find in my archive folder.
So I hope these cats are fine, even if they're just general horror creatures and not particularly weird or abstract.
Lu's games also pretty often go into weirdcore territory. At least when they don't go into shitpost territory instead. Though I've only posted the very first ones in >>75 thus far, and those were pretty grounded, but there are at least two more free games on his itch.io.

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>>305
yes! yes! i love these! eastern halloween/weird toy designs are so fond to me, im especially fond of the masked ones in picrel 2, i love tiki masks,,

i wish it was easier to describe exactly how i like the design philosophy of these things, but i guess one of the things that makes the soul and creativity so interesting is that its something you'll never be able to truly describe.

heres some of my drawings ,,°◡° ,,

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>>309
These guys look like some sort of dark "of Mana" game mobs. It kind of makes me want to beat them up with some sort of a poleaxe.
That zombie bunny's bikini also looked like a gimp suit before I looked closer. I think it would be cooler if it was. But maybe that's because every horror game in my time had a freaky self-mutilating gimp guy.

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>>305
Came upon the guy again, and he doesn't draw kemonos (well, kinda).
Guess that was wishful thinking.
By the way, did you name these images yourself, or what program formats filenames like this?

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>>356
i named them myself! sorry for the omega late response, >_<!! your attention means a lot to me, i checked this thread pretty frequently but apparently this post slid under my nose!

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>>410
got more picrels cuz i posted the last one kind of panicked trying to get it out as soon as possible lol

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>>410
Who's that?
This guy reminds me of that time we were learning circles in school, and in one of our humanities classes I've used the compasses to draw what no doubt was the creepiest horror smile I'll ever manage to draw. Like, no joke, the pencil dust happened to smear in a perfect shading and all, it was magnificent.
I was really proud of it, hoping it was going to spook whoever was gonna sit there next, but the absolute bottom-feeder of a girl I was seated with saw it and ratted me out, and the teacher made me scrub it off.
She was one of the worst behaved students in our class, so she really just did that because she was salty over a toy I didn't want to share with her, because she would play with it in class and get ME in trouble.
What a silly story to remember over a random picture on an ominous image forum. Anyway, that's why I hate w*men.

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>>412
TDMs are crazy hot.
Not terribly spooky, though.

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>>415
>Who's that?
theyre a random shot-in-the-dark deltarune AU type character. i was fascinated by its design at the time. i found out about them because of the really cute shipping comic they did

>story about the creepy face
hehehe this is really amusing, you seemed to have truly cared alot about it, you felt sincere artistic triumph in it, i hope one day you can replicate it. terribly sorry girls can be so mean sometimes :C

abstract kemono art is so hard to come by, like, i can think of so many examples and yet i can rarely point it out directly (most likely because of the language barrier)
most anime dont really intruige me despite me being very weeby, its usually the weird imperfect stuff that i have a soft spot for, i think that adds alot as to why i am so lonely fufufu, finding so much interest in something that is not even from my native tongue, and its even unpopular in that area.

it has been a dream for me to learn japanese one day though, the amount of people ive seen with similar interests to me just from offhanded surface level searches is far beyond the scope of what i find with years of research in america, but part of me is also afraid, i wonder if i'll still manage to be "too weird" even then.

somebody i used to talk to who was really close to me once said that for something like that to come my way, i likely wont even have to try to look for it, and i think about that quote alot, the ideal friendship i pursue would likely be found by simply bumping into the other person and nigh immediately loving eachother, but i really cant help but drive myself crazy trying to find "something".

at least in smaller places like this i dont have to worry about needless toxicity because there simply isnt a crowd big enough to create a social tumor, and i dont think i wouldve even found this place to begin with if it werent for my obsessive searching, so i think im going in the right direction? im having  a good time

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>>419
>i hope one day you can replicate it
Probably not. I'm a bit too old to be drawing edgy spookfaces on schooldesks.
And whatever free time I have would probably be more productively spent on making this site more auspicious than trying to do arts and crafts.
>abstract kemono art is so hard to come by, like, i can think of so many examples and yet i can rarely point it out directly (most likely because of the language barrier)
Apparently, the word is gurokawa (グロカワ) https://antifandom.com/aesthetics/wiki/Gurokawa
Maybe try looking up "グロカワ" "ケモノ".
>finding so much interest in something that is not even from my native tongue, and its even unpopular in that area
I feel like stuff like gurokawa or creepycomfy and otherwise having your fancy tickled by weird/creepy/uncanny/dreamlike stuff is a pretty universal feeling. Though, I guess, maybe Japanese are more prone to openly pondering such stuff. But don't find yourself sleeping on cool regional stuff.
>but part of me is also afraid, i wonder if i'll still manage to be "too weird" even then
LMAO, who gives a shit? Even if somebody thinks the worst of you over some words on screen that barely reflect anything about you
1 That's his problem.
2 You can always just change your identity or go to a different community.
I doubt learning Japanese specifically in hopes of finding understanding with foreigners you've never interacted with is a good idea.
But the rare content foreign languages can unlock for you is great.
>for something like that to come my way, i likely wont even have to try to look for it
They say that's how happiness works, and I'm inclined to believe that. Not sure about friendships, though. Luck = Preparation + Opportunity, and the mindset of waiting for things to come your way may leave you unprepared to take opportunity even if one presents itself.
>bumping into the other person and nigh immediately loving eachother
But how would you love each other before you even get to know each other? That would be weird.
Most of the IRL friendships I've ever had started with identifying the guy in class who looks wimpier than me and making him play/read/watch/listen to obscure stuff I like until he starts liking it.
Not to scare you, but there are definitely way fewer opportunities to open up to people as you get older unless you're into drinking, smoking or communal exercising.
The only advice I can give to getting over the fear of speaking to people or being judged is to stop giving a fuck.
>at least in smaller places like this i dont have to worry about needless toxicity because there simply isnt a crowd big enough to create a social tumor
I doubt this has much to do with the size of the community. Modern day culture is just too conducive for people to fall into different flavours of perpetual hysteria. I could come up with explanations of why that is for days, but I'm no sociologist, and there is little sense in guessing.
The only antidote to madness is to stay chill at any cost.
>i dont think i wouldve even found this place to begin with if it werent for my obsessive searching
How did you find it? Whatever worked to get you here, I should probably do more of.

There's this Changed clone called The Lar.
And I vaguely remember what I saw of it feeling vaguely atmospheric. But upon checking it out, it definitely seems like a plain Changed clone moreso than an atmospheric RPGMaker game.
But it seems the author previously (?) made an actual horror game that may be topical to the thread.
https://kemono.games/game/Rotten-Utopia

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>>422
it doesnt have to be on a schooldesk, like, just a simple replication on mspaint or something, just for fun

>gurokawa
that ones more reserved for the more directly edgy kinds of it, im more interested in the abstract and spooky but not quite scary stuff, think like yume nikki, the spookiness isnt there to *juxtapose* the cuteness, its there to work *alongside* the cuteness to create something comparable to that of like, a doll thats unintentionally creepy, but wants to make a child happy.
>but how would you love eachother before you even get to know eachother?
we would get to know eachother, its just that considering my kind of person, were always very honest about ourselves, so if we bumped into another of our kind, we'd naturally be curious of eachother, leading to a rapid learning of eachother and subsequent appreciation
>how did you find it
i was trying out 8chan and found it in a TDM thread, the idea of an entire imageboard dedicated to kemono was really enticing to me.

>the lar
thanks for the reccomendation! this is the exact sorta stuff i love peeking into, i loved changed too!  ive always been super interested in slime-based creature design and worldbuilding.

>>424
>doll comparison
or maybe more like, a creature that simply evolved the way it is, like, dont you remember looking at bacteria for the first time as a small child, or learning things about animals when you were young, and being absolutely confused on why or how anything worked the way it does? something like that, that sort of "beauty in curiosity" that designs like that often invoke, though the doll comparison still works especially for those that go specifically into the spooky halloweeny aesthetic

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>>424
That was an infinite time ago, I don't remember how it actually looked, and also my standards for what is creepy were not totally objective at the time.
I drew it with a compass, so the eyes were perfect circles. I think either the eyes themselves, or the irses (round) were different sizes.
The smile was also a serpent made from two circles.
And it was smudged downwards, making it look like the thing cried.
I don't remember if the irises were solid or empty circles. They could have been double circles with the eye pattern, or the eye pattern meeting in the middle without the inner iris. But they were tiny around the compass needle holes.
I also don't remember if the mouth was solid, empty or sharkteeth pattern.
Gakis not terribly accurate.

What's the love-rabbit's deal? I kind of want to squish that guy around if he isn't something unhygyenic like a zombie or a mushroom.

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>>424
I guess these guys are organoids too. I saw them on a song cover in a rythm game not too long ago.

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>ffprobe couldn't pull out the cover
I guess that's because it's a webpee.

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>>427
it genuinely warms my heart you went and drew it omg hehehe, thats so cool, i used to be obsessed with spooky stuff when i was little and i would draw stuff like that all the time and promptly scare myself with it

>love rabbit
i cant remember the exact excerpt of their description, these were all random doodles i made for 4chan and the descriptions were in the posts i made for them. if i recall correctly, they kind of just liked freaking people out by mutilating themselves randomly in public, and were ultimately very sweet and harmless
youre definitely free to squish them around as their organs are kind of just mint flavored goop

i do recall clearly the 3rd one was a creature who would appear in the distance, and once you get your eyes on it, you cant move or else you'll be engulfed by a teal mist, *something* happens while youre unconscious, and then you reappear elsewhere some time after. when you notice its presence it will disappear on its own after about a minute

>>435
i feel like i should draw more for this thread, itd be fun, a lot better than just being like "oohhh if only there was more spookemono artt" all the time lololol

>>436
It's always better to act than sit and cry. Though the latter can sometimes give you motivation towards the former.
You know, this is really random, but I wonder how dullahans from Vagrant Story would look as your kind of TDM-ish cute monster creatures.
Long story short, but those guys are sort of my version of "being friends with a spooky thing", since by the end of that game you become the god of darkness, and technically rule over all the undead demons and monsters you fought.
And also the heart rabbit reminded me of him.
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Dullahan_(Vagrant_Story)
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Crusader
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Last_Crusader
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Nightstalker
Not asking you to actually draw them, or anything, just wonder what you think.

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>>440
>fandom wiki
making me remember that i should really just switch to firefox (because of google i can no longer run plugins that stop websites like that from raping my screen with ads and "your computer has virus" esque schemes)

this is probably a lot more faitfhful than you may have been expecting, but i'd totally be up to draw more overwhelmingly cutesy stuff if you'd like

(also on an unrelated note the captcha is so damn confusing)

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probably one of my favorite kinds of spookemono is the creatures that are usually pretty cute or simply mildly weird looking on a surface level, but are "melting" on a physical or emotional level that makes them seem weirdly "broken", but this can often be something that complements the design, this kind of design just paints a really pretty picture to me, a creature that has the framework of something cute and snuggly, but physically shows off instabilities and imperfections that just makes it feel so much more "organic" to me. it entices curiosity, empathy, adoration, 3 emotions i cherish very much.

the amalgamates in undertale are probably one of my best examples, they freaked me out a ton when i was younger, but now i think theyre like, the coolest thing ever, the context of them being in a game where youre encouraged to get to know and love them in spite of their absolutely twisted nature is so so so beautiful to me.
i love fantasy so much
i love breaking rules so much
i love love

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>>451
Oops, forgot to switch it from antifandom, sorry.
Captcha is actually pretty easy once you get used to it. Just count each symbol left to right and top to bottom and press the cells that correspond to black symbols. If it doesn't go through the first time, check rooks or kings, since those can be tricky. Or double-check which figure belongs to which row/column.
Once you get used to it I found it easier to deal with than the usual OCR captcha, while also harder to solve by just giving it to some GPT. But if you do find it insurmountable, I could switch it for something easier until we have any serious spammers.
It should also only be on for making new threads until we get more than 10 PPH, so I guess that means we're getting popular.

You know, I feel like you might like some games from the LSDJAM on itch.io. It feels like the last few years pretty consistently had entries with borderline TDM-fag/kemoner designs, like Melting Encyclopedia and that dream diary game where you go from flying islands guarded by skeletons to a fairground where a bunch of shota catboys lost each other.

>>451
My headcannon for these creatures was that the spell to summon them taps into a parallel world populated either by living armours or by spirits that can inhabit these kinds of armours.
And that they used to have their own civilisation, but the Nightstalker variant is an alien evil creature that came out of nowhere and decimated them.
And either incorporeal spirits figured out these livable armours to fight it, or they already used to live in armours and made Crusaders as super-advanced armours to fight Nightstalker, but their days were numbered when it possessed one of the armours.
But the people don't know any of this deepest lore, they just found this nifty little spell that summons a living armour bodyguard and started printing it into grimoires for high clergy to use.
This mostly comes from the difference in how these armours hold themselves with the common variant limping like a zombie (perhaps a spirit kept undead by the influence of the creature that killed it), the Crusaders mostly behave normal, and Nightstalker ambushes you and moves in this demonic, sort of animalistic fashion (when it gets an opportunity to move, since it apparently dies in two hits to a competent player).

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=YHCdCsaRmJ0
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=ACfxkCCHSWk&t=41
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=0Ivh-oZuwW4
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=MvnPkAf1KjM

>>454
wowowoww,, you have such a good eye,, thank you for the suggestions!! i'll be sure to check them out soon...,,

>>456
it just occured to me these are probably redirects *to* the games,,, they dont seem to work...

>>473
Hmm. Invidious redirect is down. That's pretty bad.
No, wait, it seems to be a DNS problem with quad9? And cloudflare too.
That's weird. Let's hope google isn't paying DNS providers off to block invidious or something.

Try going to an instance directly.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YHCdCsaRmJ0
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ACfxkCCHSWk&t=41
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0Ivh-oZuwW4
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MvnPkAf1KjM

Or give up and go to youtube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHCdCsaRmJ0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ACfxkCCHSWk&t=41
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Ivh-oZuwW4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MvnPkAf1KjM

Actually, it came back for me while I was typing this out, so maybe try again.

>>473
im very curious about what "that" dream diary game is
i was too embarrassed to admit it, but i must.. kemoshota is... awesome.......

>>475
https://scrib-dev.itch.io/clockworkdreams
This one, I think. Although, telling you to expect kemoshotas would probably be overselling it.
There is a single location where three pretty western, but somewhat kemonish catboy NPCs hang out and say a few phrases about how one of them wants to be a photographer and another one got lost in the maze attraction.
Or, perhaps NPCs is an overstatement, they're more like just interactable sprites.
The most interesting thing about them is that the game is supposed to be the author's dream diary, so that means he saw shota catboys in his dreams no less than once.
For jams themselves, see:
https://itch.io/jam/lsdjam-2024
https://itch.io/jam/lsdjam-2023
https://itch.io/jam/lsdjam-2022
https://itch.io/jam/lsdjam-2021
https://itch.io/jam/lsdjam-2020

>>476
i mean yeah but the fact its there at all is cute and probably means good for the rest of the game