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The Kuromaru, a deadly ninja faction, were known for their ritual and mystical practices. In particular, they would consult a shaman priestess to imbue their blades with dark magic which allows it to feed on the blood of their victims. The priestess was responsible for perpetuating the flow of dark energy and the Shadow Arts. She would also play the medium of contacting the dieties and summoning and communicating among the Kuromaru through their minds, giving them an all-seeing eye ont he battlefield.

Sayuri takes the role as a reincarnated shaman priestess, destined to take on this duty among the modern Silhouettes.

(c) Exo_Kopaka/Tony Nguyen 2010

Comments:

This is something quick I cooked up on my POS 1.667GHz netbook with a mouse because I was too lazy go get on my real computer and use my real tablet. Lol!

I always wanted to make Sayuri be a "Miko" (shrine maiden), but never actually knew how to integrate that within the story. Moreover, when I decided to actually draw it out, I saw that the whole shrine maiden outfit was pretty lame. So I beefed it up with ribbons, ropes, and bows.

The entire outfit sums up pretty much everything I've learned in my Japanese Society and Culture class about Japanese Shinto culture and symbolism. The mirrors, combs, magatama, rope, paper talismans, prayer beads, and just about everything else has some sort of symbolic reference that, if I were to explain in this one post, I might break the internets. Lol.

Description
The Kuromaru, a deadly ninja faction, were known for their ritual and mystical practices. In particular, they would consult a shaman priestess to imbue their blades with dark magic which allows it to feed on the blood of their victims. The priestess was responsible for perpetuating the flow of dark energy and the Shadow Arts. She would also play the medium of contacting the dieties and summoning and communicating among the Kuromaru through their minds, giving them an all-seeing eye ont he battlefield.

Sayuri takes the role as a reincarnated shaman priestess, destined to take on this duty among the modern Silhouettes.

(c) Exo_Kopaka/Tony Nguyen 2010

Comments:

This is something quick I cooked up on my POS 1.667GHz netbook with a mouse because I was too lazy go get on my real computer and use my real tablet. Lol!

I always wanted to make Sayuri be a "Miko" (shrine maiden), but never actually knew how to integrate that within the story. Moreover, when I decided to actually draw it out, I saw that the whole shrine maiden outfit was pretty lame. So I beefed it up with ribbons, ropes, and bows.

The entire outfit sums up pretty much everything I've learned in my Japanese Society and Culture class about Japanese Shinto culture and symbolism. The mirrors, combs, magatama, rope, paper talismans, prayer beads, and just about everything else has some sort of symbolic reference that, if I were to explain in this one post, I might break the internets. Lol.