Awww The Cuties

hey gang i'm deranged!!

i may not like the idea of kokichi being addicted to Panta, but apparently i am cause i just spent the past several hours of my life designing Panta cans and coming up with Panta lore

for context- it started cause i was watching those "redesigning snack packaging" videos, and it sparked some inspo in me to make my own attempt at knockoff snack packaging. as it turns out i can only make one really obvious knockoff snack before i get too creative and start making stuff that could unironically stand on it's own

after making Pop Pies (knockoff poptarts), Florida Icetea (Arizona knockoff), and Koffi-Kats (coffee kitkat knockoff), i remembered that Panta was a thing and went "hey so what if i redesigned Panta so it wasn't just the Fanta logo with a p?" and everything went down hill from there

i present to you: Kai's hc universe version of Panta!

okay so there's ALOT i did actually so buckle up

first off- i wanted to make it look like something Kokichi would actually pick up, and that resulted in me coming up with the idea that Panta use to be a shameless japanese Fanta knockoff when it was first made, but they decided to get their own identity and started marketing towards the alt community with a non-serious clowning/trickster/delinquent focused branding.

i imagine they ended up being niche but also having a loyal following in whatever juggalo or juggalo-adjacent scene might be in Japan, which is how Kokichi got into it

second off- as you can see i came up with four different drink lines. the idea is they have their fruity soda line with all the base flavors, and then they reuse those flavors and their names for the other three lines. their default flavor is Clownin' Concord, and along with it their og flavor set also had Chucklin’ Cherry, Mischievous Melon, Bozo Blueberry, and Loosey-Goosey Lemon-Lime, from there they added more flavors to their roster over the years and even did some limited edition flavors that come back seasonally (i do have a full list, but i'm not showing it on this post. if you shoot me an ask i'd gladly share it there)

for the actual other lines: -Slap Shtick Sour is what warhead soda should have been- an actually fucking sour soda. i imagine them to be pretty damn tart but like in a good way that you can't get enough of (Kokichi's favorite cause it's strong enough he can actually taste it) -Pie Face! is a cream soda line, plain and simple. i know Japan really likes melon soda floats and calls them cream sodas, so i went "what if Panta did that, but more, and in a can" -Manic Mischief is their energy drink line, i have no further explanation for this they're just fruity energy drinks

i haven't done sugar free cause i think with their branding style they'd take pride in how sugary and in your face they are, so a sugar-free variant would actively go against that

for packaging you may notice they're all cans and no bottles- it wasn't initially intentional but after i noticed i had only been doing cans i decided it'd be a funky gimmick if they only ever made cans, no bottles. what do they do for liter bottles then? mini keg. no i'm not kidding, they do mini kegs instead- it fits the off kilter grungy vibes everything else has so it's not too horribly out of pocket.

i also plan on designing some candy packaging cause i do have ideas for Panta flavored hard candies and soft chews, but i'm not postponing this post another several hours to make them.

finally, just as a bonus- have the logo on it's own plus their slogan i pulled out of my ass

IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME THAT HYUNA, who was presumably forced to be an Idol for the alien stage and definitely suffered in her past for it, stills wants to sing for other humans even after escaping. She wants to spread music purely for music's sake, to get people hyped up and cheerful, because she loves singing and wants her audience to love singing and see it as smth fun and not just a talent the aliens abuse for sadistic entertainment. She's redefining singing despite how it's treated her and it's kinda beautiful and wholesome.

Dancingronpa~ ✨💃🕺

This was meant to be a pose reference study but it quickly became a cloth physics test instead

Happy 2025!

They totally reflected in each others eyes in the hanger, trust me.

I made a song a while ago

LIKE MY ART LIKE MY ART LIKE MY ART LIKE MY ART LIKE MY ART LIKE MY ART LIKE MY ART

I love dice so so much I need them to get more attention

TikTok @mari.is.a.nickname

Rednote @mari.is.a.nickname

What if all songs are just a bunch of lies But I'm still lost in the lyrics Every time a see a star I think that after all you're not that far And every constellation is just a scar To prove the sky has loved and lost many times

edit: heres the ref , the cover of the song the caption's from (Glass Moon Dance - The Vanished People)

DICE GROUP PHOTO!!!! They’re physically incapable of taking normal pictures btw at minimum one of them per photo has to be doing something odd💕

Amalgamate Redraw!

Okay okay okay. There's this fanfic I LOVE called Amalgamate on Ao3 by DoctorHaifish. Like a ago I made fanart and I decided to redraw it . (Aka I saw it in an edit and I got really sick looking at it 0.o)

I can NOT recommend this fic enough. The writeing, the plot, The characters!! Omg Ithe way it expands on the characters and every little moment. Gosh the mystery, THE PLANS. Usally I know if a plan a character makes is gonna fail or not (if they explain the plan it will most likely fail) but this fic keeps you in a twilight zone where it feels like you know nothing and also everything. It does get EXTREMELY dark and characters are forced to swoop to unimaginable lows, so I can't recommend it to everyone, but there's always a sense of hope.

Here's a link

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34729489/chapters/86472166

Onto the actual drawing. I leaned towards a more pyhcopop style and tried something along the lines of Mika Pikazo. My favorite one has to be Kiato, the drastic lighting along with the pose was fun to draw. I can't help but this Kokichi looks out of place compared to him seeing how wide his eyes are,

These colors were fun too, in the original I was obsessed with keeping a warm color pallete for some reason. This bright one really fits the vibe of Dangonropa better. These colors aren't my style either. Instead of analogous complementary for contrast I used analogous (dun dun dun!! 0A0) and used saturation for contrast.

Anyway! Please read Amalgamate and don't look at the old version!