9/7/14
If I’ve seemed quiet lately it’s because I’ve been busy working behind the scenes to change from using Dreamweaver to using WordPress. The easiest way to accomplish this was to spin off this site onto its own URL. So now this site can be located at www.souloftheseasons.com.
I had hoped to have this done by my site’s birthday on October 15th. I’m happy to have exceeded that goal. This has been a lot of work for me and I hope you enjoy the results.
cakuni.com is planned to become just personal page ‘stuff’. It too will eventually switch to WordPress. But for now, I’m happy to present the latest redesign of Soul of the Seasons. To all of my fans and visitors, especially those who have stuck with me over all these years, thank you. <3
4/26/14
- Major update. Kayura is now officially part of this website. I added her information, images, wallpapers, and even a link back banner.
4/19/14
- Thumbnail sizes on my wallpapers pages have changed. They are now wider, and based off the 1920 size images. This is in preparation for the Kayura wallpapers I'm working on at the moment.
- There was also a problem with the 1920 size of the Quote from Anubis wallpaper. It has been fixed and reuploaded.
3/16/14
- Between this weekend and last I've been working on the doujinshi pages again. On the Doujinshi Pictures main page, I made an image combining front and back covers to many of the cover scans. (At least the ones where the image wraps around.)
Also some translation corrections. San Hiki ga Kiru actually should be Sanbiki ga Kiru. The pronunciation changes when added after san. This is something I discovered, and not a facet of Japanese I would have known with only a year under my belt. - Unknown title doujinshi page. More translation corrections. Also I was able to translate one title, so it moved to the doujinshi main page.
- Finally after these many years I've decided to add Kayura to this page. I'm working on her information, images, and hopefully wallpapers will be added in the future. This is a huge project for me.
I'll also have to re-adjust the description of this page to include her. Also probably a general site sweep to make sure it's no longer just Dark Warlord/Mashou centric.
3/1/14
- Finished making 1366 x 768 sizes for the rest of my wallpapers. I'll probably work on another resolution or two sometime in the future.
- I created 2 more banners to link back to my site. I may redo the older 1st two, again sometime in the future.
2/24/14
Major Update!
- Series Pictures: Anubis / Shuten, Cale / Anubisu, Dais / Rajura, and Sekhmet / Naaza pages all have had their images re-scanned, touched up, and enlarged!
Duo / Group has a couple of more images. I wanted to re-scan and enlarge all of those images, but I just ran out of time. Look for that in the future. - Doujinshi Pictures: New doujinshi images added to both this page, and to Unknown Titles page.
- Wallpapers: All of my wallpapers now have my site's name and URL. On top of that many wallpapers have been touched up or completely redone!
I got rid of the 800 x 600 size, and I'm starting to work on 1366 x 768 sizes. - There's now a Wallpaper Gallery! This is a page where I'll showcase off other artist's wallpapers that feature the Mashou/Warlords.
If you're interested in this: You need to have a host for your wallpapers. (DeviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, whatever.) Then I'll make a thumbnail teaser of your wallpaper and link it to wherever you're hosting your image.
Why make you host? 1. I have limited space. 2. Most importantly, you control your content. You can change or update your images at any time. You can say anything you want where you're hosting it. I leave that power with you.
Just let me know by contacting me here, or Tumblr, or DeviantArt.
Other than that, the first signs of spring are appearing where I live. Some small blue wildflowers are appearing in our yard. Some sakura trees are beginning to bloom... What's that? .. It looks like.. wisteria? I'll go check it out and let you know what I find.
2/20/14
So as I stated in my last update, I've been finding my images uploaded to various websites without a link back and without saying where the images came from. One big problem is that this has happened to some of my wallpapers, usually the 1024x768 size. Aaaand I've found a couple posted in a lot of places, especially this one:
So I've talked to a few people on how to deal with this. It's depressing that it's come to this, but I have decided that I will now put my website's name and URL on all of my wallpapers. That won't help the thefts that have already occurred, but hopefully it'll mean in the future my website will be attached to the wallpapers, permanently.
I'm slowly going through the process of adding this text, and hope to have it completed by the end of this weekend. As such, all of my wallpapers that don't have my site's name or URL have been temporarily removed. As I work through each wallpaper, they will be reloaded and the links restored. This is my top priority.
I apologize for the inconvenience. I'm really sorry that it's come to this.
2/7/14
- Image Use Policy has been revised and expanded.
In the past I've had a general policy on the bottom of all of my pages, and more detailed image use policies on the top of some pages (like for my wallpapers). I've had to expand it into its own page, which is kind of good since it's condensed to one place now.
Reason: I'm finding my images uploaded to sites like Pinterest and Fanpop without any link back to Soul of the Seasons. It's making me feel quite sad and upset that my policy was ignored.
Please review the expanded policy. Since it mostly follows what I've posted here before, the policy is in effect retroactively. - Duo/Group Pictures: Fixed broken thumbnails.
- Minor changes to wording of navigation.
2/4/14
Minor update. Links page updated.
1/30/14
- One new Cale/Anubisu wallpaper that was especially difficult in editing and putting together. *sigh*
- Three new Dais/Rajura wallpapers. The last new wallpaper is part of a group image I've used here before. I re-scanned the right side of the image with just Dais/Rajura on it and made it into a wallpaper. I used the color from a sakura flower for the background color.
Dais/Rajura for whatever reason seems to be neglected when it comes to fanwork or fanart. I didn't want to start going down that road too. - One new Sekhmet/Naaza wallpaper.
- One new group wallpaper.
Also one wallpaper was touched up a bit. I've noted it on the wallpaper page.
And my fingers are killing me from all that image editing, but so worth it. :)
1/19/14
Updated all four of the Mashou/Dark Warlord information pages.
I added two additional English voice actors to Anubisu/Cale's info. I added one additional English voice actor to Rajura/Dais' info. Also
I moved birth names up to just below the "Name" list to make that a bit more readable.
Wallpapers section major update!
All wallpapers are now also available in
1920 x 1080! Often I had to add a solid background color to the left and right of the image. I hope you all approve.
Also 3 brand new wallpapers!
Soul of the Seasons' tumblr is doing great! 60 posts as of this moment that I'm typing this. I've posted a lot of Mashou/Dark Warlord artwork. You'll definitely want to check it out!
12/28/13
I started a tumblr account for Soul of the Seasons. I'm using it to post Dark Warlord/Mashou related images. I've never used tumblr before, so I'm not sure how well this will work. But I'll keep my fingers crossed. I hope you enjoy what I post there.
12/26/13
The Doujinshi page has been completely redone. If you click on the images, you'll notice they'll open in a lightbox window. I tried to make them into a slideshow gallery (that didn't use Flash), but it wouldn't work properly for me. The lightbox will cycle through all of the images on the page.
I also added a new page for unknown title doujinshis. This new page is for doujinshis that I can't translate the title, or I'm unsure what the translation is. If anyone can help me translate them, please contact me.
Also due to all of this redesigning, new doujinshi images have been added. That's right, new content! Enjoy! All images reside on this website since Picasa somehow went belly up on my account. (I can see my account, and images, but I can't log into it anymore. >_<)
10/15/13 - News
Whaaa? This website is 17 years old today?!
Just wanted everyone to know I haven't forgotten about Soul of the Seasons (SotS) here. Lately I've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work. I have updated meta tags for description and keywords, as well as registered my site for webmaster tools with Google and Bing. This site just got moved over to a new hosting service that looks awesome and will save me money.
I'm planning for updates in the future. Some of the reasons for the gap are:
- I had to replace my hard drive.
- My Dreamweaver CD went missing and I had to buy another copy. (;_;)
- I'm currently retraining in Dreamweaver in the hopes of learning some new things to do with this website's design.
So a huuge thank you to everyone who has stuck by me and with me all these years. Domo arigatou gozaimashita!
5/28/12
First of all, happy Memorial Day. Many thanks to those who have served in the military, are currently serving, and plan to serve in the future. I wish I could hug all of you and personally say thank you for your service and your sacrifices. (And hugs goes out to families who have a loved one serving right now.)
Updates. I have some settei scans up. Settei are the reference sheets used by the animators of the series. You'll find them under Series Pictures, on the bottom of each character's picture page. They're links only, no thumbnails. Each character has a sheet for their face, their helmet, their subarmor, their armor, and their weapon. Some of the settei I have may have a bit of an edge cut off, but fortunately the loss is minor.
Also I decided to put a watermark on these images. I believe the mark is light enough that people should still be able to use these settei to draw their own Warlord/Mashou fanart. (And who wouldn't want to see more of that!) The watermarks are now being used because alas I've been finding my images elsewhere online without a note of where the person got it from. (Places like tumblr.) These settei I bought are copies of the originals, and possibly copies of copies. So I had to do a lot of editing to clean them up. Most of the images I scan and put here have to likewise go through a process of editing to make them look their best. So just having someone save them and post them elsewhere online without credit is very disheartening for me. I hope everyone understands.
I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who continues to visit this site. I hope it continues to be useful to people out there. Please try to spread the word and link to Soul of the Seasons. This site is dropping further and further down search results, losing out to things like wikis and toy websites. I need your help to give it a boost. Again, many thanks.
04/07/12
My apologies for how much time has passed since my last update. My mother's health deteriorated over the entire span of last year. The stress of it affected the whole family. I'm just now starting to get back to a normal life. I think. *Knocks on wood.*
- Website coding was overhauled.
- Each page was re-coded in order to comply with strict XHTML standards. All pages have passed W3C Validation.
- A majority of the CSS coding was placed in an external CSS file.
- Navigation changed to an unordered list, and coded with CSS. This will hopefully make it easier in the future to make changes to it.
- Other minor CSS styling changes were done.
- Other minor text edits were done.
- Links that pointed to websites that were no longer found were removed.
1/11/11
- Hey lucky date number! Anyway.. more Warlord / Mashou pictures were added. More to come as I continue to go through my Memorials Deluxe books.
- All of Sekhmet / Naaza's pictures (sans the armor symbols) were rescanned in and enlarged.
- New images are now 600 pixels wide instead of 400.
- Duo / Group image page was added.