design
super-dimension cinderella
Shinkirou V7.0 features Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier! As usual, I'm super happy I pulled this off because I was hoping to get a layout of Ranka working, I absolutely adore her! Her clothing also made for a fun, summery color palette, so it's a pretty big change from the last two more neutral designs. :) She didn't put up too much of a fight like my last layout did (although I did go through quite a few iterations), so I guess I'm losing less hairs this time around.

   

To be honest, I'm pretty late to the Macross Frontier train, but I'm kind of late to every train so I guess that doesn't really matter. It's also pretty unusual for me to like a character like Ranka, but somehow I feel like I can respect/appreciate her go-getter attitude, haha. The past two layouts here at shinkirou.net have been pretty masculine, or at least serious, so I think it's about time it got a little more sunshiney and friendly-looking. Anyhow, I'm not really saying anything of particular importance here, so I'll let the design speak for itself and just hand over the credits!

Thanks to: Disparue.org for the barely-there textures, Shizoo Design, for the patterns and Dafont for the typefaces. The Ranka images were from Photobucket so, thanks to whoever scanned them!

past designs
If you're interested in seeing some of the older designs that shinkirou.net has had, please check them out at my layout archive, Reset! Despite my mumbling and grumbling, I'm sure it'd be happy to see a visitor for a change.