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New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 7

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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Dear Janolytes,

Shout to sleep because niggas be tired as fuck until they actual get quality sleep for more than 2 hours. I’m ready to escape the trenches of cotton field 12.

I am, absolutely.

Last night I woke up refreshed watched Expanse and Sailor moon. Worked on another project (details coming soon).  Had an existential flashback about the last decade.Played Batman Arkham Knight.

Yes, the game that released a decade ago. Am I late? Absolutely. My toxic trait is that when I was working on my comic book I barely enjoyed anything else thinking I should have been working on my book.

No, I’m serious.  I have a whole back log to beat before I even think about purchasing a PS5…and a Nintendo Switch. That has been a debatable purchase as well.

Anyway.

Its time for the debut of Level 7 of Azure Ascendance. New to y’all, def not to me.

I started the coloring process in um July 2019 while still in the trenches of cotton field 10. That time frame was alot between concerts, super slave period and me having to drive back and forth to rock hill.

UGH.

Then came March 2020 and Covid. The disease that had us all fucked up.

ABSOLUTELY.

To the point where places shut down, niggas were shook if they heard someone cough, and the fatalities rose on a daily basis. Cotton field 10 told us that they weren’t going to hold it against us if we didn’t show up……

 

….so i stopped. As a nigga who was already allergic to the job (literally i wore a mask before it was in fashion. Which barely negated the effects), wasn’t getting paid enough for the  daily fuckery, and did not want to work 12 hour shifts you god damn right I left.

Fuck all that other shit.

Peace had knocked on my door and I answered, as well as chance to work on my art like it was 2016. I colored all night, watched TV during the day (JoJo’s Bizarre adventure, Samurai Champloo, Fire Force, Community, High Fidelity, The Mandalorian and a few other things that I can not remember at the moment), Played Spider Man and hacked PSP.

AWICH WAS IN ROTATION!!!! BLESS HER!!!

Shout out to COVID for helping me escape the desolate land.  Sucks that raggedy  cotton field 10 wouldn’t let me have NONE of those unemployment checks.

Raggedy Bitches.

But I was free and def took advantage of the 6 months of me not working.

The 1st week of this 6 month rest period is when I finished Issue 7, which was literally the last 5 pages.

SMH at how long it took me to work on this issue.

Anyway synopsis time because that is important.

The tension between Sapphire and the other Faunroids become beyond palpable as they act on their machinations to use Ikari as a bargaining chip to take to the Kera Clan. Meanwhile CoCo has to come to peace with horrible truth regarding her parents relationship with her brother. As Boumei watches that family won’t stop betrayal. Azure’s short lived peace is coming to an end as new waves of conflict slowly begin to swallow everyone again.

Yep a new battle is arsing slowly. I continued the trend of choosing violence for act 2.

As usual there is a preview page, and of course here is  where you can find the issue for purchase.

Thats it for now Janolytes. Happy Juneteenth.

Fuck that Slavery shit nigga.

New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 6

03 Thursday Apr 2025

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Dear Janolytes,
I sit here infused by chocolate, drinking my water, letting my new tattoo dry, and listening to Jennie’s Cd. I never listened to Black Pink before but the few singles that Spotify showed me since she had others with artist I actually listen to led me to her. Right now I’m 3 tracks in. I can YEET to this.

Anyway.

Obviously by the title of this issue you know why I am here. After 2.5 years it is time for issue 6 and the beginning of Act 2 of this story. Yep, the story i started back in the unemployment saga of 2016-early 2017 continues.

And true to Jano JRPG style it wasn’t simple. Levels 1 through 5 were done with no problem during my unemployment arc. I wrote Act 2 at some point and I had worked briefly late April 2017 until late May 2017 at cotton field 7 and 8.But since the cotton fields I were at didn’t require me to wake up BEFORE THE FUCKING SUN AND DID NOT INVOLVE PHYSICAL EXERTION, shit was good. I got laid off for a few weeks went back to work mid June to mid July 2017 at Cotton field 8. I had a Jano’s alive party, got back online and was unemployed roughly 9 weeks. I started working on Act 2 because if you have time to work on your craft without a slave schedule that what you do.

DUH!

I started at cotton field 9 early September 2017, and omg nigga my Knees. FUCK NIGGA MY KNEES. FUCK LADDERS!!! ON KAMI BRO!! And I had to be at work at 5 am.

I was so Weak in the knees like SWV, but not in the way they meant it.

I wish that was a typo, I really do. But that was the arc I was in.

Despite that I did my best to do my work.By Thanksgiving 2017 I had act 2 drawn and inked. I eventually started the coloring portion, which would be a task in itself since ya know ladders and a whack sleep schedule.

Spoiler Alert.

I got to Page 6 and then my house got broken into January 2018……yeah.
Depression, PTSD, and Anxierty are strong when it is the 2nd time. I hope those niggas die in a fire and life has made them suffer.

*Deep sigh*

Obviously niggas can’t color without a cpu so I ended up scripting Act 3 and 4 when i went back to cotton 8. Also working on Emerald Evisceration when I got my laptop back. At some point cotton field 9 let me go because of dumb white man fuckery, and eventually Cotton field 8 ended. So for 4 months I just worked on Act 3 and 4, chilled with friends, played video games, and took nature walks.

Simple Times Bro.

Eventually I had all of my story drawn, inked and scanned in. When this occurred in September 2018, i said I’m gonna relax.

And so I did.

The last week of Septemeber 2018 I went back to at Cotton Field 9 for 2 weeks, then eventually being at Cotton field 10.

Look I know there is alot of Cotton field hoping within a year and some months. I know. That’s a whole separate conversation and you can email me if you want to talked to me about it.

Anyway, once January 2019 hit I resolved to restart my book since super slave season was now over.

Simple right.

ABSOLUTELY NOT. Cotton field 10 was me having to be at work at 6 am in a warehouse FILLED WITH FUCKERY. Holy fuck nigga the fuckery.
Side note I’ll be so glad to be done with this warehouse arc that started with Cotton field 10.

Despite my best intention I didn’t finish this issue until July 2019 due to fatigue and other things.

UGH.
Once I finished I released issue 2. I had this whole plan to finish an issue and release an issue. Which was good in theory, but life said

OH NIGGA YOU GOT PLANS? AIGHT BRO. Watch this.

I had the FULLEST PLAN to be done with this series in 2020, but that was certainly NOT the case.

Needless to say none of that happened and here we are me releasing Issue 6 years later. Everyone’s journey is different.

Side note, the aforementioned Jennie CD was really good. it legit just finished.

Anyway Azure Ascendance Level 6 is here and the synopsis goes as follows.
Following the tragic results with the fight with Hannya all parties head their separate ways to grief and process the events that led to their new reality. New characters are introduced as this new act unfolds to a new wave of chaos that surpasses the bedlam Hannya previously spearheaded.

I introduce a slew of new characters and give continue to give the characters a plot of their own as this story goes on. Its only 14 issues remaking after this so enjoy it while it last. Even if I wasn’t working these raggedy ass jobs I don’t know If i would continue it. Making a comic and DOING EVERYTHING IS ALOT NIGGA!!! I won’t say its not possible to continue but I will say right now at this current position I am in life its unlikely. There is a goal to get it animated tho.

At any rate its link time.
For a preview of level 6 take this pill.
To buy the issue after said preview take this pill.
If you have no idea wtf is happening and want to read the issues prior to this point take this pill.
And that’s all folks enjoy this tale that I gave my all to like Mariah Carey.
I need to pass out since I have still wake up before the FUCKING SUN and a cotton field that is more unorganized the past 11.

UGH.

On a positive note I beat Spider Man Morales since we last spoke. Yay.
I need to finish Final Fantasy 7, yes the same Final Fantasy 7 i was playing in 2018.
Don’t judge me

New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 3

08 Monday Nov 2021

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Dear Friends of Jano,

Here we are. You and I gazing into an abyss of the internet as I post a new page in my Bizarre Art Journey.

Nigga What???

I don’t know, i didn’t really have an actual opening plan so I just started spouting words.

As if.

Tonight we have a special occasion. I am releasing a new issue of comic series.

YEEEEEEET.

Small confession, I have literally been done with Issues 1-5 since Summer 2017.

But Jano why haven’t you been releasing them at a faster rate?

Legitly there is no real reason. Although I am glad I didn’t because just recently a friend went through the aforementioned issues and pointed out my grammatical errors. So much gringe. This is what happens when you work bullshit slave jobs after graduating, your sense of grammar and proper sentence structure dies.

So just in case you ever wondered why these issues have so many run on sentences and what not that is why.

As I was saying I don’t have an exact reason why I haven’t been releasing them, I don’t. Part of me wanted to have the whole series done, another part wanted to have a certain gap between issues. Now I literally have a ten issue gap seeing that i just finished coloring issue 13. As of right now I have only seven issues left with a total of 319 pages.

Spoiler Alert, this is only going to be a 20 issue series. If you wanted a new Naruto, DBZ, Sailormoon, Bleach or One piece this def isn’t it.

But i’m legit looking forward to finally coloring the next 7 issues, especially considering I did issues 11-20 in the summer of 2018.

Yea…So in case you haven’t figured it out coloring has been a journey. I blame cotton field fatigue for it all. What I hoped to finish in 4 years from the fall of 2016 has not manifested.

Issues 1-5 were done by spring 2017, issue 6 June 2019, Issue 7-10 summer 2020 (thanks lockdown), Issues 11-13 Fall 2020-Fall 2021.

Ugh. So much fucking ugh.

But since I actually have my book in a local bookstore and I just did the QC  Zine fest, where people actually expressed interest in my book. I may actually try to release these in a faster rate. Maybe 1 every 2 months? Maybe, no promises. Hopefully I’ll be done with this JRPG saga before the releases catch up.

*does math…2025, that is if i drop an issue every 2 months from this point on. On kami if i’m not done with this saga by then I’m trash, legit trash.

Hey Google, play Charles Hamilton Loser.

Side note, if you are wondering what the final villain is gonna look like. Head towards my boutique and look at the current tshirt and prints I have for sale.

Super Final Battle JRPG Vibes bro.

With all that out of the way I present Level 3 of my comic book series Azure Ascendance.

*starts narrator voice

A battle royal begins. Coco, Boumei, Raiken, Coral and Kuchihige battle fiercely as Princess Yosei is still passed out from her recent ordeal. Meanwhile Watatsumi finds out the true identity of her masked savior. Truths are revealed as a battle rages on in another part of Azure while a new foe waits to ravage bodies indiscriminately.

*ends narrator voice

The intensity continues to build in this story my ancestors told me to write in a medium I was fond of growing up. At usual I have a preview page so that you can view. 

And as usual you can find this issue on my publications page along with the back issues.  I have the full witches intent to put an issue out every 2 months, especially since now this little hermit has people who are interested in this saga I’ve created. I need to do another show to keep this momentum growing.

As Namie Amuro…This is for all my fans.

Maaaan if I get people cosplaying my characters and get this animated I will yeet so hard I may cum.

Huh what.

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Back Issues of Jano Ryusaru

  • Street Fighter December 4, 2025
  • New Project: Azure Ascendance Level 8 October 27, 2025
  • Sprightly Spring Saturday September 29, 2025
  • New Project: Indigo Incubation August 19, 2025
  • Gallant Goon July 13, 2025
  • New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 7 June 18, 2025
  • Fashion and Fros May 9, 2025
  • New Book Series: Azure Ascendance Level 6 April 3, 2025

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