5 Years For The DX Divas Already?

Feb 27, 201510 min read

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Published: Feb 27, 2015

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Hey there, everyone. It's yours truly with one journal entry... and this one is a bit of a special one, for those who have followed the DX Divas for quite some time now... as today marks the DX Divas' fifth anniversary here on deviantArt. Wow, five years of them already? Yep, that's what it seems to be, folks.

From the first day i've uploaded the first drawing of those divas, starting with Shogoku Yoshihiro, who back then looked like this:

And then seeing her evolve into this:

Shogoku Yoshihiro Ver. 3 by shnoogums5060

And in which i did the same with the other divas that followed, right after i've brought her in my gallery, i have been mostly focused on those lovely, yet funny and fierce ladies ever since, inputting them in drawings and even in a series of stories of their own (that is ongoing at this time). I've even had to commission some people (a bit of a rarity, but still) and do art trades with some other folks, choosing to include them in those parts of theirs and such.

But what is there to be said about them and their personalities that makes them stand out from the rest? Well, when i released them from my mind, i had said that they were fighters, wrestlers, models, gamers and such... though for the wrestler part on them, i kinda dropped that idea entirely, making them more of posing models and mostly a crime-fighting force to be reckoned with, meeting up with other people as months and years passed by. And i kinda also added the eroticness in most of them too, though not ALL of them are interested on being erotic and such. Anyway, for each diva, i did added some evolving ideas of their own, while ditching some in the process, making them better and better as i went along on drawing them.

For instance, in the gamer part, Shogoku, who's been considered as the main star of the team, is mostly interested in japanese games and consoles, though mostly from Nintendo, hence the fact that she owns practically every Nintendo consoles (yes, that includes the failed Virtual Boy), ranging from the Famicom, its Disk System, the Super Famicom (as well as the Bandai Sattelaview), the Nintendo 64 (and its somewhat failed Disk Drive), the Gamecube (she actually owns the Panasonic Q, not the actual Gamecube), the Wii and the Wii U, as well as all of Nintendo's portable consoles and games... including the rare FamicomBox and Super Famicom Box (both gaming devices that were made for hotels and such). For the other divas, Elizabeth Johnson (nicknamed Liz by many of her friends) and Frederica Manzini, do also own some rare gaming stuff (such as the M82 demo unit for Frederica and the Powerfest '94 unit for Liz), as well as many gaming consoles from Nintendo. Even Rika, that i once made her hate games, until she changed her tone towards them, enjoys playing games, though she kinda joined late in the gaming frenzy, only owning a Wii U and a 3DS (but she likes to download the classics regardless).

Anyway, for each diva's personality, in terms of being who they are, starting with Shogoku, i made her the brave pink haired fighting diva warrior that i would be sure everyone would love to see, though at first, i made her into a bit of a hyperactive lady with starry eyes, until i realized that she could be a much better person if i simply made her into a more serious fighter, even though she is still the determined fighter that she was meant to be. As for Li Zhao Xie, at first, she was gonna be mostly like every other diva, meaning a normal woman. But then, i decided to evolve her into an hermaphrodite, making her the only unique herm of the team. As for Sharifa, i was kinda gonna give her the cavewoman-kind of personality at first, but then, i doubt that egyptian people would have cave people in there, so i made her smart, while retaining her muscular personality of sorts. For Frederica Manzini, i was originally gonna make her a bit of a loner, as well as a dancing woman of sorts, but then, i decided to give her the techno expertise she was meant to have in her, while giving her the knowledge of everything that is in video gaming and technology, as well as making her a comic book geek, hence her love for Marvel Comics' many characters and TV series and movies and such. For Irina Mikhajlove, i was originally gonna give her a bouncer-like personality with muscles, since she's russian and all that, but then, for some reasons, my friend VoltronZ1 kinda thought that Irina was a gunshooter-kind of woman, so in the end, i gave her the gunslinging personality of sorts in her, changing her from the bouncer personality i was originally gonna give Irina. For Rika Yoshihiro, in which i made her Shogoku's midget cousin, well, you guessed it, i was normally gonna make her hate games and such, but then, i evolved her into a video game lover, while also giving her a love for music. I also made Rika small, because... well, i kinda like midgets for some reason, not to mention that seeing WWE wrestling midget Hornswoggle inspired me to create Rika in some way. As for Erika, well, the nature loving stuff is indeed what i added in her, though i never thought of adding something else in her, in the fact of making her search for a lover of her own. But i don't want to copy that sort of idea from what my sentai loving friend Donald is doing with one of his characters and all that, so i'm watching myself on that matter at hand. For the Mikami Twins (Misa and Akane), i was gonna at first make them separate characters of sorts, though while still maintening the twin sister personalities of sorts. But then, i gave them the stereotypical psychological talk for the two of them and i made that last for quite a long while, until the Donald Trump episode, where i decided to drop that ordeal on those two entirely and make them talk normally like normal people. I recently decided to make them more separate than ever, kinda like the Olsen Twins, who each have boyfriends or dates of their own. Yes, there's a possibility that they would end up with dates of their own one day. For Huang, she was thought up in 2009, but i gave her the personality of a mature-type of person, while giving her a bit of a tragic background story of the fact that she was once a married woman, until her husband got killed, hence now that she's a part of the team. For Anju, i once made her a part of the team, until jealousy struck her big and made her leave the team, though at that time, when i first thought up of Anju, i kinda made her into a gamer of sorts. But when i brought her back into my mind, i dropped the gamer stuff out of Anju and made her into a doctor instead and one who's not truly a physical fighter of sorts, but mostly a magical one. And finally, for Elizabeth Johnson and Rachael Kolofski, the inspiration for those two came originally from the Card Captor Sakura anime, as i wanted to make those two a bit of a response from the characters Sakura and Tomoyo respectively. However, while they were thought of since 1999, i never drew them... and not to mention that if i did and posted it in my gallery as Card Captor Sakura rip-offs, i would then get sued, so i kinda changed their looks and personalities into more erotic and hardcore types of people, as well as giving Rachael a lesbian personality, while also recently giving Elizabeth a love for bondage AND making her the contortionist that she was meant to be, hence my RPs with

on the weekends.

Phew, man, that's a lot to say about them, eh? Anyway, i do continue to make the divas evolve into greater characters in my mind, while continuing to make Shogoku a stronger and honorable warrior, as she was meant to be.

And while i've brought them in here, i also made them meet new friends, such as

's Morrison Rangers,

's Neo-Japan population,

's HyperManiaX gang,

and

's Soul Fest teams of the Blazing Dragons and the Scorching Strikers and more.

And i gotta say that they wouldn't continue on if it weren't for all of you, so on their behalf, i'd like to say thank you for supporting the DX Divas for these five years and here's hoping for five more, folks.

-Eric B. (Shnoogums)

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Shinobi-Gambu

Feb 28, 2015

And here's to more years to come Eric.

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