Japanese crossword #17128

Really like this one. It's very charming :)

That's a weird looking opossum.

We have had some interesting two and three-color nonograms lately. I like the experimentation. There is no bullfighter in this picture. As far as I can see, the bull "fighter" only has a red cape. No weapon. Perhaps a pacifist version. ;) Also, remember, this an international site. If I'm not mistaken, this is a Russian artist depicting a scene from another culture.

Sorry--I meant to erase the sentence "there is no bullfighter..."

eric, it agrees. Itself I hate similar spectacle. But these colors...

fine

Despite of what we think of this specific occupation/activity, the picture itself is very good as far as it's quite easy to recognize the subject. And the solving part is enjoyable :) Thanks Vigil!

de loin, on dirait un taureau et un toréador avec une cape rouge... si c'est ça, bravo !!

eric is right, not nice.

It's a puzzle !!! I don't understand the inconsideration of give the answer away ... I would like to have not known before I started it. Rude !!!

not bad

Sandra, I wait to read the comments after I solve the puzzles.
I was on another site where players post:
***SPOILER***


Then leave several spaces before they give it away. Easy to avoid those.

swford- I don't scroll down and read the comments, either. But Eric's is the top one and the top one shows on the screen without scrolling down.
Eric- these are pixels, they ain't hurting' anybody!
Vigil- This was one was fun! :)

Not a pleasant activity, but a superb picture. I love the hat!

Thank you for pointing that out, Jenn! I stuck with the old format for that and other reasons. It would be good to remind people now and then as many of us are still on the old format. I will share with you that Vigil was confused by this conversation. They don't have bull-fighting in Russia, but it's a favorite for costume parties. He wondered whether we allowed the toreador song from Bizet's opera to be sung. I try to imagine what it would be like to live in a country that has experienced what the people of Russia have experienced and encounter some of the things that we criticize each other for in the non-Russian-speaking world (I'm not even sure I can allude to the Russian issues more directly without being censored). We can learn a lot by asking what an image means in the artist's context.

So true! When you watch a piece of art through the eye of an artist, the feeling and the way you see it can suddenly be completely different :)
And I agree with Jenn too! I play with the 'mini' design and even if I don't read comments before I start, I can see the first lines on my screen when solving small puzzles. Sometimes they spoil me despite myself. The warning that swford described could be a great remedy :) (or even no spoil at all, of course!)

Buen puzzle, pero lo que representa es absolutamente despreciable y terrible. Soy española. Me avergüenzo profundamente de que en este país, que se considera avanzado, se sigan torturando animales y se considere una fiesta. Muchos, como yo, seguimos intentando acabar con ello... y espero que lo consigamos pronto.
TORTURA NO ES CULTURA.

Superb! This was a wonderful puzzle to work - relatively simple to work, but a picture that only becomes clear at the end, and is so imaginatively done that it still takes a second to understand. Wonderful job - I hope you do a lot more! (Oh, and some may see that red part as a cape...or you COULD see that as the, um, aftermath of the encounter.)

for those who considered my opinion a spoiler - tough. i was shocked and appalled when i saw the image that i had completed. this is a section to give our opinion about the crossword. apparently some people can see these comments without having to scroll down. this is not the case with my setup, i do not know what other people see, only what i see. for those that think its only pixels , that is untrue. it is a picture which represents a dispicable action. these are only letters jumbled together to make words, but they still can have power for good or bad or fun or anger.

really elegant minimalist use of colour and the least pixels needed to carry it off - bravo!

Well done, enjoyable puzzle

Not liked!

Loved the puzzle. Just enough detail to easily identify it.

Didn't guess until the end what it was!

Indeed it should end in reality, but the picture beautiful and the puzzle nice to make!

Very well done. Thank you!

I thought the red thing was a dog in a coat

Enjoyed this - good image. Thank you.

I don’t like the activity, but I find the result of this nonogram visually amazing.

I thought the image in the lower right was a dog wearing a red coat. Well designed and fun to solve.