Jigoku is a free website created and maintained by Raijin Z. Jigoku is a personal site, and most likely contains material inappropriate for minors, or people with minor amounts of intelligence. Jigoku is ©2003 NeO Productions and Raijin Z. Jigoku has nothing to do with the anime series Jigoku Sensei Nubei (or however it's spelled), nor does it have anything to do with Japanese hot springs. Jigoku is designed to be viewed at a resolution of 1024x768@32bpp. Lower resolutions and color depths may result in shitty layout errors and ugly gradients and pixilation in the images. God, if I can afford a decent video card, so can you. Jigoku is created and edited with JASC Paintshop Pro 7.04 and Microsoft Frontpage 2002. Why Paintshop? It's cheap, good on resources, and it does the job well. It's superior to Adobe Photoshop, and isn't the crutch that Painter is. I mean, fuck, Painter can polish the proverbial turd. To hell with anyone who relies on it. Why Frontpage? It's simple, visual, and works for an art gallery site. I don't have any PHP, Java, Javascript, CSS, XML, or any other fancy stuff slathered all over the site, because this is a PERSONAL ART SITE. I never saw the point in putting more effort into the presentation than the product. Why is it blue? Blue is a soothing color. Why is it so faded-looking? I hate oversaturated colors, especially when they fill most of the screen.
     Jigoku's been around for a few years, so I figure it needs some explaining now. Well, more like some defining. To those not in the know, Jigoku (地獄) means hell, or more literally earth/ground prison. It's not an obscure Japanese word. Any first-year wannabe-@N1M3-07@KU loser should know it. The beginnings of this site are pretty humble, if not downright embarrassing.
     I started Jigoku on Geocities, back when they offered like, 200KB of space. Here's what's left of it. A redirect page pointing to the most current home of the site, Studio Zoe. More on that later. Originally Jigoku looked like any other 1997-era Geocities site. It had a dark blue background with white text, with divider bars to section off each area of the site, and the standard links to various sites at the bottom. I had maybe two sketches on the site, both done immediately after Anti-Nice was ended. Really crappy site. I created a couple mirrors on Tripod and some other site I can't remember the name or URL of.
     After a little while, I got access to... LIBRARY COMPUTERS! BARF! One of which had Netscape Composer and Paintshop Pro 4 on it. I really started working on my site when I had the ability to truly build something. During that time, I draw quite a bit, and mailed my drawings to friends and associates to scan. Some people kept my stuff and didn't scan it, so that art is gone for good. I did a couple mouse-CGs, and started the short-lived MRAA, Monthly Rodent Art Archive. It was hosted on my new pay site, along with WoOdard and Eisu's sites. I also got a new PC, Ragnaroki, at this time. The MRAA was basically this: each month, a black and white mouse or tablet drawing is submitted, and everyone takes a crack at coloring it. Pretty nifty CG practice, actually. This ran for a few months, but it petered out after my server got hacked. My host, a Mr. Kremenetsky, said that having his NICs fried by hackfags was too expensive, and he had to close down his hosting service. I didn't blame him.
     Back to Tripod I went. Jigoku started to look like it does now. Colored tables used for design and layout, and the site was mostly light blue with some black trim. The site went through a couple more changes. It became Jigoku Delta (dark blue), Jigoku Omega (green), and it was even called Ice Cold (dark blue again) for a while. RH Factor was created to keep my H art separate from myself, and he had his own site called H Factory. It was quite popular, thanks to the MAH, Monthly Anime Hentai. RH was a semi-regular artist there, and garnered quite a few hits every month thanks to the exposure. Ragnaroki died and was reborn as Ragnaroki 2. This was The Great Crash. I lost almost all of my art in the crash, and I had burned the inked art when I was having an extremely rough time. Things started picking up slowly, Ragnaroki 2 became Ragnaroki 3, and I retired RH Factor. I suppose his job was done. I had a new mirror on Tripod, but it was at raijinz.tripod.com. I believe Jigoku took on a prototype of its current incarnation at this time.
     Soon after, I was offered space on Studio Zoe by Josh Lesnick. I've been there ever since, and he has my eternal thanks for the favor. Jigoku has been expanded, updated, tweaked, and even rebuilt a few times in the two years it's been on Studio Zoe. The historical record from this point on is available on the two archived update pages, and the update list on the main page.