Postmortal_Pop

15 years ago or so I caught most of an anime movie on tv. It starts with an explanation about how they proved magic exists and starts using it to power everything. When people are exposed to it wrong they turn into these giant visceral monsters and the main character is one of the guys they send in to kill the monsters. There was an emphasis on sigils, the main guy has thus witch girl that paints his magic sigils on him, and I vaguely remember sigils around the muzzles of their guns?

Does anyone know the name of this? I never caught it back in the day and it pops into my head every now and again.

Working on an unholy abomination of a diy instrument and I'm planning on using the hardware from an electric guitar I got for free at a yard sale. I already took a deep dive into pickup construction and wiring, but the explanation for where they put them on the guitar mostly in guitar player jargon and I'm not sure if that translates to this.

Basic questions, why are there 3 pickups? Why is one behind where you strum and the other two up front? Is there an ideal placement for different sounds?

Any help would be appreciated, I'm not much of a musician, and this is really just a silly project just to see if I can do it but anything worth doing is worth overdoing and I like the chance to learn.

I'm building a sort of hybrid between a cello and a hurdy gurdy, but since the cello is larger than the gurty, I can't just slap the key box on the bridge and I don't have or play the cello so I don't know where all the fingerings would need to be.

Could someone who does play help me with measurements and positions?

It started as a world building thing and ended up complete enough to actually play. It's a bit like chess but with tiles placed to make the field and a pog like betting system. Everyone I've shown it to tells me I need to publish it, but I have no idea how. Any one here have suggestions?