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dark-manga-stuff · 5 months
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The color of illusion is perfect blue
Anime: Perfect Blue
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aliciarose-art · 11 months
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Kiss kiss fall in love?
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acidtookmysoul · 5 months
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Perfect Blue (1997)
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tomfra · 4 months
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Shun de Andromeda
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godaikun-room5 · 4 days
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riafunnel · 6 months
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All these mediocre-ass anime getting reboots, sequels, and other works in the same universe but Escaflowne getting none of that. You all sicken me
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ilexdesign · 9 months
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Classic anime character 🖤 P-chan!
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mina-ahavi · 1 year
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berbinda · 9 months
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Commission for @/FuraFuraM. ❤️ Thanks!
I did this Kikyo illustration a long time ago and it was one of the last ones I did with my old tablet, a Wacom Bamboo. It's great when they ask you for fanart-like commissions of anime series that you love.
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🌸 Character: Kikyo, from the Inuyasha anime series.
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hisui-cotton · 2 months
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About 4 or 5 years ago I came across a short series called Shamanic Princess and was really enchanted by it. I wanted to to do at least a small write up on it because while it is only about 6 episodes the story is fairly concise. They pack a lot of atmosphere and interesting design/worldbuilding in just a few episodes and it's just really nice. It's not a perfect series by any means but if you're looking for something with interesting character work to check out, this is one I'd recommend and say has the biggest draw because of how the characters bounce off each other. Right now it's available on Crunchyroll but if you're resourceful I'm sure you can find somewhere else if you need to!
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The anime today is Shamanic Princess, a short OVA series by Triangle Staff. There was a short time where Crunchyroll had gotten a bunch of older anime and so I decided I’d check some of them out. This was one I appealed to me because of how few episodes it happened to have, I assumed it may have been something similar to Blue Submarine, where it was a series cancelled before it was done or rushed but the story seems to have a complete round out. As most OVAs go, the experimentation of animation, unique storyline, and overall production makes for a really compelling short series overall. It takes it’s own fun spin on the magical girl genre too taking the “magic” part to be almost tangible rituals.
From a very ominous start we’re introduced to the world of magic that shamanic princess is takes place in with almost persona like shadows lurking about. Tiara, our protagonist, seems to be on alert yet also a bit bratty in some ways too, almost princess like, especially so for a college student. Following what turns out to be a bad scouting mission, Tiara returns home to her “castle” to sleep. The big draw from here on is the missing parts of the story, Tiara is on a mission to “capture” Sarah, whom she almost somberly confronts in her dreams. The next morning she is transferring into a new college, meets an old rival, Lena, to whom we find is also well aware of what Tiara’s mission seems to revolve around. The most OVA like part of this episode comes in this following night. The characters have what seems like a playful rivalry and it only comes to confirm that the characters are not just rivals in this mission but enemies. They fight harshly with spirit creatures they summon and begin to ramp up the fight only for Tiara to be interrupted by Kagetsu, the man who has stolen the Throne of Yord and is using it on Sarah. He doesn’t enter the conversation, or conflict, beyond impeding Tiara. It’s after when Tiara retreats and Lena approaches Kagetsu that their alliance is confirmed and that Lena lays forth that she’ll kill Tiara if she needs to. The episode concludes with a follow up fight where Tiara finally goes to her full power.
A lot of the formula between this episode and the next is this power play. Tiara and Lena going back and forth between their fight and feelings for Kagetsu’s situation. Tiara is the obviously more powerful to Lena and yet Lena is the one standing by Kagetsu. In time we also learn that Kagetsu and Lena were is love, that something separated them and now Kagetsu has taken something from their magical society that is powerful enough to put all three in this conflict. Fairly obviously I suppose, this leads to a love Triangle of sorts, not just where the girls find conflict in love for Kagetsu but where they find the idea of love in eachother similarly. In a lot of ways this is also what kept me around in the story where I could understand each characters desire for connection and love in the way they’ve seen it through each other.
I really love the overall atmosphere through the story though. Theres this feeling of almost cyclical longing throughout the the atmosphere of the story, whether it’s romantic, nostalgic or just to connect with someone in general. Everyone feels lost in there sense of what they want and unsure, yet they know there is something they feel a longing for. In the classes there are two particular moments where this longing is somewhat reflected between Lena and Tiara. When Tiara watches Lena in class, it’s while they have a lecture on the beauty in conceptual ideas like functionalism and rationalism, Tiara even later reflecting she envied Lena, likely for that sense of maturity she emanates and natural sense for logic. Likewise when Lena looks to Tiara they have a lecture on the greek story of Daphne, the nymph turned to a tree. In it Apollo is plauged by cupid’s curse to pursue Daphne who is uniterested in him. In a final act she calls to her father a river god and asks for his help. In hopes that it will save her from Apollo’s pursuit, her father turns her to a tree. Although Lena’s power better fits the story of the girl turned to a tree, I think that Lena’s view on Kagetsu is what’s really in reference here. Lena feels this ever present longing of affection and desire and sees that in Kagestu. Yet it seems that Kagestu only has affection for Tiara and so Lena is left alone with that desire. Even when Lena’s thinking of Kagestu though, there is this feeling of Tiara being the focus of it. She knows the place of Tiara’s affection among the sibilings and recognizes that Tiara did her best to accept Lena into that space. As a result I feel both’s feelings end up being more about eachother than their situation, where they envy the other’s ability to react a certain way to their predicament and as a result pursue that for themselves in the series. They strive to better themselves by becoming eachother in some ways, they see what the other does wrong and yet also see everything that is wonderful about them.
The story definitely tries to rush it’s climax. Just as the story pushes it’s emotional confrontation it spends too much time overexplaining why it is emotional. It tries to play with it as being a taunt from the Throne but it takes so much time and limits so much of the action that it ends up falling flat. It should also be noted a lot of the reviews and notes on this series you’ll see likely say things along the lines of “watch episode 5 and 6 first then 1-4” but I’d say that isn’t necessary. In some ways it spoils the mystique and focus on the emotional story telling of episodes 1-4. You don’t truly have to understand the backstory to understand the emotional stakes of a story. Those episodes are still worth the watch, just don’t feel too pressured to do it in the “5-6, 1-4” order because people say it should have been done that way. You honestly could watch just the first 4 episodes and feel like you have a classic OVA experience of a short contained story by the same logic of watching them out of order. But I’d still recommend it if you like “dark magical girl” as an aesthetic, it’s not too dark but still carries a good maturity in it’s story telling with interesting magical elements. If you have the time and just want to try an older anime, I’d say this is an interesting one to check out.
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ukiiyume-exe · 2 months
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Forgot another art trend I had worked on
Made this one cos based off my online friends and my fav character for a comfort character post cos I couldn’t think of good choice that’ll work with this theme 🙃
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dark-manga-stuff · 5 months
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Cowboy Bebop (1998)
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otakucomunista666 · 4 months
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LUPIN III: O CASTELO DE CAGLIOSTRO - Análise
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Clássico é clássico, não só é um dos primeiros grandes trabalhos de Hayao Miyazaki, como também é uma das maiores histórias desse personagem tão icônico que é Lupin III.
Lupin III é uma das maiores franquias dos animes de todos os tempos, teve sua estréia nos anos 70 e continua recebendo novas séries e filmes até os dias de hoje. Nós acompanhamos o bisneto do lendário ladrão Arsene Lupin, e sua trupe, o atirador Daisuke Jigen, e o ninja Ishikawa Goemon XIII, e seus roubos sempre se encontram com a sensual Mine Fujiko, enquanto escapam do inspetor Zenigata Koichi.
No filme, após um roubo em um casino, Lupin e Jigen vão até o grão-ducado de Cagliostro, onde se deparam com um jogo de corrupção e poder.
A trama é leve e divertida, Miyazaki já tinha dirigido episódios do anime original, onde deu toda uma nova identidade a esse personagem, diferente de seu mangá original que era mais violento e brutal, mas aqui pode se dizer que é a origem do estúdio Ghibli, já que esse foi o primeiro longa de Hayao Miyazaki, como diretor, e muitas idéias e conceitos visuais que vemos hoje nós filmes do Ghibli vem daqui.
Miyazaki cria uma trama noir de comédia pastelão e ação, o fazendo com maestria em seu roteiro bem amarrado, sendo inocente para as crianças, mas ao mesmo tempo sujo para os adultos, não é atoa que esse filme é um clássico; não só pelo seu roteiro e direção, mas mesmo sendo dos anos 70, sua animação não deixa a dever em nada aos animes atuais, envelhecendo muito bem e agradando todos os olhos.
Além de ser a porta de entrada perfeita para LUPIN III, O Castelo de Cagliostro é um filme essencial para quem é otaku, cinéfilo e fã de histórias noir e espionagem.
Nota: 4/5 (ótimo)
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acidtookmysoul · 4 months
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Roujin Z (1991)
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sammileedavis · 2 years
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godaikun-room5 · 1 month
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New Kyoko figure that was just announced in Japan 😍 , they must make one of Godai please! I want to have both spouses together 😩.
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