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dramasudan82 · 2 years

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Varieties of Hentai

If you happen to be a fan of Japanese manga, you may have observed a hentai or two on Tv. Irrespective of the medium, manga is extensively accessible for a wide variety of readers. Manga is go through best to bottom, left to right, and normally in black and white. Some of the most well-liked series are serialized, published weekly, and compiled into several volumes. There are numerous distinct sorts of hentai, and a series might span numerous genres. Hentai is an extremely well-liked sort of manga, with numerous followers in Japan. Some manga series have a sexual element that draws followers in. One particular this kind of illustration is Take on Me, which features an Otaku boy named Tomonari accidentally taking a picture of his classmate's upskirt. During the ensuing photograph shoot, he falls in adore with the classmate, and over time, the two develop an intimate connection. A single of the strongest facets of this manga is that the characters have quite distinct tastes in pants, which adds to the overall romance of the series. Many anime series have a sexy theme, with male characters pursuing female lovers. Even though yoi manga is meant for youthful boys and guys, yuri manga is aimed at females and focuses on lesbian relationships. Despite the fact that yuri manga are typically attractive and graphic, they normally have less sexual content than hentai manga. Followers may possibly even create fan-subs of their preferred manga. Hentai is often baffled with porn in the western planet. The two terms are typically utilised interchangeably, nonetheless, and it is attainable that you've heard of one with no the other. While hentai is a genre of anime, it covers the total spectrum of pornography. It is also regarded as a subgenre of anime. There are no rigid guidelines for what constitutes manga hentai. An additional common hentai manga is Reoccuring Girl. In this series, the protagonist lectures his neighbor Miki about being late and kicks her in the balls. Afterward, he seduces her. There is an component of hentai in this manga, and it's no wonder it has been ranked as the tenth ideal hentai. There are many far more hentai manga out there, and it's easy to locate 1 that you like. If you're interested in a attractive manga, Reoccuring Female is absolutely well worth checking out. Another kind of hentai manga is shonen. These manga are meant for a younger audience, and are usually told from the point of view of an adolescent male. The genres most often consist of action, sports, horror, and romance. Global Martial Arts have a tendency to include violence and curvaceous female characters. Some series function several characters and their interactions, this kind of as Cowboy Bebop and Dragonball. While the vast majority of hentai manga is full-shade, there are also black and white stories and doujinshi with animated pages. Some of the ideal manga hentai are made by the exact same writer. If you are a fan of scorching hentai girls, I recommend checking out "Comic Shingeki 2010-04" by Itaba Hiroshi. This manga is not for the faint of heart, and will satisfy any fetishist.

#Global Martial Arts

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hotwaterandmilk · 4 years

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Series: Cowboy Bebop Artist: Saitou Tsunenori Publication: Kami-Igusa Production’s “Free Drawing ‘J’ ” doujinshi (2001) Source: Scanned from personal collection

#cowboy bebop #spike spiegel #faye valentine #saitou tsunenori #tsunenori saitou #tsunenori saito #scan: hotwaterandmilk #doujinshi #90s anime #retro anime #old anime

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aulel-process · 3 years

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Fanservice and Anime’s symbiotic relationship between creators and fans

“What makes good fanservice? What makes fanservice work?

In an era of debate and questioning of this medium we’ve come to love as anime fans, much of the conversation about fanservice is relegated to discussions of objectification or laments about fanservice “ruining” this anime or that, treating fanservice like a hanger-on to the medium. Within that paradigm, there’s been barely any room to talk about how to do fanservice well, at least not when it has to do with judging fanservice by its merits, rather than other standards.

The rush to demonize fanservice is indicative of a number of misunderstandings about anime, and the way the medium interacts with its domestic audience and vice versa. Indeed, much of the Western anime fandom’s criticisms come from very Americentric and Eurocentric perspectives, and a very traditionalist critical perspective.

Nuance is always valuable when examining new media, especially that from a different culture. Western anime critics, however, tend to approach anime with very traditional critical techniques, informed by literary critique but not necessarily tested for their pertinence to the medium. Thus, in this paradigm, where everything must serve the narrative and anything that doesn’t is superfluous and unnecessary, it’s easy to dismiss fanservice as “distracting” or “pandering.”

Couple this with a good decade and change of marketing touting anime as a more “mature” medium of animation (Compared to traditional Western cartoons) and a well-known high regard from the West for narrative-heavy anime such as Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, and Fullmetal Alchemist, and the outcry over fanservice is easy to understand.

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To understand fanservice and truly answer the question of what makes fanservice work, it’s necessary to break things down to a structural level and work from there.

To “objectify” something, it first has to have not already started as an object. At a subconscious level, we tend to elevate fictional characters to a degree of “personhood” as we immerse ourselves within works of fiction. Part of what makes fiction work is that it can assume a degree if emotional investment on the part of the reader/viewer and use that to draw out a desired response. As such, characters are often designed to be endearing, lovable, relatable, charismatic, sexy, vile, corrupt, or any number of other characteristics, depending on how the creator wants the audience to react to them. At a basic level, characters exist to represent ideas. They are a tool, meant to be used. This isn’t to portray art or the characters therein in a bad way, but it’s important to start from the bottom. Otherwise, the discussion begins on already-false assumptions.

Every element is a tool, and fanservice is no different. Its usage, however, reaches outside the narrative-focused perspective of many critics, which is where much of the disconnect comes from.

Anime and its fandom share a very close relationship: Much closer than we’re used to with Western media. Japan’s semiannual fan-works convention Comic Market (“Comiket”) is a prime example of this. Two times each year, groups of creative fans get together to sell parody works (“doujinshi”) based on existing anime, manga, and game properties. Many of these works are very explicit and pornographic and, while Western fans might rightfully fear legal retribution for doing the same thing on a similar scale with Western media, there exist only a handful of known legal actions taken against doujinshi creators.

Japan’s manga industry and doujinshi community share a symbiotic relationship. The manga industry creates works for the doujinshi community to parody and the doujinshi community produces the next generation of mangaka, perpetuating the cycle. For this to occur, it’s necessary that anime, as a medium, invites fan interaction.

Episode 26 of Neon Genesis Evangelion contains a peculiar sequence in which the main character, Shinji Ikari, deep in the throes of a serious existential crisis, envisions a world much different from the one in which he exists, yet still containing the same people. This alternate reality takes the form of a lighthearted highschool romance comedy, much different from the dark, heavy robot anime he comes from.

From this simple four-and-a-half minute sequence, no less than three entire media series have spun off: The manga Angelic Days, the Shinji Ikari Raising Project game and manga, and the Girlfriend of Steel 2nd game.

This is the essence of fanservice. Anime is willing to momentarily subvert itself and break from its own narrative to interact with its fans, in the hopes that its fans will, in turn, interact with it. Flashes of nudity and glimpses of underwear are as much a tool as the very characters with which they occur.

What breaks immersion for the traditionally-trained critics of the West encourages immersion for Japanese otaku.

This is a powerful disconnect. Japanese fans and Western critics are looking in the same place for different things. Such deliberate breaks from narrative are anathema to Western anime critics who, trained to look for how every element serves the narrative, find such deviations jarring and out-of-place. Otaku, on the other hand, see such breaks from structure as an invitation to engage further, a reward for enjoying the series. It’s a service to the fans, a fan-service, with the hopes that the fans will service the show in return.

Alternatively, a series could be narrative-light by design, existing solely to deliver constant lighthearted enjoyment to the fans. These are your “fanservice anime:” Your High School DxDs, your Mayo Chikis, your Heaven’s Lost Propertys and your Cat Planet Cuties.

It’s critically important, however, not to dismiss fanservice as simply pure fan pandering for monetary gain, nor to assume that any pair of big boobs will captivate otaku. There’s an art and technique to fanservice that, much like its core purpose, is overlooked and dismissed in the clamour to downplay and vilify it. Poor character designs, bad animation, or a disjointed visual style that clashes with the show’s premise can all make for poor fanservice. These are your Divergence Eves and your Eikens, near-universally panned shows famous for poorly-executed fanservice.

But when the character designs are attractive, the animation is well-done, the scene is well-shot, and the artstyle is conducive to all that, that’s when you end up with the anime that’s still getting loads of fanart, even years later. The show knows its audience. It engages with them and encourages them to join in on the fun.”

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I like this article about the symbiotic relationship between anime and its fans. I think there is a tendency in Western art criticism to interpret dynamics through the lens of power struggles: the master narrative vs. the resistance of the populace/fans. I like this interpretation of fanservice as a dialogue, as the author breaking the fourth wall to invite fans to continue the author’s master narrative legacy. Some of the biggest anime creators started as fan artists (doujin/porno groups) like CLAMP, which began as a boys’ love/yaoi fan artist group and went on to create worldwide known series like Cardcaptors.

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sesskagevents · 2 years

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SessKag Fandom Appreciation Week - Day 6

Artist interviews - Mama-ino

@mama-ino was nominated by Anonymous

What was your first introduction to SessKag?

Hmm, my first introduction. This is going to sound dumb, but it was at an anime convention. I used to be real big into cosplay and if I remember correctly I was cosplaying Ed from Cowboy Bebop and I came across a Sesshomaru. A rouge Sesshomaru has appeared! LoL Well needless to say Baby Ino (and a couple other peeps) wanted to take pictures. But when all was said and snapped, his partner came from the dealers room- AND LOW AND BEHOLD! She was KAGOME! Like I don't know, something about seeing two characters I liked very much walk off sharing a bag of chippies. I was like... please. Please let there be a fandom for them, PLEASE! And of course after the convention (and angry AOL dial up sounds) I searched for this fandom. And I found YoukaiYume's art, I think it was 'Tears she cried." And then I found fanfiction and more art, and there was no turning back for me. That was in 2006...lol.

How long have you been a part of the fandom?

Alas, since Anime Mid Atlantic 2006!!

What is your writing/art process like?

Scattered, tbh. Often times I'll write my ideas come to me and I write/sketch them out on sticky notes or scrap paper. (Bruh, I was not kidding about the 829482 sticky notes.) Sometimes I draw from a few words that would make zero sense to a stranger, but I make something from it. And even then I often time end up with maybe 5 WIPs that will never be finished. However my little ficlets are often times done then and there, don't get me wrong! Like the idea starts the picture, and as I'm drawing and analyzing what I've done- The finished product is what inspires the ficlet. Unless it is to one of the fics I've been writing (unpublished) for gods know how long. Often times if I'm running late on a project, its because I'm criticizing and knit picking at things. But to break that up I usually doodle silly little things, like Sailor Jaken for example. LOL

If you could let your fans know one thing, what would it be?

I'm not nor have I ever considered my works to be anything but baseline (at most). I fangirl many most of the SessKag community. I am very happy to be included in this community as I've found many of you are absolute gems and are equally as astonishing as the works you create (both arts AND fics)! You all are fantastic, and I love your work! I run off of caffeine and sarcasm? I am very VERY SHY and do not know how to take compliments, lol... Or my favorite medium to art in is probably watercolor.

Do you have anything you're working on right now that the fandom can look forward to?

Yes, actually. I'm attempting to draw to a fic I've been writing to for some time in a sort of chapter series. I'm self taught and really haven't master how to do this in a manga style doujinshi as of yet, so I gotta stay small, lol. Those of you whom can are freakin' amazing!

How long have you been drawing for sesskag?

2012 maybe?

Your style is so unique - are there any other artists that inspire your style?

I've always loved Naoko Takeuchi, Yutaka Nanten, Masaru Gotsubo, Rumiko Takahashi, Bengus...I wanted to grow up to be just like Tetsuya Nomura. I've always loved his monster and character designs. So quite a few different artists started my love to do the arts.

What is your favorite thing about the ship?

I dunno, something about Kagome being able to go tit for tat with Sesshomaru. But at the same time with his character growth coming to be a silent watcher over, to her very caring nature. Something about it clicks. Both are able to deal with Inuyasha in their own respective ways, but both are very much trying to prove themselves and grow. Additionally both were nurturing to two children, not their own- but very much became theirs.

What is your favorite thing about the fandom?

Community. Expression of love for other creators. Diversity in how we perceive or ships. But to be honest, most of all is acceptance. Willingness to accept a new art forms, new prompts, new style of writings! Hey you also ship personxperson, okay cool! You like Kagome with blue eyes/grey eyes/brown eyes, yoooo! Awesome sauce. I've never been part of a community so welcoming and diverse. I love it here.

How do you get inspiration for your works?

Overactive imagination usually just takes the wheel, lol. Poems, Nature, scenic walks, looking at photography of mountains and the sky, staring at the moon, listening to thunderstorms, reading. My inspiration is literally comes from all around me, as corny as that sounds. Literally I can be in the coffee shop and see a couple do something cute and be like, awwwww. Sesshomaru and/or Kagome would do that, lol. Or watching a thunderstorm and be hit with an image in my head. Sometimes I'm trying to sleep (keyword trying, Insomnia can we not) and all of a sudden my brains like-parkour!

#SessKag #sesskag fandom appreciation week 2021 #skfa2021 #skfa2021d6 #skfa artist interview

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letherebewisdom · 3 years

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Some weeks ago I entered to the Official Sunrise Inc website from Japan and I’ve encountered with their Copyright Infringement laws, which shocked me quite a lot!

According to them, basically what we and almost 99% people from social media over the internet (tumblr, twitter, facebook, instagram, reddit, weibo, etc) are doing is considered illegal and strictly prohibited due of copyright violation, you can read the whole thing in the image, but what most surprised me is this:

Posting images, edits, gifs, audios, music and videos on the internet of characters and scenes from the series that belongs to Sunrise, yes, even if you tell them that it’s for non-profit purposes (and just for fun), Sunrise will not let you, because of copyright infrigment.

If you’re going to upload fan-arts/doujinshis/comics online of any character from x series that Sunrise made as tribute or just for the lulz, you have to ask them permision first, whether they let you or not. If you’re going to sell them for fans over the world (for profit purposes), obviously with more reason you have the obligation to seek Sunrise’s permission and approval before you do any of this.

The image below is from Sunrise INC’s international information, check here if you want to read the whole thing:

If any of you are planning on selling things to fans any content from any anime that Sunrise produced (whether they’re official content or fan-arts from you), you have to seek their permission first in order to save yourself a lot of trouble in the future with them or any company from Japan apparently.

It’s very shocking, well at least for me, to see how strict Sunrise Inc, and most probably, 99.9% of japanese anime studios are when it comes to copyright.

Anyway, for people who don’t know which anime series Sunrise produced, they are: Mobile Suit Gundam series, Code Geass series, Cowboy Bebop, Inuyasha & Inuyasha: The Final Act, its sequel, Hanyo no Yashahime (Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon), etc. --> x

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I don’t know if Nintendo of Japan has the same strict law, contact me because I would really like to know.

#anime #sunrise inc #anime studios #copyright infringement #inuyasha #hanyo no yashahime #hanyou no yashahime #yashahime #code geass #cowboy bebop #mobile suit gundam #japanese laws #nintendo #nintendo of japan #copyright is much more strict than I thought #even we can't post images edits gifs videos etc online even if it's for fun

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jetspikecellar · 1 year

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The shortest doujinshi - Cosmopolitanism

Spike can't remember who is Lin and who is Shin, and Bebop team can't remeber when Spike's birthday is 🤷‍♀️

#cowboy bebop doujinshi #cosmopolitanism #spike spiegel #jet black #faye valentine #ed #radical edward #edward wong hau pepelu tivrusky iv #ein #vicious #lin #shin #minor characters

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nervespike · 5 years

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cowboy bebop Doujinshi | Little Press UK

#the real folk blues

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anothanobody · 3 years

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About me!

Hi everyone! You can call me Mai, I'm 18 years old. I speak English, Spanish, Italian, a bit of French, currently studying Korean and Japanese.

I have insomnia so I'll be active almost 24 hours a day or not active at all since I'd be exhausted lmao. I have a couple of others things going on but let's not go there.

I draw manga/doujinshi, but I don't post them, or not yet, I don't have confidence enough to do that.

I began writing in July of 2021, because of quarantine I closed myself off even more and since I'm not that much of a social person in real life, I come here in my safe space, I'm unfortunately and definitely not openly proud freak/horny person, don't feel shame in sending NSFW asks, everyone interested can join me!

I spend my time writing, reading manga, watching anime, listening to music, drawing and studying.

Music Taste? Hip-Hop, Rap, I'm a whore for R&B, Salsa, Bachata, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Reggae, Dembow...

Animanga? Attack on Titan, Monster, Vagabond, Cowboy Bebop in between others, I don't really like Romance, I haven't found one that I really like.

Oh- I'm an Aquarius but I really don't follow the zodiac signs that much, all I know is that we are not good with feelings or something like that and we are smart people, I really don't know much more. I prefer you getting to know me through asks instead of assuming though.

You can follow me on Twitter as well!

I hope to have a good journey on Tumblr with everyone!

#dont reblg this #about me

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mandarake-en · 5 years

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#Mandarake Mandarake

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