Tumgik
#kunihiko tanaka
ancient-magus · 1 day
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
58 notes · View notes
xenosagaepisodeone · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
367 notes · View notes
lovehael · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
114 notes · View notes
hoihoisanlegacy · 8 months
Text
Tumblr media
Illustration from the New Edition release
16 notes · View notes
lalushloo · 1 year
Photo
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Xenogears PS1 - Concept Art by Kunihiko Tanaka
I fairly recently decided to give Xenogears a go and have been surprised by how much I was enjoying it! The world is incredibly interesting along with its characters. 
One of the details is the art, the designs really caught my eye. It’s all extremely varied with the inspirations that it takes from real life. If you’ve played any game in the Xeno-Series then some of the designs may feel somewhat familiar. Kunihiko Tanaka was responsible for the concept art of this title and was also involved with both Xenosaga and Xenoblade and it shows. Having played Xenoblade Chronicles, it’s interesting to go back to their early works as their designs are just as intricate (and hellish to draw). 
I highly recommend taking a look at the rest of the game’s concept art. It’s already giving me inspiration for my own designs!
https://www.creativeuncut.com/art_xenogears_a.html
40 notes · View notes
birden26 · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
“Character design” by Kunihiko Tanaka
9 notes · View notes
genevieveetguy · 1 year
Photo
Tumblr media
Goodbye Elvis and USA, Keiichi Tanaami (1971)
5 notes · View notes
imweepin · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media
combat-san
s
112 notes · View notes
the-monkey-ruler · 19 days
Text
Shinzo (2000) 爆裂战士マシュランボー
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Director: Tetsuo Imasa / Kenji Nakamura / Haruo Kosaka / Toshiaki Komura / Miyo Sasaki / Mitsuo Hashimoto / Tomoharu Arata Edited by: Izumi Higashido / Makoto Kanjima / Kenichi Kaneka / Hiroyuki Kawasaki / Yukito Nonaka / Kenichi Yamada / Yōmichi Shirai Starring: Minami Takayama / Yuko Minakuchi / Yasuhiko Kawazu / Naosuke Tatsuta / Atsushi Kashiwagi / Kyoko Yamada / Ai Maeda / Tsuyoshi Hisakawa / Atsushi Kashiichi / Tomoe Sato / Junko Shimakata / Michitaka Kobayashi / Hideyuki Hori / Kenji Utsumi / Takashi Nakao / Mami Koyama / Toshio Furukawa / Keiko Han / Hiroo Egawa / Takeshi Aono / Banjo Ginga / Takashi Koda / Koji Fukusaku / Kazuko Sugiyama / Takumi Yamazaki / Horinoku / Nobutake Tatsuya / Tomohisa Aso / Norio Tsukui / Ienaka Hiroshi / Chie Seguchi / Hitoshi Domon / Akira Tahara / Kazuya Ichijo / Masaya Takatsuki / Masaharu Sato / Mitsuo Iwata / Keiko Yamamoto / Kunihiko Yasui / Hikaru Midorikawa / Mami Kanazuki / Hisaya Suganuma / Chigusa Ikeda / Hiromi Konno / Daisuke Nari / Yuko Nagashima / Nobuo Satouchi / Daifumi Tanaka / Naosuki Imamura / Takayuki Inoue / Akiki Chatan / Munehiro Ehoku / Rie Aoki / Yo Murakami / Tsuyoshi Nishi / Tsuyoshi Toshita / Higashi Genre: Animation Official website: www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/mashura/ Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 2000-02-05 (Japan) Number of epsiode: 32 Also known as: Mushrambo IMDb: tt0293741 Type: Reimanging
Summary:
In the distant past, the Guardian of the Milky Way galaxy named Lanancuras began to harbor a desire for more power. Because of his connection to the galaxy, he was able to absorb parts of planets and add them to his strength. As a result, he began invading the worlds he was assigned to protect. In the wake of his destruction, a following of creatures from across the galaxy pledged allegiance to Lanancuras and became known as the Kadrians. Taking notice of his ever-growing power and followers, the other Celestial Guardians confronted him; however, he had become too powerful, and they were defeated. Unable to subdue Lanancuras, the Celestial Guardians each gave up a part of their power and combined it into a single new Guardian, Mushra. In a final desperate attempt, they used Mushra's core by transforming it into a powerful card with which to seal Lanancuras in a prison. The prison was created from the remains of planets that had suffered under Lanancuras' tyranny. Because planets are themselves large beings, their combined strength (along with the power of the card) was able to restrain him. Thus Lanancuras was successfully sealed in a large meteorite.
The meteorite was sent off into the galaxy to be sealed forever. Meanwhile, the way Lanancuras had increased his strength had consequences on the planets of the Milky Way On Earth, around the 22nd century, it was in the shape of a virus that merged with human DNA and destroyed the humans that way. In order to eliminate the virus, scientists worked on combining human DNA with the DNA of animals and other creatures immune to the effects. They succeeded and created a sentient race known as Enterrans (a race of engineered Earthlings) which are based on humans, insects, reptiles, birds, sea creatures, wild beasts, and phantom beasts. Eventually, a cure was found and the human race survived.
However, due to Lanancuras' influence, the Enterrans fought their human creators as well as the robots that worked with the humans, driving the human race to a near extinction state. Luckily, a scientist named Dr. Daigo Tatsuro placed his 4-year-old daughter Yakumo in a sleep chamber in hopes that she would save the human race and find the human sanctuary Shinzo and bring peace back to Earth which was then renamed to Enterra. When the meteor that Lanancuras was imprisoned in struck Earth during the earlier parts of the Human-Enterran War, its fragment had struck an infant Yakumo giving her abilities that she would later discover.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo
Link: https://kissanime.com.ru/Anime/Shinzo-Sub/
12 notes · View notes
nonexistentbooks · 9 months
Text
random rec list :)
These are various things that I have enjoyed a lot over the years. Check under the cut for more thorough notes/warnings, because some of these are really built for specific audiences. Linked to book titles is the storygraph page, where you can also find TWs. Link to poetry are the poems themselves.
books
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Trial, Franz Kafka. (I don't have access to my copy anymore, so I don't know the translator of my edition, unfortunately)
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky. I have read both the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation and the David McDuff translation. Don't have a preference between the two, I think.
An Iliad, Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare.
Beloved, Toni Morrison
poetry
If You Call a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar
Hanif Abdurraqib's writing, particularly They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and A Little Devil in America.
"Miss You. Would like to take a walk with you." Gabrielle Calvocoressi
"I Didn't Apologize to the Well," Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Fady Joudah
"Angels," Russell Edson
"On the Death of Friends in Childhood," Donald Justice
"Chou Nu Er: Composed on Wall at Mount Bo on Way," 辛弃疾 Xin Qiji, tr. unknown.
Poem 66 in Hidden Music, Rumi, tr. Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin.
manga/comics/etc.
The following works by Nihei Tsutomu: BLAME!, NOiSE, Abara, Biomega, tr. include: Melissa Tanaka, Stephen Paul, Sheldon Drzka, John Werry.
Mushishi, Urushibara Yuki, tr. William Flanagan
Witch Hat Atelier, Shirahama Kamome, tr. Stephen Kohler
Uzumaki, Ito Junji, tr. Yuji Oniki
Mob Psycho 100, ONE, tr. Kumar Sivasubramanian (might not be the only translator, but I'm not looking through all the volumes)
shows/movies + one podcast:
Revolutionary Girl Utena, dir. Ikuhara Kunihiko
Angel's Egg, dir. Oshii Mamoru (in collaboration with Amano Yoshitaka)
Cowboy Bebop, dir. Watanabe Shinichiro
A Writer's Odyssey, dir. Lu Yang
Wolf 359, produced by Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC
notes on book selections: For HoL, TBK, and Beloved, I'd recommend checking out the trigger warnings. None of these books are especially light, and definitely with HoL, Piranesi and a bit with The Trial as well, you don't know a lot going on. So you have to be okay with putting in the effort to understand these stories and going along with the ride. The Trial was technically unfinished, so after a point, it's the chapters we have from Kafka and in kind of out of order.
notes on poetry: I know some people may not like Hanif Abdurraqib's style, but I personally adore it. I have not read all of his works either, but he is a very solid poet and writer for me.
notes on manga and such: The thing you have to understand about Nihei's works (those that are listed) is that there aren't clear answers for a lot. Especially BLAME!, where there's very minimal dialogue. You won't understand everything on the first on the first read for BLAME! and that's good! NOiSE also doesn't answer a lot and Abara, for some, may seem like it ends on a cliffhanger. Biomega is the iffiest one here because the ending is really rushed. There was clearly meant to be more, but there just wasn't the space to take care of it before it had to end. In all his works listed, there is a lot of violence. WHA is in progress and I haven't caught up in ages, but it's a really solid story so far. Uzumaki is horror, so check out the warnings for that before going into it, if needed. MP100 is also pretty solid. Not without some faults, of course, but I greatly enjoy it and also have a fond spot for the REIGEN spinoff in my heart.
notes on shows and the rest: Ok. So. RGU. really look at the tws for this. The more comprehensive post I can't find, but this is a good summary. Definitely would not recommend it to everyone and there are aspects I am not a fan of (to say the least) but it is a very impactful story and means a lot. Angel's Egg is also not for everyone, but more so because it's a very silent movie and you will not get answers. It's a movie where you craft your own meaning and enjoy the experience. It can also feel very slow. Cowboy Bebop my beloved. That is all I will say. It can also feel slow to some people, but the ending. omg. A Writer's Odyssey may not be the most put together narrative-wise BUT I watched it when sick and fatigued out of my mind, so it takes a place here for being a movie I still remember pretty well. A father will do anything to find his daughter again, even if it means killing this random guy who only seems to be a novelist... except, isn't it strange how his story seems to impact reality as well? Wolf 359 is a podcast but MY GOD is it good. Listen to it. please.
9 notes · View notes
pestoanchovi · 2 years
Photo
Tumblr media
redraw of some official art of elly from xenogears, im pretty sure the original art was by kunihiko tanaka.
35 notes · View notes
ancient-magus · 1 day
Text
Tumblr media
37 notes · View notes
xenosagaepisodeone · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
art from Kunihiko Tanaka's personal website circa 2004
26 notes · View notes
lovehael · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
28 notes · View notes
hoihoisanlegacy · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media
Official illustration by Tanaka Kunihiko
(retrieved from Natalie.mu)
(Archived link)
3 notes · View notes
arleo · 6 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Little art dump of games that've been rotating in my head all of 2023
Aubrey design by @/shrimperini, Mio's outfit and pose are based off of artwork by Tanaka Kunihiko!
4 notes · View notes