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Daft Punk's visual realization of Discovery, by Leigi Matsumoto. 
Interesting because of the French touch it has to it. As we have seen before, the male characters are often portrayed as massive brutal creatures. In this anime, it is quite the opposite. The boys look just like the girls. This is also something we have seen in manga before, the boys don't really know if they are boys or girls, the sex seems to disappear.
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GirlsBravo

Girls Bravo features a young male student named Yukinari Sasaki who was teased and bullied by girls to the point that he developed an allergic reaction, breaking out in hives whenever he comes into contact with a female. One day, when he comes back from school, he falls into his bathtub and is transported to "Seiren", a mysterious world with a mostly female population.
This anime is highly sexual, all the female characters are portrayed as extremely young sexual objects. They are often naked, have kiddy bodies with over sized breasts and always act innocent, although they chase this boy with insistance. This is very typical of manga in general.

FashionImpact

Manga Face Gemma Ward
Anime art has wide impact on today's fashion world. Who can look at this top model face and say it doesn't remind us of Macoto's girls? The very essence of this young blonde, big blue eyed girl comes from the manga world, where innocence and sexyness are closely entwined.
Feel the match

More&MoreEyes

As I explained before, the eye is the most important part of a manga, it is what differentiates its authors.
Which is your favorite?

MangaStoresGoSuperHero

Another phenomene in manga art seems to be the other fantasy expressed by the authors: male perfection, strength, super powers... etc. Here is a small compilation of super hero covers.
Notice how all the girls are set to be innocent and childish, and all the boys extremely powerful and heroic. This tells us a lot about Japanese society as a whole.
Feel the power

MangaStoresGoWild

Today I spent some time in a manga store in Shibuya. It was pretty impressive, many references, many otakus, etc... but a lot of erotic covers! It nearly gave the impression of being in a porn shop. This only confirms the thesis of a sexual fantasy in the authors heroin.
I also came across this Nazi manga, i'm not quite sure what it was really about, but it definitely had a Swastika cross on the cover. I beleive the ultra nationalist movement is getting stronger and stronger because of the North Korean threat. Walking around in tokyo, we can see cars with speakers on top, driving around very slowly and young men inside, speaking ultra nationalist messages through the mega phones. Japan is currently facing a crisis in parliament. Since the end of WWII, Japan is not allowed to have an army to attack. This is being rejected by most Japanese, and the constitution could soon be changed in favor of a powerful army, in order to be able to face North Korea in an eventual atomic war (North Korea possesses the atomic weapon).
Check it out

BabyOren-Ishii

These are pictures from the animation found in Kill Bill Volume 1 to tell the story of Oren-Ishii.Ishii is an American of Chinese and Japanese heritage. She was born on an American military base in Tokyo.
At the age of nine, she witnessed her parents being brutally murdered by a Yakuza crime lord, Boss Matsumoto, while she hid in terror under her parents' bed. After this, he burned down the house, and little Ishii barely escaped, swearing revenge against Matsumoto.
Ishii then spent the rest of her childhood training herself to be a ruthless killing machine, expecting extact justice. She finally obtained it at the age of 11, by posing as a child prostitute and stabbing Boss Matsumoto to death. As she plunged the blade of Matsumoto's katana through his stomach, she asked him if she reminded him of someone he had killed. After he died, she pulled the katana out of his body and stole his gun, slaughtering Matsumoto's men in the process.
Oren then worked herself up to become the boss of all Tokyo Yakuza bosses...
Never forget the kid

BloodSuckingSaya

Saya is the heroin of Blood the Last Vampire.
I chose to bring her up for two reasons.
She isn't blond.
She doesn't have blue eyes.
Proof that some fantasies amongst the Japanese anime artists are a little more tortured than lust for innocence, shown in the big round blue eyed, longed haired blondies.
The story is set in the American Yokota Air Base located in post-WWII Japan, a few months before the beginning of the Vietnam War. Saya hunts vampiric demons, the "Chiropteras" using a katana. She works for a secret organization known as Red Shield.
Watch ur back



Futhermore, she is the main inspiration for Kill Bill's Oren-Ishii's youth manga character in Volume 1.

UpskirtNausicaa

Nausicaa is a huge anime success. Hayao Miyazaki, her creator, based the character on Nauiscao, a princess from the Odyssey, and this ancient folktale, dating from before 1271. The original Japanese story is in the collection of tales Tsutsumi Chunagon Monogatari. The earlier version leads us to believe the Princess's non-conformist behavior is a problem for her future, but the children's book from '92 implies she is right to be free-spirited and independent, and she is just misunderstood by others.
Although she appears to be completely naked under her skirt in the earlier versions, she now wears a pair of shorts to comply with modern standards.
Take a better look

RoyalBlood

Cause' every girl's a Princess.
So that the dream comes true, anime art goes around the fact most female heroins are princesses. They even look like European princesses. Most love stories are set in Vienna, Rome, Paris, and even the Chateau de Versailles.
Feel the magic

YouCanDraw

Don't be shy... Try your own eye.
Grab your pencil

SupersizeYourEyes

Oversized, glow in the dark, intensily brighter than bright.
The key to anime art is definitely the eye. Just like a human eye never matches another, manga artists have made their signature in the way they draw the eyes.
The shape, the intensity of light, the deepness...
Don't fall in

MoshiMoshi

Tokyo is very big on manga's. This phenomenen was completely unknown to me when I was living in Paris. The only manga feed back we sense in Europe, is the influence in Walt Disney pictures and in
manga based movies such as Kill Bill.
The female characters play an important part in manga life. There is an obvious fantasy in each author's heroin : that is to say we can imagine that
each girl is a reflection of the artists imagination of the perfect girl.
This is why I have decided to concentrate on female characters in manga art. I will be posting
notes and images so we can get an overview of various manga artist's perfection girls.
Enjoy