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Unnecessary revamping of graphics leads some to view it as a case of anime-ization gone too far.
With its original design of a red-clad female ninja, this shamisen is set to become the collector’s item of the year.
Breathtakingly beautiful artwork combines illustration, photography, and the Japanese art of kirie.
This talented artist uses white paint, markers and a scoring knife to turn a Starbucks cup into a famous Ghibli anime scene!
A gorgeous take on the character that’s worlds apart from the Disney version, and can be read in English or Japanese.
Critics are calling the modern anime aesthetics “inappropriate,” but publisher says they’re missing the point.
Never would we have thought that characters designed by AI programs jumped from rudimentary to ultra-advanced in the space of three years.
Magical combination of Princess Peach and Bowser/King Koopa has hearts racing and pencils flying.
13 years later and an ocean away from where he grew up, this illustrator proves the seed of greatness was always present in his artwork.
Ken Sugimori, art director and character designer for the Pokémon franchise, reveals the link between pocket monsters and wabi-sabi.
Japanese Twitter gets a good laugh out of these great examples of a common elementary school exercise. Happy Father’s Day!
Nikko Nikolai: Cutest shadow ever?
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Monkeys with typewriters can write Shakespeare but can machines create anime as well as humans?
When Mom is a professional-level illustrator, mother/daughter art projects can be truly incredible.
Decades’ worth of anime moms assemble for amazing group shot that even features an Undertale shout-out.