An otaku devotee of Fate Testarossa shares the year-long journey he took in pursuit of having her likeness carved indelibly onto the entirety of his back.
The Fate fan in question actually started posting photographs of his early progress on 2ch in late January, eventually culminating in the recent thread he made on completion of the tattoo:
I got an ita-tattoo, any questions?
I want to see it. I really want to see it.
Well, it’s finally done, after starting a year ago. I’ll upload all the pictures.
This is the rough outline.
This is the first time I’ve really seen someone throw away their life…
What costume is this Fate-chan wearing?
An original costume in the Shinigami vein.
Amazing, god damn amazing. You must really love her. How old are you anyway?
Of course I love her! My age is a secret.
Once Fate-chan is done I’ll see about getting the person inside her [her seiyuu] put on me too. I’m a genius.
Her seiyuu, you say?
Her seiyuu!?
Her seiyuu…?
I’ll get this Phantom Minds cover done:
Fate-chan is finished!
Words fail me. And Sankaku has provided me with yet another huge irreparable brain damage. This must be what, the 839 th irreparable brain damage I get since I started with my otaku antics?
What did he do to Feito-chan??? D:
that’s some dedication right there.
the future is Otaku gangster?
Crazy freak >_>
Impressive but kind of…. I don’t know. BIG. >..<
I like tattoos a lot. If I was brave enough, I would like to have a BIIIG dragon (my chinese zodiac) tattoo all over my back but I'm afraid that I would regret that when I get older. I also heard that some employers are not fond of tattoos much. ^^"
However, if that makes him happy, good for him. It's quite nicely done and still can be covered with a shirt if necessary.
And that's one nice otaku back there. ^^
Is this guy Japanese? If so why all the crosses?
Because they look cool. That’s most of the reasons they show up in anime/manga anyway; same as how a lot of people think the yinyang symbol is cool.
some people have no shame
I would love to watch this guy argue with a bath house attendant who doesn’t allow tattoos. What, because he might be a gangster? haha…
all i see is butt
Well, I wouldnt be turned off by a tatoo of Fate perse, but to be honest tattoos kind of turn me off in general. I mean that’s permanent, and it’ll look terrible when he gets all old and stuff. They wouldnt be a deal-breaker for a potential partner or anything, they’re just not my preference.
…That said, I was quite mesmerized by his rainbow belt. It’s awesome!
Jumped his power level up, I tell you what.
Is it Over 9000?
Enough to break your scouter with your hands.
Would be nice if I didn’t get to see a guys ass in every picture.
Too much manly butt-cracks on the front page for far too long, post something new already =(
so there’s otaku in the yakuza? lol
I enjoy seeing how he’s wearing Calvin Klein underwhere in quite a few of those photos.
A fairy tail emblem inspired tattoo is all that matters to me, and it doesn’t include those anime characters since time is moving, everyone ages, likes, disgusts, so even if Fate-chan is ruined. There would be replacements.
Nice art esspically the cross but i wouldn’t get a anime tattoo
I must say this is very beautiful work. I love the glass illusion on the cross
another epic otaku fail
This is Fucking Manly. Wish i Could Get somthing like that done on me
nice belt!
Wasn’t there an article about this same guy that said his wife/fiance and family were crying that he got this? Maybe I read that here and Artefact just used this guys tattoo as the article picture when it was still a work in progress?
Anyways, the final result looks way better than I expected, very impressed.
Got a friend who has a tatoo of the dragon from Dragon Ball, so it’s doesn’t impress me… but it’s a nice tatoo, i’m gonne start a Saber tatoo on my back in the following month(a big work..) i already have a small tatoo on my chest… but it’s due to a contract with a young girl ^^
If this guy go to jail< any one that see that chick with that ass gonna pounce it, dont go to jail man, u will be violated in ways worse than normal inmates
pretty sweet tatt…
but as far as him never getting laid again, that’s bullshit…
I got a Lum tattoo that takes up the whole right side of my back and I get laid all the time…
bitches like a guy with ink, and most of the time they don’t care what the fuck it is…
but I can only speak of my personal experiences though…
Lum Tattoo? Pics or it never happened.
The people who were saying that he would never get laid again were just having fun I would think…
Awesome tattoo but terrible place for it, I would have instead got it on my chest over that location…
Also, why that close to your ass crack? I mean come on now…
DAT ASS!
That tattoo will only hurt Fate because he gave 2D the curse of aging.
Now he’s done it… He tainted the holy ones and brought them down to Earth.
He did what mankind should never have done. Divine retribution is inevitable.
That is some lovely shading on that thing; I want a tattoo myself, but no where near that size!
oh god, asscrack
Fucking awesome. I was thinking of getting a Zeon insignia on my arm, myself…
SIEG ZEON!!!
SIEG ZEON
Oh, god, you’ll never start to bore me.
I have such insignia for about five years. I knew, I knew that I’m not alone in such limits of faggotory.
Manly display of otakuness
He cried all along as he got tatoo’d, that’s not manly…
Awesome. Fate for the win!
He looks like a Yakuza.
…a MOE Yakuza.
He’s very dedicated~
Of all the things you could tattoo to your ass crack. Why a crappy drawing of Fate as a chibi? WRYYYYYY??!!
Finally someone who sees it.
The tattoo artist’s skill itself is undeniably decent, but the subject he choose for the tattoo IS crappy. Both in design(it just doesn’t fit there) & drawing quality.
Even if he’s risking the public giving him an eye for his devotion, he could have at least chosen other much better Fate drawings..
And so he became a real life walking dakimakura
nice ass.
The face lets the art down.
Nice tattoo. I was thinking on getting the Shin Megami Tensei logo.
I can’t help but thinking….
when he died, some weird creepy otaku may want his tattoo-ed skin as a wall-decoration…. eew
creepyotaku.jpg
I never really understood the stigma that came with Tatoos, regardless of design. ‘Defile your body’, ‘Throw away your life’ are some commonly heard phrases that come to mind.
But seriously, tattoos are nothing more than drawings on skin, permanent drawings, but drawings none the less. Perhaps it stems from the ties that tattoos have with gangsters? I don’t know… Sure it will ruin with age, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t appreciate it for what it is now.
Whatever it is, I won’t begrudge anyone from having a tattoo if they really want it and won’t regret it.
More on topic, the Feito-chan tattoo is simply gorgeous, a work of art if I do say so myself.
I think it’s got the stigma more because some people choose really stupid designs, and have to get it removed when they’re 20 years older. Also, Asian people just laugh when they see someone with a Japanese character on their body. Only the super-conservative folks have a problem with something small and classy.
>>What costume is this Fate-chan wearing?<<
Captain Harlock, are those your clothes?
http://i.imgur.com/tGV2v.jpg
Yeah, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the prototype image. Final version came out different though.
How come Fate needs to be in contact with your ass crack!
considering how big the tattoo is that must have been really painful. anyway its good, but he threw away his back only way he could get laid now is by another fan of fate, doing his ass. lol :)))
“Why do you always do me from behind? You’re in love with Fate and not me!”
Fuck this! I’d get a manly tattoo, like a rose or a butterfly…
..or a pony, or a pansy, or teddybear..
LOL tramp stamp.
Haha! I guess someone didn’t know.
nice belt
please don’t say he’s gonna make tattoo of nana-chan on his body… i’ll kill him…
Yes, right down to his wiener!^^
Nooooo!!! Not there!
Wow that is New. Never seen doing an anime tattoo that big. Maybe a YAKUTAKU(Yakuza + Otaku)
Release the Kraken!!!!
now thats what i call i nice tatto… but it would raise some questions about what it is XD
IDK… it looks… generic.
Wonder what it will look like when he’s 70 year old… never mind… I don’t want to know.
Fate’s (on his) ass.
LOLZ
Nuff said
Admirable. That’s what I call devotion.
If there would be a way for me to get a tattoo of my waifu without signaling that I’m a lolicon everytime I go swimming and so on…
Getting a loli tattoo would make you the biggest rebel ever if loli became illegal again.
Several options come to mind.
1) Get somebody elses skin for this tatoo, than flay it from him/her.
2) Your butt
3) Your penis
4) an older version of your waifu
Did I just got mooned unknowingly?
wow…and I just saw Ryuu ga Gotoku4/Yakuza4’s
trailer…wow…such coincidence
In 20 years that tattoo won’t even be recognizable as the ink moves through the skin and the skin ages.
It’s the fate of things.
All things fade with time.
I’m going to make a soggy tattoo so that with time, it’ll become clearer and clearer untill i finaly realize what the fuck I got tattood on my body.
That’s… not how it works (^_^;)
If you’re gonna plaster your back with an anime character, at least choose one that will ENHANCE your masculinity like Kenshiro of Fist of the North Star or Son Goku of Dragonball Z.
That’ll scream gay.
A totally hot looking anime girl that’d fit that area of the body would do fine, like: http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/111834
That’d look totally awesome…
tattooing his ass crack must have hurt like a bitch! I got one near my arm pit and i wanted to pass out.
Is that not because of the ribs and lack of fat and muscles before you get to the bones…
You usually have quite a bit of fat and muscle before you get to the bones in your ass.
You’ll realize you made a terrible mistake every time you wipe your ass.
Hes gonna have to wipe from the front if he doesn’t want to defile it from wiping from behind.
If you love her, why put her where you can’t see her?
She watches his back.
He doesn’t have to see her to continue loving her… this is true love indeed.
epic tattoo
holy shit
I don’t know whether this is legendary or incredibly sad.
I’ll go with both.
Both….
Also, the guy who “draw” that fate chan is amazing…look at that scythe !!
I’ve got a question;
Are you gonna put Nanoha in front?
Psh, if you’re never going to get laid anyways, might as well go out with a bang!
Liquor in the front, poker in the rear?
Life? He?
Surely you jest. He just threw it out didn’t he?
And will she also sit so low on his front?
Then his life is completed.
well this guy will never be laid again….
but nice art.
As long he doesn’t turn his back to her…
I’m deeply disturbed by this article.
Imagine him in an Onsen!!
An album cover in the front and an anime girl in the back, till his crack!!!
then some small kid in the bath house tell his dad, i wan a Nico Robin or Nami tattoo in my back!!!
or i wana Mio or Miku tattoo when i grow up zzzz
I actually preferred the first rougher image, had more of a decent looking effect in my opinion.
I have a 20cm long tattoo of Squal and Rinoa embracing each other from FFVIII logo.
pics or it didn’t happen
Somehow I do not believe you.
I’d have picked a better pic, but I suppose it doesn’t matter. He can’t show that to anyone but otaku anyway.
Getting Fate-chan laid has a new meaning… when he lie on his back..
He could still get laid, not like its on his chest.
I have to agree. It’s not like people were walking half naked on streets, at work etc. And I’m sure that if he finds a girlfriend, maybe she’ll be shocked at first but I don’t think it’s a matter for break up. And those one night acquaitances (damn, what a difficult word) couldn’t care less.
I agree! His ability to pick up girls at the beach has been reduced to 0, but most girls don’t see your back until you’re already sleeping with them anyway.
If I were going to get an Ita-tattoo though, I wouldn’t choose such a childish art style.
How about they notice it when he’s getting dressed again, then they go “OMG, NOOOOOO! I SLEPT WITH AN OTAKU!”
Even if he got laid, I doubt he’d enjoy it as much as fapping to his ‘love’.
The art is nice but did it have to go down to his buttcrack, Fate is tainted.
He should’ve gone the whole way and first erase his old tattoos and then place Fate-chan on a better place.
Yeah, the placement of the tattoo is wrong. Wayyy too low. However, I don’t understand why Fate’s foot wasn’t completed. I mean if he was willing to go THAT far, why not?
I agree that was a bit too much butt crack than I was alright to see.
It actually came out fairly well, although those other tatoos on his back ruin it a little.
Of course it’s a pretty stupid thing to do, but no worse than any other large tatoos really.
@diamonddust
her feet are evaporating into his butt…
Only that anime/manga is usually seen as something negative/childish compared to a large dragon, skull, angel or cross on the back.
LOL.
I think he should have opted for an art of Fate spliting the ground and cracking his butt crack ^^
It feel like shes gonna get sucked into god know where.
And if he did, I wonder what his children will think of that when they see it.
i think hes gay
naw naw anon, how can a guy who loves Feitochan with all his might, can be a gay? preposterous.
LOL!!!
*wipe tears*
there’s cheeks in every picture…
Threw away his life for the betterment of others.
A martyr if ever be one.
He’s just become like a living desktop wallpaper.
He says his coworkers already spotted it, and that he had to leave the onsen on a company trip when a customer came along.
tattoos in japan carry a stigma that they are yakuza, apparently that is changeing overthere, slowly, but surely.
they have to learn what every other culture has already learned about tattoos.
1) they are permanent, barring a scarring surgical procedure, in which case the tatoo is almost always better.
2) make DAMN sure that your tat is timeless. in 10-20 years, will this be the biggest mistake you ever made? see mr cool ice for example of major fuck up
3) how will other people react if they see the tat? thats cool, thats meh, you fucking moron, or GET HIM. this tattoo will make you the one to watch if ANYONE ever sees it, as in there the japan equivalent of an amber alert, you better be well armed because people will borderline murder you.
Can’t wait for his skin to turn old & soggy..
I can fap to this
fapfapfapfap
wait till he’s 60
i commend his bravery to get this tattoo and the tattoo itself, however i do pray that he doesn’t make fate get all flabby and *vomits*
You mean any girl who sees that.
“well this guy will never be laid again….
but nice art.”
Again? rofl
Can’t help think Fate-chan will become Fat-chan if he doesn’t watch it….
Well that only works provided Fate Testarossa is a person, and not a tattoo overshadowed by a cross.
In any event any woman for that matter who see’s that tattoo would say “It’s got pedo written all over you”
One word: STUPID!
this is old
is it just me or does the scythe look a bit odd?
The shadings are really well done tbh.
Why don’t otakus like right anatomy?
that’s just how they were brought up.
LOL so stupid who the heck tatoo an anime, lmao what a vagina blocker right there
Yeah why are you so fucking stupid?