
Oppai anime Maken-Ki has been rescued from its generic character designs and is being resurrected with a new production staff, being directed by XEBEC’s Hiraku Kaneko (Qwaser, Manyuu, and the designer of Cattleya) and with the famously voluptuous character designs of Akio Takami (Kanokon, Ladies vs Butlers! and Upotte!).
The new designs:





The newly staffed anime is so far only confirmed as being a OAD released with volume 11 of the manga in September:

Akio Takami may not be universally familiar by name, but oppai anime fans are almost certainly familiar with his distinctive character designs:





























For comparison, the original 2011 Maken-Ki! anime, now sunk without trace, and the original designs:
















hooray, now they have been bereft of noses.
...I had to go back and look to realize this. My attention was preoccupied at the time.
Noses are a small price to pay for the deliciousness we get in return...
LWB oh yes xd
lol
Time for another fap session.
i miss old Maken, but OPPA KANOKAN STYLE!!! :-D
Ooh sexy lady!
oppa(i)*
I hope it doesn't get censored.
trololo
oh you
well I hope it doesn't get censored, but It will I just jope they don't over do it with the censors like they did with a certain anime.
i dont know about you guys....but i watch it for the PLOT ....
i swear!
i watched for the girls' personalities
Not gonna lie, i watch it for the tits and ass
I commend you for your honesty.
I swear I've read that comment before...
Plot:- a term in recent nomenclature, referring to the backside of ponies, frequently used by brony subhuman-culture.
So, you like horsebutts.
Yes, we like you.
but that's wrong
[Designed Cattleya]
Oppai quality at it's finest
Cattleya <3
Hiraku Kaneko is the GOD of ecchi!
>hating on Takeda Hiromitsu designs
for shame, admin
for shame
Like most guys, I love breasts. But, when they're drawn ridiculously over-large like this, they tend to go from appealing to looking silly.
Poo =(
The original art was similar to the manga and worked well. I hope that the OAD will only be like this and that if they get to do another proper season that they can use the original art style.
Don't knock the change until you understand what it's being changed to completely... it's not just Xebec in the picture now, it's also Hiraku Kaneko.. and if you've seen his work then you know this could still be an improvement even if the first season was already good.
Xebec and Hiraku Kaneko are my favorite ecchi creators by far, but for different reasons. Still, I hope this article is confused because I would rather have Akio Tamaki directing and Hiraku Kaneko to be doing the character designs.
Hiraku Kaneko's character designs not only have noses, but he makes the most delicious looking boobs of all shapes and sizes, especially big ones but also smaller ones. And they're animated magnificently.
Akio Tamaki and Xebec on the other hand, I love their ecchi anime for their ecchi scenarios and scenes. Kanokon and Ladies X Butlers have the most ecchi scenes ever, even if they don't have ladies that look as hot as Hiraku Kaneko's.
Takeda Hiromitsu needs to go back to the ero days and do a sequel or follow on to Tsundero . . .
my body was not ready
I guess chubby girls are okay too
you got it ALL WRONG.
chubby girls are favourized while everything else is DISLIKED!
every woman which counts as normal weight is disgusting!
every woman which weights more than 40 kg as overweight is disgusting!
get that goddamned fact about my sexual drive right you goddamned awful scientist!
AND DONT FORGOT TO PAY OFF YOUR INSULTS FROM A CENTURY AGO SCIENTIST!
just stating the fact that I COULD ACTUALLY LIKE SKINNY GIRLS IS MORE THAN AN INSULT! ITS ALLMOST A DECLERATION OF A WAR OF SEX! YOU GODDAMNED MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE!
God danm they got super small head
I don't get why they don't try to copy the original manga style instead of just doing their own style. Takeda Hiromitsu has an amazing art style but the anime paled in comparison.
My thought is that the change in the team was done precisely to get the anime to be more in line with the ecchi quality of the manga and other current top ecchi anime. Have you guys seen Hiraku Kaneko's stuff in Manyuu and Kagaku Na Yatsura? Those nipples are far more in line with the likes of Hiromitsu's and Mogudan's and many other top ecchi and hentai mangaka today.
Isn't tat the argument over that rotoscoped anime? That you have to respect the original art style?
Besides Kanokon is sexy because it's daring and actually shows stuff, the designs are good but the ecchiness is in the attitude.
Yes yes good drawings BUT NOT BETTER THAN THE TAKEDA'S ONES have you seen them and the drawings in redi bato where good and ero but all the face where the fking same im tired of it, id like better if takeda is the ilustrator and the other ones just make the animation and stuf...
so now being faithfull to the manga is bad?
so sad, i guess one can't please everybody, does he?
I haaate when they do this -_-. I hate this type of ecchi so much, it should just be freakin' hentai. It always just feels like a waste to me when they do this.
Really? I thought the Takeda Hiromitsu style was plenty sexy. This seems like a step down really as, for me, Kanokon is more cute than sexy.
Since artefact decided to post about this, I'm actually surprised now that he made no post for the most recent Hiraku Kaneko release - Kagaku na Yatsura. Which was absolutely incredible. Any and every oppai lover that hasn't seen it yet, go do that now!
Well, hopefully get the quality of the Manga. They really well drawn in that, I just hope it sticks to the fucking Manga more , the anime fucking shit.
Ladies Vs Butlers and Kanokan (minus the noisE) had some really sexy character designs. nice and curvy.
jeje ya queiro verlas
yo sé que sí
FAGS! ALL LOSER FAGS!
so much win...
LVB had a terrible ending even for its kind.
The designs in the one shot up top aren't giving me much confidence. Personally, it seems less like Hiromitsu's style than the first anime.
I'll reserve final judgement until I see more though.
Good