
Azusa and her moe blob supporting characters appear here time shifted a decade into the past, in classic nineties style.
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A young boy’s heartwarming picture of “mama and papa” appearing recently leaves open some rather interesting questions over what the image actually depicts.
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A new book offers the chance to see 74 nations of the world turned into moe bishoujo characters, mildly playing upon national stereotypes…
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fcp (or Cellar-fcp) is a talented Hong Kong based artist whose haunting illustrations rather skilfully combine traditional and contemporary Japanese styles, in a manner distinctly reminiscent of such greats as Hiroaki Samura.
Curiously, though perhaps fortuitously for those with a taste for erotic art, his works seem to keep returning to gritty depictions of prostitutes…
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Previously it was noted that with the success of moe blob anime K-ON! even titles such as Haruhi were losing their characteristic style in favour of something approximating the evident marketability of Mio and company, but this trend seems to be intensifying, with the above comparison demonstrating the creeping K-ONification of two other titles…
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Fat Princess, a charmingly bloody multiplayer PS3 “capture the princess” game, was set to be belatedly released in Japan as “Pocchari Princess,” but that release has been cancelled and delayed indefinitely – allegedly due to complaints over the fact that characters depicted only have four fingers.
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Stereograms, optical illusions tricking the eyes into perceiving depth where there is none, are well known, but rather less known are the spectacular effects which can be achieved by converting anime-styled erotic artworks into stereograms, allowing the illusion of 3D curves where there are none, an effect admittedly poorly illustrated by Konata’s high status body above.
You can see some rather more curvaceous illustrations given similar treatement below. Needless to say, the images should be enlarged to full size to get the proper effect:
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Prominent illustrator Aoi Nishimata is well known for a wide variety of high profile character design, including a wide array of ridiculous moe products, but amongst such artists she has an uncommonly large number of detractors, for reasons which are plain from looking at the comparisons reproduced here.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 24, 2009 03:42 JST
- Tags: Guro, Haruhi, Illustration, K-ON!, MAD, Moe, Parody, Photoshop, Video Gallery

Popular moeblob anime characters are mercilessly stripped of moe by the simple expedient of resizing their eyes in this peculiar yet popular video…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Sep 17, 2009 20:09 JST
- Tags: Artists, Food, Hokkaido, Illustration, Marketing, Moe, Plagiarism, To Love-Ru


Hastily concluded oppai manga To Love-Ru seems to have retained enough popularity to create some entertaining tracing controversy centred around an amusing attempt to cash in on the moe boom by selling moe seaweed using traced To Love-ru imagery…
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2ch’s resident artists were interested in what Mio might look like were she the otaku idol of the nineties or eighties, and soon turned their hand to rendering whole host of other characters into the anime art styles of yesteryear…
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Haruhi has been subjected to a number of dire manga cash-ins; the Makoto Mizuno version illustrated above was thankfully canned, but the Tsugano Gaku version visible below is inexplicably still underway…
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