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akay-reiko · 1 year

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Haven't see you for a long time...

#art #digital drawing #artist #akay reiko #wolf art

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lunargoddess40 · 2 years

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TMMN FanArt Paintings: “Mew Ringo- Tokyo’s Cherry Apple” (TMMN July 2022 Birthday Edition; Acrylic Painting on Sale Right Now for $100.00!!!)

Happy Tokyo Mew Mew New Week to all of my fellow Mew Mews worldwide as the new 2022 anime is finally here as well as this special Mew Mew’s birthday today!!!!! Many Happy Birthday wishes to Ringo Akai (a.k.a. Mew Ringo) from “Tokyo Mew Mew” as I present you guys my TMMN birthday painting of her- “Tokyo’s Cherry Apple”!!!!

Inspired by the iconic EP 11’s Group Scene from TMM’s 2003 anime and continuing on the “Mew Mews” Collection series from the show, this special exclusive painting features Mew Ringo in her 2022 anime version from the combination of TMM Re-Turn x TMMN blushing with a huge bright smile on her face as she poses in her cute Mew Ringo pose screenshot with a fancy light red-magenta pink background all glossed up with gloss & glitter!!!! I really want to give her the TMMN 2022 appearance as this is TMMN season this month and I really love how she came out super adorable and precious!!!!! I also do love that I customized her iconic screenshot pose like the Mew Mews have for their group scene from Tokyo Mew Mew’s EP 11 in 2003, it really expresses her so perfectly and I can’t wait to do one for Berry to join the collection!!!!

This one is for you, Mew Ringo, may you forever & always be Tokyo’s Cherry Apple on top and may you shine bright for Earth’s future!!!! Happy birthday, long live Mew Mew Ringo Forever & Always!!!!!

This painting is also available on sale right now for $100.00 if you guys want to buy her!!!! Please follow me on @lunargoddess40 and leave comments to purchase her, thank you for your support!!!! Mew Mews Forever & Always United, Nya!~

Also check out my other pages on Instagram such as sailorsoldierlegacy & the_shonekan_princess to check out my Anime FanArt paintings & purchase my works of art / request art commissions, I’m always open!!!! Thanks for your support!!!!

🐧P.S. This is a FanArt painting made by me.

🎂TMMN & Characters: Rightly belong to the late Mia Ikumi & Reiko Yoshida with TV Tokyo & Nakayoshi!!!!🎂

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tsuri-chan · 1 year

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Zero’s Tea Time Episode 1: TIME.1

Based on Zero’s Tea Time volume 1, files 1 and 5

Plot in five keywords:

On a walk in the city to Café Poirot

Getting everything ready before the first guests arrive

Ice cold coffee sells pretty good at that day

But Ms Tsuruyama doesn’t want one and she’s also pretty late

Later, Amuro trains shooting with Kazami

Important plot development:

First appearance of Reiko Tsuruyama

Azusa says that she’s impressed that Amuro handles his three jobs pretty good - working at Café Poirot, being Kogoro’s apprentice and doing his usual detective work

Amuro owns photos of Akai, Sherry (and her Mystery Train Pass Ring) and Conan

Amuro says that three jobs are a piece of cake, he could handle 100 jobs

Amuro mentions that he wants to forget Akai

Rating:

6/10 coffees

The beginning is a bit uninteresting, but it represents Amuro’s work at Café Poirot very well. There are also some nice facts from Azusa. It’s a watchable episode and a nice beginning for the Zero’s Tea Time anime, but that’s about it.

#detective conan #Detektiv Conan #dcmk #rewatch #zero'steatime #zero'steatimeepisode1

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chiarasweets · 4 years

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Noticed nobody had drawn Ringo in this outfit so I did ;;

cant wait for the countdown to end aaaaah

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ordinaryhouseholdtoaster · 4 years

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Alright, let's talk Japanese toilet ghosts.

Firstly, there's Kashima Reiko. This onryō [vengeful spirit] is that of a young girl who died after losing her legs in a train accident. She now haunts train-station restrooms, asking unfortunate visitors where her legs are. The correct response is to tell her that her legs are on the Meishin Expressway, whilst incorrect responses lead to her cutting her victim's legs off.

Akai-Kami-Aoi-Kami [Red-Paper-Blue-Paper] also haunts public toilets. This onryō is said to approach anyone who uses the stall furthest from the door, knocking as they are about to wipe and offering them a choice of red paper or blue paper. Choosing red paper leads to death by stabbing, whilst choosing blue paper leads to death by suffocation. Asking for plain white paper [or paper of any other colour] causes Akai-Kami-Aoi-Kami to drag his victim to hell. The only escape is to decline his offer altogether. He will not enter the stall unless his offer is accepted and will vanish when potential victims leave the stall.

Akaname is a goblin-like Yōkai [strange apparition] with a long tongue that likes to lick the filth off of bathtubs, sinks and toilets. He generally doesn't attack humans but can become agitated and strike out if someone lingers for too long after using the toilet. He wants that sweet, sweet grime.

And finally, the most famous Japanese toilet ghost, Toire no Hanako-san [Hanako of the Toilet]. A young girl who died during WWII, Hanako can be summoned by knocking three times on the third stall of any third floor girl's bathroom and asking, "Are you in there, Hanako-San?". Hanako will either reply, "Yes, I am" or place her hands on the top of the door to show that she is present. The next person to open the stall door will see Hanako, a young girl in a '40s style red dress, and, depending on the sincerity of their apology for disturbing her, she will either scare them off or eat them.

And there you have it. Happy peeing and pooping, ya'll.

#ghosts #ghost stories #urban legends #toire no hanako-san #hanako of the toilet #akai-kami-aoi-kami #akaname #kashima reiko #japanese folklore #onryo

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astarcis · 6 years

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A gift for @akayreiko for all the awesome art she drew to me over the years.

The background is based on one of own photos. And I can tell you for sure that nothing calms me better than sound of waves beating the shore. It seems that salty waters of the sea heal the soul and basically make all your thoughts fade away, leaving you alone with your body and nature.

#digital art #animal art #canine #wolf #for others #Akay-Reiko #Tenza

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frith-inle · 4 years

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Balto redraw... by Akay-Reiko

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equinoxparanormal · 6 years

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Get to Know Your Japanese Bathroom Ghosts

There are several to keep track of, some scarier than others.

Illustrations of the 12 different types of Kappa, a water spirit who is sometimes known to haunt outhouses, from the 19th century.

As any horror film fan can attest, the bathroom can be a scary place. From Janet Leigh’s infamous shower scene in Psycho to the blood-spewing drain pipes of Stephen King’s It, there’s no shortage of genuinely startling imagery connected to lavatories. But when it comes to conjuring up the most terrifying possible interruptions to our most private moments, no one beats Japan.

In Japanese folklore, there are a number of spirits rumored to appear in bathrooms. Some reach out from the insides of toilets; others whisper through the stall walls. Each one has its own grim story and particular behavior, but they all share a connection to the bathroom.

“The bathroom is a somewhat unusual space in a household or school or wherever it exists,” says Michael Dylan Foster, author of The Book of Yôkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. Foster describes bathrooms as liminal spaces in that they connect the normal, everyday world to a whole different realm, namely the sewer.

“In that sense, the bathroom is a place of transition, and the toilet in particular is a portal to a mysterious otherworld,” says Foster. “Even though we generally flush things down, it would not seem surprising for something mysterious to come up through the toilet.” A hand reaching up through the toilet is just one of the possible creep-outs a Japanese bathroom ghost might visit on someone.

Toire no Hanako-san

One of the best-known of Japan’s bathroom spirits is Toire no Hanako-san, or Hanako of the Toilet. Like all ghost stories, the details of Hanako’s origins vary somewhat from telling to telling, but in general, Hanako is said to be the ghost of a young girl who died around WWII, and now haunts school bathrooms. Usually described as wearing an out-of-fashion red dress and bob haircut, she can be summoned by going to the girl’s bathroom on the third floor, knocking on the third stall three times, and saying, “Are you there Hanako-san?” Depending on regional variations, Hanako will respond by saying, “Yes I am,” or a ghostly hand will appear. If someone enters the stall, they could also be eaten by a three-headed lizard.

The last outcome notwithstanding, Hanako is generally just a spooky presence meant for a good scare. Hanako has appeared in numerous anime series and television shows, and is pretty much a star. “[The legend] is well known because it is essentially an ‘urban legend’ associated with schools all over Japan. Since the 1990s, it has also been used in movies, so it became part of popular culture not just orally transmitted or local folklore,” says Foster.

Kashima Reiko

Hanako is not the only young girl said to haunt the bathrooms of Japan. There is another legend of a young girl named Kashima Reiko, said to be the ghost of a girl who died when her legs were severed by a train. Her legless torso now haunts bathroom stalls, asking unlucky visitors, “Where are my legs?” The correct response, “On the Meishin Expressway,” could save your life. Otherwise, it’s said that she might tear a person’s legs off.

Kashima Reiko is a bathroom-centric variation of another Japanese ghost story known as “Teke Teke,” which also features the ghost of a young girl who was cut in half by a train. There’s also a version of the Kashima Reiko story that suggests she will appear within one month to anyone who learns her story. This set-up probably sounds familiar to anyone who knows the popular Ring franchise, which Foster compares to the liminal aspect that makes bathrooms so ripe a setting for horror. “[Note] the classic J-horror film (and book) Ringu, in which Sadako is in a well; the association of the well as a mysterious place has precedents in earlier Japanese folklore. Also if we think about the imagery of Sadako coming out of a television set, we get the same idea that the television is a portal to another world; she literally crawls from another world into our own.”

Aka Manto

It’s not all scary little girls. One of the most gruesome of Japan’s bathroom ghosts is Aka Manto, or the Red Cape. Also sometimes called Aoi Manto (Blue Cape), or in some variations, Akai-Kami-Aoi-Kami (Red Paper, Blue Paper), this modern spirit is said to resemble a person completely covered by a flowing cape and hood, wearing a mask that hides an irresistibly handsome face. He is said to appear to people (usually in the last stall) as they are going to wipe, asking a strange question. Sometimes the spirit asks, “Red cape or blue cape?” or offers “Red paper or blue paper?” Choosing red will lead to Aka Manto flaying a person’s back (a red cape), or another gruesome, bloody death, while choosing blue will cause the spirit to suffocate you. Getting clever and choosing any other color will just cause you to be dragged to the underworld. The only way to escape Aka Manto’s punishment is to decline its offer entirely.

Kappa

One of Japan’s most famous mythological creatures, the kappa is said to sometimes be found in bathrooms. “However, it is not specifically thought of as a bathroom spirit, but more generally as a creature associated with water—usually rivers or ponds. But there are a lot of legends in which the kappa appears in an outhouse, where it harasses people (especially women),” says Foster.

Akaname

This goblinesque yōkai spirit is filthy and disheveled, with a long, protruding tongue, and according to Foster, it is primarily known for licking the filth off of bathtubs. While not seen as a particularly frightening creature, the image of a gross little sprite licking the dirt off of a tub is not exactly friendly.

Japan’s bathroom spirits may appear to be uniquely ready to haunt your every bowel movement, but ultimately there are good reasons bathrooms everywhere tend to be a source of fear. “You are exposed and vulnerable—literally naked, at least in part—so there is a certain amount of danger or uncertainty associated with being there,” says Foster. “The bathroom is not a place you want to stay longer than necessary to complete the job you came to do.”

[Eric Grundhauser, Atlas Obscura]

#Japanese folklore #bathroom spirits #ghosts #legends

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akay-reiko · 1 year

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