#michi himeno

[tomfra]

Shun de Andromeda

#illustrators on tumblr #artist on tumblr #watercolor #saint seiya #andromeda shun #bronze saints #andromeda #caballeros del zodiaco #anime fanart #anime and manga #toei animation #michi himeno #shingo araki #masami kurumada #anime 80s #anime classic #anime retro #shonen jump

[cavaleirosdebronze]

Foi anunciado que os itens comemorativos do 20° Aniversário da linha de bonecos Cloth Myth terão ilustrações originais feitas pela desenhista Michi Himeno: https://santosdebronze.blogspot.com/2023/09/Cloth-Myth-Seiya-de-Pegaso-V1-20-Aniversario.html

#cdz #saint seiya #os cavaleiros do zodiaco #knights of the zodiac #Cloth Myth #michi himeno

[joekirby]

Alle volte le commission vengono realizzate anche come regalo per coloro che amiamo. Come ad esempio mia moglie.

Appassionata da sempre di Lady Oscar, passione che stiamo trasmettendo anche ai nostri figli.

Ed allora per Natale ho realizzato questo per lei...

#lady oscar #versailles no bara #shingo araki #michi himeno #ryoko ikeda #joekirbycrackleart #joekirbycrackle #drawing #funny

[andromeda-symphonic-experience]

Andromeda Symphonic Experience | Abel's Theme

Inspired from the first Saint Seiya OVA: Shinku No Shunen Densetsu and with the art from the japanese cartoonist Michi Himeno which appears on the cover of the Bandai Myth Cloth from Abel and Saori figures, this canvas and this iconic song plays the harp as the main instrument and make us remember the paceful time between this god brothers.

#saint seiya #abel #saori kido #andromeda symphonic experience #Michi Himeno

[alienssapiens]

Shingo Araki / Michi Himeno

#Shingo Araki & Michi Himeno

[kurayamineko]

#mou ippon! #hiura towa #odagiri hana #sonoda michi #nagumo anna #takigawa sanae #himeno tsumugi #amane erika #shiraishi ami

[animemakeblog]

“Mou Ippon!” The Winter 2023 Premiere

The official website for Yuu Muraoka's Mou Ippon! ("Ippon" Again) television anime released an additional cast, staff, a teaser promotional video, and a teaser visual (shown). The first episode of the series is set to air in January 2023.

#mou ippon #ippon again #kozue himeno #tsumugi himeno #towa hiura #anna nagumo #michi sonoda #sanae takigawa #minori tsukasa #anime #anime news #anime adaptation

[milanvenuss]

Aphrodite bust

Inspired on the work of Michi Himeno 🖤 using Touch Markers, but I can't figure out what to do for background so if you have any ideas feel free to share!!

#miluxstuff #work in progress #aphrodite #greek gods #greek mythology #traditional drawing #aphrodite areia

[saintseiya-zone]

Saint Cloth Myth 20th Anniversary Ver. series

Illustrations by Michi Himeno for the packaging of “Saint Cloth Myth Bronze Saints (Early Bronze Cloth)” from the 20th Anniversary Ver. series

#saint seiya #pegasus seiya #dragon shiryu #cygnus hyoga #ssz

[retrosofa]

Nobody asked for it but here are some trivia bits about Hana no ko Lunlun:

Character designs were done by Michi Himeno, best known for her collaborations with late animator Shingo Araki. She was also the animation director for the first episode.

Toei Animation’s first magical series since Majokko Megu-chan finished in 1975. 

The first magical girl anime to have an original theatrical film. Previous magical girl “films” were just theatrical showings of select episodes. 

The very first magical girl series to have an English dub. Unfortunately, only four dubbed episodes have been confirmed. However, all 50 episodes were rescored and edited. Most of the international dubs are based on this version. 

Although merchandise tie-ins existed for Toei’s previous magical girl series, Lunlun had a notably bigger push from the get go. 

The series implemented a “chief animator system” which resulted in all but the first episode having a very consistent animation style. 

The second film was originally going to include a cameo of Lalabell (from Magical Girl Lalabell). 

While an accurate translation of the title would be “Flower Girl Lunlun,” the official English title is “Lulu, The Flower Angel.” Lunlun ultimately became “Angel” instead of Lulu for the English dub. This is probably because the American distributor, ZIV International, was also releasing Little Lulu and didn’t want to create confusion. 

The origin of Lunlun’s name is “runrunkibun” which can mean “happy” and “cheerful.” The name of her enemy, Togenishia, is a play on “toge,” meaning “thorn.”

The titular character of Candy Candy makes a cameo in the second episode. Merchandise of Candy and Lunlun appear throughout Magical Girl Lalabell.

#hana no ko lunlun #magical girl #trivia

[blake-arachne]

Sanctuary dictionary. About Saint Seiya.

Popular fighting comic book by Masami Kurumada published in serial form from 1985 to 1990 in the Weekly Shonen Jump. Almost at the beginning of the publications, the animation projects were advanced and the character design of the anime was taken care of by Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno known for their beautiful touches. The TV series was broadcasted for two and a half years (114 episodes), and 4 movies were also broadcasted on top of that.

In 2002 the series was brought back in anime with OVAs constituting the final chapter, the one about Hades, broken down in 4 parts. During the broadcast of the Hades chapter, the Tenkai-hen Joso, its sequel, was shown to the public. Saint Seiya Omega is the sequel (lit: next chapter of the story) of these works.

In the opening credits of Omega, there is a scene that uses a drawing of Mr. Araki and Mrs. Himeno who left a great imprint in the series, where in the first episode, both their names are credited.

So yeah, Omega is a continuation of the anime continuity, while Sho anime is a parallel timeline of it

#saint seiya #caballeros del zodiaco #knights of the zodiac #saint seiya lost canvas #saint seiya saintia sho #saint seiya omega #saint Seiya episode g

[ariel-seagull-wings]

TOP 07: PIECES OF MEDIA THAT ARE A POPULAR PHENOMENON EVERYWHERE... MINUS THE U.S

@superkingofpriderock @the-blue-fairie @dasakuryo @amalthea9 @faintingheroine @princesssarisa

So lets be real: the U.S is acostumed to be the most influencial media exporter since the end of World War II. Its just expected that we, people from the outside, know mainly U.S American Pop Culture.

But there have always been the rule breakers, the pieces of Pop Culture from outside the U.S that for several factors, ended up becoming a phenomenon, aclaimed by public and critics, homaged in fan works, with important influential legacies in several countries... except, ironically in the U.S, that while exporting its culture to other parts of the world, rarely does the inverse of importing, favouring the consume of its own media.

So in no particular order, here are seven pieces of media that, while phenomenons in other parts of the Globe, never got popular in the land of Uncle Sam.

01. The Asterix the Gaul Franchise

Originating in France as comic books created by Renee Gosciny and Albert Uderzo, expanding into animated and live-action movies, the success of this adventure comedy series about irredutible celtic warriors who protect their village against the Roman invasions thanks to a druid's magic potion, flavoured with lots of anacronism based humour, had its success expanded to other European Countries, Canada and Latin America. In Gringoland tough? It may be sold, but under cheap price to Francobelgian Comic Geeks, precisely because isn't as popular as the Marvel and DC Superheroes.

02. Mafalda

Created by argentinian comic artist Joaquin Salvador Llavado (Quino), the Mafalda comic strips ran from 1964 to 1973, being adapted into several animated TV shorts and an animated movie. Mafalda was a very curious child who constantly asked dificult questions about the world, the society and its politics, for the despair of her parents who didn't knew how to answer her questions and didn't want to admit it. Acompaning Mafalda in her questionings and games were her baby brother Guile, her pet turtle Burocracia (Burocracy), and her friends in the neighbourhod: the dreamer Felipe, the innocent Miguelito, the little futile socialite Susanita, the idealistic Libertad and the greedy materialist Manolito. An icon of rebeliousness from Argentina who even has a statue in Buenos Aires, Mafalda's got extended to Latin America and Europe. In the U.S tough? Its pretty rare that anyone ever heard of her.

03. Chespirito

The mexican writer and comedian Roberto Gomez Bolanos, nicknamed Chespirito (spanish for Little Shakespeare) created several characters for TV shows and movies, the most famous being the orphan boy El Chavo del Ocho, the superheroe El Chapulin Colorado and the bumbling medic Doctor Chapatin. Fusing humour with pathos and social commentary about the reality of Latin America, having his shows to fellow Latam countries (minus Cuba), Europe and Asia, when Chespirito died, millions of people from Latam camed to Mexico to be present at his funeral, paying the last homage to show much he meant to them! His shows, that also got expanded into comics and cartoons, made us laugh with joy and cry with emotion. But in the U.S, he is seem as a simple exotic curiosity, as that "campy show where adults dressed as kids".

04. Pedro Almodovar Movies

With a career that goes back to the 1980s, the spanish filmaker Pedro Almodovar presented to audiences movies that, ocasionally bluring the line between fiction and reality, but rarely in a way that gets too complicated for viewers to undersant, mixed drama and comedy to tell the complicated lifes and relationships of cistraight women and lgbtq people, exploring with naturalness themes that society deems as tabu. They released some names that are now well known to Hollywood, like Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz, but still they are rarely seem and talked about by U.S American audiences.

05. Saint Seiya

A manga and anime franchise created in 1986 by Masami Kurumada, Shingo Araki, Michi Himeno and the team of Toei Animation, the long-runing franchise about warriors who dress armour inspired by constellations to defend the Goddess Athena was a huge hit in Asia, Western Europe and Latin America, helping to spread the otaku comunity in those places. Sadly a marketing mistake that sold a heavily edited and censored version of the series made an atempt to sell the anime to U.S American audiences fail miserably in 2003. Recently, with the Netflix agreement that resulted in the production of a 3-D animated remake and a new dnglish dub to the original 1986 version of the series, some american viewers are discovering Saint Seiya as a kind of cult classic, in contrast to the mainstream toy selling hit it is in the rest of the world.

06. Japanese Tokusatsu Shows

During the 70s, the 80s and the 90s, Japan exported to other Asian countries, Europe and Latam, alongside the manga and anime series, the live action special effects shows known as tokusatsu. Shows like National Kid, Spectre-Man, Fuun Lion Maru, Sekai Ninja Sen Jirayia, and Giban to this day are fondly remembered by those audiences, even receiving homages like a hip-hop song named Lion Man, composed by brazilian rapper Criolo. From the 90s and forward, some of those audiences replaced the original japanese series with the americanized version of Super Sentai called the Power Rangers, but still keep hearing about and being shown the original tokusatsus by their parents. Meanwhile, in the land of Uncle Sam, besides the sci fi fans watching the Godzilla movies, audiences mostly watch the americanized versions of Super Sentai and two seasons of the equally long Kamen Rider franchise, without much curiosity for the original japanese versions.

07. Telenovelas

An heir of the serialized novels where the chapters were published daily on the newspaper, than going to radio and finally getting with all force into television, telenovelas are TV shows meant to air daily (monday to saturday), with duration on the air varying usually between six or eight months. Their plots are mostly drama and romance driven, but comedy and elements of social comentary appear in the subplots to balance things out for such a long time of exibition. Telenovelas are produced in parts of Africa, Europe and Asia, but is in Latin America that they are pratically the main cultural product and a patrimony, with Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina being the main producers of telenovelas. In the exportation field, our telenovelas are frequently exchanged between ourselves, along with sellings to África, Europe and Asia. In the U.S, while their are spanish speaking channels that exibit latam telenovelas for the hispanic comunity of California and Florida, most of the country consumes the american made soap operas, writen to air without an ending in mind, with several seasons, no different from the series. Besides some memes and react videos that select out of context scenes to portray telenovelas, again, as campy exotic curiosities, telenovela productions don't get mainstream releases with english dubs or subs for U.S audiences to know their variety of styles, themes and tones, even tough there is a telenovela category in the Emmy Awards.

#musings #culture tag #pop culture #fandom musings

[cavaleirosdebronze]

Confira a caixa da versão de 20º Aniversário do Cloth Myth de Hyoga de Cisne, trajando a primeira Armadura do Anime, com ilustração original de Michi Himeno https://santosdebronze.blogspot.com/2023/10/cloth-myth-hyoga-de-cisne-v1-versao-de.html

#cdz #saint seiya #os cavaleiros do zodiaco #knights of the zodiac #Cloth Myth #Hyoga de Cisne #Michi Himeno

[iconuk01]

This is just… breathtakingly beautiful!

A Latin American, fan produced (by Hakuren), hand drawn and animted sequel to Saint Seiya (following the "Tenkai Hen" movie) without ties to any other version of Saint Seiya. It captures the classic Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno look and style, but doesn;'t feel weighed down by it.

It's in Spanish, but has English subtitles.

#saint seiya #preludio de pegaso #pegasus seiya #hakuren #Youtube

[wondrousmay]

Ippon Again! is my anime of the season! This little show surprised me in the best way possible! I was expecting a feel good Cute Girls Doing Cute Things show but what I got was an incredible sports story that kept me on the edge of my seat more than once!

I fell in love with the characters immediately. Michi is just an adorable ray of sunshine whose passion for judo is infectious! You can’t help but be drawn to her. She’s just effortlessly charming. Sanae, Towa, Nagumo and Himeno round up our cast nicely.

I got to give the mangaka and script writer for being so good at portraying friendships. Michi’s dynamic with Nagumo stands out. You just believe that they’re longtime friends. Michi and Sanae’s relationship was also lovely.

I liked that Michi and Sanae are already familiar with judo. We didn’t have to go through the familiar beginner’s route which was a refreshing change. The story focuses on Michi rediscovering her love/passion for judo through Towa. I really like that.

The judo matches were amazing! Each match had me on the edge of my seat, cheering on Michi and the gang. Each win or loss was impactful and it made me appreciate the characters even more. Some of the animation for the judo matches were awesome too!

If you enjoy a good sports anime or just want to see a heartwarming story about friendship, passion and hard work, I highly recommend Ippon Again!

9/10

#ippon again #mou ippon #May reviews #I love this show so much!!! #hoping for a S2!

[asknarashikari]

Mamato and Emu: Holy Hell... look at the decorations.

Takaharu: Hey!

Mamato: *looks behind Takaharu* Dude... WTF! IS YOUR HUSBAND WEARING?!

Takaharu: What? *turns around* Oh. He "upgraded".

Shinnosuke: Holy Gaim. Why are you dressed like that? Aren't you cold?

Me: We're inside a building. And the heater is on to just the right temperature.

Shinnosuke: So... bedsheet ghost that only covers your head while in *expensive brand* tighty whiteys with gold trim. And... why are you doing shibari??? Why?

Tsukasa: Don't forget the black tape covering his nips in an X-shape.

Ace: This adults only party of his pretty alright. But the decorations are wow. The photo booths are a treat as well as the snacks.

Tsurumi: Buffa... Your husband is freak to wear that.

Michi: *sighs* I know, but he's my freak. Just be glad... everyone is cosplaying, and he is doing some bdsm shit like that. Also... I'm gonna say goodbye to him, then go to bed.

Rita: I hate this. Especially our host and his 5.

Himeno: At least his 5 are more or less dressed to be "accurate" to their character.

Rita: Despite being a god... I'm going to beat his ass for wearing such lewdness. Afterwards.

Yanma: Husband is kind of hot. Good thing only you 4 came.

Jeramie: I can see why he didn't want Gira to come.

Kaguragi: Yanma... Your husband likes it a bit, doesn't he?

Yanma: *whistling* Not answering that.

I really have no words for all this