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Top 10 Female Mangaka Who Draw The Coolest Guys
Manga fans supply a ranking of the lady mangaka they esteem as drawing the best looking male characters, a quite respectable ranking at that. The ranking: 1. Hiromu Arakawa (FMA) 2. Rumiko Takahashi...
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Top 10 Female Mangaka You Always Thought Were Male
Manga fans supply a ranking of which mangaka they always assumed were male, whether based on name, art style or story, only to be surprised to find they were female. The ranking: 1. Ayako Sato...
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The Anime Character with 12 Faces
The artists of 2ch have risen to the challenge of illustrating their version of some of the most common anime character types, 12 in all, each providing a unique style of art and interpretation of the...
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Anime Quality as Legendary as Ever
Anime fans take a break from onanising over the latest moeblobs to collect some of the latest (or simply most shocking) examples of what happens when animators are paid $3 an hour and have half their...
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Kakifly’s Progress Quite Something
One of moeblob overlord and K-ON! creator Kakifly’s first manga, a 2003 Leaf doujinshi, has been discovered and shows the rather stark difference a mere eight years can make to an artist’s skill (to...
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“My Doujinshi Only Sold 3 Copies! I Want To Die!”
Whilst tales of top tier ero-doujinshi circles netting tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales each Comiket are common, unfortunately for the vast majority of circles the results of Comiket...
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23 Reasons 2D is Better Than 3D
2ch’s population of artists has been busily striving to improve 3D through another one of its regular “make 3D moe” illustration threads – the results are most impressive, as ever:
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So You Still Think 3D Is Better Than 2D?
Continuing their ongoing quest to make mere three dimensional subjects conform to the laws of moe, 2ch’s population of artists provide yet more artistic examples of why, to some at least, 2D is...
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2D vs 3D: “Who Needs 3D Anyway!”
The ongoing efforts of the artists of 2ch to prove beyond doubt the supposed superiority of 2D to 3D result in yet more fine moe transpositions of what were in many cases already all but...
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“Which Mangaka is the Best Artist?”
2ch is violently debating a putative ranking of mangaka by drawing ability, with the top spot proving particularly incendiary… The ranking, judged by “design ability, perspective correctness,...
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UK = “Girl Worried About The Size of Her Breasts”
2ch’s latest efforts to make the unmoe moe has seen them manage to moefy the entire national borders of the UK, on the basis that she “looks like a girl worried about the size of her breasts.” Other...
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“Make This Shōwa Manga Moe” Vipper Challenge
The artistically inclined denizens of 2ch’s VIP board have been challenging themselves to convert this panel from an ageing Shōwa period (meaning the 80s and 90s in this case) manga into something...
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Even More Reasons 2D Dominates 3D…
The artists of 2ch continue to supply more direct comparisons of the supposed superiority of 2D to 3D, a debate which seems unlikely to be settled any time soon – and least of all when dealing with...
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Battle of 2D vs 3D Fiercer Than Ever
Once again, 2D’s supposed superiority to 3D is put to the test thanks to the artistic efforts of anonymous artists – although with these earlier examples it is increasingly looking like a battle of...
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“Make This Sorry Picture Moe” Vipper Challenge
The notorious inhabitants of 2ch’s VIP board have once again taken it upon themselves to spontaneously issue and fulfil a challenge – to somehow make the image above in to a paragon of moe using...
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9/11 Collapse = “Man Doing Woman From Behind”
Russian observers have noticed an apparent similarity between the spectacle of the Twin Towers collapsing and the spectacle of a man having sex with a woman from behind, prompting even Japanese to...
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Tamaki Jumonji Snow Heart Ero-Figure
Orchid Seed plans an April 2012 release of this ero-figure of sweet Tamaki Jumonji, an original character by Kuchu Yosai whose pose and outfit are based on a Comic XO cover illustration. She is...
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“Only People With Bad Eyes Can See The Loli”
Suspiciously eager otaku have lately been squinting at the above image in the hopes of discerning what they are assured is apparently a defect in their vision, as paradoxical as this may seem given...
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“Why Cute Anime Girls Are Drawn Like White People”
The interminable controversy over the ethnicity of anime-styled characters and the pedestal upon which many Japanese ensconce white girls is being stoked by the image above – cute anime girls, it...
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Even More Practice Makes Perfect
The importance of practice and perseverance to an artist’s improvement are again highlighted superbly by the now popular annual progress charts, showing once again that practice makes perfect. The...
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