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Another less-happy image from Tatsuyuki Tanaka. The words ‘Evil Novel’ painted on a girl’s ace in reddish blood-like stuff. Kinda borderline disturbing.

Tatsuyuki Tanaka is an artist who has worked on quite a few high profile anime (Batman Gotham Knight, Akira.) This image is from his artbook Cannabis Works, which is full of dystopian sci-fi scenes, organic looking robots, and streetwise characters. Good stuff.

Ok, so the idea of this pair hanging out at the beach together in bikinis is totally unrealistic in the context of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but it makes for nice eyecandy! I wonder if Rei’s NERV bikini has ever been a piece of NGE merchandise on the market? This looks like official art by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

In the time Moggling has been on hiatus, my wife and I adopted a cat from the local SPCA. We called our neko-chan “MIDI” which is a nerdy electronic music term for how music gear talks to each other.

I thought this image by GA-Graphic of a meganeko with a bunch of cats was humorous in a punny kind of way, since the word “neko” (cat) is in the word “meganeko” (glasses girl). Whether intended or not, its hard to resist a meganeko surrounded by fuzzy neko! 

Into 3D meganeko? Check out this chart on Danny Choo’s site.

From the artbook “Sweet Body”, this girl by Happou Bijin might look like she’s just having fun tromping around in puddles on a rainy day, but she’s really trying to stomp on that poor frog so that she can milk it’s poison and use it for her deadly blow-darts. Ok, maybe not.

Happou Bijin is an artist I recently stumbled across, who has a large portfolio of great images, ranging from cute, to techy, to eroge. He (?) has a nice artbook with lots of nice work called Sweet Body, though I’m not enitrely sure if this image is from that. This girl is obviously a child of the future and Sony is still around making awesome portable gaming systems like PSP3001 and selling hot outfits for girls to wear while playing.

Range Murata is the character designer for Last Exile, the excellent steampunk-y series from 2003.  It is full of typical Range Murata character designs, from the hair-bundled loli Alvis Hamilton to the hardened military pilot Tatiana Wisia. This image looks a whole lot like Tatiana if she was in a futuristic sci-fi series instead of a steampunk-era show. She’s got the sullen look, the loli figure, the confident pose, the stylized costume, and of course the boyish haircut.  Unmistakable as a Murata piece.  

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is best known for the character designs in Gainax’s Neon Genesis Evangelion, but he has had a prolific career - involved in creating character designs for a myriad of material from Nadia to The Girl who Leapt Through Time. He has also published an artbook called Der Mond which I’d love to get.  The Wiki page can give you a thorough breakdown of his work.  All I have to say is, Ayanami Rei and Asuka Langley wouldn’t be as immortal as they are today with this fantastic artist. In this image, you can see the Rei and Asuka character styles in the hairstyles, faces and poses. The retro scooters are extra win.

Range Murata has a highly recognizable style which very often involves young girls with his distinctive character design which he combines with  art deco elements. For such a well-known artist, he has done surprisingly little official anime / manga work - focusing instead on artbooks and doujinshi. He also compiled and edited ‘Robot’, showcasing the contemporary Japanese art of others.  This piece is from his own artbook Form | Code. I’m most familiar with his work through the anime Last Exile - which is one of my favorite series.