[OOC][Fun] Image thread? Image thread.

[robkelk]

Found another artist I like: "errant". 456 images on Safebooru as I post this, including a series of 100 summertime pictures of Azusa Nakano (alone or with a band-mate). So there's no reason to not give the K-On! girls descriptions when we get around to the Obligatory Beach Episode.

"errant" knows how to draw people wearing more than just a swimsuit, too:




Scattered throughout that virtual shrine to Azusa are some images of other characters in the Metacontinuity...






(Not quite as good as the other images, but it's the only one I found of Last Order in the collection)

And as soon as I saw this one, I knew it had to go into the Metacontinuity as a scene in and of itself... which is why the blonde girl now has a wiki page. I'll admit this one makes me smile ever time I see it.

[Black Aeronaut]

Why do I get this feeling that Febrie is gonna be everyone's favorite Little Sister?  Seriously.  It's like someone piped Tsukino Usagi through Sasami Masaki-Jyurai and made her even younger and cuter!

[robkelk]

Why do I get this feeling that Febrie is gonna be everyone's favorite Little Sister?  Seriously.  It's like someone piped Tsukino Usagi through Sasami Masaki-Jyurai and made her even younger and cuter!

Well, not quite everybody's favourite Little Sister, because of events in her backstory... Sorry, Washuu-chan, but Febrie's never going to trust you.

But, yeah, Alicia Testarossa has a rival for "cutest displacee" now.

[robkelk]

Remember that fan art of Hokago Tea Time and Wakaba Girls playing together? I found the artist's collection on Safebooru. (There's more on Danbooru, apparently... so don't visit this link while you're at work.) The artist likes the anime-only characters from K-On!... but they aren't in the Metacontinuity (yet).

First batch (of three): K-On!

Something for consideration for the Obligatory Beach Episode:




Something for Valentine's Day:




Mugi visits Ottawa?:




Sexy summertime maid cafe... maybe I should just leave this one as a link.

Sweater Girl Yui... because of the lowest button being unbuttoned, I'll just leave this one as a link, too.

[robkelk]

Second batch: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica

Ben, some of your tenants want to have a word with you




New school uniforms?:




"Your Grief Seed is in another labyrinth":




Super Magica Kart:




This better be training... no, it's movie:




She cleans up nicely:




Grief Seed #1:




Grief Seed #2:

[robkelk]

Third batch: other folks (mostly from Academy City)

Another Valentine's Day image ("Tuck your blouse in, young lady!" "Aaaaw, Roooob-oji..."):




For God's sake, you two - hold hands, already!:




Sure, Mi-Mi, we can put a pool in the back:




My Horse is a Motorcycle:

[Bob Schroeck]

Something for consideration for the Obligatory Beach Episode:

Ah, geeze, of course I have to take everyone at Douglass Gardens to Seaside. Or Long Beach Island. Or Point Pleasant Beach. (opens up notes file, types furiously)

[Bob Schroeck]

New image resource...

So a few weeks ago I discovered the Russian imageboard Joyreactor.cc and have been speeding my way through it looking for interesting stuff (at least, that I can understand, given how much is in Cyrillic).  Anyway, I just discovered they have some 920 images for K-On! alone (as of today) on their anime subsite, dating back to March 2010 -- here's the first/oldest page.  And it's just a matter of searching on other show names -- in Latin characters, not Cyrillic -- to find stuff for them.  (The oldest Sailor Moon image on the anime subsite is actually a parody of Iron Man, with Tony Stark getting into the armor done as Moon's transformation sequence.)

So anyway, I figured folks might find it useful.

EDIT:  Oh, and I probably don't need to say this, but it is an imageboard.  Expect the occasional NSFW content.

EDIT2:  Browsing the K-On! images, and I know we have an album cover for Ritsu's EP already, but this struck me as something we can bank for future need:

   

(Resized down from a simply massive original.)

[robkelk]

It's amazing what one can find on Safebooru when one looks for "Triangle Heart" instead of "Lyrical Nanoha"...


All dressed up



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"Raising Heart! Paintball Mode!"



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[robkelk]

Hey - a new-to-me pool of official art! Oh, it's mostly swimsuit shots, so not really useful for the wiki. But there's this one, which for TNB I'm thinking is the new girl at the closest Whataburger to Westwoods who took the job on the off-chance a certain sergeant shows up. (That's a reference to something we're working out on the wiki.)



Larger version here


Speaking of official GnP art, the girls do clean up nicely in these illustrations.

• The Nishizumi and Shimada familes, plus Koume Akaboshi (the girl who actually thanked Miho for saving her life), all quite elegant
  
• The OpFor sub-commanders in der Film, also quite elegant
  
• Anchovy, not sure whether she's heading for the beach or going on a date
  
• Three from Usagi team rocking the Sweet Lolita look: Aya, Karina, and Saki
  
• A mixed batch: Sodoko, Katyusha, Mika, Alice Shimada, Alica, and Shizuko
  
• Miho, Hana, Anzu, Shiho, Flint, and Cutlass, in wedding dresses (EDIT: And is it just my imagination, or does Miho look a lot like a slightly-older Sakura Kinomoto in this image?)
  
• Yuzu, Akebi, and Yuuki, in wedding dresses
  

[Black Aeronaut]

Given who Sakura's Father-in-Spirit is, and that she has Tomoyo as her fashion designer? That probably would be Sakura's wedding dress.

[robkelk]

In an alternate TNB, where somebody very dear to her landlord ended up elsewhere and very dear to a different landlord... and then discovers what he notices first about a woman.

In mainline TNB, this might happen if for some reason she thinks she's somebody else... but that would take something even worse that Drosselmeyer-level interference.

Spoilered for size:

Spoiler

Original here

[Dartz]

Something a bit Different,



Henrietta Street, in Dublin. 7 Henrietta Street is on the Right, the building with the 4 windows.

[robkelk]

Arc 2:



Source


"Koyama-san, I can see the stars in your eyes. And we have a ship that needs a helmsman..."

[robkelk]

Something a bit Different,



Henrietta Street, in Dublin. 7 Henrietta Street is on the Right, the building with the 4 windows.

Thank you, Dartz.

[robkelk]

This one's now on the wiki page for the Montreal residence.

Fan art by Asazuki Norito. Definitely not a meeting from canon, but completely possible in the Metacontinuity. From left to right: Medea of Colchis, Rin Tohsaka, Artoria Pendragon, Illyasviel von Einzbern, Sakura Matou, and Medusa.



Larger copy available here

[robkelk]

Arc 2.

"I thought that old stereotype about what Canada is like was long gone, but I guess I was wrong. You really didn't need to dress up as Anne of Green Gables to come visit, Miho."





Source

[robkelk]

An alternate "realistic" version of Mio. Not part of a series, alas.

Link to Safebooru. If you're going to look at the artist's other work, do it from home - even the "safe" stuff is a bit NSFW, and the stuff that Safebooru doesn't show you is definitely NSFW.

[robkelk]

Finally found (fan) art of each of the Amazoness Quartet (as opposed to all of the Amazoness Quartet): Cere-Cere, Palla-Palla, Jun-Jun, and Ves-Ves.

I haven't created wiki pages for these four - that's something Brent can do once he has a better idea of when they're going to show up - but I have replaced the placeholder images on the "Sailor Senshi" page with these images.

[robkelk]

Dropping these two by Takeuchi Takashi here so I don't forget about them:



Reduced to 14% size. Original here.





Reduced to 66% size. Original here.

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We'd need a few more old-school magical girls in the Metacontinuity before this one could happen:



Source

[robkelk]

To quote the first comment for this image, "Ikuhara DID say he shipped Usagi/Rei"

[robkelk]

So, are we handing out Star Seeds to get our numbers up during Arc 2?

Source




EDIT: I'm not sure whether I agree with the artist's choices for equivalent Senshi here. Sure, Sakura is Usagi, no question. And I suppose Naoko's an acceptable Ami, beeing the most bookish one of the five. But... Rika's the elegant one; I would have made her Rei. And Tomoyo's a singer, so she should be Minako. Chiharu gets Makoto almost by default, but she is willing to take physical measures to get Yamazaki to shut up.

[robkelk]

Just discovered another new-to-me artist who appears to like the older works: "tsunemoku". The images on Safebooru are big - I'm reducing them all here. I'm also saving the best for last.


Arc 4 in TNB, because it would take at least a half-decade for Rei Ayanami to look like this.




Most Ranma/Sailor Moon crossovers are "fuku fics". Is there a name for the equivalent Ranma/Evangelion crossovers? (Besides "seiyuu connection", of course.)




And we know who these five characters are. Akane Tendo, Naru Osaka, Rei Hino, Ami Mizumo, and (saving the best for last) Makoto Kino.

[robkelk]

Reason number (COUNTER-IS-BROKEN) for not having everybody show up in the same place: Avoid classrooms looking like this one

[robkelk]

Okay, that's interesting...

I had reason to look up the closest internet cafe to Gulfside Rest. I found it - it's a Starbucks - and I also noticed the closest burger place to Gulfside Rest, too.

Both are marked on the map below. (The residence itself isn't marked - take the bridge that runs off the bottom of the map to get there.)

Now, where have I seen that burger place's name before? (innocent look)


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