This pic will never not be one of my favorites. It's probably one of the best examples on my computer of innocent nudity that still shows the rear. Remember how I said those can be shown whenever? Well here's a case where it's not used for humor or sexual purposes, but simply as a consequence of nudity. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if Adam and Eve turned out to be kids the entire time.
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I wanted to do something to celebrate our victory, but I couldn't find any PG art that fit the theme of our last show. Instead, I'll just post this picture here. It's still very cute, showing that even girls have trouble taking baths, especially when the person giving it to them washes their hair. The little one's expression makes it a real winner, showing her trying very hard not to start kicking and screaming. Hey, even 5-year-old geniuses act like 5-year-olds.
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I'd like to spend today in a good mood, so our picture today is something that puts me in a such. I have no comment on this pic; it's just really cute, and you should be able to tell why just looking at it. Expect a lot of these, people enjoyed the episode it was based on!
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Saturday is almost over, so let's get some coverage of mature ladies. It's time for some Mature Musings!
One of the last truly great episodes of The Simpsons was "Natural Born Kissers", the finale of Season 9, which many people will point to as the final great season of the show. That episode had three plots in all: a plot about Homer and Marge having difficulties in bed, a subplot to that with Bart and Lisa hunting for treasure, and that which calls us today, the ending of the episode featuring Homer and Marge having to run through town completely naked, trying to get home without being seen by anyone. They fail. In fact, they fail so spectacularly they become the front page article of the newspaper after landing in a football field on camera day.
The use of nudity in this episode was such that Marge wasn't really being sexualized. Most of the time she was but an equal partner to Homer in a shared compromising scenario. The nudity was used more like an obstacle, a problem to overcome. As such, while Marge is naked and shows her butt quite a few times, even if only for a second or two. Homer, of course, shows more than her, but most of that was because he was being used for physical comedy, especially during the balloon scene. Marge often shows just as much as homer does, save her bare breasts because that's too much to ask for.
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Well, look at that! Sakura finally got Kero to take that bath! Good job, Sakura!
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Here's a fun one, one of my particularly old ones. I'm sure by now you've seen these characters before on the blog. They're from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. The boy's Billy and he's an idiot. The girl's Mandy and she's cynical and evil. Together, they hold the leash to the Grim Reaper. It's kind of a gross-out show.
Case in point, this episode here, "Dumb Luck". The premise is that Billy spilled salt, and since he didn't throw it over his shoulder, he's got absolutely terrible luck. One of the things to cap of his humiliation is when someone pulls a thread on his outfit, and his clothes completely unstitch, leaving him naked in school before the next scene begins and he's fine.
For this one, I actually redid the story in a fanfic, "No Such Luck", found on my Inkbunny. The idea was to switch the situation to star Mandy instead, as a way of giving her what's coming to her. There's ultimately only one nude scene in the whole thing, and it pretty much amounts to this one here. The premise is, for a quick gag, Mandy gets unstitched like Billy did, and upon realizing it, flatly covers and says she doesn't care anymore before scuttling off. Just that single picture does the job. Read More »
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I've been wanting to share this moment from the begninning, but could never find a good chance to, since I didn't have the right edit for it. We do now, so here we are. It's time for another example the censorship board stepped in and said No Girls Allowed!
I already talked about The Simpsons in a prior episode or two, but this time we're talking about the comics based off the show. Now, the comics don't completely use the same staff as the show does, so there's bound to be some people involved who thing the comics should work differently from the show.
Case in point, one writer for the show may, in fact, have been an actual pedophile! His work involves Bart in a bunch of compromising positions, like in his underwear in public, or even a lot more nudity than usual. His major claim to fame is "Bart's Day at The Zoo," which sees Bart get trapped in a cage, slowly losing his clothes with every escape attempt, until he is left with nothing. And we see the stuff we usually see of Bart, namely his butt and stuff, while he's clearly embarrassed about the whole thing.
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It's so hard to find good representations of lesbianism in animation. Stuff for kids avoids it since apparently two girls kissing because they love each other are equivalent to people having their guts bursting out of them in the eyes of the censors. Adult works usually just use it because it solves the problem of having an "ugly" guy getting in the way of the action.
Still, there are good ones out there, and one of my favorites is the Lyrical Nanoha series, with Nanoha and Fate falling in love and, as adults, even adopting a kid, Vivio. They're a really tightly-knit family, and they have a lot of cute moments, which fanart thankfully honors. This here is an example of such, alluring on the adults, but the kid keeps it cute and reminds us that this is just an ordinary family. Just be careful not to get soap in her eyes, girls! Read More »
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It's time to remind people once again that I'm not just a raving lunatic by giving the audience a reminder that Yes, It Can Be Done!
The second season of The Powerpuff Girls introduced some key concepts like Princess Morbucks, and fleshed out the characters a little more. It also was the season with one of the best episodes in the series, "Speed Demon." The Girls did get a little meaner, though, but that was rectified in later seasons.
A particular oddity are the two episodes that take place in the middle of Season 2, clustered together. Both are intended as PSA's for kids, done in the usual style of the show. "Beat Your Greens" taught kids to eat their vegetables... and did so by showing the Girls, and other kids in town, eating up an army of broccoli aliens, in a way that was charming, yet scary. The second, "Down N' Dirty", was all about taking baths, with the boyish Buttercup not wanting to take one herself. The stench becomes so much, not even the monsters she enjoys fighting want to do anything with her, so she is forced to take a bath to get them to do so again.
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Sorry for not posting on time as often. I've been very sick these last few days. Often times, late at night, the only thing I wanna do is get some shut-eye and maybe sleep off the illness. Still, this blog is a daily thing... at least I don't have to do two pics a day anymore.
This one is just plain funny! It's a good use of shy embarrassment in a classic scenario. I love the use of the Rainbow Monkey as a cover, and the fact that the people involved are secret lovers who have crushes on each other. Well, while we're here, might as well make it official! Or do you want to play the waiting game some more, Wally? You know she's had enough of it.
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The Doraemon manga began in the 1970's under the duo collectively known as Fujiko F. Fujio. The name was noted for being associated with a unique art style one can instantly spot by looking at it, and aside from Doraemon, it has been used in Perman, Chinpui, and ESPer Mami.
The basic premise is that the manga centers around a bit of a loser kid, Nobita Nobi. He's on such a track to failure that a robotic cat named Doraemon has been sent to make sure things go better. Nobita, on the other hand, purely has his own desires in mind for Doraemon's tech, and uses them to try and be as cool as the showoff Sueno, outsmart the bully Gian, and win the heart of our focus character, Shizuka Minamoto.
It backfires. All the time.
One notable aspect about the manga is that Shizuka loves to take baths. She takes them constantly, on a regular basis. And she never gets to finish them, because she's always interrupted by Nobita using his gadget of the week. Her catchphrase when this happens "Nobita, you pervert!" has become something of a meme in the Japanese fandom, as has the moments themselves.
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Exhibit B: This story talks about something called a "solidifying lantern", which can turn gas and liquids into solids. Unfortunately, Shizuka finds out all to quickly that this includes her bath water and the steam in it, and she can't enter it. The effect wears off, but only so much, as she finds herself stuck in the tub. And while she manages to make it out, she totally faceplants while doing so. That last panel in particular is such a cartoony panel I just love it.
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Exhibit C: This one is about a hot-air balloon that uses alternative fuel sources to stay in the air. Unfortunately, Nobita and Shizuka get lost while in it, and find themselves dwindling ever closer to shark-infested waters. The escape, but only by burning their clothes for fuel, a fact which Shizuka is not happy about. Notably, this is one of the few times both Nobita and Shizuka share a nude moment together. It's super awkward, I bet.
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(With apologizes for being late due to needing to complete important homework.)
If there's one thing the animated adaptations of Osamu Tezuka's work, especially the 1950's adaptation of Astro Boy taught Japan, it's that if you take a popular manga and turn it into an anime, you get a popular anime as well. Indeed, anime and manga tend to be thought of as one continuous thing that shares and shares alike, and many manga and Japanese novels tend to be adapted into anime as well. As the top children's manga of the time, it made sense that Doraemon would make this transition, too.
There was a brief false start in 1973, one that was so disliked that it only adapted a few chapters before dying in a fire, literally! The second adaptation, however, one that premiered in 1979, was much more successful. The 1979 anime made it across various countries as well, meaning our boy Read More »
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Exhibit B: Nobita and Doraemon use a gadget to find bodies of water, first for fishing, then for swimming when they spot hot water. It turns out that hot water they find was actually Shizuka's bath. Still early in the run, meaning Shizuka's design isn't finalized. Also, the in-between frame of Shizuka moving her arms across her chest to cover lacks nipples, even as black dots.
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Exhibit C: These pictures of Shizuka getting interrupted in the bath are so common there's really no point in doing all of them, but this one stands out for giving Shizu-chan dot nipples for a few frames. And yet, despite her best attempt to cover, she still turns around and shows her butt, anyway. Shizuka's rear was just as much a staple of the 79 anime as her baths were, and it would be drawn many different ways. Even when her front could no longer be shown even when the manga did, it still would showcase her rear with no difficulties.
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Exhibit D: Another notable one; Nobita and friends play with something that makes water solid. When their clothes get drenched, they make themselves new ones and enter a castle made of the stuff. The sun shining in leads Nobita to try and correct things, but he accidentally ends up bringing down the castle, and Shizuka, Sueno, and Gian's water-clothes along with it. By this point, Shizuka had started to be depicted with budding breasts and a more "adult" anatomy, though that may be on part of the art team. It would be consistent with the manga's portrayal of her, though.
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Exhibit E: The anime version of brainwashed nudist Shizuka. Keeps things slightly more innocent by not showing much of her for very long. She even exits the room in a towel, a far cry from her manga self who went out butt-naked!
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Exhibit F: The anime version of the Solidifying Lantern. The shot of Shizuka falling out of the tub isn't so comedic, and seems a bit more like fanservice now...
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Exhibit G: The anime version of the hot air balloon story. Nobita and Shizuka's lines were separated, and Nobi has to wear a cloth for his lower section.
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