Crimea's Attorney-General Inspires Anime-Style Fan-Art

[Barbas]

My jaw nearly hit the floor. That woman looks absolutely radiant. If it is wrong to point such things out, I do not wish to be right at the moment.

 

[Shinkicker444]

For anyone curious, Natalia actually responded to the art-fad and complimented it on twitter.

http://i.gyazo.com/fb5c5159359a59ee06896fac5468e730.png

EDIT: though it appears the account has not been verified.

What's that translate to for those of us that don't know a lick of Cyrillic?

 

[Artemicion]

I love how everyone in the thread is wailing that they don't understand why people are making animu pictures of this woman and denouncing her political disposition despite Steve clearly stating that the artists in question are doing it because she's pretty.

I kinda like some of these. I was never a fan of animu style art in my younger years but recently I've been warming up to it, and quite a few of those are pretty cute.

As for the R34; you know what they say, Steve. If you have to ask...

 

[RJ 17]

Because why not, that's why!

Seriously, she kinda-sorta looks like a real life version of that chick from Full Metal Alchemist.

I'm betting that's where all this is coming from.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I'm not super up to date with this Ukraine Crimea Russia stuff cuz i'm being ignorant as fuck and hoping it'll all blow over and we'll be back to normal in time for Christmas but this is actually really cool. I already have an attraction to super duper Moe stuff and let's be honest, she has does have grounds for a legit anime character. A young attractive woman high up in the military wearing a really cool uniform fighting for her country? Stop me if that sounds familiar. She is the spitting image of Lana Skye from Ace Attorney in that picture to add more fuel to the Moe fire.

The bravery of posting this on Teh 'Scapist though, do you know the stick anime gets whenever it gets brought up in a non strictly anime related thread? Especially over something so hotly debated. Anyway time to dig up more fan art because she's ridiculously my type to educate myself about this whole Ukraine... Thing.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

On a side note, is funny that their attorney general is dressed in a military style uniform. I guess they took the term general to heart.

 

[Elfgore]

The bravery of posting this on Teh 'Scapist though, do you know the stick anime gets whenever it gets brought up in a non strictly anime related thread? Especially over something so hotly debated. Anyway time to dig up more fan art because she's ridiculously my type to educate myself about this whole Ukraine... Thing.

It's funny you mention this, because if you'd of asked me this a couple weeks ago. I would have no clue what you were talking about. Now after the "Waifu" and "Aversion to Sex" threads, I realize how anti-anime some of ze escapist really is. People actually thought we considered waifus to be our genuine wives. It's pretty alarming how low some of the escapist thinks about us.

 

[Mortuorum]

That is some reckless and cavalier use of the term top-notch. The only one that even resembles the actual person is a straight up copy job from a screen grab. I really don't understand the fascination, she just looks like some ordinary woman.

At least the author got to be super-patronizing by referring to a sovereign nation's highest legal authority (who happens to be an attractive 33-year old woman)as "a rather attractive young lady."

 

[Objectable]

Guys, don't you understand?
RUSSIA IS INVADING HER VITAL REGIONS!
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...
...
I'm going to hell for that aren't I.

 

[Brian Tams]

And in typical anime fashion, the first feature of her to get changed is her breast size. *sigh*

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Chemical Alia]

Am I the only one who thinks this will end in a Hetalia spin-off?

I also don't understand how stylized interpretations of people is instantly equated to sexism and objectification.

Don't you know? Potraying women in an attractive or cute way is sexist beyond reason. Only putting them in burkas protects them from sexism, objectification and exploitation.

/sarcasm

It's totally possible to make something in a cute/abstract/cartoon style and still achieve a likeness. A new take on something known, while maintaining the spirit of the original, that's what usually makes fanart awesome.

I've seen anime art that has done that extremely successfully. Here's a couple examples of what I mean, if this helps explain better:

This guy, Dendi, a pro Dota 2 player:

Spoiler

Really simplified:

More realistic but still cartoonish:

Hope that helps!

At least the author got to be super-patronizing by referring to a sovereign nation's highest legal authority as "a rather attractive young lady."

Patronizing, that's it. Something felt weird about it, but I wasn't sure what. Not sexist, but a tad bit patronizing.

 

[The Wykydtron]

The bravery of posting this on Teh 'Scapist though, do you know the stick anime gets whenever it gets brought up in a non strictly anime related thread? Especially over something so hotly debated. Anyway time to dig up more fan art because she's ridiculously my type to educate myself about this whole Ukraine... Thing.

It's funny you mention this, because if you'd of asked me this a couple weeks ago. I would have no clue what you were talking about. Now after the "Waifu" and "Aversion to Sex" threads, I realize how anti-anime some of ze escapist really is. People actually thought we considered waifus to be our genuine wives. It's pretty alarming how low some of the escapist thinks about us.

Ha, I avoided those ones entirely because I just *knew* that's what was going on in there. I saw one had like 3/4 pages and nope, that's shit kicking off in there for certain. I get enough crap about me simply saying I don't really care about finding a partner (boo it's totally worth it once you slave away for a few years and get lucky) i'm not bringing fuckin' anime up as well.

I've known about the Anti-Anime Agenda here for a while now, it was way back when the boards were talking about loli stuff for one reason or another (law changes I believe.) Jesus christ, do not ever say you find any of it even remotely cute or adorable if you don't want several hate messages. Some people just hate the idea of an anime artstyle for no particular reason other than it's anime and they demand that everyone else should hate it too.

That or it's obviously... *sigh* "sexist" pls no. Pls stop. Pls. It's already been done here in this very thread too. >.>

I might look up that waifu thread though, sounds like a laugh. Oh lord I wonder if that one Japanese guy who legitimately married his love pillow makes a show as a totally "legit" "reference" to the Waifu plague

 

[Gorrath]

I'm a little bit disgusted, 'cause it highlights the sexism in these online communities when a political figure who happens to be a young attractive woman gets drawn as a big-breasted anime stereotype with her boobs clearly pronounced under her uniform or even exposed cleavage. Or even worse, the Moe shit.

It's honestly rather pathetic people seem to accept "she's cute" as an excuse for objectification.

I'd like to engage you on this topic but I'd first need to know what your definition of sexism is. My understanding is that sexism is prejudice based on sex. Denying a woman equal pay because she's a woman is prejudice based on sex. Denying a woman equal rights is prejudice based on sex. A person or people drawing cartoons of someone they find attractive isn't prejudice and so isn't sexism. Does it highlight the sexism in these online communities when someone draws "moe shit" of Hitler and Stalin? Is that also objectification?

I get the feeling your use of these terms lends itself to such broad definitions that any rendering of a person can be construed as sexist or as objectification. Or worse, that the definitions are rigged in such a way as sexism and objectification are whatever you decide they are and aren't whatever you decide they aren't. I'm interested to see if that is the case.

 

[Dragonlayer]

"Oh my God there are Russian troops in the Crimea! The Ukraine's sovereignty is threatened! WW3 IS COMING!!!"

"Oh my God you're right! Quick: get the artists together and create a wacky manga based on fan-art of the major players in this crisis! WE'LL MAKE MILLIONS!!!"

Must feature many a tentacle and copious amounts of moe! Our very way of life depends on it, naturally...

Mostly tentacles, though...

Uh, wouldn't that mean drawing tenta-Putin doing things? I know he's got a certain cult of personality going but that's taking it too far!

 

[Lovely Mixture]

For anyone curious, Natalia actually responded to the art-fad and complimented it on twitter.

http://i.gyazo.com/fb5c5159359a59ee06896fac5468e730.png

EDIT: though it appears the account has not been verified.

What's that translate to for those of us that don't know a lick of Cyrillic?

My bad. According to the thread it was in "Thank you for your support and creativity! All (your) drawings are amazing)"

Am I the only one who thinks this will end in a Hetalia spin-off?

I also don't understand how stylized interpretations of people is instantly equated to sexism and objectification.

Don't you know? Potraying women in an attractive or cute way is sexist beyond reason. Only putting them in burkas protects them from sexism, objectification and exploitation.

/sarcasm

It's totally possible to make something in a cute/abstract/cartoon style and still achieve a likeness. A new take on something known, while maintaining the spirit of the original, that's what usually makes fanart awesome. I've seen anime art that has done that extremely successfully.

No one is talking about burkas over here but you.

Are confusing your reply?
He's referring to another poster I quoted to, not you. As for the likeness, how much you see of the original in the abstract is kind of arbitrary to an extent.

 

[Chemical Alia]

Are confusing your reply?
He's referring to another poster I quoted to, not you. As for the likeness, how much you see of the original in the abstract is kind of arbitrary to an extent.

Yeah, sorry about that, I did at first! I edited my post and gave a better example of what I mean by maintaining a likeness while working in a stylized manner with pictures because it's harder to explain with words.

 

[Shinkicker444]

My bad. According to the thread it was in "Thank you for your support and creativity! All (your) drawings are amazing)"

Thanks!

Because why not, that's why!

Seriously, she kinda-sorta looks like a real life version of that chick from Full Metal Alchemist.

I'm betting that's where all this is coming from.

Oh wow, she does. I knew there was someone she reminded me off. I await the pictures of her with the same quirks as Riza... Although, now I pictured Putin as Roy... ... dammit.

On a side note, is funny that their attorney general is dressed in a military style uniform. I guess they took the term general to heart.

Wasn't she in the army for 12 years before taking that job?

 

[Gorrath]

"Oh my God there are Russian troops in the Crimea! The Ukraine's sovereignty is threatened! WW3 IS COMING!!!"

"Oh my God you're right! Quick: get the artists together and create a wacky manga based on fan-art of the major players in this crisis! WE'LL MAKE MILLIONS!!!"

Must feature many a tentacle and copious amounts of moe! Our very way of life depends on it, naturally...

Mostly tentacles, though...

Uh, wouldn't that mean drawing tenta-Putin doing things? I know he's got a certain cult of personality going but that's taking it too far!

This is hentai territory here, you cannot possibly take it too far. Tenta-Putin doing things has a good chance of not breaking the top 100 revolting hentai things posted on any given day.