#otakuvs

[vinsmousseux]

One of the things I worked on has finally come out. I did background art for the latest Otaku Vs video. People should check it out, it's pretty fun.

[fireandkimstone]

ATTENTION OTACHAN NATION: OTACHAN IS FUCKING DEAD with DEFINITIVE PROOF. DO NOT LET OTAKUVS FEED YOU LIES ANY LONGER! WE DEMAND THE TRUTH.

[megadriverodent]

Character, Otachan sketch.

[communist-hatsunemiku]

OtakuVS

[deadslugart]

Otachan fanart https://www.youtube.com/@OtakuVs

[canmom]

seasonal anime: Mahō Shōjo Magical Destroyers

This one's an odd one.

I think the best place to begin with this one is... here's some lines from the sub. The official sub, from Crunchyroll (I think).

And for this particular show, subtitling with imageboard memes seems actually quite appropriate. But it's still so weird to see memesubs go official! It reads like a fansub!

As for the show itself... it's odd. I watched it pretty much entirely on the strength of the OP, which has both some lovely animation cuts including a little Weilin Zhang. Nobody figured out who did the car still. But where it really caught my attention is the glitched out second half that looks somewhere between SBAHJ and trans girl aesthetics. Here's a taste:

Based on that I expected something in the vein of Madoka, playing around with the form. Well, it's not that! Still trying to put my finger on what exactly it is.

I think I broadly I get what it's going for, sending up genre tropes and invoking various flavours of otaku subculture stuff with a really modern reference pool. And I appreciate that it's willing to go weird with it; episode 2 for example has a surreal battle on a drug induced psychic plane and they are willing to get quite experimental with the imagery (also obligatory EoE nod)...

The henshin sequences likewise go pretty hard! Blue, the sex/masochism themed one in particular, gets her brain corkscrewed out and turned into a weapon. Lots of blink-and-you-miss-it stuff in all three.

There's other cute visual ideas riffing on the otaku theme; e.g. in episode 3, a mech is assembled like a model kit from a sprue by giant hands.

Or places where it's like... oh huh you went there then? It really foregrounds sexuality, playing it mostly for jokes but also like...

This isn't even the first time one of the characters has ended up in shibari and he stays that way for the rest of the episode.

Anyway, the story turned out to be about an alternate future where otakus become an oppressed class who are caged by the government; protagonist 'otaku hero' leads an otaku revolution, although he's more of a comic relief guy beside the three magical girls. The sort of mocking but affectionate sendup of otaku stuff feels sort of like 'what if you made Otaku no Video, 30 years on'.

So I respect its ambition! It certainly feels different.

Alas I don't think it quite comes together. The pace is pretty breakneck, but it's not so infectiously energetic as something like Kill La Kill, which is an obvious point of comparison - but then not many people can match Imaishi! Visually, the show proper is kinda rough, and inevitably falls short of the level set by its OP/ED. The story is way too overtly ironic to get seriously invested in, so you're mostly there for the jokes, which are pretty hit and miss (a lot of them are just 'haha, sex' or 'look, otaku thing'), but also it's paced so fast that they don't all have to stick.

It's a bit of a headscratcher honestly. I'm mostly still watching out of curiosity to see what they're doing with all this. It feels like there's several seeds of something in this mix; whether it will grow I can't tell.

Come to think of it, if it reminds me of anything, it's OtakuVs, the surprisingly high-effort anime comedy web series by some American weebs. The pace, tone, and sense of humour are remarkably similar. I'm probably missing some kind of precursor to both that explains it. Maybe it was poptepipic all along!

[thebeyondcoolest]

Otachan D-125

My design idea for my own version of Otachan from Otaku-Vs. Subscribe to his channel here: https://youtube.com/@OtakuVs?feature=shared

#TheBeyondCoolest #TheOtachanShow #Otachan #OtachanD125

[sinfulrockandfriends]

"Are you kidding me? I'm at the same level as Glenn fucking Quagmire here! Do you know how that makes me feel?" Otachan huffed, arguing on the phone with someone (while in her underwear). "What? Well, of course it's work! Hell, it's more work than I've gotten from OtakuVs lately... I'm just saying do you know how humiliating it is to be a gag muse on a lewd blog where the only other gag character is a guy who's constantly trying to creep on all the girls? Ugh... maybe I'll just take some nudes or something... might as well make the most of this shit I'm in now."

[demilypyro]

felt

[inyens]

"If Discord Was An Anime" [3/3]

[kukumberskirt]

[vinsmousseux]

I worked on some more backgrounds again for the fine folks at OtakuVS. Their latest animation just went up. It’s pretty cute, check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8silkw5Bh0&t=179s

[ghostl0v3]

Otachan is my spirit animal  🍷 🍷 🍷

[megadriverodent]

Character Otachan. Sketch page.

[hana-keijou]

Oh look, I imporved on my sailor moon redraw. I think it looks 200% better now! xD

[10alex01]

Fan art of Otachan from OtakuVs.