Anime and Humor

Selena, Asian-🇺🇸, Former YouTuber, total weirdo. Anime, Humor, Ramblings. Rarely active here.

[8ozoid]

old ass meme but still funny to me idc

[kittychan-sings-enka]

presented without commentary or apology

[tariqah]

Why OP

[adulthoodisokay]

slam that fucking unmute button

[wildhannimal]

I was curious about the context of this clip. I stumbled into a little glimpse of history, namely Japanese theatre and musical performance.

The singer is Mayo Suzukaze, who specialized as a Otokoyaku (woman performing male characters) as part of the Takarazuka Revue. This clip is from 1988, when she was in the Moon Troupe.

Takarazuka began in the mid 1910s, but it wasn’t the kind of edgy counter-culture “challenging gender norms” drag show we’d imagine today. That isn’t to say it didn’t mean something along those lines to some performers and attendees - in fact, it clearly did! But overall in society, it sounds like that wasn’t how it was viewed publicly. It was more of an ornamental “male representations that look more pretty” thing. That notion is more like gender ambivalence, so I’m not quite sure whether it fits the modern label of “drag” or not.

You can access a full text about the history of Takarazuka Kagekidan on JSTOR with a free account. Only 17 pages long! It also describes the evolving relationship between Western and Japanese cultural understandings of gender and media. A Rick roll in Japanese, though it carries a very different meaning to modern internet users, is so fitting to encapsulate this kind of novelty experience in the 80s!

Today, the Takarazuka Sky Stage is still operational. You can catch live performances throughout Japan!

Bit of a tangent now: Takarazuka is also well known for its incredibly successful performances of The Rose of Versailles beginning in 1974, based on the original literary work (1972-1973).

In the following few years, we’d get the classic anime. And in 2025, audiences around the world got the movie.

[corvidgardens]

gagupinho gagupinho wooah yeaah gagupinho gagupinho woaah yeaah

[cigardoesart]

⭐ VOCALOID KARAOKE ⭐

I haven't drawn a Vocaloid themed print in years, but drawing them all again felt like seeing old friends :'D Some closeups as well since there's a lot going on!

[tetrajune]

a bunch of vocaloids :)

[bearypure]

more of them

[spaceagecats]

Yotsubaaa 🍀💚🌻

Wanted to mess around with doing something in a more collage-y style, it was fun!!

[jennbitonline-deactivated202601]

Tomo and Yomi from Azumanga Daioh on the cover of Motion City Soundtrack's Even If It Kills Me. I thought it would be cute and somewhat fit the interesting dynamic the two have. Both Azumanga and MCS are very important things to me, so I had a lovely time combining them!

[maomilaa]

jcp and ps

[vampyraske]

EVERYTHING'S FINE!

[chemevan]

ITS THEM THEY SANG CHICAGO AAAAAA

[Image ID: a digital drawing of patrick stump from fall out boy and justin pierre from motion city soundtrack. they're side hugging each other, and they're very happy about it./.End ID]

[ddudels]

this movie is so gojohime coded 😌

[incorrectjjkquotes]

Shoko: Make her pussy wet, not her eyes. Geto: Make his dick hard, not his life. Gojo: Break her bed, not her heart. Utahime: Play with her boobs, not her feelings. Nanami: Get on his dick, not his nerves. Haibara: Always salt your pasta while boiling it!

[improbablegirldraws]

No bed frame is safe from them.

[eru-sauce]

a bit late 🧢

[lady-pendragon-9]

I had time for a quick drawing last night 🫠🫠💦

[unhappy-sometimes]

joint mission

it would be so funny if this was how the identity reveal happens