By James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)
If you haven’t heard of freelance artist Renarêve, you should. She has a beautiful style to her creations that would be considered worthy of Disney yet there is a painted look to her works that makes them aesthetically pleasing. Renarêve is not only able to create characters that appear Disneyesque, she is able to go from soft images to hard as proven by her limited run of Wonder Woman action prints presented previously at NexCon.
Inspired by Japan’s history of samurais and feuding shoguns, Renarêve has taken Naoko Takeuchi’s Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン) characters and reimagined them as hierarchical characters from that timeline. Although not historically accurate Renarêve addressed this issue via her Facebook page:
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Thousands of people have contracted Macross fever after attending today’s Walküre Mini Live event at the 
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If you are in the area of Shinjuku on May 21, 2016, buy your ticket and grab your pen and notepad because both the animated film 
Now this is something you don’t see everyday, a toilet signed by animator / film director Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water) and actress Eriko Sato (Cutie Honey, Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!). One has to wonder if this is legitimate. And if it is legit why in the world did these artists sign a toilet cover. According to the markings, the autographs were created on August 20, 2003, that was months before the release of Cutie Honey (2004), a film in which Sato played the lead. The question I have is, would one store it at a weight of 40 kg or put it to good use in the home. It would make for a great conversation piece.
