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JohnStaton β Silent Mobius Kiddy
Published: 2009-03-08 00:42:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 5260; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 309
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Folks who know me, know that I have only the most fleeting tolerance for Magic, Ghosts, Ghouls, The Occult, Vampires, or any other of the metaphysical, supernatural claptrap that establishes its own flimsy set of rules before immediately proceeding to heedlessly ignore them.*However, if the aforementioned claptrap is put before a Syd Mead-esque skyline, dotted by crushing multitudes of luminous, crystal-faceted sky scrapers, and swarmed by levitating traffic jams of flying cars and bill-board zeppelins**--I might give it a second look.
Add a team of hot anime babes to savagely hunt down and exterminate said supernatural elements with an ever growing arsenal of high tech weapons; and I'll probably watch the whole thing. I may even enjoy myself.
Such was the case with the venerable Silent MΓΆbius. After all, who here will debate the lower-case divinity of manga artist Kia Asamiya? I dare say the adventures of Kiddy Phenil and the agrammatically named Attacked Mystification Police almost makes up for there never having been a Bubblegum Crisis manga.
*I much prefer Science Fiction; which establishes its own rules based on provable scientific principles, right before immediately proceeding to heedlessly ignore them.
**In other words the "Not-too-distant-cyberpunk-dystopian-future!" My second favorite fictional backdrop.
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I recently picked up the comics and it seems like a pretty cool 90s time.
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Saw, this picture and got the nostalgia feels big time. Silent Mobius was amazing back in the day. The manga and anime totally rocked, and it was one of the first translated series I ever got into. Kiddy was fine...when I wasn't crushing on Katsumi or Yuki. 
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So hard to find fan art of this series.
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Yeah, finding fan art that existed before 1999 is difficult these days. Β
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so I take from the second paragaph that you like BladeRunner
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What did you ink this with? The lines are so bold and smooth, I can't figure out if it's pen or brush.
Anyway, nice work. It has a clean, old-school look that you don't see much anymore.
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Pencil, with the contrast turned up.
Yea I do missed the more hard edged look of golden age anime. It's high time for a come back.
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If I could, I would add this image to my favorites over and over again. The composition, the spinner, Kiddy's pose, the inking...just everything is amazing! It also doesn't hurt that Kiddy is my favorite character in the series. ;>
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never heard of Silent Mobius O-o but that girl looks unerringly like Major Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell. which is BORING. nice erts though)
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While it also has hot chick super cops in the not too distant dystopian cyberpunk future, Kia Asamia's Silent Mobius was another animal altogether, featuring multiple heroines, and pitting them against supernatural adversaries as opposed to the sci-fi/sociopolitical antagonists of GiTS.
As for GiTS being boring, it depends on which incarnation you saw. The first two movies, while being beautiful and lushly animated, were glacially paced, and often wallowed in didactic and pretentious, navel-gazing monologues.
This is radically corrected by the faster paced television series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. The expanded format of episodic television allowed the creators to ration out the philosophical points they wanted to make, while incorporating enough action to keep you excited and enough character to make you care. Plus the main heroine doesn't mind meld with a evil AI hacker.
Forget about the movies, watch the GiTS show. If you think that's boring, there's no help for you.
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I don't even know if I've seen the movies. I read the manga... which btw what is with that scene where all these girls are on a fake vacation? Like... am I interpreting things wrong or was it strongly implied that they were all FUCKING?
And I've seen a few scattered eps of Ghost in the Shell on Adult Swim.
My problem with both is the very thing you mentioned: they dictate during what is supposed to be a animated story. In stories your characters and the plot should show/argue for your philosophy. Not a bunch of cute little machine bug thingies together debating for 20 minutes.
I would also like to point out that they didn't take their audience members into consideration enough, since media people generally consider the public to have the attention span of five year olds. Obviously this isn't true though, since GITS has done so well. Plus, since it seems to be beloved of both anime fans and comic geeks (Speak of the devil *waves*), people would have probably bitched like crazy if they "dumbed down" the character's lines.
Why the hell did I write all this? DX geez. I sound like the lamest most stuck up geek ever.
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Your welcome dude. Keep producing amazing art.
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This is just all the way wicked! Mind blowing sir!
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I don't know which is hotter from that series, the ladies or the vehicles.
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The ladies. But the vehicles are a close second.
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Absolutely marvellous work ^^
Love the policewoman, and her sexy slightly short very figure hugging uniform
And her vehicle is AWESOME, has a magnificent "doesn't exist, but so easily could" sort of feel to it
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Well I have to give credit to Asamiya's awesome design's there. I just tried to do them some semblance of justice.
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Well I think you certainly succeeded there 
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Bet it steers like a cow....
And... "Phallic much?" *grin*
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Still looks cool.
lol I suppose *shrugs and rolls eyes* personally I've always just liked the long sweeping, graceful but powerful, carlines you see in cartoons.
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And of course, any excuse for a policewoman uniform is fine too.
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Particularly one's with short skirts.
On a slightly related note, I pledge my allegiance to Fullmetal Alchemist's Roy Mustang's ultimate goal to shrink the hemlines among all his female troops!
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He's a hero and an example to all uniform regulations everywhere.
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Well with such a glowing review, I may give it a look see.
Personally I prefer Steampunk universes which set up science and heedlessly ignore them.
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Hmmm, Steampunk, really seems to have come in vogue of late.
In a way it reminds me of the Flinstones, which was , at its heart a comedic tale about 1950's America told with stone-age analogues to the period conveniences. Steampunk does the same thing with its mechanical computers, automobiles with boiler engines, and submarines with exposed, ornamental rivets.
Hmmm, were the Flintstones created now, would it be called Rockpunk?
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It might be, yeah. I'm not sure how "in vogue" Steampunk is, to be honest. I've been a fan of it since I can remember. Not really... Steampunk, but more Clockwork / Pre-digital technology. Tech as old as civilization itself and on up through to about the late 1940's. It all appeals to me, so while I use the term "Steampunk" as a catch-all... I'm not exactly really Steampunk. Just a fan of antique tech.
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