Favorite Japanese Artists

Sometimes I like their work because it's very sexy, as they explore their fascination with American voluptuosity. Sometimes I dig the artwork because it pushes the borders of what I'm used to - I'm not really attracted to feces, but a picture of a schoolgirl whose panties are overflowing with gallons and gallons of spontaneous feces... that's just bizarre, and yet I can't turn away. And sometimes it's just the out-and-out skill and innovation these artists present that attracts me. Everyone's familiar with the traditional hydroencephalic, huge round eye anime stereotype, so it's interesting to me when they shoot beyond that and explore new styles of rendering.

These artists certainly aren't typical of what you can find in the States. Many of my artist friends, in fact, try to emulate the Japanese aesthetic of illustration, while increasingly I see Western influence being adopted and adapted in Japanese style. I'm fascinated by the whole process and really enjoy viewing the end product, even when the subject matter goes beyond the scope of my appetite.

You can access the sites featured/reviewed here by clicking on the sample picture or the title of the site. Keep an open mind when poking around, try not to judge too harshly, and maintain an exuberant curiosity!

Updated 09JUL04!

Ataraxia This is a very well-laid-out site, bright and beautiful with the clean, crisp Japanese aesthetic I love so well! The artwork is very well done, too, if a little stock and traditional in terms of cylindrical legs and facial structure. As long as you don't mind seeing the same thing from site to site, you can enjoy these bright and cheerful pictures easily. If you can read Japanese, in fact, you even get some lessons on the site about how to create your own CG illustrations (all the kids are doin' it!) - I can't, so I can only poke around the pictures and wait for new ones to be posted. There's no obscenity here, except for one mild panty-shot; it's just a bunch of hyper-cute, playful girls. If you whack off to this, odds are you'll whack off to anything, ecchi.

Bi-Syojyo

I think "Bi-Syojyo" is just the artist's name; I had to use that instead of the site name, which was entirely in kanji. This place seems to focus mostly on young, pretty schoolgirls. I like the artwork, the drawing style it seems very fresh and bright, like this guy knows what he's doing. Something about the facial structure creates an atmosphere or a context about the whole place. ...Like "going back to school", I guess.

Big Mom

I'm very excited to see this site come back! Evidently Aki-Ai (see Heart Work) has been working more in line drawing for this site and less in painting or painting effects. This isn't better or worse, it's just interesting. And with this he's begun to attempt some serial sex comics in his own unique style, which I couldn't be more pleased with (though someday I'd like to be able to read them or have them translated).

Site has disappeared - looking for address of relocation!

Bust Princess

Very distinctive artwork! This artist has a foundation in traditional manga that he comfortably outfits and augments with his own personal style and that's very clear from the get-go. Some of the drawings are done better than others; he has galleries for full-color and monochrome drawings and sketches (as well as a wonderful Gifts folder that includes links to every artist's website!). The predominant theme here, and he even writes this out in at least one picture, is that of slender (read: rail-like) young women with enormous, planetary breasts. With these breasts the girls fuck (or "Tits Fack" as the author puts it) a variety of extremely slender young men. There's some bukkake but not much, mostly women embracing and enveloping parts of young men between their enormous, gigantic, globular breasts.

Category M

This place is out-and-out worrisome. A subset of the Gallery at Garden, the main thrust here seems to be that of gynophobia and misogyny in a series of horrifically-detailed illustrations featuring various forms of mutilation visited upon helpless women. I'm not sure what the point of this is, maybe someone really finds dismemberment and disfigurement to be sexy; maybe it was an extended artist's exercise to push their own threshholds of tolerance and good taste. Whatever, it's still a compelling exercise to sort through out of a profoundly morbid curiosity. Recently a second section has been added with considerable text - one may assume there is a long attendant story that would explain all these tortures visited upon beautiful young women. One may even form the hypothesis that these are possibly ex-girlfriends of the artist...

Cellar of a Killing Angel

Bitch though you may about the overt sexual characterizations of the women: if you can suspend your disbelief for half a freakin' second, this is a beautiful gallery of hard-assed women. The artist clearly enjoys muscular, robust creatures, and here they are in all sorts of action sequences! In powersuits, competing at the gym, warming up for a deathmatch kumite, these are hardly lithesome slips of girls! Okay, and yes, their sexulaity is manifest and even salient, but no one comfortable with their own sexuality would object to that. (Pictures may be found here.)

Center of Universe

"Center of Universe", eh? That's a pretty proud title for a website, one would have to be awfully sure of their skills to claim such a mantle... or maybe he just means the center of his own universe, like all his dreams and ideals, or the world of a storyline he's working on. Anyway, this guy is a highly skilled and talented artist. The work here is in a decidedly fantastic-setting though there's the momentary homage to whatever random videogame. Probably Street Fighter, I see some Metroid, that's what all the kids are about these days. This guy is a professional-quality artist and (granted, I can't read Japanese, but if I can discern anything from context) he includes sections of his own published work on the site so you can marvel at his accomplishments. This is an excellent, beautiful gallery of exquisite work, very thoroughly enjoyable.

CHAMP+

A motherlode of voluptuous, athletic women! Okay, not for everybody but anyone who knows me knows I'm totally digging this place. Beyond that, I really like the oil-pastels effect of the illustration, the heavier nod towards realism than the huge-ass ocular globes set apart in an elephantitic skull like a hammerhead shark with Hello Kitty for a mother. As goes for many other sites in this list, the artist demonstrates a penchant for rendering established characters (like Ivy from the videogame Soul Calibre, and that vampire chick with the bat-wings on her head, Morrigan or something), no one can fault him for that. And if I knew about the culture more, if I was more attuned to videogames and comics I could discern which of these were original and which were covers, but alas, I cannot. Instead, I just enjoy them all equilaterally. (Alert reader Aoshi0 informs me the artworks are homage to many fighting games, particularly King of Fighters.)

Pictures may be found by scrolling through the options in the little menu in center. When you hover over the right one, it will link to cg4_09.html. I can't link to it because the author has a program that forces you to the Index screen rather than permitting you to link to any interior page on the site. Cunning, eh?

ColonyOne

Wow. This is one of those sites that convinces you this isn't just imagination, but Kaneda (artist) has actually torn the veil between our world and an intricate, grounded, cultured parallel world and he's just copying it outright. He's essentially just drawing everything he's seen in another reality and depicting it in painstaking detail for their craft. And not only that, but you come to realize you'd rather live there than here. You've had it here and you're done with it, you'd trade it in for those swords and those beasts and, hell, those boots. This is a lavish, breathtaking gallery that could allude to a manga series or could just be one guy's arbitrary vision of a world full of jaded warrior-women and cocky rascals who, for all their bragging and grandstanding, conceal much more than they let on. Sign me up.

Curve City Asmode

This place is perverse, that's obvious. Women are sprouting penises all over the place, fluids are gushing like leaky fire hydrants, and nothing makes any sense. It's just crazy, you just go through all the pictures and shake your head. Good artwork, though. The artist is skilled, for whatever may be said about his subject matter.

D-Satomi

Being unable to read kanji, I have to assume that D-Satomi is responsible here. This is a marketplace for resin-cast figurines: giant robots, sexy battle-bitches in French maid costumes, and everything in between. Many of these figurines are doubtlessly based off of various anime and manga, some may be original creations, I don't know. They're all very pretty to look at... it's a shame they don't come pre-painted and assembled, because some of them are definitely more beautiful and alluring than I could ever bring them to be.

Dear Falling Angel

Fan art (oriented towards a couple video games) produced by a guy calling himself Kogma Pierre. As far as pure artistry goes, he's far better than I am in both lines and color, but when you go through a lot of these better sites, this place would be a little disappointing. Slightly inattentive proportions (and I'm not talking about the impossibly planetary breasts), faces a little out of alignment, stuff like that... better than I could do, but unless you're really starved for bukkake and torrents of sweat and lubrication, you could be just fine not having pored over every picture here.

Deep One

More triumphantly-endowed women parading themselves like homecoming warriors, covered in glory. As is seen nearly everywhere else, one section of pictures is dedicated to videogame characters, another to anime roles, but there's even a section of original drawings here. Even a couple pictures of guys, just to shake things up.

Deep Sea

Very talented artwork here, beautiful colors and masterful technique. The focus is entirely upon young girls, and not in a sexual context. Young girls who are part cats, sometimes part rabbits, out catching fish or grooming themselves, or just standing around looking pretty. It's certainly an imaginative site... Why is it called Deep Sea? Again, one may only imagine.

DHA Hate

Some websites start out with an attitude problem that offsets me for the rest of viewing their gallery - this is one of those places. I don't know what DHA is or why it's so hated or how it can generate so much hate, but any site with "hate" in the title sets up a weird dynamic in me where I think I'm not cool enough to be viewing the site and yet I really want the site author's approval. It's fucked up. Anyway, I like the one drawing that exists on this site, the one on the index page. There are more somewhere but the site owner has taken them down for some reason: several months ago he said he'd put them back up, but the same message is there today and the pictures fail to exist anywhere I can see. Maybe I'm not cool enough to deserve the password that unlocks all the beautiful, disturbing images...

Ebifly's Web Site

Ebifly has a lot of things going on here. His artwork is very skilled, great color and shading, wonderful command of anatomy, and very plaful, attractive rendition of figures in all his work. Sometimes he evinces tremendous detail in his drawings, like all the straps and pockets on a rucksack, and this represents his other apparent interest: military training. When not drawing mostly-human-part-cat females or anthropomorphic male cats in military gear, he also features a gallery of old and new pictures of soldiers in uniform. Sometimes the pictures look authentic, but then I have a hard time imagining an entire platoon of Japanese men in the Royal Irish Army so I think these are just weekend warriors. The artist himself may be in these photos, who knows. I don't, 'cos I don't read Japanese.

Fish Alliance

This site used to be a bunch of scanned-in manga series, and then it was an assortment of doujin-pictures of videogame characters, but now it's just one color picture and three pencil roughs about violent sex. There's no interesting gallery anymore, the links just go to BBSs that I can't even read. This site gets worse and worse.

Garden

I think it's called "Garden"; it could be "Peach Garden", it could be "ANN's Garden". Well, anyway, this is one of those bizarro sites you just can't explain: you either like it or you don't. I suspect most women will be completely offended by it and many men will be confused, but because the women here are hot they'll overlook it. As far as I can tell, this is all artwork dedicated to a comic series in which cyber-enhanced women control enormous 80'-tall replicas of themselves and run around the city doing good deeds. More than that, they control these huge-ass robots by means of a large pyramid-spiked joystick shoved up their vaginas, as well as various and sundry biofeedback equipment connected to their torsos. ...Yeah, it's way out there, but the art is good. Attendant with this is Sakura Garden, with very pleasant pictures of nicely-dressed young, attractive women in various settings, and only one girl with her skirt up.

Garden Underworld

The second in ANN's series, where the illustrations turn very dark and inexplicable, focusing on piercings, caviar-like menstruation, and providing links to sites of similar orientation. I dunno, I like looking at it, as disturbing as it can be. Cracks me up that the clitoris is steadfastly mosaic'ed-out of every shot, like that's the offensive material.

Gear-Z

I don't know what "Gear-Z" means. I don't know what most of these sites' titles mean. But I really like this guy's artwork. He seems to have equal fascination with traditional Japan as with tennis, for some reason - who can explain our passions? But he depicts even the tennis players with meticulous attention to form and physiology, he loves to explore the range and extent of the human body's flexibility and never lapses into cartoonish exaggerations to emphasize his point: he does plenty with what's available. And only rarely does he draw little girls in various states of undress.

Girl Beats Boy

Here's where the fetishizing breaks down and motives are laid bare: the women are amazonian, voluptuous, and attractive, while the men are scrawny and ill-tempered. The whole site revolves around the dynamic of women systematically humiliating young men through physical dominance, both by martial violence and sexual predation. A crowd of girls look on as their female friend lays the smack down on some guy who doesn't know when to quit. Could the veil be any thinner? Also, the artist has compiled his work into a lovely doujinshi which he refuses to ship overseas. Damn.

Girochin

This site is full of enormously endowed women (both in terms of massive mammaries and "camel-toes", as they say), all striking seductive poses or losing their composure to overwhelming eroticism. Most, if not all, of the women are based on videogame characters, and a few are mere variants of each other, like Picture 2 has fewer clothes than Picture 1, but it's the same basic image.

Heart Work

I've actually communicated briefly with the artist, Aki-Ai, to express my very personal appreciation for his work. He had three sites up at once - you can find a link to Alert Work in the menu - but took the third one down due to a crackdown by the Japanese police upon porn websites so he had to be careful. I've been following his stuff for years and miss the old site, Big Mom. Despite the name, it didn't have to do with mother-lust, and I think "Heart Work" has to do with how passionately he creates his work. ...Okay, they're unrealistically-endowed women in various sexual positions, granted. ...And I'll even grant you that they're endowed to the point of hideousness. BUT, if you can look past that and appreciate his very unique artistic style, if you could've been with me and observed how his exposition grew and evolved through his highly surrealistic erotic realm...

Site has disappeared - looking for address of relocation!

JUNNY

What does "JUNNY" mean? Is it a variant of "Jenny"? Who knows? But here's a very gritty, industrial gallery of meticulous work. It looks like it also alludes to a cogent and established storyline, with characters repeating themselves throughout the gallery; on the other hand, there's a brief X-Men tribute, too. I don't know much about this site, but I do love the earthtones and the rough, unrefined drawing style - again, a deviation from the crisp, day-glo intensity of traditional anime and J-Pop. (The Gentle Viewer will kindly disregard the one instance of bukkake in the collection. If you don't know what that is, you'll discern it from context soon.) Scroll around the links at the bottom to find the Gallery.

Keister Donovan's Homepage

Well, well, well. A website of voluptuous videogame characters in various states of distress and protest while getting fucked in multiple orifices by unseen assailants. ...I really don't make any excuses for these sites, people: they are what they are. Maybe they're rape fetishes; maybe they're proponents of really vigorous sex; maybe it's outright misogyny; maybe it's over-compensation for clear and present sexual deficiencies; maybe it's escapism, exploring intimate taboos to which they have no other recourse. I'll leave it to the philosophers. I won't even gamely proffer that the artwork is equal parts superior and enthusiastic, lest someone misinterpret that I'm trying to lessen the impact of a site like this. I'm not telling anyone to jack off to it, but neither am I suggesting it be disregarded out of hand. (Pictures may be found by clicking the "CG" button - can't link to the gallery, as the site works on frames.)

Kikumon

I'm just titling this site after the username in the URL address. Far as I know, "Kikumon" is the meticulous sculpter/painter of these beautiful resin-cast figurines that seem to be all the rage in underground ecchi Japan these days. I've collected many pictures of beautifully-painted figurines shitting themselves, tied to various objects, getting beaten by dominatrices, etc., but the trick is that you just pay around US$40-50 for the kit - assembly and painting is required! I could never do as good a job as these guys do, even though Kikumon's site shows you the step-by-step process of creating and painting these figurines. Go ahead and poke around the left menu and see what you find.

KLNKING

The link provided goes to one of many collections of this artist's work. Many GTS (giantess) galleries and websites refer to him, as he seems to have accomplished quite a few GTS doujinshi. I've never personally seen them in print but have downloaded everything I've found by this talented, mysterious individual of the strange name. Well-rooted in traditional manga style, he integrates the two genres neatly in the vanguard of nascent Japanese interest in GTS. This probably means nothing to anyone but me, and that's fine.

Lapis Lazuli Corporation

I think the artist calls himself "Harashow", and the comics company he works for is "Lapis Lazuli Corporation". Or else that's a company in the world he's creating with his stories. At any rate this is a talented professional artist with a beautiful website. His galleries are composed of space fantasy material, the usual videogame references, stuff like that; he showcases samples of his published material here. I think he also runs his own comic called "Venus In Paradise" and he has a set of promotional cards or splash pages that feature the characters from that storyline. He's a very skilled and accomplished artist, flawless in his work, but he doesn't deviate too wildly from the mainstream and you get the feeling you've seen all this before.

Light

I'm not even sure about this place. It's hard to tell which are the original works and which are the gifts from countless admiring online colleagues. It's still interesting to look at and poke through, and these places always have great Links sections, so don't be shy.

Lunatic Prophet

Actually, I'll bet each of these artists could claim the title "lunatic prophet", madly scrawling out their twisted, intricate, hideously beautiful visions onto paper and computer screen, desperately seeking to release the pressure from all these ideas swirling in their heads. This place features just about everything: Christmas greetings, cat-girls braiding each other's hair, drunk co-eds exploring their sexuality at a party, a dejected battle-maiden driven to selling her skills for food, cheerful schoolgirls leaping through the air, and a disaffected social recluse slitting her wrists in the dinge of her room. Couple that with the diversity to keep each picture looking fresh and unique, and you're driven to wonder how this planet can hold such talent without tearing itself apart. It's a beautiful world, even if I don't know what a "Colorado shit dog" is.

Mike's Room

Very artistic stuff, swooping graceful lines while remaining true to facial structure in traditional anime. All in all a pretty cool site, until you get to the Power Dolls section, which seems to be all about bondage, torture, and humiliation. Still, it's certainly not the worst I've seen, and there's only one instance of a manacled girl shitting herself. All in all we got off pretty lucky.

Miyoshino

It's a combination of little girl fetishism and GTS styling, that's clear. But the illustrations are so disparate (you'll notice some scenes from the Peach website/storyline) that I wonder if he hasn't interspersed some colleague gifts in with his own work. Oh well, no way for me to tell.

Nekono Fuguri

Here's a strange twist on a familiar theme, once you thought you've heard them all: a fetish for large, effeminate boys dressed in aspects of various animals, destroying cities. You can even see the prepubescent little bulges in their crotches, despite the big girly eyes and hair. You look through these things and wonder if someone isn't lying to themselves about certain orientations or something, like, why is it so important that these be boys when they look so girly? And yet that could be part of it too - it just gets deeper and deeper. Well, the artwork is talented and there's even a couple picture-stories translated into English, if you really want to get into it.

NeriWasabe

I'm unsure how to write the name of this site. It's among a band of sites belonging to Cholera-Club (they may be military fetishists - read on). Instead, I do know that the artist calling himself NeriWasabe has a predilection towards young nude women, large breasts, facials (bukkake), and long lateral pointy ears, but may not include them all together in a given picture. His style is ferocious and playful, his working elements... sometimes surreal. Like the humanoid turnip in a leather straightjacket, hugged in the cleavage of a cautious-looking nude elf-girl in her late teens. "Why?" is the inexorable response, but after that it's just a bunch of pretty pictures in a unique, somewhat elegant style.

Onsoku

Sorry, no glory here, no honor, no noble human spirit. Just a lot of renditions of Ivy and various other videogame characters (and a tribute to one of Japan's more popular Race Queens) being tied up, bent over, fucked silly or proffering their wares to the viewer (minus government-ordained pixellated censorship). What're ya gonna do. And even held up against everything else on this page, this stuff isn't much to scream about, in terms of skill level. It's just... something to add to the pot. Not terrible but not quintessential.

Page of Boobs, The

Just a large collection of other people's work. Sometimes they contribute, sometimes it's just picked up different places. The author of the site has meticulously arranged the illustrations into various categories based on function: some were title screen images, some were contributes, others are in memorial to former sites and artists. Even the links section is broken into "boobs larger than your head", "normal or small boobs", "inflating boob animations", etc. So much work has gone into this site, it really is a monument unto itself. Two monuments. Two glistening, heaving, melon-heavy monuments, blocking out the sun.

Peach Cube

Well, here we go again: another site combining the themes of popular videogame characters, profound voluptuosity, getting screwed and jizzed-on from all angles, and huge cute eyes. How many times can one talk about this and still keep it interesting? At least most of the women on this site seem to be happier than usual, as opposed to artists who go out of their way to depict miserable, violated women crying for mercy. They're not all like that here. Still, what with all the graphic women-hatred printed in these things, you'd think cartoonists not only fail to get laid but are humiliated publicly on a regular basis, that the market completely revolves around revenge fantasies or something.

Prism

I think it's clear by now that there's a distinct correlation between cartoonish artwork and anatomical violation on all levels. Here we have a specimen at the lower-keyed end of the spectrum: subdued tones and reasonable proportions stroll pleasantly hand-in-hand down the primrose path of mature sexuality. Yes, there are still glimpses into arousal and horniness here, but the pictures are so elaborate and done in such a distinctive style that one almost forgives it, or maybe even likes it. You could certainly do worse than a couple up-skirt shots, when it comes to manga.

Punch Drunker

Beautiful artwork, excellent skill and mastery of the pen, computerized or otherwise. Really exciting highlights and shadow, wonderfully soft curvature around the beautiful form of a woman's body. Then again, out of four images of women, three depict them shitting themselves helplessly. So it goes.

Reezun Pie

Playful little site, here. The artwork seems a little younger (more cartoonish, less refined) than that of CHAMP+, but not far from the same style. The artist pays homage to his favorite video game and anime characters, as do so many other artists listed here. He also produces his own doujinshi which look exceptionally well-rendered and interesting. Wish I had access to this stuff, because I enjoy the rest of what's on this site.

Senbata

Senbata... I've been a fan of his work for a long, long time. He's probably one of the first artists I discovered, at least the first sites I found linked back to him. I've always found his work to be masterful and imaginative. He can depart from his usual style and embody a feel for a specific illustration, whatever would be most appropriate to carry across the character of the picture. He seems to be as preoccupied with nudity and the female form as anyone else, but at least he does it extremely well. His original work is impressive, and anyone should be honored to see a tribute of their work by his hand. I can't come up with enough kind things to say about this site, it is definitely a sine qua non in the genre.

SHD

SHD is a very skilled artist who can do very good work when he puts his mind to it. He has three galleries which represent finished work, roughs, and ...well, gifts other people have sent to him. That's traditional. He also produces doujinshi based on his favorite manga, King of Fighters. All of this is easily featured in this quite accessible website. This guy makes it very easy for a no-knowing gaijin to leap in and enjoy his work. Thanks, SHD!

Wyvern's Lair

Highly sexually-charged galleries of voluptuous women from anime and video games alike. There are so, so many galleries just like this - I mean, of course the style's different, but the content is essentially the same. There's really only so much you can do with this before it just gets repetitive. You have to milk everything you can out of the artist's individual style to keep it fresh and interesting. Wyvern really does have his own style, too, so at least that's something.