Depiction from John Skylitzes' 11th C Byzantine history. A Varangian guardsman assigned around Ephesus tried to rape a local woman. She killed him w his own sword. When the other Varangians heard, they celebrated her, gave her his belongings, & left his body unburied in disgrace.
One of the Nagano FSS designs. The inspiration from haute couture, the esoteric symbolism, the sheer joy of design free of the constraint they should be easily turned into toys (a guiding pressure for most mecha designs) all put him over the top IMO. https://t.co/MvCXBK6uBl
Frog twitter is reinventing Jomny Sun but from the right through their new fascination with tryhard deliberate misspelling and superficial positivity.
Some scans of rarer Bebop images, mostly from Kawamoto's "The Wind." These two were done for Animage 98.
Some Amano's art for The Guin Saga. The longest series of fantasy novels in the world (over 130 vols), by Kaoru Kurimoto, about an amnesiac w a leopard mask magically stuck to his face. Big influence on everything from Berserk to Dorohedoro. Still virtually unknown in the US.