The Official make your M.A. into a -tan thread (manga style artists wanted)

**Toby Christensen** · Posted On: 11/27/2005 6:49pm

Mau and Mau Rakua tan-

Sexy sexy SEXY (but then I LURVE Polynesian girls) Maori girl carrying a patau (mace) and wearing a grass skirt and coconut shell bra. Long flowing black wavy hair and coppery skin with obsidian coloured eyes and white teeth...

Ahem... (runs to bathroom, stays for a suspiciously long time)

**chaosexmachina** · Posted On: 11/28/2005 12:15am

So is anyone actually going to draw these?

**Jaguar Wong** · Posted On: 11/28/2005 2:43am

wow...just wow. I don't even know what all this is about. I tried to read that Wiki article, but I still can't seen any rhyme or reason to the different personifications of the different OSes. Looks random to me. This all just seems like a reason to collect chibi drawings of women that do different styles with stylized (or skimpy) outfits, rather than the personification of an actual style. The actual personification of a style would be far more abstract and interesting to me, though.

Perhaps I'm too old to understand this whole -tan thing. I'm just nagging and ranting now aren't I?

I would love to see different artists interpretations of what they think the average woman that practices a particular style would look like, so that way I don't have to drudge through tons of Americanime (or American't-ime). I mean we all know it would be "hawt" women anyway, since no one wants to fantasize about the local Borders cashier doing the ginga.

**Locu5** · Posted On: 11/28/2005 4:35am

You are correct, it is just an excuse "to collect chibi drawings of women that do different styles with stylized (or skimpy) outfits." You haven't seen the talent pool at my local Borders apparently.

lol@American't-ime

**Zid** · Posted On: 11/28/2005 8:55am

Another word I like to use is "animetation"(anime+imitation)

**PirateJon** · Posted On: 11/28/2005 11:43am

You people scare me.

**Jaguar Wong** · Posted On: 11/28/2005 12:02pm

Originally Posted by locu5

You haven't seen the talent pool at my local Borders apparently.

lol@American't-ime

I guess I gotta go book shopping in Hotlanta someday. Here in Vegas that caliber of "talent" leans more towards the Starbucks or Mall jobs. Until they're old enough to work as strippers, hooters girls or dancers at clubs or something like that.

zid,
I like your term, but it's just not derogatory enough towards the no talent hacks that think they can draw, just because the can add two saucer eyes, a checkmark nose and a half circle mouth with some wicked spikey hair. Anime-style artists in America are Bullshido artists (pun intended?). No real understanding of basics, or underlying structure. These kids that mimic it don't understand why they're drawing the features the way they do.

With no real understanding of basic drawing, anything you exaggerate just shows how little your base really is. Like watching some kid that can do 540 kicks, backflips and arerials, and knowing they can't stand up to a basic combination when pressed in the corner.

...no I'm not mad...why do you say that?

**Toby Christensen** · Posted On: 1/04/2006 1:46pm

THREAD REVIVAL!

Amateur wrestling -tan

Spends her time arguing with the other grappling tans about how they shouldn't learn submissions. And getting her arse kicked as a result

DISCLAIMER- this is NOT to cast aspersions on amateur wrestlers. They pin like nobody's business

**meng_mao** · Posted On: 1/04/2006 7:58pm

Originally Posted by Angry_Spastic

THREAD REVIVAL!

Amateur wrestling -tan

Spends her time arguing with the other grappling tans about how they shouldn't learn submissions. And getting her arse kicked as a result

DISCLAIMER- this is NOT to cast aspersions on amateur wrestlers. They pin like nobody's business

Ow man, I thought you were going to have pics.