All About Usamimi

Ever wonder why Usagimimi (or Usamimi in short) was such a popular theme to be used on anime / game characters? This issue needs to go back to moe anthropomorphism and I’m not typing them again since you can read them here.

In exchange of it, I’ll have a little discussion on usamimi itself in this entry. And yes, this is also a personal gift for one of my real life friend, Jen. Hope you like it~

Usagimimi / Usamimi literally means bunny ear. They’re usually used to ‘increase’ Moe-ness on a particular character or just simply for fan service. The most famous fan service up-to-date in my memory would be Kallen from Code Geass Season 2. I’m sure many viewers would remember the pink bunny girl costume on her (And I believe more wants it on CC).

Of course, who would forget the bunnies in The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi? This picture can be found easily in Google and other search engine, seriously.

Or you prefer this version? I don’t think this one is that common yet:

Else, the typical Usagimimi characters in anime taken from wikipedia would be:
Alice from Angelic Layer
All characters from the Rabbit Force from Getsumento Heiki Mina
Arina Makihara from Waku Waku 7
Arisu Arisugawa and the other bunnygirls from Kagihime Monogatari Eikyuu Alice Rondo
Berry Shirayuki from Tokyo Mew Mew A la Mode (Also part mountain cat)
Delmo from Cosplay Complex
Erina Goldsmith from Variable Geo
Fran from Final Fantasy XII
Futaba and Konohana from Pick of the Litter
Komugi Nakahara from The SoulTaker and Nurse Witch Komugi
Kuya and Sakuya from Utawarerumono
Lily from Animonster
Meroko Yui from Full Moon O Sagashite
Mika from Angel Tales
Mimika from Usagi-chan de Cue
Mint Blancmanche from Galaxy Angel
My Melody and Kuromi from Onegai My Melody
Nyozeka from Alice 19th
Rami Nana-Hikari from the Keio Flying Squadron series
Reisen Udongein Inaba and Tewi Inaba from Imperishable Night
Siesta45 and Siesta410 from Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Usada Akari from Di Gi Charat Nyo
Usada Hikaru from Di Gi Charat
Usahara from Damekko Doubutsu

As for games, usamimi is very common for equipments. The most recognized one should be Ragnarok Online, I still remember the hardships on hunting the four-leaf clover.. *Sniffs*

Another two examples:

Shin Megami Tensei Imagine Online

In some cases like Trickster Online, usamimi is not an equipment but a featured character itself.

Here’s a small trivia, who is the lord of bunny?

*Drum rolls*

Why Honey-Senpai you said? You’ll know after you watch Ouran High School Host Club. Yet, I suggest you to keep his image as cute as above or..

So that’s it for now. Here’s a fan service from Burogu featured by Shirley~

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Stella Deus Character Design

Stella Deus was the last Tactical RPG and one of the last games I played on a console…

Art by Shigenori Soejima

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Yoshiko Suenaga, Japanese model and gravure idol

When trying to come up a brilliant idea for my 499th post, I first considered a review of some 30 or 40 year old movie or OAV. But, in the end I decided to go with something that most males can agree with, a cute girl. I went through my stats and discovered that Yoshiko Suenaga has been the most popular girl that people have been checking out at my blog, so here’s a second dose of Yoshiko.

Yoshiko Suenaga is a Japanese model and gravure idol who has appeared in many photo books, and at least four DVDs. Her birthday is 10/12/1990 (Age 18), and her vital stats are height 149 (58”-4′10”), B77-W55-H77 (30-22-31). Below, are some pics of Yoshiko in her bikini, school uniform, and various other shots. (click on pic to view at full size.

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Princess Princess Premium artbook

As promised, fun continues with our trap Princesses…

Princess Princess Premium is really thin book, it contains 70 pages where 60 are full color. Book can be divided into two parts: artwork and doujinshi. First part consist of author Mikiyo Tsuda´s color art. There´s cover art of the manga and some are from the magazines she´s drawn. If you´ve read the manga you´ve already seen black-and-white versions of most of the pictures on this book. Photos I took are, at least to me, new material. Second part is Tsuda´s Princess Princess doujinshis. At the first story Mikoto sees a dream where he has really turned into a girl and the second story happens at the time when Student Counsil President Arisada was still a Princess.

Down: Student Counsil President Arisada looks stunning in kimono. Sakamoto would have been such a cute Princess. ^^ Click to view better versions.

My favourites are the ones with the blonde and meganekko. They are new generation Princesses from the sequel Princess Princess+. For some reason I like their looks more than original trio´s. Maybe it´s because of the long, wavy hair and glasses, hmmm… Anyway, this artbook made me interested of them and now I can´t wait to read +. Hurry up DMP, I need the last volume of Princess Princess translated to complete my collection and satisfy my curiosity regarding them! Until then, I just have to grasp this book more and maybe watch those DVDs I bought.

I love this artbook to the core even if it´s so small. Tsuda´s character designs and fashion sense please my eye as well the light colors she likes to use on her art. I always wanted to have clear versions of the art inside the manga, so now when I finally got this gorgeous piece of art which comes with new content, I´m the happiest fangirl on earth. <3~~

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