#battle athletes

[decafbat]

rei ayanami cartaur race scene

[littleeyesofpallas]

I was thinking about how i'd joked before about blond anime dragkings in the 90s having been a death sentence. But honestly there's only so many of those, and seemingly fewer and fewer in modern series... Where as the archetype that came about at the same time that really did get me down bad for the next decade+ was the tan skin, red (often messy) hair, big girl/muscle girl/sword girl/athlete. (with optional tomboy or feral personality)

(I'll admit a few of these I remembered differently in my head --either I remembered their skin being darker or hair being redder-- than what turned up once I started googling, but a few are definitely a conflict of in-game sprites vs official art, or having a more noticeably darker skin tone compared to the other characters in their respective show/game, but more light skinned looking on their own)

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Battle Athletes Daiundoukai Artist: Nakano Yuuki Publication: Dengeki B-Magazine (11/1998) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[saint-miroir]

Advertisement for video releases of Pioneer LDC titles (with an emphasis on Pretty Sammy)-- Newtype Magazine (09/1998)

[therosecrest]

[gayhoebgmf]

『バトルアスリーテス大運動会/ Battle Athlete’s Victory』

company: AIC

[fuckyeahanimebirthdays]

Eva Gallenstein (Battle Athletess Daiundoukai ReSTART!)  » June 7

[temiree]

This is Dune, a dino character that Stargate525 commissioned me to draw! They gave me creative freedom, and since this guy had a huge sword, I thought it was criminal that there wasn't a cool shot of him in a battle stance yet. :3

Progress pictures and a full-res copy are on my Patreon!

[pinkinsect]

watching haikyuu after being in the blue lock pit for a while is so refreshing. like they're so normal

[athleticperfection1]

North Carolina Wesleyan Soccer

[fishhateme]

Ok so i just heard that after today's meeting rbr are going to stick to checo??

I think my previous post might've jinxed it and I genuinely wanna die

[decafbat]

chris christopher and the genetic freak

[whosyourfavevoicedby-polls]

[ndostairlyrium]

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this top ask your favorite mutuals. 💛

Tagged by @greypetrel <3 Thank you so much dear!! Hopefully the playlist I've chosen gets me diverse genres °-°''

"Unbroken (Hotel Baby)" by Monster Magnet

"Breaking Me Down" by Soil

"A Secret Place (2004 remastered)" by Megadeth

"Descent - Aftermath" from the DAI Descent DLC soundtrack

"Tooth Fairy" by Nanowar of Steel

...and it didn't. hahahah I mean, except the Descent suite which is like, my favorite soundtrack throughout the games << at risk of being controversial, I prefer it to the Trespasser one. They're both gorgeous of course, but I can't really command my preferences

I'm tagging: @underneathestars @daggerbean @layalu @m-bj @n7viper and whoever feels like sharing some music u-u

[saint-miroir]

Battle Athletes Daiundoukai page spread taken from Animage Magazine (12/1997). Illustrated by Fumio Matsumoto.

[therosecrest]