#menpo

[koyoriin]

hunter // 3

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[6amsnst]

"Aeon Devourer"

[by13x]

Sentai Robo Menpō Series complete!

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Thank you!

[whistlingjudge]

Wear both, why not...

[hermholland]

Seriously... these horns are my whole personality right now...

... also I made the mask too, which I'm proud of.

[epefanio]

My stupid meow meow Menpo

[hawkogurl]

Harry and Harry related concept art: a compilation

[memories-of-ancients]

Toppai kabuto with menpo, Japan, late 16th century

from The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum

[chevvy-yates]

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Akki/Arki belongs to @nervouswizardcycle. ♥️

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First picture is the cover artwork for:

///CH01_THE_GOLDEN_DEMON_OF_KABUKI.file\\\ from Cyberpunk 2078 – Pandemonium

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Additional info behind the cut:

Tbh I always didn't like the existing menpo masks of the game as they look weird to me and not 'classic yokai/oni mask' enough. The more happy I was about the 'Yokai International' mod by manavortex. Once I saw them on nexus I knew that this is the point where I could finally vp the starting artwork picture for the story.

There's lot's of textures and brushes added as I knew right from the start (through another vp project I haven't posted yet) that the ingame given effects won't satisfy me so I had to add them in post process.

I've done stuff like that years ago (mostly for work) but have always been too lazy to do it right from the start in vp (plus I was learning how to use my ingame tools first). And tbh I will only do it where I think it is neccessary as it eats a lot of time until my annoying perfectionism is 'okay' with the result.

Spent three evenings/nights (after work) on both pics. Second was faster done as of the existing layers/settings from the first, just tweaking the effects a bit differently. The second pic is only an addition for the normal vp post as I didn't use it for the chapter pdf.

The golden mask is recolorered as it appeared red in the original picture due to me having a red light spawned for a more dangerous feeling. Hair that clipped through the mask needed to be retouched by redrawing it and then it was just basically playing around with effects.

Here's the (already color tweaked with Lightroom) non-effects pics, so you get an idea of what has been added and what has been there already.

I took only two pics – nothing more as it was exactly the poses I wanted to have. I lightened up the 'maw' part of the mask to give a feel of a real maw at first but when you look closer you see Arki's beard and bottom lip. The second pic doesn't focus so much on this as mentioned it got not used as keyvisual for the chapter.

'The Golden Demon' refers more to his golden coat and the golden gloved claw, rather than a golden mask. Yet for the key visual I wanted the mask to appear golden as we do not see his coat and the mask was more important in my opinion.

[peashooter85]

Kabuto with menpo, Japan, Edo Period (1603-1868)

from Czerny's International Auction House

[jamandstone]

Thrust under the menpo.

[koyoriin]

prowl

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[beardedmrbean]

[Huey Zoomer Anon]

Ugh black washing of anime characters discourse given the narcissism my community….but I making another theory in my head

Is there good enough compelling black characters with substance these days?

I mean here and there sure, but like black characters with substance of action, sci-fi, fantasy, that actually reach the black community these days?

I’m going to bitch about the first group, but I think I only seen like Wakanda and Miles Morales

Now MCU Wakanda the problem is…it main surface levels, like yeah I seen African cities and such combine their ancestral roots with modern contemporary buildings like you see across Europe and Asia

But as someone pointed out mcu wakanda look like oversized shantytown, I mean given their still have a tribal system. I think think they would have their own say district or monuments to symbolize which tribe own which part of the lands

Technically they did do that with the Gorilla theme tribes who lives in the mountains

Side note is giving hero armies helmets or fully face covers like the SW stormtroopers= a form of fascism in Hollywood costume departments these days?

I get you want to show off the actors faces…because can give their grunts good helmets?

They actually that their Yasuke base armor is heavily stylized. But at least he have a helmet and menpo (masks the samurai used) though weirdly his menpo only showed up in a piece of merch for now

And but back to the Wakandians…Wakanda Forever stated they didn’t have iron man style suits until after T’challa died when Shuri decided to make some…

Given that you guys have an extremely small population and now you revealed you have advance technology. I thought you guys would modernized the living SHIT out of your military the moment you guys was preparing Killmonger burial at sea and T’challa said that the kingdom isolation period is over?

Does any superhero writers these days do a quick google search on how modern warfare works? The pentagon is wasting so much money giving it to Hollywood…wait they already do that..

Sorry for these long rant y’all. One can say the huge amount of black characters that been created this past decade

But remember Quality over quantity! And I think what I call Pop Marxism (what I think wokeness really is, but the lazy ass diversity they do) cause lot of people with representation

They try to fix a problem…yet they show how SHELTER they are!

Yes I know I had enslaved ancestors, family roots in Alabama

Also the black community been making Jefferson and Sally dark jokes long before the 1960’s.

All that other stuff before and But as someone pointed out mcu wakanda look like oversized shantytown, I mean given their still have a tribal system. I think think they would have their own say district or monuments to symbolize which tribe own which part of the lands

I don't really know enough about all that in the comics world but I do agree that there's a need for originality or at least they need to not just throw a coat of black paint on something and treat it like it's something new.

Technically they did do that with the Gorilla theme tribes who lives in the mountains

I imagine twitter could get really funny with fake outrage over that kind of thing.

Side note is giving hero armies helmets or fully face covers like the SW stormtroopers= a form of fascism in Hollywood costume departments these days?

Cost saving measure, only need so many extras for the live shots because the dudes in armor can also be the dudes NOT in armor and for the large groups it's easier to program the computer that way.

My guess at least.

Maybe, for the most part at least, good guys wearing helmets can take theirs off, Mando is a outlier there, probably others too, it's all a guess.

I get you want to show off the actors faces…because can give their grunts good helmets? They actually that their Yasuke base armor is heavily stylized. But at least he have a helmet and menpo (masks the samurai used) though weirdly his menpo only showed up in a piece of merch for now

Again cost issues there are likely why they do that, then again when you get to the last few episodes of Ahsoka

You get to see that they've obviously been through the wringer and we get some differences in the look as a result.

Also likely showing off one more bit of aesthetic that would work for Thrawn and his whole art thing with the whole fairly obvious kintsugi aspect of this, like you get with broken ceramics in Japan among other places.

These guys are 100% cultists too, but that's another story.

And but back to the Wakandians…Wakanda Forever stated they didn’t have iron man style suits until after T’challa died when Shuri decided to make some…

Still haven't seen the BP movies, was gonna ask what T'challa was wearing but it doesn't have the repulsors and such so that's different.

Given that you guys have an extremely small population and now you revealed you have advance technology. I thought you guys would modernized the living SHIT out of your military the moment you guys was preparing Killmonger burial at sea and T’challa said that the kingdom isolation period is over? Does any superhero writers these days do a quick google search on how modern warfare works? The pentagon is wasting so much money giving it to Hollywood…wait they already do that..

I'd be wondering if they'd taken a moment to look at what's been going on in Europe for the last few decades.

And now there is a hyperwealthy first world nation with all kinds of advanced tech for medicine and what not in the eastern part of Africa near Somalia, Ethiopia, S. Sudan, Rwanda, and I think you see where I'm going with this. Nice of them to take the burden off of Europe for a bit. Modern military isn't going to do any good with a flood of "migrants" coming in so that's not really important and given the state of nearly every military from and African country I think they'll be ok with what they have already.

Might have to watch out for Ghana if they bring these bad boys in

This was in 2019, I imagine they've gotten even more advanced since then, might have spinners on the choppers wheels or something......

Sorry for these long rant y’all. One can say the huge amount of black characters that been created this past decade But remember Quality over quantity! And I think what I call Pop Marxism (what I think wokeness really is, but the lazy ass diversity they do) cause lot of people with representation They try to fix a problem…yet they show how SHELTER they are! Yes I know I had enslaved ancestors, family roots in Alabama Also the black community been making Jefferson and Sally dark jokes long before the 1960’s.

No worries, just if they come much later than this did they may need to sit till the next day, but this one gave me a moment to remember the powerful display by the glorious army of Ghana, so totally worth it.

[by13x]

Sentai Robo Menpō- 10

[itsmarjudgelove]

Suji-bachi kabuto and menpo

Signed by Myōchin Muneaki and dated 1853

Signature: Kaei 6 - Ushidoshi Oshu Nihonmatsu-ju Myōchin Ki (no) Muneaki saku

Made in 1853 by Myōchin Ki Muneaki in Nihonmatsu castle.

The helmet is a 24-plate suji kabuto with five rows of visible rivets. The shape is rather tall (koseizan), and the fittings, such as the visor (mabezashi) and the maedate holder (haraidate), are beautifully crafted. The five-plate shikoro bears on the fukigaeshi a rare kamon (family crest) made of silver maki-e lacquer, depicting the butterfly (hachō) used by the Taira clan in the ancient times and later taken up by a number of families claiming descent from it, most notably the Matsudaira clan, the shogunate family.

The half-moon shaped maedate shows the “ichi” kanji in the center.

The mask is of the ressei type, of excellent workmanship. The shapes of the nose, ears and chin are those typical of the branch operating in the Ki region, where the Myōchin family of armorers settled in the early Edo period and specialised in embossed metalwork (uchidashi).

The inscription is definitely interesting, as it places the helmet inside Nihonmatsu Castle, which was besieged during the Battle of Aizu in 1868, in which Matsudaira Katamori and the forces for imperial restoration clashed. During the siege, 543 samurai loyal to the shogunate died under the modern weapons used by the imperialist daimyo, trained and equipped by Western armies. The presence of the butterfly kamon, used by the Matsudaira, would confirm the use of the helmet by samurai loyal to the shogunate. The armor associated with these events has almost all been lost or destroyed, and to find a helmet in perfect condition that survived the last Japanese civil battles is undoubtedly an extraordinary event.

[scruffypegasus]

Blue Soldierkin

Blue Soldierkin 01 2022

Earth Soldierkin  based on the soldier cosmetics Killer's Kabuto  - Menpo - Shogun's Shoulder Guard (Blue version)