
Angelic Layer: Angel Shirahime

Angelic Layer: Angel Hikaru decks Tsubaki
Angelic Layer now has a gallery to itself, so stop by and browse some of the information that I researched up on the series and the then-brand-new gallery (BONES) that produced it.
Other women up to No Good include

Vampire Princess Miyu

Maeterlinck’s Blue Bird: The Queen of the Night
(Though to be sure, this Queen is ambiguous in gender, a bit like Nakuru/Ruby Moon in CCS.)
But there are other new items that appealed to me for other reasons. For some time I’d been lurking for a nice Hyper Police OP cel from the exuberant ending where Natsuki finishes her day by dashing to the Lamp Café for her mug of warm catnip-infused milk. It was a delight to see this one pop up on the Takemura Cel Shop:

Hyper Police: Natsuki nearing the Lamp Cafe
Likewise, I was happy to add this naked and bashful Mimika to my own guilty gallery of indulgence:

Usagi-chan de Cue!! Mimika blushing
My Tennimon gallery is a little richer for adding a new cel of the odd pair of angelic conspirators:

Tenshi ni Narumon: Raphael Rejoins Mikael
One of my random browses of Inuyasha offerings was stopped cold one day when I saw this lovely piece:

Inuyasha: Shippo and Kirara (original set-up)
Shippo is one of my favorite side characters. But I saw another reason why this piece caught my eye when I saw what came with it:

Inuyasha: Shippo and Kirara (Shoko Ikeda layout) (with Tatsuya Ishihara’s seal of approval).
Another item that had me captivated as soon as I saw it on YJ was this one:

Gegege no Kitaro: Yumiko-chan and Kitaro dancing
I don’t know much about it, except that it is obviously from the third Kitaro series (1980s) as Kitaro’s mortal friend Yumiko only appears in this version. But what a beauty: colors, composition, pose.
So two pugnacious kick-boxing dolls, an intense vampire, a series villain of indeterminate gender, an ecstatic cat-girl, a bashful bunny-girl, a mischievous fox spirit, a roguish one-winged angel, and a pretty girl dancing with a one-eyed undead yokai. Fall is off to a good start!