Mystery Genga Needs ID

Post by **sensei** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:58 pm

This came as a protective backing to a cel I bought recently. The bird looks familiar but I can't immediately ID the series. My only clue is that the cel is from a 1985 Studio Nippon series, and so I'd guess the genga too is from an older series.

Post by **sensei** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:09 pm

Surely someone on this august board will recognize the bird with the little bow on the top of her head?

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:45 pm

I can't find it. I looked through ANN and Best Anime. I looked through Japanese Wikipedia and cross referenced to other websites, but couldn't find it. I couldn't recognize any similarity of the sketch to any of the pictures I ran across. Sorry.

We might need an old time anime fan to answer this question.

Post by **sensei** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:04 pm

Thank you, Keropi. My guess is that it may be from the mid-1980s. The characters were so distinctive that I figured some older hand would say, "Oh, that's Xoxoxoxo-san and his magical helper Abababa-chan!" It's a neat sketch, and if it still goes unidentified, then it's going up in my gallery alongside my "Mystery Witch" that I think is also from the 80s.

Zag · Post by **Zag** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:06 pm

If you can get a bigger, clearer scan of the
notes written there, maybe someone could
translate, and it might give a clue. Even one
character's name would help.

Post by **sensei** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:57 pm

OK, will do. I finally realized why the bird was so familiar. The German greeting card icon Diddlmaus has a sidekick that looks exactly like this figure, except that Diddl's Freund has a little shock of straight hair with no bow in it.

EternityOfPain · Post by **EternityOfPain** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:26 pm

I am fairly sure its from an anime series called "Dr. Slump" however i can't be 100% sure. Hope this helps.

Post by **sensei** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:37 pm

There's the annotation blown up to about twice size. The part I can read says

B 4 5 6 [circled]
??? mouth

So I assume that it's saying there will the three mouth layers with this image, of which B6 is the one in this sketch. But the first set of kanji in the second line might be the character's name.

Thanks, EOP: I'll look up Dr. Slump in the meantime.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:02 pm

I've found character names on alot of my eyecatch sketches!

What other sketches do they usually put names on?

birdie · Post by **birdie** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:46 pm

RoboFlonne wrote: What other sketches do they usually put names on?

For some strange reason all of my Fruits Basket Genga with more than one character in it has their names written in English. I don't know why.

Oh, and sometimes One Piece genga have the names in English too.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:55 pm

I'm sorta glad that they don't try to spell Flonne in english!

Flonne, usually turns into... Furron Frruon Fronne!

syan · Post by **syan** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:47 pm

birdie wrote:
RoboFlonne wrote: What other sketches do they usually put names on?
For some strange reason all of my Fruits Basket Genga with more than one character in it has their names written in English. I don't know why.

I have some single character ones too. A number of Fushigi Yuugi dougas I have have the seishi symbols associated with the character.

Zag · Post by **Zag** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:00 pm

My Slayers Cel of Lina has a notation about the specific name of the monster she's facing off with.

klet · Post by **klet** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:21 pm

Geez. Messy handwriting. You'd have to get a native Japanese speaker to read that. I'm guessing that it's not a name, though.

Look into Dr. Slump, like EoP said. The man in his underwear looks like Dr. Slump, so maybe it's from that series or another Toriyama.

bulma_gt · Post by **bulma_gt** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:28 am

syan wrote: I have some single character ones too. A number of Fushigi Yuugi dougas I have have the seishi symbols associated with the character.

Oh that's nice

And regarding the sketch

I don't think its from Dr. Slump.