With anime aesthetics often skewing towards more youthful-looking characters than American comics, and Shimada’s work particularly so, the Wonder Woman Humikane Shimada Ver. This time, he’s working with figure maker Kotobukiya on a salute to DC’s, and arguably American comics in general’s, most famous superheroine. In addition to designing characters for anime and video games, Shimada is also involved in figure design work, with previous projects in the Busou Shinki and Frame Arms Girl lines. Now, after having added cute anime girls to the concepts of war on the land, sea, and air, Shimada’s latest project is one with thoroughly American roots: Wonder Woman. ![]() But a look at his resume will tell you he’s a very Japanese artist, having contributed to multimedia franchises that could only have come from the home nation of anime, such as Strike Witches (teenage girls in bikini bottoms put on special propeller boots to become fighter planes), Girls und Panzer (schoolgirls fight in competitive tank battles as an extracurricular activity) and Kantai Collection (real-world historical warships are anthropomorphized as cute girls). ![]() Strike Witches and Girls und Panzer character designer reimagines the American icon.Īs you can probably guess from his name, Humikane Shimada is a Japanese character designer and illustrator.
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