What manga/anime are these photos from?!
Question: What manga/anime are these photos from!?
I keep seeing pics where the characters are wearing a fox mask!. There are like four atleast I can put on!. a white mask with red cheek stripes on them alot!.
do you know!?
http://s292!.photobucket!.com/albums/mm25/!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
do you know!?
http://s292!.photobucket!.com/albums/mm25/!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
Those masks are often given out / sold at many Japanese festivals!. And a common mode of dress at festivals is kimono's!. You can see that in your example pics, which makes it much harder to identify as they are not in their more common dress / uniforms!.
So it's just a cultural thing, it's similar to how in the United States, face painting is a common activity / booth at carnivals!.
As to the historical / mythical origins, we can only hope that someone else can arrive here & answer that!. Otherwise I can just point you to look up fox legends in Japanese mythology at wikipedia (very common theme in Anime: Naruto, Wolf & Spice, Kannokon, etc!.)!.
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Left most - I want to say Jigoku Shoujo but the animal ears throws it off
http://browse!.minitokyo!.net/1136/jigoku-!.!.!.
Middle - Have several wallpapers of her, she's from an art collection!. *Will edit later if I find it out of the thousands in my archive!.
Of the others, from their general picture quality I believe them to be either wallpapers from art books, or edited in-game art of visual novel or games!. And Japan spits out dozens of these every year with few if any ever making it across international waters so identifying them is a titanic task!.
But I recommend asking this question at a more informed forum like minitokyo, they can prove me wrong:
http://forum!.minitokyo!.net/Www@Enter-QA@Com
So it's just a cultural thing, it's similar to how in the United States, face painting is a common activity / booth at carnivals!.
As to the historical / mythical origins, we can only hope that someone else can arrive here & answer that!. Otherwise I can just point you to look up fox legends in Japanese mythology at wikipedia (very common theme in Anime: Naruto, Wolf & Spice, Kannokon, etc!.)!.
-------------ID
Left most - I want to say Jigoku Shoujo but the animal ears throws it off
http://browse!.minitokyo!.net/1136/jigoku-!.!.!.
Middle - Have several wallpapers of her, she's from an art collection!. *Will edit later if I find it out of the thousands in my archive!.
Of the others, from their general picture quality I believe them to be either wallpapers from art books, or edited in-game art of visual novel or games!. And Japan spits out dozens of these every year with few if any ever making it across international waters so identifying them is a titanic task!.
But I recommend asking this question at a more informed forum like minitokyo, they can prove me wrong:
http://forum!.minitokyo!.net/Www@Enter-QA@Com
never seen it!.!.!.!.!.!.!.masks r weirdWww@Enter-QA@Com