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Anime fan art inserts the cast of Madoka Magica into classic rock album covers

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By Casey Baseel

There are a couple of things anime fans have come to expect from the magical girl genre. Magic and girls are on the list, of course, plus things like flowers, sparkles, and probably a parfait or two.

What they usually don’t anticipate are decapitations, handguns, and implied homicides, but they got all that and more in "Puella Magi Madoka Magica," the 2011 TV series that defied magical girl conventions with the same gusto it crammed words into its title. Not only did the hard-edged anime win over legions of fans, it also inspired one to insert the Madoka cast into some iconic rock album covers.

The name Tatsuya Shingyoji probably isn’t familiar to most anime fans. Aside from penning manga based on the video games "Graduation" and "The King of Fighters '94," Shingyoji served as an animator in the 1980s on a handful of adult anime with titles like "Escalation: Tonight We Do It Hardcore."

But while Shingyoji may not be on the frontlines of anime production these days, he does seem to keep up with the latest hits, as evidenced by his account on image-sharing website Pixiv where he posted the Madoka-infused drawings he created (see below).

Although the titular Madoka is the series’ protagonist, a lot of Shingyoji’s artwork reflects the ensemble nature of the show. Some of the other one-girl covers tie into certain well-known traits of the characters. For example, scarlet-tressed Kyoko is always eating, so naturally she becomes the stand-in for the cow on the cover of Pink Floyd’s "Atom Heart Mother."

Source: Kotaku Japan

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This kind of fan art I can get behind. Cool, tastefully done, and an interesting twist on existing material (album covers in this case). Most fan art I see these days is either confusing, or just sub-standard. Or else, ecchi/hentai. Not the kind of art I'm into, so this is a refreshing change.

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