Kosuke Fujishima Ears
I've got most of the Ah! My Goddess trade paperbacks. And I don't even like Harem/Romantic-Comedy Genre manga. I don't even like one of the main characters, Belldandy. The series is simply too saccharine for my taste.
But I can't resist Kosuke Fujishima's art and design. He's got a genuine panache for both fabric and mechanics. It's for that reason that I even love You're Under Arrest.
Now, I've heard of "Sakura Wars" way back when it was just a video game. And I completely ignored it through its rise in pop culture. Ain't no way I'm going to watch anything based on a video game. (That doesn't have Angelina Jolie or Milla Jovovich in it.)
But watching some old anime, I sit through a trailer of the Sakura Wars TV series, and there are those ears. Those weird sticking-straight-out-of-their-heads-Kosuke-Fujishima-ears. That's the other thing that is particular to him. They kind of bug me, but what are you going to do?
So, here I am, giving an old TV show based on an older video game a chance, despite my better instinct. Simply because of the character designer. Let's hope there was something to the phenomenon it was in Japan.
