In a 2018 Kotoba Magazine interview, Araki reveals DIO’s look - short-trimmed blond hair and ‘beautiful muscles’ - was visually inspired by Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure photoshoot/homage by Shiseido hair and make-up artist Tadashi Harada.
A big fan of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga series (as well as the Araki’s previous work, Baoh), Harada said that he grew up reading the JoJo manga series pretty much “in real-time” as it was being serialised in Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump magazine, and that he was greatly inspired by the hairstyles, fashion, and poses as seen in the manga series.
He was so inspired that, as a beautician or make-up artist, he wanted to see what he could do if he were to apply his skills to recreating those iconic looks from the manga series in a way that would make sense in reality (quote via sgcafe.com).
not to be the exact kind of person who would say this shit but i just got a semi-decent bread knife and whoa damn does it beat the hell outta the french picnicking knives i use for everything
if you aren’t writing muzzy fanfiction then 2019 is not for you
g0m:
1994 - Earthbound aka MOTHER 2 released. Rookie game designers Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori are struck with inspiration while playing - what if this, but slightly worse in every way? The duo begin work on their pitch to Nintendo senior management immediately
1995 - Tajiri and Sugimori lay out their ambitious plan for a monster-collecting RPG to Nintendo executives. The concept is heavily inspired by Tajiri’s childhood hobby of bug collecting and Sugimori’s pet cat that could speak in the voice of a man. Nintendo OKs the idea, on the condition that its name be changed to “Pocket Monsters” [as opposed to Sugimori’s original pitch of “Bastard Insects”]
1996 - Pokémon Red and Pokémon Japan Is King Fuck To Western Devils are released in Japan. These would later be renamed Red and Blue for international release
1996-2016 - fanbase fucking milked
1997 - That one episode that gave those kids seizures
2000 - Owners of game boy-to-game boy color link cables afforded enormous social capital
2001 - First adult to buy a pokémon game shunned and exiled by his home village
2003 - I get more into Beyblades
2006 - Tensions run high in Game Freak as developers try to think of a way to increase the pokémon series’ profile in the wake of the of flagging sales numbers and reduced cultural relevance. It is unanimously decided to give the male protagonist of the next game a really stupid hat
2011 - Guy who invented a pokémon that’s just a pile of garbage and named it “Garbador” awarded nobel prize
2012 - Generation VI Pokémon designer closes eyes and jabs finger into open dictionary 72 times
2013 - Year of Luigi, never forget
2016 - Funny to see you all still talking about pokémon when I’m over here lifting weights. And oh yeah I have a girl friend
