Sublime seduction.

I recalled my childhood days,
I as one of those generations whose main loophole as being glued to the T.V. Set.
The usual menus of my living room adventures were watching western cartoons like Might Thor, Moby Dick, Gulliver, and The Herculoids. These are all under the banner of “Hanna-Barberra”.
There were occasional oriental cartoons like Gigantor and Marine Boy but they seemed so Americanized,
like titans in chains.

Then suddenly,
the Philippines was invaded by Japanese cartoons.
The invasion was lead by Voltes V.
and unlike Gigantor and Marine Boy,
Voltes V was untouched by U.S. hands
and that’s more like it!

The Japanese animations were free from Western influences,
alterations and maintained its oriental exoticness.
The Japanese Animations (Nowadays, they were called “Animes”)
introduced me to new perspectives regarding “cartoon” subjects:
Giant Robots and Uber-technologies need not be tools of villains;
An animation character should not shy away from “death”.
Japanese Animation also taught me about certain radical artistic insertions I called “Sublime seductions.”
I don’t know if the term “Sublime Seduction” had been coined before,
but I do know that Japanese Animations inserted some subjects considered
“Taboo” or forbidden for Western cartoons.
Voltes V is a convenient example,
there as a scene where Megumi Oka,
the one and only female member of the Voltes Team,
jumps to evade a whip lashed at her.
She landed safely but her red mini-skirt flares up,
revealing her white undies.
Being unaccustomed to such a display,
I as dumbfounded:
No female cartoon character I’ve seen dared to show off what she ears beneath her skirt,
unknowingly or other wise.

From Voltes V, I’ve seen other notable “Anime” girls who show off their underwear,
from Princess (Jun Shirotori) of Battle of the Planets, (Gatchaman) to Aika and Najica.
Then I asked myself, “What’s all about white panties?”
Perhaps, white panties are some form of sexual fetish for pre-adolescent to adolescent Japanese boys.
“Why white?” Again I ask myself.
Perhaps being white is more candid than with colors…I really don’t know.
I’ve made some scant research about this subject and came out with the word, “Hentai”…
Hentai is a Japanese word meaning “Taboo” or “perversion”.
It is also referred to as “Ecchi”. There are those who classify “Ecchi” as mild sexiness like panty shots, pin-ups, and cheesecake stuffs.
Then, there are those who classify “Hentai” as hardcore pornography,
sexually deranged and utterly absurd.
Then, there are those write-ups about “Hentai” (and “Ecchi”) as depended on the magnitude of sexual preferences.
Well. I’m for the milder things and decided to call milder “Hentai” as “Ecchis”, just to differentiate.

Nowadays, modern “animes” exhibits skinny, effeminate looking male characters and mostly,
these so-called male characters tends to be sexier than their female counterparts.
These animes make me sick and I don’t give a damn if its part of Japanese Culture. (The Noh plays et al.)

I can’t tolerate this kind of mush so I decided to create my very own sexy manga, as tribute to those gorgeous female Japanese Animation characters I’ve enjoyed in the past…It’s about a sexy and determined Japanese girl battling worthy opponents and I call this piece….Lady Kamikaze!