Alright everybody. I think it's time we start a thread centered on one of the cutest and most underrated characters out there: Juri.Juri has one of my all-time favorite visual designs for a character; everything ranging from her color-balance to her fishy features (you gotta love those fishy ears and tail) is well-designed and cohesive. Plus she's just one of the damned cutest characters I've ever seen.Juri was an announcer for the Dark Tournament (along with Koto the fox-girl) in Yu Yu Hakusho. She was a relatively minor character and thusly isn't extremely popular or well known, but now is the time to fix that. Post your pics of Juri, and let's give her the love she missed out on.
I always wondered why Japanese mermaids had ear-gills, til I took biology and found out that ears ARE gills. Now I wonder who the clever artist was who first started drawing them this way.
The world needs more of them
>>377569What? Uhh, how exactly do you figure that ears are gills? I've never heard of any such thing and I think that there are plenty of animals with both.
I continued watching yu Yu Hakusho at this part just to see her ! Sadly, I lost my folder with the few good pictures I had :(
>>377890While I've never head of such a thing myself, it does seem plausible to me considering that evolution is pretty much the ultimate jury-rigger. And an animal or animals having both ears and gills isn't really a disproof against this claim, just a creature which happens to have both.
>>377569The ears are gills? I thought they were just fins. That's what they look like to me. Gills are usually slits in or around the respiratory area, not some sort of extension around the head.But I guess I'll take your word for it.
Personaly I was a fan of Koto but Juri was great too. Here's some pics of the two of them because that's all I got of her.
and a few bad screen shots
ugh, i think she's stupid.
Blargh, seems there really isn't that much for her. Looks like it might be time to create some original content -_-
The ONLY picture I have of her, man what I wouldnt do for some more art of her, or Koto, or even better, some nice Koto/Juri
>>378365Unfortunately, there are many of us out there who can't draw up to GOOD fanart standards. -_-'
http://rapidshare.com/files/50318950/SexyTime.zip
>>377965http://news.softpedia.com/news/Did-our-ancestors-breathe-through-their-ears-16611.shtmlJury-rigging seems to be the right term all right. Suddenly it makes sense why our ears are connected to our nose and throat.
>>378497Ah well depending on people's tastes, anything I draw wont see the light of day unless I'm super-satisfied with it, see you next year :P