One of the first Akita Blog visitors goes by the nick name ‘Peking Foxie’. She’s is a huge Akita fan and I’ve written about her Akita drawings in a previous post. Let’s see what she’s working on now…. She has just finished a reference sheet for an Akita character named ‘Icefur’. The first one she [...]

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T-Nell, a semi professional photographer, she also happens to by my aunt , has chosen a picture of Kensho to participate in a photo contest. This contest is held by Canon and you can vote as per May, 5th 2008. Please visit the photo contest website and help to get this picture of Kensho high [...]

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Today I found this amazing gallery of an Akita fan: Pekingin-Ankka’s deviantART gallery. She draws and shapes different kinds of material into Akita’s. Mostly drawings and plushies but you can even get an Akita tail to accompany you best suit or see marzipan Akita candy. It’s very clear that this Finnish girl, Terella Tanskanen, just [...]

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Kino’s Journey: the Beautiful World (キノの旅 -the Beautiful World-, Kino no Tabi -the Beautiful World), shortened to Kino’s Journey, is a Japanese light novel series written by Keiichi Sigsawa, with illustrations by Kohaku Kuroboshi. The series was published in 2000 and since a Playstation version and animated movie have been produced. The main protagonist in [...]

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Silver Fang (1986), a 21-episode anime series, is based on a manga of the same name in 1984 created by Yoshihiro Takahaski. He was reportedly inspired by a news article which told of hunting dogs that had been abandoned by their masters and had begun living as wild animals… This Japanese anime tells the story [...]

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