Artist Jed Henry has taken famous characters from the video game console pantheon and reconfigured them as samurais on centuries-old Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The results are pretty clever — I’m liking how Mega Man’s defeated robot masters have become a cloud of oni. Henry’s not done with this series yet, as his next illustration will dial up the direness of Mario Kart. UPDATED 7/12: Henry’s been busy adding more of these, check them out below.
Semi-related: Real-life adventures in Japanese art history, both of which are debatably safe for work but completely hilarious: 1, 2.
https://gizmodo.com/japanese-fart-scrolls-prove-that-human-art-peaked-centu-5886529
https://gizmodo.com/the-raccoon-scrotum-monster-and-other-awful-creatures-5892181
[Jed Henry via Boing Boing]
