Want to know what your favorite animated characters would look like if they swapped genders? Here you go!
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Imagine princesses taking on the role of a prince. Imagine Cruella de Vil being a man instead of a woman. Well, she’s basically a man anyway, but you get the point! Sakimichan’s art series depicts 13 animated characters with gender swaps.
Thanks to artist Sakimichan, who posted this series on Imgur. Check them out below for a closer look!
Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
Ashitaka & San (Princess Mononoke)
Sophocles & Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle)
Beau & Beast (Beauty & The Beast)
Esmereld (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Urs (The Little Mermaid)
Pocahon (Pocahontas)
Hades (Hercules)
Els (Frozen)
Cruel (101 Dalmatians)
Jaq Frost (Rise of the Guardians)
Source: sakimichanThis article originally appeared on BuzzWok
I take one thing back: The Howl’s Moving Castle painting is spot on. I believe that gorgeous woman could actually play the part of Howl. And that boy really looks completely out of his element.
I was REALLY nervous about leaving an honest comment… but everyone else feels exactly how I do. The male version of Esmeralda would be a muscular dude, swashbuckling even. Ursulla would be a purple John Polito or Bob Hoskins — I’d pay money to see THAT! All of these paintings are of attractive, effeminate young men. The only one that comes close to working for me is Maleficent, but even he has a little bit of pec cleavage showing. I do not see masculinity in these paintings… Or, is that the point of the whole exercise? I did a drawing… Read more »
All well and good. Now let’s do the same for the less *attractive* animated characters. Show me a fat, female Homer Simpson and a fat, female Peter (sorry, forgot his last name) from Family Guy.
P.S. Wasn’t the evil octopus lady from Little Mermaid rather plump? Why is the male version fit and slender?
in western history,
those faces are historically male, until in the 1930s the success and acceptance (and lust) by men, of the hollywood wiemar-german star marlene dietrich with her mannish face, mannerisms, clothing caused the breech that allowed what was a male face to be considered acceptably female
nov 1935:
Marlene Dietrich has laid aside the masculine pose and is devoting MARLENE DIETRICH has said “good-bye” to mannish modes, such as that in which she is pictured above, and has decided to become truly feminine in her frocking again.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/47500163
those clothes are historically male too
This is not so new. Every aspiring artist packin’ a Wacom pen and a deviantart account is doing those things now. What is apparent is that those men portrayed are all very young, very clean-shave and rather feminine. One one hand this certainly has artistic reasons: Those young internet artist have all grown up on manga and favor that Bishōnen style that seems to be very modern now. But I think it is worth it looking at it from a gender perspective too. The question is: what is the “equivalent” male to the original female characters? Is it as it… Read more »
On some levels I really agree here… the young princes should be like the young, untested princes (or just callow youth heroes in general) from stories like Iron John, The Sword in the Stone or, in a modern example, David Eddings’ Belgariad, which would support the very late teenaged looking models featured here but… on the other hand, I would like to see an Ariel that looked like a young Triton, an Esmereld that looked like an actual Roma leader (big, fierce mustaches and all that) and an Els that looked like a big, burly Viking type guy–to fit with… Read more »
Holy crap YES finally somebody says it!!!