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Four more from the archives (two groups of two)
The top is from a version of "Pop goes the Weasel" from one of those Little Golden Books. Quite possibly NOT an actual little golden book, but something on that line, Little Elf or the like (sorry I don't remember which)
Still it's a nice picture and for whoever it was way back when who wished there that Jane in Disney's Tarzan had lost her boot ONLY (i.e. she still had her stocking) probably as close as one will get)
The Lower is from a variation of a nursery rhyme. In this one, it was
"Sing, sing, what shall I sing
The Cat's ran away with my shoestring
Do, Do what shall I do
The Cat has bitten it clean in two"
In the original it's "the pudding string" (the string you'd use to tie up the cloth bag you'd use for a boiled pudding.) That probably means there are no other illustrations like this, since I have never seen that variant again.
The Top is from a version of the nursery rhyme "Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend my shoe." Technically the image shoe had a lot more (the original had the cobbler and his workshop) However this picture dates from the early days of my collecting, when I cropped pictures down to the character themselves (as opposed to now, when I try and save the whole illustration. And unlike most of the pictures from that time, which I have since replaced with complete copies I haven't been able to track down another copy of this book (it was sold at a small independent bookstore that has since closed, so I can't go back, and it's been so long I've forgotten both cover appearance and title). Pity I'd really like another copy (besides a full version of this picture that book also had a versing of "Cock-a-doodle doo" that I don't have anymore at all that illustrated all four verses (with the dame in one shoe for three of them)
Bottom is the nursery rhyme "Little Girl". Again, not an unfamiliar rhyme, but this is I think the only version where the little girl actually compares the diamond to her shoe (or at least, the only one where she takes her shoe off to do the comparison. I think there was one I saw with the diamond and an empty shoe, but no girl.)
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Went through the SAF book pile in my under bed drawer and found one more picture I could modify
This is a little "blockier" in color than I usually like. The problem is that for this one, I had to take the stocking color from the other leg (much as I had to import it from a later picture in the two SAF Sara Crewe ones), since, on the foot I was working on, the whole of the part of the leg that has stocking is buried under the dress. On one level this is good (if it wasn't, the flare of the top of the boot would be present on that foot as well, and I couldn't actually DO the de-booting.) but it does mean there is no shadowing (actually I'm not sure there is shadowing on any of the pictures in this book, the colors are pretty flat)
Still not that bad. Plus you have that nice toe point in the boot that's still there.
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Bit of a treat for everyone. Over the last few weeks I have been doing some tidying up, and that means I can access a some of the stuff in my collection. So from time to time I will try and put up A FEW of those here (I emphasize "a few", my choice which, my choice when. And if you start trying for the "No sections, no waiting, we need to see absolutely everything in your collection RIGHT NOW", the scans will stop IMMEDIATELY.) Today I'm doing 4
First those three images from that Sailor Moon board book I mentioned with the alternate version of the Cinderella shoe monster
Technically this one doesn't really count as a single shoe picture (though, if your tastes run the same way as mine, mismatched shoes are almost as much of a turn on) But I include to note another difference between this version and the anime (besides the obvious plot ones) Evidently in this universe the straps on Usagi's school shoes are a lot stiffer than they are in the anime. Based on the few times you see her shoes without her feet in them in that it appears that the straps on them are actually elasticized and collapse in when not being worn (episode 2 is probably the best close-up that proves this, when she put her shoe back on after kicking it off she does it by simply putting her foot back inside and pushing, no use of hands to re-adjust the straps to make them tight again)
Hopefully these two are in the right order. Like most of my stored collection, these images were removed from their books long ago and I an no longer sure of the image order (that also means that there is no point in asking me what the cover of the book I got them from looks like, I no longer remember)
Actually at some point I should probably go on one of those manga scan sites and see if any of the shoe losses from the anime are actually in there. I was so sure they wouldn't be (because I knew the anime did not follow the manga all that closely) I don't think I ever actually CHECKED.
And as a final coda a girl from some other anime in a vary senshi-like fuku (sorry about the glare, the scanner started having problem before I got to it, so I had to do this one with camera)
Again, I don't remember what book this came from, Though ironically I remember running through the whole rest of the book trying to figure out where her other shoe had gotten to (when you have a picture like this where the character is otherwise fully dressed and the clothes show no damage, one tends to assume they took off their shoe on purpose (most likely to keep from getting their leg dirty when they sat on their foot) and one expects it to be nearby.
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I actually remember seeing that Sesame Street skit as a kid (I think it was the first time I ever heard the word "puce"
One final image
"Hopefully, my shoe will land somewhere I can find it when I reach the bottom."
That pretty much does it for the altered images for now. Originally I thought I there were four or five more pictures in this Alice I could do, but all of the others had problems that made them too hard. One had the feet in what proved to be an awkward position to paint over. One was too high off the ground (the image doesn't really work unless the foot is more or less in the position it would be if the shoe actually wasn't there. Or one of the reasons that most of the pictures I have done this way feature shoes with fairly low heels) One had the grass actually superimposed over the bottom of the shoes (the outlines are rough enough up close when the line between the foot and the ground is more or less flat, or gentle curves. Dealing with jagged grass is beyond my current skill. A few had backgrounds that were just too complex (I can fill in background when it is more or less a solid color, or even fairly simply, like the stripes of plank flooring, but a field covered with daises, no. And the last two would have worked, except Yutaka Ono decided to make the gold button on Alice's shoes poke out, which meant there was a lump in the outline I couldn't erase away convincingly. So this is probably it, until such time as I get some more books
And that could be quite a while. It hasn't been a good two months with regards for finding books of this type. I have SOME coming in the next shipment I having coming from Rinkya, but I don't think there are any that I haven't already done here (or at least none that would have images that would work for this.)
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I actually managed to do a few more pics due to going back over some books (and digging out a few I didn't think I could do)
More from the Kikaku alice
"Mr. Rabbit come back here with my shoe!"
"Wait, I really need my shoe back"
"Excuse me, Mr. Cat, have you seen a rabbit come by carrying a red Mary Jane like the one I have on?"
"What do you expect? it's hard to balance on one shoe, even if the heel is low."
From Helen Keller
"NO, I'm not giving you your shoe back until you stop throwing it at me"
"Don't worry, this is a school for the blind, no one will notice."
From the Kikaku Wizard of Oz
"Looks like throwing my shoe at it didn't distract it. Chop FASTER!"
I really don't like this image once, but it is literally the only image in the whole book I could manipulate. Those bows tend to pole out over the edges of the top of the shoe, messing up the outline.
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Happy New Year to all of you!
Okay here's the last batch of alternations (well the last batch until I can get my hands on a few more candidate books)
From the Ondori Nutcracker
"I've been a good girl, Uncle. Did you bring me a second shoe for Chistmas?"
"Anyone who saved my son is always welcome in my court, if they are missing a shoe or no."
I originally thought these would be a bit easier than most, since Arai drew Clara's shoes without any appreciable heels or soles (at least, at this distance; her shoe has sole and heel in the closeup where it is hitting the Mouse King). But he also drew her with these really long toe regions, and that makes the pictures look a little weird. Plus, since Ondori Books are MUCH harder to find than nearly all of the other series I collect, what copies I DO have are usually a lot more worn (you can see a fold in the first picture), which makes the job even harder
From the Ondori Wizard of Oz
"As long as you wear this sliver shoe on your foot, and no shoe on the other one, you will have my protection"
"Gee, that was awful nice of you, throwing your shoe at that crow to scare it away"
"If you will do me the kindness of oiling me so I can move, I will be only too happy to help you find your shoe."
"No I don't want a second shoe, I want to go home!"
"Who cares that I lost a shoe? With this broom the wizard will grant my wish and send me home where I have other shoes."
Ironically this particular edition is one where I CAN'T do the melting witch picture because, like the double ribbon in this version, Dorothy loses BOTH her shoes
From the Kikaku version of Ozma of Oz (and probably the fanciest Mary Janes Yutaka Ono has ever drawn)
"Uncle Henry, did you see where my other shoe skittered off to?"
"And I'm holding onto the other one, just to make SURE you don't just walk out of here!"
I originally did this one with the other shoe removed (since it was less work). However I realized that that caused the same problem as there is with the "official shoe loss picture for the Sweet Mother and Child Nutcracker, namely, that, because of the position of the foot and how much of it is poking past the skirt, with no shoe there, it looks like all you are seeing is her knee
"Ruggedo, haven't you heard what I did to the Wicked With of the West? When people take my one of my shoes, I DESTORY them!"
"And I'm KEEPING the Belt!"
That does it for the altered pictures for the moment. However I do have one last start of the year surpise. While wandering around the net, I found a site that was archiving "classic" Peanuts (the re-prints many newspapers started when Shlultz stopped doing new ones" and it looks like at some point the "stolen shoe" strip was chosen. So here is a link to a version in actualy COLOR. Of course I have no idea if this is the original coloration for the strip (I keep thinking Lucy's socks should be a much darker blue than they are here). But until I find a colored original, this will have to do.
http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2013/10/20
Until next time.
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More scan time, more pictures
From the Nutcracker (SAF)
There is actually an experiment here to test how well my alterations are matching. The first picture is mine
"Get away or I'll throw the other one!"
The second is "Official" (in the book that way)
And the third is mine again
"I'll never figure out how she keeps losing her shoes!"
These took me particularly long, as doing all that shading on the stockings was time consuming. Did a good job though, I think.
From the Wizard of Oz (AC)
"Forget your shoe, RUN!"
"What a pretty place"
"Plus there ARE two of them"
"Imagine, they actually thought I would wear TWO shoes!"
"I'm Home"
I had originally planned to do like I did with the Nutcracker above and post the "official" one show picture as well for comparison. But the picture in the copy of the book I was using was too damaged to scan, and the only other scanning copy of this book I have is a set III, whose printing quality is too low to do good scans from.
A Little Princess (K)
"And Then Cinderella took the other slipper and shattered it on the floor, so that no one could ever make her wear two of them again."
This is actually the other Little Princess from the previos scan lot I was having trouble with. The ribbon on Sara's slipper actually extended a little past the edge of her foot, and I had some trouble hiding it.
Florence Nightingale (K)
"Don't cry, I'm sure my other shoe will turn up eventually."
This is the only picture in this book with both of Florence's feet visible (once she become an adolescent, her dresses all are floor length) and it's not a particularly good one. It's a pity since one of the one foot pictures shows that Ono drew her shoes unusually fancy (for him) in that they have little bows on the insteps
The Red Shoes (K)
"Well, at least my spell for keeping them on HALF worked!"
That's all for now. I have one or two books left to do and then it's a hiatus until I get more spare books.
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Managed to get some time on the scanner today so here is round 3
Some Little Red Riding Hood
"Oh good, this matches my shoe"
"My, what big ears you have"
"My what a dirty sock YOU have!"
"Maybe if I give mommy these cookies she'll let me have my other shoe back."
From The Blue Bird (two versions)
"How long did you say the shoe replacement service would take to get here?"
"When will they come, my foot is getting cold!"
"The replacement service sent YOU?"
"Yes, it's very pretty, but how exactly does this help my missing shoe problem?"
"Forget about my shoe, save my LIFE!"
From another version of The Red Shoes
"Don't bother with the other, I think it looks better if I only wear one"
"How many times do I have to tell you, proper girls do NOT go losing their shoes!"
"Can't stop my dreams"
From The Nutcracker
"You leave a stocking up; I'm going the DUTCH route this Christmas."
"Hurry in Uncle, my stocking foot is got soaked from all the melting snow and it's FREEZING!"
"One shoe is a small price to pay for all of this fun!"
From two other editions of A Little Princess/ Sara Crewe
"Look at you; so poor you can only afford one shoe!"
"Quick get out of here before she notices you only have one as well"
From another Lassie Come home
"Quick run before they come to punish your for chewing"
And from another Alice in wonderland
"Well, yes, I suppose walking around in only one shoe DOES look a little odd."
The only downside of this is that there are only three or four more books I can get picture from. After that, I'm out until such time as more scan-able duplicates come into my possession. Technically there are some more pictures in some of the books I have already done that I could probably do, but doing the same character again an again would likely become tedious. And I am NEVER doing those striped stockings on Alice again (BTW It turns out I was wrong about that being the only time in the series someone had striped stockings. Ono also used them in this series on Little Lord Fauntleroy.)
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Originally posted by lgwolf32
For those of you who have Netflix, or if you can find these movies anywhere else, I have found two different one shoe scenes from two different movies
Odd Thomas- this movie is about a man named odd who has the ability to see ghosts. In the beginning of the movie, a girl appears to him to warn her about a man who killed her( who he was talking to). After the killer runs, the camera zooms out, and you can see the girl, who looks like she was hit by a car( which is why she is dead). She is wearing only one sneaker, because the other one was supposedly knocked off.
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found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq60_9OJKu8
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Next round
Orig. Lassie Come Home (two versions)
"This is what happens to naughty doggies who chew up the Mistress's shoes!"
"I forgive you, be free"
"Actually, I like things better this way"
There was going to be a fourth, but it turns out that because the start image for that is on the inside cover of the book and the book is board I can't get the image close enough to the scanner lens to make it sharp enough to draw over.
From another Alice Version. In fact this is the Wonderland to the Looking Glass in the last series (why Ono decided to go 1920's clothing for this and standard Tenniel 1820's clothing for the Looking Glass I have no idea
"When you said you wanted Mary Jane to smoke in your hookah, I didn't think you meant my SHOE!"
" I know theft of a shoe is still theft and needs to be punished, but isn't this a little EXCESSIVE?"
Originally I was also going to do one from the Looking Glass that's in the same series as the Wonderland from the last batch with the furious Alice. However it proved to not be doable. Oddly (given that sequels in these series are usually handled by the same person who did the first book) While the wonderland in that series is Ono, the Looking glass is Takahasii. And that is the problem. On the surface the book looked easy since the shoes are much simpler than Ono's and there are a LOT of pictures with Alice's feet in good positions. But when I actually tried I found that Takahasii's shading combined with surface dirt on the book, meant that the stockings changed color too much along their length for me to take a covering patch off them that looked convincing. So that is tabled, at least until I find a cleaner spare copy (probably hard to do as that set is now also out of print, I think.
From the SAF version of Sara Crewe (their title)/A Little Princess (the actual title of the book). Yes this is the same story that the A Little Princess Sara anime (with it's shoe breakage/removal/stocking wear out episode) is based on.
"You're telling us that in India girls actually wear TWO shoes?"
"All Sisters of the Single Shoe deserve to be pampered from time to time"
The main challenge I had with these two was I actually needed to make THREE scans to do them, as Sara's stockings are not visible in any of the "well off" pictures, so I needed to scan a "poor" Sara to get the color (and before you ask, no, I am not planning nor can I do a version of one of the "poor Sara" pictures. The feet are at bad angles and in any case Takahasii made her shoes and stockings so shabby and worn that I could not get the texture right.)
I also decided to leave the fourth girl (the one in the chair in the back, reading) alone in picture 1. The heel would have made modification hard plus, with only one foot showing, I thought it looked better with a shoe than without one.
Incidentally there is actually a shoe error with her. In this picture it looks like she has on mary janes. However in all of the others she has on boots, button up ones, it looks like (the next picture happens right after this one in time, so it isn't a "she changed shoes" thing) Evidently, Takahasii changed his mind on footwear, and forgot to come back and correct things. What makes it funny is that he also apparently didn't tell the colorist (or is trying to cover up) so that girls shoes and stockings in this picture are the exact same color! (and no they do not EVER do that on purpose in these books). It's a bit like a picture early on in the SMC Wizard of oz, where Dorothy's Kansas boots are colored in the sliver of the silver shoes)
These are probably the last I'll do for a week or so. Varios events like some work on our bathroom (which means I have to stay downstairs most of the time to keep an eye on the cat so she doesn't get out) and my Dad being off work this upcoming week (which means there will be someone using the room with the scanner pretty much all day every day) means I probably won't get another opportunity to scan for a while. Plus as I said I'm running out of images that will work, so I'm trying to parse them out a bit.
Oh before I forget, there is one minor piece of info that might be of use to someone. While trolling around looking for images of books in this series I don't have (so if I find someone who can actually GO to Japan or lives there, I can give them the images so they know which books I am looking for) I discovered that, while Propura Shadako (the publisher of all of these books) seems to be stopping the physical publication of them, they seem to be scanning some of them to make downloadable digital versions. All of the sets I've seen so far are a lot shorter than the original book sets but if the keep going, the books may eventually require no more input to get than a computer or cellphone (well a computer or cellphone capable of taking download from Japan, there are a lot of digital "blocks" between Japan and everywhere else.)
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Well done I like them, I have done some manipulation also but used shots from the TV series Futurama. I up loaded them to my web site the link is in the members list. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more. |
I was sort of afraid you'd bring those pictures up. I've seen them in your gallery. In fact to be perfectly honest, they were what convinced me that using MS paint was NOT going to give me the results I wanted. That isn't meant to be a disparagement of the job you did, I'm just a lot more fussy and anal than your are about making it look "natural" in a manner that pleases ME.
There are a LOT of limitations I have found which means that, while there WILL be more, the supply will probably NOT last all that long since I'll run out of images that can be manipulated pretty soon (or at least, capable of being manipulated with my skills and resources that will yield a result I'm happy with. Amongst the limitations I have found.
1. While the jobs look from a distance like they can be done with a simple fill button and eraser (fill in the shoe with the color of the stocking then erase it's lines) that does not work since by definition ANY image you scan to a computer gets pixilated in the process, so even apparently solid spaces are all little dots of various colors (making "fill" useless) I basically have to do it by coping a little chunk of the stocking and pasting it over the shoe surface again and again to cover it (that's why the foot lines look a little thick, I can't actually cover all the way to the edge without destroying the outline.
2. Since I'm only really interested in single shoe pictures, any starter illustration that shows no feet, or only one, isn't really worth it
3. I can't do any picture where the girl is not wearing socks or stockings, because then I'd have to figure out how to draw toes freehand, and I don't have enough skill for that. Theoretically I can find another picture by the same illustrator of a character who is barefoot and swap feet, but that requires finding a character whose feet are in the exact same position and scale, and that is hard)
4. I can only make it "work" for some foot positions. Since I can only subtract, not add, I'm basically limited to those pictures where the character has their feet either pointed straight forward, where they have it raised and forward (like the Alice with the deer) or where one is set behind the other so that the tricky bits are covered.
The main "tricky" bit is the usually the heel. Unlike most of the other illustrators in this series, Yutaka Ono (whose work is the one I'm mainly using) DOES draw low heels on those types of shoes that would have them (most of the others leave the soles perfectly flat, unless it's a close-up) so you either have to try and fill in the heel as well (which makes the foot too thick) or fill it in with the background, which makes it look a bit a bit weird since people don't generally keep their feet elevated for such low distances (that's why if you look at the "queen Alice" picture, the heel of the stocking on her shoeless foot looks a little blocky, it's actually covering he shoe heel as well.
This picture will sort of show the problem 
However much I'd LIKE to do this one, the pointed foot is in an awkward position, twisted slightly too far forward, so that the gap between the heel and the rest of the sole is a bit too deep to shave off convincingly. Pity because I've always really liked this picture (it always amuses me that Yutaka drew a Dorothy SO neat she would actually re-lace and re-tie her boots after taking them off.)
By extension that means I probably won't be doing any pictures with actual high heels. I can't erase the heel and make the foot look normal in position. Add on that, with these images any high heels tend to have very pointed toes and Yutaka doesn't usually have his older character wear socks or stockings and you get a triple refusal (and before you ask, no I cannot just pretend they are all wearing flesh colored pantyhose. It doesn't fit with the period, and the toes would still be wrong) The only reason I could do the red shoes one is she had her foot in that odd ballet pointe postion.
4. Speaking of boots, I really can't do anything with any character with those either. Yutaka Ono has a very distinctive way of drawing boots, distinctive enough that one of the ways I use to work out if he/she is the illustrator is to look for "The Boots of Ono" (though due to the way names are written in Japan I should probably call it "The Boots of Yutaka") (see boots above) He alone like to put in those soles and laces. Unfortunately, another big part of the way he draws them is to put a "flare" to the top of them so the boots actually have a gap between them at the foot at the top. Looks great and is accurate but makes shaving down the foot undoable. The First Daddy Long legs pic is probably the closest I'll get, and that only because she is actually wearing something more like oxfords than the usual ankle boots, so no flare (actually I just realized something, This edition is the only one in the whole series with a character in oxfords and the Daddy Long Legs in the SMC series (illustrated by Takahasii, not Ono) is the only one with a picture of a character in tennis shoes (all books in these series are public domain classics, so most of the stories were written before sneakers were common).
5. Every now and them, I find an actual mistake the original illustrator made that makes the job harder. That's why the Alice with the deer has that extra "thin" blue stripe on the stocking. When I went to do the work, I found that Yutaka had actually made a mistake in the original. Alice's shoe strap in the original is approximately the same width as one of the stripes in her stockings, so technically the stripes on both sides should have been the same color (yellow, I think) Only there weren't, Yutaka skipped one. If I COULD do fill in this could have easily been solved (just reverse the colors of all the stripes down the foot. But since I couldn't I had to add that thin stripe to break the yellow up (it sort of works, since it is where her foot would be bending) He actually made the same mistake in the other, the stocking stripes are alternating on the back of the foot (where it's yellow on one leg, it's blue on the other, and vice-versa) and parallel on the other side (where it's yellow it's yellow and where it's blue, it's blue) Other's are the broken outline on the "shoeless foot" in the Red Shoes pic (where her leg crosses the frame of the mirror) I'll mention others as I do their pictures.
6. Doing the scans puts a lot of stress on the books, so I'm only doing them with books I have spare copies of. So there may be some coming weeks or months down the line as duplicates I don't have now pass my way.
I'll see what I can do about a few more images tomorrow.
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Hi all.
Out of boredom I decided to try my hand at a few picture manipulations, to see how easy it was to do them or more accurately to do them in a matter that would please my rather, restrictive rules (in simple terms, I don't like the effect of just making blobby draw overs with MS paint, or bad erasures. To please me, a manipulation has to look as much as possible as if it ISN'T a manipulation, as if that was how it was drawn originally.) Having done a few I will say to the credit of those who have done so, it is a LOR harder than I though it would be. But on the whole I'm surprisingly happy with the results I got
SAF OZ
Original (unchanged) (this is the only one I'm putting the original up for)
"Corrected" by me for textual accuracy
Few from Alices
"Pardon me Mr. Mock Turtle and Griffin, have you seen my other shoe?"
Well, If you won't give it back, I'm done with you!
"No I LIKE to only wear one"
Alice is crowned Queen Monosandalos
The above two were particularly hard to do, because of the striped stockings. Fortunately I think the illustrations in this book are the only time Yutaka Ono gave a character socks or stockings with a pattern. Everyone else has solid ones, I think (in fact that was one of my big advantages. Because of the way the illustrators for by books draw, most use little or NO shading, so mapping colors on was actually doable. Plus while Ono often provides ABSURD amounts of detail on his shoes [compared to the other illustrators] he, and all of the others really provide little or no detail on socks, so the way they look after I'm done with the manipulations really is how they'd look if that is how they'd been drawn originally )
An acceptance letter to Halfshod Academy (actually, originally from a version of Daddy Long Legs)
Meeting her new roommates
"I think I look better this way, don't you?"
The above is actually from a version of The Red Shoes (it's after she's adopted but before she gets the second pair) And no I'm am not planning to do one from when she DOES get the red shoes (I tried but all of those pictures are either from bad angles for re-draw or from during or after the ball, when she isn't wearing stockings under them (in which case, I can't really do anything)
I'll probably do a few more down the road when I have the house to myself again (I need my parents scanner to do the initial scans and I only have access to that when I'm alone in the house) But this should be enough to whet everyone's appetites
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There actually is a supposedly a real female shoe loss way back in the Doctor Whoseries (too far back for me to have seen it; and for all I know, that could be one of the "lost" Doctor Who episodes). Apparently when one of the previous doctors abandoned his current companion you actually saw her outside the TARDIS in a wasteland, missing a shoe, banging on the door trying to get let back in.
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Two scans from a book in my collection (based on what little English there is, I assume it is an art book related to the Pia Carrot dating game series
The first (actually it's second in the book but I want to cover this one first) is not all that good. One of the people you can date is apparently a windsurfing fan, and if you get one of the "good" endings there seems to be a short animated clip where she kicks off her flip flops before running into the water
The other on the other hand is GREAT
There are actually quite a few odd things about this image. For one, it doesn't seem to actually correspond to any of the actual game (it's in a "bonus box")
The character does not appear in any other picture (in fact I looked up the games online, and unless the romaization under her feet is very bad, there is no character in any of the games with that name (the closest I could find is a "Sayaka" but that is in 3. So I think this is a piece of random bonus art. Which means, somewhere, out there may be a bigger version of the image Probably a poster, based on the arrangement of the picture (though I will admit that before posting this I did a quick check online for such as poster and did not see anything.)
There is also something odd about the perspective of her stocking foot. Based on the position of her leg, I'd guess that what we are seeing is the top of her foot. But on it's own the foot looks like it is the sole (except no one could hold their leg like that and have the sole be uppermost)
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well, to be fair, in most animes the character is missing their shoe for far less time than Sara was, and/or hopping (i.e. not putting the unshod foot on the ground). Or it happens in a school with smooth floors or they get carried and so on. It's not like socks and stockings develop spontaneous holes just because they no longer have a shoe covering them; the holes are due to wear. In the Gunbuster clip back about a page ago (where the character is again running in one shoe for a long time) her stocking gets just as torn up as it is here.
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Space Dandy, "Lovers are Trendy, Baby"
While on a fake date with Dandy, Miss Scarlet get the heel of her shoe stuck in a crack in the pavement and slips her foot out of it to pull it out. Dandy then tries and manages to break the heel off.
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