Clever Artist Re-Designs Disney And Other Famous Movies In An Anime Style And It's Seriously Cool

Known on social media as "The Duck Lord," this clever artist has re-designed famous movie scenes and posters like Lilo and Stitch and How To Train Your Dragon in the Japanese Anime Style and it's really phenomenal.

Elana

• Published in Disney
• October 12, 2021

Filipino artist and illustrator Ethan Seth Abrea is a huge fan of both Spider Man and Anime who is only 21 years old but has been creating art since he was a young teenager and that early start in life has most surely played a significant role in how amazing his art today is. Intentionally influenced by his dedication to anime, much of his original art and fan art clearly invokes the style of art you'd expect to see when enjoying anime.

Abrea, whose online artistic alter ego is "The Duck Lord," has created multiple series over time but taking Disney movies (and a few other popular animated films like Shrek for example,) and redesigning movie posters and famous scenes in an anime style has turned out to be both clever and genuinely phenomenal. It's not uncommon for artistic Disney fans who also love anime to re-create Disney characters in an anime style but Abrea's work definitely stands apart from the rest.

It's easy to be both a fan of Disney and anime so whenever a clever and skilled illustrator brings to the two concepts together, it's just as easy to be excited about that. You can keep up with The Duck Lord, Ethan Seth Abrea, by following him on DeviantArt and Facebook.

1. Ariel, The Little Mermaid

2. Elsa, Frozen 2

3. Mulan

4. Hotel Transylvania

According to Wikipedia:

"Anime is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan. In Japan and in Japanese, anime describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. However, outside of Japan and in English, anime is colloquial for Japanese animation and refers specifically to animation produced in Japan."

5. Beauty and the Beast

6. Peter Pan

7. Brave

8. How To Train Your Dragon

9. Shrek

10. Aladdin

Kotaku, a video-game based website that originated from Gawker often features the latest news regarding anime, too, explains:

"In Japanese, anime is written as “アニメ” (literally, “anime”) and is short for the word animation (アニメーション or animeeshon). The rub is how the word is used, both in Japan and abroad."

Kotaku also explains that "shortening words" is quite common in Japanese, and that if the language, "is able to make something shorter, you can bet that it will." They also write that the word anime itself isn't a particularly old word and was originally only used in the animation business in Japan.

It's quite interesting how the west has transformed things in a unique way in that sense.

11. Princesses and Villains

12. Mulan

13. Beauty and the Beast

14. The Little Mermaid

15. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

16. "Stickers" (Pixar's Cars)

17. Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)

18. Mulan

19. Beauty and the Beast

20. The Little Mermaid

There are five main types of anime, too: shonen, shoujo, seinen, josei, and kodomomuke. Each of the five types has a different target demographic audience.

Shonen anime are made "specifically for younger boys," featuring physically strong protagonists, martial arts, and a firm emphasis on friendship. Shoujo anime is considered an a relative or mirror of Shonen, and has a target demographic audience of young girls with story lines that focus on romance and interpersonal relationships, but there's usually also some element of fighting, too.

Seinen are similar to Shonen, but much darker, more violent, and more sophisticated stories. Sometimes Seinen are satirical or psychological in nature as well.

Like the relationship of Shonen to Shouju, Josei has a similar relationship to Seinen with a target audience of adult women. Comicbook.com says that Josei are "more erotic, intense, and dark subjects than other genres."

Kodomomuke are anime directed generally towards young children. Some of the most famous anime in the west are Kodomomuke, like Pokemon!

21. Mulan

22. Sleeping Beauty

23. Lilo and Stitch

24. Cars

Whether you're a fan of anime, a fan of Disney, or a fan of both, it's hard not to enjoy and appreciate the artistic freedom that fans of multiple genres seem to have when re-creating characters in their own style and imagery. Ethan's Disney fan artwork may be heavily influenced by his adoration for anime, but it's every bit as amazing as a fan who isn't so obsessed with anime.

Elana