This came from a vintage issue of Japan's Animage (from 1986), showing early drawings of 1987's upcoming "Original Video Animation" feature film "Wicked City". A major film achievement for Japanese Studio Madhouse and one of the finest Fully Adult Features around, these sketches (which don't actually appear in the film) show off the actual character designs of hero Taki, heroine Makie, and some of the nasty beasts they encounter, as they are in the finished project. The image of Makie holding her wine glass exemplifies the sophisticated, classy sexual appeal that the film and her character has(its kept my attention since my first viewing in the mid 1990s). There's been a depressing lack of appreciation (or decent media) on the web for the film or the imaginative pulp novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi which it is based, so I decided to share this....
