These are images I've found in my graphics hunting excursions that I was unable to find the source for despite considerable effort. If you know where they come from, have more of the set, or have any information regarding these images, please let me know in my gb or email ! ! !
But... You called them bounties, so there's a reward right?
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CASE NO.1
These images all come from the old MMOSite forums as forum avatars. It seems that MMOSite was the type of forum to give you preset images for avatars in addition to or instead of allowing users to upload their own. I was able to find these twentyfour of them via the wayback machine but despite looking at ALL of the images with a similar URL, as well as googling for related URLs and reverse image searching the avatars I do have, I was unable to find more. I originally found them on a graphics sharing site with no original information included and an anonymous uploader.
The images were all found in sequence based on their file name between the ranges of 124 to 129 (inclusive) and POSSIBLY 154 to 178 (inclusive.) 124 to 129 are hard limits as files 123 and 130 were of a different style. 154 and 178 are not hard limits as I was not able to find files 154-158 and file 178. It's possible that the limits are actually 159 to 177 as those were the furthest images I could view.
This leaves us with a minimum of four missing numbers and one missing image (since I have three I was unable to confirm the numbers of,) and a maximum 10 missing numbers and seven missing images. However, if you look at them you'll probably notice that they're in pairs of gendered counterparts, and if we look at which ones are missing this leaves us with two missing boys and four missing girls, in addition to the three extras we have that we don't know the numbers of. So actually, it seems as though theres a minimum of 9 missing numbers and 6 missing images. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
I have to assume they're characters from some MMO due to their origin, but these images originate from the heyday of the MMO (2007~2008) and thus... makes it very hard to pinpoint exactly who they could be without just outright knowing. I had found a few games that users with these avatars seemed to prefer, but they didn't appear to be linked. Also MMOSite is dead so I can't just like, look. Its so fucking hard out here
 124.gif |
 125.gif |
 126.gif |
 127.gif |
 128.gif |
 129.gif |
 159.gif |
 160.gif |
 161.gif |
 163.gif |
 164.gif |
 165.gif |
 166.gif |
 169.gif |
 170.gif |
 171.gif |
 172.gif |
 173.gif |
 174.gif |
 175.gif |
 177.gif |
 unknown #1 |
 unknown #2 |
 unknown #3 |
missing |
Table of counterparts
| masculine | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | missing | missing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | missing | 174 | 173 | 172 | missing | missing | 169 | 170 | missing | unknown #1 | unknown #3 | unknown #2 | 175 | 171 | 177 |
CASE NO.2
These little guys are by far the thing on this list I've looked for the hardest. I've found them all on gifcities archives and while some people did link back to who I have to assume is their original creator, the original creators site was not archived in any way I've been able to view. I have also, embarrassingly, managed to lose said link! I'll put it here when I manage to find it again. I don't know anything else about these despite my efforts, but I have to assume there's probably more of them, as there's plenty more digimon characters they likely would have made. They're all 50x70 aside from the LoZ ones which I assume is because someone added the frames and backgrounds later.
CASE NO.3
Well I'm almost certain that these came from either Tumblr or DeviantArt in the early/mid 2010's. It's just a hunch, really, but that's when nostalgia for 90's magical girl anime was at its peak. Additionally, the art style feels quite 'of the time' and brings up memories of the pixel graphics craze on Tumblr c.2013. It's hard to say that it's exclusively a collection of 90's magical girls, but considering the abscence of the Tokyo Mew Mew girlies I think it's likely as TMM came out around 2002, while Ojamajo's first season was 1999. It is possible the TMM girlies ARE part of this set, but I wouldn't know. Aside from Rayearth, who I found on another graphics aggregate page, I found these all on Enchanting Castle and it's child site. In my opinion, the webmaster of said site has some... interesting views on copyright, credit and IP but that's beside the point at the moment. As you may have guessed, they were entirely unsourced. I also have to assume there's some missing from the set because... Why would you make so many of the sailor senshi but not Usagi? The show is literally named after her, so it's better to assume she probably does exist and is missing.