The Ainu and the Indian

This is a special pic that took SO much of my energy to get through. Oh man this was a huge project; I had to tackle doing this and keeping up with tests and essays. Anway, this celebrates Thanksgiving Day, which also happens to be close to HoroHoro-chan's birthday!

In the Shaman King anime (episode 32), the shamans are in America looking for the next tournament grounds, when Horo befriends the American Indian boy Allen. I just got to thinking how these two are exactly the same, yet from opposite sides of the world. Horo of the Japanese Ainu, and Allen of the North American Indians. I tend to get cultural like this and so, in the festive spirit of the month, I drew the pair together, exchanging outfits. I also included Kororo to match Horo, and also Dodo, Allen's bear spirit.

Horo looks way different, but I can't resist hair beads! And Allen, sheesh he was so hard to get right! But it was worth all the toil for this! ^_^

All this was done in Illustrator. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!