History Anime / MissHokusai

* DoesNotLikeShoes: While she doesn't go barefoot ''outdoors'', Oei ''never'' wears tabi, [[ExposedToTheElements even when her geta sink into the snow]]. Even as a child when she wore straw sandals, she didn't wore tabi in the snow.

''Miss Hokusai'' is a 2015 Japanese animated feature film directed by Keiichi Hara (who is also known for directing ''{{Anime/Colorful}}''). It is based on the manga of the same name by Hinako Sugiura and produced by Creator/ProductionIG.

* IllGirl: O-Nao is blind from birth, but also has a delicate body that makes her susceptible to illness as well.

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* HeroicSelfDeprication: O-Ei narrates at the end, Hokusai on his death bed lamented that if he lived 10, or even 5, years longer, he could have "finally become a real artist". She calls him out on how crazy that sounds coming from him.

* AmbiguousSituation: Ultimately the tale of O-Ei is one of these. The daughter of one of the most famous artists of all time who both assisted him in his work and was a phenomenal artist in her own right is barely in the history books despite the fact she worked with her father until his death. Whether this was a case of overt oppression due to her gender, or if she was simply VicariouslyAmbitious and did not care too much about making a name for herself over helping her father isn't known. Fittingly, the film doesn't really give much insight into O-Ei's exact feelings over her father, as she seems to teeter between frustration and loyalty.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: While O-Ei addresses her mother as 'mom', O-ei almost never addresses her father as 'father' or 'dad', preferring instead to call him 'Tetsuzo' (Hokusai had many names and pseudonyms over his life, Tetsuzo being one of them). Fitting perhaps given that he treats her more as his assistant or protege than his daughter.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: O-Ei almost never addresses her father as 'father' or 'dad', preferring instead to call him 'Tetsuzo' (Hokusai had many names and pseudonyms over his life, Tetsuzo being one of them).

* AnachronismStew: At times, the film transitions between traditional Japanese music and a [=rock/pop=] soundtrack.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Apart from a few historically factual details, like that Hokusai and O-Ei kept their living quarters sloppy and O-Ei was particularly proficient at drawing beautiful women, most of the story is fictional. Historically O-Ei did have a younger sister named O-Nao, but there's no indication she was blind, and both had several other siblings and half-siblings. The story was likely rendered in this way to better showcase Hokusai's failure to be a proper parental figure.

* DragQueen: Kichiya, who works at a brothel, is basically a period-typical equivalent of this. Kagema were male prostitutes who typically dressed effeminately in a style similar to that of geisha (due to the fact this originated as a common side job for women-role actors in Kabuki theatre) and were known to serve both male and female clients.