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taotruths Live Jet Reaction (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
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#1: May 30th 2025 at 8:59:06 AM

As pointed out here, the post asks if it's being used without permission. The thread that picked this image was way back in 2013.

Looking at the Image Source.Arts page and going to the linked page there's this notice (roughly translated):

A display of the mounted “Monsters of the Mountains and Seas”. Since we cannot control the unauthorized theft and misuse of images on the Internet, we have added watermarks and hope that friends will forgive us. This set of pictures has not been authorized for publication or printing by any publishing organization or individual. If found, it will be considered as pure piracy.

There is a watermark on it but I've got some suggestions if we want something from a work instead:

Current

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whitefox_9155.jpg

1.1 — Nine-Tailed Fox card from Yu-Gi-Oh!:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ninetailedfox_ygo.png

1.2 — Kumiho from Death Of Dr Strange White Fox

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jiuweihu_marvel_comics.png

1.3 — Jiu Wei Hu from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jiuweihu_mcu_shang_chi.png

1.4 — Jiu Wei Hu from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings concept art

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jiuweihu_mcu_shang_chi_concept_art.png

Amoridere Since: Dec, 2015
#2: May 30th 2025 at 9:02:08 AM

Collage from different mediums?

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#3: May 30th 2025 at 9:04:04 AM

Collages are only useful if the trope has variants

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Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4: May 30th 2025 at 9:21:46 AM

It does have regional variants, though I'm not sure if there's any specific visual cues that would pop at wiki size. I think a traditional illustration would be cool to put on the page, but I'm coming up short

Some suggestions that allude to the shapeshifting hot girl part of the trope

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hulijing_dinastia.jpg


https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mobiusff.jpg

Artist's DA post — copyright notice and artist's description indicate this is concept art

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Starving Masterchef
#5: May 30th 2025 at 9:44:52 AM

[up]We'd need permission for those.

I do think something that shows the fox and the transformation would be good, though

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6: May 30th 2025 at 9:59:32 AM

We usually treat concept art for a bigger published project as part of that project and not an independent piece owned by the artist, so I don’t believe permission would be required.

Edited by Synchronicity on May 30th 2025 at 1:00:35 PM

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#7: May 30th 2025 at 10:01:25 AM

4.2 [tup] in that case, then.

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AwkbutTVT Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me) from Gaia, in no current need of help Since: Sep, 2023
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#8: May 30th 2025 at 10:06:51 AM

Some from me

8.1

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyubi_5.png

8.2

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyubialternateartwork_1.png

8.3

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyubi_shadowside.png

8.4

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyubisshadowside_photoroom.png

8.5

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/y_academy_website_ryusuke_and_izuna_artwork.png

8.6

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/npc_kitsune_saiguu_1.png

8.7

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/honkai_star_rail_tingyun_build_pose.jpg

(Sorry if this is getting a bit obnoxious btw, I just don't know many other things where I can pull illustrative images from for this)

Edited by AwkbutTVT on May 30th 2025 at 6:12:48 PM

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#9: May 30th 2025 at 10:16:32 AM

1.2 (Strongest in the "Fox Spirit" aspect)=4.2 (Strongest in the "Asian" aspect)=8.1 (Not as strong as either, but a very nice blend of the aspects)

Edited by KoshaVinka on May 30th 2025 at 7:16:50 PM

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Live Jet Reaction
#10: May 30th 2025 at 10:31:43 AM

[up]maybe a collage of all three?

otherwise, 4.2[tup]

Edited by taotruths on May 30th 2025 at 10:32:32 AM

SilvershadeWolf (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#11: May 30th 2025 at 10:53:16 AM

I also advocate for collage. Fox spirits are so popular across Asian cultures that they're obligated to diversify them to stand out each time.

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#12: May 30th 2025 at 11:09:02 AM

[up] I agree

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AwkbutTVT Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me) from Gaia, in no current need of help Since: Sep, 2023
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#13: May 30th 2025 at 3:24:18 PM

[up][up]agree

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#14: May 30th 2025 at 3:52:58 PM

[up][up][up] Also agreeing. Maybe finding works that show kitsunes with different numbers of tails — one with all nine, and then maybe, say, Vulpix from Pokémon since it has six tails? Can't recall any other works that have kitsunes with less or more than nine tails, though.

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#15: May 30th 2025 at 3:55:11 PM

Whipped out a collage using 1.2, 4.2, the fox from Yo-kai Watch (decided to put in a non-transparent one), and a Hokusai painting (I would like a classical painting in the collage)

15.1

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asianfoxspirit_suggestion_14_1.png

Alternate replacing 4.2 with 8.6

15.2

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asianfoxspirit_suggestion_14_2.png

Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 1st 2025 at 10:43:25 PM

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Live Jet Reaction
#16: May 30th 2025 at 3:58:38 PM

Very good, either in 15[tup]

Edited by taotruths on May 30th 2025 at 3:58:55 AM

AwkbutTVT Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me) from Gaia, in no current need of help Since: Sep, 2023
Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me)
#17: May 30th 2025 at 4:01:38 PM

[up]

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Xiaomao
#19: May 30th 2025 at 4:24:22 PM

Welp I got another one (I wanted to add a fox spirit that isn't a multi-tailed one):

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asianfoxspirit_suggestion_18_1.png
Clockwise from top-left: Kumiho from Death Of Dr Strange White Fox, Tingyun from Honkai: Star Rail, a Kitsune from Hotel Transylvania (concept art), and Uke from Blue Exorcist

Edited by RuckusHearts on May 30th 2025 at 11:28:24 PM

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SilvershadeWolf (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#20: May 31st 2025 at 7:00:24 AM

[up]This is a little biased as I don't recognize them bottom-left and lower-right foxes but what about Renamon and/or Kurama for those sides? They're not a recent invention and they're Breakout Characters with more established familiarity.

Actually, let's limit the anime-looking foxes to only one and have other media for the other slots for cross-genre depictions.

Edited by SilvershadeWolf on May 31st 2025 at 10:03:25 AM

AwkbutTVT Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me) from Gaia, in no current need of help Since: Sep, 2023
Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me)
#21: May 31st 2025 at 7:37:13 AM

all of the suggested collages are cross-media though?

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SilvershadeWolf (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#22: May 31st 2025 at 7:45:19 AM

[up] When two of those are Japanese anime-styled media, it's hardly cross media.

Edited by SilvershadeWolf on May 31st 2025 at 11:00:23 AM

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#23: May 31st 2025 at 9:28:34 AM

15.2 [tup]

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RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#24: May 31st 2025 at 12:46:27 PM

[up]x4 and [up][up]

This trope calls for Asian Fox Spirit, so it makes sense if the majority of them are anime or anime-inspired. Interestingly enough, only one image from 19 is from a Japanese anime, the other "anime" character is from a Chinese game, and the rest are from western works (one from a Marvel comic, and another is a concept art of a BG character from a CGI family film).

Also, There Is No Such Thing as Notability. IP chooses their images based on how well the images fit the trope and not by how notable the work is (in fact I'm not exactly familiar with one of the characters you mentioned - I'm assuming it's a Digimon based on the name).

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SilvershadeWolf (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#25: May 31st 2025 at 1:20:17 PM

[up] When I say "anime-inspired", I refer to Chinese and Korean manhua/manhwas acquiring Japanese art style as their style—and Honkai is especially guilty of this—but adding no flair to help it stand out. A shame because both cultures had their own visual styles before anime became a craze (pieces of historical artwork even include their versions of the Asian Fox Spirit). That's no excuse to limit the definition of "Asian" to just "anime" without being creative. Especially when objectified fox girls in anime are exhausted, being "Asian Fox Spirit" doesn't mean Xerox copy anime girls, add fox ears and a tail, and call it a day. As an example, the huli jing in Love, Death & Robots has a Chinese ink-spired art style, a normal spirit fox, and a cyborg fox.

For context, this is Renamon from Digimon Tamers, and yes, a Digimon.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Renamon_5663.jpg

Edited by SilvershadeWolf on May 31st 2025 at 4:23:16 AM


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