What was the first instance of military weapon anthropomorphization

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Rescue me mave-chan is the first I can think of

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>>15541687
Nobody cares. This is a mechamusume thread now.

>>15541687
The original Gundam girls are pretty ancient, though they're also based off fictional weapons.

I'm pretty sure the Mobile Suit Girls were the first example. Maybe you could make a case for some of those robot-girl-is-a-weapon OVAs from the 80s but it would probably be a toss up as to time line and the comparison is arguable.

The modern mecha musume stuff started in 2005-6 with >>15541696 and Shimada Fumikane designing some figurines that later evolved into Strike Witches and Sky Girls.

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This is the closest thing I can think of to a proto mecha-musume Series. Not even really one.

>>15541696
is an OVA that goes with yukikaze. I vaguely remember it was made after an animator was doodling one the jets as a girl.

Honestly all I can think of before that are proper android girls: Steel Angel Kurumi, Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Hand maid may, Mahoromatic, and I'm sure I'm missing a few.

>>15541706
Didn't Akitaka do those? He's the artist that was on the Galaxy Fraulein Yuna series.

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>>15541687
And here we go back to the 80's...

It's been around longer than you think.

I think Mika Akitaka's work on Gundam Girls precedes Fumikane Shimada's stuff which sorta gets dibs on "mecha musume" the name, as opposed to "mecha musume" the idea.

Look it's kinda a weird and messy thing, but you're not wrong to believe it's older than you think. That said the extent of my knowledge on the matter is that Akitaka and Shimada are big names. I don't feel confident in saying they were the principal architects behind the movement, but they're definitely big contributors to it, and to this day it's a big booming sort of aesthetic because it makes the kokoro go dokidoki.

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Flight Highschool as all my waifus

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WHITE'D

>>15542248
God damn F-35 is cute as fuck

>first instance of military weapon anthropomorphization in Japanese media
Well, in WWII they drew girls and those were associated with the various warships they had.
/k/ posted them before iirc.

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>>15542328

>>15542291
yeah she is

>>15542241
Mecha Musume is a line of designs by Shimada that retarded EOPs used as a general term because they're fucking idiots.

Mika's MS girls were called "MS Shoujo".

Why are planes so cute?

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>>15542427
>tfw

>>15542264
That Iranian F-14 is a cruel bastard. Nobody should be allowed to see "Stealth", its pretty much a crime in itself.

>>15542427
It all makes sense now. Waifuism has always been a central part of Japanese culture, before we even knew what it was.

>>15549229
funny thing is, those two strips are based on a real event where a us sentinel drone crashed in iran. Iran boasted that they reverse engineered the technology and built their own drone.

>>15549271
>crashed in iran
I wouldn't really call it crashing, it was more like a rough landing.