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My first cel of Naraku, my favorite anime boss villain.

Unlike the villains in most series, Naraku really acts like a villain. He's smart, devious, and thoroughly evil. He never does any of the dirty work himself, and constantly tries to manipulate the heroes into fighting each other. He's full of tricks: you can never believe your senses when he's at work. He learns from his mistakes and is always coming up with new ways to spread death, destruction, mistrust, and misery.

Naraku almost never shows his true face. He usually hides under a baboon skin, as in this cel. Even better, the thing under the skin is never really Naraku, but a sort of voodoo puppet: if you kill it, he'll just send another one.
 

Added: 6/1/02 From: Anime Taro
 
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