Navigating Pixiv for Fanart

[risamitsukai.livejournal.com]

You may have heard of Pixiv-- it's sort of Japan's eqivalent of DeviantArt.  Organization is based on a tagging system, so it can be quite easy to find fanart of your favorite character... if you can speak Japanese.  I can't, but through some digging around, overuse of GoogleTranslate, and completely cheating by downloading a Firefox addon to translate the site's interface, I've come up with a list of tags that may be helpful if you find yourself with a hankering for more fanart than the Western side of the fandom can provide.

Tag	Translation
ビーストウォーズ	Beast Wars
コンボイ	Convoy (Primal)
エアラザー	Airrazor
チータス	Cheetor
ラットル	Rattrap
ダイノボット	Dinobot
ライノックス	Rhinox
シルバーボルト	Silverbolt
タイガトロン	Tigatron
メガトロン	Megatron
スコルポス	Scorponok
タランス	Tarantulas
インフェルノ	Inferno
ブラックウィドー	Blackarachnia
テラザウラー	Terrorsaur
ワスピーター	Waspinator
クイックストライク	Quickstrike
ランページ	Rampage

テプスチャージ

Depth Charge

Note:  Any "R" rated fanart is under the tag "R-18", and therefore filtered out of results that you can see if you are not signed in.  If you really want an account, this is the guide I used.  I used to know a dummy account that someone one of the chans created, but I can't remember the password... if anyone's interested though, I can try to make another one.

And oh shiz you can see some of my stuff on there now *embarrassed*

Comments

[graycalls.livejournal.com]

Thank. You. *Archive binges*

[risamitsukai.livejournal.com]

<3

[swordage]

Also, if they're just marked by a pairing, it might be a combination of two characters from one name and two characters from the other - usually the beginning two. So you might want to try looking for that, particularly on other Japanese art sites. I'm not sure if Dinobot's name would be trimmed to ダイノ or ダイ though.