Akiko Daimon: Manga Mah-jongg Muscle Girl



My all-time favorite video game character and subject of frequent commissions is the beautiful manga muscle girl, Akiko Daimon ( 大門明子 ). The talented Jun Tsukasa provides the artwork and character designs for the game Taisen Hot Gimmick Forever ( 対戦 ホット ギミック フォーエバー ) which features this young lass from a bodybuilding club. The Taisen Hot Gimmick series is a Mahjongg game played by Japanese rules, and this particular title is the fourth one in the series. I think Jun Tsukasa's powerful anime/manga style is what makes this character so appealing to me. He's shown that he's not afraid to add muscle to the girls that he draws, and the world is a better place for it.

The game was originally released in the arcades, and was ported to the PC by a company called MyHarvest. The site for the PC conversion has some more good images from the game. There's a product page for it at [link] ( you'll need to click on the link labeled ［はい］ ), but it's not in stock there anymore. It's pretty hard to find these days, but I was lucky enough to grab it from an on-line store called HimeyaShop. Unfortunately, it's not available from there anymore either. If you can find a copy, it will run under the English version of Windows XP. I've heard that you can run it under MAME, provided you own the arcade board.

Akiko-chan is one of the first players that you'll play against. Each opponent starts out with a certain amount of points, and you play until you either run out of points or you win three hands in a row. The rules of the game are very close to Gin Rummy, and the goal is to make hands of three-of-a-kind or three-in-a-row with all your available tiles. You can claim your opponents discarded tiles ("chi" or "pon") or draw tiles until you can win via a "ron". The path to winning is made easier by various power-ups that you can use which make it more likely to complete your sets.



After beating your opponent, you're given the choice to punish them or to let them be. Each character has two different punishments. In the case of Akiko-chan, you can force her to do some posing or do some weightlifting. As she poses, she flexes her biceps and her top stretches up to a point where her it comes flying off. In the weightlifting punishment, she's topless on a bench with the barbell covering her chest as she lifts and exposes more of her breasts. The jiggle factor is high in the scenes. I managed to get some screencaps of the punishments, and even put together a worksafe animated gif of the posing punishment. I later put together another version I called Akiko Daimon Animated Flex which I think came out a bit better. I also pulled out some of the frames in the The Many Faces of Akiko Daimon in order to provide additional reference material for artists that seek to draw her.




If you can hunt down a copy, it's definitely worthwhile just for these few scenes. It was a bit of a challenge to beat the whole game, and a lot of the other characters are also quite attractive. Some of the other punishments in the game are pretty interesting. There are also two hidden characters which you can unlock. If you manage to score a copy, I'd be happy to help if you have any problems winning. Here are the aforementioned screenshots of Akiko Daimon in the punishment scenes with some pixelation added in to keep them in compliance with Photobucket and DeviantArt policies:




Over the last few months, I've commissioned quite a few pieces of artwork from many different artists around DeviantART. I always find it cool and exciting to see how different artists render Akiko. For completeness' sake, I'll try to keep this journal entry updated with the pics of Akiko in my gallery just to have them all in a central place.



Other artists also have pictures of Akiko Daimon in their galleries. Most of them were approached by me and requested to draw Akiko. But once every blue moon, an artist who is familiar with the character will draw her of their own accord. It's always pleasant to stumble upon one of these pictures.

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