@Gerard_Amatin , yeah, I’ve seen SKINs like that. There’s an even better one. I’ll look later when I’m online if I can find it in the Paragon Hub, it’s been available for a long time. But it’s all an abstraction, which is why it’s allowed in the game. I prefer the real images, and for obvious reasons, I don’t think Fenris will allow them.
Hah! 
We are way, way beyond the point where you can even catch a glimpse of that vision with a 40km2 phased array telescope my man.
We damand catgirls skins for each and everyone!
To all players criticizing Hello Kitty: you’re playing EVE, a game with a massive economic focus. Hello Kitty makes billions a year, and literally every top brand in the real world has done a collaboration with them.
You can find their branding on everything from cars to firearms. Applying that same logic to the EVE universe, it would make perfect sense for the cluster’s mega-corporations to partner up for a limited-edition Hello Kitty ship skin line.
To those who argue that just because they personally dislike colorful skins, no one else should have them: in real life, we all see things we don’t like every day and we just deal with it. If it bothers you that much, CCP could easily add an option in the graphics settings to disable custom skins in space for your client.
There’s no need to ruin the fun for everyone else just because of personal taste.
I am not disrespecting the Kitty or colorful skins. Here is my issues…
Skins are for only you to see, no one else will visually see it in game. Battles occur at distances greater than 15k/9 miles away. Try seeing any ship skin at that great distance! The person you attack will be too busy defending or fleeing from you to take a good look. When they explode or die there is nothing to look at either. The kill rights have no details on the ship skin or the name of said ship. The best you get is the make and model.
Maybe you want your friends to see the skin? Then they blow you up for laughs, and salvage your remains. They also taunt you to place that same skin on another ship, and maybe it won’t blow up. I really don’t think FC wants to see a few dozen anime ships, parked in the Exodia welcome center either.
NASCAR is a very “localized sport” in the south. I find the cars very tasteless on their paint jobs. Most have sponsors, soft drinks, energy drinks, beer, etc.. The design has no taste.
Finally to address the game lore, all that anime pop art is gone, EVE takes place more than 21 millennia in the future. The whole game in fact is in another galaxy and Earth has fallen into mythology. Digging up some old anime that came from Earth all those thousands of years ago, would be like finding the first wheel signed by the builder here on Earth.
God forbid someone reinvent something. Like how all the empires already reinvented all the tech leading up to where they are now.
We’re not asking for x anime character, we’re asking for the style in general. When we ask for Hello Kitty skins we’re mostly asking for something in that style, not specifically the Kitty White character.
So you are basically forbidding ganking campaigns for Hello Kitty ships as well? On what base?
I am quite sure a “Hellokittyageddon” will follow if this is implemented… 
Possibly being exectued by Kuromi-themed catalysts.
Please add the anime skins
Its not even limited to Anime Girls being plastered as PinUp Girls on ones ships hull, for some reason FC (formerly CCP) has problems to include any kind of aesthetic symbols to a skin or rarely does.
You would think a skin with “shark teeth” on the bow of a ship would be already in the game but no.
Holy hell what a horrible thing to do to an AMG-Mercedes GT race car!
No disrespect to the anime fans out there but, no. As Malcoy pointed out the Eve universe is set thousands of years into the future. I sincerely doubt that even after the existence of Earth itself has passed into myth and legend that Hatsune Miku would miraculously still be in the zeitgeist.
History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes. There’s no reason any of the empires (or the pirates for that matter) wouldn’t have highly stylised cartoons. That sort of thing tends to become popular across cultural borders. Anime (and associated styles like aeni) were influenced by western cartoons, and today is arguably more popular in both the east and the west than the western cartoons are.
It is the year 280 BYC. The Achura have just met the Caldari, and, having little choice, agreed to join the State. Hyper-advanced Caldari ships have landed around various urban centres, setting up their own little enclaves, but by and large life goes on much like it always has, at least outside the noble estates. One day, a young monk sees a boy from a family visiting his monastery on a pilgrimage carrying something strange, a thin paper novel, but with the strange alien writing the Caldari use on the cover, which rather than being a sensible material like cloth-covered cardboard seems to be just glossy paper, garishly coloured. Going over to greet the family as an excuse to take a look at this strange artifact, he notices that rather than text, the contents of the book are little panels of drawings, depicting small animals, anthropomorphic figures probably meant to represent wind and forest and mountain and who knows what else, and a recognizable slapstick story. Noticing his interest, the father explains that the artifact was a gift from a caldari soldier they met in their home town, and that the boy has been enamoured with it ever since. The monk, however, was simply struck by how similar the thing is, in function if not in form, to some of the old wood-carvings in the library.
A century later, a new tradition has emerged, merging the caldari children’s comic book and the ancient achuran zenatesh tradition of telling stories through pictures into zeni, a unique blend of styles which has quickly taken Achuran youth by storm, and which is even picking up popularity on Caldari planets and stations, with imported magazines and pirated fanslations easily accessible at any nontraditional bookstore. Needless to say it’s not long before a new medium of entertainment reaches the Gallente, despite the ongoing and fierce fighting, and for a brief period (Gallente lack very long attention spans (it’s okay for me to say that, I’m a Gallente too)) zeni stories enrapture trillions of people across the cluster. Today in YC128, zeni is available all over the cluster. Minmatar artists produce remarkably high-quality animations telling spiritual and tribally important stories, the gallente and caldari compete daily in trying to capture the lucrative male youth/young adult market, the Amarr and Sani Sabik have publishers selling barely disguised religious narratives, and a recent Guristas zeni-style galnetcomic about wacky pirate antics has become highly popular among small groups of capsuleers.
What you’re suggesting Anna I have no particular issue with as far as illustrations, cartoons, etc. that would arise from the history of New Eden. That makes sense. If someone wanted a portrait of the empress or the Sanmatar on their hull, fine. What doesn’t fit is that some 20 centuries into the future in a different part of the galaxy where all direct historical information of Earth has vanished into the mists of time that people would know of and be painting waifu onto starships.
Nobody is saying “I want Hatsune Miku” skins, we’re saying we want anime skins. When I say I want a Hello Kitty skin, it doesn’t have to be Hello Kitty specifically, it could be a cute rabbit with a knife or something drawn in a similar style.
Guristas ships have a drawing of a cute rabbit on them, don’t they?
Why not fly one of those?
Just the thought of flying through the systems with a whole fleet full of anime characters would be an amazing sight in itself.
That said, Warhammer 40k skins would also go down well with some players. I can already picture ships inspired by the Chaos Marines. Corpses hanging from the ship’s hull as a deterrent would be quite something, too.
The sight of contemporary real life references in EVE would be jarring, immersion breaking, and a pretty awful.
I have nothing against having more ship skins or drawn images like the Guristas logo on ships, as long as it makes sense within the EVE universe.
And no, Naruto or Goku makes no sense within the EVE universe.
Amen, Lucy!!! If they want “GrRrR GrimDank ONLY!!” they’re deluding themselves. Cmon, it’s literally a fantasy hypercapitalist hegemony! If it sells, it flies! This ain’t 40k 
Amen 
