If you press the music player button on Azuki’s website, you are greeted with the blaring horns of Lupe Fiasco’s skate anthem ‘Kick, Push’. Azuki proudly displays its influences in hip-hop, skate culture and anime, striking a strongly resonant chord with the niche of people in the centre of these overlapping interests. Big Eyes (BIG) similarly has similar strong influences from anime but focuses on pure kawaii, eye-wateringly cute designs. Azuki and Big Eyes (BIG) are two NFT projects that have amazing prospects for NFT collectors who are fans of Anime and Japanese culture.

I’m On The Beanz For Real

Azuki is an amazingly innovative Ethereum-based profile picture (PFP) NFT project. Azuki means small bean in Japanese, and they call their extremely stylish anime PFPs Azukis, and super cute, chibi miniature bean characters Beanz. Azuki wears its influences in anime, streetwear, hip-hop and skate culture boldly on its sleeve, and it is one of the most unique and culturally tapped creative NFT projects out right now. It is very reminiscent of the anime Samurai Champloo in combining elements of Japanese culture with street culture and hip-hop.

Big Anime Eyes

Big Eyes (BIG) is a new meme coin project gaining more and more momentum behind it, with over $9 million raised in its pre-sale. The current main focus of Big Eyes is the Big Eyes token (BIG), of which 5% of all BIG tokens will be donated to charities running ocean conservation projects. However, further down the line, Big Eyes has plans to launch its own NFT project. In a similar way to Bored Ape Yacht Club, these NFTs would act as entries to exclusive community events.

Community Focused

Building a strong community is at the heart of Azuki and Big Eyes. Big Eyes has a community focus built into the DNA of its token – 90% of tokens are available at launch for the public, and 5% would go to charities. The other 5% is to be used for marketing to ensure the community continues to build and becomes stronger over time.

Unique Aesthetics

The team behind Big Eyes did not try to copy the designs of a certain Japanese dog breed for the design of its mascot, nor did they try to assimilate itself into the array of apathetic apes. Instead, they opted for a cute cat with anime aesthetics! Cats have always been a cornerstone of Internet culture, so it only makes sense to pursue this different avenue for a meme coin, whilst the rest of the crypto herd is chasing Elon Musk’s army of Shibas. Similarly, Azuki chose to boldly use Anime inspired PFPs, as opposed to the countless chimpanzee clones flooding the market after Bored Ape Yacht Club’s roaring success.

Even though Big Eyes and Azuki both share anime aesthetics, they both have distinct styles of anime aesthetics. Azuki uses the more traditional, cool anime style, with many characters reminiscent of those from Cowboy Bebop, Naruto and Samurai Champloo. The Beanz characters provide a great contrast to these cool-looking characters, with goofy, cute and chubby aesthetics to provide a counterbalance. Big Eyes has a cutesy anime aesthetic, not unlike a lot of Pokémon designs. Both projects slot into unmanned anime niches in the NFT market, and they do so with great success.

To Conclude

Azuki and Big Eyes are both projects you do not want to miss out on. They both uniquely pay homage to anime and Japanese culture and are fantastic ways to get involved in ever-expanding communities. Azuki’s NFTs are amazingly stylish PFPs that show off your interests and taste to the world. Big Eyes’ NFTs will launch later down the line, but if Big Eyes’ current rate of progress is anything to go by, it will be nothing but smooth sailing on the OpenSea.

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