Just take those exact characters, give them different hair colors, match the personality to the hair color, boom you got a slice of life show that has a strong first season but then fades in quality and takes a weird turn in season 2+3 before a mediocre season 4 that fans try to justify but everyone really hates.
I really wish there was more evolution in anime. I used to like it a lot but I’ve grown to really dislike the art style because it’s so homogenous. I’m sure I’m missing out on great stories but I’m so damn bored of cookie cutter kawaii characters
I know that’s not every anime so no need to reply with the exceptions to the rule. The two most popular styles are “generic anime” (this) and “chibi anime” (creepy/gross)
Mahou shoujo Madoka magika is one fantastic story. And only 12 episodes or 2 movies (they are the same, just less OP/EDs).
I googled it and visually it looks like…everything else
Well it’s kinda half meant to, it’s a magical girl genre subversion
Go in blind, push through the first movie. It is worth it.
Yeah but that’s what I’m saying, I dislike the generic aesthetic enough that it takes away most of the enjoyment. If I was neutral on that it’d be no big deal, but the story is only part of visual media
Yeah, also, it’s my favourite anime ever.
It’s weird. It gets even weirder. But it’s purposeful, and it grows on you.
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It’s 4 hours total, so you could not pick worse time to write all that.
The entire show is very purposeful, and it reveals the meanings slowly. That’s why you need to push through the first hour.
I almost gave up, many of my friends gave up, but those who gave it a serious try, were rewarded.
I went from ‘wtf is this shit’ to my absolute most favourite piece of media ever.
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There is a third original movie and they are making a 4th original. They’re was also a size anime loosely based on the mobile game.
Third movie was really weird.
Maybe it was the crazy subtitles I had when it came out, but I didn’t like it as much as the original.
Afaik the manga art style evolved in the first place because it’s very economic, particularly with facial expressions, and allows pumping out thick volumes of comics every week.
those hair colors, is this a DV-i reference or something
edit: the personalities match as well wtf
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Choose your Waifu
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Oh really? Have you ever seen a person in the shape of a rhomboid?
Your mother was a rhomboid
MY mother was a rhomboid, you insensitive clod
And your father smelt of irregular polyhedrons
Eiichiro Oda: “hold my sake”
But those are the same picture…
Yep, I’m afraid Gladaed is right; definitely different pictures. When she posed for the sketches, she did something different with her arms each time. She sometimes changed her expression too. Oh, and one day she wore a shorter shirt.
They all seem to be suffering from the same rather pronounced internal hip rotation.
Yes, what we rudely used to call knock-kneed
Good job, Creed. Corporate has a new assignment for you, though.
Don’t forget to give the eyes 10x the surface area of what’s biologically possible
In a lot of Asia, youth is seen as attractive
Human eyeballs are generally all the same size, regardless of skull or body size.
Youth = small
Big eyes and small everything else therefore means cute
Art often exaggerates or interprets
Anime is art
Anime is also not a new medium at all in Japanese, and now global culture, and has had a lot of time to evolve
I’m not defending it, just explaining it, in case people don’t understand, because this is a long-standing and very common complaint/criticism
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Additionally, asia has the focus more on the eyes, why westerners more on the mouth. Is what they say.
Upsetting.
“Biologically possible”, I mean, quite a few animals have eyes taking up a ton of their headspace. Owls for starters.
That’s the rule for anime boobs
Oh gosh, my bad. I totally forgot that I need to post a transcript of my Art History coursework before making this kind of joke on Lemmy.
I think this would be incrementally less ridiculous if they hadn’t, presumably, scaled the images causing them all to be the same size/height on the page.
That’s what I love about Japan, so much variety. >_>
Having worked with vendors in the print industry, I’m wondering if at least some of this is a scaling issue in the edit. Because the “tall and thin” type is exactly the same height as the rest.
Maybe there was a version that was more distinct, and a layout guy standardized them without seeing or reading the copy.
Maybe that’s too much benefit of the doubt.
At that point, the layout person is either a dumbass or doesn’t read English.
Or maybe can’t even see the copy. They may be looking at lorem ipsum.
I never noticed before that all girls are knock-kneed.
It’s somehow preferred in Japan.
thought the title said booty types, I am slightly disappointed (in myself)
They are all the same
The second doesn’t have the coveted “thigh gap”, signaling that you are sufficiently anorexic. The third has the faintest shadow of muscle definition in her biceps and calves. The fourth remembered to wear socks, a thing only tall people do
The fourth remembered to wear socks, a thing only tall people do
she’s wearing socks because she has so little fat on her body, she’s cold all the time. so she needs extra clothing.
Frigging tall girls and their (checks notes) socks. Why do they ALWAYS wear them.
One is missing an eye. Sucks to be her.
Strikes me as the same girl drawn once for every year in high school, from left to right junior, senior, sophomore, freshman.
Check the tits
Not entirely. But when you live in an ethnically homogeneous society you notice more subtle differences in people.
when you live in an ethnically homogeneous society
Japan isn’t ethnically homogeneous. Westerners simply aren’t interested in learning the history and social makeup of the island, or even acknowledge anyone lives outside Tokyo.
The Ainu, the Ryukyuans, and the Yamato are all distinct cohorts. And that’s before you get into the post-Meiji cultural divergences.
The ainu and ryukyuan are a tiny fraction of the population, and there are only 2% of foreigners living in Japan, with half of those being Korean. There arent many countries with a lower diversity of population than that.
The ainu and ryukyuan are a tiny fraction of the population
When you count mixed-race Japanese residents as Yamato by default, sure. When you deliberately blot out the historical genealogies as part of the fascist project of the post-Meiji Era, absolutely.
There arent many countries with a lower diversity of population than that.
In the same way that somewhere north of 30% of the population in Vietnam has the last name Nguyen, we can pretend at homogeneity to salve the prickly attitudes people who desire the appearance of a uniform population. Ralphiel Cruz changes his name to Ted. Robert Francis O’Rourke changes his name to Beto. It has nothing to do with their racial composition and everything to do with their efforts to appear to fit in.
But if you believe Japan’s 189M people all came out of the same petri dish, you’re simply buying into a eugenics myth.
“well-balanced propotions” that’s comic.
2 big sized heads and 2 enormous heads
that’s what “athletic” means?
I think, they miscounted. It’s actually 4 billion body types, not just 4.
Anime girl with d cup breaststroke slightly thick thighs most chubby anime person peops can handle before they start getting scared
