| Because the animators and character designers are lazy. Do you want to be drawing a load of outfits for one character? |
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| Simple answer: Money. It cost less and takes less time (time=money) to draw each character the same all the time, unless the scene specifically calls for something different. |
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| To make them easy to distinguish and cosplay. |
| $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ drawing outfit mean redrawing character as whole as well it animation totally... |
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| Three words: Terrible fashion scene. |
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| They have a wardrobe filled with a 100 sets of the same clothes. |
| There's no benefit in having designers around just to allow characters to have a different set of clothes every day. Maybe a simple few T-shirts and jeans for the main character for when he's at home, or maybe a nice dress for a girl that's going on a date with a guy. I don't think this is something that you should fuss over. Also obligatory high school anime is best most realistic anime ever, because school uniforms are realistic XD |
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| Money and time. Most anime episodes haven't just one day in an episode -> More than 2 different outfits per episode. But also for mangas, it takes of course more time to draw completely different outfits for each of the characters in about every chapter. It's easier and faster to have 1 outfit for a character, so you can draw that one better i guess. |
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| Yeah why?! I like seeing beautiful girls in cute casual clothes too! |
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| Due to money. Seeing them in casual clothes is okay but if they have good story then its an exception. |
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Brb said: To make them easy to distinguish and cosplay. ^ THIS I don't think it really has anything to do with laziness (maybe very little cases) since they'll probably spend the same amount of time drawing...so it's more about keeping a certain character "signature" look so they can be recognizable. Imagine if naruto wearing different clothes most of the time or Yato from noragami not having his classic jersey.. |
| If you have a kawaii loli waifu wearing maid outfit, do you want her to change?! |
| Because animators already have enough on their plates without having to design several dozen permutations of the same character as well. |
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| Because not only are they too poor to buy more than one set of clothes the animators are also too poor to chip in to help them buy new clothes (Except when its a beach episode because that's worth the extra money) |
| 1. Marketing. If you take away the hair and clothing from a single show, the characters would look too similar to each other. Giving each character one unique outfit and hairstyle allows viewers to distinguish between characters. Instant recognition is an important factor to successful marketing. 2. Merchandizing. This is just a guess but, if the anime and/or cartoon were to become popular enough to be able to sell merchandise, it would be cheaper to sell if the character had one main outfit. 3. Time. Designing a new outfit for each episode would take a lot more time. |
| I don't know about you OP. But if you're not wearing the same outfit everyday you're never going to become a main character. |
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It's so they stay Iconic, it's the same with their hair cuts, you would ideally like a character to be recognisable from their silhouette alone, like the following: Because of this it's often the case that the hair will always be the same, in a similar way the clothing helps with creating a character, even though their clothing may change they will still have a main piece of attire that you picture them with, it makes branding and animating for the character a ton easier. |
| Basically the same reason why characters in any animated series tend to wear the same clothes. It's easier and saves time to just always give them the same clothes, rather than having to design a whole wardrobe for them. |
| Sadly it's just laziness... Can't be bothered designing new clothes... |
| -Makes the character's more distinguishable/identifiable for the viewers and especially in long runner's, the clothes become apart of the character. -Easier to draw the same clothes in a certain style rather than changing each chapter which would take time. Clothes are an important part of a character's design. Luffy actually changes his outfit quite a lot. The opening's don't show that, though. |
-Ko- said: Like every single time we see them, they are almost always wearing the same thing. Like, don't they ever change out! Because they usually wash them and wear them in a cycle. But the animators are lazy to show that they wash them. Of course it's handy if you have someone like Tomoyo as your best friend. |
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| Because anime characters do not need to care about their personal hygiene, obviously. |
| Uh, so you can identify their character easily, and the studio won't have to waste money drawing other outfits. |
| so its easier to animate. having a char have multiple outfits in every episode is kinda hard to do |
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