The reason why they removed the masks and why no one recognizes Cid as Shadow

LostSpectre said:
I don't see how any of those things he listed actually change when he's in Shadow form, but alright. lol

LostSpectre said:
I don't see how any of those things he listed actually change when he's in Shadow form, but alright. lol

ShiroHachi said:
Director, Nakanishi Kazuya postscript comments (machine translation)


Q : They will know, right?
Director : No, they won't, I'm serious. It is not for the sake of the animation, but for the sake of the story. The change from Cid to Shadow is not only in his costume, but also in his height, build, hair length, and eyes. It's easy to understand if you look at the settings. In other words, it is not a "disguise" but a "metamorphosis" or "transformation".
Of course, people in that world cannot instantly change their height and weight. If there is a person with a clearly different physique in front of them, that is a different person. They will not be able to recognize them. We, who are looking at it from omniscient point of view, are able to tell by the color, the voice, and the transformation scene, but there is a difference in consciousness for the people who are seeing it in front of their eyes and those who are not. This is the reason why Shadow is not exposed. Of course, this is just an excuse I prepared for the fact that I had to leave out the mask due to the work schedule.
What about the girls? I have a feeling that if they were to wear hoods and their silhouettes were uniformly inconspicuous, they wouldn't be noticed too. If they just put on masks as in the original story, it would be obvious from their hair style.
In case you are wondering, there is no problem when ShadowGarden comes out showing their face...because there are "no witnesses". Like in episode 2 or 4....
Source:
https://twitter.com/yaduka301/status/1628591706278084609


FYI, Shadow and Shadow Garden members wear masks in the light novel and manga

ShiroHachi said:
Director, Nakanishi Kazuya postscript comments (machine translation)


Q : They will know, right?
Director : No, they won't, I'm serious. It is not for the sake of the animation, but for the sake of the story. The change from Cid to Shadow is not only in his costume, but also in his height, build, hair length, and eyes. It's easy to understand if you look at the settings. In other words, it is not a "disguise" but a "metamorphosis" or "transformation".
Of course, people in that world cannot instantly change their height and weight. If there is a person with a clearly different physique in front of them, that is a different person. They will not be able to recognize them. We, who are looking at it from omniscient point of view, are able to tell by the color, the voice, and the transformation scene, but there is a difference in consciousness for the people who are seeing it in front of their eyes and those who are not. This is the reason why Shadow is not exposed. Of course, this is just an excuse I prepared for the fact that I had to leave out the mask due to the work schedule.
What about the girls? I have a feeling that if they were to wear hoods and their silhouettes were uniformly inconspicuous, they wouldn't be noticed too. If they just put on masks as in the original story, it would be obvious from their hair style.
In case you are wondering, there is no problem when ShadowGarden comes out showing their face...because there are "no witnesses". Like in episode 2 or 4....
Source:
https://twitter.com/yaduka301/status/1628591706278084609


FYI, Shadow and Shadow Garden members wear masks in the light novel and manga

ShiroHachi said:
Shadow's hair is longer than Cid's and his eyes are red. I didn't really notice the height difference in the anime, but Cid and Shadow's height difference is more visible in the light novel illustrations, in the LN Shadow was already quite tall when Cid was a child.
Not only Shadow, Epsilon can also change her body, not only her boobs, she changes the size of her hips and the length of her legs

V1P3R0P said:

As the director himself said, It is an excuse to cover up bad scheduling.

astralkill00 said:
Nice thread. The main question of THE LN readers is why they didn't animate them with their masks on and similar things to hide their face.

LostSpectre said:
An excuse doesn't mean it's a lie, what he's saying about Shadow changing his appearance seemed genuine. 

V1P3R0P said:

I wasn't calling it a lie. I was just pointing out that the director came up with these reasons mainly to cover up bad scheduling.

LostSpectre said:
If it's not a lie, then I don't know how you pointing it out has any relevance to my original comment. 

V1P3R0P said:

I might have misunderstood your original comment as something like, "I have never seen these changes take place. How is the Director telling this with a straight face" or something like that. Totally my bad if it wasnt what you meant.