| I guess not, since I am still watching Detectives These Days Are Crazy. Of course the hideous characters are all part of the schtick, although I didn't catch on at first. |
| Yes, i will stop watching anime if the characters become unattractive. I will probably sound crazy, but i really think that anime girls are one of the best things created by humanity. They are beautiful, cute, kind and really help to survive in this terrible life. Thats why i always fight idiots who say that the design of female characters is "too revealing" or "too fanservice". It cant be "too revealing", its just the beauty of female body, 2D female body -if you like such interpretation, annd it needs to be shown. No one, if they are adequate, would tell real people how to dress, but anime is a product of culture, its literally an artwork and no one can tell the author how to dress characters. This applies to anime and games, including gacha games. |
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anime already has unappealing character designs, gachiakuta is currently airing.
| @ryzxgum Nobody said there are no exceptions, but generaly anime puts great emphasis on its aesthetic/mood/atmosphere, that is one of its main appeals (aside from its being the product of a different culture which makes it more interesting because of its "strangeness" just like the japanese find interesting content coming from the west). We can pretend to be sophisticated and talk about that depth is more important than visual appeal, but anime in general never was about that, it was mostly focused on content that is easily consumed. If I want to indulge my intellect I would rather read a book instead (just like I do every day, but that is not my point). |
IshitatesoSep 12, 12:57 AM
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@tchitchouan Hey! Those are my neighbors!
| @joemaamah Your neighbors are hank hill and hatsune miku ? |
| Some of that Netflix stuff is really ugly. I'd probably still watch anime but less overall. While eye candy isn't everything it's at least something. |
Hiyajo-sanSep 12, 2:19 AM
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| It would probably bug me, but if the overall quality and personalities of the characters didn't change, I wouldn't mind it much. |
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| I would just stick to older anime if anime adopted terrible character designs. |
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| Character design is why I wouldn't ever touch Nanatsu no Taizai and dropped Kill La Kill, so yes character design is very important for me to enjoy the anime. |
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| Animation quality is a big thing for me, I'd probably still get back into watching anime but if the writing is good I wouldn't care about the animation. I'd probably write off the low quality animation as being quirky. |
| Hmm, it would definitely be a way harder sell. I'd probably mainly watch older anime at that point. |
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| Yes once I run out of older anime to watch and move on to other mediums. |
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@joemaamah Your neighbors are hank hill and hatsune miku ?
| @tchitchouan Pretty much. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. (X^D |
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@ryzxgum Nobody said there are no exceptions, but generaly anime puts great emphasis on its aesthetic/mood/atmosphere, that is one of its main appeals (aside from its being the product of a different culture which makes it more interesting because of its "strangeness" just like the japanese find interesting content coming from the west). We can pretend to be sophisticated and talk about that depth is more important than visual appeal, but anime in general never was about that, it was mostly focused on content that is easily consumed. If I want to indulge my intellect I would rather read a book instead (just like I do every day, but that is not my point).
| @Ishitateso mood/atmosphere is irrelevant, this is about character designs. out of the 20+ seasonals i watch every season, there's always a handful of anime with unappealing, bland character designs, so the exceptions are actually the appealing ones. |
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| @Gnza op is talking about waifu/husbando eyecandy and the other comments are worried over character fuckability. You're in denial |
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@Gnza op is talking about waifu/husbando eyecandy and the other comments are worried over character fuckability. You're in denial
| @giantpudding Cuteness is also a type of "eye candy", and it isn’t exactly related to sexual appeal... |
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@giantpudding Cuteness is also a type of "eye candy", and it isn’t exactly related to sexual appeal...
| @Gnza Literally one of the definitions |
Reply to giantpudding
@Gnza Literally one of the definitions
| @giantpudding So, according to you, the appeal of cute things like babies is not about care or affection, but rather some kind of masturbatory desire? 🤨 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness |
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@giantpudding
So, according to you, the appeal of cute things like babies is not about care or affection, but rather some kind of masturbatory desire? 🤨
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness
So, according to you, the appeal of cute things like babies is not about care or affection, but rather some kind of masturbatory desire? 🤨
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness
| @Gnza Babies as waifus/husbandos?! You did not just go there |
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@Gnza Babies as waifus/husbandos?! You did not just go there
| @giantpudding Many waifus are just characters you connect with, not necessarily because you're aroused with… Some may be designed around their sexual appeal (‘I want fuck her’), and others around their cute appeal (‘I want protect her’)... |
| Character designs are honestly a huge part of why I even watch anime to be honest. I've never really seen a show's art suddenly go to shit midway through a season since they usually keep things consistent, but between seasons? That's a different story. Seven Deadly Sins's art and animation went downhill in the later seasons that it completely killed it for me. I just dropped it cause I couldn't stand looking at it anymore. For me, the aesthetic and "eye candy" is kinda why I'm into anime in the first place. When the characters aren't appealing to look at anymore, it loses a huge chunk of what makes it fun to watch. Like yeah, a good story matters, but the visuals are what make anime... well, anime. If that's gone, might as well just read the manga at that point. |
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@giantpudding
Many waifus are just characters you connect with, not necessarily because you're aroused with… Some may be designed around their sexual appeal (‘I want fuck her’), and others around their cute appeal (‘I want protect her’)...
Many waifus are just characters you connect with, not necessarily because you're aroused with… Some may be designed around their sexual appeal (‘I want fuck her’), and others around their cute appeal (‘I want protect her’)...
| @Gnza Ok, but where do the babies as eye candy fit in all of this? |
| Assuming it became like CalArts bean mouth shit, I'd get way more selective but I don't think I'd quit entirely, to say nothing of old anime that already exists and doesn't look like that |
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@Gnza Ok, but where do the babies as eye candy fit in all of this?
| @giantpudding Well, I sent you the Wikipedia article precisely so you’d learn: cute appeal is tied to baby-like features (big eyes, small nose, oversized head - the typical anime design...) |
| Well, it would definitely be a harder sell if all the character designs looked like ass, yeah. There would have to be one hell of a story attached it. |
KruszerSep 13, 8:10 PM
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CesarMagnan said: Aku no Hana Yeah, I never even bothered to start it because it looked like ass. Same with Ping Pong (2014). And Kick-Heart (2013). If I keep thinking about it, I might come up with even more names. Like the one where all the male characters have super exaggerated long chins. And Kafka Inaka Isha (2007). Why would I bother with something ugly when my backlog has 300+ anime that look pretty? Making it look ugly never improves anything. It doesn't make it "interesting" or "realistic", it makes it look hideous. It's a lesson western game devs could learn. Realism sucks, give me pretty anime characters and a bit fanservice here and there to make it actually interesting. |
| If it really becomes terrible, then yes ofc. |
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@giantpudding
Well, I sent you the Wikipedia article precisely so you’d learn: cute appeal is tied to baby-like features (big eyes, small nose, oversized head - the typical anime design...)
Well, I sent you the Wikipedia article precisely so you’d learn: cute appeal is tied to baby-like features (big eyes, small nose, oversized head - the typical anime design...)
| @Gnza Yeah that eye candy = cuteness thing is your twist so we're circling back to this: giantpudding said: Gnza said: @giantpudding Cuteness is also a type of "eye candy", and it isn’t exactly related to sexual appeal... @Gnza Literally one of the definitions |
| Call me superficial, but if character design is especially unmemorable, it becomes hard to care about the characters and by extension their development and the plot at large. There's always exceptions, but that's generally how it works for me. Anime with more interesting character design (or at least thematically fitting; the designs don't have to be overly complex or outlandish) stand out more in my mind and it's way easier to remember the plot and things that happen if I don't watch it for a while. |
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I say this as someone who watches the majority of isekai every season.... yes
| @MercerTheLegend lmfao gangster fuuuuckingAthissitestillhascharacterlimits? |
| I'm willing to bet even the people who claim to like anime with deeper characters and plots would jump ship if the characters started looking more inline with western animated series. I'll say it, I like the weird ugly ass character designs in western cartoons. I actually appreciate the amount of variety in the character designs But I also like the more visually appealing anime character designs. Fuck it, I'll even admit that for the most part, I find anime characters more sexually attractive than pretty much every western character people have lusted over. So yea, I probably would stop watching. My reasons for watching western animation and Japanimation are vastly different, and the designs are a big part of that. I want to clarify two things though. First, I said I'd stop watching, but that doesn't mean I'm against "uglier" designs in anime. Just that I don't want every anime to look like Mob Psycho, which I love, but is ugly as hell. Second; I said "I like the weird ugly ass character designs in western cartoons". This is true...Mostly. But I wouldn't touch any form of animation, western, anime or otherwise, if it looked like Big Mouth. That shit's a sin upon animation in general. Also I don't think Nick Kroll is funny, but that's a whole separate issue. |
| Uh, probably not? Wait, do some people only watch anime because they think the characters are hot or something? I'm a One Piece fan (mostly of the early arcs but...) so maybe I'm used to unappealing character designs, but even if some of my other favorite anime had ugly character designs, I think I could tolerate it as long as the story is good. |
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