| I mean the obvious answer is yes casual clothes do work better in bringing put the personality of the character in question.But as someone else once said,little things like how they wear their uniforms can also help inform us of their personality,so it's not like there isn't a way you could get around this problem. |
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| 1. It is possible to distinguish between characters with how they are wearing their uniforms. 2. That's what scenes taking place outside of school are for. But in some cases, for example Yuki Nagato, them wearing the school uniform even outside of school is telling us something about their personality. You might want to change the second picture of Haruhi Suzumiya, by the way. |
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| I personally don't. I enjoy my school uniforms. Characters get their other outfits anyway, usually. |
| Mashiroiro Symphony comes to mind and Ange wearing a maid oufit or Re:Stage with Mizuha wearing a yukata to school. Most school uniforms are kind of bland. |
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ProfessionalNEET said: TheBigGuy said: You might want to change the second picture of Haruhi Suzumiya, by the way. How come? Is it not actually Haruhi? It is her. But she's wearing Kyon's PE uniform in that picture, so it's not a good example for casual clothes (Yes, I'm a pedant for small details sometimes). |
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| I don't mind school uniforms as the default because they tend to look good anyway. The weird part though is when they default to using them because they're too lazy to come up with any other clothes, like KanColle there was a scene where a group of girls couldn't sleep so they decided to go outside in the middle of the night, but for whatever reason they just had to put on their entire uniforms on lol |
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| they wear whatever they want outside of school. Is that not enough? I think its fine |
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| Also, if I'm not mistaken Japanese students are required to wear their school uniform even outside of school respectively to go straight home, so they could get in trouble if they're spotted in casual clothes by a teacher (student council?). |
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Short_Circut said: I don't mind school uniforms as the default because they tend to look good anyway. The weird part though is when they default to using them because they're too lazy to come up with any other clothes, like KanColle there was a scene where a group of girls couldn't sleep so they decided to go outside in the middle of the night, but for whatever reason they just had to put on their entire uniforms on lol I agree, scenes like that are a bit weird. |
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| No. The uniforms are part of the kawaii package and part of the whole cultural difference thing that makes anime unique compared to western stuff. If you're not gonna have uniforms, then you might as well remove students cleaning their schools, bowing to teachers, throwing cultural festivals, changing from their street shoes, shunning delinquents, and all the other little things when taken as a whole reflect the Japanese mindset with respect to social harmony and the purpose of education. If you pay attention to what the characters say, how they behave, and how other characters receive them, then you shouldn't need clothing differences to better distinguish them. The idea of clothing bringing out personality is a post-WWII Madison Avenue invention meant to sell us more crap. |
| Yes, I actually had a thread about this myself a month ago where I argue for anime not having HS uniforms(Proof). I actually just finished watching a show with an interesting character design in it: Gothic lolita fashion is fairly rare, so I love seeing it. A lot of characters who typically wear clothes like these have a mysterious, traditionally feminine and cunning side to them. Dark colors also connect the character with a more devious type of persona(because the devil/Halloween is traditionally connected to colors like red and black), in this case, the character grants any wish through chocolates in which she takes something valuable in return which can range from sad memories to making a character into a piano via taking a human form(this also connects to the mystery as darkness hides things). Meanwhile, the laces and frails make her appear upper class and more traditionally feminine, both of which are fairly true about her, as she lives in a mansion and is a chocolate maker(something more associated with older types feminity). |
| No. Fuck you. You can't flash your panties if you're not wearing a skirt. |
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| It exist a lot of animes out there where the studios is to cheap to design new cloth for each day, so when the character is outside of school they awlays is using the same sort of cloth trough the whole year. So it dosen't really matter does it as most studio don't really care about casual clothing. But I do love School uniforms, especially if the girls got tights too, oof. But, it exist so many school uniforms out there and in most cases they are really neat looking and well designed :) |
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| I've never had to really wear a school uniform, so to see it present in this separate form of media is something I tend to more enjoy than not. But the presence of uniforms is obviously part of the cultural thing. But whether you have uniforms, or don't have uniforms, I don't really care. If an anime decides to do something in relation to that and it works, then sure it works. As said by several others, many stories get around the boring over-uniformity aspect by having the characters show their ... character, in other ways even with the uniforms. Hair, the way they wear their uniform, manner of speaking, whatever else they wear, and hell even the way they walk with their legs (K-ON). If you can express your character visually and it works, then it works. I guess if having everyone wear casual clothes rather uniforms is a way of visually expressing your characters that you can go with, then sure, if it works - great! |
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| @ProfessionalNEET Agreed. It's one of these "if you get caught" rules, I guess. @BlakexEkalb Boys or girls? |
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TheBigGuy said: @ProfessionalNEET Agreed. It's one of these "if you get caught" rules, I guess. @BlakexEkalb Boys or girls? Girls of course. I’m not a gay boi. Haruhi is hot af in the gym uniform and a pony tail. |
BlakexEkalb said: TheBigGuy said: @ProfessionalNEET Agreed. It's one of these "if you get caught" rules, I guess. @BlakexEkalb Boys or girls? Girls of course. I’m not a gay boi. Haruhi is hot af in the gym uniform and a pony tail. I see, I see. One true man of culture. |
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| Omg yes I would love that so much. i hate the concept of uniforms from the bottom of my heart. Tho japanese watchers would feel alienated so they won't do that. |
| As someone who went to school using uniform for 12 years... I can't really relate tbh.. XD If anime suddenly not using uniform in school, i will feel a bit weird.. although ... i don't really mind it.. XD For example, the upcoming anime Hamefura school setting didn't use a uniform. But they still using the exact same clothes everyday, lol. XD |
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| I'd rather we didn't revisit the high school setting as often, but if we have to deal with it, then yes they should have uniforms. We all know by now that Japanese high schools have uniforms, to just have casual wear in an anime is incredibly jarring. If they were gonna go the school route while letting the characters have casual clothes, then they need to do college settings. At least that isn't as immersion breaking |
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| I've always had to wear uniforms, so I think it'd be more weird to see them not wearing any to school. |
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ProfessionalNEET said: OnionKnightRises said: If they were gonna go the school route while letting the characters have casual clothes, then they need to do college settings. At least that isn't as immersion breaking I honestly wouldn't mind seeing more college settings, especially since I'm a college student myself. In addition to there not being uniforms, it create more variety for settings. I found the college setting in Golden Time somewhat refreshing for those reasons. It would be nice to see it more often. College students vary, when I was 18 I was still just like my teenage self so seeing a childish, high school-esque student in college wouldn't feel out of place, and they could still have more mature characters as well. The teachers are typically considered part of the cast in school anime, but with college it's much easier to create normal conversations with the teachers and students since everyone's an adult, in college I conversed with my teachers and professors pretty casually. It's probably not nearly as often utilized due to not every Japanese person having gone to college, and it's not nearly as nostalgic as high school and college is fairly stressful for most, but the potential for stories should trump that. |
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| I like the high school uniforms in anime. |
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| To some extent yes I do. Although there are some anime I can think where students don't always wear the same kind of uniform as others. There's Assassination Classroom for example. While the uniform they wear is the same for the most part, some students (like Karma and Nagisa) also wear something different other than the regular uniform. |
| That's pretty much the case of target demographics, though the appeal of uniforms, at least for me, is you don't have to think what to wear for the day as long as they're laundered well. Uniforms too exemplifies the egalitarian ideals that were advocated by the great minds during the Age of Enlightenment. Rene Descartes was one of them whose wisdom still lingers until this day and the one who changed the way we see QT 3.14, being also a mathematician himself. |
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| If the alternative is them not wearing any clothes count me in :> |
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Don't worry, it will be the same for the male characters so you're gonna have something to distract you from all those gross naked females :P. |
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Pullman said: An admirable dodging of the implications of my words. It's still gross.Don't worry, it will be the same for the male characters so you're gonna have something to distract you from all those gross naked females :P. |
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| I find it strange students not wearing uniforms of any kind (anime, live tv, real life, etc), so no, I don't. I personally preferred wearing one instead of casual clothes. |
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| Uniforms don't bother me as much since there's at least several differences compared from one anime to another. Characters from the same anime wearing uniforms in school also doesn't bother me since they're required. Despite me never wearing one and never willing to wear one, having to come up with different character clothing every day with every student in the classroom is rather excessive. They already spend a good number of time on character designs. I'm more bothered by the same old school festival and other same shit I see in school settings. Although recently the Asteroid show school festival by the Earth Sciences club was a neat idea as they combined concepts and done it in a creative manner |
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| I never thought about it, I kinda don't care, the important stuff is if I watch an ecchi anime, they better have skimpy clothes, I remember Ikkitousen with fondness, all of them had uniforms but the ecchi was great, pics for proof |
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ProfessionalNEET said: Yes, I know. I mentioned it my OP. However, I wouldn't be so certain that they will always employ uniforms. Educational policies change all the time, so it doesn't seem too far-fetched for uniforms to eventually hit the chopping block. Japan is different from western society. Not a bunch of freaks like we have over here |
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ProfessionalNEET said: Kayle_x_Morgana said: Japan is different from western society. Not a bunch of freaks like we have over here What do you mean by "freaks"? Do you mean people who don't like school uniforms? Also, be careful not to fall into that "grass is always greener" mindset. I bet if you actually lived in Japan you wouldn't find it to be any better than where you currently live (California according to your profile, which happens to be where I live as well). I don't want to say who I'm talking about. Don't want to upset the shitty mods and get banned. I'll just say out of the ordinary people. Also I know California is a shithole. Full of freaks I'm talking about and fruits. Japan isn't under PC rule so it would be better. Obviously I know the work ethic and other issues they have. No place is a paradise. |
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ProfessionalNEET said: Kayle_x_Morgana said: Japan is different from western society. Not a bunch of freaks like we have over here What do you mean by "freaks"? Do you mean people who don't like school uniforms? Also, be careful not to fall into that "grass is always greener" mindset. I bet if you actually lived in Japan you wouldn't find it to be any better than where you currently live (California according to your profile, which happens to be where I live as well). Well if you live in California then the grass probably is greener just about everywhere 😂 |
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ProfessionalNEET said: Ryuk9428 said: Well if you live in California then the grass probably is greener just about everywhere 😂 The main issue with California is the cost of living, but even that's going to vary depending on a number of factors, most notably where you live, how much money you make, and whether or not you own the place you live. I live in an area that's relatively inexpensive and my family owns our home without a mortgage, so cost of living isn't as big of an issue for me (at the moment) as it is for many other people. Beyond cost of living, California isn't really any worse off than any other part of the United States. The streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco are full of shit, the homeless populations in those cities are some of the highest in the US. Colleges there literally conduct political tests on professors before they even consider their qualifications. Public schools have turned into woke culture indoctrination camps. |
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