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Sep 5, 2012 2:19 AM
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Is it just me or do fake hair colours like blue, green, pink and purple annoy you?

*actually for some reason I don’t mind purple.
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Sep 5, 2012 2:25 AM
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No.

Mai waifu has blue hair.
Sep 5, 2012 2:27 AM
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not really tbh
Sep 5, 2012 2:28 AM
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For me it depends... generally speaking I don't mind them, but the more reality-oriented is the anime, the less I appreciate unnatural colours, no matter which colour.

However it's true that some colours are excessively unnatural and it feels like they wearing a wig...
Sep 5, 2012 2:33 AM
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Problem?
Sep 5, 2012 2:35 AM
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It doesn't annoy me but at the same time I'm not exactly attracted to it. I'd much rather prefer realistic hair colors anyday but I won't stop watching a series just because the girls have every color of the rainbow on their head.
Sep 5, 2012 2:38 AM
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No not really... I like fake eye colors better though. I don't like fake hair colors or dislike it.
Sep 5, 2012 2:38 AM
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Adds a little more color to the series it's not really a bad thing or a good think its just something thats there. Why are you focusing on hair colors anyways xD?
Sep 5, 2012 2:41 AM
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It looks cool, so I have no problems with it.
Sep 5, 2012 2:44 AM

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I guess it does depend on context a bit. I didn't so much mind CC's green hair in code geas. Pink in particular gripes me.
Sep 5, 2012 2:45 AM

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Only if I dislike the shade.
Sep 5, 2012 2:47 AM

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Eh it depends I guess. Yeah I kind of prefer a more realistic look(color) as well. I'm okay with it I guess. I am A-Okay with different eye colors though.

Like Berlioz's avatar with Holo the wolf. Dem red eyes be banginggg.
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Sep 5, 2012 2:50 AM
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Karpman said:


Problem?


Sorry but...where is it from? Is it a true character or an art (like from deviant...)?

MidnightPride said:
Adds a little more color to the series it's not really a bad thing or a good think its just something thats there. Why are you focusing on hair colors anyways xD?


Fake hair colours are typical of japanese art...in comics they're much less used...
It's not that they decide if you like an anime or not, but it influences the aesthetics, at the very least...
Online you can even find some speculations about relations between hair color and character traits.
Anyway I think it's worth the discussion :D
Sep 5, 2012 2:52 AM

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If it's one color. It's okay for me. But something like this :



It annoys me. I know it has its use to make various chara design, but at least keep the same hair color for one character, except if the scenario needs something like this.
Sep 5, 2012 3:01 AM

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Not really. I don't even notice it.
Sep 5, 2012 3:02 AM

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"poster" said:
Is it just me or do fake hair colours like blue, green, pink and purple annoy you?


How do you know what annoys other people :O
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Sep 5, 2012 3:02 AM

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No. This is anime and there shouldn't be limitations to what can or cannot be.
Sep 5, 2012 3:04 AM

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Nope. But it annoys me whenever I think of how it makes anime far from reality. :D
Sep 5, 2012 3:06 AM

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no way, it is hard to separate characters in anime because they look so similar, what a great way of doing it! and i was actually just thinking of how much i like it haha
Sep 5, 2012 3:09 AM

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Doesn't affect me at all, actually in my opinion it's a great way to make the characters unique.

On the other hand I somtimes react to siblings that have totally different haircolors from their parents and their brothers/sisters.
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Sep 5, 2012 3:12 AM

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Better than plain black hair color.

Sep 5, 2012 3:17 AM

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Some colors annoy me more than others, but if they don't overdo the crazy haircolours, then I'm fine with it.
Sep 5, 2012 3:20 AM

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Kuhle said:
Not really. I don't even notice it.
Sep 5, 2012 3:24 AM

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I would love a real woman to have purple hair.
Sep 5, 2012 3:25 AM

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This is fine


Pushing it, but still okay


Okay, I think I've reached my limit




And that's my stance on artificial hair colours in anime

Sep 5, 2012 3:26 AM

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It annoyed me in La Corda since I was reading the manga. Their hair colour was on the cover but I never really paid attention to it until they had an all-group shot with like...awful shades of green, some dusty maroon-ish thing.
Sep 5, 2012 3:45 AM

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I don't mind them, but I prefer natural hair colors.
Sep 5, 2012 5:29 AM

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Tbh i prefer it:D
Sep 5, 2012 5:34 AM

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I'm fine with it but it's actually the eye color that is weird.

For e.g
Sep 5, 2012 5:46 AM

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Depends, if it's like a fantasy or scifi anime, whatever it's cool.

but if it's Slice of Life, then yea it's annoying. Especially if the people related to character also have wildly different hair color that no where near similar. Like the Mother has blue hair and the daughter has red hair and the sibling has blond hair.

But the sign of a shitty artist is one who uses wild hair colors and shapes. Because their not good enough to make subtle unique things about his characters or all his characters have the same face.
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Sep 5, 2012 6:20 AM

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The colored hair put me off at first but im okay with it now.
Sep 5, 2012 6:32 AM

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If I did, I would never watch yu-gi-oh
Sep 5, 2012 7:22 AM

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What annoys me is not the colors, but the inconsistency in coloring them in one series. For example is Matsuoka Miu from Ichigo Mashimaro manga, in the few first chapters her hair was colored black, but then turns to light brown onward. Same thing happens to Ito Nobue on the same series.
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Sep 5, 2012 7:57 AM

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Doesn't bother me at all. I like colourful things.
Sep 5, 2012 8:08 AM

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i once read that animators do this in part so that they can distinguish one character from the others. a few people here hinted at that as well.

anyone ever read such a thing?
Sep 5, 2012 8:19 AM

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Game_Master said:
If I did, I would never watch yu-gi-oh
Reminds me of LittleKuriboh's spoof when the older generation go "WTF" whenever they see what the future had become. Hilarious.
Sep 5, 2012 8:21 AM

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Some anime can do it. Some anime cannot.

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If I did, I would never watch yu-gi-oh


This one cannot.
Sep 5, 2012 8:29 AM

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I think all hair colors gives off more on their personalities , pink haired ones has a cute side , purple haired characters are always in love with someone , blue hair = cool , blonde = elegant and well mannered .

Well that's what I've notice with most of the girls with different hair colors.
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Sep 5, 2012 9:41 AM

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I have no problem with it in anime or in real life.
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Sep 5, 2012 10:38 AM

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It doesn't annoy me, nor do I like it.

I mean, thats probably why Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is appealing to me - they all , if not all, have black hair.

Its anime, its not supposed to be realistic, its a cartoon.
Like for example the animated cartoon here in America on Disney Channel, Phineas and Ferb. Ferb has green hair.

But I think thats almost like a trademark for anime is that the characters have different colored hair.
Sep 5, 2012 10:49 AM
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It's just weird.

Wanna look at a rainbow? Here: http://thecajunsamurai.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/madoka-cast.jpg
Sep 5, 2012 11:04 AM

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Have you ever watched an anime when people have almost the same hair color(since it's set in japan) and their faces are smiliar(since it's anime, and there's a limit to real human faces detail)? yeah because it would not be so cool, it could only work for slice of life, or else you could forget whos who. Unrealistic hair colors allow the mangaka to make more unique characters.
Sep 5, 2012 11:07 AM

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It annoyed me when I first starting watching, but then I got used to it. I guess it adds a little variety to characters. Also its hard for an artist to come up with diff char designs for every character so hair color helps to distinguish characters from each other. It does get kind of distracting sometimes though, especially the rainbow stuff and when characters have weird colored eyebrows too, because then it usually rules out the possibility that maybe Japanese people just really like to dye their hair >_>

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Sep 5, 2012 11:08 AM

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It depends, if the only diffrence between the characters is their hair color then I dont like it.
Sep 5, 2012 11:42 AM

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It doesn't bother me at all. It is animated after all.

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the possibility that maybe Japanese people just really like to dye their hair

Actually, the majority of Japanese people that I've met do dye their hair. Most of them more normal colors (i.e. various shades of brown and blonde), but I do know guys who had blue, red, and green hair, and even a girl who had pink hair.

For your average anime, I find that it is more exaggerated than completely unrealistic though of course there are anime like Yu-Gi-Oh and Shiki that take it even further still.
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Sep 5, 2012 12:15 PM

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Avenir said:
If it's one color. It's okay for me. But something like this :



It annoys me. I know it has its use to make various chara design, but at least keep the same hair color for one character, except if the scenario needs something like this.


Exactly what I was thinking of. (The anime, I mean)

Same can be applied for Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai.

Otherwise, I love it.
Sep 5, 2012 12:30 PM

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I've never really taken notice it's not like it looks out of place or anything but i do think it adds more variety to the characters. not to fond of purple hair though for some reason, but not because its not natural purely because i dont like it ^_^.

If it suits the character then fine, if it doesnt then its not cool :P

Never really seen someone with technicoloured hair in anime so cant comment on that :)

Im not a huge fan of impossible hair styles though, they usually look weird/out of place. unless its yugi hes allowed :D
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Sep 5, 2012 11:16 PM

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I don't mind them, although I do prefer natural-coloured hair.
Sep 6, 2012 12:01 AM

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Karpman said:


Problem?


no. but its out from realty
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Arm-slave said:


no. but its out from realty

And since when was anime realistic? Anime is all to make the fantasies of viewers come true in an animated way.
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