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Oct 6, 2022 10:38 AM
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Hate: I can't stand pigtails on most characters. Especially the huge, curly ones that high-class women characters often have.

Love: Gradient hair colors are my weakness. Bonus points if it includes pink or white.
Oct 6, 2022 10:52 AM
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Love: ahoge, or the tiny part of hair above the normal hair.
I also like ribbons, or other accessories on an anime girl's hair

Hate: can't think of one right now
Oct 6, 2022 10:59 AM
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That dark hair that most Isekai protagonist have. I can't stand it.

A trope I love is Exotic Eye Designs. It makes me go feral.


Oct 6, 2022 11:03 AM
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I hate it when the main characters have abnormally over designed look.

a main character should stand out, but they should also fit in.

shows like sonny boy and steins;gate show exactly how to make characters look unique without making them look like clowns.
Oct 6, 2022 11:08 AM
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Like: bangs
Dislike: Capes, long ass scarves and other dangling shit. The chinese are especially guilty of that trope which is one of the reasons why I don't consider their anime inspired video games to have good character designs no matter how much the world tries to convince me otherwise.
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Oct 6, 2022 11:21 AM
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KayKimii said:
That dark hair that most Isekai protagonist have. I can't stand it.

A trope I love is Exotic Eye Designs. It makes me go feral.



Exotic eyes are the bee's knees. I would love to see it become a more common design element.
Oct 6, 2022 11:45 AM
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Hate: I can't stand characters whose troupe centers around friendship where they would literally die of loneliness if they weren't buddy buddy with everyone and anyone.
E.g Lenalee from D.Gray-man. We get it, you had a lonely childhood. Get over it

Love: Characters that speak German. Since German is a foreign language to me naturally it sounds cool due to the novelty of it not to mention their bad-ass history they've had up till the 20th century. I guess I'm like a German mania version of Shino-chan from Kiniro Mosaic though ironically I have no interest in any Germans beyond historical figures.
Bonus points if they ironically have blonde hair & blue eyes like literally every white anime character does but red is also acceptable to me
E.g Pandora's Actor from Overlord or Asuka from Evangelion

Oct 6, 2022 11:57 AM
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Mankasa in season 4 but i still hate it
Oct 6, 2022 12:11 PM
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I like characters that look humanely proportional.

I hate moe.
Oct 6, 2022 12:20 PM

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HATE: LOLIS, VIOLENT TSUNDERE GORILLAS AND WANNABE INNOCENT SLUTS

LOVE: MOMMIES
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Oct 6, 2022 12:20 PM
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I love moe and big eyes also twintails. I know it more then one.

Cant really think of one I hate.
Oct 6, 2022 6:22 PM

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Hate - Dark hair with random strands sticking out in random places. Examples being Hachiman and Naofumi.
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Oct 6, 2022 6:33 PM
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The black haired female characters in lots of romcoms / harems that are snarky to the male protagonist ex the girl from haganai, Classroom of the elite and the girl from teen comedy snafu the ones with black hair since im to lazy to bother remembering their names. . I find it funny people complain male harem protagonist look the same when lots of the female designs there also are used are also in like every other anime and have the same personalities
Oct 6, 2022 6:35 PM

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-Love: simple hairstyle (bonus point if short), dark color hair(black, brown), medium boobies, hot mommies in general.

-Hate: Drill hairstyle, giant boobies, too tall, crazy hair color (pink, red, green).
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Oct 6, 2022 6:49 PM
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Hate: Blonde, beige or any color related to it. Awkward perfect bangs, overly-exaggerated anatomically incorrect figure, and copy-pasted design (ykw), too.

Love: White, pink or scarlet hair color. Can't think of anything else.
Oct 6, 2022 6:49 PM
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Hate: Hair that covers the eyes.

Love: cute school girl outfits.
Oct 6, 2022 6:51 PM
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Love: cute girl has a cute fang

Hate: cute girl has a skin fang
Oct 6, 2022 7:00 PM
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Weirdly colored hair. I know it's anime, but that's why it makes a character seem more generic.

Twin tails are my fetish. Nothing is humanly cuter.
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Oct 6, 2022 7:09 PM

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Little sister/flat/talks in third person like a mentally ill individual

Enjoy (not love)
Ara ara onee chan
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Oct 6, 2022 7:33 PM

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LoveScope said:
Annoyed (not hate)
Little sister/flat/talks in third person like a mentally ill individual

Enjoy (not love)
Ara ara onee chan

The third person self-referral trope is definitely an oddly common one. I guess it's supposed to be endearing?
Oct 6, 2022 7:35 PM

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Vaguelyweebish said:
Weirdly colored hair. I know it's anime, but that's why it makes a character seem more generic.

Twin tails are my fetish. Nothing is humanly cuter.

Haha well to each their own, enjoy what you love! Muted hair tones definitely give a show a more grounded feeling. If everyone is sporting neon's it definitely stands out
Oct 6, 2022 7:44 PM

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Hate : Loli with big boobs/Annoying Little Sister/Characters who talks to much.

Love : Strong female character/Tomboy/Shy female character.
Oct 6, 2022 7:56 PM
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Hair gradients, feels like a lazy way to make a recognizable character by doing the bare minimum.
Oct 6, 2022 8:02 PM

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Yuu_Kanzaki said:
Hate: Drill hairstyle, giant boobies, too tall, crazy hair color (pink, red, green).


I agree with the first half. Though my cutoff for boob size is probably much different.

I actually like the colorful hair more than the more basic/realistic hair colors for the same reason I like weird character designs in other animation. I like when animated characters really stand out and have a unique look you'd never see in real life. Yeah I know there's hair dye and stuff, but you'll never see someone naturally born with bright pink hair and purple eyes or something.
Oct 6, 2022 8:30 PM
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Not sure if it counts as a character design trope, but I hate when characters with long hair cut it short.
Long hair always looks best and it's always really disappointing when they get cut.
Examples: (too many to count actually ^^)
And so so many more....
I know this change usually comes during or after a character growth moment, but still why cut the hair??


A character design trope I like, hmm... my favorite one is probably the Exotic Eye Designs/beautiful eyes in general.
Oct 6, 2022 11:00 PM

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I hate - MC's with overly elaborate hair styles. An example in modern anime is Ninomiya Kinji from "Meikyuu Black Company".

I love when a character's personality is expressed through the colour of their eyes changing, emphasis put on the eyes.
An example is William James Moriarty from "Yukoku no Moriarty", when his eyes turn red occasionally.
Oct 7, 2022 5:04 AM

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Anime is a gift from God for me, -an escape from trashy modern "Feminine" sensibilities, amongst other things-
so i tend to concentrate on what i love about it, and largely dismiss outright what i do not.

that said, what i like; adorably puffy-fluffy-haired Anime girls;





what i do not like; what NGE's EVA units did to the standards of Mecha design;

Pre-NGE;





Post-NGE;



Oct 7, 2022 5:19 AM
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Love: When it's interesting

Hate: When it looks like a background character, when it's appalling
Oct 7, 2022 7:40 AM

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Love : Beautiful long haired girls who don't cut their hair for a stupid haircut.

Hate : "I will cut my hair for a stupid haircut because f*ck you"
Oct 7, 2022 5:44 PM
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GradientGlow said:
Hate: I can't stand pigtails on most characters. Especially the huge, curly ones that high-class women characters often have.

Love: Gradient hair colors are my weakness. Bonus points if it includes pink or white.


How would you feel about gradient-coloured pigtails?
Oct 7, 2022 6:23 PM
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I love zettai ryouiki aka thigh highs. I think they’re very important.

I can’t stand most characters who crossdress. Massive turn off imo.
Oct 7, 2022 6:41 PM

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I hate the massive googly eye look a lot of anime go for. There's an art to getting it right and many productions just don't wanna invest the time so it looks like the characters have an MS paint png for eyes.

Kind of random but I love how the knees are drawn in giant killing, they're just so unnecessarily blocky and in your face I find it really funny.
Oct 7, 2022 7:13 PM

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Love: Blonde foreigner female character

Hate: Male MC that looks like Kirito
Oct 8, 2022 12:17 PM

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GreyStoneFlinger said:
GradientGlow said:
Hate: I can't stand pigtails on most characters. Especially the huge, curly ones that high-class women characters often have.

Love: Gradient hair colors are my weakness. Bonus points if it includes pink or white.


How would you feel about gradient-coloured pigtails?

Asking the hard-hitting questions here lmao. I'd probably just overlook it like I do on other pigtail characters. The gradient would just make it easier to do so.
Oct 8, 2022 12:22 PM

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I love characters that get things done, no matter the cost, sadly these are hard to find
Oct 8, 2022 12:35 PM

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Hate: Short girl and tall boy together as a romantic couple, skimpy armour on a "supposed female warrior", overly large eyes on female characters, thigh gaps, big boobed innocent girls, moe girls

Love: tall females, adult women, adult women rocking proportionate cleavage, Moe boys
Oct 9, 2022 10:01 PM

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UberBat said:
Hate: Short girl and tall boy together as a romantic couple, skimpy armour on a "supposed female warrior", overly large eyes on female characters, thigh gaps, big boobed innocent girls, moe girls

Love: tall females, adult women, adult women rocking proportionate cleavage, Moe boys

Thinking about it, I've never really considered a moe boy character. It's always attributed to girl characters in discussion. I appreciate your taste on women characters too, the medium could really use more of those traits

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