Fr one of the reasons I can’t get into anime very much is because of how abstract and inhuman most characters look and behave. I know there are cultural and historical reasons for the style and tropes, but it makes everything completely unrelatable to me.
So I’ll forever be one of those guys who’s like “Cowboy Bebop is great but that’s as far as I go”
Hayao “I hate weebs almost as much as life itself” Miyazaki
Holy crap haha! What a quote. Certainly made his point of view clear lol
Dorohedoro is definitely one of the stranger anime I’ve seen in recent memory and even they managed to fit noses on their characters. Caiman also technically has a nose, I guess, or at least he’s got nostrils.
I’d also strongly recommend it and it’s supposed to get a second season at some point.
You can go far enough but Cowboy Bebop is still the best. Not because of it’s graphics.
There’s some anime I’ve watched and loved but I had a revelation two years ago about why I was so put-off by the cutesier stuff. My niece was a toddler and we were goofing around with Snapchat filters. She was loving the anime filter and it dawned on me…
…Adult women in a lot of anime have the mannerisms of a literal children. And it certainly didn’t help the ick factor when I also realized these are the characters a lot of weebs want to fuck.
Ew ew ewwww. If an anime with an adult cast is described as kawaii, you cannot convince me to watch it.
I have terrible difficulties to enjoy those anime that require irreal coloured hair stiles and eccentric complements to distinguish the characters…
Recently I felt a bit of freshness with an anime, which faces I do not find “beautiful” or well drawn at all, but they were all quite distinguishable without the need of weird coloured hair… Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, despite the cartoonish style for once in a while I was glad to not see an endless amount of plain “beautiful” stereotyped faces…
Jin-Roh
Look into western anime like Arcane, Avatar, DOTA: Dragon’s blood, things like that.
It doesn’t feel so… anime. And some of them have legit amazing and “grounded” character design, movement, expressiveness and such.
Add Castlevania to that list
I watched castlevania, and I liked it fine, but in terms of style/tropes it feels more anime than western anime to me.
Counterpoint: 1963 anime girl
To be fair, the boy is the exact same shape, which I would describe as a weeble wobble with the limbs and head of a kewpie doll 😂
Well, they are robots, so it makes sense!
Ahh yes I forgot, all robots are descended from the original automaton; Sir Weebilus Wobbilus of the Kewpie dynasty.
Apparently the ones in Japan are, at least.
Meanwhile modern anime women
I’m not one to shame others for their appearance but groin hair extending to the outer hips is a bit odd.
I actually really love Birdie Wing.
I’ve only ever got into anime shows for their quirky story or character personality development.
Not once was it for the design or terrible animation. If I ever do refer to breathtaking anime it would be studio ghibli but that’s about it. And even given its age, today’s anime really can’t compare. They just wouldn’t put in the work like they once did.
Not surprised a lot of kids get deep into it and then drop it fast as they grow older. Cutesy wears off when that’s the only thing going for it. It gets annoying after a while.
What about ‘western’ anime? Think Legend of Korra, or even less ‘2D’ but still highly stylized ones like Arcane.
One of the reasons I turned towards manga more.
Cause its all this inbred focused grouped to hell and back pile of grey goo to me now.
Its all the same looking crap (for the most part) and I am not willing to treck the desert anymore to find the rate oasis.[sad pug noises]
