Why is there so many visually repulsive characters in Lycoris Recoil Recoil?

Jan 29, 2023 8:44 PM

#101

Treyv0n

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My guy they LITERALLY look like normal girls to me your just horny my dude🤦🏽‍♂️😭

Jan 29, 2023 8:46 PM

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Shizuna

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Treyv0n said:
My guy they LITERALLY look like normal girls to me your just horny my dude🤦🏽‍♂️😭

I wonder why you have Chisato on your pfp and not one of the female characters I mentioned in the first post... Hmm...

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Jan 29, 2023 9:38 PM

#103

Zoopiez

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MC have been standouts in entertainment, since the beginning. Like it or not plain mc that blends in is not a good selling point. Lycoris would not be so popular in japan if Chisato and Takina where normal. It is pretty rare you have a mc that looks normal unless it ties into the plot.

Jan 29, 2023 9:48 PM

#104

RoberToby

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-Shizuna- said:
@RoberToby Modern art in question has: complete lack of detail and tentacles instead of limbs - obviously not because it's "artistic", but because they are one of the hardest parts of human body to portray, be it a painting or a sculpture. Forget David, anime figures look better than that and take more effort and creativity to design. To create genuine art one needs to have both the talent and passion. If you have both, you can't create ugliness. It just doesn't work that way - even if creation is of a creepy creature it'll still instill awe just by its detail and overall quality. If you compare Chisato and Takina to the ones I called ugly you'll see that they are objectively better drawn and it has nothing to do with art style. And anyway, you people miss my point entirely. Have you watched Kaiji, for example? I don't find its character design particularly attractive, but it never bothered me because it never presented itself in a way I would expect it to appeal to my visual preferences. So in the end I got an interesting story even if I didn't enjoy its aesthetics much. With Lycoris Recoil, however, I expected an anime about cute girls doing some cute and cool things and that's what it seemed to be with the sole exception of all the supportive character being drawn with low effort.

1- But how do you know the artists chose tentacles for that reason? Not having heavy detail is a choice. You're probably missing the point of the sculpture and that's fine. I think if they wanted to display the David next to something of equal mastery over detail, they would have easily done it don't you think? it's not like we lack talented sculptors nowadays.

2- You forget that some art is not for everyone. An artist can have talent and passion but if their art is not akin to your tastes you're not going to like it. So thinking that it'll undoubtedly instill awe is using absolutes. And that kind of thinking is from the times when Van Gogh died poor because people didn't immediately like his paintings which were done with talent and passion.

3- I honestly don't think they're poorly drawn compared to the others. In all cases their proportions are consistent and their chosen details are always there. Hair styles are resected, expressions don't look wack and the proper shading is there.
Do you mean they're not detailed? Then Chisato and specially Takina don't have many details either. Their faces are actually quite plain. One of the others even has freckles. The difference is that their eyes, noses and mouths are made and positioned to look better aesthetically.

And if you don't mean details and proportions then what is a poorly drawn character to you? It's confusing because you started using the word ugly and now you're saying they're poorly drawn. Might sound like it but they're not the same thing. So what is it?

You seem to be jumping between character design and animation quality for your argument. You question if the commander is a woman, so you must have a problem with her design, and if that's the case you questioning her gender proves it has fulfilled it's purpose. Don't you think that, in a show were there are many conventional looking women, if they wanted her to be "normal" looking they would have done so?

4- It sounds to me like your expectation of cute girls is playing a bigger role than your capacity to appreciate a story well put together. If that's the case, like I said, that's fine, but you saying that they're lazy or poorly done seems very misinformed and arbitrary.

5-Help me understand, if you will, what, from the images you shared, shows lack of effort from the animators. I've shared my opinions on why I think they aren't poorly done. The designs are "ugly" but their uglyness is consistent with the rest of the show's artistic efforts and choices.

Jan 29, 2023 10:24 PM

#105

SupChoco

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Average weeb when he cannot jerk off to all the female character. (This means the anime is very bad).

Jan 30, 2023 12:12 AM

#106

HotPocketChris

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its lowkey true. op based af lmaoo.

Jan 30, 2023 12:54 AM

#107

Crab75

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W take for real.

As someone who is an artist who can draw anime illustrations, I totally get what you mean.
An example would be Lucy from the cyberpunk anime. I personally don't find her sexually attractive, but she does look very aesthetically pleasing.
I personally agree with op, I don't like looking at characters that aren't pleasing to look at, and that's a totally valid reason to drop a show.

The people that are saying aesthetically pleasing = horny must know nothing about art.
I can find a combination of colors pleasing to look at (color theory), but that doesn't mean I find it sexually attractive.

Jan 30, 2023 4:43 AM

#108

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-Shizuna- said:
When I started watching it I expected an anime about cute girls doing both cute and cool things, but even though two main characters are pretty good (especially Chisato), most of the other characters are unbelievably ugly by anime standards. It's like watching hentai and studio deciding to show you the man's ass all the time.

Is commander even a woman with that appearance of hers?

Because of this I only managed 3 episodes. My aesthetic sensors prevented me from continuing any further.

Anyway, I'm glad for people who liked this, but damn it was disappointed for me.

This is such a vapid and shallow criticism of a show lmao. Literally Al you could have said was “I personally don’t really like the art style” and nobody would have jumped on you because most people are smart enough to realize that art style preference is subjected. You absolutely HAD to go out of your way to attack the art style as “visually repugnant”, as if you are stating your art preference as fact.

Your comparison between Lycoris Recoil and the Statue of David is an invalid comparison. One is an anime with cute girls, the other is a real life statue. They are completely different forms of art. I get that there is an extent to which art and beauty CAN be made objective, but Lycoris Recoil is not one of those cases.

Get the fuck outta here with your “aesthetic senses” and watch live-action movies if you are so worried about how the characters look. You drew all this criticism on your own accord. Instead of making a simple statement that you did not like the art style, you had to bash the show about what is 90% of the time a subjective opinion. Good job uniting people on the thread OP.

Jan 30, 2023 12:12 PM

#109

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DecentBonks said:
Literally Al you could have said was “I personally don’t really like the art style” and nobody would have jumped on you because most people are smart enough to realize that art style preference is subjected.

Subjectivity is implied in a post where OP says that certain characters don't please their aesthetic senses. You say most people are smart enough to realize that this is up to subjectivity, but half the thread is filled with people calling OP a retard or a porn-addict.

I don't know why people are making such a big deal out of this. I personally don't think it's good enough of a reason to drop the show, since the main characters look quite pleasing to me and the animation in general was pretty good. However, when watching this I also thought that the characters that OP mentioned as examples look kind of weird. They are orthodox looking, and are drawn and look differently than most characters in your average anime.

Jan 30, 2023 1:05 PM

#110

BetaMaleUltra

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Never really thought about it, but dang you kinda right fam.

As to why, idk. Maybe to make our main characters look even more beautiful, who knows. Honestly reminds me of Chihayafuru a bit, how our main 3 characters have typical anime beauty and mostly everyone else be ugly asf LOL

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Jan 30, 2023 2:28 PM

#111

ZenoX8662

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Bro it’s not that deep, not every character has to be stunningly beautiful. The characters you pointed out are not even that ugly tbh

Jan 30, 2023 3:27 PM

#112

Anime_God_King

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Sounds like you're just attracted to little girls in anime. That could be a problem...

Jan 30, 2023 3:54 PM

#113

GakutoDeathGlare

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It's a ploy to enhance the attractiveness of the two main characters, a good looking person looks even more good looking, when surrounded by average looking people. Could also be seen as a lack of importance in the anime, no noticeable features, relegated to the background type of characters.

Jan 30, 2023 8:39 PM

#114

lostkeysci

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-Shizuna- said:

Migoyan said:

This is one thing to find a character ugly, this is another to drop an anime because female character aren't appealing to you and this is called hornyness.

So if I prefer the statue of David to some ugly modern art due to aesthetics reasons I'm just being horny? The fact that modern people can't differentiate between beauty and sex related themes is rather sad.

you are a modern people

Jan 31, 2023 7:25 AM

#115

Atlos

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So you're complaining some of the background characters look boyish?

"Is commander even a woman with that appearance of hers?"

so your complaint is that you are horny and this show isn't satisfying it?

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Jan 31, 2023 3:28 PM

#116

removed-user

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Yeah how dare they not turn me on

Jan 31, 2023 7:33 PM

#117

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same reason there's a gay disabled black man and canon gay romance. featuring joker from the joker movie.

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Feb 1, 2023 12:56 AM

#118

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Is commander even a woman with that appearance of hers?

Because of this I only managed 3 episodes. My aesthetic sensors prevented me from continuing any further.

Anyway, I'm glad for people who liked this, but damn it was disappointed for me.

You are right bro they cumming for ye Waifus

Feb 3, 2023 2:47 PM

#119

Frenchfries15

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What being a discord mod does to a mf

Feb 3, 2023 9:21 PM

#120

KasumiDrift86

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I'm generally indifferent when it comes to the designs. Personally, I think the side characters look fine but the only character I really liked was Takina because of my preference of girls with long black hair.

Personally, I think Chisato is kind of overrated and a bit grating with her bubbly nature. Not saying she's a bad character, but there's a reason why I'm into Kuudere girls the most.

May 1, 6:44 AM

#121

Spunkert

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The two main characters aren't that visually appealing either.

Jun 7, 4:07 PM

#122

SpiderMiles3523

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Reply to kizumi91

You're right, what's the point of watching a yuri bait Anime when you can't even fap to any character

@kizumi91 I am surprised how many guys shilled this anime so hard. Even above chainsaw man and bleach. Story wasn't amazing and men often do need to fap.to relieve stress

Jun 8, 9:22 AM

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@kizumi91 I am surprised how many guys shilled this anime so hard. Even above chainsaw man and bleach. Story wasn't amazing and men often do need to fap.to relieve stress

@SpiderMiles3523 Mass appeal is why. It is a CGDCT combined with politics. These two are opposed so you cast your audience net large and wide plus it is an original and besides Cyberpunk 2077 which didn't air weekly, it was IMO undisputed as AOTS of Summer 2022.

Story is quite amazing if you ask me, unlike SpyXFamily, it took its combination of a police state and cafe quite balanced and seriously. It can comfortably jump between an SOL and thriller fiction quite nicely. I'll shill LycoReco to most people not fans of yuri/yuri subtext for that reason alone.

As a guy, I'm less into the fapping of the MCs and more into gushing how nice the relationship between Chisato and Takina are. There is no stupid drama within the show between the 2. They care for each other and are careful and open about their wording when discussing or venting out things important to each other. Out of the small romance, I have watched, there is always some overblown misunderstanding that could've have been solved by talking. Chisato and Takina do just that and instead of making it feel boring, it feels genuinely solved. There's also the fact that their love did make them crazy but was not detrimental and in fact beneficial to making themselves better people over time.

As for Chainsawman and Bleach, I'm not exactly sure I see your comparison. Lycoris Recoil focused on a small cast of characters, lead specifically by two female main leads who are closer than friends but not yet lovers. The thriller is there in CSM with some politics being discussed but the SOL features is not the focus of the show. Bleach is completely off genre compared to Lycoris so it really can't be compared.

If anything, Akiba Maid Wars, a surprisingly underrated series should be compared Lycoris with a primarily female cast, combination of something innocent and something harsh and respecting both worlds seriously in the plot.

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