Character Designs

Apr 10, 2023 1:45 AM

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Not sure if they did this on purpose or just lazy but the gap in character designs between the main cast and the others is astronomical.

You look at Fuki, Commander, the butch girl, the ugly girl and their designs are so uninspired like mob characters. There's no facial features or unique traits.

Apr 10, 2023 2:40 AM

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Well, if everyone is super, no one is.

I’m pretty sure this is done intentionally as it’s easier to pick characters out for plot purposes. For instance, if you were to see anyone then on a poster amongst boring mobs, you’d be able to see them immediately due to their contrasting colors. However, suppose everyone was ramble, then it’d be significantly more difficult to see them.

Not to mention animating everyone to the same quality would naturally draw your eye away from the main action of the scene: eyes don’t holistically view but rather track all moving objects by shifting focus.

Apr 10, 2023 3:41 AM

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nSubong said:
Well, if everyone is super, no one is.

I’m pretty sure this is done intentionally as it’s easier to pick characters out for plot purposes. For instance, if you were to see anyone then on a poster amongst boring mobs, you’d be able to see them immediately due to their contrasting colors. However, suppose everyone was ramble, then it’d be significantly more difficult to see them.

Not to mention animating everyone to the same quality would naturally draw your eye away from the main action of the scene: eyes don’t holistically view but rather track all moving objects by shifting focus.

Amazing answer! Chisato and Takina and the group are their cast. So ofcourse they would have a lot of resources spent on them. One of the reasons why Lycoris Recoil had such an amazing run was because of the character designs of the main cast.

Apr 10, 2023 4:14 AM

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Character designs are story telling.
This is not mindless SOL, or ecchi harem.
Those side characters you describe as ugly are either irrelevant to the story, are supposed to be unlikable or are evil.

Apr 10, 2023 10:11 AM

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This logic can literally apply to any other piece of storytelling in existence. I think the only story that really has 10 out of 10 characters throughout their run is like Lord of the Rings lol. The character designs are fine, I mean at the end of the day the show is not a supernatural one with a lot of super powers etc, it is based on “realism” so obviously people would look normal and average.

Apr 10, 2023 11:46 AM

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well for me it is good but to some other People not

Apr 10, 2023 10:58 PM

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mechian said:
Not sure if they did this on purpose or just lazy but the gap in character designs between the main cast and the others is astronomical.

You look at Fuki, Commander, the butch girl, the ugly girl and their designs are so uninspired like mob characters. There's no facial features or unique traits.

Who cares, they are just the side characters that are annoying throughout most the anime, they don’t need to be designed uniquely.

Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.

Apr 11, 2023 5:15 AM

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This anime won a price for ch design if I am not wrong

Apr 11, 2023 5:21 AM

Hitagi__Furude

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Im pretty sure its not easy to create a unique or a character design that stands out!!!

" Kindness can sometimes lead you to trouble. "

Apr 11, 2023 9:45 AM

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If you can’t remember the character’s name, I think that implies why they didn’t have more time spent on their character design lmao.

I’m just echoing other replies, but I think it’s really a matter of how relevant they are to the story. Anime likes to make it easy to tell who you’re supposed to pay attention to.

Oct 12, 2023 9:21 PM

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Old_School_Akira

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Never watched a Disney movie? Main characters are always the best looking while everyone else in the background is not.

HACKs! 🤢🤮

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