I’m making this to be called out if I’m just wrong in a bad way. But I feel like a lot of anime style lately is starting to look very samey? I don’t know if its because of gotcha games but I’ll see a anime character and go "hmm have I seen this character before?’ When in the past I would know a anime character even if I didn’t watch the show. Maybe it’s just the type of anime that is popular now? Honestly no idea.

  • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I think the same face thing existed since forever, early manga/anime would joke that when they reused the same character/design it’s bc said character was an “actor” playing a different role. I think after 2003 a lot of anime just became more generic with their art style in general, SAO being the prime example of boring anime and boring design.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      24 days ago

      early manga/anime would joke that when they reused the same character/design it’s bc said character was an “actor” playing a different role

      Tezuka was famous for this. He’d re-use designs in a commedia dell’arte kinda way.

      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Yeah, that was the Osamu Tezuka’s Star System. I wonder if that was the inspiration behind things like Aki Ross in Final Fantasy Spirits Within, or Laura in the Kenji Eno games which was basically the same thing but for movies and games.

        I think later on, after Tezuka passed away, his son and the people on his studio sort of gave up on this system, which is why we had some weird ethnically swapped characters like Kenichi being African/South American-Japanese in Astroboy 2003.