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INTEREST: Anthropomorphization Project Reimagines Elementary Particles as Boys




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Dop.L



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:29 pm Reply with quote
Particle man, particle man
Doing the things a particle can
What's he like? It's not important
Particle man.

Am I the only person thinking of this?
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ScruffyKiwi



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:52 pm Reply with quote
My only thought was that the guy on the right "Elec Smith" would not be allowed into a lab with a lab-coat like that as it would be a safety hazard!
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:53 pm Reply with quote
Not enough mesons, I contend.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:56 pm Reply with quote
Dop.L wrote:
Particle man, particle man
Doing the things a particle can
What's he like? It's not important
Particle man.

Am I the only person thinking of this?

You're not, but I had a different video in mind. Very Happy

(Oh lord those character descriptions...)
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Codeanime93



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:06 pm Reply with quote
Anything else Japan wants to turn into a group of teen boys for the teen girls in the audience to squeal over?
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TarsTarkas



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:20 pm Reply with quote
Might as well do the Elements from the Periodic Table. They can have children after mixing their atoms.
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trilaan



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:51 pm Reply with quote
Dop.L wrote:
Particle man, particle man
Doing the things a particle can
What's he like? It's not important
Particle man.



Pretty much, but I was replacing "man" with "boys" from the get-go.
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AksaraKishou



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:53 pm Reply with quote
Codeanime93 wrote:
Anything else Japan wants to turn into a group of teen boys for the teen girls in the audience to squeal over?


Did you read the title...?

Quote:
Anthropomorphization Project


This implies that more is to follow.
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Jose Cruz



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:23 pm Reply with quote
Nice, now I can show this to people who complain the Japanese objectify women.
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manapear



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:23 am Reply with quote
I don't favor the art, but I guess the designs are simple enough to work.

Jose Cruz wrote:
Nice, now I can show this to people who complain the Japanese objectify women.

Was that meant as a joke? Like, a pun based on objects being turned into guys?
Either way, wouldn't the recent one with the guns being anthropomorphized be a bit better? (I mean, they're more attractive, imo.)
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ChibiKangaroo



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:34 am Reply with quote
Article wrote:
Up is a third-year student and Down's twin brother who loves craftsmanship. He has a sociable personality but a violent disposition.



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Elec is popular with everyone, and he has to be careful because he can manipulate static electricity. Although he looks young, he is the oldest of the group.


What is it with the violent dudes in this kind of content? It's almost like "abusive guy" is just one among the desirable character traits to assign to a character in an ensemble cast.

Also, good to see the good ole shota who is actually older than everyone else trope. It's actually used a lot more rarely than its loli counterpart

Very Happy
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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 6:29 pm Reply with quote
ChibiKangaroo wrote:
What is it with the violent dudes in this kind of content? It's almost like "abusive guy" is just one among the desirable character traits to assign to a character in an ensemble cast.

Also, good to see the good ole shota who is actually older than everyone else trope.

I think that's their attempt to incorporate up quark's larger positive charge (+2/3e cf -1/3e for down), and equating the electrical charge with violent tendencies?

Likewise, electrons have the least mass of the group (except for gluons which have zero mass), and they were discovered decades before the rest, so, there ya go.

This is a good thing. We can look forward to a whole crop of Japanese girls becoming particle physicists over the next decade or so. Smile
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Dr. Walrus



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:19 pm Reply with quote
I cant wait to see the doujins of Top Quark and Bottom Quark.
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