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MarcFBR
 Posts: 47 Location: California |
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I had to go back and look for which one had the scar also...
Quite amusing. |
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CareyGrant
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Damn! LOL! I can't believe... In addition to them all looking the same, they each are described as "Blah-Blah-Blah, and handsome." How could I miss that?!
And a funny strip just got funnier.
[Kronk] Ri-i-i-i-ight. [/Kronk] |
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sirkoala13
 Posts: 134 Location: Muscle Tower, U.S. |
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For me, it was more of an issues trying to distinguish who was speaking. When I read, it sometimes gets annoying when I can't get the right voice for the right character in my head. Didn't really help that the anime left out some characters. |
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enurtsol
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That's because J-guys are looking like J-gals. Even Japan is getting worried about passive "herbivore men." 
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Dinoguy1000
Posts: 10 Location: Illinois |
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Is no one going to mention Rumiko Takahashi? From what I remember, she's usually pretty good at having distinctive character designs within a series, but once you compare between series, you start wondering if there's some behind-the-scenes cloning going on.
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teh*darkness
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I don't think anyone was gonna mention her, because up there with Clamp, she's one of the uber sacred cows. But yeah, I've never read any of her works, or seen anything animated of hers other than Inuyasha, but all I have to do is look at the covers of any manga volume with her name on it, and they look like the same characters in every series. |
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Dorian
 Posts: 111 Location: Houston |
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This illustrates the sameness:
http://home.covad.net/~regaltool/t3mp/zomgirls.gif |
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Lignamorren
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Wow, words cannot describe how much I disagree with this. No artist worth his or her salt has a single ideal of beauty. (I speak as somewhat of a dilettante artist.) To be an artist one has, first of all, to observe, and anyone who honestly observes people for any length of time is forced to acknowledge that there is a wealth of very different eyes, face shapes, and so on, equally beautiful. Mangaka are forced to crank out huge volumes of "art" that is intended to appeal to a mass audience, and so we see certain conventions adopted for ease of production. It's as true of Western cartoon art as of manga. But the idea that three quarters of the comic artists in Japan think a chin you could spear an olive with is the ideal of beauty is absurd. |
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Dinoguy1000
Posts: 10 Location: Illinois |
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Actually, speaking of CLAMP, they're also guilty of this (again, between series), but that's more often than not because the characters are the same between series (or at the very least, reincarnations or doubles from parallel universes or what have you). Someone is going to royally burn me for this, aren't they? |
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