Forum - View topicGia's List: 6 Destroyers of the Fourth Wall
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Snomaster1
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Well,anime characters aren't the only ones who do that. The old-time Warner Brothers characters used to do that a lot. If you've ever seen any of the old stuff,that's what they did. I think they got that from some of their American counterparts.
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Adamanto
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Indeed, the lack of Dr. Slump is massively disappointing. It easily outperforms the other series here by a mile, never ever even pretending to not be a comedic work of fiction. Other shows may reference the fact that they're TV shows, but how many of them have the author as a supporting "character"? |
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kyokun703
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I voted for Sailor Moon, but my real answer would be "Oro?" from Rurouni Kenshin. I especially like it because that's how Kaoru can tell when he's back to being plain old Kenshin instead of the Battousai.
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Meygaera
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Oh Edo Rocket.
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Sea Lion
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For a favorite catchphrase, I'm partial to "Fuko da" or "Such misfortune", spoken in a defeated tone by Touma in Toaru Majutsu no Index.
Fourth-wall breakage happens in anime more often than I realized. |
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enurtsol
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Ain't we a stinker! |
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Honestly the way Sket Dan does it, is often times simply hilarious. In one chapter of the manga, a character rips the page and tries to turn it to the next, only with mild luck. This becomes even more hilarious when she tries to references that it either way it will be fixed and the readers can always go back a page.
Dr. Slump has had several instances of breaking the fourth wall but in a very hilarious fashion. The trick is when breaking the fourth wall, not to do it often, but when you do, make the humor the situation realistic enough, but make it light as well. Do it too much though and it's not that funny after a while, but there are some that do it often, but make it hilarious time and time again. Gintama is known for that and continues to be hilarious, even when they aren't breaking the fourth wall. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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Something related to this I happened to be thinking about recently because I was watching Figure 17 last weekend and contemplated the challenges animation in particular faces when characters are alone and talking without it looking like they are talking to themselves.
Sometimes it's just solved through comedy, but with dramas and serious animation that don't want to make the characters look like a bunch of schizos, some solutions are challenging. Very few anime resort to characters thinking, and the audience somehow has the ability to read their minds. In fact, I can't think of any offhand. But it's fairly common in live-action shows. I wonder why. Perhaps because if you can hear a character's thoughts then instead of a fourth wall existing, you the viewer become a character in the show who just happens to have telepathy. People generally don't like to get caught talking to themselves, that's why when a character is talking and no one is around, you don't exist from the POV of the character, hence neither does the 4th wall. You can't break it if it doesn't exist. |
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KidaYuki
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Yay Hayate got mentioned. It's so under appreciated
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Gina Szanboti
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Seriously, Gintama deserved a higher spot. Not only do they break the 4th wall constantly, they devoted a full ten minutes of one episode doing so, as manequins (with the characters calling this "Live Action Gintama" no less), visiting the Sunrise studios and then ending with a plug for the switch to digital broadcasting. Fourth wall was nothing but dust particles by the time they were through with it.
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mdo7
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I do know Excel Saga and Nurse Witch Komugi broke the fourth wall when I watch those show. I like show that broke fourth wall, it adds to the comedy for me.
 Awesome article, Gia.
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hyojodoji
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You mean spoiler[the words by the tsūjin who passes between the legs?] In the 'Sawamura Gennosuke V at the Kabuki-za in Shōwa 39' version, the tsūjin's ad-lib words were like this:
Actually, the Japanese theatre's breaking the 4th wall had been done already in the mediaeval period. In Noh and kyōgen, characters talk to the audience. I reread Aoi no Ue (Attributed to Zeami. However, Sarugaku dangi says, '犬王は、上三花にて、つゐに中上にだに落ちず。中・下を知らざりし者也。音曲は中上斗歟。葵の上の能に、車に乘り、柳裏の衣踏み含み、車副の女に岩松、車の轅にすがり、橋がゝりにて、「三の車に法の道、火宅の門をや出でぬらん、夕顏の宿の破れ車、遣る方な」と、一聲て、遣りかけて、たぶ〱と言ひ流し、「憂世は牛の小車の、〱、廻るや」などやうの次第、「をぐるまの」、「まの」をはりにていふて、言ひ納めに、とたと拍子踏みし也。') in the Horiike shikigo bon edition and Shidōhōgaku in the Ōkura Torahiro bon edition.
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