Forum - View topicINTEREST: Company Apologizes for Uma Musume Plush Dolls Having 4 Ears
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BadNewsBlues
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Probably one of her few defects that’s actually not terrible.
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Let's not pretend that animal ears on the top of human skulls made any anatomical sense to begin with.
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maximilianjenus
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Reminds me of a certain anime where we get a small music video of a beast people village and one of the beasts people has two pairs of ears just like this.tho at least in that one we can assume he was an infiltrated human wearing fake ears.
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Alan45
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It could be worse. Back in the 1970s a doll company issued a character doll based on a popular singer. The likeness was fairly good except that if you pushed her hair back it showed the doll had no ears at all.
@<('_')^ If you can accept the concept of demi humans to begin with, the idea of a skull (and perhaps skeleton) that differs from the normal human should not be that much of a stretch. As far as that goes, the eye and mouth size of some anime characters would produce some really odd skulls. |
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Greed1914
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I can see where this one would happen. It's pretty common for animal girls to have a set of human ears too or to have hair styles that obscure the sides of their head in a way that makes it hard to tell if they have human ears. Since Umas have extra long phone receivers, we know they don't have human ears.
I've always figured that the inclusion of human ears on that type of character was because some people might find the lack of them to be off-putting, but then again, having two sets of ears doesn't seem any better or worse to me. |
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Emerje
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In Spice and Wolf Holo has two sets of ears. I forget exactly how Lawrence described it, something like human ears to hear the human world and animal ears to hear the gods. Pretty sure it was just a metaphor for her living in both worlds, but the ears are real all the same. Incidentally (Wolf and Parchment spoiler) spoiler[Miyuri can hide her wolf ears and tail, likely signifying her closeness to the human world more than just her human blood, though she's also quite the wild child.]
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Fluwm
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This has been a common theme for "catgirl" designs for as long as I can remember. Remove the human ears, and the designs look too uncanny; retain the human ears, and the animal ears become redundant, and appear more like an affectation that, you know, ears.
There's a reason why most (all?) of these character designs use the hair to conveniently cover-up the sides of the head where the human-ears would be. Including this one. So while it may be a "defect" I'm not sure it's really one that merits apologizing over, as that part of the doll was never really meant to be visible in the first place, right? |
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yeehaw
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There's a character in Tegami Bachi with bunny ears, but they're not on top of the head like usual bunny girls, they start where our human ears are and it looks weird!
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