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@Dethie: My favorite as well. I don't watch a lot of shows where round dominates so basically the angled version is what I was thinking of when I posted.
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2008-01-28, 08:52 | Link #48 | |
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2008-01-30, 16:07 | Link #50 |
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Best trend in my (quite heavily biased) opinion?
Childhood friends archetype is still going quite strong in anime. Last year alone they appeared in 20 some odd shows, and so far their win:loss ratio is around 60:40 so far last year (I'm waiting on 2 more shows). While yes, it's down from the 70:30 average from 2000-2006, at least 2006 was spectacular now that it 's basically 75:25. As it is, 2000-2007 is 68/97 'wins/loss' record for the childhood friend archetype, with 2 more shows pending. For the record (changes/additions/corrections are welcome as always): Spoiler for Childhood friends in anime 2000-2006, with X marks as a loss, considered yourself warned as most of them are considered spoilers:
Spoiler for 2007 additions, 14/23 with 2 shows pending:
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2008-01-30, 16:46 | Link #51 | |
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haven't thought about the best, but the funniest trend in anime i've seen is characters trying to speak English. i in no way think it's bad when people misspeak English (i'm learning Japanese and can't speak it well at all yet), but i can't help but uncontrollably crack up in laughter when i hear English in anime. often in school-life anime when i hear characters reading English aloud for class i can't even tell that it's English. it's even hilarious when they have native English speakers in anime but who completely speak English in an over-exaggerated, comical way, like in kasimasi ep1.
(btw i'm only talking about original Japanese audio, not dubs) ichigo mashimaro inspired me to post about this. i almost fell off my chair from laughter from hearing the characters trying to speak english. |
2008-02-02, 03:49 | Link #53 |
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I like the big eyes too.
Over the years, eyes have been getting bigger and bigger and bodies have been getting smaller and smaller. Consider, for example, Manabi Straight, with perhaps 5-pound eyes on 50-pound "high-school student" bodies, or the various Key characters - which when I first saw them in maybe 2001, seemed to have humongous eyes, but they now seem mainstream! And Digi Charat, a noble pioneer of the trend - not only did they have eye lasers, but Puchiko's body could fit inside either of her eyes! Now compare them to the contorted characters of the 70s, that practically looked... human. Anime head technology - how much brain they can cram in the base of the skull, leaving the rest of the space for immense, beautiful eyes - is improving even faster than computer ships are shrinking. A modern anime character with one eye closed can still have more eye surface area than than Pai from 3x3 eyes, with all eyes open. I am both scared and excited by the ultimate destination of this trend. How much of an anime character, by mass, can be eyeball before they start looking *worse*, not *better*? I look forward to the day when some mad genius of an artist produces an anime character with an eye bigger than the entire character itself! |
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2008-02-02, 14:39 | Link #55 |
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From what I've personally seen, and watched, come down the anime pipe in recent years, anime seems to be trending towards serious, complex, heartfelt, and somewhat realistic romances, and away from shallow, slapstick comedy-esque, "romances".
Bleach, the Nanoha series', Shakugan no Shana, Busou Renkin, the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and a few other recent anime titles have very few, if any, of the "guy accidentally stumbles upon actual/desired girlfriend in a compromising situation, and gets pummeled for it" physical comedy that was simply done to death in harem anime in general, and in Love Hina! in particular. Honestly, Love Hina! has probably ruined the humour in that sort of scene forever for me - it was just painfully overused. It's a relief to see more realistic, serious, and heartfelt romance in pairings like Shana/Yuji, Yoshida/Yuji, Haruhi/Kyon, Kazuki/Tokiko, Ichigo/Rukia, Ichigo/Orohime, Erio/Caro, arguably Nanoha/Fate, and several others. |
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