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Kyral · 2009-02-23, 10:09

I see... ... ...

Well, it seems that Arisa with her bright blond hair had no trouble with that.

Keroko · 2009-02-23, 10:14

Neither did Fate with her even brighter blonde hair.

But heck, let's forget about them, what about Suzuka with her shining purple hair?

MeisterBabylon · 2009-02-23, 10:53

See? I knew something wasn't right. XD

LimitedEternal · 2009-02-23, 12:29

Don't you love anime hair? People can walk around with purple, tomato red, or sky blue, and nobody gives a second look.

IRL, people wouldn't stop staring.

Lute · 2009-02-23, 12:31

There's only one explanation.

Spoiler for Explanation:

Seraph42 · 2009-02-23, 13:08

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Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

Don't you love anime hair? People can walk around with purple, tomato red, or sky blue, and nobody gives a second look.

Watch THE TWELVE KINGDOMS

The main heroin has Red hair and people complain about it all teh time, even her parents. Turns out she was dyeing her hair but that was just to hide her even brighter red hair

Great Anime btw, If you havent seen it you should, too bad they stopped making it

the original Auther of the books that the anime is based on stopped writing for what ever reason.

AdmiralTigerclaw · 2009-02-23, 13:16

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Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

Don't you love anime hair? People can walk around with purple, tomato red, or sky blue, and nobody gives a second look.

IRL, people wouldn't stop staring.

Well, if we could GenEngineer hair color tones using the parrot as a key to understanding it, we could figure out how to get the natural yellow, blue, and green pigments and get hair color to have colors that don't look so fake like dyes do right now. (Looks like someone just spraypainted their hair really.)

Avatar_notADV · 2009-02-23, 13:25

The hair color thing is an old anime trope.

You take a bunch of characters, drawn by the same character designer, all of them with "normal" haircuts, and the same color hair, and they get difficult to distinguish from each other. Think Tomo and Kagura from Azumanga - it's possible to mistake one for the other, depending on how the artist's drawn Tomo's hair in that scene.

You can give everyone crazy hairstyles to distinguish them, but that hurts your immersion in a "normal" series. (Nanoha actually has a lot of hairstyle diversity, if you ignore the "one side of everyone's do is exploding off their head" thing. Nanoha's pigtails, Fate's twintails, Vita's braid, Signum's rather elaborate hair, Hayate's ornaments, etc, etc...)

So the easiest way to differentiate characters at a glance is hair color. But "natural" hues, especially "natural for a Japanese person" hues, don't offer much diversity. So the convention of having people with otherwise-bizarre hair colors came about. In a "realistic" production of Nanoha, Suzuka wouldn't have purple hair, and there would be a lot more black hair and less brown hair all around. (Though Arisa would still be blond, presumably!)

The only downside of the hair hue thing is that, all too often, you can distinguish disguised (or worse, transformed... or related) people by the unique hair color. Escaflowne was an example of that...

BPHaru · 2009-02-23, 14:09

Today we're releasing “Shoujo wa sore wo gaman dekinai”. This doujin belongs to the same storyline as “Hito Ni Yasashiku” and “Sekai wa Kagayaku”. Both of them were made by the same author, are already scanlated, and are available in for download in our site.

In this story we’ll see the “logical” progression of their relationship to a next step. Or at least what should be logical at their age according to Hayate. This girl is definitely a bad (or very, very good) influence.

Preview:

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We're also releasing the preview of "Das Resultat sagt alles", one of the most Epic Japanese NanoFate novels. You can't miss this.

Download links here.

Nina.Wolken · 2009-02-23, 14:31

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Originally Posted by BPHaru

We're also releasing the preview of "Das Resultat sagt alles", one of the most Epic Japanese NanoFate novels. You can't miss this.

Download links here.

\(*'∇'*)/ Glad to see that the project is going on! And thnak you so much for the release of your new doujin! (I will save it for later ('￢'*)).

And Haru you will be happy to know that the panel I post the other day was a preview of a NxF doujin which seems to progress smoothly:

Spoiler for NSFW preview:

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Master Kosa · 2009-02-23, 16:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by BPHaru

Today we're releasing “Shoujo wa sore wo gaman dekinai”. This doujin belongs to the same storyline as “Hito Ni Yasashiku” and “Sekai wa Kagayaku”. Both of them were made by the same author, are already scanlated, and are available in for download in our site.

In this story we’ll see the “logical” progression of their relationship to a next step. Or at least what should be logical at their age according to Hayate. This girl is definitely a bad (or very, very good) influence.

Preview:

-

We're also releasing the preview of "Das Resultat sagt alles", one of the most Epic Japanese NanoFate novels. You can't miss this.

Download links here.

Thanks.

Also I'm happy to see that Das Resultant are translating. To tell the truth I lost my hope to see this in for me understandable language. THX

Bananoha · 2009-02-23, 19:41

.... Haruhi, oh geeubs wiggly....

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Originally Posted by Soljashy

It seems this way she'll at least pass hair inspection.

I was wondering what that meant. Those magical schools can't possibly have hair inspections.... And lole at Alisa and Suzuka's entire household.

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Originally Posted by BPHaru

-snip-

Thanks for the translated doujin. At least I kind of have an idea of what happened to dokupan now.... -sigh-

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Originally Posted by Nina.Wolken

Spoiler for NSFW preview:

! THAT ARTIST! Probably my favourite Nanoha artist ever because I love that kind of sketchy yet looks completed look andand the colouring and the character designs and their breasts aren't zomgwtf huge andandandand

ｷﾀ━━━━(Дﾟ(○=(ﾟ∀ﾟ)=○)Дﾟ)━━━━━!!

-cries-

krisslanza · 2009-02-23, 20:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avatar_notADV

The hair color thing is an old anime trope.

You take a bunch of characters, drawn by the same character designer, all of them with "normal" haircuts, and the same color hair, and they get difficult to distinguish from each other. Think Tomo and Kagura from Azumanga - it's possible to mistake one for the other, depending on how the artist's drawn Tomo's hair in that scene.

You can give everyone crazy hairstyles to distinguish them, but that hurts your immersion in a "normal" series. (Nanoha actually has a lot of hairstyle diversity, if you ignore the "one side of everyone's do is exploding off their head" thing. Nanoha's pigtails, Fate's twintails, Vita's braid, Signum's rather elaborate hair, Hayate's ornaments, etc, etc...)

So the easiest way to differentiate characters at a glance is hair color. But "natural" hues, especially "natural for a Japanese person" hues, don't offer much diversity. So the convention of having people with otherwise-bizarre hair colors came about. In a "realistic" production of Nanoha, Suzuka wouldn't have purple hair, and there would be a lot more black hair and less brown hair all around. (Though Arisa would still be blond, presumably!)

The only downside of the hair hue thing is that, all too often, you can distinguish disguised (or worse, transformed... or related) people by the unique hair color. Escaflowne was an example of that...

Offhand I recall in Kannazuki no Miko that although in the anime Chikane has blue hair she's always described as having black hair in the manga. I assumed in this case they gave her blue so her hair would be a unique color and maybe because black is such a boring color

So possibly Suzaku's purple hair may be... Well a more natural color just made purple to make it stick out or something?

I'm just rambling now don't mind me

BPHaru · 2009-02-23, 20:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nina.Wolken

And Haru you will be happy to know that the panel I post the other day was a preview of a NxF doujin which seems to progress smoothly:

Spoiler for NSFW preview:

Quote:

Originally Posted by LVD

! THAT ARTIST! Probably my favourite Nanoha artist ever because I love that kind of sketchy yet looks completed look andand the colouring and the character designs and their breasts aren't zomgwtf huge andandandand

ｷﾀ━━━━(Дﾟ(○=(ﾟ∀ﾟ)=○)Дﾟ)━━━━━!!

-cries-

That's great! Thanks for the info Nina.
I love that artist's style too, I completely agree with LVD ^^ (BTW, that was a 5 over 5 reaction xD)

Cuídense y sigan sonriendo

Soljashy · 2009-02-24, 01:24

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Originally Posted by Kyral

Well, it seems that Arisa with her bright blond hair had no trouble with that.

It might be worth pointing out at this point that Alisa is a known foreigner (but then again, it might not). You know, the classic English speaking blondie ("Be quiet!"). Though I think she came out a lot more interesting than the usual stereotype (as I'm crazy about her and I usually hate this stereotype).

Yes, I love using brackets (a lot).

krisslanza · 2009-02-24, 01:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soljashy

It might be worth pointing out at this point that Alisa is a known foreigner (but then again, it might not). You know, the classic English speaking blondie ("Be quiet!"). Though I think she came out a lot less more interesting than the usual stereotype (as I'm crazy about her and I usually hate this stereotype).

Yes, I love using brackets (a lot).

Arisa is indeed a known foreigner. A rich one. I think she's adopted into the family but she's not japanese. Since her name is Arisa Bannings not Bannings Arisa.

Soljashy · 2009-02-24, 01:42

Non-Japanese names are never written that way, though. Ishikawa Tarou may become Tarou Ishikawa, but John Smith will never become Smith John. At least, I have never ever seen that.

MeisterBabylon · 2009-02-24, 02:59

Wait a minute. Arisa was adopted?! oO

Evil Rick · 2009-02-24, 03:14

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Originally Posted by MeisterBabylon

Wait a minute. Arisa was adopted?! oO

Immposible to know

Either season 1 or A's, they don't even show any familiar of Arisa (I think)

Soljashy · 2009-02-24, 03:46

I kind of assumed she moved to Japan with her parents, but then again, there's no way for us to know. Now that I think about it, how often do foreigners become influential CEOs in Japan?

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BPHaru Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006	New NanoFate Doujinshi Today we're releasing “Shoujo wa sore wo gaman dekinai”. This doujin belongs to the same storyline as “Hito Ni Yasashiku” and “Sekai wa Kagayaku”. Both of them were made by the same author, are already scanlated, and are available in for download in our site. In this story we’ll see the “logical” progression of their relationship to a next step. Or at least what should be logical at their age according to Hayate. This girl is definitely a bad (or very, very good) influence. Preview: - - We're also releasing the preview of "Das Resultat sagt alles", one of the most Epic Japanese NanoFate novels. You can't miss this. Download links here.

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Keroko Adeptus Animus Author Join Date: Jan 2007 Age: 36	Neither did Fate with her even brighter blonde hair. But heck, let's forget about them, what about Suzuka with her shining purple hair?

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Avatar_notADV Once and Current Subber Join Date: Dec 2005	The hair color thing is an old anime trope. You take a bunch of characters, drawn by the same character designer, all of them with "normal" haircuts, and the same color hair, and they get difficult to distinguish from each other. Think Tomo and Kagura from Azumanga - it's possible to mistake one for the other, depending on how the artist's drawn Tomo's hair in that scene. You can give everyone crazy hairstyles to distinguish them, but that hurts your immersion in a "normal" series. (Nanoha actually has a lot of hairstyle diversity, if you ignore the "one side of everyone's do is exploding off their head" thing. Nanoha's pigtails, Fate's twintails, Vita's braid, Signum's rather elaborate hair, Hayate's ornaments, etc, etc...) So the easiest way to differentiate characters at a glance is hair color. But "natural" hues, especially "natural for a Japanese person" hues, don't offer much diversity. So the convention of having people with otherwise-bizarre hair colors came about. In a "realistic" production of Nanoha, Suzuka wouldn't have purple hair, and there would be a lot more black hair and less brown hair all around. (Though Arisa would still be blond, presumably!) The only downside of the hair hue thing is that, all too often, you can distinguish disguised (or worse, transformed... or related) people by the unique hair color. Escaflowne was an example of that...

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