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>The Owl House copied Tenchi Muyo
>Magiswords copied Slayers
>Gameoverse copied Samurai Pizza Cats
What's going on with artists copying designs from 90s anime?
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Funny that your draw that comparison but not the dinosaur character just being Barny with notes of Putt-putt.
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>>153665693
Anime designs from the 90s are really good.

Just like American cartoon designs from the 40s are really good.
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>>153665720
True, and that's why Sonic first design was very loony tunesque
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>>153665693
Gosh. I wanna punch Kit so hard!
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>>153665947
are you the guy that is always posting Ivy Pepper ryona?
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>>153665897
Even his final design is, it's basically hedgehog Felix.
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>>153665693
>Gameoverse copied Samurai Pizza Cats
Have you thought about its plot at all? It's not even a Reboot homage, it's straight-up lifted wholesale.
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>>153666025
No.
I just don't like overexposure.
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>>153665693
The human brain cannot form thoughts or ideas without prior context. I promise you that everything you like is ripped off or derived from something older. Originality is fake.
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>>153666227
Shut up, pseud retard
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The thing is, Japs have already done almost everything imaginable you can do with anime style in terms of design
It can’t be helped as long as it’s anime-like
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>>153665693
Why is it always anime?
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>>153666285
Meh, a lot of anime designs are just guy/gal with detailed clothing and some weapon or power, if you saw one anime guy/gal you pretty much saw almost all of them. Like seriously look at that wolf summoning guy from chainsawman and tell me he doesn't look like a million other anime dudes, hell put him in jjk for example or any other anime in a modern setting and he wont stand out
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>>153666234
Okay, Jackass, let's play this game then. Name one thing you like.
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>>153666326
Boku no Pico
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>>153666285
>>153666322
I miss Satoshi Kon. Say what you will about the guy, he was correct that Japanese anime characters should look Japanese.
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Unironically what’s important is to understand it will never be not Japanese
It’s okay for non-blacks to produce R&B, Jazz, and Hip Hop but you can’t take it from them
I really doubt you guys will get it tho
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>>153666363
Akira toriyama may have suffered from same face syndrome for a chunk of characters in dbz and even other works but he still made a bunch of characters and the likes of aliens and robots did not have that same stern goku face to be fair and the overall art style is different
I mean Goku is one of if not the most popular anime character and he doesnt have the "anime" eyes, no big shiny irises
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>>153666322
>if you saw one anime guy/gal you pretty much saw almost all of them
Wrong, there are a lot of anime/manga with different art styles. This sounds extremely reductive.
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>>153666322
You know that doesn’t contradict to what I said, right?
Most R&B songs sound the same for many people
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>>153666440
I mean seriously you can interchange characters between jjk and chainsawman for example and the style wont differed between the characters
and even with the many "different styles" unless we are talking about something very very different like say panty and stalking or something purposely trying to break the mold or just be more unique you will almost always end up with a bunch of humans with powers/weapons, detailed clothing and big eyes and barely any nose
Point is it's very fucking easy to know if something was made in japan because of how samey the anime styles are for the most part
in games it's different, shit like metal slug mario sonic and dark souls prove there are more styles than anime
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>>153666322
This sounds like cherry picking,
>wolf summoning guy from chainsawman and tell me he doesn't look like a million other anime dudes
No shit he is meant, to look like an average jap dude. You really need to watch more anime, start with Kaiba, Mononoke, paranoia Agent, Black Lagoon, Redline etc. There is a word of fantastic character designs , why do you think cartoons like the one in the op keep copying them?
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It’s pretty depressing because I can tell what’s going to happen
Gaijins will try to discredit Japs as much as possible while literally copying what Japs were doing in the last 50 years
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>>153666497
and in black lagoon it's just blokes and chicks with average clothes and weapons, they look mildly different cuz they're older so the style is not as generic but still
I am not gonna pretend that Kit's series over here has amazing designs cuz it doesnt, have you seen that concept art? but at least we have a weird megaman catgirl thing, a ball robot and shit like a big demon, if this was an anime most but not all of the characters would be people in space suits or something and stale colors
and the robot would either be the same pocket chain looking cute things or gundam knockoffs with giant blades on their shoulders
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>>153666476
Nah you sound extremely reductive.
> very very different like say panty and stalking or something purposely trying to break the mold or just be more unique you will almost always end up with a bunch of humans with powers/weapons, detailed clothing
Are you dumb, using your video game example does every japanese rpg look the same or every game with 3d characters where you have guys with weapons and armors? There are anime without big eyes and with refined noses. That's like saying that every western cartoons is just generic furry animals or samey generic adult people.
>shit like metal slug mario sonic and dark souls prove there are more styles than anime
Berserk(inspiration for dark souls), Mario anime, Sonic anime, Dominion Tank Police(inspiration for metal slug). Watch more.
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>>153666523
>but at least we have a weird megaman catgirl thing, a ball robot and shit like a big demon, if this was an anime most
Are you retarded? I am serious. There is literally a Megaman anime and there are plenty of anime with interesting demos designs or inanimate objects moving.
>and the robot would either be the same pocket chain looking cute things or gundam knockoffs with giant blades on their shoulders
You might be trolling at this point, western mecha in cartoons mostly sucks while anime has so many types of robots. SOmethign like Votoms looks more interesting than anything in that trailers .
>stale colors
Watch Mononoke.
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>>153666530
i know there are generic game designs i am saying shit like mario and metal slug prove there are more because you have some cartoony unusual shit, and stuff like dark souls are less anime and more gritty looking so there is actual variety for once unlike anime
i mean for example tank police looks nothing like metal slug it looks like the average old anime ova while metal slug actually looks unique almost western, you can mistake it for something outside of japan but almost every anime is just that, same format
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>>153666558
and megaman has the same anime eyes and design you would expect from anime so what? yes western robots are boring but at least it's not the same gundam shit
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>>153666561
>some cartoony unusual shit,
You can find that in anime.
>and more gritty looking
You can find that in anime as well.
>it looks like the average old anime ova
No t really, Shirow's art style is pretty unique.
>but almost every anime is just that, same format
Wrong. Answer this question: is every cartoon generic because 99% are them are talking animals or normal people?
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>>153666576
>and megaman has the same anime eyes and design you would expect from anime so what?
Which one? One of the ovas looks almost exactly like the game.
>it's not the same gundam shit
there are hundreds of mecha series, the mechas in evangelion look different than the ones in giant robo.
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>>153666589
nowadays with the bean mouths yeah
anime can be gritty sure but you don't look at dark souls and think anime now do you? mean this realism and shit, and what cartoony stuff in anime? doramon or whatshisface? that shit doesn't look like cartoon at all it's clearly made in japan, on the other hand Sonic and Mario looks more cartoony than some actual cartoons
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>>153666621
made a bunch of mistakes here, was typing too fast sorry dudes. Also I apologize if I sound pretentious
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>>153666621
>nowadays with the bean mouths yeah
i am talking about them in general.
>anime can be gritty sure but you don't look at dark souls and think anime now do you?
It was literally inspired by berserk.
> mean this realism and shit,
Yes: Perfect Blue, The Patlabor movie.
>and what cartoony stuff in anime?
Maya the Bee, Uchuusen Sagittarius, moomins, Pipi Tobenai Hotaru, Baby felix. All of those could have been made in the west. Also pic related is the cover for metal slug. Are you claiming that I can't find any ovas that look similarly?
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>>153665693
Culturally, homage is popular and fun and it’s not that deep
Artistically, drawing is taught from fundamentals but design is taught from study of existing designs (if at all)
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>>153666634
>>153666654
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>>153666614
>the mechas in evangelion look different than the ones in giant robo.
This. Idk how deluded you have to be to claim that all japanese mecha look the same.
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>>153666406
Toriyama was always better at drawing monsters and robots than he was at drawing humans.
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>>153666700
they still have the same sleek design and dumb spikes though
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>>153666732
>dumb spikes
Faggot
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>>153666654
>Baby felix
isnt that based on a western design? also none of these look like those types of cartoons, like they all look soft and shit, you wont find stuff like courage or the eds
perfect blue and berserk dont remind me of dark souls and such, and finally i am not talking about the cover, but the actual sprites of the game
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>>153666732
If this looks like any of the eva you might want to check your eyes. Hell in general anime has some of the coolest and most interesting technology portrayed in animation.
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>>153665693
gameoverse looks so nortubel tier
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Essentially, Western cultural imperialism hasn’t changed at all.
They’ve indeed become cautious when it comes to Black people and Jews, or indigenous peoples like the Sami and Native Americans, but that’s it.
We live in a nightmarish world where powerful Westerners have the exclusive right to decide what is and isn’t a problem.
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>>153666772
Kys
>>153666774
Cope and seethe, subhuman
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>>153666765
giant shoulder pads, there we go lol
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>>153666765
>most interesting tech
like what big guns and giant gundams and blades with triggers/motorcycle handle?
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>>153666758
>isnt that based on a western design?
Yes.
> also none of these look like those types of cartoons,
They look a lot like western cartoons from that era, especially maya the bee. You were talking about designs like mario and sonic akak "soft stuff"
>you wont find stuff like courage or the eds
I could act like retard just like you and say
>everyone in een'e is just a generic human who cares
Idk if there are any anime with the EXACT artstyle as Antonucci(which is retarded since you can't name any western cartoon with the exact same design as let's say RoV either) but there are anime with CRAZY designs.
>perfect blue and berserk dont remind me of dark souls
Which parts of dark souls? The armor? Berserk has that. The creature designs? Not all of them were animated in the 90s show but Berserk has a lot of them and in general anime/manga are a gold mine for freaky creature designs, just check out Apocalypse Zero(also check out for the CRAZY stuff mentioned earlier, some of the villains fit it perfectly).
>m not talking about the cover, but the actual sprites of the game
Then wtf am I supposed to say? There are no sprite anime or sprite cartoons for that matter(other than indie newgrounds stuff). There are scenes where they are animated on sprites for a gag so you have that at least. Sprite character design are extremely different but as you can see the artists had an ovaish looking design in mind.
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>>153666784
And? That 1 aspect makes them completely similar? I guess all human cartoon characters look the same cause they wear shoes. Anyways, the spider robot from gits doesn't anything like either of them.
>>153666798
A lot more, watch any high budget cyberpunk ovas, they are an absolute delight for sci-fi nerds.
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>>153666855
talking about metal slug sprites dude not that cover
also felix wont count if it's western designed
crazy designs like what for example and you still cant find anime with disgusting cartoony designs
all i know about dark souls is that i dont think of anime when i look at it, not even berserk

I'll give you a better example, the Thing from he comics is this exaggerated underbite rock thing with a face that still looks human enough but cartoonified because of the rocks
in anime you cant find shit like that no matter what, every rock based character is just some guy with rock powers or a generic golem thing with no face or a face that's pure monster with no goofy human designs
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>>153666934
>talking about metal slug sprites dude not that cover
Read the last part of my post.
>with disgusting cartoony designs
Ping pong, Devilman Crybaby, Pop team epic depending on the episode, some of one piece. Now give me western cartoons with designs like Mononoke
>all i know about dark souls is that i dont think of anime when i look at it, not even berserk
That's a retarded argument. There are plenty of DS players that think about Berserk.
>in anime you cant find shit like that no matter what, every rock based character is just some guy with rock powers or a generic golem thing with no face or a face that's pure monster with no goofy human designs
How the fuck can you say that when you haven't even engaged with anime/manga . Have you read the example I've given? Apocalypse zero? No, then your argument is worthless. *Hell in general western comics have stiff designs that follow the same boring patterns, nothing like the kind of monsters you can find in manga.
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>>153667000
it's just that from what i have seen and searched up, i have never seen a single thing like the Thing or Hulk
every muscle character is either something generic like muscular from mha who is just some random douche with muscle powers or some monster, you wont and cant find a human with like a stretched rectangular face like hulk's, point is all faces look the same
crybaby is not cartoony one bit, pop team epic is chibi stuff, onepiece is one of those anime that are actually more unique as i stated in the very beginning with panty and stalking
finally no i never saw berserk in DS, no one really looked like the MC int eh games
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>>153667047
>it's just that from what i have seen and searched up, i have never seen a single thing like the Thing or Hulk
Both of those look generi, Hullk has 100 artists and most of them draw him extremely samey.
>you wont and cant find a human with like a stretched rectangular face like hulk's,
Wrong, some of the Baki characters have stretched faces. Read Apocalypse zero.
> look the same
*Comics literally have a house styles that makes all of them generic as fuck. Manga has much creativity in art styles.
>crybaby is not cartoony one bit,
You haven't watched it. It gets extremely cartoony in the show itself but not on the cover.
>pop team epic is chibi stuff,
You haven't watched it. Pop team epic uses different art styles in different episodes. Why do you keep talking about stuff you haven't watched?
>finally no i never saw berserk in DS
And? Others have.
>no one really looked like the MC int eh games
Some of the Ds armors are literally modeled after Guts' armor and you are ignoring all the creatures and monsters..
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>>153667047
>i have never seen a single thing like the Thing or Hulk
every muscle character
Retard, there are many muscular anime characters with brutish faces, it’s one of their most common design tropes.
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>>153667109
He has probably watched like 10 anime considering his examples are chainsaw man and jjk so I wouldn't bother.
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>>153667109
and they all look the same yes
>>153667101
hulk has a face that you would never find in most anime
manga has the same vibe
crybaby is just anime nothing about it looks like from cartoonnetwork for example

seriously just looking through /co/ and /a/ which are some of the lowest examples one can use let's be real is enough to see what I mean, in /co/ every character looks different clearly from separate works, in /a/ almost every character is either some chick meant to be attractive or a random guy, i don't care much about shit like tadc but even that has more variety in the designs, what anime has a mask with ribbons as a character?
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>>153667047
If we are brining comics in discussion why isn't there a western cartoon that looks as good as Dragon's Heaven? Moebius is a western comic artists yet only an anime managed to replicate some of his beautiful style. Cartoons need to step up.
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>>153667142
>>153667167
Stop embarrassing yourself
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>>153667169
oh wow half naked blonde anime chick and gundam, very crazy different
ok jokes aside what's so insane about that manga?
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>>153667205
I am not trying to do anything, I am just saying, I saw old and new shit and it all looks very similar, i wanted to get into anime I really did, but they mostly look samey as hell
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>>153667167
>crybaby is just anime nothing about it looks like from cartoonnetwork for example
Have you actually watched the show? The show not the trailer or anything like that.
>hulk has a face that you would never find in most anime
Baki has a face that you would never find in most cartoons.
>manga has the same vibe
Lmao, capeshit is the most generic looking thing ever, why isn't there capeshit with art style like the manga I've mentioned. Why aren't there monster designs like Apocalypse zero in western comics?
>, in /co/ every character looks different clearly from separate works,
Lmao, look at the board yourself, 99% is either lusting after generic girls or posting generic capeshit heroes.
>tadc
Literally inspired by anime
>hat anime has a mask with ribbons as a character?
Plenty of anime have objects as characters. Senketsu for example.
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>>153667250
>Lmao, capeshit is the most generic looking thing ever,
Nope
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>>153667208
>oh wow half naked blonde anime chick and gundam, very crazy differe
I am not talking about the characters, I am talking about the backgrounds you retard, also about the anime.
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>>153667250
i looked at senetsu or whatever and i saw some of it before and no that doesnt impress me one bit, eve the shirt has anime eyes
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>>153667271
and what's so special about it exactly?
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>>153667280
Oh so it’s about eyes now? Then D’s right hand. That’s even more original.
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>>153667225
This is literally me with cartoons
>everything is a shitty comedy
>all characters are animal or dumb humans
>the plot never matters
How can you enjoy this?
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>be op
>mention the word "anime" even once
>instantly devolve into an east vs. west debate
Why?
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>>153666784
Two arms too!!
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>>153667326
easy i dont
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>>153667294
Can't you read? It captures Moebius's style like nothing else.
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>>153667325
oh yeah that, no that's cool i like that
beautiful art really
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>>153665693
Cartoon creators watched anime in the late 90s and early 2000s and wanted to copy them, simple as that, some of them deny it like the pedo who did Magiswords, but others are open about it like the director of Turning Red saying she was inspired by Ranma multiple times and showing Ranma's merch and posters in the making of video for Turning Red
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>>153667350
and?
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>>153667358
You will never get something like Amano Yoshitaka's art style in western cartoons.
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>>153665693
Based
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>>153667390
He is one if not the best artist in the comic industry and it's cool to see his art style in animation.
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>>153667393
>>153667418
fair point
listen anime in terms of art is fucking phenomenal but it's just the character designs that pisses me off
i like variety
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>>153666080
I thought you meant kike the video game worlds thing, I didn't know it was literally about the protagonists trying to stop the player from winning to avoid destruction.
Damn, lol
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>>153665693
Soulless copy
>>153667403
Original soul
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>>153667425
Reminder that the BD came out this year
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>>153667403
Why did they sometimes have human noses?
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>>153667433
And like I've already proved by posting examples you can get plenty of that as well but at this point it feels like talking to a wall. If you don't like anime or want to get into it that's ok but don't talk like you are an actual expert on it while you lack the knowledge. It gets boring.
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>>153667457
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>>153665693
I will put actual money on there being some sort of jab at Sonic in the first episode because Arin never got over SEGA telling him to eat shit.
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>>153667394
Based
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>>153667470
it's just weird because as much as cartoons either just comedies or knockoffs a lot of them do have variety because of the cartoon-iness I guess
but with anime since they focus more on characters, they tend to make more designs that are just random humans and even the crazier stuff still feels like "another japanese thing"
I don't know, i'll stop regardless, i guess i am annoyed to see great art/animation on the same designs
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>>153667326
Retard
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>>153667384
Turning Red was a bore. What I find it weird is those animators that grew up on FlCl and 00s Gainax anime but never try to make the same batshit funny stuff and instead opt for boring shit.
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>>153666406
>Goku is one of if not the most popular anime character
If your alphabet has ñ in it
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>>153667425
>>153667478
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>>153667444
Faggot
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>>153667512
Oh yeah we fucking hate Goku in America lol
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>>153667513
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>>153667512
Shut up, disingenous faggot
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>>153667495
>a lot of them do have variety because of the cartoon-iness I guess
And my point since my very first post was to claim that there is variety. yes there are plenty of generic anime but there are plenty of interesting ones as well. The variety isn't on a cartoony scale like western toons but rather on a scale that values different aspects , sometimes it can be cartoony, sometimes it can be realistic , sometimes it can be weird. There are more cartoony cartoons but anime compensates in other different art styles that you can't find in western animation(some of them are so appealing that they keep getting referenced in both cartoons and anime)
>hey tend to make more designs that are just random humans
Most cartoon characters are also just humans or animals. In terms of monster designs anime/manga have it in spades in darker series.
>"another japanese thing"
Maybe 4 you.
>I don't know, i'll stop regardless
K.
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>>153665693
Let's see, OP.
>Animation is just "DISNEY, FAMILY GUY, STEVEN UNIVERSE" for years
>Comics are just "MARVLE AND DC" for years
Most people have basic knowledge of these mediums so to them: copying anime/manga (badly even) is seen as the only alternative
you'll never see these shows reference a Bakshi show, Aeon Flux, Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant, anything Genndy even though he's still making stuff, Asterix, Tintin, a 2000AD series or Corto Maltese
Can you imagine if Owl House dropped a reference to a Moebius comic?
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>>153667491
Feet
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>>153665897
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit exists
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>>153667517
Last I checked, America doesn't treat Dragon Ball Z as a second religion like everybody south of the border does.
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>>153669916
So?
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>>153667512
This guy knows
>>153669926
Yamcha is the white man's choice
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>>153667384
Magiswords was the most "on the nose" one of them all IMO
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>>153665693
Millennials only wanted to copy the superficial aspects of anime shows they watched without realizing they were the shitty English bastardizations instead of the originals, they missed the fucking point.
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>>153666654
>Famicom is here, fuck
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>>153667672
>Can you imagine if Owl House dropped a reference to a Moebius comic?
Dykena Terrace is uncultured. The best you're going to get is her plagiarizing FOTM anime in her faggot show
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>>153666227
What about the original?
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>>153666326
Last Year at Marienbad
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>>153671869
That was from someone cool, can't lie
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>>153667384
Well the only similarity that Turning Red and Ranma share is characters turning into red pandas and other into a normal panda but the problem of what OP says is "japanese character drawn by a western artist that looks like a bootleg"
Like you can have a similar concept but nobody will say the artist of this pic related plagiarized the other character
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>>153667520
>>153668503
>>153668519
Cute
>>153667384
>>153670201
For me it's Naga, best "Slayers" girl
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>>153670295
It’s not



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