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TLDR: anime is often shit because it is too simple, and is thus evil

It is by my view that anime as a medium is sometimes a poor one. Often, its stylistic choices are in bad taste- by removing the detail and thus the importance of many human feature and dramatizing the emotions that are felt and shown by "anime" as opposed to regular humans would demean humanity.



take the most common stylistic choice; anime as a whole does this- they remove the detail of the nose, often replacing what should be a clearly defined nostril, ridge and other important details with a few lines- which oversimplifies the features of the human form as if to say "look, all humans are without their nose, they have no central frame, no central core to them!"

This does not give off a positive, pro-human or pre-rational sense of life.



Secondary to this, another stylistic choice most common in anime is to make the facial structure un-naturally sized. this is seen by looking at the face of the anime characters as a whole- you will see that they have a structure that is made from simple shapes, colours and is infact most commonly seen to by modelled after a cats face from the side, and with having large eyes that connotate cuteness.

All of which would mean that the medium as a general would be to say "man is unserious, man is not complex" and would be comparing men to animals, which would demean mans rationality.



There is good to be seen in anime obviously, what I am critiquing is the general– given the poor state of a lot of anime nowadays being just pornslop with a side of sperg, they don't tend to actually put much effort into the design of the characters themselves. although it isn't as if I am saying all bad anime are inherently poorly made for pornographic reasons.



Majorly, It isn't so important that anime is simplified, that alone is not a bad thing- and is a virtue intellectually with how crow epistemology works and such.

What is important is that anime can most often take these symbolic, simplified signage as actual human appearance. I mean this as in, instead of an anime using its inherent simplicity for emphasising the essence over unnecessary surface detail, it would be using that process to undermine the overall power and meaning of a piece– removing the meaningfulness; thus weakening the fundamental weight of the human form, removing what is important about humanity.

Oversimplification is not a virtue.



I am going to give a few examples of such bad anime designs and then vice versa:



'Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid' has many examples of poorly thought through, horrible character design. Kanna Kamui, the little kid; is most relevant. In this character all of what I have talked about is most relevant, zero nose, huge eyes, and used for the sake of being practically an emoticon. for being what is supposed to be a really old being, there is a lack of wisdom, knowingness, or pretty much anything. This also can be linked into a further argument about what can be called lolicon, but I cant be bothered to go into that right now.

'No Game, No Life', Shiro. The Platelets from 'Cells At Work', Umaru Doma from 'Himoto! Umaru-chan' and most annoyingly Yui Hirasawa from 'k-On'

There is many good examples of bad anime design (I am ignoring the lore or any form of story or characterisation of these anime btw outside of looks.)



However a brilliant example of what an anime character would be is the main character from 'Solo Levelling' Sung Jinwoo. the way the face is built is elegantly simple, which contrasts the oversimplification of the many other characters I have mentioned previously, shadows are applied realistically, and a nose is shown. The face is overall, human. It helps to accentuate the emotions and visuals of the character and the simplicity shows the essence of what is happening, and doesn't remove important details.

Similarly, Roland Wimbledon (funny name), has a clear amount of effort placed in the details of the nose and face that allow for the complexities of man to be shown, which elevates it as a character.