I think it’s like with birds? Like if you can see further into the colour spectrum a black bird suddenly has colourful plumage. Maybe if you’re in a cartoon universe you can see more colours
Hair color is a spectrum
Submitted 10 months ago by hmmm@sh.itjust.works to animemes@ani.social
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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 months ago
homogeneity & fascism create the former.
self expression is often trampled upon. And it won’t change any time soon.
Thin is why I’m in a hurry to emigrate.
ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
That’s how you know who the important characters are.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I didn’t know how accurate it is, but I heard a compelling explanation:
I’m Western animation, character models are generally more cartoonish and extreme, so it’s easy to tell them apart. In anime, characters tend to be more realistically proportioned and homogenous, which makes them much harder to distinguish. Crazy hairstyles and colors help make the characters easily distinguishable.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 10 months ago
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unrealistic Male Body Standards SMH
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ok, but that’s a pretty unusual art style for an anime.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah, that’s why I said “tend”. There are plenty of exceptions but they are exceptions.
hmmm@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Average Yaoi Anatomy 🥀
oce@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Same with clothes. Japan average fashion is very gray.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rolder@reddthat.com 10 months ago
From what I’ve read, many schools have or had in the past dress code requirements requiring the students hair to be black.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 10 months ago
It is becoming a bit easier to express individuality in Japan, but that definitely does not apply to most people working a corporate job. Any given picture of a crowded Japanese street that indicates rush hour will have a bunch of people in suits/etc with standard hair. Off hours or in the bigger cities there might be a more interesting sample.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, it looks very much like that picture, at least in any crowd I’ve seen. Japanese society is pretty uptight about visually standing out too much. It’s all relegated to specific locations or events. Comiket is one example, because the many attending cosplayers are impossible to spot outside of the actual location (unless you count their luggage). Compared to similar events in europe, most of which are way smaller, you’ll see extravagantly dressed people with bright hair colors in a large radius and on public transport.
Etterra@discuss.online 10 months ago
There is brown however, so the meme is still technically inaccurate.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Bocchi?
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A testament to character design.
anonymous_in_atl@ani.social 10 months ago
All the colors of the spectrum