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Lack of love.

I’ve found myself listening many times to the whole soundtracks of One-Punch Man and Spy x Family.

Oh yeah!

Cowboy Bebop!

I didn’t know about this! The names really do sound like some in Guyver – “Aptom” for example!

What?!.. Wait, I didn’t know about that action movie! 🤯

Oh yeah I remember that! 😂 Not a fan-service transformation at all…

I completely missed the connection with computer games (I’m not a gamer), thank you! Probably computer graphics pushed the device to both games and anime.

Indeed, they look good and are easy to make with computer graphics; I hadn’t thought about that!

Yeah circles and other 2D patterns – or simply plain writing – do have very ancient origins. I think all cultures in their early stage attributed a magic character to drawing and writing, which are inherently 2D activities. This is also reflected in other anime/fantasy common themes, like the item that comes to life because something has been written on it (golem), or the creature that gets increased powers because someone gives it a name…

Thank you for the link! I had not thought about the computer-graphics factor, and that makes absolute sense for the increase in popularity of this graphic device.

Thank you for the “references”! I don’t think I even saw those.

Indeed the idea is old, and inherent in most early cultures in relation to drawing and writing, which were seen as “magical”. And this is reflected more generally in anime, for example in the very common theme of “getting increased powers upon receiving a name”.

What I was wondering was why the sudden increase, because today it seems that all fantasy anime use this device. I had not thought about the computer-graphics factor, and that makes a lot of sense!

Great geeky post 🚀

It’s actually quite simple to simulate with python or octave, even with a simple update scheme. Take for instance a look at …github.io/physics-simulation/, especially its “mass spring system” as a starting point.