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⌈ Secret Post #3155 ⌋

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To all people who didn't grow up watching anime and had to accustom themselves to all the very different narrative and animation conventions -- do you remember becoming first acclimated to it? Want to share memories of the things that jarred you the most, or the things you got used to much faster than you expected?

I was pretty young when I first encountered anime, but the unnatural hair colors confused me because I assumed the characters had dyed their hair, and I wondered why it was so common for anime to have all these hair-dying characters. I don't remember having to get used to the way it looked, but it really bugged me that I didn't get the reason for it.

A few years later when I found an anime I liked enough to call myself an actual fan, which was also around the time we got internet in our house, I found my answer very quickly on a popular site: that the colors are just a stylistic way for the audience to identify the characters and they're not really seeing their hair as those colors in-universe. So then I felt better and, for some reason, thought that was a fascinating explanation.

IDK I think Yugi Mutou's hair is totally dyed and spiked in-universe. No one will convince me otherwise. Same with a few other characters. He dresses like Sid Vicious anyway so it's not like it's far fetched.

But yes, I found that explanation about hair to make a lot of sense, especially since you know, most of them are meant to be Japanese, who don't have a whole lot of hair color variation...

nayrt

IDK I think Yugi Mutou's hair is totally dyed and spiked in-universe. No one will convince me otherwise. Same with a few other characters. He dresses like Sid Vicious anyway so it's not like it's far fetched.

And wow, this totally goes in the "characters whose personality doesn't match their clothes" thread down below.

Ha, yeah I remember in that explanation I read, they mentioned that there were some exceptions that just couldn't be explained, like Chibiusa's pink hair being brought up by another character in the manga. And I never even wondered about any of the physically impossible hairstyles a lot of characters had.

I got used to the animation style (huge jewel-eyes, triangle mouths, teeny tiny nose, frequently-bizarre hair, etc) very, very, very fast.

The whirlwinds/streaming colors/strobe light effects in the backgrounds of action scenes, much faster than I thought. Surprised myself!

The thing that took me the longest to get used to was the ubiquitous little sweat beads in stressful scenes. Just so completely different from western animation.

I grew up reading American and European comics and didn't discover manga until I was a teenager. Most of what I read was shoujo, and NGL, I was weirded out by how feminine the male characters looked. Sometimes I had trouble figuring out who was male and who was female, and whether or not characters were supposed to be crossdressers or drag queens/drag kings.

I also found the panel layouts confusing a lot of the time. And not just because they were read right-to-left; I didn't have any problem adjusting to that that because I already knew how to read Hebrew, which is also written right-to-left. I usually had trouble with the layouts regardless of whether the manga had been flipped. Action scenes were especially hard for me to follow.

Yeah androgyny in manga/anime can get pretty heavy. Fruits Basket is like the ultimate game of what gender is this character.

AYRT

Ha. I never read that one, but I've heard that one of the big plot twists was that a major character turned out to be a woman disguised as a man and all the fans were totally shocked. Like, no one in the fandom ever considered that possibility because, hey, everyone looks girly regardless of gender.

I thought it was kind of brilliant. It's a plot twist no one saw coming because of the conventions of the genre!

NGL, the feminine dudes was my favorite thing about anime and manga. Unlike American comics, which often (though not always) think terrifyingly-beefy = attractive, and Western animation, which thinks "aesthetics? What are aesthetics?" manga and anime dudes are damn easy on the eyes.

In high school, one of the anime club members made a very informal game called "Dude or Chick?" that involved pictures of mostly shoujo characters. Apparently a teacher agreed to play for a bit and Nuriko from Fushigi Yugi was his breaking point.

Nuriko is cheating, though... I mean he dresses feminine on purpose.

I remember when I first started watching Inuyasha, I was stunned to find out Sesshomaru was male, he was too damn pretty. Now I can spot a beautiful but male anime character from a mile away.

The Matrix-style freeze-frame floating in the air at the moment of impact during fight scenes still gets me.

I was always boggled about the NORMAL multicolored hair, since RL people from Japan usually have...medium black, even blacker black, or white/grey for old people.

The insane purple/green/blue spiky hair didn't phase me, but the characters who were like, hey, regular ol' blond guy just hanging out here with a Japanese name and speaking Japanese was like, what?

I was pretty much drawn to the style from the get go, so there wasn't really a period where I had to get acclimated to it. It was one of those things that just clicked.

After being raised on very fluid but low-detail Disney-style animation, getting used to very stilted but high-detail anime style was a thing when I was a kid. Now I love the differences between the two, because they create such unique experiences.

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