Chara Design as a necessarius condition
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Like totali, the latest episode of Kannagi has gotten me rooting [Kabitzin Geass canceller ACTIVATE!] cheering for Tsugumi too. But, in our previous discussions, Stripey won’t even place Tsugumi in the running. The reason? He didn’t like her hair style and her large forehead.
Well, fair enough, I steadfastly refused to watch his favourite series of KyoAni-KEY hell, especially AIR. Just because I dislike the chara design, particularly the eyes, so much. I only succumbed to Kanon because of SaYuri.
So one could go on and on about the plot, the characterization, the animation budget etc. etc. (or the lack thereof) but I’m sure we’ve all had a series or two that we just could not and still cannot bring ourselves to watch or how we can’t bring ourselves to support a particular character simply because we think that the chara design is fugly. Like beauty, it may only be a shallow response to something that’s just skin deep. But deep down we just gotta have something that’s pleasing to our beholder’s eye.
Just like the time when Stripey was explaining to this DVD store clerk why he wasn’t going to buy Nanoha StrikerS after splurging on the As boxset, rattling off all his deeeeep reasons, when I just couldn’t resist piping up from the other end of the store: ‘Well, his real reason is cuz Fate isn’t loli anymore! Ahaha~♥’ TSUGUMI REVENGE!!
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