What makes you say "oh no!" to an anime? — Transcript

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1. 0:00you ever start an anime and watch it for
2. 0:01a bit and then see a character design
3. 0:02that just immediately makes you go oh no
4. 0:05i skimmed a synopsis for the dawn of the
5. 0:07witch and i was like yeah sure you know
6. 0:09what i have room for some generic
7. 0:10fantasy nonsense in my anime schedule
8. 0:12and at least it's not an ezekie and i
9. 0:14made it all of 90 seconds into the first
10. 0:16episode when this thing showed up on my
11. 0:18screen and you know character design is
12. 0:20storytelling whether it's designed to do
13. 0:22in-universe lore building or pander to
14. 0:23the audience in the real world the way a
15. 0:25character is designed tells the story of
16. 0:27how the audience is supposed to engage
17. 0:29with them it reveals the assumptions the
18. 0:31creators have about who's going to
19. 0:32consume the media that they make and how
20. 0:34and to quote a better essayist in visual
21. 0:36language framing and aesthetics
22. 0:38supersede the rest of the text always
23. 0:40always always when the character is
24. 0:43designed to look like that and when the
25. 0:44camera introduces them by panning across
26. 0:46them like this then regardless of the
27. 0:48actual text of the story i know how the
28. 0:50show wants me to engage with this
29. 0:52character and i know that i don't want
30. 0:54to so hey what's the last anime that
31. 0:56made you go oh no like that warn the
32. 0:58rest of us in the comments