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I mean I know it's a cartoon and all but are their necks that long in the manga? |
Old_School_AkiraAug 7, 2017 4:31 PM
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| ^Ok but sometimes there necks look like they stretch so much that they will break. |
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| I'm going to take a wild and unconfirmable guess and say the artist was influenced by Parmigianino. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_with_the_Long_Neck |
NekkoArcJul 12, 2017 9:27 AM
incisorr said: i love it when people start acting like some neutral almighty unbiased godly judge and they even believe their own shit, suddenly its not their thoughts and opinions anymore but the righteous justice god way, they are unbiased, non-subjective, they just are! To be honest, everyone is like this quite often, me included, but i don't forget myself and i still post a lot of personal shit which is what forums are made for , if they didn't want us to have our own style and posts it would be an article instead a forum thread. |
| yea it's really badly designed, it's quite bugging me |
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| Because nipponjins have fetishes on everything even fucking necks. |
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Jorj_faith said: In dance necks are often stretched and elongated to represent the line your body makes, especially in styles like ballroom dancing their necks are accentuated and elongated to show beauty and grace also doing this shows correct posture which is an extremely important part of being a dancer especially when dancing competively It's because of this ^^ |
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Swagernator said: Because nipponjins have fetishes on everything even fucking necks. Dis Them neck fetish is old as time. It's part of the old geisha culture. |
| Yes, it's like that in the manga too during the dancing scenes, it's easier to draw and animate dancing scenes with long limbs I guess. |
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NobodyKnow said: ichii_1 said: Yes, it's like that in the manga too during the dancing scenes. In which dancing scenes does that happen? I never had this problem with the manga. In all of them? I don't know but there's definitely an elongated limb problem. |
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| It's just the art style. |
Not at all, those looks like realistic necks and the mangaka use different perspective. The long neck come from the anime character design and not the mangaka's one. Hence even Haikyu anime has them (same anime character design as Ballroom anime). Something like:  never happen in the manga |
| There necks were even longer in episode 2. |
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| They are pretty normal in the manga. |
| Wow the necks look better in the manga. |
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Jorj_faith said: In dance necks are often stretched and elongated to represent the line your body makes, especially in styles like ballroom dancing their necks are accentuated and elongated to show beauty and grace also doing this shows correct posture which is an extremely important part of being a dancer especially when dancing competively Thanks for explaining. This makes sense. I was wondering why they went with this, since it seems like a style thing. And this type of style isn't seen in Haikyuu, despite having the same character designer. |
| Dem necks were NOT THAT LONG, seriously. The WAITING for episode 3 feels much longer and agonizing. Sighs. |
Yes, and now translate everything please. |
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Jorj_faith said: In dance necks are often stretched and elongated to represent the line your body makes, especially in styles like ballroom dancing their necks are accentuated and elongated to show beauty and grace also doing this shows correct posture which is an extremely important part of being a dancer especially when dancing competively Yes... yes... but. THIS!? XD  It looks pretty weird. I like the art per se, but the necks look very weird. ^^" |
| Can tell the screenshots are gonna be amazing |
Maneki-Mew said: Jorj_faith said: In dance necks are often stretched and elongated to represent the line your body makes, especially in styles like ballroom dancing their necks are accentuated and elongated to show beauty and grace also doing this shows correct posture which is an extremely important part of being a dancer especially when dancing competively Yes... yes... but. THIS!? XD It looks pretty weird. I like the art per se, but the necks look very weird. ^^" ^This right here is enough to put off anyone who wants to watch this anime Lmao this is horrendous |
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HueyLion said: Maneki-Mew said: Yes... yes... but. THIS!? XD It looks pretty weird. I like the art per se, but the necks look very weird. ^^" ^This right here is enough to put off anyone who wants to watch this anime Lmao this is horrendous No-no, watch the anime. D= This is just a screenshot from a dance sequence. |
| I think that they have a peculiar design for the characters which include long necks, but some scenes, IMO, were just badly animated (like the screencap you guys posted above). Actually I think the animation has been dropping in quality since ep.1. Anyway a random suggestion: when I took the basic japanese language course, our japanese Teacher made us watch the film "Shall we dance" (1996) which is a japanese movie about ballroom dancing (and had an American remake in 2004). To those who would like to understand better the ballroom dance in Japan, it's a good old classic:D |
ワンダーランド花 ♥ |
| You guys make me not wanna watch it anymore lol |
| I loved when in episode 3 the protagonist saw a guy and he said "wow, his neck is so long!" Are you kidding me? All of you are freaking giraffes. |
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| Oh boy this is gonna be another one of those shows where people post 1 frame to say something about animation quality.....sigh |
| well the long necks are only when they dance...I hope I get use to it soon |
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 I think they are amazing |
| Dam people they spent like 10 minutes in the first minute talking about posture & standing tall.... its not just a art thing ... pay attention |
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| Same question, really. It terrifies me and it really reminds me of Junji Ito's Enigma in Amigara's Fault. |
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sheroze said: Mayuka said: You guys make me not wanna watch it anymore lol Same here lmao, these screenshots are ridiculous Why do you let other peoples opinions and some random screen shots influence your own opinions? |
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Elsmandearka said: I have vol 1 of the Manga and the necks in the anime are way too long! Brachiosaurus in human form. The art is better in the manga. The long necks did bother me more with the episode I just watched (ep 2). I just have to ignore it and enjoy the show. However I like the story so I will continue watching it. I feel like this will be one of those times where we will just have to gradually get used to it. There are weirder looking character styles/designs in other anime and we got used to those. |
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| *their necks im sorry but i had to do this lol |
| Objectivity doesn't exist. Subjectivity is an excuse. Beautiful world of online discourse. |
| Didnt take much notice to this, until the OP started the thread. The art is gorgeous for the most part after all. |
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Do what? What did you do? "their" necks are long, these people have long necks. |
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| all the necks xD hahhah it's too funny. I was hoping this show would be elegant not comical. I don't know if i could sit through a dance scene without cracking up lol |
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ye good job changing that from there lol |
| Objectivity doesn't exist. Subjectivity is an excuse. Beautiful world of online discourse. |
| I'm dying. That's one of the funniest things I've ever seen in an anime, my god. |
| Wow these screenshots are way too ridiculous XD |
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| are you sure they aren't just giraffes that identify as humans? |
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