Japanese anime characters are so vibrant and expressive, so why are Japanese people the opposite?

[JoshRaed]

“If anime good and based, why actual asian people so dumb and boring?”

Please reconsider basically everything.

[Stargazer31]

"Wallace and Gromit are great. Why aren't British people really made of plasticine?"
It's a cartoon, it's not necessarily going to be a documentary. And you're really going off presumptions and stereotypes here

[MelancholicOtaku]

So you’re asking why is a group of people not acting like how you want them to act.

You are aware that anime and manga is fictional and every Japanese person any person of any race have their own personalities.

[NickRowler]

Why did you bring back a thread from almost a year ago?

[abigaillmartin]

My mother went to Japan for a religious mission before she married my dad. I talked with her about this and she said that these preconceived notions about the Japanese are absolutely false.

[abigaillmartin]

Okay but this video is amazing. I love it!

[thepenmonster]

Dredging up old drama is easier than getting a short report done.

[SumireHime]

Wow. As a Japanese person, this post is extremely racist. This person needs to reevaluate themselves.

[abigaillmartin]

I agree. We will not stand for this. They need to go outside.

huff

[abigaillmartin]

I am so sorry about Mr. Silver 7’s behavior. Deepest apologies. They need to get a hold of grass.

[SumireHime]

Yeah, agreed. Thank you (: as soon as he started talking about samurai and ninjas I was like, "oh here were go..." If he said that to me irl I'd have been like, "excuse me, come again?" lol

[barakothepirate]

German comics are sloppily drawn? Ohhhhhh, that explains why I have so many German followers on instagram, they see me as one of their own... Yeah I've noticed that Germans tend to have a very loose style of art...

[Lensing]

Here are 3 examples of typical german style comics which
everybody knows here and were popular in the 80s and 90s and
are still popular now.
I was reading those comics too when
I was a kid and then discovered franco/belgian, italian, spanish
and later american and japanese artists and thought that german
artists kind of suck. I didn´t know Heinrich Kley at that time, HK was
an amazing german artist who inspired Walt Disney and a lot of other
great german artists.

[barakothepirate]

Wow, those are some funky artstyles, I like them! Very expressive, especially the top one, way more preferable than the tons of cookie cutter anime style comics today. Although I go for an exaggerated cartoony artstyle as well, and I have yet to learn how to draw properly too, so maybe I'm biased...

[thepenmonster]

No lie, there are some days where I want to draw my stuff in this loose / suggestive way simply because it's how I doodle for fun.

[samconnely]

Those vibrant characters are more about creativity than real-life expression.

[kyupol]

As an Asian (Filipino) we generally have inside and outside face. Other Asian cultures have that similar feature.

It's because family honor and reputation is idolized there and it's the basis of a lot of people's ego.

Therefore we overly watch our conduct and try to appear as approachable and friendly as possible. Even look like weak pushovers sometimes.

But many Westerners especially the ones who have had interactions with our military (joint training, exercises) think that we Filipinos are all expert knife fighters and boxers (thanks Manny Pacquiao).

I was even asked at a workplace if I carry a balisong (butterfly knife) all the time like a cowboy carries a gun all the time...

[JoshRaed]

I just saw it and didn’t know how old it was.

[thepenmonster]

You know, this stupid thread came to mind when I was watching Dandadan over the weekend because I noticed that Momo...

... Is probably the closest I've ever seen an anime high schooler get to a normal Japanese girl of that age: Shallow, selfish, mean out of reflex more than intention, all coming out of being unsure of her place in the world and knowing that her worth in her culture is entirely tied to her looks.

I won't call her grounded by any means, but she's a lot less of the Otaku Fantasy Girl that Hayao Miyzaki famously complained about...

You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, “Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.” If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!

... than is normally served up.

At least so far that I've watched. Dandadan has a really strong set of opening episodes and that is biasing my view at the moment. I will say that it feels like one of those series that's gonna drown in a pool of anime cliches like most of them do and I'll stop watching before it ends.

Then again, I watched all of Shikanokonoko Koshitantan and that was pretty unoriginal so who knows?

[thepenmonster]

Also, Otonoke is a real banger and has been in regular rotation the last week.