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Jun 2019

We all have a personal taste, is there some clothes, looks, characteristics that you don't like in character design?

-Big jewels, especially the magical girl type of jewels all over the designs.

-When the clothes have lots of random belts, zippers, etc, just to make the designs more "interesting".

-The "bikini" armor worn by female warriors. Unless everyone if fighting in a silver thong, I don't see why would any warrior thin this is such great protection.

-A black haired character having purple strands to show that the character is such a rebel!

-extremely narrow waists. I'm not very fond of hourglass figures. I don't love the Disney princess/classic Barbie shape. I also don't particularly like when artists draw chubby girls and call them "realistic" but give them impossibly narrow waists. I used to draw narrow waists and nowadays I prefer "pear shapes".

-The generic, plain, normal schoolboy designs in the harem animes. There is literally no effort put into this type of character because viewers are supposed to insert themselves in his place...I get it.

I'm not saying that those traits don't suit the characters or that they can't look great depending on the artist and there are always exceptions -.

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Not that I’ve done this either, but I sort of get “meh” when opposite hair colored characters date each other. Like sometimes it’s cool seeing a black haired person not dating a blonde, but another black haired person. Lol
Also, why does everyone have an 8 pack in BLs?

This is an annoying thing to me:

  • Super strong characters, who aren't supernatural/non human or something else, with no muscle tone at all...

And it gets worse with the personality. Like, he's as exciting as watching paint dry, but his harem full of amazing people just trip over themselves for him. It's like..."I'm hearing why you all like him, but I'm not seeing any of it in action"

When the "cute guy" has only one type of hair style. Ya'll know the one:

And it's like...really? With the amount of hairstyles and hair textures out there for guys, you'd think we could get a little bit more creative than "the side-swipe part"

WOAH! Who's this stud, and why isn't he surrounded by one dimensional giant titty anime girls right now!?

Dude speaking of... the large tits on tiny little women. In what world...

I'm tired of the big cold guys always wearing a suit and having some kind of frozen expression and dark hair. They're treated by other characters like they're the most handsome ever and usually have an unpleasant personality. Bonus point if they're some kind of big boss and filthy rich. Not saying this kind of character is always bad, but I cannot really get into a story with a cold and unpleasant looking guy in a suit as a love interest.

I see this and raise you the "A-cup Angst Girl". She has reasonably sized breasts or even smaller breasts, but is almost always insecure and think she's not attractive. Like, I know this is a real insecurity and it's valid, but like...not every woman with smaller breasts feel this way?? :joy:

I’m crying :joy::joy::joy:. The angst girl always has a small chest and she also always has two hotties after her that she gives 0 attention to. They just remain persistent.

inhumanly large tits and inhumanly large asses because damn. It almost screams desperation to me from the author: "pls read my comic ;<... it has fan service" and its just plain obnoxious

Like if I wanna read about the kardashians I’ll just open up yahoo news.
(Okay maps, bow out of this one).

Right! We see a variety of 12 interesting girls that are drop-dead gorgeous...and end up competing for the most boring good-for-nothing guy in the whole school. Now that I think of it Bella Swan is the equivalent of the harem boy. :sweat:

I can’t stop. Characters that look so similar it’s hard to tell them apart? Like I’ve come across this a couple times where I have to ask myself “which one is this?”

Edgey, brooding characters need to have bangs in their face/covering an eye and if their hair is short BONUS POINTS FOR A HOODIE DOING THE TRICK. More points if it's black or a dark colored hairstyle.

I seriously just want to make a character with this dark edgey design and make them happier than Sakura Chiyo.

First of all, you will have to pry my decorative zippers and zettai ryouiki from my cold, dead hands

This topic is fun, though~. I guess I'd have to say something I'm tired of seeing is the 'cool blue magical girl':

Always glamorous, mature, and responsible, often from a rich family and/or the 'school council president' (seriously, I'm pretty sure at least 3/4 of these girls are school council presidents). And these are all from the Pretty Cure series; there are even more 'cool blue magical girls' outside of it...

It starts to feel really repetitive after a while, all the other magical girl colors have much more variety in personality...sure, there are lots of 'silly pink kawaii' mains, but there are a few tomboys and some motherly types, too. Blue magical girls don't have nearly as many exceptions to the rule...so it's always nice to find one. Like this crazy sweetheart: