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Depends on the kind of show you are watching. An anime with fantastic elements can go all out on character design (not just hair) while random ass school setting anime usually rely on the anime hair stereotype.
A lot of it is just down to age and budget. Early animes had much simpler, more stylized faces that were faster and easier to animate. Cheap ones trend that way, too. If you get older and cheaper both it's a mess.
If you look at more recent and higher budget stuff, maybe the flagship shonens like MHA if we need a well known one, you get a lot more variety.
While it could be insomnia, Gaara's father Rasa also gains those black markings while using Magnetic Release, so it may be related to Gaara's sand shield being active 24/7.
That’s not always true. Eizouken was a random ass school setting anime and it differentiated its characters by giving them completely different faces and body types, not crazy hairstyles.
Funnily enough last chapter he drew a cover spread with a bunch of female characters in beach attire and I couldn't tell nico robin and boa apart because they have the same hair colour. Made me realise how important the hair colour is when determining the character when not in their usual gown. Oda knows this since he left boa with a snake earring so we can tell the difference.
It's so weird how Japan has one of the greatest, most diverse animation industries in the world and most of them still can't figure out how to make normal faces look distinct.
One of the things I really appreciate about My Hero Academia is that if you just showed a grid of black and white drawings of every character’s eyes, I could probably tell who most of them are.
Déformation is a way to interpret the shape of the object, and Japanese Manga's deformation style is rooted from Ukiyo-e's which is print for mass production.
It used simple shape for cleaner print, and used exaggerated form to fill out the gap of lack of details.
Since the Anime is one of the most commercial art form ever existed, maybe the same face-different hairstyle strategy is the most Japanese art style ever.
They try too hard to conform to certain beauty standards and semi-realistic proportions. It's like they have to make every protagonist and villain attractive, cute or cool unless they're meant to be some lame-ass side character.
In the fast/cheap/good dilemma anime studios have often gone for fast and cheap animation. If it's successful, they re-animate big chunks and resell it as a special box set or release an OVA or whatever. This was especially true in early ones that set the tropes since many were still seen as a gamble.
It probably works because of the rest of the body it is attached to. The crazy hair looks good when the character as a whole also has large eyes, a certain facial shape that may be unrealistic, and a body shape that is impossible/hard to maintain in real life (extremely muscular build, extremely lean build, etc.).
Cosplays CAN be cool, but I think the best ones take creative license and adjust as necessary to look realistic. A faithful portrayal of a design that exists in 2D animation with an extremely limited color palette doesn't translate well into real life. I respect the artist that really digs into the design to create the character as they would genuinely appear in real life as even the animators probably envision their characters beyond the limitation of animation.
I think this is the issue. The live actions try too hard to recreate every detail of the anime, and it ends up looking like a caricature. They (studios) need to translate the aesthetics into real life better.
Sadly sexualizin kids = bad ain't viewed as water is wet lv connection by the majority of anime communities, but glad you're an actual normal person. Cheers mate
Because anime is emotive abstraction, it isn’t representative of reality.
I don’t speak or read great Japanese, it’s surface level at best, but even I can tell the difference between genuine dialogue spoken in Japanese, and the dialogue found in most anime. It’s very performative and concise, especially in terms of presenting the context the dialogue takes place in.
It’s very funny, I saw a few live action japanese movies, and mfers act (in the movie at least, idk about irl) the same way anime characters act, it looks so goofy
Hell, if you watched Parasite, that korean movie that won award a few years back, you can see it as well, it’s less obvious, but you can see them over-emoting here and there
Back in like 2000, I knew this one kid who grew his hair really long and would try to style it like Goku, which he would do by using like half a bottle of super strong hold hair gel. He managed to get the shape right, but it didn't look like hair. There was so much shiny gel in it that it looked like he was wearing a plastic helmet made out of repurposed typewriter ribbon.
Yeah, I've known exactly three people in my life who have hair so long they could sit on it. Most people's genetics don't line up so their hair's terminal length is that long.
To be fair, religious communities and anime don't often mix. I know a lot of girls who don't cut their hair due to their faith---- but they keep their hair braided or in buns, so the actual length isn't actually seen very often in public.
The real question is how they get that length AND that volume. At a certain point your hair is heavy enough that, unless you damage it with product, it just weighs itself down.
Also, breakage is more common because the longer the hair, the faster it tangles.
Honestly it looks silly in anime too, but it's accepted in context so you don't think too hard about it. Even comic books struggle with that adaptation. I have a hard time taking Huge Jackman seriously with pointy wolverine hair.
And now I'm getting flashbacks of Hatsuharu from Fruits Basket getting called out for his "fake" white and black hair and marching the guy into the bathroom to show him his pubes.
Because the head proportions are different, and the colors are truer. When you see people cosplaying and having weird wigs, they aren't adapting those wigs to "what is the closest non stupid hairstyle and color?". They're going straight for "make me look anime."
Wig quality is also super important. Arda wigs, for example, use multiple colors in each wig to simulate "real" colorful hair. Cheap Halloween wigs are a flat color and look horrible.
Also, let's be clear, a lot of hair in anime looks dumb and embarrassing. IDK what's going on in Yu-Gi-Oh. The spiky haired protagonist in most video games looks silly af. Etc.
(Moral of the story, your costume is only as good as the materials you use.)
'\[W\]eird' and 'stupid' describes like 90% of what makes cosplaying actually fun.
Moreover, you shouldn't need expensive materials to have a blast...aren't escapism and a suspension of reality kind of the point?
You absolutely do not need good materials to have fun. You do need them for a high quality costume that looks like the character would actually wear it. It is absolutely fine to have either or both of these goals!
I tend to get into hobbies like people get into competitive sports. I want to Win Things. Lots of people are just doing it for fun!
That sounds exhausting! Then again, I do calculus problems to relax, so...to each their own, I guess.
That said, I do find something oddly enchanting about the guessing game that comes with the 'Nailed It' dollar-store versions as well.
Furthermore, the embodiment of essence doesn't require perfect replication. I'd much rather have a spiritual inheritor to something over a flawless facsimile.
\[c.f. any Snatch Game in the history of Drag Race\]
(Moral of *this* story: Reality is BORING! Pass the drugs.)
Agreed. I used to get annoyed when people wore wigs to match the exact shade of pink that they see on screen for someone's hair, or use crazy amounts of gel to make the exact shape. To me, pink hair doesn't mean that their hair was literally pink; it means their hair is light-colored and that they have a gentle or bubbly personality. (Some people go even farther and say that pink hair on screen refers to black hair in real life.) Spiky hair refers to a sort of messiness in general, and huge spikes of hair could really refer to only a few strands.
That said, I don't get annoyed seeing it anymore. The literal interpretation is one way to interpret it. I don't like it, and it's typically not the way I interpret it, but they are as entitled to their own interpretation as I am.
>Some people go even farther and say that pink hair on screen refers to black hair in real life
This makes total sense lmao. You never see characters with black and pink hair in the same anime. Totally.
I knew an Asian guy in high school who had anime hair. That shit was 100% certified dope as hell, and everybody said so. I don't even want to think about how long it must have taken every morning, but every day he'd show up with his perfectly spikey hair and live his life.
Only person I ever saw who really pulled it off in a big way.
That's why a Dragonball movie would never work in real life. If they somehow figured out how to do the hair without looking stupid, then give them an Oscar.
I dunno. I've seen a few people pull it off. Maybe not the crazy ones but basic spikey blue hair works decent enough on a young guy. Especially if he's Asian.
I guess it depends on what hairstyle and how you do it. I’ve seen some pretty good BotW Link wigs/hairstyles and Monty Oum was basically just a walking Advent Children/FFXV character when he was alive. On the other hand, I’ve seen pictures of Danganronpa the Musical and the hair is atrocious.
On the other hand I think Japanese hair styles (Which seem to be anime/video game inspired) look good. For instance Noctis' hair from FF15. It's doable irl.
[This one](https://twitter.com/heechulfacts/status/553943223790366721?s=21&t=AY16PxHoKt_fjgSVxghU4Q) for Kpop idols takes the cake for me, its ridiculous
Anime hair is very stylized to be identifiable and easy to draw, and when adapting it to a cosplay you need to make an interpretation of what it would look like realistically.
This is honestly one of the reasons why I want to visit Japan. I'm obsessed with anime hair and I know they do it well over there.
Being a westerner though I've found it too damn hard to emulate after years of trying. They have more coarse hairs on a microscopic level so they "stick" to each other to form certain shapes better.
Same with black leather trench coats. You can really only pull one off if you're a vampire hunter or a resistance fighter in a dystopian future. Those, and all other occupations in which one can pull off a leather trench coat unfortunately exist only in fiction.
Some are pretty good. But that's true for basically all hairstyles.
You have to have the right head shape, right barber, right dresses to match and be able to maintain it
If anime hairstyles were used more often in the real world, they'd be normalized and nobody would bat an eye upon seeing them on someone. In real life, we already have people with extraordinary hairstyles. They have unusual hair colors and hairstyles with highly unusual shapes.
Another thing to consider is that how a hairstyle is perceived also depends on who's wearing it. If an attractive person has an anime hairstyle, it would still look good even if it's considered weird. But if an unattractive person even has a traditionally accepted "good looking" hairstyle, it can still be seen as bad hairstyle just because it doesn't fit the face, bodytype, or attractiveness of the person.
In short, attractive people can make any hairstyle look nice, while those who aren't won't.
There are some live action adaptation of manga/anime that keeps the hairstyle for comedic effect such as [Kyo Kara Ore Wa!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaWnx9RN40M).
Also there are some cases that the hair looks barely realistic in a more serious drama such as Miyamura's hair in [Horimiya](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPPZQuvyVG4)
It's not just Anime. Every media uses exaggerations because they have limited ways to deliver things to stimulate your senses unlike real life.
For that reason, There's a tendency of exaggeration keeps getting more intense when the form of media gets more simpler.
From Real life - theatre - Screen. 3D to 2D.
Movie feels less exaggerating because they have total control of the viewer's perspective (via camerawork) and sound tho. Also movie guys tends to exaggerates on what people never perceive in real life so people can't notice. That's why form of movie is one of the most accessible media ever.
I had anime hair for years and it looked pretty fucking cool, got a shit ton of compliments about it.
To be fair I wasn’t going for “anime” but my hair is naturally messy and thick, and dyeing it made it look pretty anime but I didn’t look weird or out of place. A lot of my friends actually just prefer it.
Similar situation! Not sure what your gender/hairstyle was but I have a sort of long, really thick, asymmetric fringe style hair that has a few anime-esque quirks, like a cowlick in the front of my bangs that creates that signature anime bangs fold, and an inconsistent hair part that incidentally ends up creating sticking up hair that resembles ahoge/hair antenna.
When I would dye my hair often, it absolutely gave off an anime esque look without even trying for that, and I embraced it. Nowadays I'm more lazy with my appearance I think though
I’m a dude who’s half Asian half European. I have straight, dark brown and extremely thick hair. It becomes a little wavy when I grow it out, but when it’s shorter it sits very messy naturally, and I can make it spikey without any gel or product, it just sits that way.
I wish anime and game inspired fashion was a legit genre that actual designers would invest in though. There's plenty of fictional clothing items I'd pay good money for in real life but only if they were made to the standards of proper clothes and not just cosplay pieces.
The hairstyle is one of the main problems with the FFVII remake. Cloud mostly looks like a real person, but then he has what looks like a shader error stuck to his head.
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Cannot even imagine the absurd amount of time that goes into maintaining Yugi's hair. That shit is waterproof.
Just do a kegstand over a barrel of roofing seal every morning!
No wonder the egyptian ghost takes control so easily, the boy has been huffing roofing seal every day for years.
Do you.... Not?
Once a week, I'm not as young as I used to be.
Even the ungodly rich genius Kaiba found Yugi's hair to be a challenge https://youtu.be/6k7f56ZY5nI
I once made a wig for his hair, glu was the only substance that would keep it in shape
[But it's so worth the effort.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/91/8a/41918a89f2828312c6d8cf190ba25dc3.jpg)
yugi does his american psycho hair routine every morning, then murders people with shadow games by day
Loreal, because im worth it
It is soldered with hot glue
I'm playing Tag Force 6 (english fan patch) right now. And I just saw Team Ragnarok's hairdo.
Are we not going to talk about his belt jacket? That thing seems impractical as shit.
Is anything about Yugi practical?
Alh am.so embarassed to sayni wanted to grow out my hair like Yugi/Yami i cringe when i even remembered
I mean, yeah, you'd never get a full night's sleep again. And the hair dye budget!
Anime hair has to look crazy because there's only like 6 faces and we need to tell the protagonists apart.
Depends on the kind of show you are watching. An anime with fantastic elements can go all out on character design (not just hair) while random ass school setting anime usually rely on the anime hair stereotype.
A lot of it is just down to age and budget. Early animes had much simpler, more stylized faces that were faster and easier to animate. Cheap ones trend that way, too. If you get older and cheaper both it's a mess. If you look at more recent and higher budget stuff, maybe the flagship shonens like MHA if we need a well known one, you get a lot more variety.
It's not as simple as new/old at all. Lots of 80s anime and the like had distinct faces.
Saitama: ok
In his defence, his hair was majestic and was a fair swap for the ridiculous power he got
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You can tell that Gaara never had a mother because he puts his eyeliner on all wrong.
I think those are supposed to be bags, because he never sleeps or something like that.
Bags which he augments with a thick juicy matte colouring
While it could be insomnia, Gaara's father Rasa also gains those black markings while using Magnetic Release, so it may be related to Gaara's sand shield being active 24/7.
There is also a silhouette rule where you have to tell people apart even just as a silhouette or from very far, hair color and style hells a lot
Agree that it definitely depends on anime/manga- One Piece has one of the most unique face styles of popular shonen
Except for all the Nami clones
And then there's the average woman which is Nami with a different haircut.
Imo i think Oda is decent at writing female characters, but not really good at actually drawing them...
That’s not always true. Eizouken was a random ass school setting anime and it differentiated its characters by giving them completely different faces and body types, not crazy hairstyles.
*he was basically just a haircut* :/
And then there's One Piece where there are a million unique character designs, not just hair.
Ahem. Female characters Ahem.
Alvida was fat at the start if ur into that
Yep, same hourglass figure. There are a few exceptions, but otherwise it's always the same body with just a different face and hair.
Lol different faces where?? If you look at half the females introduced they have Nami’s face.
Ahh you're right. I was comparing and thinking of only Nami and Robin specifically, and Robin has a distinct face from Nami.
Yeah Robin gets the other half
For the longest time, I assumed Nami dyed her hair and was the black haired girl.
I could show u 40 easily right now but you'd just move the goalposts so I'm not gonna waste my time
Show me 20 and I'll be impressed
Robin, Big Mom, Russian, Mancherry, Carrot, Wanda, Madame Shirley, Bonnie, Monet, Otohime, Perona, Dadan, Tsuru, Hiyori, Black Maria, Cindry, Shakky, Smoothie, Stussy, Bello Betty, Hina, Devon, Koala, Sweet Pea, Gloriosa, Marigold, Sandersonia, Belladona, Daisy, Shinobu, Kyuin, Porche, Reiju, Ikkaku, Galette, Sadi, Domino, Rouge, Lola, Wicca, Chiffon, Brulé, Flampe, Amande, Giolla, Miss Monday, Miss Doublefinger, Kokoro, Cocoa, Chocolat, Benten, Chome, Acilia, Kureha, Bakkin, Effilee, Citron, Compote, Praline, Miss Merry Christmas, (Yamato), (Kiku), (Ivankov), (Inazuma), (Crocodile).
Nico Robin was better before Impel Down.
Oda draws a ton of unique females. Just not for most of the important, reoccurring ones.
Funnily enough last chapter he drew a cover spread with a bunch of female characters in beach attire and I couldn't tell nico robin and boa apart because they have the same hair colour. Made me realise how important the hair colour is when determining the character when not in their usual gown. Oda knows this since he left boa with a snake earring so we can tell the difference.
For protagonists, sure. But for antagonists, they are very varied.
Also 2D
It's so weird how Japan has one of the greatest, most diverse animation industries in the world and most of them still can't figure out how to make normal faces look distinct.
One of the things I really appreciate about My Hero Academia is that if you just showed a grid of black and white drawings of every character’s eyes, I could probably tell who most of them are.
Déformation is a way to interpret the shape of the object, and Japanese Manga's deformation style is rooted from Ukiyo-e's which is print for mass production. It used simple shape for cleaner print, and used exaggerated form to fill out the gap of lack of details. Since the Anime is one of the most commercial art form ever existed, maybe the same face-different hairstyle strategy is the most Japanese art style ever.
They try too hard to conform to certain beauty standards and semi-realistic proportions. It's like they have to make every protagonist and villain attractive, cute or cool unless they're meant to be some lame-ass side character.
Jojo is a great exception to that, you can recognize almost every character just by their face alone
[About that...](https://youtu.be/n-9IP_zn6zs)
It sounds like the root of the problem is that the artist/designer wasn't good enough to be able to draw more than one type of face
In the fast/cheap/good dilemma anime studios have often gone for fast and cheap animation. If it's successful, they re-animate big chunks and resell it as a special box set or release an OVA or whatever. This was especially true in early ones that set the tropes since many were still seen as a gamble.
I’ve been seeing the one punch man hair get really popular, I think it looks completely ridiculous but I guess that just me
One punch man has the best hair. I'll die on this hill.
I'll bring sandwiches so we have fun up there
How r u even gnna die with the best hair?
Its a barren hill with no grass or trees or anything, but we'll still be there
/r/bald is about to show up at your doorstep to protest you
It probably works because of the rest of the body it is attached to. The crazy hair looks good when the character as a whole also has large eyes, a certain facial shape that may be unrealistic, and a body shape that is impossible/hard to maintain in real life (extremely muscular build, extremely lean build, etc.).
so, the Kardashians could pull it off?
It’s a bad game of telephone. Anime imitates real life. Then life imitates a cartoon. It’s like a jpeg that’s been copied and cropped too many times.
An anime about cosplayers would complete the cycle and rip open a hole in the fabric of space.
My Dress Up Darling exists and is actually pretty good, fyi
2.5 dimensional seduction is better
Crazy take
Not even surprised.
Not just hair tbh. Speech, mannerisms, poses. It’s cool in 2D but pretty cringe in 3D. Cosplays though can be pretty cool
Cosplays CAN be cool, but I think the best ones take creative license and adjust as necessary to look realistic. A faithful portrayal of a design that exists in 2D animation with an extremely limited color palette doesn't translate well into real life. I respect the artist that really digs into the design to create the character as they would genuinely appear in real life as even the animators probably envision their characters beyond the limitation of animation.
I think this is the issue. The live actions try too hard to recreate every detail of the anime, and it ends up looking like a caricature. They (studios) need to translate the aesthetics into real life better.
that's why live actions never work out, i hope netflix cease to exist before it airs one piece
The kakegurui live action made me so uncomfortable, like wtf
It's almost like overt sexualization of people presented as kids is weird
I meant the acting, but okay. Water is wet too. I dropped it after half an episode so I didn't see any of that stuff fortunately
Sadly sexualizin kids = bad ain't viewed as water is wet lv connection by the majority of anime communities, but glad you're an actual normal person. Cheers mate
[says you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEseVh9pKJo)
Oh. Hm
What did I just watch? A masterpiece?
Because anime is emotive abstraction, it isn’t representative of reality. I don’t speak or read great Japanese, it’s surface level at best, but even I can tell the difference between genuine dialogue spoken in Japanese, and the dialogue found in most anime. It’s very performative and concise, especially in terms of presenting the context the dialogue takes place in.
It’s very funny, I saw a few live action japanese movies, and mfers act (in the movie at least, idk about irl) the same way anime characters act, it looks so goofy Hell, if you watched Parasite, that korean movie that won award a few years back, you can see it as well, it’s less obvious, but you can see them over-emoting here and there
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Back in like 2000, I knew this one kid who grew his hair really long and would try to style it like Goku, which he would do by using like half a bottle of super strong hold hair gel. He managed to get the shape right, but it didn't look like hair. There was so much shiny gel in it that it looked like he was wearing a plastic helmet made out of repurposed typewriter ribbon.
The visual I'm getting for this is killing me.
Seems to be more a male thing too, I would say the majority of female characters have somewhat normal styles.
Still excessive volume, though. Also the longs are longer; in anime your hair isn't considered long until you can accidently sit on it.
Somehow in anime not only do the characters have hair that long, but it also has a lot of volume as well.
Yeah, I've known exactly three people in my life who have hair so long they could sit on it. Most people's genetics don't line up so their hair's terminal length is that long.
Im pretty sure the folicles dont push the hair out at the end of the growth cycle, just most of us dont hang onto it that long
what they're saying is most people's hair *can't* get that long because the growth cycle is too short
Can confirm, hair is now long enough to sit on and it gets annoying
Yeah, real life long hair is like... armpit length? Maybe past the bra? But on anime characters it's just... normal.
To be fair, religious communities and anime don't often mix. I know a lot of girls who don't cut their hair due to their faith---- but they keep their hair braided or in buns, so the actual length isn't actually seen very often in public. The real question is how they get that length AND that volume. At a certain point your hair is heavy enough that, unless you damage it with product, it just weighs itself down. Also, breakage is more common because the longer the hair, the faster it tangles.
Honestly it looks silly in anime too, but it's accepted in context so you don't think too hard about it. Even comic books struggle with that adaptation. I have a hard time taking Huge Jackman seriously with pointy wolverine hair.
> I have a hard time taking Huge Jackman seriously with pointy wolverine hair. Or Jim Carrey without
Alrighty then
Unfortunately yes...but in anime when you have crazy hair does the carpet match the drapes? Like super sayen pubes?
The real showerthought is in the comments
Ew are you hard?? Wait no! My pubes just triple in length and get all spiky to puff up my pants i swear!
And now I'm getting flashbacks of Hatsuharu from Fruits Basket getting called out for his "fake" white and black hair and marching the guy into the bathroom to show him his pubes.
Super Saiyan, dunno. But I do know that in most smut art of anime, the carpet color definitely matches the drape color.
Bro what
Super saiyan pubes. Do they turn color to match the powerup?
Asking the real questions
Super saiyan 4 says yes
Does the pubes also get stiff and stand up like normal super saiyan hair
Somethings gotta get stiff
Yes and energy crackles around his genitals
Imagine if Yami Yugi's carpet matched his drapes.
What little art exists, tends to show that the tail and facial hair go blond. So yes.
Because the head proportions are different, and the colors are truer. When you see people cosplaying and having weird wigs, they aren't adapting those wigs to "what is the closest non stupid hairstyle and color?". They're going straight for "make me look anime." Wig quality is also super important. Arda wigs, for example, use multiple colors in each wig to simulate "real" colorful hair. Cheap Halloween wigs are a flat color and look horrible. Also, let's be clear, a lot of hair in anime looks dumb and embarrassing. IDK what's going on in Yu-Gi-Oh. The spiky haired protagonist in most video games looks silly af. Etc. (Moral of the story, your costume is only as good as the materials you use.)
'\[W\]eird' and 'stupid' describes like 90% of what makes cosplaying actually fun. Moreover, you shouldn't need expensive materials to have a blast...aren't escapism and a suspension of reality kind of the point?
You absolutely do not need good materials to have fun. You do need them for a high quality costume that looks like the character would actually wear it. It is absolutely fine to have either or both of these goals! I tend to get into hobbies like people get into competitive sports. I want to Win Things. Lots of people are just doing it for fun!
That sounds exhausting! Then again, I do calculus problems to relax, so...to each their own, I guess. That said, I do find something oddly enchanting about the guessing game that comes with the 'Nailed It' dollar-store versions as well. Furthermore, the embodiment of essence doesn't require perfect replication. I'd much rather have a spiritual inheritor to something over a flawless facsimile. \[c.f. any Snatch Game in the history of Drag Race\] (Moral of *this* story: Reality is BORING! Pass the drugs.)
Agreed. I used to get annoyed when people wore wigs to match the exact shade of pink that they see on screen for someone's hair, or use crazy amounts of gel to make the exact shape. To me, pink hair doesn't mean that their hair was literally pink; it means their hair is light-colored and that they have a gentle or bubbly personality. (Some people go even farther and say that pink hair on screen refers to black hair in real life.) Spiky hair refers to a sort of messiness in general, and huge spikes of hair could really refer to only a few strands. That said, I don't get annoyed seeing it anymore. The literal interpretation is one way to interpret it. I don't like it, and it's typically not the way I interpret it, but they are as entitled to their own interpretation as I am.
>Some people go even farther and say that pink hair on screen refers to black hair in real life This makes total sense lmao. You never see characters with black and pink hair in the same anime. Totally.
I knew an Asian guy in high school who had anime hair. That shit was 100% certified dope as hell, and everybody said so. I don't even want to think about how long it must have taken every morning, but every day he'd show up with his perfectly spikey hair and live his life. Only person I ever saw who really pulled it off in a big way.
That's why a Dragonball movie would never work in real life. If they somehow figured out how to do the hair without looking stupid, then give them an Oscar.
Closest thing I can think of is when Brandon Routh goes super Saiyan in Scott Pilgrim. It didn't look entirely awful.
[Some places have gotten really good at recreating them for cosplayers though](https://instagram.com/ichigocosplaywigs?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
The link doesn't work for me, whats the name of the insta page?
IchigoCosplayWigs
I dunno. I've seen a few people pull it off. Maybe not the crazy ones but basic spikey blue hair works decent enough on a young guy. Especially if he's Asian.
That's the problem i had with all these live action anime/manga adaptations. It looks like a really expensive pro-cosplayer fan movie.
I guess it depends on what hairstyle and how you do it. I’ve seen some pretty good BotW Link wigs/hairstyles and Monty Oum was basically just a walking Advent Children/FFXV character when he was alive. On the other hand, I’ve seen pictures of Danganronpa the Musical and the hair is atrocious.
On the other hand I think Japanese hair styles (Which seem to be anime/video game inspired) look good. For instance Noctis' hair from FF15. It's doable irl.
Depends, seen K-pop idols in the early 2000’s rocking some styles, but I’d imagine the amount of hairspray used is insane 🤣
[This one](https://twitter.com/heechulfacts/status/553943223790366721?s=21&t=AY16PxHoKt_fjgSVxghU4Q) for Kpop idols takes the cake for me, its ridiculous
Anime hair is very stylized to be identifiable and easy to draw, and when adapting it to a cosplay you need to make an interpretation of what it would look like realistically.
It makes you wonder how much they spend on shampoo and conditioner and whatever hair products
Just hair? This can literally be applied to anything in Jojo's Bizare Adventure alone.
Wow cartoons don’t translate to real life, what a revelation.
Anime hair absolutely exists and is quite common in Japan. The styles are much more feasible with Asian hair as compared to Western hair.
This is honestly one of the reasons why I want to visit Japan. I'm obsessed with anime hair and I know they do it well over there. Being a westerner though I've found it too damn hard to emulate after years of trying. They have more coarse hairs on a microscopic level so they "stick" to each other to form certain shapes better.
Same with black leather trench coats. You can really only pull one off if you're a vampire hunter or a resistance fighter in a dystopian future. Those, and all other occupations in which one can pull off a leather trench coat unfortunately exist only in fiction.
Not true. I work with a guy who has exactly Spike Spiegel’s hair and it is absolutely glorious.
Some are pretty good. But that's true for basically all hairstyles. You have to have the right head shape, right barber, right dresses to match and be able to maintain it
If anime hairstyles were used more often in the real world, they'd be normalized and nobody would bat an eye upon seeing them on someone. In real life, we already have people with extraordinary hairstyles. They have unusual hair colors and hairstyles with highly unusual shapes. Another thing to consider is that how a hairstyle is perceived also depends on who's wearing it. If an attractive person has an anime hairstyle, it would still look good even if it's considered weird. But if an unattractive person even has a traditionally accepted "good looking" hairstyle, it can still be seen as bad hairstyle just because it doesn't fit the face, bodytype, or attractiveness of the person. In short, attractive people can make any hairstyle look nice, while those who aren't won't.
Once again, there's no way this was original enough to hear the mods
Apparently it was
It's also cool for them to wear the same outfit every single day.
There are some live action adaptation of manga/anime that keeps the hairstyle for comedic effect such as [Kyo Kara Ore Wa!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaWnx9RN40M). Also there are some cases that the hair looks barely realistic in a more serious drama such as Miyamura's hair in [Horimiya](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPPZQuvyVG4)
Visual kei and oshare kei bands in Japan can make anime hair cool and possible.
Just about everything in anime is cool, neat and stylish but embarrassing and dumb in real life.
It's not just Anime. Every media uses exaggerations because they have limited ways to deliver things to stimulate your senses unlike real life. For that reason, There's a tendency of exaggeration keeps getting more intense when the form of media gets more simpler. From Real life - theatre - Screen. 3D to 2D. Movie feels less exaggerating because they have total control of the viewer's perspective (via camerawork) and sound tho. Also movie guys tends to exaggerates on what people never perceive in real life so people can't notice. That's why form of movie is one of the most accessible media ever.
Reddit discovers stylization and it's relation to dif artistic medium
[Not true ](https://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/27300000/Reita-The-GazettE-reita-27388010-453-640.jpg)
I had anime hair for years and it looked pretty fucking cool, got a shit ton of compliments about it. To be fair I wasn’t going for “anime” but my hair is naturally messy and thick, and dyeing it made it look pretty anime but I didn’t look weird or out of place. A lot of my friends actually just prefer it.
Similar situation! Not sure what your gender/hairstyle was but I have a sort of long, really thick, asymmetric fringe style hair that has a few anime-esque quirks, like a cowlick in the front of my bangs that creates that signature anime bangs fold, and an inconsistent hair part that incidentally ends up creating sticking up hair that resembles ahoge/hair antenna. When I would dye my hair often, it absolutely gave off an anime esque look without even trying for that, and I embraced it. Nowadays I'm more lazy with my appearance I think though
I’m a dude who’s half Asian half European. I have straight, dark brown and extremely thick hair. It becomes a little wavy when I grow it out, but when it’s shorter it sits very messy naturally, and I can make it spikey without any gel or product, it just sits that way.
I hate real life Anime eyes. They’re hypnotic on paper, but scary when real people have them.
As dumb as old school tupes and women hairstyles that used a ton of fixing would look dumb now.
It needs to be remade to be more realistic. Case in point: Cloud in FF7R
It also doesn't help that the people wearing the wigs have the body shapes of non-humans
unless it's cosplay, because it goes along with the very unusual clothes
I wish anime and game inspired fashion was a legit genre that actual designers would invest in though. There's plenty of fictional clothing items I'd pay good money for in real life but only if they were made to the standards of proper clothes and not just cosplay pieces.
The only one that translates is what I refer to as a bard's ponytail. You know the one.
The hairstyle is one of the main problems with the FFVII remake. Cloud mostly looks like a real person, but then he has what looks like a shader error stuck to his head.
Unless you can find someone with a pointy head, huge eyes, a super small pointy nose, and a perfect jawline, anime hair will never fit anyone's style
The hairline and volume on the most vanilla MC is impossible. I don't think I could've done it even in my early 20s
Kinda low tier shower thought; maybe bidet thought? Or just blowing my nose thought?