Anime Breast Failure

Compare any of these to classically trained artists work and they ALL fail. Strike Witches is the best out of the selection because all(most?) of the characters are minors; and the characters artists were wise enough to realise girls of that age don’t sport triple F’s.

But generally most anime characters bodies are drawn incorrectly because the artists were not classically trained. The average viewer doesn’t really notice the difference, but those with an eye for detail can easily spot the anime in which the character artist can actually accurate proportions. The anime in the selection above (whose prime audience appears to be teenage boys) do not fall into this category.

Anime’s which would win this vote include, but not limited to:

Byousoku 5cm (5cm per second)
Death Note
Freedom Project
Gin-iro no Kami no Agito (Agito the Silver Haired //Origin: Spirits of the Past)
Perfect Blue

One will also notice that the above anime lack pointless nudity that does not add to the story (sans Perfect Blue). /rant

I can’t be the only one who doesn’t care if they look realistic or not. I’d be a happy man if I could live in the worlds of Koihime & Zero no Tsukaima. =b

etto… any girl’s boobs are fine with me, I go from super flat to humongous.

Being an artist, this is always something that bugged me slightly and I’ve had plenty of problems with getting them right myself.

To be honest, though I prefer well-drawn breasts and non F-cups, I’m not going to nitpick them to death. The fact is in most anime styles, breasts simply are drawn that way so commonly (or off in some other small way) you stop caring as long as the picture ‘looks good’. I, like many of the commenter’s, can forgive some playful proportions / body edits when the things are already unrealistically sized anyway.

This is especially true considering the number of movement / more complicated busty poses; where you can tell the artist had problems just getting the pose to look good, let alone close to anatomically correct. Cut them a little slack.

it depends for me, I agree that IS anime based off reality and therefore should at least be somewhat anatomically correct, but I think it depends on what media its in, in animation its more the movement that matters, and well it flows, so I can forgive them for not using figure studies for every fucking frame. (that would be a pain in the ass, and costly) but in manga or illustrations, I expect to see at least a semblance of proportional correctness.

but what really matters is not that they have every detail of the human body taken into account, but more, that they have the body balanced looking, and that they have no impossibilities in the picture, like backwards arms or legs bending in impossible ways etc.

stylization can account for allot, but thats no excuse for have in two left hands drawn onto a girl, that’s just being outright lazy.

if they look like overinflated balloons that dont fit the characters design. they are failure. when its comical however, then you really shouldnt focus on how unfitting it is - ala “Eiken , but even those breast had gravity so i compliment it for that lol.

heck, Tarot : Witch of the Black Rose is one of my fav comicbooks, Jim Balent loves breast and draws them all kinds of sizes (flat, small, large, huge). but he draws the breast that actually balance with the characters body, no matter how humongous they get.

i think “Zero no Tsukaima” is quite fitting, the breast hang and they fit the body. “Ikki Tousen” is the balloon thing i am talking about, they just dont look right at all.

i dont find it fair to bring “Strike Witches” in, since the focus was not how large the animators can make the girls breast. pretty much about how much underwear they can flash.
overall, their breast fit their bodies.

sorry for typing “Breast” instead of “Breasts”
its a habit

If it’s a woman’s boobs I gotta love it big or small or just right.

I never gave it much thought nor cared too.
It’s fan service that’s all i care.
But i guess to each his own.

@ article writer - you’re wierd…