This pair of irascible schoolgirls, Shana and Louise, rather highlights the odd convergence of the genre lately, with character designs and foibles similar across the three, to say nothing of voice talent…
There still seems to be much left in these franchises, so doubtless we can expect more?
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So does anyone know if the Toradora OVA is true or not?
Here is a more interesting question: Who has flatter chest?
I like Shana but if we include Taiga, I'll choose Taiga xD
pink hair
guess some people still haven't noticed they recollered taiga to look like shana & louise :)
Taiga FTW... followed by Shana!
Ndeed, the photo above is an obvious re-colour of Taiga...
So, "why" isn't she there in all her original glory? - because it would be great to see her in her dark seifuku.
It would be a perfect balance as well as contrast!
we should have Taiga lined up there too . . .
Miss Baka Inu.
Okay, why can't I choose both? Harem-endings FTW!
The both are Taiga, no one looks like shana nor louise
Here's another related pic:
http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/7675811d8a8b86e78077442e7c33c247.jpg
Is it weird I saw them all as Slayers characters at first glance?
Pfffft. Rizel >> all.
Taiga is still superior to both, but Shana is far superior to that fucking annoying Louise.
~urusai urusai urusaaaai!
or the index version:
~onakagasuita onakagasuita onakagasuiiiitaa!
shana > all
taiga
No one ever credits Kugimiya for playing Iori from the Idolm@ster D:
Back to the choice though...Shana.
Louise.
O_O ... how come Taiga isn't there!!! She's the one being recolored! BLAH!!
i choose rie kugimiya >.>
that includes pretty much all quality tsundere lolis
WTF u idiots!i vote for Louise!
Hey where's Taiga!? I can't vote without her.
Louise!!!!
Haha, awesome cosplay.
Nagi > Taiga > Shana > Louise
This picture bothers the hell out of me. Neither are Shana or Louise. They're both just disgustingly shopped pictures of Taiga.
It has been said, but i'll say it again.
Taiga > all
TORADORABLE.
I see... hum...
Chiaki Minami??? O_O
ASHAIHSIAUSHIAUSIAHSIUAHSIUAHSI !!!
TAIGA!!!! *.*
^^
I pick Taiga.
God Tier: Shana
High Tier: Nagi
Normal Tier: Louise
Low Tier: Taiga
Shit Tier: everything else
You do realise that it's not that Rie is talentless, but her talent is thus that she has been type-cast as tsundere?
It's exactly the same in every other form of media.
Popular character type = success.
Also adding, that if you make it so the viewer associates a certain actor with a character type, you create a metonym for that character, and the user instantly associates it with a certain actor, regardless of if the actor played the role or not.
I mean look.
It has obviously worked, because even you haters associate Rie with tsundere.
Ultimate marketing technique.
Alphonse Elric is the queen!
Yes....Yes he is.....
Shana can JUST pass in the picture... at least it looks slightly alike the real Shana due to the school uniform... though ever so slightly. The hair is different. Shana has straight, very long hair. With the ahoge.
Louise is just different. I think it's the hair AND the clothes.
if it were just louise and taiga it might work better
lol how about this?
http://i42.tinypic.com/30u4par.jpg
Shana ofcourse :D she rocks more =)
can we see total no. of votes next time?
I still want someone to describe the appeal of Louise who isn't a rabid masochist since that is all I really see in her for maintaining a fanbase.
Masochist? Don't you mean SADIST?
imo
the novel is good with some real plot
anime is just for fans or you'll get bored,
but most of the fans started the novel because/after the watch of the anime...
i'll go for the brooms.
Pff quality art they say.... they just changed the bloody colours. Are these two pictures from actual scenes of their respective titles? If yes, epic studio fail?
*Sigh* It is too damn annoying when they lower more and more their quality standards...
It's QUALITY.
Bloody hell??
Xavi, you can't tell that those pics are Taiga's??
Someone who couldn't differentiate sloppily photoshopped image and actual screenshot aren't supposed to rant about quality y'know.
LOL epic fail I guess, though I just started watching Tora Dora and indeed it reminded me too much of Taiga. I believed the article and since I haven't watched Shakugan no Shana nor do I know from which Anime Louise is, I couldn't possibly know this.
As you can see from my post I specifically wondered if these photos are from the aftermentioned titles.
Now I admit that I failed recognizing Taiga but that doesn't mean I can't bitch about lower quality standards on many Anime studios, nor does it say anything about me being (in)capable of differentiating low and high quality animation.
Taiga > Shana > Louise
QFT
So true!
No Taiga shop option... BAH
I agree on this
I agree!
You have earned my respect.
BUt you aren't having Taiga ¬¬;
a hundred times shana
louise is good, but not that good
Shana, but just 'cuz I prefer red hair to pink, lol. >_> (yeah, I'm not a fan of Shana...)
God bless palette swapping.
Add Taiga and Nagi to that list.
Because everyone's favourite Rie Kugimiya is a talentless hack and is incapable of playing any other sort of character personality, so the characters are designed around her, instead of her designing her act around the character.
It just so happens that everyone's a fan of that tsundere moe and so somehow she's managed to score her insane popularity.
What about Kagura? And Nena Trinity?
Nena! She's perfectly fine with a yandere(any dere in there?) chara as well~
「アーハハハハッ！ ウフフ、フフッ最～高ッ！もぉたまんないっ☆」
Just to keep the correcting of this moron going by adding more characters Rie acted that didn't fall into the Taiga/Shana/Louise tsundere role.
Rise from Persona 4
Mimi from Mnemosyne
Mizore from Rosario + Vampire
Ralph from Glass Feet
and so on and so on.
Gee, it seems to me like she has plenty of other roles besides tsundere lolis. You just never noticed it was her and got caught up in the character.
My God, could that be.... talent?
Let's not forget precocious android loli Rizel, Eden Raid midget Tiriel from Erementar Gerad, 7yo loli miko Katsuragi Mikan from Rental Magica who also voiced as her elder MATURER sister in the same series...
...and smooth tender Waki fighter Marta Lualdi from Tales of Symphonia KOR <3
No,let's not also forget her other unique role
Potemayu = Nene
Kemeko Deluxe = Misaki, god I love her horny voice, instant favourite
Kagura imitating goku and heidi was also awesome.
Has everyone forgot about Kagura from Gintama?
...lol, anon failed.
Well she did play Alphonse Elric like that one anon said so she's capable of doing other types of characters. But we need more than two different roles to tell how good of an actor she is. Saddly, we'll never know since shes been type casted for her past million roles.
But I'll still agree that she's getting way more attention than she should for essentially playing the same character. Even the character designs are the same.
I remember some other roles she took...
from what I've seen...
Mimi in Mnemosyne
Kouta in Midori Days
Hotaru in Gakuen Alice
Karin and Nemu in Bleach
Alphonse in Full Metal Alchemist
...
And from what I've seen, these are not tsundere moe characters.
In my opinion, it's the characters who are created tsundere. Then, when casting, the director chose Kugimiya Rie due to her popularity and good representation of the tsundere characteristic.
Add Lelouch V Britania on the list.
Alphonse Elric
Kagura
... and thus you proved that other anon wrong.
not that hard is it?
So... Alphonse Elric is Tsundere moe?
Certainly, if you believe some of the doujins.
Rie Kugimiya has had lots of other roles, but it's when she plays tsundere characters when people actually remember. she's like THE tsundere queen of voice talent.
but ya, you can't really help that short loli moe tsundere characters are everywhere. I mean shit, i was playing some japanese wii pangya golf and low and behold, kooh was voiced by Kugimiya. she's everywhere...well not as much as Takehito Koyasu but still pretty close.
Haha, gonna have to try getting my hands on a Swing Golf Pangya 2nd Shot ISO...
Not too bad, I'd say 4/10. Still, may the wrath of KUGYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU descend upon you.
ever watched Nabari no ou?
Yea Miharu was voiced by her too.
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To say she's talentless is wrong, why not say she's just exceptionally talented in this aspect of voiceacting.
To be fair, she's certainly good at playing tsundere characters, so she's not... Completely talentless. It's just that she's a one-trick pony. She's the Will Smith of the anime world.
will smith isnt a one trick pony. Haven't you seen Ali? or that first film he did that no-one watched. I havent seen 7 pounds though and i want to.
100% on Louise ofc !
Taiga.
Taiga who?
:D
vote for my wife shana
Taiga from toradora. that pic originaly from toradora last eps. it just recolored her hair and uniform. So it become shana and louise.
my vote to SHANA
hey!!! Where is taiga???!!
good question D:
It's the one on the left, just that she is called Shana for some unknown reason. (Shana looks a whole different from those two, louise and taiga that is.)
Correction. They are BOTH Taiga recolors. Just that the left one was poorly made, for deceiving me up to 3 minutes.
well that took you long enough ._.
Good enough for a guy who differentiate animecharacters by voice, like myself. But the lousie recolor really looks like the original. If it wasn't for the background...
Differentiate chars by voice?
Haha... All three voiced by Kugimiya Rie (sp?).
Erm reply to the sentence "Correction. They are BOTH Taiga recolors. Just that the left one was poorly made"
Yes they are both Taiga recolours, but for the left one, they are really trying to put it as Shana.
The uniform of the left one is from Shana.
Where is Taiga on that list?!
Ohh... such a hard pick *-*;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rie_Kugimiya
just for people who keep saying those are the only ones she voiced.
Or
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=808
Can't...... CHOOSE!
Tatewaki Kuno, is that you?
No one's mentioned Chiaki T_T
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images-xix/chiaki-vs-taiga.jpg
Fukken agreed~ Chiaki 90% physically resembles Taiga more than anyone else. The first time i found out about Toradora!, i first thought about Chiaki X3
I'll fap to both sir.