Spot the Difference: “All 12 Characters Have The Same Face”

I don't particularly mind if they all have the same face, as long as they are all aren't exactly the same personality wise. Then it'd just be annoying and repetitive.

So why does no one complain about T2 or any other artist? Even though the same face issue screams laziness or stagnation, at least it allows us to identify the artist immediately. Whatever happened to Style™?

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Similar =/= Same.

Well some of them look a little difference.

the gif pic really shows that its the same really. Just different color and shading.

all these characters look like they have down-syndrome

the fact that it's all mass-produced is the reason why anime can't be seen as an art-form in the west.

Probably as kitsch at worst (Case here), and incomprehensible, pretentious nonsense at best. (Anno's Evangelion, works of Murakami)

I have to make an "X doesn't change facial expressions" YTMND now.

This may be news ... to people who don't watch anime. Why do characters get ridiculous hair colors? It's no secret that it's to help viewers differentiate them.

"Oh, it's that green-hair girl character"

"No no, the purple hair girl did it"

"The twin tail girl is mysterious!"

When I watch Zetsubo Sensei, the girls look so alike that it was impossible to differentiate among them if not for their hairstyles (and of course, the megane).

I don't see how that's any different from series like K-on! or random anime Q.
It's pretty common practice in the bishoujo industry.
A quite delayed insight, don't you think?

OMG!! IT´S ONE GIRL HAREM!!!!

Awesome!!

The picture of the phones does a holy excellent description of the situation.

me wonders how she draws guy faces

Surprise? Hah, try again :)

What the hell are you talking about? ALL manga characters have the same face. The reason they have the goofy ass hair and different colors is so you can tell them apart!

Artefact should point Shigunyan too

A lot of the faces are similar, but not identical. Look at the nun (?) girl with the book. Her eyes are quite narrow and close together, unlike some of the other girls. Now look at the two maid sisters (?) each have very different faces from each other. And yes, the other ones have similar eyes, but different chins, etc. and they all have crazy hair and different outfits, so I don't see a problem, although a bit more variation would be nice. Also, if you play Shuffle! from 2006, the faces are quite different, atleast in the game.

...really. I expected better of you people (when anime is concerned, I mean).

While it's true that you can line up the eyes, nose and mouth to be the same in that video, if look at the top of the head and chin, they are constantly moving. The reason for this is because neither those nor the 12 shown above are actually the same face, it's just that the anime tends not to show the details that distinguish those features clearly, so the artist needs to use the shape of the face and forehead.

btw tony taka's characters look quite distinctive to me.

The 4 R's of an anime artist:
Recycle the faces
Reuse the faces
Reduce your drawing time
Reap the fame and fortune

Just because they're all Asian doesn't mean they all look the same, you racist bastards. :p

Awkward n bored,just gave them various boobs so make it different *wtf* xO

Well, considering you have something like 100-200 eroge every year, and each one has 2-8 girls, its no wonder that they are all done in a "paint by numbers" style.

Quantity over quality, churn enough out and eventually you will get a hit that sells 100,000 copies. Everything else can just fade away into obscurity.

Didn't SanCon already do an article on this? Still doesn't it any less true, though.

I mean, a lot of character designers are guilty of this but some just sticks out more for one reason or another. Others that come to mind at the moment are Tony Taka, Noizi Ito, and Takeuchi Takashi.

This is old; I mean, all the characters from either Sailor Moon or Saint Seiya had the same faces with different hairstyles. That's why some anime needs wierd hair colours.

What's that?

Too busy looking at the silver haired girl in black with a book..

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same guy impregnated all their moms

I fully expected Nishimata Aoi art before even clicking on the link.

I am not disappointed.

The later girls added to the roster of Marriage Royale look worse than the initial ones. Whatever happened to gleaning for the best designs from readers? I guess things just went down the drain after Hiro pulled out.

same guy impregnated all their moms.

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It's like eating ice cream with different flavors...

They are n-tuplets.

those characters in yellow and purple circles are designed by suzuhira hiro, not aoi nishimata.

Can it be considered monogamy then?

That's one way to get your money's worth out of a character design. It's like Transformer Repaints, same mold, different paint scheme, again, and again, and again, and again.