“Even Fairy Tales Cannot Escape Moe Now!?”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Aug 4, 2013 15:34 JST
- Tags: Character Design, Comparison, Fine Art, History, Moe, Otaku
That even the latest issues of popular fairy tale story books for children now boast outstanding moe artwork has been causing more than a little comment amongst otaku art historians – many of whom are left wondering how well even that style will survive the test of time…
The Little Mermaid (Ningyohime) 1985 vs 2013:
Cinderalla 1985 vs 2013:
Snow White 1985 vs 2013:
Little Red Riding Hood (Akazukin) 1985 vs 2013:
Hanzel & Gretel 1998 vs 2013:
The relative merits of 1985’s now old school art versus those of 2013’s kirakira wandafuru Precuresque editions have come in for some debate online:
“I guess a lot of the big friends will be buying these too…”
“The Little Mermaid looks like a hostess!”
“She is taking things too far!”
“I can’t help but think she has some seriously lascivious reasons for coming onto land.”
“She looks like she’s about to service half a dozen guys there…”
“They all look like idiots designed to appeal to anime otaku now.”
“Snow White looks like an AV cover.”
“These are ero-anime, right?”
“Cinderella would make a passable Sunday morning cartoon.”
“I think they are hoping to appeal to some parents as well. And there are probably not many artists around now who can do non-anime art styles.”
“I can certainly see some doujinshi coming out now.”
“The poor Little Mermaid looks like some horny tramp dressed so revealingly like that.”
“Looking at the 1985 version I don’t think exposure is the issue here.”
“1985 is more like she is pondering her love, but 2013 is more like ‘I am so going to seduce this guy’.”
“I prefer the old ones. Why does it all have to be anime now?”
“They are aiming for us with these.”
“They may as well just give up and redo all these as official Precure stories.”
“How fast art styles change:”
“Just what sort of art is going to be popular in another 30 years?”
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hmm how much is the mermaid charging :?
I approve of this Little Mermaid design. Why better then that ugly Disney stuff.
haha agree! im about to comment that it's not new since in Disney ~ you can't even recognize who is who without the clothing
I love how everyone who says otherwise is thumbs downed. Fucking weaboos just proved their point without saying anything.
You must be blind if you could not tell who was who. Besides you can say that for all the manga and anime with same face syndrome.
Are you a fucking weaboo or something, it's easy to differentiate Disney faces unlike generic moe anime faces where everyone looks alike.
Not really. It's actually pretty easy to see who is who.
You must be blind if you could not tell who was who. Besides you can say that for all the manga and anime with same face syndrome.
I much prefer what Zenescope comics did with all of these characters.
indeed
It's because you guys follow your dicks instead of aesthetics.
Little do you know how many research they do at Disney in order to come up with a character.
"OH IT'S NOT SEXY, THIS IS BAD ART!!!!1"
Grow up, will you?
Herpa derp derp is all I heard. I don't think I can accept this transition. I can understand wanting update these classics, but the way they did it is just so wrong. And don't hate on classic Disney weeboo, they made some good stuff back then.
Not really. In that drawing, she looks like she ate something, has allergies to it, and her face swoll up and is suffocating.
Wow. Those filthy americans have more than a little fat. They are straight up obese. Those filthy barbarians sure love to look fat.
Actually it looks more like a young Japanese girl who has a little fat on her body like a normal person in a developed nation might. So... normal and tasteful rather.
I don't know what everyone is freaking out about. It's just new artists using the style they know. The only sexy one among them is the mermaid. And that pedo wolf, yeah. Look at the others without viewing the Little Mermaid first.
That said... DAT MERMAID.
Don't do it, do you know how the story of mermaids started? Sailors were on the ocean for years, without female contact, and coupled with diseases, their mind would trick them into seeing sea lions as half women half fish. So it's just your mind tricking you into thinking that sea lion is a pink haired moe character.
Same as your sister, 10 bucks.
You know how mermaid have sex ? They lay their eggs, then you...(use your imagination)◔_◔
Tap it
Tape it too.
Your life.
She caught AIDS.
The new mermaid is a seaman's best friend.
They feed on seamen semen
I see what you did there
Gotta love to watch that submarine dive into the depths...
More like seamen is her best friend
Original mermaids were a seaman's best friend as well. Well, until they killed you, that was.
Those were the Sirens.
The 1985 art was already moe.
Exactly their ain't no difference here beyond 80's moe and current moe
The only difference I see is the wolf in the 80's one looks like he's nuts where the wolf in the current one looks like he's a complete & totaly lolicon
But they weren't obviously trying to attract otaku with the old style, they were just little girls drawn as little girls, not as someone's fantasy.
Would you say that the old art has any similar effect on an otaku the way that the new art does? I doubt it. The idea and philosophy of using "moe" in character design didn't exist back then, it was simply "kawaii".
The difference is that no one would have bothered to rule34 the old art, but the new art on the other hand... I'd be surprised if it already hasn't fallen victim, lol.
This. Especially evident in the little mermaid and Cinderella designs. These are exact equivalents of today's evolved moe designs. That term was around already in the 80s anyway. Quite the "otaku art historians" 2ch are for not even realizing that.
They complain now.. and if they would of re-released them without changing a single thing to the artwork, people would complain because about the guys being lazy for not re-working it.
..not to mention that the 1985 art was already moe to begin with for its time.
You just have to do it like a game would an HD Version, you don't need to fucking moe-ify the stuff, just rework the color and lines to make it not look old.
Fairytales have allways been coloured in contemporary art.
"Fairytales" in it self are nothing else then contemporary childrens stories - Harry Potter I to III are no different.
I really like the snow white re imagining.
The new art is abominable.
So is the old.
The old one isn't trying hard to oversell cute little girls though.
The moe rebelion is at at hand. Resistance is useless.
Resistance? I think I can take on a bunch of fat dudes in anime shirts with little girls on it, the key is stamina.
If you're a little girl or a Nancy-boy.
Nancy Drew FTW!
ITT Japs ripping off our and europeans shit.
Those stories are of German origins, so unless you're German, the rest of Europe and USA have "ripped off" from Germany to be frank.
My Dear Pedo Boy,
European folk tales have been told and retold all over Europe since anyone can remember. They predate Germany, and probably predate the Holy Roman Empire. What's known is that as early as the 10th century AD French peasants have been telling the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, but it's also thought the story, like many others, originate in the East. So it's not possible to say anyone ripped Germany off, especially not the USA where proto-white Americans i.e. Europeans brought these tales with them.
Actually, europe and America are more or less cousins. German immigrants to US alone accounts for full 10 percent of US population, and people with european (full or majority partial) ancestry make up vast majority of US population (no matter how much they bitch otherwise).
And vice versa.
International Telephone and Telegraph?
Yeah International Tel and Telegraph. I think some people here work for telecoms.