
As 90% of the season’s anime are set in schools, fan attention has naturally turned to the crucial question of which school has the best uniform.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica fans have been rather shocked to see the changes wrought on a particular decapitation scene between anime and manga edition.
The scene itself may constitute something of an early-story spoiler.
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Mahou shoujo fans are for some reason still fascinated by the similarities between Madoka and other magical girl anime titles.
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The “sexy” character design of PS3 superpower action game Infamous 2 has lately been attracting attention for embodying certain extremes in US gaming tastes…
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Appreciative mahou shoujo fans have been comparing both Madoka and Pleiades, and have noted more than a few curious similarities in character design.
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The Kobe Shimbun’s introduction of the decidedly malformed character moe enthusiasts soon dubbed “Ima-ichi Moenai Musume” (“lacking-in-moe-girl”), or Imaichi-san for short, has proven something of a hit, with her very failure to be moe in itself paradoxically becoming a source of extreme moe.
Naturally many artists have been compelled to explore ways of depicting her moe characteristics more obviously, with some extreme success evident in the below illustrations:
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Famed vermin moe manga Gokicha! is to receive an anime adaptation, and as if the adventures of these adorable cockroaches were not enough, the show’s insectile heroine will be voiced by none other than Rie Kugimiya.
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Anime fans in both Japan and the barbarian nations have been pondering the rather pronounced differences in animal character design between the USA and Japan.
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Pantsu anime fans are challenged to identify the anime characters of 2010 solely by their pantsu – a daunting task if ever there were one.
There are more – a lot more:
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Viewers of new anime Fractale are pondering just what on earth happened to the character designs in the TV anime versus those of the light novel/manga.
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A newspaper is recruiting writers by asking whether they can give three reasons as to why the above character isn’t moe.
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Anime fans aren’t done with 2011’s winter season – the previously featured diagram alleging all the anime are but staid rehashes of overused element has been expanded to cover even more anime featuring an overbearing heroine browbeating a wishy-washy protagonist against the tedious backdrop of a Japanese school…
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