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Question-- Anonymous
So, there's SD, and then there is chibi.

What's the difference between the two?
>> Anonymous
Chibi is a subset of all SD
>> 4n0nym0u5
The spelling?
>> Anonymous
I always thought SD meant Super Deformed and was a trademark of banpresto. chibi just means small or mini as far as i know.
>> Anonymous
ITT, you destroy our minds
>> Anonymous
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SD= Superior Defendurrr
>> Anonymous
chibi = small and cute, generally with significantly reduced detail

SD = childlike proportions and cute-ification but tends to have a detail level on par with the full scale version
>> Anonymous
chibi = the word that fags use instead of SD
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chibi == misused by weeaboos to refer to an SD figure.

SD == a figure with the head's size at least 1/2 or 1/3 of the entire cahracter's height. While usually a "cuter" version, it has been abused so severely in budget anime that nowadays no one draws their characters this way.
>> Anonymous
>>204318

Nobody draws their characters that way? Are you completely daft?
>> Ejaculation Generator
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Rozen Maiden figures!
>> Anonymous
>>204318
weeaboos must be producing anime in Japan these days because there's a FMA premium collection ova called "chibi-hen" starring, you guessed it, "chibi" characters. but according to your tripfag superior knowledge there is no chibi it's all SD, and even saying chibi makes you a weeaboo.
>> Anonymous
So chibi's just a weeaboo name for SD?

Or is>>204159right, and chibi is just SD w/o small details?
>> Anonymous
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Chibi is simply a Japanese word for "small", whereas SD cames from SD Gundam, which had small and comically misproportioned Gundams.

All things considered, I've never cared about using one over the other, unless a series specifically refers to it, like SD Gundam.
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>>204410
Hi kids.
In a land called Japan, the term "chibi" is used mainly by adults to refer to short children.
It is extremely unlikely a small child will refer to himself or herself as a "chibi" -- kids usually refer to themselves as a child(??).
Normally, a kid referred to as a "chibi" by an older adult is anything between a walking toddler to a fairly stout elementary school student.
It is also somewhat derogatory, since most children aspire to tower over the adults one day (and they usually do, thanks to the modern diet) and referring to their short height as an identifying feature highlights their inferiority compared to adults.
While the term "chibi" may be coontated with being cute, it's also connotated to being clumsy, foolish, untidy, lacking self-control, noisy, rude, dependant, and powerless.

I don't see why you weeaboos can't just leave japanese alone and use a term like "sprog" or "kiddie version"
>> Anonymous
>>204418
Lol who gave us these terms? Oh yea, the japanese.>>204159is basicly correct on the useage, weeaboos aparently know your culture better than you do. On a japanese artist's website she got very mad when a foreigner said one of her chibis was SD, and proceded to show the difference. Most people on boards like this use them interchangably but the artists care.