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In line with the "running with toast" thread, I've decided to post another tendency I've always noticed in anime.

Why is it that girls in anime have a frequent habit of holding one elbow with their opposite hand whenever they feel insecure? Is it another cultural thing, or did it start out once more with TEH REI?
>> Anonymous
It's a physical expression thing. Just like crossing arms in your chest.
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WHY DOES ALL ANIMU HAVE BIG EYES AND COLORFUL HAIR?

(pic related, only it's colorful eyes and big hair)
>> Anonymous
>>312946

BECAUSE ANIME ROLLS THAT WAY OLOLOLOLOL
>> Anonymous
>>312946
If you actually want an answer to those questions, I have answers for you...

The larger eyes that appear in most manga and anime were actually snatched from the old Disney movies like Bambi. It's basically a cuteness factor. It also has something to do with the Japanese belief that the eyes are the windows to the soul. This is why shoujo manga and anime tend to have larger eyes, as they tend to deal more with emotions and relationships than shounen manga and anime do.

The colourful hair is a result of the black and white manga. Pretty much all Japanese have black or dark brown hair. If you made all the characters in a black and white manga have normal Japanese hair, you wouldn't be able to tell the characters apart. So the solution to this was to vary the shading on various characters hair so that you don't have a sea of black. However, manga tend to have colour covers, or various colour pages, and when there were characters that had lighter hair, the artists just got kind of creative.

Also, pertaining to the OP, I have to agree with>>312945. What Rei is doing in that picture, and what crossing your arms generally does, is kind of shutting herself away. Postures like that indicate that people don't want to be social, that they are closing themselves off from other people.
>> Anonymous
>>312946

Brown isnt exactly "colorful".

<3 Rei.
>> Anonymous
>>312952

>(pic related, only it's colorful eyes and big hair)

lrn2readlolz.
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WHY DOES ALL ANIMU CHARACTERS HAVE SUCH THICK EXTREMELY HIGH-DENSITY HAIR?
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>>312974

BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT SO BALD
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>>312974
>> Anonymous
>>312983

gb2/v/
>> Anonymous
>>312974

Is that a problem?
>> Anonymous
>>312974
Draw thin hair naow, beyotch.
>> PUB SQUASH
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>>312949
>>312945

not always true. i can mean that, but just as often it can also mean that the person is comfortable in that position. i cross my arms all the time, it dosnt mean i dont want to be social or im angry or cold or one of the mean things people have told me why i do it for, i do it cuz its comfortable.

but as far as anime goes, what the OP is more likly to be the case, as in a lot of TV shows (non animu included) then need to go a little further to show the emotions being held by a person so everyone can see and understand it.
>> Anonymous
>>313174

You do it. Either that or manage to convince every anime producer that they should draw realistically thin hair.
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>>312928

Armless Rei has no such issues.
>> Anonymous
>>313587

lol wut happened to you?
>> Anonymous
>>313654
someone probably tried to raep her, but her arms got in the way
>> Anonymous
>>313684

How the fuck can arms possibly get in the way of raep?
>> Anonymous
>>314204
maybe she was blocking her tits or something
>> Anonymous
>>312949

he reply to the anime q' is GREAT!!!

But, as to the 2nd part, it is a very asian poase, which shows the delicacy, fragility, and therefore, need for male protection in the traditional jap (make that asian) female.

In the heavily patriarchal societies (at least by tradition) of the leading Asian nations, this view was cultivated very strongly, and even today (especially in Japan) leaves a deep impression on society.

Also psychollogically, this pose shows (body language) the putting up of barriers between yourself and others, as well as a feeling of uncertainty and fear (insecurity).

Hence, such an image is able to easily convey this image of insecurity and defencelessness, and has been used as such in anime many times, to the point of becoming a cliche.
>> Anonymous
It's a thing you'd do not just when you were uncomfortable, but when you really have nothing to do with your arms. Flopping them at your sides seems useless, hand on your hips is too open and crossing your arms looks too defensive/angry.
>> Anonymous
teh rei
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Zelda doesn't want to be left out.
>> Anonymous
>>315186

But she's making devil horns with her hand... emo rocker?