Japanese Girl on the Bus
In Japan, the word anime is used to refer to all forms of animated film from around the world. While some anime is entirely hand-drawn, computer assisted animation techniques are, in recent years, quite common. Storylines are typically fictional; examples of anime representing most major genres of fiction exist. Anime is broadcast on television… more
[…] Have you ever noticed that Anime characters have a certain (weird) sort of look? What’s funny is that the look is not really Japanese. I mean Anime characters look more Japanese than say, for example, Anna Nicole Smith. But they don’t really look like people from Japan. There are some similarities, like the straight jet-black hair (unless it’s an Anime character with neon-colored hair or something). And Anime charcters tend to be slight, like Japanese people. But, there’s a whole lotta weirdness going on in the face… things like button noses, and lots of them seem to have pointed ears. Ya ever notice that? Are they ALL elves or something? Here’s an Anime-fied version of Mr. Spock from Star Trek. He didn’t have that far to go to become an Anime character, did he! […]
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