this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
75 points (91.2% liked)
Anime and Pics
1923 readers
35 users here now
A community dedicated to the discussion of anything surrounding:
- Anime
- Manga/Manhwa
- Light/Graphic Novels
- Visual novels
- And hentai.
While we may be called Anime and Pics, it doesn't have to be a Picture! Asking about your favorite anime, new episodes, new chapters, or latest games are encouraged!
We are a NSFW allowed community.
NSFW Rules:
- Anything safe for the public is considered SFW. (Swimsuits, croptops, cosplay etc.)
- Everything else; lingerie, panties, bras are NSFW and should be tagged as such.
- If you are unsure if it is SFW or not, err on the side of caution and mark it as NSFW.
Rules
- No politics/conspiracies
- Don’t repost anything from our top 100 of all time.
- There is zero tolerance for trolls, assholes, unsolicited bots, deliberately off-topic content, or novelty accounts. If you are any of these, and act as such, or encourage any of the above or any other violations, you will be banned.
- Doujinshi is allowed and encouraged! Show us your best (or worst) artwork!
- Moderators have the last say on all matters but will attempt to be fair
- This community follows the general Code of Conduct
Note:
- We have a bot called
dailyanime
which posts pictures daily. Their content may be ecchi.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
So how would you age them up?
People who aren't familiar with the artstyle misread the ages because they try to apply their intuition, which is based on the way actual people look.
Which doesn't work, because until the character being drawn is someone "old", age-indicating details on the face are omitted.
They look young because the eyes are big and skin-detail level is low, but it's not that they're drawn to look young, it's that a lot of facial detail is just not drawn in anime.
Once you add even a little bit of those age-indicating details you quickly land in the territory of how the elderly are drawn.
There isn't much of an in-between.
It does exist, but you kind of have to see enough anime/manga to start somewhat "accurately" guessing the age of characters based on how they look. Even then it varies between artists, so a character that looks 20 within the context of one series would be a child in another, or vice versa.
The age is 100% in the size of the head relative to the body, and in the size of the eyes, relative to the size of the head. But it's completely relative. The ratios that indicates a given age is completely up to the artist so it varies wildly from series to series.