this trope is totally made by some poor guy who irrationally hates anime lol
AgProv
strange picture: you look at it and you can see the girl is in left-profile with the shape of her face suggesting lips in the right place, so the first thought is "why is there this socking great hole in the side of her face?"
Male, early sixties, Cranky old fart, at least two decades behind. So you have been warned. Functionally illiterate in several languages.
I know no one here's striving for perfect objectivity, but the third paragraph, discussing the trope in static media, seems a bit unnecessarily judgmental, especially after the the stated acceptability of the trope in animation. If something becomes an accepted convention in one medium, why should it not be deemed acceptable in another, particularly if that medium's art style isn't realistic to begin with?
At the very least, I think most here would agree that the phrase "television rather than actual artwork" carries some very unfortunate implications.
Should this be changed, or am I just being hypersensitive?
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Complaining
, started by TheGunheart on Feb 26th 2012 at 2:56:07 AM
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