Top 10 WORST Anime Art Tropes (And I Draw Them All) || SPEEDPAINT + COMMENTARY

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[@HeartOfArt7]

My most hated trope in cartoons and anime is the "child of the former protagonist looks exactly like a tiny clone of them" trope

[@toucantheavaricious6242]

I think JJBA did a great job of this with giorno and dio, and jotaro and jolyne as well. …I’m going to ignore Joseph and Jorge II. (Although I guess giorno and Dio don’t count in this scenario since Dio wasn’t a protag..)

[@dawnatmidnight604]

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. Prime example. One of the kids looks *exactly* like their dad, except has the mother's eyes. That's it. Literally. And a lot of the other kids are practically carbon copies of their parents. One of several reason why I've completely refused to watch said series, despite otherwise enjoying Naruto/Naruto Shippuden.

[@AquarianFrostAngel91]

It's normal for kids to resemble their parents, even if it's sometimes a carbon copy. I look at pics of my mom when she was young and compare them to mine and I'm a carbon copy of her, save for a few features since I take those from my dad. I like it when the offspring resembles their parents, other than having the same hair color (or lighter/darker shade than the parent's hair) when I watch anime and cartoons.

[@CrabyMan]

Fun video, thank you Celeste

[@Usernotvaild_]

Well this trope isn’t that bad imo, bc it’s completely normal for a child to b a spitting image of their parent. But I think I get it. The child won’t have any unique physical characteristics or a unique design if they’re just drawn as the protags mini clone. The child only gets their unique design if they have physical traits from both the protagonist and the protagonists significant other.

[@WillowIsntSeen]

Celestia is the only person who can lose her mind while ranting about art while still sounding like she keeps her composure

[@charlieyipeee]

she's raging in lowercase 💀

[@playfulwriter9796]

@@charlieyipeeeFR!

[@LannyLeArtist]

@@charlieyipeeeLOL

[@DreamyAileen]

You haven't seen LavenderTowne then My favorite LavenderTowne moment of all time was when she said "if Haruhi Suzumiya has zero haters, then I am dead" in her usual calm soothing voice

[@c-o-b-o-2010]

That’s actually a good reason I love hearing her and LavenderTowne talk. They both have lovely voices, stay on topic, and don’t scream when they’re “ranting” about something. It’s relaxing.

[@kendalll1157]

Idk how to explain it properly but I hate it when the main, important, ‘attractive’ cast all has same face syndrome ………. But the one-off gag ‘ugly’ side characters who only exist to be ridiculed / ridicule someone else / be killed immediately actually have unique or even complex facial features

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

Yes! Why can't the whole cast look unique?

[@uanime1]

That happens because one person is drawing the manga. This means all the characters will be whatever is easiest to draw.

[@Suited_Nat]

Yep! And the “ugly“ side character is usually a stereotyped trope of a minority, race, sexuality, gender, etc.

[@kendalll1157]

@@Suited_Nat OR WHEN THE JOKE IS JUST THAT ITS A WOMAN WITH A “WEIRD” FACE

[@Do-You.See_Me]

​@@kendalll1157 this is literally Danganronpa THH having a muscular tall dark skinned female character with defined features in her face and making characters call her "ogre" or being confused when hearing she's a girl 💀

[@w00rmz]

As a Bungo Stray Dogs fan, the fish eye lens has destroyed so many meaningful, important scenes, I mean the anime is a bad adaptation of the manga, but the fish eye lens makes me cry so much. They already destroyed Harukawa's absolutely gorgeous art and character design and just ruined so much of it, but they added fish eye lenses to make it even worse.

[@chefcantcook7966]

The anime isn't that bad. The fight scenes are aminated amazingly! But yes, the fisheye lenses are weird.

[@w00rmz]

@@chefcantcook7966 I never said the anime was bad, I just said it was a bad adaptation, for some reason studio bones decided to remove a lot of important or iconic scenes from the manga, add in things that aren't necessary or butcher certain scenes and smaller arcs. For example the azure messenger, that was supposed to be the adaptation of dazai's entrance exam but they conveyed it so badly, and it isnt even in the main manga, and they didn't even animate akutagawa's death scene properly.

[@chefcantcook7966]

@w00rmz Understandable. I haven't read the manga, but I heard about removing important panels and rushing it a bit. Although I was talking about when you said "They already destroyed Harukawa'a art." Were you talking about story wise sense or some of the animation wise? I want to make sure I'm not miss reading anything.

[@Vamp_Aku]

This is so based

[@freshcupofangst]

For real!

[@lp_grumpy]

Miles Edgeworth in the thumbnail representing the giant yaoi hands trope is hands down the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[@sappametalyippierz]

REAL😭😭 I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

[@doodleplayer4014]

Now I can't help but imagine the sprite where he smacks the papers he's holding, but with huge-ass hands

[@S.S.07_]

literally the reason I clicked the video 💀

[@sappametalyippierz]

@@S.S.07_ same

[@ameyuii]

hes why i clicked on this video💔💔💔

[@davideostudio2664]

Dishonorable mention for anime art is the donut lips. With One Piece it was mostly fine, but can look just…wrong in some cases like Rikido Sato from MHA

[@WisteriaUndertheSun]

It’s also racist in mist cases iirc. One Piece still gets excluded because a lot of black people have said that the white characters get the same lips and I believe Oda’s slowed down on it anyways. Usopp is really the one exception if I’m remembering right but his design has been that way for 25 years now and he’s a major character

[@unlimon6382]

​@@WisteriaUndertheSun yeah, like, it looks iffy, but if it's one piece so I'm just willing to believe people are built like that. In that show there is a race with two elbows in each arm (for some reason???). The donut lips may still look suspicious as hell but at least you can believe some people just have weird af lips in that world.

[@RareGacha_YT]

yeah I never liked how it looked, but I got used to Ussop by 30-40 episodes in to season 1 XD

[@crazyluigi6664]

What about licorice-looking lips? I know that Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal has this antagonist named Girag that has those kinds of lips that makes it kind of awkward to look at him properly at times.

[@WisteriaUndertheSun]

@@unlimon6382 One Piece takes place in it's own fantasy world, so anything is possible! Weird lips, two elbows, Eminem going to the moon

[@Livtheweirdo3]

THE FISHEYED THIGS WERE HILARIOUS-

[@AndyMandyBandy]

I love it so much ❤

[@picturesqueweb]

it WAS funny until it got overused and slapped onto emotional and meaningful scenes

[@lancehackman6304]

I can't believe they are used for EMOTIONAL SCENES? like, are these supposed to carry a lot of weight cuz they look so funny and ridiculous

[@yema5691]

@@lancehackman6304 they were used for a few funny scenes too

[@fear.of.failure-]

"to make bungo stray dogs unique!!" -bones studio

[@ryncise]

Piggybacking off of the yaoi hands, I absolutely hate the monstrosity of men with large necks and small, pointy-chin heads. It looks so stupid, especially from the side profile. I just hate any of the tropes where male characters have abnormal proportions exaggerated so much, that it distracts from the actual story. But I actually love the fisheye shots. They just are so absurd which is why I love them

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

Love fisheye shots too. Tho that might be cuz of memes using that shot moreso than anime (casual anime fan here).

[@YanberryYinana]

oh yeah fisheyes are hilarious, but only if they’re used correctly. if it’s for funnies and comedy, love it. if it’s used incorrectly and slapped onto what is supposed to be a serious and impactful scene it’s so jarring and weird.

[@treevee7376]

fr fisheye shots remind me of my friends big ahh foreheads

[@kairoikki6981]

I believe the “cheek mouth” look was initially made for animated shows to have an easier time animating mouths, aka not having to worry about the negative space, the proper angle/perspective of the mouth and its features, etc. No idea why it made it into manga too because it’s was only meant to help cut back on animation time, but who knows! It’s become a staple whether we like it or not haha

[@VJK102]

Makes sense; And I'd say it made it to manga so they both look similar, at some point

[@DreamyAileen]

Manga influences anime and anime influences manga. Over time money-saving techniques become part of the art style. Same thing with smear frames. More and more 3D productions are reintroducing big obvious smear frames purely for stylistic reasons

[@rollflasher89]

In defense of the ''cheek mouth'', I think its most infamous look is when it's used on more detailed art styles because having a side mouth with detailed lips only to feature a big mouth on the cheek makes it that more noticeable, cartoonier art styles can get away with it easier because of having a simplified face, even Western cartoons get away with it. (And that being said, just like any stylization, it definitely requires an actual study and understanding on facial anatomy to make sure it looks fine)

[@theneighborskid3179]

The flesh fang is a perfect example of something that liiks fine in fiction, but NOT in real life

[@pogCibi]

If you have a fang-like theeth and your mouth is dry sometimes your lip can get stuck to it and you kinda look like you have a flesh fang, very temporarily tho

[@supercoolmaniajon265]

My perfectionist soul is in unrest. I must fetch my scissors and consult my inner thoughts about what action to take next.

[@PhichePxylode]

This is why I only use it for my pumpkin oc

[@DeathsinkTV]

Big hands are considered a masculine trait but the reason why Yaoi hands were so big is simply that during the Yaoi/bl boom around 2000-2010, a lot of artists (most probably new) hopped on the genre for an easy start, cash grab, for fun, etc. but the problem was a lot of those artists were really not good with anatomy. This paired with the sudden increase in competition on the market made artists copy the "Yaoi formula" that was popular, which in turn pushed this type of style to its limits and way beyond it. Gladly people have left that behind and prefer to work on their own stylistic art.

[@kclink1579]

The worst for me is the new(ish) one of a character is one step away from the camera and suddenly they have no face, it takes me out of it.

[@kclink1579]

More odd with MHA as suddenly ever character has an extra power of no face.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

How, I don't get how they'd lose their face because of a zoom

[@DreamyAileen]

I've never seen that before but I'm guessing it might be a budgetary thing

[@ExtremeWreck]

Reminds me of that Super Mario. Bros Super Show! episode where the Indiana Jones parody has no face at all.

[@ranchustars3050]

i actually love the skin fang thing, i think its cute and adds flare to characters, but that might just be because i generally enjoy when characters have details like normal fangs or sharp teeth or tooth gaps.

[@sakura.seelie]

tbh same, it looks rlly cute bur when u start to think abt it, it gets um... freaky also rozaliya with her skin fang thingy >> i love her so muchv

[@hahahoangthikimlien7876]

^ rozaliya is so cute frfr

[@crypticcorvid]

I can't stop thinking about how the skin fang would be floppy if it's actually part of the lip's soft tissue... 🤐

[@sakura.seelie]

@@hahahoangthikimlien7876 real omg

[@Aviannauts]

i like it too because i dont really focus on the realism of it, all i see is a simplified mouth haha

[@chibibble]

A trope that I hate is when camera angles insist on depicting a random boob or butt shot into a scene, especially when it has absolutely NOTHING to do with what’s happening in the scene itself. There’s this weirdly specific but common scene where a heroine will be groveling on the ground after just gotten beaten up by an antagonist, and the camera insists on having her ass fill have the screen while the antagonist is giving a monologue. Cut to the heroine’s face while she’s giving her response, and her boobs will be hanging low to give the audience tons of cleavage. It always makes me roll my eyes and emotionally check out during what should be an intense scene. Strangely, this does have two upsides. One: it makes it easier to spot (or at least predict) when a woman or feminist man has written/directed something, because there will be a distinct lack of these random shots (or at least very few of them). Two: it makes playing Project Diva really funny when you have either Kaito or Len in the place of one of the girls in a dance. Nothing about the choreography or camera angles change, so it’s the perfect way to demonstrate what the male gaze is for someone who doesn’t understand.

[@kohinattosru8587]

Kakashi's ass when he stopped Naruto and Sasuke's fight at the hospital roof XD

[@Pineabble]

Yes! There was an anime I wanted to watch recently (Mieruko-chan) about a girl who could see ghosts and monsters because I like spooky things, but they ramped up the fanservice shots to the point where it completely ruined the chilling atmosphere. It was actually impressive how much it took me out of it and made me lose all interest.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

That's true, one example I have (only 1 because I don't watch much anime) is on the Fate Stay Night Heaven's Feel movies, I'd swear the camera was positioned at Sakura's ass more than once, the worst example is when she is talking to Rin near the end, it's a super emotional scene and all, yet the camera is at her ass, sure you can see Rin there too, but really??

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

Agreed but your last point makes the bold implication that women wouldn't perpetuate this sort of thing lmao.

[@FeministCatwoman]

​@@ArbitraryOutcomean unfortunate sad reality

[@TinyWolfGirl]

Thank you! Finally someone who gets the idea of Human ears and Animal ears. It has been bothering me for so long because either they are human but have animalistic features. Or they are a hybrid. Which ear is the real ear? Can't wait for your continuing series of these anime tropes! Take care if yourself!😊

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

But it would be freaky to move their hair and see no normal ears there, having a human head and all

[@monochromeink.]

​@@Fermin-hw5pdto me it feels weirder to see the human ears than to see no ears honestly.

[@kieraruibabyz4664]

The only exception I've ever seen is Raphtalia from Shield Hero. She actually covers her animal ears from sounds.

[@descrates3545]

When designing my characters with animal ears I have more hair where the human ears would be because that would make the most sense

[@AzureTank776]

​@@descrates3545 It's funny how whenever there is an anime character with animal ears, the area where the human ears usually are is covered with hair. There is a character from a mobile game called BLUSTONE, that has animal ears while also having short hair, meaning that the side of her head (and the lack of her human ears) is not covered by hair at all.

[@Fallencity01]

It’s the sexualisation of minors for me. The best example I can think of is No Game, No Life. I was really excited to watch it because of the hype it got, but then the 11 year old had a scene in the first ep where she was sitting and you could see her undies and I just clicked right out. A lot of her figurines are also sexualised and I just can’t. Her character design is great, but her age just ruins it. I like sexy stuff and the ridiculous, unnecessary ecchi moments in anime is quirky and fun, but only if they’re not children 😅

[@miro-wm5bo]

mushoku tensei got unbearable for me when every other scene was the mc ogling at an underaged girl. like i've heard that he changes and redeems himself but it was so annoying to watch i ended up dropping the show entirely

[@lkoyumil]

@@miro-wm5bo I recommend to overcome this and continue watching, because even despite the stupid fan service, the plot component of the anime itself and in particular the motivation of the protagonist are beautiful

[@FeministCatwoman]

​@@miro-wm5boyeah, the first time I heard of this show was when someone shared a clip of the main character groping a little girl. Like, literally assaulting her in her sleep. That went on the immediate blacklist for me, and it's not even the first or only time he does it. Even worse, the MC was originally ostracized for watching videos of his own underage NIECE, and the story is supposed to make the audience feel sorry for the predator, until the studio pretty much said no to that idea and the author was forced to change it. Gross beyond gross on top of gross.

[@TheYTHerster]

​@@lkoyumil My guy, I do that all the time! Fan service scenes makes me lose my mind sometimes, but as long there is good story, I'll stay.

[@MsLilly200]

"Fun" fact, it was worse in the manga. I could kinda force myself to ignore it for a while in the anime, but the manga... Nnnnnope. Nope. Instant nope. It's a shame cause the story concept was really interesting. Once again, weird, gross fanservice ruins a promising series.

[@chefcantcook7966]

As a Atsushi fan, I can't help but laugh when I look at the fish eyes.

[@PalestineLivesMatter_]

Same... that's not funny when they do it.

[@amber_1103]

Sometimes I get terrified with the fish eyes 💀

[@loki_is_tired]

The one about chest size is actually kind of weird for me, because, I have a large chest? And so do most of my relatives. I actually decided to look up chest sizes for characters in anime I liked, and found that the only character from an anime/anime game I like that has a larger chest than me is Ogami Sakura… and my aunt told me that when I’m older, that probably won’t be true anymore! The thing is, though, I’ve always had a large chest - like, I think it was like 120cm when I was 10? Something like that - and literally all characters I’ve seen in media with a chest anywhere near my size is so, extremely sexualised. So I think that the thing about having a chest that large being “unrealistic” is just wrong? Though admittedly, being super skinny and having a chest that large definitely is, most of the time.

[@pohefan3461]

You had a great start and ruined it with the body shaming at the end. -Skinny lady with huge boobs

[@VJK102]

I'd say she picked some bad examples tbh; Have you seen One Piece's boobs? You can find that and upwards!

[@ellywhite4861]

I agree, one of my best friends has that trope's body shape. The thing is, as tiny as her waist is you're never gonna see it. Coz being small, skinny and having big breasts just...well....her upper body is completely covered in boob. Also the way the boobs stay up in Anime doesn't work in reality. Even with the most expensive bras, with that size the boobs dominate it all. Also, the majority of good people making advances on her are creeps :(

[@Ruby3P]

Bro, I'm a DD, and I'm 12-

[@DanielVCOliveira]

Y'all can get very rich very quick with an onlyfans, just saying

[@peppers4k281]

The worst for me is the really perverted character who is Some how respected by people randomly aka (Jiraya for example) or is constantly peeping at women! and the anime frames it as "Funny haha!" No being a Unhinged weirdo creep is *NOT* Funny! Why does characters in the anime watch it happening and does nothing like no BIG DEAL!

[@RoS3Ryu]

For me personally I see it as their punishment being funny rather than their actions Seeing them be dramatically sent flying into the stratosphere or the wild insults people throw at them, etc Irl? Jail time for sure, no second chances But in anime/manga that would be a boring way for the situation to be handled, it's funnier seeing them get their ass beat in a comical way I will say that some characters go too far tho, there's cases where it's fun to see them suffer, but some cases I'd rather they just not exist anymore 😂😭

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

I agree with both of ya'll. It was satisfying seeing pervasive characters get their ass handed to them on a sliver platter...until you see it for the 50th time in that series, let alone every other anime. At that point, I just want them to stop adding those characters all together. Alternatively, perviness can REALLY detract from a character (ie Meliodas from 7 Deadly Sins).

[@RoS3Ryu]

@@yourhorseyepona7309 I agree, from what little of 7DS I've watched I enjoyed some aspects of it, but Meliodas' perverted shenanigans and overall some of the weird stuff just... Threw me off a little much, I never continued since then But yeah, for me personally I can tolerate some tropes and things like that in anime fairly often, but I can see where it gets unbearable for others and understand their concerns

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

@@RoS3Ryu Thx! From what I remember, Meliodas did have a lot going for him, like this tragic love story of him being immortal while his love interest is constantly killed off as soon as she remembers anything about her previous life as a celestial being, then reincarnated. If only if he was less weird about her, if u catch my drift. That's I what was thinking about when I made this comment.

[@Usernotvaild_]

@@yourhorseyepona7309Fr and it’s even worse that Meliodas is doing that 2 a minor, Elizabeth is 16….. he’s literally one of the main reasons y I dropped the anime.

[@Kyuhatesyou]

The amount of times I’ve seen fisheyes in bsd is so funny, I literally started counting how many with my sister and its over 20-30 😭

[@irissu02]

I Will say it’s possible that as a lesbian woman you don’t find giga enormous boobs attractive because as a woman you know how uncomfortable or painful it can be will cis men don’t know those struggles. And for the Yaoi hands I doubts anyone actually like them 🤣🤣 that’s why they are less frequent in new bl release

[@Suited_Nat]

As a lesbian myself, having big boobs sucks. I personally think my issue comes with how in Shonen, a majority of the fem characters are hypersexualized- and it gets really annoying when it comes to a lot of aspects: like a fem character you like and you search them up and boom it’s like nsfw type fanart despite just typing up their name 😭 But yeah, I agree, cis men don’t get it. As a lesbian myself, (who’s afab) having big boobs sucks, and while it’s fine to have characters with big boobs, women (cis/genderqueer) tend to be able to tell whether or not the shit is fanservice or not, and it tends to just make it harder to relate to fem characters in general which sucks (in my experience with shounen and fem characters.)

[@JustAnotherJames3]

I was literally just about to comment exactly this! I'm not even cis or have real boobs, I use prosthetics and have to wait for the HRT to kick in for that, and I know some of the hassle just from the prosthetics, and they're not even that big. So, um... yeah.

[@Suited_Nat]

@@JustAnotherJames3 damn, and an enby, I wish I could give you mine 😭 Congrats for bein on Hrt tho!

[@JustAnotherJames3]

@@Suited_Nat Thank you! I started, like, two weeks ago and I'm so excited!

[@hexcode5703]

Exactly! So I was thinking that maybe lesbians weren't chosen from the target audience list, at least for some pieces of media. ^^' At least it's a point regarding "since it's male-oriented, it's also lesbian-oriented, or vice versa." OBS: I'm not against content aimed at heterosexuals, lesbians (and so on).

[@miniseams]

One of my hated tropes is the animes where it's supposed to be ugly duckling to beautiful swan but it's really just someone loosing weight and/or taking off their glasses. Give them some pimples, have them do terrible makeup, have their hair look gross, but do MORE then just repeat society's idea that fat and beautiful are mutually exclusive.

[@Alejandro-yy5kn]

I agree! Or when a character is apparently the most beautiful creature to live according to all characters, but they look like everyone else (see Sakura, Hinata or Teruhashi)

[@magmaspacer1967]

I don’t understand the glasses thing but being committed to losing weight and being healthy is inherently more attractive, especially considering how thin they can be in Japan with good diets and such.

[@Yeahimamusicalfan]

The wallflower did this well Imo, but she didn’t lose weight since she’s skinny. Also this isn’t anime but it’s Korean and My ID is Gangnam Beauty

[@acethemain7776]

fat and beautiful aren't mutually exclusive but i can guarantee that a 'beautiful' overweight person would look even more beautiful if they lost weight, to a certain extent.

[@miniseams]

@@acethemain7776 Beauty is subjective, even if someone doesn't find someone being overweight attractive, someone else does. Just as someone can find blonde hair ugly but love red hair, subjective. Regardless of if there's a majority that thinks so, that doesn't exclude that a majority doesn't include all.

[@nataliamidzio]

NOT THE FISHEYE 😭 As a Bungou Stray Dogs manga fan, the fisheyes in all the serious moments killed my soul

[@Kyuhatesyou]

The atsushi thumbnail scared me help 😭

[@nataliamidzio]

@@Kyuhatesyou same 💀

[@chefcantcook7966]

All I do is laugh when they have the fish eye shots.

[@nataliamidzio]

@@chefcantcook7966 I mean, yeah , it's funny, but it ruins scenes that aren't meant to be funny

[@chefcantcook7966]

@nataliamidzio Very true. I wish they did something different for those shots (I haven't read the manga). Out of context is funny. But with context it ruins the moment.

[@MugiHours]

Anime soldier girls with super short skirts always bug me lol. Also, I'm glad you're doing more fun videos. There's way too much doom and gloom in the art world these days, to the point where I don't even click art videos with negative titles anymore, so it's super refreshing to see a video take a step away from all that :D

[@theloverofnothing7120]

Impractical female fighting outfits is the bane of my existence I hate it for some reason

[@epichoagie5999]

Lemme tell ya something I learned as a member of the furry fandom for the last 20 years or so: no matter how legit your gripe is, asking for any semblance of realism or sense to be made in any work of art is completely futile. You're just gonna get yourself worked up yucking someone else's yum and making zero change in the process. (This does not include actually problematic stuff, obviously.)

[@longislandicedtea6323]

This is also the reason I stopped taking the criticism of the "Big over the shoulder boulder holders" trope all that seriously anymore. Because, believe it or not there ARE IRL women with those sizes (I mean, none of them were the size of tractor tires but still, relatively large) and they were facing the absolute WORST harassment from people on Twitter (because of course) who were just using the criticism of the trope to body shame and sl*t shame these women. Oh, and the fact that they were also using the criticism to also harass artists ain't helping either.

[@VinsBloodshotEye]

Best justification I can give to the impossible proportions (referring mostly to the booba but I guess this answers yaoi hands by proxy) is that it's fun and titillating for some to not be bound by the limitations of reality and to push for all the fantastical impossibilities that the medium can allow. It's confined to the screen anyway, might as well make 'em "jut" out of it~ I WILL say, however, that thin waists are so yesterday's flavor. 😪 Gimmie dem amazonesses twice my height with thighs larger than my torso and wide muscley cores that ALMOST make the chest-planets look proportionate~ 🤤

[@longislandicedtea6323]

@@VinsBloodshotEye AMEN BROTHA!!!

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

@@longislandicedtea6323 It's very damaging, certainly. Maybe the issue comes more from their portrayal usually being for titillation, more often than not.

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

@@VinsBloodshotEye Agreed but I'm actually leaning towards smaller breast sizes on my more shredded femme characters. Maybe I could get away with larger proportions on endomorph bodies since fat retention is more prevalent.

[@Rosewater2]

ngl, I LOVE the fisheye thing. It's seriously the most hilarious thing on earth. Sure, it ruins the drama, but it has me CACKLING. As someone who copes with humor and can't take most dramatic scenes seriously anyway, I see them as an absolute win. (Yes, I watch bsd. I still don't take this back)

[@himaxx_x]

I AGREE!!! Sometimes they definitely go overboard but most of the time it gives me a little giggle or I feel it somehow fits in the moment. And it’s Atsushi’s trademark 😋😋 along with the ass in the air pose LOL

[@zenebean]

If the flesh fang was just replaced with an actual white fang, I would be 100% onboard with its use. I like random sharp tooth designs on characters, I think they add appeal

[@darkwaterseraphim]

I feel like the age thing comes from 1) a result of same face syndrome and 2) a ton of characters are supposed to be Japanese, and they overall tend to age well.

[@prezihikari5665]

It can be both. (Sorry this can be a very long commentary) Not to mention there are many cases of us asians as baby face (probably not only asians, i've seen others who happens to have the same thing... but since we are talking about anime and it is made in japan we need to put it on their perspective.) , especially on women. This one is actually a fact and it has been common all the time. Im not so sure why but maybe its all of that skin routine or so..or genetics.... There are people who ages very differently despite growing up normally and some are actually comes down in a real life syndrome/genetic disease but i think thats reaching too far.... Case in point, baby face/young face of an adult is a real thing. I was a victim of someone misinterpreted my age due to how i physically appear and have to show an ID just to confirm i am in the age of an adult way beyond of what the person has thought... (Its actually quite annoying.) Though there is something i also learned from other women, that once a woman hits menopause, thats usually where all signs of aging would come like say 50+ in some. So depicting an age of 29-35 and expecting a female character to have wrinkle may not be as accurate as well since.. 35 is still considered young.. even 40 sometimes from the perspective of other folks. Not only that, same face syndrome actually do have perks and pros. It creates identity for the artist and in some point it is easier to do animation. It doesnt mean they cannot explore but it is a type of mastery they mastered... especially if it is a recognizable stylized character.

[@OhCrapI_He]

​@@prezihikari5665I remember hearing a story of a 30-year-old Japanese lady who had to prove she was 30 by bringing an ID because she's short and somehow looks like she's 12 or 13.

[@Dominodude55]

I'm not an artist, I'm a writer, so I don't notice a lot of the infuriating art things, but I notice a *looooooot* of writing things. A free one is the 'group of guys peak on girls in a hot springs/outdoor bath' trope. I'm the target audience for that and I didn't even like it when I was a teenager, much less now. Love Hina did it in the early 2000s and it was just not enjoyable, and it's still something I see now and again in modern anime and I wonder why.

[@reikiaaa]

bsd fisheyes make me shed actual tears

[@littlegoldblock5806]

The reason why the liquids that come out of people’s noses in anime are so exaggerated is because it’s a (not necessarily kid’s) cartoon: They exxaggerate the expressions to show it better or add comedic effect

[@madmouse1016]

Unnecessary panty shots- *especially* on characters that are cannonically minors

[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

OH GOD NO

[@Soarfloh]

An anime art trope I dislike is the absolute gigantic eyeballs some older animes had, where their eyes make up 80% of their head

[@chloepeterson9119]

"Is it some useless feature like the male nipple or the tailbone?" I don't think that should've been as funny as it was to me 😅😂

[@securityroom4401]

I can explain the "double ear" trope. Maybe around 6 months ago I saw a post about how one artist does that so I ended up using this method for some of my OCs. The concept is basically making human ears for hearing, while the animal part is dysfunctional. I also added the idea of being able to feel & sometimes move the animal ears, but, of course, it's optional.

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

So animal ears ARE vestigial appendages in this case. Still weird, but ok.

[@destinpatterson1644]

The reason for the double ear is because drawings of animal girls with short hair, that don't have the human ears, are genuinely kinda horrifying to look at. Which is not what you want for your supposed to be cute character. So to avoid this uncanny valley, the artist either has to give them long enough hair and put them in a pose in which the human ears would be covered, which would be quite limiting, or give them human ears to not set off our fight or flight.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

​@@destinpatterson1644Or just cover the area where the normal ears would be with hair, Nia from Xenoblade Chronicles has it like that

[@destinpatterson1644]

@@Fermin-hw5pd I mentioned that, that's vastly more common than the double ears, however as I already said that's quite limiting for the possible hairstyles or the poses for them to be able to take

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

Still sort of feels uncanny valley-esque. I haven't drawn any demi-humans with cat/dog/bunny/etc ears. specifically yet (only reptile hybrids who I've given pointed elf ears), but I will undoubtedly place hair where ears are supposed to be.

[@Benedetta-Marcarini]

To be fair, Shinji Ikari was ment to represent the average japanese boy strugglimg with depression, so I think his design being generic makes sense.

[@witchsbrewconjurings]

I think I have an idea about the "yaoi hands." As someone who's been reading the genre for a while now, I personally do find "many" or well detailed hands visually attractive and with some level of sexual appeal. It's something that I've noticed I put more detail into my own art especially for my male characters. While I do not find the large oversized hands attractive to the degree it's been seen in BL/Yaoi manga I can understand it to some level of being a fetish kind of like feet. In my opinion though, I feel like it is a mix of being a fetish common in the genre mixed with low budget and short deadlines leaving little to no time to go back and fix anatomy errors. Many of the examples you showed in your video are kind of memes in the BL/Yaoi community for having weird and unusual anatomy. I hope this sheds a bit of light on the subject.

[@Dragmiredraws]

This is what I’m thinking, I think Duchess briefly touched on it as well, Yaoi/BL primary demographic is actually young women. And the joke I’ve seen is “Girls like hands, and guys like feet” hahah

[@lawnmower16]

That makes sense. Maybe it's the same reason eyes are made big, because they are there to show emotion and communication, so making them bigger allows for easier visual shorthands

[@Puiorette]

I totally agree ! I think we can add that le amount of contact surface is also a big turn on. Like when le ML can grab the entire waist of his love interest with one hand or hold his head or... well use his long fingers .......not gonna go further on this one...... Considering that male attribute is also shown way bigger in those media we can clearly assume that whatever is considered attractive is shown way bigger than real anatomy really is. Overly board shoulder with small head is also a big yaoi trope no one is talking about. It's just the same with the supersize boob thing. One specific part is attractive ? Let's make it 10 times bigger.

[@MsAnimeFreak777]

Or maybe... they're just not good at drawing hands,mainly their proportions.

[@HiBuddyyyyyy]

@@MsAnimeFreak777 or it’s the hand fetishises again.

[@TheobaldLeonhart]

I actually like the liquid nose thing, at least when a character is sleeping Idk, I think the child part of me, just likes the simple "pop Snot bubble to wake character up" trope Edit: OH GOD, I ABSOLUTELY HATE THE CHEEK MOUTH! I mean, for characters like Sonic, I get. His mouth tends to be basically just ->. So it's already not like a normal mouth And I'm fine if it's a heavily stylized character (main anthro), and they're mouth is like slightly to the side Or if it's open ridiculously big, for a simple exaggerated bit But the cheek mouth, is basically never any of those! An example that really bothers me, is a scene in an... Adult anime It's a, side shot? Of a character kissing another character. But the kisser has a tiny cheek mouth... Even though I'm pretty sure her mouth is supposed to be closed

[@azimochaa]

Even with Sonic throws me off?? Specifically in the games where they just leave the mouth completely to the side while he's facing forward and talking Hell sometimes they don't even change it to fit the camera angle, it just stays in one spot I love the Olympics' approach where the mouth is in the center, a good mix of it would make cutscenes look so much better

[@harunatsu6756]

Do you remember the title of that adult anime in which you saw this?

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

I know ur talking about hating the side mouth trope, but... That example, that girl having a side mouth while she kissing😂 that makes me think it could've become a gag. Like she finds him SO unattractive she defied the laws of physics and anatomy to move her mouth to the side.

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

​@azimochaa personally I agree to an extent. I think Sonic characters' side mouths r fine if they switch from center of face to side depending on camera angle. Can't stand it if the mouth is always dead center on there face.

[@skythedragon7897]

The cheek mouth brings stylized mouths waaaaay too far out of realism. Like I get not moving the jaw but open the mouth properly. Or at the bare minimum, bring the ungodly hole closer to the lips

[@Ghost_ieBear]

i love the fisheye close up, its so stupidly funny, and in bsd i need any funnies i can get-

[@Dazai.Simp.]

Funny and possibly deadly idea Watching bsd with friends and taking a shot even time someone gets an fisheye moment

[@Ghost_ieBear]

@@Dazai.Simp. please dont do that, you will explode or end up like that one kid kunikida didnt save

[@Dazai.Simp.]

@@Ghost_ieBear I like exploding. It's sort of my hobby. The kid just had skill issues.

[@Froggycolouring]

Rest in peace to the 15 celestia clones that had to go through this 😞😥

[@stolkeyna]

You did NOT call Light Yagami a basic brown haired self insert boy.😭😭😭😭

[@BeepBoopBee]

The nose bleed one is one that doesn't feel realistic to how it LOOKS but certainly how having a big nosebleed FEELS. I'm someone who can basically have a red waterfall dripping out of my nose for two hours and let me tell you, it feels exactly like how those anime exaggerations look. Also the neko with human AND cat ears triggers me too. It'd be fine if the cat ears were just a headband, but it's just weird when both look like actual ears

[@maiyumeows]

I'm pretty sure if it's a yokai they have cat ears and human ears, so it's accurate (and actually where the concept of cat girls come from anyways)

[@deanthe3684]

Noooo the flesh fangs are cute. I think it's that I view the mouths more abstractly as a shape, rather than representationally as mouths, so the little fang just conveys the character's vibe to me through shape language. I'm not worried about what it literally represents, it's just shapes and vibes. Same applies to the very small pupils and irises for fear. Just shapes and vibes.

[@ace_d3tective]

Bones adaptation of BSD made me cry with the fisheyes, removing/ changing important manga panels and not even animating some arcs properly 😭

[@Angel...............]

The Yaoi hand thing isn't just the hands, those same pictures also show that the proportions in general are messed up. The heads are too big or wide for one character or the torso is too big so I think they still need to learn anatomy is all.

[@butteredtoastspam]

idk if anyone else mentioned it but I personally think that hazel (another youtuber I adore) covered the trope of "comically/horrifically large boobs" really well in her video about eiken, an infamous yet not widely talked about anime which perfectly demonstrates this trope to its (il?)logical extreme I'm not going to try (and likely fail) to regurgitate her words here though, but I do recommend checking out the video for some information about how/when/why the trope started. Also, great video!

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

Yo FELLOW HAZEL FAN WATTUP?

[@Thefoop]

Yooo based Hazel enjoyer?!

[@yourhorseyepona7309]

@@Thefoop YOOOO✋️HIGH FIVE

[@bigimaginations9973]

A wild hazel fan!

[@Thefoop]

@@yourhorseyepona7309 🤚 sorry for leaving ya hanging

[@elisaelisaross]

"I am going to do more of this, I don't care if you like it or not, I am having fun". An artist doing what she likes. Yes, I support this! Btw I am not familiar with yaoi manga but by seeing such big hands on the characters you showed, I think they are actually very beautiful (Mmh... Should I start reading them?). I think hands, if well-drawn, are beautiful, so the bigger they are, the better you can observe them, and the larger beautiful area they occupy on the page. But it's just my guess, I don't know if hands of that size have a meaning in the story, or if the yaoi community has some sort of hand k1nk. About the cheek mouth, I find it aesthetically unpleasant, but I understand where it comes from: by seeing the open mouth from the side, you can see the other corner of the mouth on the further side of the face, which can be simplified by drawin it very close to the profile edge, which can be further be simplified into uniting the lips on the front, which can be exaggerated by drawing closed lips and the mouth opening further from them along the cheek.

[@ArticSkyz]

Tysm for mentioning the snot bubbly/ nosebleeds 😭😭 I thought i was the only one who found it weird and oddly disturbing lmao

[@Tebtome]

The crazed fish-eye face is hilarious to me. I love it

[@samihaislam7764]

i think i can offer an explanation for the snot bubbles! in japanese, snot is "鼻水" ("hanamizu"), where "鼻" means "nose" and "水" means "water". so they associate mucus with water! whereas in english "snot" is just..."snot". it's an ugly-sounding word on its own. therefore, i think the reason they show up so much in anime is because there are less negative connotations with the japanese word! hope this makes sense :)

[@ExtremeWreck]

I'm going to see this as a warning to not drink the water in Japanese hotels.

[@danielramsey6141]

9:52. The whole Flesh-fang Trope or single fang is basically stated to be the equivalent of a “Crooked Tooth”. In Asian culture, sometimes it was a sign of sexual attractiveness in a woman, while Crooked Fangs for men were more about assertive, aggressive, or beastly behavior.

[@Koispeck]

As someone who doesn’t really care for the generic anime style (exceptions ofc like studio trigger and castlevania) and agree with most of these art style choices being subjectively bad. I like using the flesh fang in my own art style. I think it’s endearing since my styles more cartoony I think I can get away with it and like you said art styles simplify human faces into just a few lines and the brain fills out the rest that how you can get stuff like the closed mouth being two lines instead of one. But since it’s such a trivial art style choice let’s ageee to disagree.

[@magentialice]

the cheek mouth exists to save money on animation, instead of having to animate the lips and jaw you just get the mouth moving, flesh fang likely exists for a similar reason "behold I no longer have to worry about filling in this tiny little triangle with white and instead can use the fill tool on the skin!"

[@karawilson772]

An art trope I hate in anime is the kids being clones of the parents. Like I get that they want the audience to be able to easily identify that these are the main character's children but come on, they can look a little different and act a different. But nope. The daughter looks just like the father but with long hair and acts like him as well while the son looks just like mom but with short hair and also acts just like her. The webtoon "The First Night with the Duke" did this. They had the perfect chance for their at least one of their kids having strawberry blond hair but nope. That would be too cute.

[@kuroshi_anaki]

imo, hajime passes because the point of him looking like that is because all the special traits got locked away in izuru instead. that's the whole point on why hajime is so plain. i also want to defend Shinichi because detective conan is my childhood but i got nothing 💀

[@potted_lavender]

I haven't really seen it very often, but when in anime art or art that keeps any semblance to irl facial anatomy, the eyes are just drawn outside of where the face should end, even if the side of the face is covered by hair It's definitely more rare than the others but so frustrating when you actually see it

[@Sakura_komzai]

As someone who is a really big fan of Bungo stray dogs the fish eye thing in the anime is funny yes i can agree with that but they do it in the most serious moments and they do it so often that it takes the attention away from what’s actually happening to just the funny face. And ur so true they did Atsushi so dirty 😭😭😭😭

[@Copper.Spaniel]

I Really Dislike That You Call Uzaki Chan And The Highschool Of The Dead Girls Bodies Unrealistic, Especially Since Almost All AFAB People In My Family, Including Me As A Trans Man When I Was Younger, Have Or Had Those Body Types At Some Point. My Mom IS LITERALLY BUILT THE EXACT SAME AS UZAKI.

[@bbcarrypups]

I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS DAZAI SLANDER. HE IS NOT BASIC BROWN HAIRED ANIME BOY HE IS A CHARACTER WITH GENIUS WRITING AND AN AMAZING AND COOL PERSONALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ananaspizza7014]

i think this is one of my favorite duchess celestia videos so far. the fact that you enjoyed making this makes me enjoy it more, somehow. i also remember you talking about drawing things that arent meant to be finished in your "why youre not improving at art" video, its nice to see you drawing that. really enjoyed the drawings in this video, they seriously look so good, especially the faces! i know you say youre not good at faces but i genuinely think they look great.

[@shokouhosimp6793]

the worst for me is the harem thing like in so many isekai its always this perverted dude who has absolutely no redeemable aspects to them yet somehow all these girls like him. And the lack of anything beyond being a sexual object for the women like they all fall into some stereotypical "female" traits.

[@sukyandalous]

*cough cough* High School DxD

[@vibrantgleam]

OMG WHEN U TALKED ABOUT THE NOSE THING I WAS LIKE "OMG YES FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT IT" BC I HAD A FRIEND WHO HATED IT AND I GREW TO HATE IT TOO

[@Naps_lot]

ONE THING I ABSOLUTELY HATE IS HOW HAIR IS DEPICTED IN ANIME! Especially bangs or hair that sticks out, they literally change sides, and I have no idea how I would try to interpret that 💀

[@moon1749]

That just reminded me of Noriaki Kakyoin from JoJo... Because I swear, it's supposed to be on his RIGHT, but it transfers to the LEFT in some scenes. I will go back and watch through again, but if my memory serves me correctly, that is a weird thing that keeps happening. And it frustrates me to no end😅

[@Naps_lot]

@@moon1749 EXACTLY 😭 The same happens with Goh from Pokémon, and I want to be able to draw him but his hair is confusing… same with many other characters, it’s very confusing.

[@moon1749]

@@Naps_lot I KNEW IT!!! I haven't seen the character you're talking about, but I understand that frustration about the hair switching sides for like.. no reason. I used to do that with a few of my own characters but now I just don't and get through it because of my own stubborness and so I can get better with drawing in general.

[@Naps_lot]

@@moon1749 Oh thank goodness, you grew past that. I never had that phase luckily, mostly because I don’t do many drawings from different angles 💀

[@moon1749]

@@Naps_lot I don't either, but I'm getting better at angles besides 3/4 since that's the one I was always so comfortable with. Now I think I can get over not having part of my characters face showing😆 But that still angers me with a lot of other animes, JoJo was just my biggest example.

[@owlsgurl]

Honestly thank you for doing this topic I was always curious about this for years and I love this new series

[@batkittii]

Ngl I LOVE the fisheye closeup shots

[@divaprincess98]

7:36 You know, this brings up an interesting conversation about how straight men are attracted to women vs how lesbians are attracted to women. Not to say lesbians are incapable of of liking big boobs or objectifying other women, but a combination of an inherently patriarchal society and the male gaze is part of the reason why lesbians tend to not be attracted to harem girls. It’s why yuri manga drawn by straight men is usually consumed by other straight men more than lesbians. Just like how yaoi manga drawn by straight women is usually consumed by other straight women more than gay men. Y’all may have the same attraction, but how y’all are attracted to them is very different.

[@Dragmiredraws]

This vid had me CACKLING! I LOVED IT! The age one especially! I literally couldn’t, I had to watch it 3times to get the ages 🤣🤣🤣🤣 As someone who’s a fan of men with large hands irl, there’s a limit, Yao I hands freak me out, but they’re so comically big that I can’t he,p but laugh. As for the tropes I dislike, the unequal fanservice is one, for every awkwardly large pan over an up skirt I want the same over a guy’s biceps or chest! My most “hated” trope, is tall swole guy gets genderbent into a smol, not swole woman….WHAT!? NO! GIMME MY TALL SWOLE LADIES!! And my actual most hatred trope, fantasy races where the males are like these monstrous, grotesque, hard to look at, the females of the race are just human women with different colored skin, maybe horns, and pointed ears…….NO! I’m ACTUALLY UPSET AT THAT ONE

[@YanberryYinana]

i agree so hard with those two hated trope. the amount of tall swole men genderbends that make them small and skinny women are so infuriating, why tf would all their muscle and height suddenly disappear??? and the female vs male fantasy race thing is *SOOO* true! the men would get varied looks but the females are always human-looking with additional appendages based off of what their fantasy race is.

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

It's kind of why I make near demi-humans regardless of gender, and the two ideas closest to anthro designs are both on female/femme characters (one is a "what if" form for a demi-human and the other I have in mind is a monstrous fish being who's mental capacity is more comparable to a dog).

[@Maokei]

NAH BUNGO STRAY DOGS HEADEYE SCENES ARE SO FUNNY THO

[@im_vibez]

I really love the fish-eye lense thing, it's so hilarious, I nearly die laughing whenever I see it

[@magicmagic4864]

Thats great to hear you are having fun with this video, keep up the work that you enjoy 👍🏼

[@Oceane1803]

I never truly realized how weird cheek mouths looked from a profile angle.

[@DisabledKitkat6068]

Didn't you commented 3 times?

[@Oceane1803]

@@DisabledKitkat6068 Uh no, why ?

[@DisabledKitkat6068]

@@Oceane1803 I saw it three times tho

[@Oceane1803]

@@DisabledKitkat6068 Well I'm only seeing it once so I dunno.

[@DisabledKitkat6068]

@@Oceane1803 👁️👄👁️

[@st4r_eats_molten_plastic]

My least favorite trope is all the damn FANSERVICE. I was banned from watching Soul Eater a few years ago cuz my parental figure walked in on a fanservice scene. It’s not even appealing tbh, but that might just be because I’m asexual. Who knows honestly!!

[@_Minos]

Though luck then, cause japanese people live from fanservice (be it male or female fansevice).

[@PlanterGacha]

I just realized something about TDLOSK- they kind of make references to the “brown hair protagonist” character when they introduced Satou as the only normal kid. Saiki basically treats him like how communities treat the basic brown haired boys, and it’s even funnier when you remember that Satiu basically has the personality of every brown haired boy protagonist at the beginning of animes.

[@leonardorolingstella8554]

8:38 I once saw an artwork like this where a catgirl had 4 ears & was wearing headphones & earbuds to plug in both sets of ears, each of which was listening to a different thing

[@IAARPOTI]

Finally a pallet cleanse after doom of days. I really need to take a break from reality.

[@reynardfox6135]

Honestly, I love anime cliches and tropes, and I live videos and content done on them. They’re just funny and fascinating to me. I actually credit reading about these tropes to making me interested in watching anime, I hope you do more videos like this😁😆

[@4an_meatmvn]

i actually like the fish eye lens thing ngl ☠

[@N0oDleBoi]

I loved this, keep having fun with these :]

[@novagrayvanelders2696]

I actually don't mind the fish eyed look. It makes me laugh every time and breaks some of the tension in serious scenes.

[@tazzyhyena6369]

5:10 I, as a bisexual, find these hands terrifying. Mind you I am also not the target audience for this because the target audience for yaoi is straight women.

[@creepywaffles4783]

I will be honest and say that I actually like the xxxxx yr old goddess child thing. In theory it’s an interesting concept but it’s what people decide to do with it. Yes adults can look young but not 10. And because she’s xxxxx yrs old and wise and smart doesn’t mean she’s emotionally an adult that can have romantic relationships. AT LEAST FROM WHAT I HEAR ONLINE An example of a good old loli who is still a child IMO Is Qiqi and Klee from genshin. I’m pretty sure klee is older than even Jean yet Jean is still like a mother figure because klee is emotionally young as well as physically young even if she’s numerically older than Jean.

[@kikiyori]

I appreciate you so much. I just watched the other ones, and I'm loving this series.

[@Solesteam]

4:05 Nah, that never gets old... Well unless it's multiple times per series... then i can see it ageing badly...

[@officiallydeadchannel886]

2:48 Ah yes, the row of the three Danganronpa protagonists: Makoto Naegi, Hajime Hinata and Light Yagami.

[@L0rdOfThePies]

6:20 i used to have a nosebleed problem due to severe allergies and seeing nosebleeds and stuff in anime makes me uncomfortable. Because i can just feel those giant clots in my nasal cavity every time i see it

[@cucumber2356]

8:27 this was so hilarious to me because just before she said anything about the trope, I thought it was weird that she was drawing human ears on the character 😭

[@augustgates]

Everyone hates that bungo stray dogs has so many fish eyes but honestly I just think that it’s really effective and adds a lot of atmosphere

[@jadentheenby1753]

My least favorite trope in general is a GIGANTIC NOGGIN. Just a GIANT DOME. A MONUMENTAL MELON. A head that defies ALL laws of gravity, that is so absurdly large compared to the obsessively dainty and thin frame of the character. It’s actually painful for me to look at, it’s so absurdly ugly. Like, maybe a little exaggeration I could accept, but sometimes it’s taken too far and nobody ever talks about it; I think this actually bothers me more than the monster water balloon badonkers. I think the 3D animation Disney movies are the biggest perpetrators of this, but I’ve seen it done in anime too. It’s just so fuckin hard to look at, pardon my French

[@kohinattosru8587]

Catgirl's human ears looks mostly like artist's confusion - ear placement is bound with head shape and inner structure. Most of artists - when they draw only animal ears - hide head sides with long or fluffy hair making their job easier (e.g. Raphtalia). I actually think that two pair of ears could be interesting, but I would choose two pair of animal ears on the sides rather than animal pair on the top and human on the sides. I would make both pair working, maybe one better for higher or lower sounds than the second pair. Guess I should get back to drawing... 😅

[@undynlicia7554]

The cheek lip can be ridiculous in some styles, but in others, like Sonic and some western animation, it works well as a stylisation, I very rarely put my characters mouths smack dab in the middle of the face when I’m drawing, they’re always a little to one side or the other, but that’s because I have a very cartoony style, so it works alright, but when you’re drawing in a more ‘realistic’ style, like anime, it just takes away from the immersion, even more than ballon boobs sometimes

[@CJFrostthorn]

Had this on while drawing but had to stop to just watch the marvelous takes you did on these awful tropes because your commentary was just too great not to XD ✨

[@DitzyDew]

Honestly i find the nose bleeds and snot bubbles to be there for comedic effect. It is a japanese cartoon anyways so its gonna be exaggerated.

[@Zemiaza]

7:20 one piece girls be like: 😅　👁️👄👁️

[@choxoletyo8518]

the side mouth was originally created when animations had to be produced fast and animators didn’t have the time nor energy to redraw the entire jaw whenever a character opens their mouth so they js drew the generic side profile silhouette and slapped a mouth on it

[@aethergasm]

Nipples on men often don't exist. Idk why this bothers me. It just always has. Hair that obviously would need a whole can of hair gel and its own internal skeletal structure to be able to retain it's shape consistently and then when undone their hair is automatically soft and supple. I don't mind the tight clothes painted on muscle when it's knit fabrics (I stare at my hubby in his t-shirt for this reason), but when it is a blazer or something that should be tailored, I get eye twitch. I unfortunately (because I was so jelly of them) have seen many natural gravity defying watermelon boob tiny waisted born that way women in my life. That being said, half of them did get size reduction surgery because it was literally crushing their spines. The other half worked in adult stuff... It's not so much the tiny waist and size I envied was that they defied gravity so much I would assume they had their own orbit.

[@Zalgo72]

I use the flesh fang for horror characters💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@mushroomdude123]

Differentiating character's ages is honestly really hard to do. Especially if they range from teens to early 20s. But even irl, someone can look younger/older than they actually are due to height. I tried adjusting for this with one of my short co-workers, but she actually ended up being 3 years younger than me. Also, the Cheek-Mouth and Skin-Fang actively piss me of when I see them.

[@PeriluneStar]

That was funny, I'd love to see more!!

[@ZombieOwl12]

I loved this video, cover all the tropes! 💜💕✨

[@BaraBimbro]

My most hated trope is the femboy/trap like those characters who look exactly like flat chested little girls, act exactly like them, are voiced by women/have extremely female sounding voices but they are male and "bi curious" straight men go crazy for them as a fetish. I love feminine make characters Don't get me wrong I'm a massive tomgirl myself and I do drag but this specific character is everywhere and I hate it so much