Turning Countries into Magical Girls!

Turning Countries into Magical Girls! | China

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Күн бұрын

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Artist's Notes:
For the last year or so, I've been working on the side on a project where I create Magical Girls inspired by different countries' traditional clothing! I love learning about cultural clothing, and I love Magical Girls, and I thought it'd be fun to combine both things. Today's video is China, making the 22nd girl that I've done for this series. I have reels for all 21 other girls on my instagram account, and in due time hopefully I can port those over to KZbin.
As always, thank you for watching and let me know what you think! The next three girls I'm planning to do for this series in the future are South Africa, Brazil, and Palestine, as voted by my Instagram community~
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Music Credits
-All the music in this video is from Amacha Music. amachamusic.chagasi.com/

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@angeliquewu8318 Ай бұрын

Chinese here; you did an AMAZING job! I love how respectful you were and how much research you did, rather than defaulting to the stereotypical qipao! The design is so cute and pretty!

@starsnoireart Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🥹🙏🌸

2 ай бұрын

whoa the amount of efforts you've taken to make this design!! researching about the country to create the perfect design omg i love it

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you like it! :D The research is definitely the most interesting part of this process!~

@onimazu4102 2 ай бұрын

Wow you really research just to make her accurate it's very respectful to see this

@peachicedtears 2 ай бұрын

oh my god you are CRIMINALLY underrated. this is so gorgeous and so well researched 😍 i hope to watch your channel continue to grow ❤️❤️❤️

@starsnoireart Ай бұрын

Aw, thank you! 🥹🌸 i’m glad you liked the artwork, and i massively appreciate your support of the channel! 🙏

@KayKuuga 2 ай бұрын

IM LAUGHING SO HARD AT THE NAME RN LOL BUT THE DESIGN FOR THIS IS SO GOOD! I AM DEF GONNA WATCH THE OTHER VIDEOS OF THIS SERIES :3

@starsnoireart Ай бұрын

Omg 😂😂 i’m glad you like her design! (and appreciate her silly name!) if you watched the other videos in the series, I hope you enjoyed them! 😊 i plan to make some more soon~

@pointseventhree 19 күн бұрын

As a Chinese person, YOU DID AN AMAZING JOB OMG and tysm for being respectful! (Don't worry, you pronounced Wu Zetian right haha.) OMW to check out your other videos, I can't believe you only have 1k subs with this high quality of a video!! Keep it up!!! ❤❤❤

@Bpaynee Ай бұрын

Honestly, as someone who's spent many years learning Mandarin, you did a great job with pronunciation! I'm so impressed with how much research and effort you put into this, how cool! Thank you for sharing :)

@mikaela_mofu Ай бұрын

Omg, your channel is amazing ❤, so underated you have a new subscriber now. I love this series 😊

@ashkatarts 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing! I love how you explain the research behind your designs and why you do what you do! It brings a lot of insight :D

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

Sharing info about different styles of cultural dress is the most rewarding part of this series so I'm glad to hear that you appreciate the research / history behind the designs! ^^

@Kurooganeko 2 ай бұрын

I can tell that the colors you picked for her dress were taken from the chinese flag. But the thing is, red and gold combined are the traditional colors of wedding wear. For both men and women. Because of that, this magical girl kinda looks like a child bride. If you look closer, all the ref images shown in video where red is a predominant colors, white is used for accent. Never yellow or gold. That's due to wedding conotation

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

Interesting! I didn’t know that about the color association, thanks for sharing! I can assure you however that this character isn’t a child. The majority of the girls I make for this series are imagined to be 18+ and I would never endorse anything as gross and deplorable as child brides. Also, I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with using wedding colors or traditions as inspiration for the designs in this series. In this modern day, for many cultures, traditional clothing is rarely worn except for weddings. And sometimes those clothes may or may not include the colors of the country’s flag. For example, when I designed Botswana, most of my reference pictures came from Tswana weddings. Most of the bridesmaids and brides wore dresses that were the same color as the flag. That doesn’t mean that I was trying to create a child bride. Weddings are just a much a part of a country’s culture as anything else, so I take inspiration from a country’s wedding traditions quite often, especially if they don’t have a designated national costume. I also don’t necessarily see why it would be a problem for a magical girl’s dress to look similar to a bride’s. It wouldn’t be the first time a Magical Girl has transformed into something that looks like a wedding dress (see Wedding Peach). I think the intention is important to consider in this regard.

@Kurooganeko 2 ай бұрын

@@starsnoireartI swear I don't say this to make you look bad and you are not even the first person to do that. It's intuitive considering the colors of the chinese flag. I say this mostly to share the information. I also think your art is amazing and you deserve many subscribers. I wish you great success and happiness (cause sometimes success can bring bad energy)

@Jackson-nr2mw Ай бұрын

red and yellow aren't just associated with weddings, they're just celebratory colours in chinese culture. It would be more of a problem if the dress had dragon and Phoenix embroidery on it which would make it a wedding dress, since a traditional wedding dress is called a Dragon and Phoenix robe. But since it is just red and gold it just looks like a Chinese new year celebration dress. Also dragons are more so an imperial symbol more than anything. a dragon with 5 fingers being reserved for the imperial family, so its actually a good thing u didn't end up drawing a dragon.

@taesaidweare7407 29 күн бұрын

wow!! :> your art is amazing and i love how you did so much research on China's culture (i'm chinese btw)

@Elias-wf9so 2 ай бұрын

love this series in your channel, your magical girls are so pretty ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

Aw, thank you! :D I'm glad you like them! They're fun to share!~

@Reese-qc9lk 2 ай бұрын

I love this series ❤

@Reese-qc9lk 2 ай бұрын

That video was so funny when I watched it 😂 *The Chinese name one*

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

@@Reese-qc9lk yeah, the whole short is gold but the one about wood makes me cackle every time lol. Glad you're enjoying this series!

@Reese-qc9lk 2 ай бұрын

@@starsnoireart that part was hilarious 😂 and yup your series is amazing I’m glad I can learn a bit more about the countries especially the clothing and I love your art style 💙

@Janal_Hoe Ай бұрын

the fact that u took the time to research abt chinese culture AND create such a beautiful end result shooks me- WHY ARENT U POPULAR YET??? Also, since ur doing asian magical girls, could u do a singapore one in future? Im s'porean & despite our known rich diversity and multicultural population, often times it feels like one is represented more than the others here, (especially when ppl started assuming we were a chinese country at some point?) I feel rlly selfish for wantin this, but could you make her a beautiful, brown malay girl? She could be referencing one of our own native indigenous group (such as the orang Laut, kallang, Seletar, Gelam etc.) that were either failed to be conserved or assimilated over the years. I'm not tryin to downplay other minorities in sg, everyone deserves to feel/be represented but it feels so...suffocating when there's so little to no malay/indo rep in the first place. It doesn't even stop there when within our own small community, negatif stereotypes just exists and we are still perceived as such :( maybe..this is why representation is so important to me, i js want our side to shine too and reflect our roots. omg im genuinely so srry for this unnecessary long rant- ive felt this way for so long idk where to share it 👉👈

@imaniislander755 2 ай бұрын

amazing love this series

@imaniislander755 2 ай бұрын

38 minutes in

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying this series! :D

@seunkwoo 2 ай бұрын

her name is so silly i love it, the design is very beautiful

@TributesAndUnique 2 ай бұрын

She looks great but it would be more accurate if she had more golden or tan skin. Despite what you see on TV, most Chinese people do not have pale skin…

@starsnoireart 2 ай бұрын

I can keep this in mind for future designs!

@skootergirl22 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait for your take on a UK based magical girl, are you going to make separate girls based on the different countries or just one for all of the UK?

@starsnoireart Ай бұрын

So, interestingly enough I had a whole design planned for the UK last year, but when I teased her in my stories, the feedback almost unanimously said: “please make separate designs for all the countries in the uk” lol. So that’s the plan! Currently, I have designs ready for all the countries except Wales. Northern Ireland is the only one with a finished artwork~ I have yet to post N.I anywhere, but I do show her in my 2023 art recap video. The rest will be complete in due time! 😁

@skootergirl22 Ай бұрын

@@starsnoireart cool