Acting like anime characters

Lone Wolf · Post by **Lone Wolf** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 6:58 pm

Do any of you find yourselves purposefully acting like a certain anime character? I have found that several characters have a certain lifestyle that I couldn't help but imitate. I've also had situations happen to me that were similar to situations that happened to a character. I'd see how that character would handle that situation, then see if it would work for me. Sometimes it works, too.

KungPaoChicken · Post by **KungPaoChicken** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:13 pm

Acting like anime characters...

...is gay.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:15 pm

More gay than the gayest homosexual. And that's saying a lot, because there are a LOT of gay homosexuals out there.

Lone Wolf · Post by **Lone Wolf** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:56 pm

Some of you people make me sick...

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 7:59 pm

HOMOSEXUALS ARE GAY!

Are you going to argue the truth of that statement?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:20 pm

There's nothing gay about it. ^_^;; The truth is good anime characters have a great deal of depth to them, and the great ones have as much 'character' as any celebrity you'll see as a teenager. People copy or follow celebrities all the time, using their manerisms, etc. The only difference here is that with an anime character you usually don't have to worry about that person's reputation being sullied later when he/she is found raping someone or smashing in a car window in a drugged up rage. If nothing else, anime characters are 'safe' as role models. And from a writing perspective, the easiest way to learn character interpretation is to think from the perspective of that character. It's actually quite common. People who debate about anime characters obviously see them as having depth. I've seen people who will go on for hours trying to rationalize why a certain character did something strange in an anime. It might be a little fanatical when you start dressing or talking like an anime character, but adopting little manerisms is pretty common.

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:21 pm

kthulhu wrote:HOMOSEXUALS ARE GAY!

Are you going to argue the truth of that statement?

yes ... not all homosexuals are gay, i'm sure theres some misserable ones out there too you know.

Lone Wolf wrote:I have found that several characters have a certain lifestyle that I couldn't help but imitate.

yea, Shinji ... no not the whiny bitchy aspect of him ... just how he runs away form his problems all the time and how he's always alone ... thats probably not a good thing to be saying ...

/fin

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:25 pm

Heh, I've found myself copying Hiei a bit when I see someone or something that's too stupid to correct. I tend to roll my eyes and mutter 'idiot' under my breath before sitting back and enjoying the spectacle of stupid people. ^_^ It's actually quite fun.

And keep in mind, many anime characters were based off real people, so by imitating them, you are in essence immitating a real person, or an aspect of the creator that was put into the character.

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:32 pm

Arigatomyna wrote:Heh, I've found myself copying Hiei a bit when I see someone or something that's too stupid to correct. I tend to roll my eyes and mutter 'idiot' under my breath before sitting back and enjoying the spectacle of stupid people. ^_^ It's actually quite fun.

you should come to Brampton ... no shortage of morons here.

Arigatomyna wrote: And keep in mind, many anime characters were based off real people, so by imitating them, you are in essence immitating a real person, or an aspect of the creator that was put into the character.

or your imitating several people, since i wouldn't think it to be to unusual for a creator to take all kinds of qualities from a bunch of peopel and manifest them in one character.

/fin

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:35 pm

Propyro wrote:or your imitating several people, since i wouldn't think it to be to unusual for a creator to take all kinds of qualities from a bunch of peopel and manifest them in one character.

/fin

Yep, that's what I mean. Most of the manerisms people immitate from anime characters are ones that can be found in a number of real people. So it isn't excatly the character you're imitating - it's the 'habit' or mix of real habits into a persona that relates to you. ^_^