r/hatethissmug • u/this_is_a_loser • 6h ago

Art & Fanworks When fat characters are drawn in a completely different art style

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1: Tomohiro Nagatsuka from A Silent Voice (looks like he’s from a kid’s anime)
2: (Flashback) Yuko Ozawa from Jujutsu Kaisen (she’s a realistic depiction but like too realistic… why are her eyes so small)

Besides from the fact that it alienates heavier characters (even when there is more to the character than them being fat), the inconsistency of the art style is just annoying. Fat Gum from My Hero Academia is sorta understandable since the art style allowed for varied designs, but the sources I chose from this post have a much more uniform art style, so it looks jarring when they draw one character super different.

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u/Realistic_Jello2638 5h ago

No one in Danganronpa is or looks normal.

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u/Sleepflower00 5h ago

Right, semantics, I'll clarify then If I must.

Obviously I didn't mean "normal" in terms of realism, but "normal" in terms of the style that the series established as normal, the style of eyes and facial proportions most characters have. Hifumi for instance, could still be fat but with the similar styled eyes the rest of them have and without the weird cat-like cleft lip thing. He looks more like a caricature than a character if we compare him to the rest of the cast is what I'm saying.

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u/Realistic_Jello2638 4h ago

And my point is this character is from the exact same entry and she looks like this. No one looks normal.

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u/popinazo 4h ago

Looks like... A cute regular school girl? What's your point?

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u/Dense-Decision9150 3h ago

regular school girl?? sakuras JACKED AS HELL. what kinda school u going to where everyone's a pro bodybuilder

edit: realizing this comment might have been sarcasm and im stupid

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u/Anon142842 3h ago

It goes along with part of your username dw you're in character 😉

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u/Sleepflower00 4h ago

It's not about plausible aesthetic/character design normalcy, it's about art style normalcy. Sakura still has the eyes and the facial features relatively similar in style to the other characters. Which was the point of the post, that the fat characters look like they don't belong in the same show in terms of art style.

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u/Realistic_Jello2638 3h ago

And I disagree. He looks like he is part of the circus that is a Danganronpa cast.

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u/Sleepflower00 3h ago

It's not about the aesthetic exaggeration but the art style consistency, but ok. We can just agree to disagree.

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u/Fast-Front-5642 2h ago

I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me...

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u/VMelain 5h ago

Otherqise they wouldn't be ultimates

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u/MeliodasTA 2h ago

Makoti, hajime, shuichi, kaede, lots of characters look normal. But yes they're all weird