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Some time ago I bought yet another "How-to-Draw" book from work that focused specifically on drawing Chibis and Mascots and I finally decided to put it to use (using something I bought? PREPOSTEROUS! It must be kept pristine!) and try it out on some of my favorite characters.
Pokemon and all of its creatures/characters, including Gold, are (c) Satoshi Tajiri, Nintendo, Game Freak and all other respective owners may have missed/not be aware of. The Pokemon Adventures Manga was written by Hidenori Kusaka and published by ViZ media. I do not own the character in any way, shape or form, I am just a fan!
Pretty Soldier/Guardian Sailor Moon and all of its characters, including ChibiUsa,is (c) Naoko Takeuchi, Tokyo Pop, Toei Animation and any other respective owners I may not know/have listed or be aware of. I do not own the character in any way, shape or form, I am just a fan!
Vocaloids and all of its characters, including Len and Rin are (c) Crypton and any other respective owners (I believe Yamaha Corporation is in there somewhere for making the original Vocaloid synthesizer application). I do not own the characters in any way, shape or form, I am just a fan!
Cardcaptor Sakura and all of its characters, including Sakura, are (c) CLAMP, Tokyo Pop, Geneon and any other respective owners I may not know/have listed or be aware of. I do not own the character in any way, shape or form, I am just a fan!
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FullMetal Alchemist and all of its characters, including Edward, are (c) Hiromu Arakawa, ViZ Media, FUNimation and any other respective owners I may not know/have listed or be aware of (Square Enix? BONES?). I do not own the character in any way, shape or form, I am just a fan!
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I had scenes of his fights in mind, but now that you mention it, the more lighthearted ones come back to my memory (he literally is a character with many face). This drawing of him is saying "hug me" and "No matter what's worrying you, I'll hug you and cheer you up!".
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Of course the fighting scenes exist and are quite memorable, but to me, this is still isn't the normal of his character. It's the scenes of him being silly that stick out and are more numerous in my mind.
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That's true, the fights are mostly the results of someone really making him mad and threattening or hurting his friends. His normal character is the goofy, fun loving and lighthearted Luffy. Agreed, he's one of the well developed character with multiple traits, which makes him more natural, but avoiding overdevelopement.
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Exactly, and beyond doing something to hurt his friend or belittle his dream it generally seems to take quite an extreme to make him angry. Another good point: The creator has made him well-developed without going into the area of being overdeveloped which is also definitely a sign the the professionalism of the writer, especially with such a long-running series. The other thing that makes One Piece so brilliant is that even the filler episodes offer genuine character development and pure entertainment value without resorting to tasteless fan-service.
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True, it's difficult not overdevelping characters during such a long and but keep them interesting. I think the creator has also a good method of slowly adding characters without reducing the roles of established ones. Also agreed, One Piece is a good exeption from the rule fillers are either tasteless fan-service or cheesy and silly comedy episodes.
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This is true, too. That characters do not join up one-after-the-other, there was always at least a small space in between with the closes exceptions being Usopp and Sanji's respective stories following each other. It gives people the chance to get to know the new characters beforehand and Ialso agree he is able to do this without diminishing any of the others.
Not that the series is completely free of lower-brow comedy (Nami's "Happiness Knockout-Punch" comes to mind
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I think he uses the best way of introduction, there is never a point when you think: All the characters and names, I can’t keep up. I think that’s another proof of how much of a professional Oda is (plus the fact earlier characters don’t diminish.
Yes, scenes like this exist, but as you say, they are not too numerous, and I think it’s better than excessive fan service of actually showing her naked (everyone knows what happened, but the audience doesn’t really see anything, and I think that makes a part of the joke). And there are episodes of other shows where I thought “What was this episode about?” One example is Sonic X episode 20: Chris’ Dad forces everyone to a vacation on his private yacht, Sonic gets nearly insane and the whole episode is about Sonic’s desperate and ridiculous attempts to escape. The other plotline involves Eggman preparing his attack, but he doesn’t get going, because he can’t think of a name for his latest weapon. (In the end, he chooses “Egg Fort 2”; and for this, he needs the entire episode).
I prefer any One Piece filler ep I know over it!
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All very true 
Yes, in this case I think the bigger part of the joke is actually the reaction of all of the boys.
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This kind of spoiler seems rather common in continuous series, animated and real life. Though it gives away characters and scenes, I see them rather as teasers than real spoilers. At least as long as they don’t give away any pivotal plot elements.
I consider Nami actually revealing herself AND they boys’ surprise and reaction as part of the joke.
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Also true, in this case it actually more of ten than not serves to pique one's interest and to when "this" scene will happen on when we'll get to meet "this" characters.
I agree, but some manga series that are adapted into anime (especially newer ones, for some reason) have antoher problem that can be a factor: If the anime is produced before the Manga finishes its run there is the risk that the anime will catch up to the manga and, therefore, the anime has no more material to draw from. Thus, a filler (or sometimes, a filler arc) is born. This was the case for "FullMetal Alchemist" and why "FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" was made; the first anime was made before the manga was complete and so it was forced to go on it's own path about halfway through and then come up with its own ending so "Brotherhood" was made to be more accurate to the manga. It was the same with Soul Eater: eventually the anime diverts from the manga and then ends prematurely in comparison. Sailor Moon is an example of an older series where this happened: The entire first part of the second season, "Sailor Moon R(omance)" is an arc of pure filler before ChibiUsa appears.
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All agreed, plus, I also want to know is who the new character is and what they’re up to.
Maybe it’s the fault of technical progress: Even anime that look drawn in traditional ways might use digital techniques that have sped up the production. One of them, although not new, is just having uncolored frames drawn and color them digitally. I bet it’s faster than hand-colored frames. I think you mentioned how fillers get into the picture some time ago and it probably is inevitable in unfinished manga. But even with restrictions (like no important plot parts must be changed and everything must return to the state before the filler) don’t justify some very bad ones. The “Soul Eater” anime sounds like it was below expectations, Sailor Moon R quite extreme (apparently, the anime got far ahead. Is R really mainly about romance? I know it’s part of the theme, but action is also important in the original series) and “Full Metal Alchimist” is extreme, the older show seems like an alternate timeline from the point of time the anime overtook the manga. I’m surprised they actually invested the money for a complete start over, but many fans where certainly happy.
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That is a very distinct possibility I didn't think of, but you are probably right when it comes to the animes of today. On the other hand, it seems impossible when you consider that many manga artists are on WEEKLY deadlines if they're being published in magazines, but I suppose it also takes multiple chapters of manga to fill an episode of anime in most cases and when TV studios order a show they order it by the season (at least 13 episodes) so it's even harder if the manga is still just this new. I actually think many anime use this technique for certain scenes. At the very least, I recall Shonen Jump showing a few direct of examples from Naruto where they essentially lifted the panel from the manga and colored/animated it.
Those who read the Soul Eater manga first might make this claim, but since I watched the anime first and was not to the cutoff point by the time I finished, I wasn't disapointed at all. At the very least, they were kind enough to end with the close of a fairly key arc so there is still a sense of closure. I've recently learned it is also the same with Ouran Highschool Host Club. "Romance" is simply what the "R" stands for for the season, but now that you mention it, perhaps "Romance" is kind of the underlying theme for the season given that, at this point, Usagi and Mamoru's relationship was still new and relative fragile here, only to be complicated first by Ali and Ann in the filler arc and later, even moreso by ChibiUsa. As for FullMetal Alchemist, what can I say? The series was just this good and popular to justify the cost of a complete remake.
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These are adorable! Len an Rin are my favs in this pic, but they're all awesome
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Heh, thank you very much
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My favorites are the twins, Ed, and Sakura (This might seem a bit weird, since she's like, twelve, but I still have a bit of a crush on her from when I was a kid, for obvious reasons.)
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Not much of a Pokemon fan, huh? Because I'm pretty happy with how Gold came out....Remind me to show you the Pokemon Adventures Manga some time and open your eyes...
Anyway, you know I do miss that Cardcaptor Sakura/Tsubasa crossover we had going....
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No, I am a huge Pokemon fan. I'm just not familiar with Gold, Red, Blue, and the rest of the original characters. The earliest version of the games I've played would be LeafGreen/FireRed/Sapphire/Emerald/Ruby, and the rest of that generation.
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Red, Blue and Green are still the main characters of FireRed and LeafGreen, silly! They're just remakes of the originals. Yellow is a manga-exclusive character since "Red" was still the default playable character in the games but it's the same for HeartGold and SoulSilver: the featured characters are still Gold (though they now call him "Ethan" if you play as a girl) Silver and Crystal (though they call her "Lyra" if you play as a boy).
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I always named my character Ash in the games, and just recently (as in Diamond and Pearl recent), when, and this is when I started doing this, I would play as a girl, I would name her Dawn, but I only do this in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, since she's only in those games. As for my rival in those three games, I would name him Barry. LeafGreen and FireRed, I named him Gary. After all, those are their character models.
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The games came first so the anime characters are modeled after them, but I know what you're saying. I've don't the same thing for as long as I can remember, using the name "Misty" for the first generations, gen. 2 I think I just used whatever name struck my fancy, "May" was Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, "Dawn" was Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and I used "Iris" for White because this was before I realized she was actually one of the gym leaders so I siwtched to "White" (for the manga) with White 2 and I'm using "Serena" for X.
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Iris is a gym leader? In the anime, Iris is the Misty/May/Dawn of Unova, just like Cilan is the Brock of Unova.
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In the White version, yes . I take it you must have played Black the first time around and battled Drayden, then? And then...yeah.... in Black2 and Whtie2 she becomes the freakin' champion...
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I played one of the games, either Black2 or White2, I forget which, but I never played the first Black/White. I didn't get that far, though, because it was a friend's copy. Anyway, I only saw Iris in the anime, never the games. And I had enough trouble beating Lance (Indigo Plateau Lance, not Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, or Crystal Lance), who was also a Dragon type user, so I would be screwed if I went up against Iris, since I know literally nothing about the Dragon type Pokemon of Unova. Cynthia is the only Champion I've ever actually beaten without cheats, and that's saying something, since frankly, I think she's tougher than Lance, because of her Garchomp, Spiritomb, Togekiss, and Lucario.
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Okay, then that explains it. And.. yeah, her anime counterpart sucks. Axew is pretty much the only Pokemon who really listens to her since she had to regain Excadrill's trust, her Emolga constantly uses Volt Switch to get out of battle and/or does whatever it can to get others to do things for it and her Dragonite disobeys her more often then not because it is TOO enthusiastic for battle and is too strong for her to handle. Not to mention that for a "Dragon Master" she really only has two dragon-types in the anime....so.... just don't get me started on her.
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Well, I'm fairly certain that her anime counterpart is for comedic value, nothing more. And if Ash was able to get over that problem with his Charizard, I'm sure Iris can do it with her Dragonite.
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Comedy? No, that is what Team Rocket is supposed to be there for. Iris was just there to act as an avatar for the female fans and she just blew it, unlike Misty, May and Dawn.... Sorry. I had a run-in with a rather obsessive fan a while back and... it's just put a bitter taste in my mouth toward Iris' character, period. Heck, I even cringe at her counterpart in the Pokemon Adventures Manga and it's probably the most competent one.
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Well, Jesse, James and Meowth are surprisingly competent in Unova, so I'm assuming that's why they put Iris in.
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In the beginning of the Black and White series they were, as in, when they switched to the proper Black uniforms butas soon as they went back to their usual, outdated White ones they went back to their normal, bumbling selves. They are the ones there for comic relief when Bianca isn't there to plow into Ash. Iris is there for "Balance".
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I still find it interesting that, for the only time I can remember, all three of the main protagonists have plant-related names. Cylan, cilantro. Ash is a tree. Iris is a kind of flower.
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*facepalm* Cilantro! Duh! Okay, that makes sense now. I get that "Dento" (his Japanese name) is "corn' or "cornstalk", something like that but I never quite got the connection with "Cilan", though "Chili" and "Cress" area little more obvious. As for Ash.... well... I have my own theories about his name, but sure, it'sa type of plant, too.
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Well, there's Oak, Birch, Ivy, Juniper, Elm, Rowan, and Sycamore. They are all Pokemon professors, and they are all named after either a tree or a plant. Aside from them, I think Ash, Cilan, Chili, Cress, and Iris are the only other characters named after plants.
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Yeah, but those are just the professors, so the "tree" thing is definitely a theme among them but none are related to Ash so it has nothing to do with him. A CHILI pepper... yes, it's a plant but it's a vegetable, and it's hot which is the tie-in to him to him using a Fire-type. Cress, on the other hand, I think is more derived from crest, like the curve in a wave, which would be the tie-in to him using a Water-type.
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Well, Gary's last name is Oak. And there are fan theories that Ash is related to Professor Oak.
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But that is all it is, a fan theory. I promise you, the two are not physically/biologically related in any way. The original dub name considered for Ash was "Casey", a reference to the poem "Casey at Bat" about the baseball player who strikes out, but they instead went with something a little closer derived from his actual original name, Satoshi.
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I know, I never believed it anyway. I just figured I should mention it.
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Why? People are welcome to their own theories just like I have my own personal head-cannon.
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I don't even know what that means.
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I'm saying it doesn't matter what fan theories other people have. They can claim whatever they want, it doesn't make it true just like how I have my own theories and not everyone has to agree with it.
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And I'm not criticizing you for that. I was just saying that that theory exists. And I was playing Platinum a little while ago, and I realized that 6 of the towns (Twinleaf, Sandgem, Hearthome, Veilstone, Snowpoint, and Sunyshore) are all made up of two word names. I never actually paid that much attention to the names before. Like in LeafGreen/FireRed and that generation, you started out in Pallet Town, and a pallet is a painter's tool, and all the towns after that are named after colors, like Cerulean, which is blue, Viridian is blue-green, Vermilion, which is a shade of red, Lavender, which is a light purple, Celadon, which is a light green, Fuschia, which is a cross of red and pink, Saffron, a shade of pinkish-red, and Cinnabar, a shade of red. Of course, the first time I played that generation, I was only about 7, so I had no idea what half of the names even meant.
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Yes, I realized some time ago that all of the towns i the first generation games are named after colors except for "pallet" which is a painting tool for holding colors. The same is true of the second generation, all of the towns are named after plants/trees but I haven't really picked up on what the themes could be for any of the generations beyond that, if their is even supposed to be one or if it's just applicable to the first two generations because the two regions are actually connected. Did you know the "Kanto Region" is a real place in Japan? Of course the Pokemon cities are all fictitious, but "Kanto" is real.
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I knew there where regions with names similar to it, but no, I did not know that that. And while I see no discernable pattern in the towns/cities in Unova, I think the ones from generation one and two, namely Kanto and Johto, are a color theme and a plant theme. I think Hoenn is just the "two word mash-up" theme again. And while Kanto is a real region, (according to the respective wikis for each region) Johto is connected to the city of Nara, Hoenn is based on the main island of Kyushu, Sinnoh is based on Hokkaido and the southern portion of a Russian island named Kunashir, which is claimed by the Japanese, while, and I quote, "Unova is geographically based on New York City, it draws inspiration for it's landmarks from the entire state of New York".
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Oh, yes. I can easily see the influence of New York in Unova and Kalos is based on France. I find it funny, though, that they used Kanto but then used a fictitious name for "Johto".
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I had forgotten about Kalos. What game is Kalos from, anyway? I'm fairly certain I haven't played it, since I'd never even heard of Kalos until you referenced it.
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It's the newest one for X and Y, silly. I take it you don't watch the anime anymore then, either? Since X and Y just premiered a couple weeks ago.
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I watched the anime when it was on TV, and I don't watch a lot of TV anymore, so no, I do not.
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What do you mean "when" it was on TV? It's still on every Saturday, silly!
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