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INTEREST: Rhode Island Students Celebrate Inspirational Anime Characters Through Art




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jet_



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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 3:01 pm Reply with quote
Okay.
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 3:11 pm Reply with quote
Awww. That is so sweet! I should do something similar should I join or start an anime club in my college.
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Their goal was to counter negative stereotypes and misconceptions about fandom, and to create a better image for anime, manga, and its fans.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the wonky sculpture, and off-model drawings of bug-eyed schoolgirls and characters from children's series didn't really do a whole lot to change anyone's mind.
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 3:43 pm Reply with quote
"inspirational"
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DavetheUsher



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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:08 pm Reply with quote
What negative stereotypes and misconceptions? I didn't think mainstream Americans gave a crap about anime outside Miyazaki or what's on TV
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:10 pm Reply with quote
Stpk wrote:
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Their goal was to counter negative stereotypes and misconceptions about fandom, and to create a better image for anime, manga, and its fans.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the wonky sculpture, and off-model drawings of bug-eyed schoolgirls and characters from children's series didn't really do a whole lot to change anyone's mind.


Yeahh...no offence to the people behind this but if you want to advertise anime to the general populus you should focus on the positive traits of it...for one it wouldn't have hurt if one of them had been able to make some impressive fanart.

Oh well they did something that's at least a step in the right direction I suppose.
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eragon2890



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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:15 pm Reply with quote
Why for the love of 2D does everyone have to complain again?? AARRGGG! They did something sweet, cool, and had fun, enjoy their passion for christ sake instead of complaining that their work isn't professional level quality!? What did you expect!? :-/

Also, peach-pit is 100% awesome, I like that drawing <3
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:37 pm Reply with quote
Where's Kenshiro, the man who took the sadness of humanity unto himself and fought to save it? Where's Kinnikuman, the klutz who became so great that his father regretted wanted to ever strangle him when he was an infant? Or, at the very least, why didn't they all go into why these characters are great? I think it's a bit concerning that the only one who goes into any reason why this character is good is the fan of Beyond the Boundary.

Stpk wrote:
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Their goal was to counter negative stereotypes and misconceptions about fandom, and to create a better image for anime, manga, and its fans.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the wonky sculpture, and off-model drawings of bug-eyed schoolgirls and characters from children's series didn't really do a whole lot to change anyone's mind.


They're high school students, so who can blame them? Although, a better choice would've been if they each just wrote a few paragraphs on why they liked this show or character.

On the subject of children's series, I think those can sometimes be the ones that have the most interesting things to say about life. In terms of Gash Bell and Shugo Chara, that's doubly so. At least from the Gash Bell display, however, I don't know if the kid who made it got that point. BTW, the point (at least from the manga) was spoiler[that hardship is what brings meaning to life].

DavetheUsher wrote:
What negative stereotypes and misconceptions? I didn't think mainstream Americans gave a crap about anime outside Miyazaki or what's on TV


The two dominant ones are that it's all Pokemon, or that it's all a bunch of porn and giant robots.

eragon2890 wrote:
Why for the love of 2D does everyone have to complain again?? AARRGGG! They did something sweet, cool, and had fun, enjoy their passion for christ sake instead of complaining that their work isn't professional level quality!? What did you expect!? :-/

Also, peach-pit is 100% awesome, I like that drawing <3


Because other people in their school are probably gonna say worse stuff to them because of this. The Amu drawing isn't too bad, but the others aren't the greatest; that Beyond the Boundary sculpture defies description.

Then again, I might be a little too critical of all this.

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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 5:48 pm Reply with quote
Mirai doesn't even have glasses...
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Thatguy3331



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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 6:15 pm Reply with quote
Well.... at least it was coming from a good place. Personally I'm just kind of happy to see someone drew Gash Bell, since that was the first manga I ever read as a kid and it did actually cause me to look at life from a few different angles back then.
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 6:17 pm Reply with quote
I want to do this at my school!
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:00 pm Reply with quote
That anime's all T&A! Laughing
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Miyanoai



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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2014 11:01 am Reply with quote
Looks like they had good intentions, but went about it the wrong way. That one person with the paragraph had the right idea. Yes they could the fanart, but should have written reasons as to why they are special to them and what they taught them. I don't know if they allowed official pictures but I would have used that due to my lack of drawing skills.
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