Forum - View topicThis Week in Anime - A Parade of Pink Anime Girls
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Jabootu
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Per the column:
I mean...her name was Sakura. |
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mdo7
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OK, that's quite interesting. But speaking of pink, there was a time when pink was once associated with boys, and blue was associated with girls, and there's historical evidence of that. Both Vox and PBS have video on this. I just thought people maybe interested in some historical tangent.
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Hellsoldier
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The fact that I recognize all examples must mean that I have some sort of fixation on pink-haired anime girls, and even the boys, it turns out. Jirou is an awesome protagonist.
Also, Lanzhu? I mean, speaking about Love Live for a bit, Ayumu has salmon pink hair. |
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The Cutest
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The character designer for Fire Emblem Engage designs V Tuber avatars
I also want to mention that One Piece also had a lot of pink haired characters |
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Cho_Desu
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My favorite pink-hair character design would be (Talentless) Nana. The floofy pigtails, bubblegum-pink with white tips... Very cute, and I assume specifically done so to make herself appear more harmless to her classmates. Even has flowers in her hair.
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tinyirnfist0
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Three-four characters in the examples have purple hair; not pink hair
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Top Gun
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But I thought ya gotta have blue hair. Did Strong Bad lie to me?
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FilthyCasual
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In terms of pinkheads not mentioned by the article, the Deviluke sisters from To Love Ru come to mind. Pink's long been slang for eroticism in Japan. |
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Joe Mello
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I'm just over here pourin one out for Washu...
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MiniMarps
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I've always had a great appreciation for the rare characters like Kiui, whose anime hair is actually canonically a dye job instead of just "in this world hair can be pink lol." (Especially in stories set in the real world.)
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Nate148
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Was hoping anon would be here and was not disappointed.
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Dumas1
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What, no mention of Haman Karn from Zeta and Double Zeta Gundam? Not entirely sure what pink hair meant for her, but she's a far cry from the cute and fluffy types the colour usually invokes.
At what point does pink hair turn into red? I feel it's somewhere between Nene Romanova's neon hair in Bubblegum Crisis and Kei from Dirty Pair. |
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Fluwm
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I think blue's still the most common color. As for pink... I think the first pink-haired anime-girl I ever saw was... Lacus Clyne, maybe?
In many cases (basically, depending on how grounded the show is) in those "real-world" settings, I tend to interpret the wild colors more as shades: red and blue can be seen as varying shades of black; pink can work as a stand-in for blonde. And I just sort of accept the colorfully-hued-hairs as stand-ins for natural colors that enable greater differentiation between characters. Like... they anime style is such an abstracted interpretation of reality, I've kinda grown to take the *colors* as equally abstracted representations of reality. |
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