Forum - View topicFalling out of character?
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HaruhiToy
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I have been watching Hayate and having a pretty good time with it. I think it is a bit underrated even though it is clearly low-budget. Whatever the other shortcomings, the director seems to have a good sense a theater.
One of their mainstay comedic devices is to have the characters fall out of character -- do stuff like talk about the anime company's troubles or what would the audience think. A lot of comedy animes do this but not as much as this one. It made me wonder -- have you ever seen an anime character unintentionally fall out of character? Where they did or said something that didn't make sense for the character in the context of the story? In the hundreds of shows I have seen I don't ever recall seeing that. Does it exist? |
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poilk92
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I doubt it, breaking the fourth wall would be very difficult to do unintentionally I can't think of anyway it would ever happen
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ailblentyn
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I'm imagining a scenario relating to the island episodes of Nadia. The stupid inconsistencies there are not the result of anything intentional, just aspects of the show going off the rails. But what if.... what if King's sudden ability to use a typewriter (say) were him unintentionally lapsing out of character. I mean, if an anime actor-lion is playing the rôle of King the non-typewriting lion for most of the series, that's got to be a pretty smart lion, capable of reading Anno's scripts and so on. I mean, the lion playing King all along can probably use a typewriter, right? So maybe when he starts using it on screen, he's unintentionally fallen out of character...? (The island episodes are so stupid that no stupid theory concerning them can match them — which I reckon gives me free rein.) |
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the Rancorous
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Breaking the fourth wall, for TV shows in general, is used nearly solely for comedic purposes. When it's intentional, it's funny, but unintentional? I can only see that as coming across as a screw-up, like an actor calling "line" (and considering how voice-acting is done, that wouldn't make any sense in anime). In other words, I just don't see how that could come across as anything but an awkward screw-up or inconsistency in characterization. |
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