Only Six Faces: Difference between revisions

 

When you use "Only Six Faces", it often becomes more vital to give them some other [[Distinctive Appearances]] through the use of [[Limited Wardrobe]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' and its sequels/spinoffs have about four basic body and face types - and character designer Hisashi Hirai's every work after Gundam Seed (''[[Heroic Age]]'', ''[[Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor]]'') features the exact same character designs, arguably due to ''Gundam Seed's'' great success. (Which is a shame because he was quite versatile in his earlier works.) It gets a little absurd when you notice that the only difference between Kazuki from ''Fafner'' and Shinn from ''SEED Destiny'' is eye color.

** This let him earned his [[Fan Nickname]] and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Pun]] in Chinese that translates to Bottle neck dog corpse, indicating he cannot get through his design bottle neck and kept using the same face over and over.

** What makes Hirai's current style even more baffling is that it is a recent change in his style. Take a look at one of his older series, [[Dancougar]]. Now compare it to the above mentioned series. It almost raises the question of "What happened, Mr. Hirai?"

* [[Ken Akamatsu]]'s extensive cast of females usually end up like this:

** In the most extreme example, [[Master of Disguise]] Kanako seems almost a [[Lampshade Hanging]], easily dressing up as any of the ''[[Love Hina]]'' characters and even passing off the big-breasted Mutsumi as Keitaro with little more than some makeup and hair styling, glasses, and a [[Sarashi]].

* All the women of comic-style illustrator [http://gb2k.deviantart.com/ Garett Blair] suffer from a bad case of this. [http://gb2k.deviantart.com/gallery/?coffset=0 His unanimously praised gallery] seldom gets any criticism at all, adding to the prevalence of this trope in comic books illustration.

* Webcomicker [http://fav.me/d2k4ym6 Jeinu] seems fed up with this enough to start a tutorial series teaching amateurs how to avoid this very trope.

* All of the characters in the ''[[Asdfmovie]]'' series have the same appearances, this is often the joke.

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''. This is an especially egregious case, being that most of the characters are different ''species''. With few exceptions, nearly all the characters have flat faces, heart-shaped noses and buckteeth (including the carnivorans and ungulates) and are all the same size except for [[Non-Standard Character Design|Lumpy]]. You could say this is [[Stylistic Suck]] though, considering the show's premise.