http://s2.mgicdn.com/youjo_senki/vol1_chapter_34/21.jpg
top panel.
Topic on Forum:Page Images
It's funny, but Just a Face and a Caption (doesn't convey the message without it, thus fails Show, Don't Tell test).
I think it's good enough. Partly because the caption is part of the work. More importantly, I think that the picture depicts the character's reaction in multiple ways:
- The body language
- the vertical lines
- Many of the character's features are replicated a little lower than where they are shown more prominently (for example look a little under that smile.) I think that might suggest some sort of movement perhaps shaking or her quickly adopting a very upright (and likely stiff) posture.
That said, an image that clearly shows both a character's terror/despair to perceived great peril, and the peril itself, would probably be better.
It's a good pic, but the image itself say just "afraid" than "Eek!"
Even 5th panel here doesn't quite make it.
Simply very afraid doesn't count?
Does the trope need to be a (or like a) eureka moment (In which the revelation is something along the lines of "I'm fucked")?
Or are you saying that the picture doesn't stand on it's own if we get rid of the words? The picture in Not Actually JAFAAC section wouldn't make sense for its page if we got rid of the words in the word bubble. Admittedly that trope is about accusation, which might almost require words. So I hope I'm not putting forward a false equivalence (and I also hope I'm using the phrase "false equivalence" right).
As for the possibility of using LOU GHASTLY Page 1. If we use the 4th panel in addition to the 5th one that might be suitable.
Is it a problem that it probably wouldn't count as example to people very familiar with the work? They don't seem significantly more afraid in the 5th panel than they do in the 3rd panel. Personally I don't think it matters because we use some of the same images as TVTropes on the pages in the Not Really an Example tab of this page .
Also I’d like to point out Just a Face and a Caption#Not Actually JAFAAC says “The caption may give it a push by clearing up ambiguity, helping to set the tone, etc”
I don't like the current image for the page. The trope is about a character's revelation of their very unfortunate circumstance(s). The current picture doesn't even show a character at all.
Indeed, it needs all 3.
- character
- reaction (the character doesn't just stand here, but immediately responds to an event)
- fear
Eh. It was just something I found and threw up there as being more entertaining than a white "pic needed" box. Feel free to drop it as soon as something more acceptable is agreed upon.
I asked the LOU GHASTLY person if we could use panels 4 and 5. If yes, I'll put that up. If no, or he/she fails to respond after a while (I'm thinking 2 weeks), then I'll use the Tanya picture and keep the needs new image template.
Is my Tanya suggestion a suitable replacement for current Anime and Manga sub-page image? I think the current image is fine. But my suggestion may or may not be better.