Uncanny Valley/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* The titular monsters in ''[[Parasyte]]'', while usually looking human, never blink and have very limited understanding of facial/emotional subtleties that place them quite firmly in this trope. They also are drawn with slightly elongated eyes with sharply pointed ends that give their faces a distinctly inhuman aspect. Even scarier is that near the end, when police start using these attributes to recognize and kill the parasites, they occasionally kill ordinary (but crazy) humans by mistake.

** The {{spoiler|protagonist}} also slowly starts slipping into this as time goes by.

* A few things in ''[[Ghost Hound]]'' fall squarely into this, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKiEjUj9tOA&feature=related like the thing fifteen seconds into this video.]

* Due to the fact that the admirals in ''[[One Piece]]'' are based off of famous Japanese actors this can happen. While the first admiral shown, Aokiji does look like a normal member, Kizaru is slightly more realistic, and Akainu doesn't even look like his a member of the show, looking exactly like the actor.

* Invoked for Kazuo Kiriyama in ''[[Battle Royale]]''. He was deliberately drawn with no reflection in his eyes, and while barely noticeable, it still manages to give his face a look beyond creepy.

* Probably unintentional, but the Deer God/Forest God in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' seriously invokes this trope. A deer with vaguely mask-like human face instead of normal deer-head, and a veritable bush of horns growing on it. And from side he looks like a deer with front half of its head cut off.

* Even though Sai from ''[[Naruto]]'' is actually a human, he has the inhuman feel of a robot, mostly because he's effectively [[The Stoic|emotionless]]. His vampire tan doesn't exactly help.

** The {{spoiler|Six Paths of Pain}} are merely corpse puppets, controlled by {{spoiler|Nagato}}. When they fight, all of them, except {{spoiler|Deva Path, Nagato's go-to body, and the corpse of Yahiko,}} have blank, expressionless faces, usually. The anime goes further and makes them incredibly pale.

* Actually referenced offhandedly in ''[[The World God Only Knows]]''. One ''unique'' girl is trying to make a 'human' out of a remote controlled box, but people laugh at it. Keima draws a little smiley face on it and adds a cute note, and suddenly people are helping out. The girl decides to put a mannequin head on it to make it even more human... and it creeps people out to see a box with a human head on top roll through the hallway.

* Used as a plot point in ''[[The Kindaichi Case Files]]'' mystery "House of Wax": {{spoiler|The killer intentionally makes wax statues of his guests that are fantastically detailed, but look a little... off. This is so that during a series of crimes when it appears that the wax figures are being set up to resemble the scenes of people who will be found murdered, the murderer can pose as a statue using a mask, and no one will examine it too closely since it so clearly looks inhuman.}}

** {{spoiler|Apocryphos... just frickin apocryphos}}

* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] has a few examples. Ryou Bakura, and the way that smile [[Stepford Smiler|never seems to leave his face, even when terrible things happen]]. And Dark Yugi, early in the manga, somehow managed to make [[Narm|not having a nose]] ''terrifying.''

 

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