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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4148433" data-attributes="member: 32536">What the heck is up with all the Cloud bashing in this thread? He is a really good and interesting character, and is hardly annoying. He suffered some pretty terrible adaptation decay in the games he has appeared in other than FF7 itself, but other than that he is pretty consistently seen as one of the most popular characters in the entire Final Fantasy series, for pretty good reason.But is it just me or is it odd that someone makes a comparison to Cloud every single time we have an "is it anime?" thread here in ENWorld, even though Cloud has never appeared in an anime, and is never used as an example of a "typical anime character" anywhere but on these boards?Anyways, other than maybe the large sword (which is arguably more videogame influence than anime influence), I don't see much at all in this picture that makes it look like anime. It just looks like typical WAR to me, and looks very little like anime.People are forgetting the number 1 rule of anime art: girls always are designed to look cute and/or sexy. No matter what other features and traits a female character may have, they are always designed to look very attractive. The only exceptions tend to be elderly women. Girls are never designed to look manly except in truly bizarre parody like Project A-Ko, and any gender ambiguity involves men who look like beautiful women. Since this image involves a tough-looking, scarred woman who some say looks manly, it is a severe contradiction of a very basic element of anime style.I am still waiting for a good anime-style image to appear in D&D. I think I will celebrate that day, but it hasn't happened yet. Art isn't anime because it was drawn by WAR and you don't like it.</blockquote>

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