Find the Anime Challenge

[Lonely Tylenol]

If you look at the first piece in Wizardru's post you can see a set of armor.

But if you look at either the FMA pic, or the Warforged, even if you knew nothing about either thing, you can still tell the idea is that the armor itself is alive.

For the warforged, yes. For the FMA guy? No. It looks like a guy wearing armour. Perhaps even an empty suit put together on a stand. The warforged are usually very clearly made of solid stuff, with no room for a human to fit inside (scale issues aside). They also tend to have very expressive heads and bodies, which helps to carry the impression that they're alive.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Still waiting for a merge function

Why not?

Do we expect them to have a vested interest in whether or not anime influences exist in D&D?

Maybe. If you look for something, you tend to find it.

Do we expect them to have a vested interest in Hussar's sig?

Nope.

Do we expect them to NOT be knowledgeable about anime?

Nope.

Two out of three ain't bad.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Posture, not pose.

Alphonse and all the other warforged, are squattish, with a very similar ratio between torso, arms, shoulders and legs. No human being could wear the armor that is Alphonse's body and still have human-like proportions. The proportions are quite similar in the warforged, who are also portrayed as squattish. Specially when the 'forged in question has Adamantine Body.

It's been asked "how could they be different". In more ways than they could be similar. From the Cylons to C3PO, from Battle Chaser's Calibretto to Iron Kingdom's war golems, there are litterally countless ways that a "sentient suit of armor" could be made different from the 'forged or Alphonse.

Now that you mention it, the regular warforged look much more like C3PO than they do like that FMA guy.

 

[Nifft]

Maybe. If you look for something, you tend to find it.

From now on I'm doomed to find evidence for this, aren't I?

Meme'd, -- N

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

From now on I'm doomed to find evidence for this, aren't I?

Very good, Grasshopper. You get a cookie.

 

[Lackhand]

Fnord.

 

[Hussar]

Now that you mention it, the regular warforged look much more like C3PO than they do like that FMA guy.

I'm glad someone else said this. I thought of that last night and figured I'd post it here.

/edit - did a bit of extra work.

Between the three pics, the warforged is IMO, far closer to 3PO than to FMA. If 3PO had a slightly smaller head and was a bit more buff, he'd be the warforged almost exactly.

 

[BASHMAN]

I found that amusing too... Alphonse from FMA is not a robot. He is a hollow suit of ordinary armor being animated by a bound human soul. He is nothing like a warforged. I don't even see a reasonable similarity in appearance.

Yeah, i know, these comparisons between Full Metal Alchemist and warforged are ridiculous. If you zoom in to an image, you will see Alphonse's jaw is attached by square rivets, whereas the rivets of a warforged are clearly round. Also, Alphonse has a feather/plume/ribbon thing coming out of his head-- and I don't see ANY warforged artwork where they put on any such decoration.

As for me, I am tempted to start a thread called "Don't find the anime challenge". If people win, I will tattoo the pictures onto my forehead. All they have to do is get me to admit that any three images they post are anime. Of course, since I am the one who gets to decide if it is anime or not, it is unlikely that I will be needing to visit the tatoo parlor anytime soon...

 

[Geron Raveneye]

I don't know about the rest, but that warforged could easily appear in a Studio Ghibli movie the way it is done.

 

[The Merciful]

If you can't see the similarities in the head shape, head size, eye depiction, shoulder plates, knees, gauntlets and posture, then I guess continuing with this argument is moot.

When a manga tries to represent a real world item like a Sukhoi fighter jet, its shape is the shape of a real Sukhoi, yet I'll likely know it is manga due how it is draw. It is not the content of the images that matters, but the style of the art that is used to represent the content. The warforged images you posted represent the warforged in very un-manga style in my eyes.