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<blockquote data-quote="Mythmere1" data-source="post: 3811518" data-attributes="member: 26563">When I complain about the 3e art being &quot;anime,&quot; I mean that the weapons are too big and silly, that the action poses are too extreme, and that body proportions are way out of the human norm.&nbsp; The argument that the action poses in American comics are also too extreme, and that this is therefore not technically an influence of &quot;anime&quot; leaves me with eyes rolled slightly heavenward ... although I understand and sympathize with what's being said.My real objection, properly phrased, is that the art derives from comic book styles, some inherent to all superhero comic books, some a recent development in comic books.&nbsp; That's definitely a broader category than anime, but I haven't seen a shorthand description for &quot;any exaggerated superhero pose,&quot; &quot;morphology of more than, say 1:8 head-to-body ratio,&quot; &quot;more than a certain number of weapons with wild, spiny flanges, grooves and holes,&quot; &quot;any weapons too large/heavy to be used by the critter/person using it if such person had human muscle cell structure - with a little wiggle room for some monsters, but not much,&quot; &quot;people almost as wide as they are tall,&quot; etc. It's easier to say &quot;anime&quot; than to trot out all that - even though I realize it's unfair to the anime genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mythmere1, post: 3811518, member: 26563"] When I complain about the 3e art being "anime," I mean that the weapons are too big and silly, that the action poses are too extreme, and that body proportions are way out of the human norm. The argument that the action poses in American comics are also too extreme, and that this is therefore not technically an influence of "anime" leaves me with eyes rolled slightly heavenward ... although I understand and sympathize with what's being said. My real objection, properly phrased, is that the art derives from comic book styles, some inherent to all superhero comic books, some a recent development in comic books. That's definitely a broader category than anime, but I haven't seen a shorthand description for "any exaggerated superhero pose," "morphology of more than, say 1:8 head-to-body ratio," "more than a [U]certain number of[/U] weapons with wild, spiny flanges, grooves and holes," "[U]any[/U] weapons too large/heavy to be used by the critter/person using it if such person had human muscle cell structure - with a little wiggle room for some monsters, but not much," "people almost as wide as they are tall," etc. It's easier to say "anime" than to trot out all that - even though I realize it's unfair to the anime genre. [/QUOTE]

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