A bit about manga, phillestines and art

Those who claim that the Japanese manga art direction is not real art, lazy and what not are filthy pillestines. Anyone that has ever dabbled in comics and have had proper art education, knows how much effort it takes. In order to draw a comic several things is needed.
Such as a story, or some sort of joke. These are not very easy and only a few people can keep it up.

The next step is interesting characters, whom can play of each other. Or just borrow the generic japanese stereotypes. You know red hair for temper, while blue hair is cold, emotionless and chill.

Then the character needs an unique look, everything from eyes, to hair, color, clothes and accessories is important. Hell eve  school uniforms are somewhat customized in manga and anime. But school related everything, or sport sure is a time saver. Besides they say write what you know. Probably why almost all anime schools look practically identical.

Have you gotten past the previous steps? Excellent.

First the story board has to be sketched out, unless it's two people just standing still and pretty much everything is just clever, or not so clever dialogue. The newspaper approach is prettymuch just copy paste and requires carry little actuall effort to do. Yes a story needs to flow, and once the story board has been jotted down, the next step starts.

Planning the panel layout and sketching all the detail into the panels, while also keeping dialogue in mind.

Then comes inking, be it digital or traditional. An arcane skill that takes decades to master and a steady hand to apply.

By now I forgot to actually make sure the characters look consistent and anatomically correct in every single frame.

Did I mention coloring, that is fairly optional. Most japanese artist use tones most cases, instead of crosshatching, or a mix of both. Yet another skill to take into consideration.

Yes, making any kind of comic, regardless of style and country is a time consuming process. Anyhow, back to my main point of this random ramblig rant.  There exist an artistic elite out there, one which loathe the Japanese art style most of us prefer to as anime, or manga. Words which means cartoons and comic in Japanese. Everything can and will be labeled, then put in nice boxes after all.

The biggest gripe these art critics have from the general look of things is the unrealistic faces. Yes most manga faces is a highly stylized take on a human boxing. Let's face it, many popular characters from the east are  drawn with concave eyes. Lenses that somehow bends inwards. Which opens up another can of worms. Since I have no idea how these creatures sees the world. If they can se anything at all that is. The hair is also a dead ringer and breaks the rules of reality, due to the practicality of keeping it consistent and stylish.

Once a person gets past the face, they will hopefully notice that practically every professional artist drawing manage and animating anime, has studied human anatomy and mostly follows the traditional rules. Yes, practically every anime human is anatomically correct and is mostly kept consistent throughout the story. Boobs is the exception to the rules though, but even those can be sensible at times. It's quite impressive that most artist does this every day and somehow makes around thirteen pages every week. I'm proud if I can do one each week, and even then I want to burn the paper. So as far as Asian artist go, they are exceptionally skilled at what they do, more than most art teachers and critics are.

Now, if the idea is to draw still art and a kid is preoccupy drawing badly made Yaoi ar the back of the classroom. Getting g angry and demeaning is not the way to go. Encouragement works better, along with positive criticism. Put it this way,a skilled japanese artist will find the best reference pictures possible of whatever that has to be drawn, then replicate it to the best of the artist ability. The trick is to the get the anime obsessed child in the class to be that dedicated at conveying what the person sees, instead of using the unreliable human memory.

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Delete Master Yi

Some hate Teemo, some hate Katarina, I seldom hate, but I'll make an exception for master Yi in League of Legends. A game I have played for a long time and will not likely be stopping anytime soon. Within the game roster there are several hundred to pick from and they come in many shapes and sizes. Some have a high skill dealing, others have none. Like the yellow multi lense helmet wearing sword boy known as Yi. His main skill is to cut things with a sword many times, followed by becoming untargetable, while zipping between 5 enemies. The unremarkable meditation that increases his armor, turns him immobile and returns some health, which often saves him from a certain death. Lastly there is highlander, which makes him run really, really fast, while being immune to slow. 

The problem with this skillset is that it is very boring and requires very little skill to use. Which means that a bad Yi, the most common kind runs into the enemy, spam keys then die. Tower dive at level one, then expire. Run into a team of five, then croak, or a decent one, the type to pentakill my whole team. Yes, Yi will either feast or famine. The really big challenge with this character is that the simple kit makes the player feel empowered, brave and full of suicidal overconfidence. A slow and insidious killer, which only works because no one brought any kind of stun, snare, taunt, or any other ability that actually stops him dead in his tracks. Yes I dare say that from iron to gold, people are too incompetent to actually stop a fast running man from gutting them alive. Especially in a team fight where he can clean everyone's clock by spamming q, until he can use e again, becoming untargetable. Mind you he can still die from indirect damage and damage over time, but this is so rare that it is a moot point. At this point when I play ranked badly, I have to ban either Yi or Yasuo to have a decent chance at victory, due to everyone being to dumb to live. So, yes I hate Yi, and now you know why and because I'm online I have a perfect place to vent, while practicing my writing skills. Feel free to check out my fantasy s story that I update monthly as well. I try my best to edit it, but I still mess up the grammar here and there

Have a good day.

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