Gotta love the gratuitous underboob and butt shot in the last picture.
Just realized I don't have a GG related figure. I remember coming across an I-No at a local comic book shop, but I hate that bitch. Trying to get Dizzy's Good Ending would make anyone hate I-No.
The thing that creeps me most out about this thing is how they've effectively given her the body of a 20-year-old (okay, a 20-year-old half-cyborg monster with huge tits, but whatever)...and the face of a 6-year-old.
Seriously, Japan. How the hell is that attractive? I just don't get it. I honestly don't.
@Archaotic: I'd say that's more like the face of a 12-year-old, but meh. Subjective Interpretation is Subjective.
I would imagine that making her look more mature would mean giving her narrow-eyes and a bigger nose, which in my opinion would just make her look Morrigan-caliber slutty. I prefer cuties over sluts.
At least according to the story, she is actually about 6 years old or something. She was an infant only 3 years before the events of Guilty Gear X.
@the7k: Right. Dizzy's supposed to look like a fully mature adult though, that's half the point of her character.
Giving her a generic "anime little girl" face is just...bleh. It's just creepy. They did the same thing with Terra in Dissidia; her initial character art looked one way, then about two weeks before release they "redrew" her to give her a fatter, rounder, younger-looking face. Or the way they redesigned Rena in the PSP version of Star Ocean 2 to make her look about 10 compared to the obvious 17 she looked like in the original game. Which made the love story between her and Claude INCREDIBLY awkward.
I just don't see what the point is of this trend to "youngify" every girl in Japanese gaming. Next we're gonna see Lightning in the final version of FFXIII with GIANT dishplate eyes.
@BubbleF**kingBuddy: I have seen...things...the likes of which mortal men fear to dream. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
@Archaotic: I dunno, I'm looking at the GGX artbook right now, and I'm not seeing anything that is glaringly different from the original art.
She does look younger, but honestly, every piece of official art draws her completely different. In one she looks like she came right out of a harem anime, ([creativeuncut.com]) and in another she looks like she'd fit right into an American comic book. ([creativeuncut.com]). In one pic she looks like a young woman ([creativeuncut.com]), and in another she looks like she's significantly older ([creativeuncut.com]).
There really is no consistency in Guilty Gear's artstyle. I remember this being an issue with Bridget. Bridget looks convincingly like a girl in most art ([creativeuncut.com]), but then that profile picture makes the "Bridget is a dude" deal a whole lot more believable ([creativeuncut.com]).
@Liptons: Yeah, I guess I should have realized that this is totally a look becoming of a sophisticated lady.
It's not like I hate Morrigan - she's got a great character design and it totally fits her nature (a nature which involves jumping the bones of anything roughly humanoid to keep on living). I'm just not a huge fan of 'sexpot' characters.
@the7k: Yeah, I was going by her profile art from GGXX, since that's the one shown most often. In that, she looks like she's in her early 20s, which is essentially what the story says she's supposed to look like.
The figure just takes her normal body and plops an "anime girl" head on top of it, which at least to me looks REALLY out of place. But whatever, no use getting into an argument over something silly like this, right? I should really be in bed anyway.
@Archaotic: Believe it or not, we americans do the same thing. We make certain unmentionable body parts of females to look like younger. And women use make up and other things to help exaggerate eyes and hide other things to make them look younger. What I see with the 12 year old face anime eyes and 20 year old body is them just trying to make her face look cute and innocent. They are not trying to make her look 12 because of some sick obssesion of 12 year olds. I hate when people constently bag on a country and their culture for one thing when we ourselves do the same or similar.
EDIT: I'd also like to add that I have seen many Japanese girls who do in fact look way younger in the face.
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@PoweredByHentai: Preachin' to the choir. I know it's from Cross Edge, but it is also one of the most recent versions of Morrigan, considering Capcom flat out refuses to acknowledge Darkstalkers.
She looks equally "Red-Light District" in Namco X Capcom, if that's any consolation.
Oh Queens Blade... you know no shame :3 What do expect from a series (the anime in particular) where the main character pees on herself with graphic detail when she gets pummeled. Exploding breasts, etc...
In the development studio
Game Director: BIG! MAKE EM BIG! NOW NOW NOW NOW
Concept Artists: Holy Shit! Fine Fine, Okay we will chill!
Game Director: BIGGER! THAT TOOOOO SMALL!
Concept Artists: Geex, How's this?
Game Director: Licks it and Froths from mouth.
I tried to struggle through the Queen's Blade series just for Ryoka Yuzuki. The void left by Utawarerumono Radio's disappearance was too great. It wasn't as great as the damage to my soul caused by trying to watch an anime based on Queen's Blade, though. I made it to episode 4.
On a side note, Rana needs to let go of mommy for bit so she can go get her clothes systematically torn off.
@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: I finished episode 1 and though I'm not above watching bad anime and I have the whole series already... I just can't bring myself to return to it so easily. It's going to take effort to sit through this one :(
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Suprisingly, cosplay porn is one of the few things I don't have (and I have stuff like petrodactyl porn).
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[www.penny-arcade.com]
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Your choice.
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Captain Ackbar says hi.
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Respect the rank fucko!
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Just realized I don't have a GG related figure. I remember coming across an I-No at a local comic book shop, but I hate that bitch. Trying to get Dizzy's Good Ending would make anyone hate I-No.
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Seriously, Japan. How the hell is that attractive? I just don't get it. I honestly don't.
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I would imagine that making her look more mature would mean giving her narrow-eyes and a bigger nose, which in my opinion would just make her look Morrigan-caliber slutty. I prefer cuties over sluts.
At least according to the story, she is actually about 6 years old or something. She was an infant only 3 years before the events of Guilty Gear X.
08/27/09
Giving her a generic "anime little girl" face is just...bleh. It's just creepy. They did the same thing with Terra in Dissidia; her initial character art looked one way, then about two weeks before release they "redrew" her to give her a fatter, rounder, younger-looking face. Or the way they redesigned Rena in the PSP version of Star Ocean 2 to make her look about 10 compared to the obvious 17 she looked like in the original game. Which made the love story between her and Claude INCREDIBLY awkward.
I just don't see what the point is of this trend to "youngify" every girl in Japanese gaming. Next we're gonna see Lightning in the final version of FFXIII with GIANT dishplate eyes.
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Kill it with fire.
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@Archaotic: I dunno, I'm looking at the GGX artbook right now, and I'm not seeing anything that is glaringly different from the original art.
She does look younger, but honestly, every piece of official art draws her completely different. In one she looks like she came right out of a harem anime, ([creativeuncut.com]) and in another she looks like she'd fit right into an American comic book. ([creativeuncut.com]). In one pic she looks like a young woman ([creativeuncut.com]), and in another she looks like she's significantly older ([creativeuncut.com]).
There really is no consistency in Guilty Gear's artstyle. I remember this being an issue with Bridget. Bridget looks convincingly like a girl in most art ([creativeuncut.com]), but then that profile picture makes the "Bridget is a dude" deal a whole lot more believable ([creativeuncut.com]).
@Liptons: Yeah, I guess I should have realized that this is totally a look becoming of a sophisticated lady.
It's not like I hate Morrigan - she's got a great character design and it totally fits her nature (a nature which involves jumping the bones of anything roughly humanoid to keep on living). I'm just not a huge fan of 'sexpot' characters.
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The figure just takes her normal body and plops an "anime girl" head on top of it, which at least to me looks REALLY out of place. But whatever, no use getting into an argument over something silly like this, right? I should really be in bed anyway.
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EDIT: I'd also like to add that I have seen many Japanese girls who do in fact look way younger in the face.
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[nisamerica.com]
Click on the Characters tab and load up Morrigan's profile. It's the exact same image.
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She looks equally "Red-Light District" in Namco X Capcom, if that's any consolation.
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Game Director: BIG! MAKE EM BIG! NOW NOW NOW NOW
Concept Artists: Holy Shit! Fine Fine, Okay we will chill!
Game Director: BIGGER! THAT TOOOOO SMALL!
Concept Artists: Geex, How's this?
Game Director: Licks it and Froths from mouth.
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On a side note, Rana needs to let go of mommy for bit so she can go get her clothes systematically torn off.
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