【Anime Miscellaneous】About Character Design:
This issue is also a popular "Japanese netizen spit". I believe that friends who watch animation or play text adventure games earlier must have noticed the bulge in the character's hair. This was once a very popular character hairstyle design style, and the japanese netizens' questions about this hairstyle attracted a large number of onlookers, many of whom gave more reasonable explanations.
First of all, for what this structure should be called, there is a universally recognized word "intake", which translates into Chinese as "inhale" or "intake". It is not difficult to understand the name of the word, the symmetrical design of the left and right that protrudes from the smooth surface, like the suction port of a fighter jet or some sports car.
The emergence and popularity of "intake" is believed to be in the 1990s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, it was a relatively common design. Very representative characters are Sakura Konomoto in Magical Girl Sakura, sister Fujibayashi in CLANNAD, and most of the female characters in Muv-Luv Alternative.
From the picture above, which shows the evolution of the anime personality, we can also see some representative characters of the 90s, "Charis", "Charis", "Magical Girl Sakura" is a typical "air intake" style hairstyle.
The origin of this design is not available, but according to the analysis of netizens, the original hairstyle was fixed with a hair band, and later the hair band was omitted to only leave the air intake. In addition, after comparing manga, I think this may be a common practice of simplifying the human design, but it has been retained as a style after the change of times.
Some netizens are worried that this obvious "flashy" looking fake hairstyle will disappear in future animations. This worry is not unreasonable, and the new design adopted in many new works of animation has completely smoothed out the bulge on the character's head and replaced it with the current popular refreshing style.
However, in fact, "intake" has become a symbol representing "retro" in the process of circulation. Oshii Mori's "Vampire Love" deliberately uses this hairstyle to add a retro feeling to the whole work. In addition, in the virtual anchor, mobile game and other areas where many characters need to highlight their personal characteristics, this retro-style hairstyle is also suitable for the appearance of the charm point as a character to impress the audience.
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