Yes, this first time I read it I was rather disappointed, which is why I was surprised, when I re-read it last summer, how much I liked it all of a sudden. I don't know if it was just too different and almost non-Discworldy the first time, or if, just coming off Night Watch, it was a little bit of a let-down, or (according to Jasper Fforde's theory) I just read it during the Bookies, but it was definitely my least favourite at the time. Anyway, I like it now, and it has such potential for doodling away at designs!
Sure, anime lends itself to the androgynous look – BECAUSE EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME. Honestly I don't know what they'd do if they set an anime show at a nudist colony on chemotherapy (you'd be able to tell which gender people were, but beyond that...). AND anime doesn't leave much room for expressions and acting which I love ever so much. So, anime = out. I'd rather throw myself at the brick wall of interesting and effective featurey design than just take the easy way out.
As for the androgyny that may or may not be achieved with my current designs, I'm pleased to hear you think they're too male. They do end up fooling everyone but a select few, so they can't be too girly. And if you look at ordinary girls, not movie stars or comic book girls or teenyboppers at the mall who want to be Britney Spears, there's a tremendous variety of facial features, and often 'femininity' is achieved more by affectation than genetics, especially when comparing young women to adolescent men.
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Sure, anime lends itself to the androgynous look – BECAUSE EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME. Honestly I don't know what they'd do if they set an anime show at a nudist colony on chemotherapy (you'd be able to tell which gender people were, but beyond that...). AND anime doesn't leave much room for expressions and acting which I love ever so much. So, anime = out. I'd rather throw myself at the brick wall of interesting and effective featurey design than just take the easy way out.
As for the androgyny that may or may not be achieved with my current designs, I'm pleased to hear you think they're too male. They do end up fooling everyone but a select few, so they can't be too girly. And if you look at ordinary girls, not movie stars or comic book girls or teenyboppers at the mall who want to be Britney Spears, there's a tremendous variety of facial features, and often 'femininity' is achieved more by affectation than genetics, especially when comparing young women to adolescent men.