J's Chimes: Design Exhaustions

By Djenar Siti

Recently, anime character designs are seriously running out of originality and personality. Take for example the atittude and character for Louis in Zero No Tsukaima, Shana from Shakugan No Shana and Toradora's Taiga. Lots of mimics and similarities starts appearing even in this season's anime from K-On! to Sora No Woto. Whether its infringement and copyright no one will ever know as characters now closely resembles one another now. I guess you'd only have a limited 101 character designs format and thus creating a truly unique type of character in animes are truly difficult now...