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Anime Characters (Anime)
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Canadian Content > Arts: Animation: Anime: Characters:
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Information: Sites dedicated to characters from multiple anime titles.
Anime is Japanese animation, often characterized by stylized colorful images depicting vibrant characters in a variety of different settings and storylines, aimed at a variety of different audiences. Anime is influenced by the drawing style of manga, or Japanese comics.
Anime features a wide variety of genres and unique artistic styles which varies from artist to artist. It can have as many genres as live action cinema, including adventure, science fiction, children's stories, romance, medieval fantasy, erotica (hentai), occult/horror, action. Most anime includes a variety of thematic elements. For example, it is not uncommon for strongly action-themed anime to involve humor, romance, and even poignant social commentary, and romance-themed anime may involve a strong action element.
Anime is often an explicitly commercial art form; producers and marketers aim for very specific audiences, with focused categories for shōnen (boys) and shōjo (girls) genres, as well as for teenagers and adults.
Osamu Tezuka adapted and simplified many Disney animation precepts to reduce the budget and number of frames. This was intended to be a temporary measure to allow him to produce one episode every week with inexperienced animation staff. Anime studios have since perfected techniques to draw as little new animation as possible, using scrolling or repeating backgrounds, still shots of characters sliding across the screen, and dialogue which involves only animating the mouths while the rest of the screen remains absolutely still, a technique not wholly unfamiliar to Western animation. The overall effect of these techniques?reduced frame rate, many still shots, scrolling backgrounds?has led some critics to accuse anime of choppiness or poor quality in general.
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Anime Characters Sites:
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Angels Have Wings of White
Angels Have Wings of White: Shrine to Van Fanel of The Vision of Escaflowne and Heero Yuy of Gundam Wing. Images, profiles, and links. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/glaciusequus/atpda/angelistenent.html |
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Blonde Angel
Blonde Angel: Information about Wedding Peach's Kazuya Yanagiba and Magic Knight Rayearth's Eagle Vision. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/eagleyanagiba/ |
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Neko Central
Neko Central: Image galleries, descriptions, information, and media on cats from different series. (Anime Characters)
http://www.angelfire.com/nv/neko/ |
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Nini's Bishonen Dungeon
Nini's Bishonen Dungeon: Shrines to Vega, Taiki, Dilandau, and Tiger Eye, as well as fan art, adoptions, and links. (Anime Characters)
http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/ninisbishonen/ |
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Site for Liz's Anime Favorites
Site for Liz's Anime Favorites: Shrines to Duo, Ryoko, Shampoo, Katy the Kitty, Lady Une, Mimete, Junjun, Parapara, and Sailor Saturn with images, profiles, and links. (Anime Characters)
http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/bestanimecharacters/ |
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The Villain Palace
The Villain Palace: Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Evangelion, Mega Man, Gundam Wing, and Transformers villain profiles and images. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/gregyboy85/ |
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Mre-Mre Land
Mre-Mre Land: Lists of the best and worst characters, plus a list of the cutest anime animals. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/5844/index.html |
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Akane's Temples
Akane's Temples: Shrines to Akane, Sailor Mercury, Amelia, Aeka, Yui Hongo, Afura Mann, Skuld, Merle, Fuu, Zelgadiss, and other characters. (Anime Characters)
http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/akane5127/ |
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Anime Freak
Anime Freak: Profiles and images of bishounen. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/animehenshu |
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Nekomimi Box
Nekomimi Box: Devoted to catgirls in anime. Character profiles and image galleries. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/neko_musuko2001/index.html |
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And the Meek Shall Inherit the Heart
And the Meek Shall Inherit the Heart: Shrine to overlooked female characters. Profiles, images, visitors picks, and contact information. (Anime Characters)
http://mousygirl.nekomusume.net/ |
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Mega Bishounen
Mega Bishounen: Images and profiles of favorite male characters. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/sushilli/ |
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Top Ten Anime Chicks
Top Ten Anime Chicks: Images of the author's favorite female characters. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/anime_topten/ |
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Chibi Hime's Magic Shoppe 2
Chibi Hime's Magic Shoppe 2: Shrines to Escaflowne's Dilandau, Final Fantasy's Vincent, SoulTaker's Kyousuke, and Hsi Wu from Jackie Chan Adventures. Includes images, information, and fan fiction. (Anime Characters)
http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/magicshoppe2/ |
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AniMen.net
AniMen.net: Features men from Fushigi Yuugi, Sailor Moon, Escaflowne, Rayearth, Gundam Wing, Bubblegum Crisis/AD Police, Tenchi Muyo, Utena, and Ayashi no Ceres. Profiles, commentary, polls, fan fiction, images, downloads, and links. (Anime Characters)
http://www.geocities.com/blitzfeld/ |
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Isabelle's Temple of Bishonen
Isabelle's Temple of Bishonen: Galleries from Gundam Wing, CLAMP, Fushigi Yuugi, Yukiru Sugisaki, and other series. Also adoptions and links. (Anime Characters)
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/isabelle/entrance.htm |
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Bishounen: A Few Good Men
Bishounen: A Few Good Men: Profiles, series information, games, and yaoi images and fan fiction. (Anime Characters)
http://www.flusteredcookie.per.sg/ |
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Azure Valley
Azure Valley: Dedicated to anthropomorphic characters. Fan art, images, profiles, and links. (Anime Characters)
http://valleyofazure.tripod.com/ |
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