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why animanga (face claims aside) written Jan 25, 2024 22:16:23 GMT via mobile
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as i got older i forgot, but it’s still true to me to this day. The reason i got into animanga rp ans why i prefer it is bc i like to visualize stories with anime animation and music. AMV’s were a pretty big part of my childhood and i always found myself “playing” stories in my head as if they were an anime opening. I realized i still do this to this day and find myself much more invested in it. There’s been talk in another thread about how animanga rp is a mix of writing, graphics and coding. IA with that while still believing writing is the most important aspect…. But also, i have to admit that rp in a way is like a mixed media for me, with how i consume it and approach it. It’s why i love making dev threads too. I love just putting things together to make the animated world in my head about my characters (not even just on rping but writing in general.)

so that’s why animanga will always be in my blood. When people say graphics, it can seem shallow, but i guess i realized that we’re all just different in our creative process. I’ve always been embarassed that i cant just sit down and focus writing. I need to “vibe” to get into it and i think that’s fine! We all embrace creativity and imagination differently

So yeah! I wanna see why others are into animanga rp ‘sides the whole faceclaim arguement.

Edit: this my immortal digimon frontier amv probably the biggest impact when i was a kid. Was constantly bawlling at the end 💀

Edit2: actually i just rememvered there was this channel that played amvs and my sister and i would just wait for them to play our favorite amvs lmao. One is this vision of escaflowne one and that ff10 amv with “cause im dreaming of u tonight”
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why animanga (face claims aside) written Feb 5, 2024 22:35:42 GMT
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ok hopefully this isn't necroposting or w/e you call it bc this is kinda an interesting question to me.

i say that bc i actually started out with warrior cats as like my first ever official roleplay debut on proboards, then i ventured onto rl fcs. just a few years later as i've grown up, i tried out animanga and since then i've only been doing animanga 90% of the time.

(what i'm about to say is from my experience and my experience only)

being that i've been in both communities for the longest and while both are totes awesome and candid for the most part, i'd say with animanga i feel like i can relate more with members within the community. at least, with the sites i've been on that are animanga. we have similar interests in the games and anime we consume from the sites i was on and i was able to kind of be myself if that makes any sense?? don't get me wrong, the rl sites i was on were super friendly and pleasant to be around, but i have noticed the way in how they banter was different than compared to animanga. animanga isn't afraid to get a little silly and obnoxious whereas rl is about the same in silliness but it's more mellow. nothing wrong with it, ofc, but it was like i had to tip toe around so i don't make anyone uncomfy and whatnot, which is not what we do in this household :triumph:

so ya, tldr the communities of rl that i've been in are like close family to me whereas communities of animanga that i've been in are like best friends you've knew since kindergarten and continue to jam out and vibe for over a decade, never losing any contact.
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why animanga (face claims aside) written Feb 5, 2024 23:13:24 GMT
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i think the genres that are more common in the 'animanga' scene interest me a lot more than 'real life' communities. especially when it comes to fandom content. since we put our characters in illustrated lenses, it makes it easier for me to vibe with fantasy and sensitive topics as it is so far detached from reality. i can definitely relate with the whole... creating animated scenes / worlds in my head 24/7. as well as finding it easier to make friends as we tend to share very similar interests (ie. being gamers and/or liking anime to being with).

i've been in the community for a long time regardless so there is a semblance of comfort to it too. also, i have never quite stepped into the 'real life' community. so i can't speak too much on how much i'd like it in that crowd.
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why animanga (face claims aside) written Feb 6, 2024 17:00:57 GMT
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Feb 5, 2024 22:35:42 GMT said:
ok hopefully this isn't necroposting or w/e you call it bc this is kinda an interesting question to me.


People that complain about necro posts are pedants and deserve to be made fun of. Enjoy the internet without hesitation and don’t worry about the made up etiquette people on reddit use to snob at people. Admis/mods can archive topics that aren’t relevant.
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why animanga (face claims aside) written May 13, 2024 19:46:59 GMT
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for me, even if the setting is more slice of life oriented, when the characters/setting is artwork, it's just more vibrant and more alive for me? bc even if the plot is rl, there's just a little fun over-exaggeration that comes with the anime/video game style that you just don't see in rl face sites. plus the artwork is just way more fun to look at!
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why animanga (face claims aside) written May 13, 2024 20:02:11 GMT
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Part of it is the immersion for me— real life sites tend to break the immersion for me. Art really does make it or break it for me sometimes, and honestly, I do like to visualize in animanga art style when I'm writing.

The range of genres in animanga is really nice— since I started going back into advertising, a lot of real life sites focus more on small town or big city settings, a little more grounded in reality.

Idk I just really like how campy animanga could be, and all my best experiences have been on animanga sites. Maybe if I gave rl the chance I gave animanga, I'd have a different opinion, but I've started off here, and I'm probably going to end here LMAO
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why animanga (face claims aside) written May 14, 2024 7:40:03 GMT
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Animanga art tends to be more clear on the expressions as I know the artistic “rules” for expressing certain vibes. Meanwhile, I can’t recognise one celebrity from the other unless they have standout features, find eyes unsettling, and have no clue what any of these facial expressions are meant to convey.

I got turned off from real life films when reviews and other people talked about all the undertones I was missing because to me, that’s a blank stare, not a “look that implies the fear of losing a loved one.”

So I naturally also prefer animanga faceclaims, but the writing style and plots in RL FC sites tend to be more my thing.
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why animanga (face claims aside) written May 14, 2024 11:25:29 GMT
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When I started using face claims to role-play people, I found a lot more comfort doing animanga role-play opposed to RL. Honestly, I am glad since it feels like RL has a lot more face claims rules; which makes sense, you are using real people. However, these stricter rules makes it a bit harder for me to want to role-play. Mostly because I do not know my actors, singers, etc. In addition, finding images without knowing how to find nice images in a face claim medium only expedites my struggles with RL. Even plotting wise, animanga makes me feel I can do anime-esk scenes and flex reality a tiny bit.

Overall, it is easier to imagine my characters as the animanga face claim I chose. It makes their movements clearer and more precise in my head as I ponder the manner of which they walk, gesture, express, interact, etc. Animanga face claims also are more accommodating to allow original art depending on site; I know this is not an always, but does happen. These original art characters being in an animanga setting do not class with my immersion; which is why I cannot do mixed. So everything meshes pleasantly and, at least to me, animanga has more freedom and liberties from aesthetic to plotting for me to capitalize on.

I do want to add, I have only ever joined one RL site and I received zilch attention. So I cannot fully attest to plotting and community experiences as a result. All I can really say is my plotting brain operates best with animanga faces.
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why animanga (face claims aside) written May 24, 2024 20:53:56 GMT
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animanga is more willing to suspend disbelief as a general rule; i find rl sites to be more stifling as a result i guess. also i'm aroace, which makes sense i swear but idk how to explain it other than i prefer fiction as being as little to actual human beings as possible.
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why animanga (face claims aside) written Jun 5, 2024 21:31:55 GMT
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I really like both, funny enough. It depends entirely on the aesthetic of the site and the overarching plot.

Sites where I joined RL faceclaims were very minimal in design. They also didn't expect us to use lots of gifs. I actually hate being on RL sites that implicitly emphasize the use of gifs, haha--I tend to select actors and models that are little known and don't have gifs at the ready. For a while, I primarily did RL faceclaims because most of the media I prefer is RL--Asian dramas + films (all over Asia, not just limited to the East Asian sphere either), and Asian models (there's so many!).

Only recently have I returned to animanga, and that is primarily because of the huge influx of high quality faceclaims now available as a result of so many gacha games. There are so many to pick from, and even if you can't find all the fanart you want, sometimes their default art is sufficient. I actually didn't do animanga for a while because I'm just not into animanga anymore, not the trendier ones anyway.

For me personally it's just a matter of what's convenient at the moment, what kinds of stories are currently, popular, and if a site premise interests me. Lately there are more rpgs in the animanga scene and I have enjoyed that more, but I have also joined RL rpgs in the past.

being that i've been in both communities for the longest and while both are totes awesome and candid for the most part, i'd say with animanga i feel like i can relate more with members within the community.


I also agree too! I love the RL communities I've been in but I also connect with animanga communities more easily, even if my interests wind up being very different from other animanga community members.
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