{"id":363,"date":"2009-03-22T21:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T04:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-03-22T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T04:51:25","slug":"zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t stand it anymoar!<\/p>\n

First this<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Then this<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And now, this….!?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Is this some sort of contagious disease?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

MUST all anime contain some sort of zombified character-scene, or is there an anime out there that doesn’t have a single scene that shouts “I’m too lazy to draw in this character’s face, and the deadline’s coming up, so here’s some shaded junk?”<\/p>\n

Oh poo.<\/p>\n

Well, this post is here to examine the effectiveness of the zombie disease, aka the “hair and lighting make extreme shadows on face” effect.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Hey look, you can see the eyes!<\/p><\/div>\n

So this technique is used to express a variety of things…<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Emotional speech time<\/li>\n
  2. “Emotional” speech time<\/li>\n
  3. Seriousness<\/li>\n
  4. Stupidity<\/li>\n
  5. Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first two instances are essentially the same, only sometimes, it’s just boring, stereotypical, \u00a0and “not-so-emotional” (take Index 24 or Akikan! 09 for example!).<\/p>\n

    Zombie faces are a good indicator that the anime just turned serious, seeing as how people normally put their faces down to think\/cry\/hold in anger (really, it’s not just an anime thing!).<\/p>\n

    Zombie faces are also a good indicator of stupidity.<\/p>\n

    \"\"
    \nAs you can see, Kuro and Keita’s stupidity results in zombie faces galore!<\/p>\n

    Wait, hold on… they don’t even have faces here<\/strong> in the first place!<\/p>\n

    This must be… ZOMBIE FACE V.2!!<\/p>\n

    Indeed, there are several other instances of this event occurring, yet…
    \n\"\"
    \nTHE FULL-ZOMBIE SYNDROME!<\/p>\n

    This occurs when two Zombie Face V.2 characters combine to form one of the background extras that don’t matter… and in this character’s uselessness, full blown zombification occurs!<\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n

    …<\/p>\n

    And going back to the original Zombie face premise, blacked-out faces are good for… well, not much.<\/p>\n

    They don’t really do much except say “this is an important scene” or “you should take this scene seriously” or “screw this show, taste my Sharpie!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I can’t stand it anymoar! First this… Then this… And now, this….!? Is this some sort of contagious disease?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2zM4X-zombies","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}