Anime Clothes
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I don't know about you guys but some of the clothing designs that the mangaka and the like create actually look very interesting. Why aren't they in the fashion business or something. I'm not talking about the same one outfit characters like... NARUTO but more along the lines of slice of life characters. The clothes look reasonably good to wear so why not actually give them life? Even the school uniform sort of look. I was watching Working!(!) and the outfits that the cast has when they aren't in the cafe seem to attract my eye like Mahiru's and Kotori's, but I'm not a girl or a cross-dresser so that wouldn't really work for me. I guess it would be more directed to girls as they get to wear entertaining things.
However it doesn't have to be limited to that, there could be clothes like Naruto or Ash/Satoshi but then people would be walking around wearing the same thing and that's a bit weird. However for some of the more un-popura stuff like ... I'm drawing a blank. Maybe Clannad and Fate/Stay Night.
I guess I'm tried of the same old boring thing. I want something more exotic.
However it doesn't have to be limited to that, there could be clothes like Naruto or Ash/Satoshi but then people would be walking around wearing the same thing and that's a bit weird. However for some of the more un-popura stuff like ... I'm drawing a blank. Maybe Clannad and Fate/Stay Night.
I guess I'm tried of the same old boring thing. I want something more exotic.
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haha i know what you mean! Slice of life animes/mangas tend to have some pretty cool outfits. Maybe it's just me, but I find here in the States people tend to settle for a simple T-shirt and shorts/pants (which is perfectly fine). However I remember when i was in Bangkok that fashion was pretty huge (and incredibly expensive). lol I remember some of the hairstyles there being straight out of animes.
Back on topic though, I think it would be kinda cool to see something from the "Clannad Collection" or something like that. All I have to say is make it cheap. I find it ridiculous that I would pay somebody $40 for a freaking T-shirt from Abercrombie, when I can get the same shirt for like $10 at Wal-Mart or something like that minus the stupid Abercrombie logo on it.
Back on topic though, I think it would be kinda cool to see something from the "Clannad Collection" or something like that. All I have to say is make it cheap. I find it ridiculous that I would pay somebody $40 for a freaking T-shirt from Abercrombie, when I can get the same shirt for like $10 at Wal-Mart or something like that minus the stupid Abercrombie logo on it.
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Anime clothing obey the rule of cool, not physics.
From tvtropes, "impossibly cool clothes":
Animated characters can often be found wearing clothing that just looks too good to be real. This can be proven by the occasional attempt made to reproduce these clothes by the costume teams for live action adaptations or by enthusiastic fans. Sometimes this is because of structural elements that flout or ignore real-world physical laws, or because the outfit in question requires an inhumanly perfect (or simply inhuman) body underneath it, or because real-world materials just don't look as good as ink and paint.
Just go watch cosplayers cosplaying a slice of life anime like Lucky Star or Azumanga Daioh. Their costumes look unnatural compared to an actual photo of a japanese student. They don't look like students. They look like adults in gaudy costumes, even the pretty/good cosplayers, even those who are the actual appropriate age.
A mangaka only has to design clothes that would look good on paper. This is no guarantee it will look good in real life, and, if anything, cosplaying has proven that they don't. They won't look fashionable; they'll stick out like a sore thumb.
From tvtropes, "impossibly cool clothes":
Animated characters can often be found wearing clothing that just looks too good to be real. This can be proven by the occasional attempt made to reproduce these clothes by the costume teams for live action adaptations or by enthusiastic fans. Sometimes this is because of structural elements that flout or ignore real-world physical laws, or because the outfit in question requires an inhumanly perfect (or simply inhuman) body underneath it, or because real-world materials just don't look as good as ink and paint.
Just go watch cosplayers cosplaying a slice of life anime like Lucky Star or Azumanga Daioh. Their costumes look unnatural compared to an actual photo of a japanese student. They don't look like students. They look like adults in gaudy costumes, even the pretty/good cosplayers, even those who are the actual appropriate age.
A mangaka only has to design clothes that would look good on paper. This is no guarantee it will look good in real life, and, if anything, cosplaying has proven that they don't. They won't look fashionable; they'll stick out like a sore thumb.
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i have no idea where its from or what its called... but that shirt/muscle shirt that is kinda baggy n the neck of it is extra large so its scrunched up. i'd so wear that if i was less white and could find it somewhere.
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I actually ran a panel at anime boston last year about fashion in anime/manga (and plan on doing it again, actually. maybe.)
There's an amazing amount of crossover that you wouldn't expect, from character designers/mangaka that started out as fashion designers (including Tite Kubo! That's right, he couldn't make it as a fashion designer so he made Bleach instead. gross oversimplification but yeah) to fashion designers that use anime as inspiration (and vice versa) to the fucked up shit that gets put out on runways that look as if they belong on an anime character. It's all about where you look and how one styles it.
I mean if you read manga like Nana, where the mangaka recreates to the minute details the fashion of British Designer Vivienne Westwood for her characters, or anime like Kuroshitsuji that inspired several big name Goth Lolita brands to put out Limited edition collections of clothing based on the characters, or look at designers Gareth Pugh, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano (both his personal line and his work for Dior), etc. the gap between fashion design and character design are not so large. Especially considering how important clothing is to making an iconic character.
There's an amazing amount of crossover that you wouldn't expect, from character designers/mangaka that started out as fashion designers (including Tite Kubo! That's right, he couldn't make it as a fashion designer so he made Bleach instead. gross oversimplification but yeah) to fashion designers that use anime as inspiration (and vice versa) to the fucked up shit that gets put out on runways that look as if they belong on an anime character. It's all about where you look and how one styles it.
I mean if you read manga like Nana, where the mangaka recreates to the minute details the fashion of British Designer Vivienne Westwood for her characters, or anime like Kuroshitsuji that inspired several big name Goth Lolita brands to put out Limited edition collections of clothing based on the characters, or look at designers Gareth Pugh, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano (both his personal line and his work for Dior), etc. the gap between fashion design and character design are not so large. Especially considering how important clothing is to making an iconic character.