visual conventions

Where can I get a list of the different visual conventions used in Anime?

On 04/23/2003 21:53, in article

This would be a good start:

The Anime Companion: What's Japanese in Japanese Animation? Gilles Poitras. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1880656531.

<http://www.stonebridge.com/ANIMEESSEN/ animeessentials.html>

His Web site is here:

<http://www.koyagi.com/>

<http://www.koyagi.com/ACPages/ACmain.html>

Ciao, John

I get the feeling that original poster is referring to things like sweatdrops, nosebleeds, SDism, facefaults, lack_of_nippleness (see: Love Hina manga), that little symbol that appears on people's temple or side of the head (a bulging vein???) when they're ticked, etc... are these covered in Poitras's volume?

- 5parrow

I wrote a FAQ that covered those issues years ago. It should still be available on my website, although I haven't updated it to include 'a lack of nipples'.

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Yes, that's what I assumed the original post was asking about, too. While I'm sure I've heard about and understand some of them, it would be nice to see a nice list with most of those common things in one place. Since I'm still new to anime, I could use some help with things like that. I have no idea if they're covered in the book reference I snipped from this post, but even if it did, if all the original poster wanted was that part of it, the book would probably be overkill.

You mean the http://home.austin.rr.com/tsote/index.html site in your sig? I can't seem to find this FAQ on your pages. If it's supposed to be the 'Cheats and Cliches in anime FAQ', that file is coming up 404 (not found). Could you check that link and put the file back up if it's gone, moved, renamed, whatever? I would certainly like to see it if it covers those things mentioned above. Thanks.