![]() Commonly, the limbless, faceless type is used, with blue and the English word "boy" indicating boys and pink and the word "girl" indicating girls. Many of the extras in Hidamari Sketch are rendered in various fashions.All the rest around the table are like this. During the first episode of Hetalia: Axis Powers where all of the nation-tans are gathered in a meeting, at most two characters are rendered.Itsuki, Kanae, Nanami and a random background student are the only ones with definite shapes, but the last two become formless by the next shot. At one point in the opening theme of HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Tsubomi and Erika are chased by some formless, keyhole-shaped people.Near the end of the series, look-alikes of Soi and Yui appear in the crowd. Fushigi Yuugi had faceless blue people in the background in the beginning of the series, and in episode 4, all of the people clamoring to get to Miaka and Tamahome were in blue, save for two people.In episode 11, a wave of color washes over a crowd of hundreds as they are revealed to be Dollars members. When someone in a crowd becomes important, they become colored-in. Durarara!! features gray, unmoving masses.Doujin Work has a minor example: crowds are not faceless, but monochrome.Di Gi Charat hangs a lampshade on it by drawing its minor characters as literal finger puppets, even when they're in the foreground.This is actually played for comedy in episode 4, when the judges go from blue to having proper designs after eating Andou's candy. Similar to the generic NPCs in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (as mentioned below), every non-notable character in Side: Despair (the Reserve Course in particular) of Danganronpa 3 is translucent blue.Cromartie High School hangs a lampshade on this somewhat in one episode, where two characters who only show up for that episode and talk to the main character are drawn with as little detail as to look less like drawn characters and more like poorly constructed paper-cutouts.(The eyes are still shown, though, and they're often bloodshot psychotically.) Very Uncanny Valley, and it makes the criminals seem even more inhuman. In Case Closed, when someone is suspiciously eavesdropping on a conversation (or whatever) and we don't know who it is, they are just a black silhouette with an utterly bald, mannequin-like head.This even applies to Itou, who is supposed to be dating Mafuyu after the events of Episode 10. In Blend-S, all customers of Cafe Stile are drawn this way.Some of these characters even have names, too. In Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, any unimportant character will just have their class's letter on their face.Several classroom scenes take a less uncanny, yet still budget route by replacing the students, when not the main focus of a scene, with brightly-colored cloud-like shapes.At the end of first year, Yukari announced that the entire class may move up to second year.and are then followed by a massive crowd of them. Sakaki and Kagura walk past some faceless club recruiters.Played with in a brief scene where you actually see two of them talking to each other (kind of creepy actually). ![]() The background characters would randomly turn into simple white figures.Shows up in a few scenes in Azumanga Daioh.In Anne Happy every student others than the five main characters are drawn without face.Particularly common and pronounced in Atashin'chi, where even in close-up shots extras are gray, ghost-like blobs.In the ARIA manga there is a variety in that extras usually still are have distinctive features, but that other Prima undines aside from the three main ones are drawn without faces.This was used for Morisato Keiichi's "dorm eviction" scene in the second TV episode of Ah! My Goddess.Many notable Shōnen titles that involve battling with an audience do this, such as Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh! Pokémon is especially notorious for this as seen in details of the opening in the Latias and Latios movie in which most of the crowds on the stands were just a bunch of colorful blob-like beings.
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