Colombia is a reference to Carlos Valderama:Tono Makt said:Colombia... not quite so bad, given how much Colombians seem to love their women dying their hair blond, or value blond hair. (See: Shakira) I'm inclined to include Brazil with Colombia, but I don't know how much Brazil prizes blond hair; they seem to be quite proud of beautiful women in all colours, both natural and colour-not-appearing-in-nature, so maybe a blond Brazilian isn't so terrible. Iran and Algeria seem to be designed to mock Islam - when most of the Euro nations are more covered up than the Islamic nations, it looks more like mockery than just artistic license.
Yeah, same here. Especially cause so much of anime is dominated by the whole "cute girls doing cute things" genre. It was ok at first, but there's just way too much of it now. I really want to see more stuff like Monster, Mushishi, Trigun, Samurai Champloo, etc.Dr. Crawver said:Yaaay...more anime girls...
In all honesty I'm kinda sick of this "make X as cute anime girls" thing that's been going on a while. I can't help but feel anime as a medium, while has it's advantages (as does every medium in existence), it has some pretty dam huge flaws and issues that always seem to be swept to one side, and I just find it all so horribly over-rated.
And for the record, I liked the Aussies one, and Germany's one looks stupid.
SacremPyrobolum said:At least they aren't Disney Princesses.
Yeah, it's overdone.SKBPinkie said:Yeah, same here. Especially cause so much of anime is dominated by the whole "cute girls doing cute things" genre. It was ok at first, but there's just way too much of it now. I really want to see more stuff like Monster, Mushishi, Trigun, Samurai Champloo, etc.Dr. Crawver said:-snip-
Nice Trottimus avatar, BTW.
Oh, it could have been much worse.Arawn said:There are some good ones, but the "WTF!?" award goes to Switzerland. A block of cheese and a Swiss army knife. Nothing else they could think of? I mean Brazil got the dancer, Russia got eagles, can't remember the one dressed like a lion, and one even had a pet lion. Still they are some cool pics.
Having the soccer girls above wear uniforms with their nation's flag on them would do the trick. That presents its own issue (nationality is informed as opposed to apparent), but at least it's not an eyesore or annoying.archiebawled said:What would your suggestions have been for each country? How is it possible to represent a country in one character without resorting to simple things that are generally known about a country/stereotypes of that country?