I forget where (likely 4chan), but I've heard it called the "Neander-chin" (ADD moment: Neanderthals probably didn't have chins)Shaddy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:45 am I kind of hate the character designs honestly. Nakatsuru was slapping highlights everywhere long before Yamamuro, but the borrowing of that trait was part of what lead to his devolution. Even beyond that though, you still get a lot of rigidity to them that wasn't there before. So many straight lines, hairstyles that used to be crazy and frizzy becoming short and pointy, Vegeta becoming way too fucking tall, and the fashion sense being just...off for most characters. Worse then that is the villains, who have suffered a huge loss in terms of facial variety, and have little going on in other parts of their anatomy. I've made this joke before, but which GT villain is this?
Is it Rild? Omega Shenron? Don Kia?
Yes, all of the above.
This same Chad chin + sloped forehead design was used for so many villains in GT and I never liked it, not even really on Skinny/Grey Boo (who is the first one who had it, IIRC). It fit for Yi Xing Long/Omega Shenron because it does have a vaguely inhuman dragon-esque quality. But we got it for Bebi and Super 17 as well, on top of the other Shadow Dragons, as well as other characters like Ledgic and Rildo.
That, the ugly color palette (made worse by that "corruption of Earth" in the last arc) and the Funimation dub's use of edgy drop-D rap rock always made GT feel so cold and metallic to me. Even though it wasn't any darker than Dragon Ball Z ever got, its colors seemed so desaturated and lifeless. It's sad because GT could've been pretty solid if it lasted as long as Super did, but eh.... see if you can follow me on this.
It felt like it was written by a fan of Dragon Ball Z. You know what I mean? You can quote me on this: the Chadly Chins and Ugly Colors of GT were one minor aspect in the larger mess that made the show feel like what would happen if Toei employed an American to make a sequel to Dragon Ball. Except that American is neither the Funimation-only DBZ fan whose only other references to how to write a story are other shonen anime and superhero movies nor a Kunzait-tier fan who'd actually know what they were doing stylistically. No, it's like it was made by one of those middling-level fans who actually watched Dragon Ball from the start and heard of Dr. Slump and knows the basics about "comedy adventure first, action-packed dramedy later" and that China exists and made a story Dragon Ball was based on (no disrespect to any type of DB fan, of course; just being dramatic for the post).
It's like watching someone (like an American who doesn't know why British literature feels the way it does) try to create a sequel trilogy to Harry Potter when the only other "fantasy" thing they know are some stereotypical Arthurian/Tolkienesque settings in video games, some blockbuster movies, clip art from elementary school, maybe some memes about Twilight and urban fantasy shows, and Harry Potter itself, and the only thing they really took from Harry Potter is that the lead character is the plucky Chosen One who always comes out on top, the bad guys wear black robes and are basically Nazis, most of the school year doesn't involve a direct conflict with Voldemort, a war happened, and the series went from children's literature to borderline YA. So surely books 8, 9, and 10 should go from childlike fantasy comedy to "dark and serious" fantasy. Maybe Harry, Ron, and Hermione can even be magically de-aged and have to go back through Hogwarts with their children, complete with all the immaturity of their child selves despite the fact they're actually adults. Harry Potter GT: Voldemort's Revenge, coming soon to a bookshelf near you.
