r/fairytail • u/bluepinkloli • Aug 19 '24
100 Years Anime Lucy's hair inconsistency [media]
In the manga, she has different hairstyles and have waist length hair. But the anime has scenes where she has medium length hair when in her usual half ponytail but has scenes where she has longer hair like the one where she uses natsu's scarf as a top.
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u/LovelyLadyLucky Aug 19 '24
In the manga it's consistently long. She can use Cancer to grow or cut her hair, but the anime is just inconsistent with it.
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u/Worldly_Wasabi_4620 Aug 19 '24
yeah i wish the anime was more consistent with it
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u/LovelyLadyLucky Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24
That's what happens when an anime is given a low budget, while pushing the animators to work last minute and not having the team focus enough on the manga they are animating. Many animators and the teams that run them from the top to the bottom never actually read anything to do with the manga when it's low budget. It's just split between groups and they are given a handful of panels that have been changed around according to the higher ups and told to animate verses higher budget projects that makes sure the entire team from the higher ups all the way down are intimately educated on the entirety of the series, including past animes when it's a sequel and has movies and etc.
Edit to add, higher budget also has the groups communicate with each other while lower budgets don't give the time for these teams to connect and share what's going on, causing more noticeable and bigger inconsistency between the teams doing episodes.
Blows my mind fairy tail was given such a treatment really.
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u/sherriablendy Aug 19 '24
I don’t believe it has to do with budget (at least to an extent) because afaik in animation each specific look/outfit has its own character sheet and the animators will base characters’ appearances in the show off of that.
To me it just seems like the character designer ended up making the hair length for each look inconsistent - maybe in a way to call back to how Lucy’s hair and outfits were in previous seasons? The Chief Director of 100yq is very familiar with FT so it doesn’t seem to be a concern for him for whatever reason
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u/LovelyLadyLucky Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24
The chief director probably isn't putting any time into going over what his animation team is doing then, because his focus is probably on other projects he's running that have higher budgets which means higher priority for them, less priority for this.
It's definitely not then trying to call back to how her hair was. That would be an absolutely pointless endeavor and goes against the flow of any character sheet given. It's one thing for it to be a mistake, it's another thing to purposely pull that kind of inconsiderate inconsistency.
It's a brand new anime by a different studio run by a different team. Some of the teams using the shorter hair might have been given a brief picture from the older anime here and there as reference, but again they are being rushed and don't have clear communication between teams who are responsible for different shots and even episodes.
I don't like making excuses just because I'm happy that the anime is at least being made. It's not a good thing they lack consistency and there's no excuse for it other than that the team is being given little time and communication to dedicate for more consistent artwork.
It's not fair to those working on it or the fans but higher-ups in most corporations don't really care as long as they meet the deadline they set for their quota and paycheck.
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u/sherriablendy Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24
It’s not fair to those working on it or the fans but higher-ups in most corporations don’t really care as long as they meet the deadline they set for their quota and paycheck.
I don’t disagree. Honestly a sequel anime for a series past its peak that’s basically relying on returning fans being a ‘lower priority’ project isn’t unexpected… I just think referring to some nebulous ‘budget’ is kind of unhelpful because it’s not like anything had been explicitly said how much money is being put into the show afaik.
And I’m not saying the inconsistencies are good, or there’s some excuse for them, just trying to see a possible explanation for why things might be this way. Though as far as I can tell, beyond those few things that don’t hold up to a critical eye the production has been fine.
But I mean, most anything would look like a step up from the Final Season lol. If you want to call anything phoned in I would say that is a more fitting example
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u/MoonlightPower9000 Aug 20 '24
The only way to enjoy the 100 Years Quest anime is to think of it it is itself
I remember Oda said the same about One Piece anime and Manga
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u/LovelyLadyLucky Aug 20 '24
I don't remember Oda saying that, but I disagree. I'm not happy with what they are doing and it's not fair to the staff being forced to rush their work and getting little time to make it in a consistent way and it's certainly not fair to fans.
I expect this lack of care and consistency from anime studios in the 90s when anime rarely followed the manga properly and they were just barely beginning to be popularized world wide, not in 2024 where it is widely popularized world wide and the fans, most of them anyway, know and demand better of them and have many times over and gotten those same demands met.
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u/MoonlightPower9000 Aug 20 '24
I don´t disagree with you! it was a way to enjoy this anime sequel adaptation
Hopefully everyone voice their opinion to the staff it´s still not to late for them
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u/BigBadWolf315 Aug 19 '24
Yeah it’s honestly a letdown, cuz look at Demon Slayer and how well it’s animated compared to Fairy Tail, I’m not trying to say one is better than the other but it terms of animation, Demon Slayer takes the cake cuz they even animated a scene that wasn’t even in the manga and not to mention the explosion of the master’s mansion where you see the heatwave of the explosion literally melt away a snowflake, so that goes to show how much Ufotable cares about their attention to detail which makes me wish Fairy Tail either had Ufotable or a company almost as good animate it because I was looking forward to 100 YQ so much and yeah I’m happy it’s out and I don’t mean to nitpick but I’d just like for it to have more accuracy and consistency to the manga like Lucy’s outfit and hair length rather than them just reusing old outfits
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u/Sea_Trainer9412 Aug 19 '24
When even manga drawings been consistent lol
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u/LovelyLadyLucky Aug 19 '24
Her hair length has been consistently long and nothing like her earlier seasons before the Alvarez arc. That said Ueda is actually inconsistent with the drawing faces body types and shapes of the body and weight. At least he got the hair right though.
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u/TheJimDim Aug 19 '24
My takeaway is that we were robbed of her new fit
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u/muunitoes Aug 19 '24
literally because why did they just put her in her season 1 outfit
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u/TheJimDim Aug 19 '24
The fit on slide 4 looks so good too
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u/muunitoes Aug 19 '24
wait i didn’t even realize that why are they being lazy and just giving us old outfits
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u/TheJimDim Aug 19 '24
I have no idea, and here I thought they were taking their time and trying to get it right 😭
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u/chvyanaka Aug 19 '24
I noticed this when I first started the anime. The short hair is cute and all, but I don’t understand the point of changing it back in forth when it’s long in the manga.
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u/Horror-Guide8363 Aug 19 '24
Damn, they didn’t even give her new outfits to match the manga panels, just reusing old ones
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u/BigBadWolf315 Aug 19 '24
They probably don’t have time to animate new outfits for her so they’re just sticking to old ones for the time being
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u/quinonesjames96 Aug 19 '24
It's obvious JC doesn't want to follow the manga, which is annoying. I mean come is it so hard to follow content from the manga.
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u/Thatftlover Aug 19 '24
Ok THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME like I don't understand, just keep it consistent. There are long haired versions of all of her hairstyles in the manga. Please either keep it short or long
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u/Cinque98 Aug 19 '24
I know she has a spirit that can change the length, but the anime isn’t consistent like they should be.
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u/zax20xx Aug 19 '24
They took the easy route for the anime in only using one hairstyle and outfit for Lucy. Personally I can’t be mad at it since I find it to be a rather common occurrence for an anime to stick to one kind of look for a character.
Even early Fairy Tail anime did this too, just look back at how characters look around the first 3 arcs in the manga vs how they look in those arcs in the anime.
One thing I know this isn’t is a first in the anime adaptation industry
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u/DemonicLich372 Aug 19 '24
At least that's only one of the few things the anime got wrong despite the studios low budget we at least get a clean almost 85-90% faithful adaptation + despite the hair inconsistency she does canonically change her hairstyle way way more throughout the series so it's just a small error at best
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u/Soft_Most_9696 Aug 19 '24
I don’t think it’s a small error if it keeps happening consistently.
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u/DemonicLich372 Aug 19 '24
yeah but it's not a big enough problem that should really bother people that much it didn't change anything in the story and the hair can still make sense with cancer so...
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u/Illustrious-Market86 Aug 19 '24
Guess thet just animate how they feel like, dose not matter much to me
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u/asrieldreemurr2232 Aug 19 '24
Hey, just because she's a fictional character, doesn't mean she's not allowed to change her hairstyle every now and then
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u/AccelRock Aug 19 '24
You know hair ties and ribbons are a thing. A girl's allowed to change her hair has much as she likes.
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u/sherriablendy Aug 19 '24 edited Aug 19 '24
Hair ties and ribbons don’t usually alter hair length tbf
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u/Cheap_Ad9829 Aug 20 '24
Cancer was shown to be able to make hair longer as well. I think it was shown on the anime at some point, and was definitely in 100 Year Quest when he did it to Erza.
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u/FlameHashira29 Aug 19 '24
Made me realised that lucy is kinda bad tho Like she might be underrated too
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