my mom pronouces manga like 'mango'

aya getting shouted at by her dad, which turned into

the crying anime girl meme, which has now apparently become

The transitional stage – the level of nose simplification that’s been normal for most characters in most styles from the mid 80s to today (and in some works in the 70s, like those of Leiji Matsumoto) – is to show a nose as a slightly bent line. This is great because realistic noses drawn straight on are very complicated. When a character is drawn in profile, though, the nose becomes visible as a protrusion! Until the 90s this was a major difficulty whenever a character was turning their head: how do you draw a nose that doesn’t draw attention to itself, even if a character smoothly turns their head? The solution was to treat the nose as a slight protrusion in the contour of the character’s face.

This became normal because of the specific problems of animation, but because characters and stories are constantly moving between anime and manga, manga artists quickly adopted it, and it’s been normal for manga to draw noses in the style shown above since the 90s, even when the manga in question would never be adapted to animation.

Here’s some gekiga:

Here’s some classic 70s shojo (They Were Eleven, a classic space opera):

And here’s some goofy-ass noses in the 90s, Escaflowne:

But are often more likely to be omitted (Nichijou):

23.06.2025 🔴 today's anthy!

Real ones know that Al has been representing the broke vampire demographic for years.

Balcony pas de deux

Music: Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2: 19-21. Balcony Scene, Romeo's Variation, and Love Dance

Maybe an interesting thing about the balcony scene is that Romeo's variation before the pas de deux isn't technically supposed to exist and Prokofiev was always quite pissed about being forced to write it (he thought it disrupted the narrative flow to have Romeo randomly dancing by himself for a few minutes before the pas de deux). And that, as well as a few other dances he thought were pointless (Morning Dance, the second Juliet variation, and Dance with Mandolins), left him annoyed by the 1940 score and he always considered the score from the original cancelled 1935 production the official/correct one. But the most infamous change was of course not those additions, but that the original 1935 version has a happy ending where Romeo and Juliet survive, because, in his words, "living people can dance; the dead cannot dance lying down." But the 1935 version has somehow never been recorded, whether due to copyright/museum drama or people simply finding the happy ending "uncool," I don't know. At any rate, the music was written to lead up to the happy ending and that version has the intended resolution of all the themes, so I don't see why both versions aren't performed. Those who get precious about Shakespeare disagree, but the fact is, Shakespeare didn't originate the story of Romeo and Juliet to begin with and his version, too, is merely an adaptation.

That's only a tiny bit of that story, but anyway, for my drawing here, the poses are from the MacMillan choreography: Top, Middle (with no kiss. I added it in because I thought it suited the pose, haha), and Bottom

If you start with the first link, the rest are within the next ten or so seconds. The first pose varies a lot depending on the dancers, if you compare it to here, here (I guess I drew it most like this one), here, etc.