Bunny ears would be cool. It's a costume choice, not necessarily a lifestyle conversion, right?
I don't get why anime is getting the bad rep.. Hanna Barbera and Disney opened the furry window waaay earlier than any anime studio I can think of. There's plenty of comic tropes I dislike that can be alluded to using existing costume pieces but i wouldn't want the devs to exclude them simply to cater to me and my tired of bad writing hangups. You can always click the little arrow on the side and move along in the Costume Creator.. the problem goes away. As far as the main game goes if it takes a little furry funding to keep the servers up let me be the first to shake a paw.
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I can name a fair few, but the list of characters that would fall into that category which I can name is shorter than the list of anime I can name which don't contain a single character in the first list. (This still applies if you expand outward to male and gender-neutral characters rather than just girls.)
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Originally Posted by Lycanus
I can't even name that many real cat-girls or other animal girls that show up in anime.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Don't need it. The devs already stated the inclusion of animal and monstrous costume parts are well within the creative realm of their game.|
Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Your task is to convince the developers that City of Furries will further their creative vision in the direction in which they want it to go. I will wish you good luck on this quest, because you are gonna need it.
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No need to sound so jaded, though. It's not ruining your game experience, is it?
PS: I guess if you're not trying to stifle creativity, then you're just speaking from some type of bias or prejudice against not the ideas themselves, but the types of people that support or enjoy these ideas. Because as far as I can see, you're placing some kind of thematic filter on possible additions that even the devs aren't. Even if Sexy Jay has a bias against 'furries', I doubt he'd want to block future additions because of it...yeah, he himself might not bother working on it, but he's not going to bring a hammer down on another worker that does just because he doesn't like it.
In all honesty, the majority of the parts I need to create almost any anime character I can think of are already there in the game. Actually, just for the heck of it, I did up three of the primary teams from Darker than Black
Sadly, there is nothing to quite match Hei's porceline mask, but I think I got close.
In any case, a majority of anime has character designs similar to this one. If I wanted to, I could go and do some of the more flamboyant ones.
In that group below, I think I could see:
Hei - brute...either electrical, martial arts or kinetic...either willpower or reflexes
November 11 (white suit) - Tank or Blaster, Willpower/Ice Melee...Ice Blast/Ice Manipulation
April (Storm clone) - Storm/Pistol Defender
Kirihara (small woman in business suit) - Pistol/Devices or AR/Devices Blaster...or Traps/Gun or Gun/Traps (defender or Corruptor) - most of the cops to her right would be similar
Huang - Rifle/Devices Blaster
Yin and July (purple dress/silver hair is Yin....urchin is July) not really combat types, but could be done as Mind/Emp controllers if you were to push the seer concept
It took me about an hour and a half.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USRSDTmwy1Y
Aside from my character Medusae, who is in the scene occasionally because I'm too lazy to edit her out of the demo and wanted wide views occasionally, that has clones of:
Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto
Himura Kenshin from Ruruoni Kenshin
Sousuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic!
Ranma Saotome from Ranma 1/2
Lina Inverse from Slayers
Soi Fon from Bleach
Subaru Nakajima from Nanoha Strikers
Ryoko Hakubi from Tenchi Muyo
Further I have:
Castle Rat whose various costumes are cosplays and is herself a rendition of a Gold Digger style wererat
Detective Crimson Rice who is one of my next generation characters, and appears dressed in clothes favored by her boss (Kiyone Makibi), father (Ranma Saotome) and mother (Ryoko Hakubi-Saotome)
Gunsmith Cat named for and costume designed off of Rally Vincent from Gunsmith Cats...though has herself very different backgrounds.
Endcaller Mara who is visually based off Marler from Oh My Goddess[/url]
Blood Rose/Anno Yumi whose classic costume (upper left) is based on Kodachi Kuno
Amethyst Sword who is originally based off a character in a fic I did based on the next generation of the Slayers (she'd be Zelgadis and Amelia's kid)
Kuno Karasu also based visually on Kodachi
Kumobara based on the idea of Kodachi as bitten by the Spider Man spider.
Shadowpact a build originally based on Kodachi as well, but her history has far diverged as compared to my other three Kodachi homages
Jean Hannah and Hana Jin who were originally based off of a fanfiction version of Nabiki Tendo I made and then took several steps away from there.
And before anyone says anything...the reason I mostly do homages, fusions and next generations as my CoH characters is that it gives me an original enough character that I can say its my own (by the time I've mixed and matched elements from two to three series and then modded to fit the game world, it rarely resembles the original concept wise) without getting so attached that I imagine my own world setting and get upset and nitpicky over the world not acting the way I think it should for the character I made.
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"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
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Luckily, we have historically had art leads who are not "my way or the high way" jerks and have been very open to reason and suggestion, even in instances where they may not be fans of the suggestions. BABs was always cool about trying to break new ground and David has proven to be reasonable about accommodating player even when they make requests he doesn't prefer. The mere fact that I managed to turn him around on one point (and I'm the guy the developers probably listen to the least thanks after I rambled on for six years) is proof enough that the art team would not turn down any idea which expanded the game's breadth of concepts.|
Originally Posted by Leo_G
Don't need it. The devs already stated the inclusion of animal and monstrous costume parts are well within the creative realm of their game.
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Monster and animal parts have been all but confirmed, and while we may need to ask for them repeatedly for some time and wait a year or two, "this isn't like anime" or "furries can suck it" will not, indeed, stifle people's creativity in ALL directions of character design.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Is the difference that we can make anime cat girls already?
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Originally Posted by TwilightPhoenix
I'd just like to point something out.
This, a furry...  ...is not this, an anime catgirl.  See the difference? |
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That would be one, albeit not the one I intended to point out. Though I do wish we had proper head options to make characters like Fox. Even if we didn't get other parts to match, I'd at least be able to do it and cover the rest of the body with clothes/armor/whatever. That or make Egyptian gods.
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Is the difference that we can make anime cat girls already?
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speaking of anime, this is a costume piece I'd love to have available in masks with hair:
currently all the masks in there are form fitting and most of them are cloth
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"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math
Your task is to convince the developers that City of Furries will further their creative vision in the direction in which they want it to go. I will wish you good luck on this quest, because you are gonna need it.