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BART's Anime Mascots

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150 points archagon | 1 comments | 26 Apr 25 19:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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godelski ◴[26 Apr 25 22:40 UTC] No.43807867[source]▶
I do like the idea of mascots, but truthfully I think they are better done as non-human mascots and need to be simple. I think Japan got this right with Yura-chara[0]. There seems to be a strong preference for non-human characters and when there are human ones, they're still overly simplistic.

Seems like same rule about flags[1]: a child should be able to draw it from memory.

Only Barty seems to fit these conditions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuru-chara

[1] https://nava.org/good-flag-bad-flag

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1. imtringued ◴[27 Apr 25 01:45 UTC] No.43808826[source]▶
They have non-human characters. The key mistake they made is that they put the human characters front and center. The human characters should appear in accompanying comics where they end up interacting with the animal mascots, not be the mascots themselves.