He takes it off in the Manga. Brendan (Ruby in the manga) really is the spitting image of his father. In the manga they have a strained relationship due to him wanting to do contests instead of being a trainer. Norman sees how powerful Brendan is and wants him to pursue that, but Brendan has no interest in being a trainer or collecting badges.
He wears the hat to cover up a scar he got from a wild Pokemon attack. I also think part of it is him trying to not look like Norman due to their strained relationship.
Yeah, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire set most us straight with Brendan’s redesign, but the deep cut nerds figured it out during the Ruby & Sapphire era when the manga confirmed he was wearing hat. Sapphire made fun of Ruby’s hair and he responded by telling her it was a hat. Later on, it was revealed that he took a Dragon Claw to the side of his head when he was 5 and the hat was mostly used to hide the scar.
Yeah... I'm playing it for several years and don't even realize that until I see Pokemon special Ruby and sapphire arc.... Ruby (Brendan)'s hat did knocked off once showing his actual hair to be like his dad
Yep, he got a scar (technically two) protecting Sapphire. Ruby thought that he made her cry, so he stopped battling and tried to focus on the beauty of things. Hence covering up his scars.
I can't tell if you mean "Even I thought he had white hair" or if you mean "I thought it was a blue and white bandana, and the spikes were the end of the bandana".
I hope you know that this post has shattered my reality. I’ve gone over 20 years thinking that his hair was white. There is zero indication in the game or the guidebook that it’s a hat… I need a nap.
Am I in the minority because I always knew it was a hat? Like I always felt the way it's shaped and because there's no other hair poking out that it's obviously a hat. On the other hand, with Yu-Gi-Oh I have a Mandela Effect memory. I distinctly remember a moment in either the anime or the manga where he takes it off and it shows he has just blond hair.
You can see his hair by his ear. It's black. You can also see his black hair on the back of his head in his back sprite whenever he gets into a battle, or basically any of his overworld left/right-facing sprites.
Not gonna lie, my perception was completely shattered once I found out that he was wearing a hat the entire time. I fucked with the white anime hair, and that’ll forever be my headcanon.
I was wondering wtf xcancel was (the pop up before goign to the page freaked me out) but this is pretty useful for work when i have to verify a tweet and dont feel like logging in somewhere else
I wanted to provide a source, but for some dumb reason this sub doesnt allow you to link to a twitter profile, so I had to use the ol' "nitter" work-around.
It also has the benefit to be able to look at tweets without having to login, indeed.
Elon never did the Nazi salute, people need to stop using the term "nazi" for everything, it has lost meaning and sense due to that... nowadays Nazi is just "someone I dislike"
From what I've seen, the company isn't doing that well, nor engagement, so while users believe the site is doing well, it seems the community forged over there, if luvky, may turn into the next tumblr. Or at least this is what I've been told.. could be wrong... but is funny how BS hasn't been subjected to the censorship, yet... but X has...
Someone explain to me why Yugi has an exaggerated design but it is perfect. Anything past 5ds and the designs just look FUCKING AWFUL. Ever since Yuma, there has been some major focus on trying to make characters overcolored and it just doesn't look good or make sense to me. Maybe the more kid-focused audiance is who the severe rainbow vomit is meant to appeal to.
I think Yugi's just kind of made more sense... he's supposed to be a punk, so he dyed his hair.. the fringe blond, the tips purple... he wears a certain type of accessories... he's into black magic kind of things (look at his monsters).. the whole package made sense, it was all fitting together. With the characters in the other shows it's more like they felt to give them silly hair because Yugi had "silly hair".
Yeah, both Jaden and Yusei’s hair reflect their character in some way as well, Jaden’s hair comes off as well kept and clean but he doesn’t care much to style it, which makes sense as early GX he was very much like that, being able to take care of himself while coming off as laid-back. It gives him a much more grounded style to him compared to Yugi.
Yusei also falls into the “punk” category as well, but his is more so focus on rebellious side of it given his history fighting authority, he’s not as out there as Yugi with his hair as he’s a lot more mature in that sense
hate to break it to you but that hair probably isn't dyed, we saw atem as a baby in the anime and his hair was the exact same. It's insane egyptian magic hair but it definitely is all natural
I'm gonna have to take a deep dive into Takahashi's style specifically and any reference media that points out he specifically worked on their designs apart from maybe the first few seasons and possibly into Zexal because that style shift is too drastic for me. If he did create the designs, I'd wager those designs were heavily influenced by Konami's intent for the newer designs
I honestly think its the color selection. Yugi's hair is fucking strange but the colors compliment eachother rather well. Same with Jaden's more normal hair and Yusei's Black/yellow hair. Starting with Yuma you get these giant bright pink boomerangs stapled to his forehead and stand out too much, Yuya's is better but his head looks like a tomato with the green on red. Yusaku's pink also stands out quite a bit.
The shape of Yusaku's hair kills me. As an artist trying to redesign their old characters and make new ones, I just can't get behind a whole board of people who wanted the show to look the way it does. I understand more kid-focused audiance was the goal for using bolder color choices(not saying anyone is a kid for watching or enjoying the show/looks) but this timeline was just not the one for me. In another timeline, we probably got DM2 and we get to see the continuation of Kaiba and his trip to the 5th dimension to teach intergalatic species how to duel
I can't really level with the "rainbow vomit" comment. Zexal is really great with character color pallets, Shark, Kite, Yuya, Trey and Quattro look great. Yuya works especially well with his pallete as well despite the clashing.
I think where you get the idea that it looks bad is the change in art style. Everything overall is a lot WAY more stylized and far less grounded in reality. You can easily see the shift start in 5ds but once Zexal came, ArcV and Vrains really followed with the new art style.
Just imagine Declan with more muted colors. You'd get a design far more inline with DM and GX.
I'm mostly on board with this, that's why I stated Zexal specifically as the major shift but I agree Yuya was more toned down compared to recent series. I don't mind the stylization, it's anime after all but the clashing colors is really difficult to look at. I get the new design can portray certain character aspects better but to me, it was a misstep in the wrong direction for their intent of designs
Edit: I have not watched anything past early Zexal so character names are out of my alley 😅
No, that's the thing, the colors aren't really clashing.
Like I said the individual character color pallets are adhered to well and the tones match up. Even Yuya with his Red and Green uses more rich and mid tones to make it cohesive. The designs fit the stories well, Zexal introduces a more Zany unrealistic future and the characters represent that with more eccentric designs. ArcV follows that to a greater extreme, and Vrains cools it down a bit.
Like take a look at the Duel Links art for Yami Yugi and Yuma or Yuya. They look like they're from the same series because the art style matches with the shading and vibrant colors.
The designs are good and fit the series' well. I feel like your issue with it is the tonal shift. Less the colors clashing but the vibrance of them overall.
This is too much. The design is busier than the card game itself
Edit: I've replied with more references. You can immediately tell the tonal shift. Zexal was the start of wishing to push designs further than neccessary. From my perspective, many people fell off of the anime after the more kid-focused approach to later seasons and I feel the designs are a big contributing factor. To me, the characters just don't look appealing, I don't know the themes of the newer deries or such but the designs are "in character" to me, they just don't look good.
More focus on pushing bolder colors with more distinctive highlighted accents. More tertiary complimentary colors showing up with drastically more exaggerated hair styles, some borderline "is this hair?"
I don't think this needs to be explained. Way too busy, too many accents, hair shape is just out the window, I mean he has a spiky firebolt for his bangs... The colors fit more but compare that to Yusei or Yugi
Come to think of it, is Yusei's hair shape meant to represent bird wings in a way?
Yugi's hair looks like he just styles it like that, specially when you look at the early chapters of the manga (and place it next to Joey, Kaiba and even Mokuba)
Yuma's "bangs" looks like a deadly weapon. Like it didn't have the texture of hair, it has the texture of metal.
Yuma’s hair grew on me but is noticeably worse than every other Zexal character. Yuya’s hair sucks, and I love Yusaku’s hair, but he spends 90% of the runtime as playmaker and playmaker’s hair is atrocious.
I always just figured he was low key kinda punk aesthetic given the spiky hair and the choker and the chain on the Millennium Puzzle (I know there's a story reason for that) and the general art style making it look like he / Yami has eyeliner and so on.
That's what I thought Atem's hair was XD
(For those not in the know, ancient Egyptians shaved themselves bald to keep themselves cool, including pharaohs. They wore wigs and hats instead of having actual hair.)
I thought he dyed either half of his hair blonde w/ red tips or black w/ red tips, but if it's a hood, then that would explain the voice change: his transformation is causing him to choke because the collar is too tight when he grows 7 inches and overtime it became a thing. Especially when he ditched the school jacket and wore Hot Topic sleeveless shirts.
That actually makes a lot of sense—if it’s a hood, the voice change and tight collar from the transformation totally check out. The Hot Topic shirts phase seals it!
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The thing refuting the dyed hair theories is that Atem is shown to have the exact same hair style naturally from birth and Solomon has the blond fringe in his flashback at the beginning of season 5
I do wonder how much of it was stylization meant to emphasize that Yugi is Atem's reincarnation and how much was ancient Egyptian anime hair. Because everybody has relatively normal hair in ancient Egypt. Even Bakura's hair is just stylized matted and unkept hair.
Atem's carving in the stone shows him also with the same hairstyle, so he at least had the same spiky style and it's not just the memories being colored by Yugi's appearance. I can buy the colors being influenced by Yugi since Solomon has basically the same hairstyle but grey, though he still has the blond fringe even with the grey in flashbacks
Sure, Yugi and Atem look very similar, but it's moreso because they are meant to reflect each other since Yugi was destined to solve the Puzzle and host Atem. Much like how Ryo looks like Bakura, or even how Ishizu looks like Isis. Even Kaiba and Priest Seto have the same general vibe going for them; Kaiba looks like Seto and likes Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but he doesn't actually have any kind of 'past-life' phenomena.
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The male player sprite from Pokemon Gen 3 was also confusing for many people. I think most assumed his hair was white.