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[(Anonymous)]

as someone who's pretty seriously faceblind, i don't have any problem reading expressions but if you cast 5 different dark-haired white dudes with chiseled jawlines in one show i can't follow the plot because i literally can't tell them apart unless they're very distinctively styled.

drawn character designs tend to be much more distinctive and individualized.

as a result my viewing habits are heavy on animated and fantasy shows (comic book adaptations are also p solid on maintaining distinctive character design in casting!) and light on prestige drama. the majority of the media i consume is novels and podcasts, but finding PBs and making icons for the characters is a gd nightmare so i don't generally play from them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm also bad with faces! animated characters are easier since they tend to have huge easy to spot differences. like hair color or hair style or wearing One Outfit.

[(Anonymous)]

this is weird because i have probably a *little* bit of a hard time telling human faces apart, but my brain can't tell drawn faces/figures apart unless they're insanely different - stuff in the same art style just looks exactly the same to me across the board, different hair colors or styles don't really register. what strange meatbags we are.

[(Anonymous)]

the brain is just so weird!

i've heard that people who aren't faceblind tend to be unconsciously sensitive to relative proportions in the face, like distance between eyes and eyebrows, forehead size, nose size and length, relationship of mouth to chin to nose, etc, and those proportions tend to be very static within animated art styles (like, you've got 5 teenage girls in your magical girl anime cast, they all have similar big eyes and thin eyebrows and the same small nose and the same mouth size with different hairstyles and colors and costume designs)

meanwhile faceblind people often focus on details like hair color and style, distinctive clothing, etc.

so i wonder if people who are faceblind are more likely to see characters in the same art style with different designs as distinctive, while people who aren't faceblind are more likely to think they look really alike? which would make the entry barrier to anime lower for faceblind people unfamiliar with the artistic conventions than for face-seeing people equally unfamiliar...

[(Anonymous)]

yeah! i can tell humans apart because their faces look different, i will still recognize my sister even if she's wearing a wig and different clothes. but if a bunch of characters all have the same face with different hair and clothes, it just looks like the same person and no amount of reminding myself that character a is blonde and wears pink but character b has blue hair and wears red will help, my brain will technically remember it as trivia but not be able to differentiate when looking at the pictures.