branch, branch, emily, emily, help.

[kaigou]

If anyone would know, it'd be branchandroot, but someone else might know, too: what is up with the constant use of apples in japanime (specifically the gundam series, but I've seen 'em in plenty of other anime). Are they just easier to draw? Or is there some meaning behind apples, or what? Because over and over, it's characters with apples, eating apples, anytime someone's holding a fruit, it's always a goddamn red apple. It's like the way characters always push their glasses up by using a forefinger right at the bridge of their nose right as lights reflect off the lenses -- you see it once or twice, whatever, but the eight hundredth time, you start thinking: what the hell are you people trying to tell me? Why push up your glasses right at this point? Why apples? Why not, bananas? Or oranges? Why can't anyone nudge their glasses up by using the back of their forefinger against the lower edge of the glass-lens? Is this just filler business and all animators are taught the same fruit in animation school and only one way to show a character pushing up their glasses?

Man, I need a vacation, stat.

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Hah, it is! Now you know.