OCCASIONALLY, IN ANIME, SHORT, ROUND VERSIONS OF ANIME CHARACTERS APPEAR. WHAT ARE THEY AND WHY ARE THE JAPANESE FOND OF USING THEM?
That practice is known as “Super-Deforming” characters. It’s a way of making even the most horrible monster into something small and cute. As far as I know, the first occurrance of this was in SD-Gundam. Nowadays, Super-Deformed characters are appearing *everywhere*. Here are a couple I can come up with, just off the top of my head.
