Hi caro🌠 , I can't decide if ban is a FN or a SD , it's especially hard when it's a cartoon . His love interest Elaine is a soft gamine I presume . Have a lovely weekend 🌱🌹
ban could actually be a pure dramatic body type. his styling looks FG to fit the theme of seven deadly sins, but he's all vertical, straight lines, contrast, pointy edges. between FN and SD i would go for FN, he lacks yin softness and would have kibbe width in the anime. still, when i draw on top of his design, i see no bluntness. head to toe black is your telltale dramatic alarm bell. (also proves our "dramatics are matched with gamines" couple theory again)
as soon as a character walks in with the all black/all angles/all vertical head to toe with a white color contrast (hair in gojo's case), i know they're a dramatic type. my theory: everyone is into gojo because he's SO archetypally designed that it's universally accessible. plus, it's rare that a dramatic is not the villain. interesting subversion.
jojo's bizarre adventure, that is a true soft dramatic + flamboyant natural design. drapes and quiffs and tiny waists and broad chests and tank tops and ruffled hair and luxury color palettes. all paired with extreme vertical and extended lines. it's not a head to toe rectangle box like the pure dramatic gojo formula.
PS: ban's difficult case reminds me of grimmjow from bleach (6'1) - tough to gauge where between the big three (FN/SD/D) he falls, his stature is so inconsistent between manga-anime and arcs, plus he is dressed in a different ID than his yang body is (cropped lines are not exactly big 3, so they show off his physique). plus his shapeshifting gives him more blunt FN lines/the XXL-FN "mane".
bleach is dramatic-leaning generally (i love this series!! byakuya is my husband), nnoitra is the best example, as is aizen. since he's contrasted with gamine ulquiorra a lot, grimmjow might be pure dramatic too, despite all else. extreme vertical, sharp shoulders with bnw scheme, asymmetric face detailing. again, spike yang hair, sharp chin. his "wild beast" theme is FN, but his lines say D. his triangular skirt with the dropped waist, very D-type. see how ulquiorra is angular like him but compact? gamine juxtaposition.
my kibbe men's types masterlist
