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oyceter into Project Runway because I happened to have a Netflix disc of Season 3 at my house. It's so much better when you can fast-forward the irritating backstage drama and sniping at each other, and just watch the designers designing, stitching, losing their minds, and presenting their outfits.
Things we learned from watching this show:
1. Gluing anything but beads or Twizzlers never ends well.
2. Always make the shirt and pants before the jacket, in case you run out of time. A perfect shirt and pants is much better than pants, a jacket, and a bolt of cloth draped around your shoulders.
3. Words one never ever wants to hear used to describe your outfit: Milkmaid, Dairy Queen, sofa, and maxi pad.
It is like a shounen tournament design anime in which character is expressed through competitive fashion!
We especially realized this in this classic shounen moment:
Laura (red-headed pregnant designer, about her main rival): "I don't want Jeffrey to get kicked out because he broke the rules. I want to beat him fair and square!"
Shounen Laura: "I will not kill you while you're weak, Jeffrey! Go home and nurse your wounds and come back stronger, and THEN I'll kill you!"
That season also has a classic shoujo heroine, the colorful print-obsessed designer Uli. (Michael Kors: "Wow... That didn't have a print.") She is always perky and cheerful and looking on the bright side.
She came from East Germany, where it was sad and repressive and gray, and dreamed of living somewhere colorful and bright. Then the Berlin wall came down, and she was able to fulfill her dream of being a designer in Miami. Now she wants to bring color and happiness and life to the world via clothing!
When the sullen, Sasuke-like designer Jeffrey, who didn't get along with anyone, has an emo shounen moment and wept on Uli's shoulder - and she very sincerely hugged and comforted him - we realized that Uli is Tohru Honda!
Season 4's Christian not only is a shoujo/shounen crossover hero, the prodigy with mad skillz who is emotionally twelve, he even looks like an anime character!
Season 4 also has Chris, the fat guy who at first seems like the comic relief, but turns out to be heroic and awesome and makes a comeback when all hope seems lost. He is Naruto's Chouji!
Who else is secretly an anime character?
Please do not spoil the winners for any seasons.
oyceter into Project Runway because I happened to have a Netflix disc of Season 3 at my house. It's so much better when you can fast-forward the irritating backstage drama and sniping at each other, and just watch the designers designing, stitching, losing their minds, and presenting their outfits. Things we learned from watching this show:
1. Gluing anything but beads or Twizzlers never ends well.
2. Always make the shirt and pants before the jacket, in case you run out of time. A perfect shirt and pants is much better than pants, a jacket, and a bolt of cloth draped around your shoulders.
3. Words one never ever wants to hear used to describe your outfit: Milkmaid, Dairy Queen, sofa, and maxi pad.
It is like a shounen tournament design anime in which character is expressed through competitive fashion!
We especially realized this in this classic shounen moment:
Laura (red-headed pregnant designer, about her main rival): "I don't want Jeffrey to get kicked out because he broke the rules. I want to beat him fair and square!"
Shounen Laura: "I will not kill you while you're weak, Jeffrey! Go home and nurse your wounds and come back stronger, and THEN I'll kill you!"
That season also has a classic shoujo heroine, the colorful print-obsessed designer Uli. (Michael Kors: "Wow... That didn't have a print.") She is always perky and cheerful and looking on the bright side.
She came from East Germany, where it was sad and repressive and gray, and dreamed of living somewhere colorful and bright. Then the Berlin wall came down, and she was able to fulfill her dream of being a designer in Miami. Now she wants to bring color and happiness and life to the world via clothing!
When the sullen, Sasuke-like designer Jeffrey, who didn't get along with anyone, has an emo shounen moment and wept on Uli's shoulder - and she very sincerely hugged and comforted him - we realized that Uli is Tohru Honda!
Season 4's Christian not only is a shoujo/shounen crossover hero, the prodigy with mad skillz who is emotionally twelve, he even looks like an anime character!
Season 4 also has Chris, the fat guy who at first seems like the comic relief, but turns out to be heroic and awesome and makes a comeback when all hope seems lost. He is Naruto's Chouji!
Who else is secretly an anime character?
Please do not spoil the winners for any seasons.
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Project Runway is the perfect shonen tournement series. I can actually see it as one of the bizarre competitions in early Ranma 1/2, alongside the tea ceremony and couples ice skating as martial arts.
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(Wouldn't Tim Gunn be the obvious one--the older mentor/secondary charracter who's so Made of Awesome that he becomes far more popular and beloved than any of the 'main' characters?
Also, I always thought season 1's Austin looked a bit like he'd wandered out of some sort of 1970s-era BL manga.)
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Austin: Perhaps From Eroica With Love.
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Maybe Kenley of season 5 as a tsundere character?
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You are very correct with your parallel. XD
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Also also, Elisa is clearly the kooky sidekick, and Rami is probably someone like Shikamaru who thinks over everything.
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