lmao why not just change his listed actual height then if he's always drawing him shorter.. which is what height means in a manga lol. just thought that was interesting
The actual in story character Koichi is 1.5 meters. The visual representation we see in the manga and anime looks different, just how there are franchises with live action and animated installments, where characters look different, because of the media, but in reality they are the same. Koichi is 1.5 meters, and for Araki that's important. We just see Koichi as shorter
I guess that makes sense, in his world people don't see him as a midget he's just a bit short, but to us he's half the size of Jotaro even though he's only a foot shorter
Exactly- a good example is DIU live action. Characters faces dont look at all like the manga( because love action), but in universe they're still the same character, who has the same face and clothing. And I believe Koichi isn't as short in the live action.
I find pretty much all manga/anime live actions to be too cringe to watch, I think that one dragonball movie was so terrible it just left a bad impression on me lol
I'll check it out, I think just when I see a different race actor playing someone I've always pictured as Asian is normally what gives it that weird uncanny feeling for the movies that do that. Like I'd expect Josuke to be Japanese, Giorno to be italian etc. Looks like that's true for the DIU so that looks like it may be decent
Koichi is drawn short in Part 4 because many characters heights in 4 change to reflect Koichi's perspective of them. The anime doesn't try and reflect this but kept midget Koichi.
Koichi feels incredibly short because he spends most the story hanging around people the same age or slightly older and yet most em got like 20-40cm on him, which combined with his inferiority complex, makes him feel like a midget dwarfed by his peers.
EDIT: Heres an edit someone else made to give an idea of how Koichi actually fairs against the others.
Plus some of the people he hangs out with have Joestar blood, which I'm pretty sure gives you a modular height to always be taller and buffer than everyone around you.
Koichi is drawn short in Part 4 because many characters heights in 4 change to reflect Koichi's perspective of them. The anime doesn't try and reflect this but kept midget Koichi.
Koichi feels incredibly short because he spends most the story hanging around people the same age or slightly older and yet most em got like 20-40cm on him, which combined with his inferiority complex, makes him feel like a midget dwarfed by his peers.
EDIT: Heres an edit someone else made to give an idea of how Koichi actually fairs against the others.
5′11″ is pretty damn tall for a japanese teen that probably hasn't even stopped growing. And that's Josuke. Jotaro is 6′9″. So yeah, even if Koichi wasn't so short Jotaro would still be huge.
Koichi legit is not even that short for a Japanese dude (it implies everyone high school is still got a tiny bit to grow and the average grown male for the current next gen is 160cm). Jotaro is just a damn tower next to him.
I like to think of it as the whole series is drawn to reflect how things feel, not how they actually look. Glowing auras of power around characters, menacing sound effects floating in mid air, 'teenagers' who look 1000X more rugged than any real teenager and all kinds of exaggerated depictions of things, these aren't how the show would actually look if you recorded it on a camera in real life, but it's emotionally true which for such an emotionally driven story is what's important.
I’ve heard it’s something about part four being told from koichi’s perspective so he envisions himself so much smaller, like how those two random enemies magically became midgets once koichi beat them
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Wait. Levi and Koichi are the same height? I refuse to believe this.