Gijinka (擬人化) is a Japanese word meaning "humanoid", "personification", or "anthropomorphic", although the use of the word outside of Japan has come to be slightly different from the use of the word "anthropomorphic" in the anime/manga/furry/etc communities. Rather than referring to just any animal with human characteristics, a gijinka is most often a fan re-design of an animal-like character from an animation or graphic novel in a human or humanoid form, (ex: a Digimon or Pokémon) or of a humanoid version of the artist's own original animal-like character.
So basically you take something that is non-human and redesign it so that it is human or humanoid but still recognizable as the original character/creature.
 Xelyn Craft · Tue Jan 28, 2014 @ 08:48am · 0 Comments |
