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If you've never watched a single anime (short for Japanese Animation) you probably wouldn't understand or know what the heck the above picture is supposed to represent or be nonetheless.
You are supposed to recognize the colors above as the main robot from the anime series "Evangelion" :
(c) GainaxThat was actually the first one I had recognized off the bat, there's a great deal of others that took me a while to distinguish because of the colors. Much like how we recognize characters like Mickey Mouse (
) by the distinctive "H2O" molecule silhouette, anime fans on a Japanese message board came to together to create over 50 of these "color mind tricks" to test your obsession with certain popular anime series. It's not only the colors but the very spacing of the colors that made anime fans associate the first image with Evangelion, because purple is the primary predominant color, while there is only hints of green.This ties down to the basis of color theory, in which by use of certain colors the audience will immediate associate an idea or in this case, anime series/character with the use of colors. A western equivalent would be red and blue (with hints of yellow) as representative of DC comic's Superman or black (blue) and yellow representative of DC comic's Batman. In the western case, they used primary colors to distinguish their "hero" character from villains who have off-primary colors, such as DC comic's Joker, who is distinguished by purple and green.
Creators do this so we associate color schemes and patterns with characters and also to in a way show their "sides" of either villain or hero. Such a strong presence of color scheme creating such an imprint is representative of the gestalt, in which our minds find unity in being able to successfully associate the picture with the idea.
You can find more of these "mind tricks of obsession" over at http://en.gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20091102_otaku_proof
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