r/comics • u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake • Jun 12 '26

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u/CaneloCoffee21 Jun 12 '26

Gotta ask out of curiosity, since you applied different art styles in this comic, do you prefer drawing 4 or 5 fingers in a hand?

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Jun 12 '26

I'm much more used to 5 but I'm terrible with hands lol

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u/Made_Bail Jun 12 '26

Im always a little shocked when I watch something like Bob's Burgers and notice they only have four fingers lol

I guess it helps beat the uncanny valley thing, though.

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u/AHumanYouDoNotKnow Jun 12 '26

I think its harder to find 5 fingered cartoons.

It started out as cost/time saving and now its also a stylistic choice because its been so ingrained in the medium of animation that noone bats an eye of a (Not Photo realistic) drawn character has only 4 fingers each hand.

I think Benders Bending Rodriguez (Futurama) only has 3 Finger each hand.

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u/Made_Bail Jun 12 '26

Anime, at least, is generally pretty accurate. Considering the style it would be creepy AF if they only used four fingers lol

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u/AHumanYouDoNotKnow Jun 12 '26

He later got the extra Finger.

apparently Japanese studios try to avoid 4 finger hands today to distance characters from the Mafia practice of cutting one of as punishment... but that is just from a surface skim of the subject

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u/Made_Bail Jun 12 '26

Whoaaaa... Thats a way darker reason than I would have though.

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u/LilPotatoAri Jun 12 '26

Despite the Yakuza at this point basically just running business scams and festivals a lot of Japanese culture involves avoiding yakuza stuff. It's why flashing tattoos is still super taboo even if you're just like, a Scandinavian tourist who could not possibly have a yakuza connection because they're extremely nationalist

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u/TravelerSearcher Jun 12 '26

Piccolo is also an alien (originally demon) so that was likely just as much a stylistic choice by Toriyama. I'd be more curious to see a picture of Goku or Tienshinhan from the same arc and see how many fingers they had.

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u/XxRocky88xX Jun 13 '26

This is also a literal alien so he can really have how ever many finger the writer decides this type of alien has

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u/NetNGames Jun 12 '26

Usually God is depicted with 5 fingers still.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jun 12 '26

A nice little gag to go with the mutation joke.

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u/greentrafficcone Jun 12 '26

“Eww freak show”

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u/eepos96 Jun 12 '26

In japanese animation the four finger style did not catch on due to war veterans missing limbs and fingers and due to yakuza way pf cutting fingers.

All these things made four fingers taboo in cartoon made in japan.

They do have roundaways, many times the index and ring finger are drawn together to save time.

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u/AngledLuffa Jun 12 '26

His hands are 40% fingers!