Aahhhhh, good point - he is colored like a ghost. Is he any different in the flashbacks? Not that it would matter if he didn't, his memory of himself-as-alive has got to be pretty faint.
There is a color plate in the manga where Sai appears just as much of a healthy peachy skin tone as Hikaru and the others, so I agree that part of his anime look was to make him more ghostly.
I think he probably isn't wearing lipstick for the simple reason that in the Heian period, make-up was very basic. Rise paint for whitening the face, charcoal (mixed in a oil based something) to draw eye brows and some sort of red juice for lips? And all that only for the women.
What is more interesting is those earstuds he's wearing. That was not a Heian style. In fact, earrings are not even a Japanese style (throughout the ages). So where did they come from?
Looking through your screen caps, I decided that they reveal moments of the anime that I'd never noticed - because the pictures are part of a motion sequence when something else is important. Taken alone some of them are quite strange and funny if you imagine that you don't know what's going on.
What would you think of the idea of suggesting to use some as writing prompts in the drabble challenge?
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the sreengrabs!
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Hikaru no Go screengrabs: Opening & Closing S2
http://onkoona.livejournal.com/21409.html
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At least Sai is always correct.
And decorative.
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And purple lips.
And his pale skin (for a Japanese...)
IMHO Sai's coloring is like that because he's a ghost. When he was alive he looked a little more normal, or so I'd like to think...
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in Autumn
at that fatefull game
in the moonlight, just before he kills himself
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I had a similar conversation with
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What is more interesting is those earstuds he's wearing.
That was not a Heian style. In fact, earrings are not even a Japanese style (throughout the ages).
So where did they come from?
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What would you think of the idea of suggesting to use some as writing prompts in the drabble challenge?
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Go for it!
I do try, when making the grabs, to jab the button at the right instance to get a nice representative picture, but you know, I sometimes fail...