Gotta keep mine in check so people won't find out that I'm a continental buster with massively hypersonic combat speed and reaction.
What is a powerlevel wallpaper?
Powerlevel is, above all, SUBTLE. It attempts to obscure its source material to anyone unfamiliar with it. It looks good to the uninitiated, while providing a neat nod for anyone who knows the reference.
Good examples of powerlevel include: Insignias and logos Distinctive equipment or ornamentation (weapons, masks, ribbons, hats, necklaces, glasses, anything that can identify the character to someone who knows the source) In-universe organizations Mascots and some non-humanoid side characters. Be careful on this one, it can be borderline.
What powerlevel usually does NOT include: The anime's name or a character's name. There is some wiggle room here if all other criteria are met. Faces, or most of a character's body. Minimalism, if it depicts a character. Landscapes and cityscapes. There is almost no wiggle room, unless you are 100% sure it's powerlevel despite being a landscape. We know, Monogatari and 5cm/s backgrounds look pretty good, but this isn't the thread for them. Screencaps, unless the screencaps have been doctored to be high quality.
>Powerlevel is, above all, SUBTLE. It attempts to obscure its source material to anyone unfamiliar with it. It looks good to the uninitiated, while providing a neat nod for anyone who knows the reference.
>What powerlevel usually does NOT include: >The anime's name or a character's name. There is some wiggle room here if all other criteria are met. >Faces, or most of a character's body. >Minimalism, if it depicts a character. >Landscapes and cityscapes. There is almost no wiggle room, unless you are 100% sure it's powerlevel despite being a landscape. We know, Monogatari and 5cm/s backgrounds look pretty good, but this isn't the thread for them. >Screencaps, unless the screencaps have been doctored to be high quality. Read the OP, powerlevel wallpaper should not look like referencing anime/manga at all.
>>2241827 It's funny how i never watched and or read that series but looking at the colors and the chess piece that was the first thing i though. only know about it it passing.
Pointless to hide power level these days when every normalfag is not in to anime. Unless you want something from some 'problematic' anime like some heavy incest anime or stuff.
>>2246053 I have the spear of Longinus from Eva. In the almost decade that I've had it, no one I've shown it to irl knew what it was. Most just guessed "a pitchfork?"
>>2246088 >"That's a weird looking snail fork. Are you french, anon?" I would rather be known as a weeb than suffer the embarrassment of ever being mistaken as french.
>>2252984 NTA, but when someone asked about it on /wsr/ about a year ago, I wrote a script to resolve the characters and color in the image. Here's the end result: https://files.catbox.moe/lgxct8.txt It uses ANSI escape codes for the colors, so if you run `cat lgxct8.txt` in a terminal on Linux, it gets printed out with colors. And here it is without colors: https://files.catbox.moe/duov0f.txt
>>2252986 Yes, but I only made it to work with this specific image. It's of little to no use with other images, unless modified accordingly. https://files.catbox.moe/cqan9x.py
>>2246223 >>2248256 Don't know if you know, but from left to right it says "Urgent & Important" / "Not urgent, but important" / "Not important, but urgent" and "Not urgent or important" Seems like a neat way to organize stuff
>>2242941 this one is genius, i always come back to it. can someone please post the Lain one "Present day Present time" on a black background, it's been posted on this board a couple of times but archive links are dead as far as i can see.
>>2246053 >>2246088 i have the berserk brand, the flower on skull knights shield, and the girls last tour stairs. one person has recognized the berserk brand. besides that everybody thinks the GLT stairs is a dna strand, it blends in pretty well lol
>>2243665 honestly this is the best power level one only those who watched part five will be able to tell its jojos and then only the massive jojo fans will be able to recognise the church
>>2255878 creativity, motherfucker, ever heard of it
the whole point of powerlevel wallpapers isn't about being ashamed of liking a show/movie/whatever, but about it's about pushing how far you can obscure a reference to a show/movie/whatever while still making something aesthetically appealing
as an example off the top of my head, if you wanted to make a Gunsmith Cats powerlevel wallpaper, one idea would be to use the colors of Rally's Shelby GT-500 (blue with two stripes down the middle) and have a handgun (for Rally) and a grenade (for Minnie May) on either side of the stripes, possibly in silhouette - done with enough skill, the result would probably look interesting enough to casual eyes, but those who know about Gunsmith Cats would be more inclined to catch the "hidden" reference
>>2255878 For me I like the aesthetics of a power level wallpaper. I like simplicity that can convey something deeper, which is exactly what a power level wallpaper is. It's just clean. I don't give a fuck what people around me say about my wallpaper, in fact anime has been normal for a while now, and all the people I know watch anime, so if anything they'll ask me where I got it from.
So much data was lost. Sucks. Anyone got the wallpaper thats just the logo for the knights of the eastern calculus. I always felt that group and 4chan irl were one in the same.
Why doesn't anyone mention what anime the wallpaper is from, at least in the filename? I know the point is to hide the anime, but there are some wallpapers from anime I've watched that I don't get because I've watched the anime so long ago or the wallpaper is too cryptic. Some wallpapers you really need to be a big fan to get or have watched the anime recently.
>>2265944 >you really need to be a big fan to get That is exactly the point. Anime is now really popular and culturally accepted now. 2024 was the first year where the anime industry made more money from outside of Japan than inside. If you don't want normies to go "dude you watch anime?", you have to make sure that your wallpaper is subtle in its execution and only people who have actually watched the show can pick up on the reference.
>>2265948 if anime is mainstream, then why would you want to hide it from people? idk man, just talk a bit about one piece with your normie friends and create healthy sustainable relationships with your community. lol
>>2265948 Yes, I'm with you, but you really need to be a huge fan of the series to get some of these wallpapers (or just need to have watched the anime very recently). Some anime I like a lot, but I've watched a while ago so I miss some reference to it. The wallpapers should be understandable to most people that watched a show, not only a few that did. It's one thing to try hiding the show from people that don't know shit about anime (or about that specific anime), but it's another to hide the show from people that watched the show, and might even be fans of said show. It's too much. That's why I'd like to at least people mention the name of the show when they post.
>>2265988 Because one piece is ass and normalfags fucking suck and should never be introduced to anime.
Personally even if another person recognizes the reference I don't want them commenting on it. I want my power level hidden from everyone. I want these wall papers for myself because they make me happy and i like the aesthetic.
