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* Some Scenes in ''Anime/Watamote''

* Some Scenes in ""Anime/Watamote""

The more extreme form of OnlySixFaces. Should not be confused with TheFaceless, nor with FacelessGoons. For a series where the detailed characters are the ''only'' people living in that world, see MinimalistCast.

* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend: Holiday Star'' has some generic shadowy birds in various places. This played with in The Day The Night Slept; Hiyoko comments on the fact that the citizens of the Holiday Star are vague and shadowy, but it's unclear whether she's BreakingTheFourthWall for the umpteenth time or they really do look like that in-universe. Since she's [[RealDreamsAreWeirder dreaming at the time]], it could be either.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', which instead recycles a large pool of {{Recurring Extra}}s, many of whom have been given nicknames by the fanbase.

* Many notable {{Shonen}} titles that involve battling with an audience do this, such as ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' or ''Anime/YuGiOh'' ''Pokémon'' is especially notorious for this as seen in details of the opening in the ''Latias and Latios'' movie in which most of the crowds on the stands were just a bunch of colorful blob-like beings... in 3D.

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* In the later seasons of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' when they went to school at any sporting event the crowd members were just silhouettes.

* ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' features gray, unmoving masses. When someone in a crowd becomes important, they become colored-in. This makes for a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in episode 11, when [[spoiler:a wave of color washes over a crowd of hundreds as they are revealed to be Dollars members.]]

* Many notable {{Shonen}} titles that involve battling with an audience do this, such as ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' or ''Anime/YuGiOh''. ''Pokémon'' is especially notorious for this as seen in details of the opening in the ''Latias and Latios'' movie in which most of the crowds on the stands were just a bunch of colorful blob-like beings... in 3D.

* Frequently used by Juffs in her ''Disney/TheLionKing'' fancomic [[http://juffs.deviantart.com/gallery/30023681 The Untold Journey]]. Any character in the background or out in the distance will be drawn without eyes.

* In the ''Manga/XxxHolic'' anime, everyone who isn't important is nothing more than a gray silhouette. Occasionally the silhouettes will have basic facial features, but not always. Turns out that this is very important to the plot, as [[spoiler:Watanuki later realizes that he cannot remember the faces of anyone besides the main characters and Yuuko's customers.]]

* In the ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' anime, everyone who isn't important is nothing more than a gray silhouette. Occasionally the silhouettes will have basic facial features, but not always. Turns out that this is very important to the plot, as [[spoiler:Watanuki later realizes that he cannot remember the faces of anyone besides the main characters and Yuuko's customers.]]

The more extreme form of OnlySixFaces. Should not be confused with TheFaceless, nor with FacelessGoons.

* Every non-notable character in ''Side: Despair'' of ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'' is translucent blue. This is actually played for comedy in episode 4, when the judges go from blue to having proper designs after eating Andou's candy.

* In ''VideoGame/AbsoluteDespairGirls'' most adults are shown as blue or pink silhouettes, while most of the kids are wearing the same uniforms and have Monokuma masks cover their faces.

* ''Webcomic/GamerChicks'' and ''Lessons in Distraction'' infamously portray crowds as white circles in a yellow mass. In a [[http://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20070922.html hilariously blatant instance of this]] which actually became a short-lived meme, with a crowd of people staring at her chest looked like a giant block of CartoonCheese shooting lasers.

* ''Gamer Chicks'' had a [[http://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20070922.html hilariously blatant instance of this]] which actually became a short-lived meme, with the main character coming into the Gamestop/equivalent store where she worked, her white shirt soaked from the rain outside. What was meant to convey a crowd of people staring at her chest looked like a giant block of CartoonCheese shooting lasers.

* A computer animation variant: In ''WarPlanets'', the entire population of one planet, Planet Rock -- apart from the royal family, who are main characters -- wear identical suits of armor that conceal all distinguishing features. This was particularly obvious in a StoryArc in which the king [[TenMinuteRetirement abdicates]]; the new king, since he wasn't going to hang around long enough to make it worth creating a new character design, was depicted by another instance of the same anonymous armor.

* In ''Manga/BlendS'', all customers of [[CosplayCafe Cafe Stile]] are drawn this way. This even applies to Satou, [[spoiler:who is supposed to be dating Mafuyu after the events of Episode 10.]]

* ''Anime/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'', uses colored silhouettes for anyone not part of the main cast.

* ''VideoGame/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'', uses colored silhouettes for anyone not part of the main cast.
* ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'' spoofs this trope by having the extras be pink and blue smiley gum-drop people. The series proper has a large cast of extras and no real need for them, but they're used for comedy nonetheless.