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Try reading non Shounen Jump Weekly manga. Weekly releases just aren't sustainable health wise long term for most manga artists to draw high quality stuff, SJW especially given how competitive it can be.
Yeah I think that's obvious with cases like Araki, whose art/plot noticeably improved when JoJo 7 went monthly. I ""think"" Miura was a similar case where right after the Eclipse arc he switched to monthly and had more time to do the beautiful art from Lost Children.
 
It might be the usual case of remembering only the 5% good art in the past, though there is now some popularity to a more sketchy style. It is an exaggeration to call it calartsification though since the rough sketch style is still stylistic compared to calart basic shapes with no edges and extremely basic colouring.
japanes people are in decline.
there is not enough artists and animators in the country.
 
I have a theory the reason art looks like it's on a quality decline is because aspiring artists these days don't learn how to draw traditionally, paper and pencil and the like, since tablets and computers are more ubiquitous than ever. Paper and pencils/supplies cost money and are easy to be wasteful, but a free art program is forever. Being self-taught would also play a part in it if the child doesn't get art classes (and good teachers) before adulthood, though practice makes perfect.

Legit, there's something neat and satisfying about the painstaking attention to detail when you're sitting there inking that rough outline you had sketched out for the umpteenth time until it looked just right. It's easier to get lazy and more prone to mistakes when you're cranking something out on Photoshop because you can always find the iffy layer you don't like and can redo or just delete from the file. Digital art can still be beautiful, yet it will always look clean, and there's no way you can see the instances of smudge from a finger or side of the knuckle slightly brushing over it, or a ghost of a pencil outline that couldn't get erased fully, or the paper texture from the scanning.

The life of a mangaka sounds like hell, however, so if computers are helping someone save time and/or money or allow them to have a headrest, then so be it. (Eyesight may still get fucked over unless they have dark skin/anti-blue light enabled. There's always a hazard.) Hopefully artwork gets cleaned up and improved on for the tankoban, which I think tends to depending on the artist.
 
The Twitter account for the Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo manga announced yesterday that it was getting a stage production. An obvious April Fools' prank but no, it was a double reserve prank because it is getting a stage production.

I've seen a few musical productions based on anime, namely Bleach and Sailor Moon. They were alright. Has anyone else seen a anime play/musical?
 
Try reading non Shounen Jump Weekly manga. Weekly releases just aren't sustainable health wise long term for most manga artists to draw high quality stuff, SJW especially given how competitive it can be.
The World Trigger author fucking his health over permanently and being forced into a two year hiatus might have been an eye opener for a lot of people.
Oh boohoo we're supposed to feel sorry for someone working their dream job drawing anime titties all day. :'(

It never seems to occur to weebs that these authors want to go to that extreme on their own initiative. No one is holding a gun to their head and most of the time they have at least a small team of assistants apprenticing under them to help along with the drawing behind the scenes. With actual systems and collaborative communities that simply do not exist in the west. It also says a lot about how far the west has fallen when regular consistent release schedules are seen as "problematic" for anyone not doing hard labor jobs.

Drawing for hours on end every day is not the "back breaking labor" that retards on the internet make it out to be. Because being passionate and dedicated about anything in this life seems to be an alien concept to them, let alone actually enjoying anything beyond instant gratification bullshit. Hell some mangaka even livestream their manga drawing process and chat with people while doing that most of the time these days too.
 
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Friend and I have been slogging through the Tenchi Blackhole, as we call it, for years now as a way to cleanse our palette of Love Hina. We really do like Tenchi in general, but we have definitely found our match with Sasami: Magical Girls Club. Literally fuck-all happens for 13 episodes, something starts happening for a few episodes at the start of season two, and then went back to dull and uninteresting where world-building is glanced over and adults just refuse to talk to the girls as to why it's not a good idea to get involved with what amounts to cult behavior. Such a waste of potential for any kind of commentary about magical girls and reality, and the characters are completely underutilized. The OCs made for this series are nobodies with nothing of substance to show for it and the Tenchi characters who are in the show are skinwalkers for all I know. We're not yet done, we're legit exhausted by it.
I still can't believe that show had a shounen tournament arc. The best thing about it was seeing the Tenchi characters in a different artstyle and the banana boat. The best story elements are at most run-of-the-mill, and that might have been okay if it was a kids' show (which I thought it was at first), but it's clearly not, so it's just terrible all around. Writing and content wise, it's basically a kids' show for Japanese pedophiles, so that makes it a whole new level of disturbing. I'd be interested in any novels it may have, though.
And AIC like didn't trust an original magical girls show to do well and had to bring in Pretty Sammy to boost views only to take away everything that made Pretty Sammy great. Oh, and Mari Okada is the screenwriter, but she was like a nobody at this time(?) so no one's sucking her clit and calling her a genius.
In 2005 they did another magical girl show, Magical Kanan, which I unfortunately watched for the sheer obscurity, and it was also terrible. It's a Cardcaptor Sakura ripoff with nothing supporting it except a cool magical realm, an okay OP song, and a purple Pokemon reject. Making matters worse is that it's based on a hentai game, so you're basically watching the sanitized version of Cardcaptor Sakura: XXX Edition. It's by far AIC's worst show altogether -- even worse than G Dangaioh because at least the Build Ranger was cool and the Ur-Dangaioh episode was interesting.

I tried watching Kite Liberator, and surprisingly I liked its visual elements best. All the space stuff was cool, and I liked how detailed the subway was. However, it became way too violent/sexual (I haven't seen the original Kite outside GIFs and the Media Blasters trailer), so when it became clear that there would be no more space stuff, I stopped watching. I would have loved it if it was just about bad space curry with some corruption/conspiracy politicking down on Earth, but then it would have become a generic, forgettable seasonal. It's a shame because it's one of the last examples of a classic anime OVA (aside from Ice and Mazinkaiser SKL).

Fun fact: Kite inspired a No Doubt music video.
 
Im gonna go on another small autistic rant

I feel like Manga is going through the calartsification process cause most of the new stuff Im reading has really simplistic anatomy and lacks detail
Consider Kagurabachi
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I dont want to pick obvious art bait like Berserk and I dont want to pick stuff like Itagaki Paru/Akira Toriyama/Go Nagai cause those are purposefully cartoony. But I really want to know what happened to the industry, its not like nowadays everything is bad art cause Real and OPM still have fantastic art but theyre exceptionally rare now. Even the more story focused Naoki Urasawa manga have good art. Most popular/average manga have mediocre art now. Theyre so mediocre that they could pass as webcomics. I dont know if its deadlines or industrialization but why? I know its not completely due to digital cause Shinichi Sakamoto is able to make good art. Older manga on average are more detailed and have better anatomy.
I kind of blame deadlines since while I have ragged on monthly series in the past but they do generally have better art, also the fact that it seems like a number of newer people are jumping straight from webcomics or online stuff straight to manga doesn't help when before they would spend a few years at as an assistant learning from the old guard, or getting an art degree (I forget which director was it but one of the older made new animators practice realistic figure and gesture drawings before letting them animate).
Also one thing that I think is lacking more then detail is paneling or how they frame their drawings. I like urasawa but I don't actually think his actuall artwork is that overly detailed, but he's great at facial expressions and features, body gestures, and a clean flow from panel to panel (iirc he started as a storyboard artist for commercials before making manga) also good opportunity to bring up manben to see how he and a few well know artist draw

This is also why I think something like Ashita no Joe and most tezuka works still hold up despite objectively being closer in comparison to the "calarts" style (and if I'm allowed to mention western artists, same goes for Carl Barks and Bill Waterson).
 
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Dunno if anyone else here is a Tenchi sperg
I got into all things Tenchi about a year ago. Really enjoyed the bulk of the shows/OVAs I watched, but I think that the movie Tenchi Forever is the high watermark for the franchise, and really where it should have ended with the original cast. Stunning animation, eerie Twilight Zone-esque story, surprisingly quiet and harrowing moments between Ayeka and Ryoko, and even some welcome alterations to the character designs to suit the dramatic tone of the story.

I really wish the Oh My Goddess movie had been as good, and not the confusing, random clusterfuck it ended up being.
 
Oh boohoo we're supposed to feel sorry for someone working their dream job drawing anime titties all day. :'(
By all means, try to manage fifteen/twenty comic pages per week across the years for the weekly magazines.
The comic industry in Japan is not that different from the one in France where making a sustainable career and living out of drawings is hard to achieve, several Japanese authors I've read mentioned they made their mangas as a 'side-thing' outside of their job. Weekly schedules allow for a recurrent good pay (as they're mainly paid by the amount of manuscript pages), although this doesn't take account of the expenses for eventual assistants (in order to keep up with the deadlines) and this lifestyle can really fuck up one's own health in the long term.

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Manga authors in monthly magazine issues (such as Yuri Hime, Afternoon, Harta, etc.) don't make more than 40 pages, which is roughly half of what weekly authors can perform. But a chapter actually averages around 20 pages per month even then.

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Advantages of monthly-issued series give the artists more time allocated into the art itself (also preventing eventual mistakes), better pacing and a story that doesn't get too big. Sure it took almost 10 years for Dungeon Meshi to be fully completed (in a total of 14 volumes) due of being a monthly serie, but I don't think the project could have reached the amount of quality if it was weekly instead. On the other hand, One Piece and Dragon Ball (to name the two big examples) could have never been the same success or have the same amount of content if they released monthly.

It's two variants of workload that have their own pros and cons. I feel like weekly manga is something that can be created when you start in your late teens or 20's but it hits you like a truck the further you get older (especially if your serie has been running longer than initially expected).
 
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I dropped it shortly after that Gentle villans with the bounce powers and his henchgirl that gives her obsession extra power.
 
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