What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

This travesty just appeared in the latest Jojolion chapter, and I immediately thought of this thread. I think it’s what Araki thinks a nu-male looks like, because he’s supposed to be a journalist.
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Anything that has ever been under the "Gormiti" brand. Some of the most consistently ugly sets of character designs that I've ever seen.

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The characters are meant to represent different creatures based on their affinity to nature. Earth, Water, Forest, Air and Fire ( the last ones being the bad guys. ) Notice something weird about the four characters in the middle of the front row? The one character that doesn't match with the rest?

That's right, the only girl in the entire set, which belongs to the "Air" tribe. The designers instead of giving her a color palette to match the rest of the air tribe's light bluish greys and white color scheme, gave her instead pinks and purples making her stand out like a sore thumb. Meanwhile the other member of her team have color schemes that match to their corresponding tribes. How narrow minded a character designer has to be that pink and purple is the only color to assign to the one female in the entire show.
 
Anything that has ever been under the "Gormiti" brand. Some of the most consistently ugly sets of character designs that I've ever seen.

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The characters are meant to represent different creatures based on their affinity to nature. Earth, Water, Forest, Air and Fire ( the last ones being the bad guys. ) Notice something weird about the four characters in the middle of the front row? The one character that doesn't match with the rest?

That's right, the only girl in the entire set, which belongs to the "Air" tribe. The designers instead of giving her a color palette to match the rest of the air tribe's light bluish greys and white color scheme, gave her instead pinks and purples making her stand out like a sore thumb. Meanwhile the other member of her team have color schemes that match to their corresponding tribes. How narrow minded a character designer has to be that pink and purple is the only color to assign to the one female in the entire show.
I got to admit the bird people look kind of cool. Other than that yikes at everyone else.
 
This travesty just appeared in the latest Jojolion chapter, and I immediately thought of this thread. I think it’s what Araki thinks a nu-male looks like, because he’s supposed to be a journalist.
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Aint nobody beating Joshu for the worst character design in jojolion. At least this beast will be dead in a few issues Joshu is staying with us.
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Aint nobody beating Joshu for the worst character design in jojolion. At least this beast will be dead in a few issues Joshu is staying with us.
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Joshu acrually used to have a somewhat normal hairstyle in his first couple of appearances - the side of his head was cut short and dyed, instead of shaved clean. I’d pull up a picture but I’m too lazy to dig through a bunch of old chapters. I guess Araki wanted to make him look more pathetic and dorky, so he changed his hair style to something more ridiculous.

E: This is what he looked like in the early chapters - his hair isn't really that weird by Jojo standards.
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This travesty just appeared in the latest Jojolion chapter, and I immediately thought of this thread. I think it’s what Araki thinks a nu-male looks like, because he’s supposed to be a journalist.
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Well you're not wrong, that character has too many chins though
Anything that has ever been under the "Gormiti" brand. Some of the most consistently ugly sets of character designs that I've ever seen.

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The characters are meant to represent different creatures based on their affinity to nature. Earth, Water, Forest, Air and Fire ( the last ones being the bad guys. ) Notice something weird about the four characters in the middle of the front row? The one character that doesn't match with the rest?

That's right, the only girl in the entire set, which belongs to the "Air" tribe. The designers instead of giving her a color palette to match the rest of the air tribe's light bluish greys and white color scheme, gave her instead pinks and purples making her stand out like a sore thumb. Meanwhile the other member of her team have color schemes that match to their corresponding tribes. How narrow minded a character designer has to be that pink and purple is the only color to assign to the one female in the entire show.
Aaaand there it is. I didn't like Gormiti even as a kid, I remember it had a show which looked like any other mid-2000 animesque, 15fps garbage. These creature designs honestly suck and look like mob fodder for a cheap WoW clone mobile game but 5 years early. Absolutely soulless. Oh, it's an air creature, so make it a really buff bird! They couldn't even think of anything for those fire guys and went with generic demon monster faces. Let me guess, the fire people are the 'evil' ones too, right? Yawn. Didn't know a single kid in my grade who liked these things.
 
I'm late for this, but what happened to this franchise's designs is fucking tragic. Maybe it's because I used to watch the first season when I was a little kid and have a bit of nostalgia filter, but how the hell can you go from this...


... to whatever the fuck this clown vomit shit is?

When shows go on forever upgrading characters or substituting cloned likenesses, at some point it's impossible to tell the official 10th gen designs from dollar store knockoff toys or terrible fanfic art.
 
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This travesty just appeared in the latest Jojolion chapter, and I immediately thought of this thread. I think it’s what Araki thinks a nu-male looks like, because he’s supposed to be a journalist.
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Aint nobody beating Joshu for the worst character design in jojolion. At least this beast will be dead in a few issues Joshu is staying with us.
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sometimes godawful haircuts really help a character be effective. if joshu had a regular bowlcut he wouldn't be quite as obnoxious terrible or hilarious.

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it's that little extra push that makes a good piece of shit character. might be the same with the journalist. we didn't get a whole lot of time to see if the journalist was shitty, but the author is definitely communicating something with his face. huge pimples, hipster glasses, neckbeard, terrible terrible haircut. then there's the fact that josuke KNOWINGLY sent this guy to his death.
 
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