Art discussion?

[lifeisanorange.livejournal.com]

There was this post a little while back, where the art was touched on a bit, but I don't think there's been a proper discussion about the changes we've seen in the last two or three chapters.

It's personally been bugging the hell out of me, so. SO, I went back to pinpoint just where the style began to change. Out of curiosity. But then I thought it would be fun to go back to the beginning and kind of catalogue all of the changes.

And... I got carried away. Now I have a B&W picspam of random Allen images from chapter 1 to 197, plus two mini picspams of Tyki and Kanda (because they've been showing up most recently).

I would have done one for Lavi, Lenalee, and everyone else, but they've been scarce as of late and this post is about the recent changes.







(kind of skimped out on Kanda because I was getting tired of c/ping)

Sorry about the poor-ish image qualitly; it was much easier to copy/paste from online scans.

IDK. I really love what Hoshino was doing with Allen around the Ark arc, and Tyki when the monthly installments began with chapter 187 (even though I kind of miss his short wavy hair), and Kanda in that 3rd to last picture up above (chapter... 170?).

What's your opinion? Do you think the change is deliberate? Is Hoshino's wrist injury acting up again? Is someone else drawing DGM?? ... Does it not bother you at all? What is going on.


So... I'll just leave this here. Discuss if you'd like? Or ignore me and look at all of the pretty Allen?

ETA: Forgot to add that I don't mean any rudeness by any of this. I know a lot of us don't like the new style, and that's just our opinion, but there are others who rather like it, or know that it will change as the previous styles have ("so really, what's the big deal?"). This post was meant more for speculation, rather than dissing the new style Hoshino's got going :)

Comments

[peachtea.livejournal.com]

*waves* ;P

I'm almost caught up to the current point of the DGM manga. So I'm good with this post, I think. XD

I think..this always happens in mangas. Characters styles change a lot, I've seen it happen in DGM thus far, Fruits Basket (which I don't really like), Loveless, and several more series. But, IDK, I like the style of Allen in the Ark arc and so forth. He's got a softer air about him. Same for Kanda.

Oh. And agreeing with the previous comment, I love how Allen's new scar 'style' looks. It's much neater than how it looked before. I guess I'm still interested in how Hoshino is going to work with her current style. It has cleaned up the characters quite a bit, but eh, I don't know if it'll always be considered a good thing. :/

[lifeisanorange.livejournal.com]

:grins:

the latest two chapters will explain everything!

It does, it does, I know :D
And DGM has changed at least five times now, it's just that... while it was changing before, it was only improving. It's kind of back peddling now, which is what makes me sad and ranty and going off putting together picspams of Allen throughout all of his changes.

About his scar... I think it represents how much more powerful the curse is getting? Allen said something about the first time it changed... It, like, "evolves" or something. IDK.
It's all... crackly now, but I like it too.

[peachtea.livejournal.com]

It has changed a lot, that's true. :P picspams of allen are great

Yes. I think so too. It makes sense. I believe I remember Allen mentioning something about the scar changing too. It is all crackly now. XD I do love the new look. But at the same time I like his classic scar look. 8D IDK.