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

[enemytosleep]

I agree with a lot of the others about enjoying the art a lot around the Ark arc and there after. This latest adjustment in style is not bad - in fact it's quite crisp and polished compared to earlier chapters - but the character design has been somewhat lost and, as mentioned, it is almost impossible to discern who is who anymore. But Kanda was looking veeeery pretty right before his hair exploded *points to icon*

[kresiana.livejournal.com]

"But Kanda was looking veeeery pretty right before his hair exploded"
Kanda always pretty *0*

[enemytosleep]

Hee, he was looking pretty, but with silly hair? Sadly the Saiyan look did nothing for me, and Kanda usually does lots of things for me. ^w^