I guess by saying that Masunaga's art style is very 90's esque, which it is through it's very sharp design, large eyes and eye pupils, Aoshima's art would look very 80's esque with it's very sketchy, dirty, gritty look. Aoshima reminds me of Fist of the North Star where Masunaga has a look of something like you see out of Sorcerer Hunters! But to me, it is not a bad thing, for I think it is very stylistic, and very pleasing to look at. Like the DBZ art today looks very typically 21st century post-cel artwork, heavily filtered and very shiny and has plastic like features. I think that is just bound to happen since popular styles of specific eras always flow down the chain and end up sneaking in to a little bit of everything during that specific time.kei17 wrote:Uchiyama is just bad. Timelessly bad. But it's not that his art style belongs to a trend of a certain time. On the other hand, Masunaga's style is very, very '90s-esque that you can immediately notice that it's drawn in the '90s by taking a glance at it, which greatly bothers me. I too enjoy varieties of art styles, but he seems to have gone a little too far. It's like he had his own way and didn't care Toriyama's original art from the beginning. As I've already stated, even Uchiyama tried to follow Toriyama's style though he barely had a talent for it.NitroEX wrote:If anything shows signs of age it's those horribly overly simplistic Last House episodes. The art style and animation mentioned in this thread is superb in my view and if anything keep the show looking more modern than it actually is. When I watch a Last House episode that's when I notice the show's age. Studio Cockpit might not mimic Toriyama's style exactly but that's one of the things I enjoy about it, it helps keep the show looking varied and interesting visually.
However, that is not to say that this era specific stylistic-ness is bad. On the contrary, I do prefer the 80's and 90's influenced art styles. But the dilemma is not how it was influenced, it's Masunaga ignoring most of the source material. It almost doesn't look like DBZ. Aoshima, for example, while still having those 80's influenced styles, still roots its main art style from Toriyama's source material. I think it would be fine if Masunaga had toned down his style to look more like the source material. His episodes really do stand out a lot when compared to the rest (sans Uchiyama). It looks very different, and THAT is the problem, not the fact that it looks 90's.
