Yukie Sako's designs versus Akira Takahashi's

Nov 9, 2016 1:23 PM

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Which do you prefer? Don't confuse it with the overall animation quality, just the character designs. I personally prefer the original Sako's designs as they were closer to the manga and much more refined and detailed, which made them difficult to animate by low-payed animators. Takahashi's designs are way too derpy to the point it is jarring. Some people find them more expressive and I like the way the eyes are shinier, but everything else is much worse. No detail hair, very large noses while in profile and no nose at all on front key frames, Mamoru, Haruka and pretty much every other male look "half-scalped". I really find it cheap to decide to simplify character designs as making them as derpy as that in order to "boost" animation quality, instead of use capable animation teams that proved to be more than capable in most parts of episodes 21 and 25, for example. Just looking for other opinions of the matter. Am I the blind one???

Dec 9, 2016 3:26 PM

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Nice to see someone writing about that in this sense!

A bad point of this regression is that they actually promised back during the gestation of the first series a more faithful charadesign as a "selling point". Only to revert on something rounder and simpler, closer to the cells charadesign (I think).
In the 90s, it wasn't possible to animate the characters in a style close to Takeuchi's. But with all the progress the "japanimation" claims to get through the digital evolution, now 17 years after its propagation it shouldn't be a problem to animate more detailed / complex drawings. But on the contrary, almost any anime has turned toward far simpler choices.

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