Is it just me, or is the 90s artstyle slowly coming back?

To be fair, Kui's style is incredibly unique (for better and for worse), you can't really pin it down on the timeline.

There is no elf girl as cute or as lovingly drawn, shaded and animated as OVA Deedlit in modern anime, sadly

resembled =/= inspired by

Because it summed up the visual style of the preceding decade the best.

Bebop came out after the 90s series and it's cels were recycled from the countless space cels Sunrise had lying around from all their sci fi ovas and tv series.

Are you 100% positive about that?

i.4cdn.org/wsg/1748438735187840.webm

hot

I really miss the immediate readability of high contrast color palettes.

You mean deep shadows?

Coke is just like this sometimes

I really don't get why people like the 90s and 80s "styles" they simply look worse. It was also back when they still had noticeable influences from old western cartoons and hadn't developed their own look yet. No anime studio emulates those styles because they're less evolved so to speak. Modern anime is simply cuter and more artistically sound since the moe method has been fully developed. Not to mention, anime now is a lot more dynamic in how it looks, with a larger variety of stylistic differences to suit many different tastes.

Right now anime looks closer to western cartoons than ever. You could never look at 90 ovas and confuse them with TMNT. These days anime and netflix shit often look interchangeable, and it's only by common design elements that you can tell them apart.

Every western cartoon is cal arts now. While cal arts does sort of look like a shitty attempt at deformed characters, no anime really looks that plain and flat. I'd be open to seeing comparisons though that show how they look like western cartoons as it intrigues me.

A person who's not into animation will never be able to tell which one of those comes out of Japan.

Retard

Anime with art style forced to be shitty because western company involved

Lightly anime inspired western series, also warner brothers

I knew this was going to be the image used. Now find me something from the West that looks like Onimai or Mahoako.

It's easy, the top one has a strong waman in the centre and the bottom has a manly man. The bottom one is anime.

Western studios don't make moeslop

Moe is the only thing worthy of the anime title and being called art. The industry is for lolicons and run by lolicons. Even now, the "big anime" is Mushoku Tensei, which has heapings of loli fanservice. These are the only works that get budget and care and the only ones that deserve it.

Even now, the "big anime" is Mushoku Tensei

Next time start by announcing your garbage taste

I've not even watched it myself but it is probably the most popular thing right now considering the high budget and continuous sequels. It is also why many companies started adapting shitty light novels because they thought they too could capture the popularity.

Unironically this, HQ is the only Japanese looking thing in the top pic

To be fair, Kui's style is incredibly unique (for better and for worse), you can't really pin it down on the timeline.

It's Tumblr-core mixed with '10s style, newfriend-kun.

I don't think she even knows what tumblr is, retard.

looks nothing alike

dumb zoomer

What part of ANYTHING on the right looks like the 90s?

...what part doesn't?

No no it didn't
Watch more anime

b-but look at muh thousand titles!

it's literally all split cours and specials from stuff that came out in the 10s and 20s

the camera angle
the use of digital vs paint
the overall shading
the hair
the eyes
the nose
the cloak
the shoulder armor
everything about the general design
The part where we're not fucking blind

No nose

Don't the Japanese label the 90s as the animation depression or something.

You're just an angry sperg without an argument.

90s anime was no stranger to extremely reduced noses.

Seeing how most of the most acclaimed anime comes from that era or close, why would they do that?

Retard thread
Everybody abandon

You hear, folks? The malding sperg ordered you to leave. Please comply or he will piss his pants.

9/11

Reminds me of that tragedy

She's a filthy westaboo

Ninety's

It's '90s - short for 1990s.

I don't follow.

Cowboy Bebop is of the same style as Golden Boy which released in '95.

It's perfectly defined by the pic on the left, what more do you want?

Sad but fpbp

autistically well-drawn machine parts are one thing I really miss from the 90s that will never come back again because modern nerds don't like technology anymore

I walked through blood and bones in the streets of Manhattan, trying to find my brother

Makes more sense than you think. Anyone who grew up broke or cultured in the 2000s was playing and watching tons of '90s stuff.

She managed to find something positive to say about Sera. Not bad.

I think Zenshuu was also trying to do the same thing

Is it just me or do old-good-new-bad-fags get more and more stupider every month?

But divorced from the context of the decade that created them, a literal cargo cultist
This is why millennials who called themselves 90s kids were always made fun of even before the younger ones were rebranded as zoomers

I gooned to Sera...

Does it really matter? My nostalgia goes back all the way to the 1970s.

You weren't involved in the context anyhow unless you lived in the USA, because this is where all the medias came from.

Let alone Japan if we're talking anime, if you don't live in Japan, you're completely disconnected from the context, no matter the decade.

because modern nerds don't like technology anymore

Now that you mention it, this seems kind of true. There doesn't seem to be the kind of nerds in the scene anymore that are really into any degree of mechanical design. I wonder if you can make some psychosexual reading about modern people not fiddling with machines as much today

unless you lived in the USA

yeah stop posting here if this isn't true for you

they're getting more and more right with each passing month

fucking lol, we're in the middle of an animanga renaissance and they're still grumbling about how the crud they watched when they were a 14 year old in the 2010s is true anime and the stuff everybody likes is bad because popular thing bad

Kids are always disconnected from the cultural context of their decade by default because they lack the facilities to understand what is really going on beyond their neighbourhood. They can't get any of the references. They recontextualise and rationalise it only after they grow up.

more stupider

Come back when you master basic grammar.

we're in the middle of an animanga renaissance

What does this even mean for you?

Firstly

what even is the '90s artstyle'

Secondly if either one of those wasn't an elf you wouldn't be making that comparison

renaissance

more like slopsance
any year in the 90s had more good shows than any year in the 20s despite having several dozen times fewer shows

what even is the '90s artstyle'

Sharper features
Ginormous eyes
More facial distortion
Darker shading

Kids simply don't interact with real objects anymore, everything is digital. Mid level mechanical engineering is dying.

A renaissance would imply there's a revival of art when in reality they're just rehashing the same stuff, but worse. Anime is on its last legs before it becomes completely sterilized.

God I wish

Right now anime looks closer to western cartoons than ever

It's the opposite, western cartoons look closer to anime now.

In the 90's, western cartoons WERE anime
You are now aware that BTAS and The Big O were made by the same people

What was Sakura Card Captors about again?

It's not just you. There's an entire show with this premise, check it out.

It's a magical girl show that's like the middle ground between Pokemon and YGO with a healthy does of CGDCT. Highly recommended.

I kind of had the same thought with Kowloon Generic Romance
There's something to the way the faces are shaped or the line weight or the way the backgrounds are slightly out of focus
It feels pre-digital to me

Thanks fren

Fart Braptor Suckura

The plot also feels 90s to me somehow, maybe just because it's good lmao

If I were to put my finger on it I'd say staff wanted to infuse the same kind of nostalgic feeling into the production as what Kowloon is supposed to exude

Nah, it's just elves coming back.

It's funny because I think the audience is still there. There's still for example a mil-otaku market out there and I'm sure they would love hand drawn highly detailed plane engines or whatever. I think the issue is more on a production level. The industry doesn't seem to have proper autists anymore.

maybe just because it's good lmao

I haven't been keeping up with it because I read the manga years ago and it turned to complete shit I recall
Kowloon is such a great setting especially for a nostalgia-bait anime, but they don't fucking do anything with the city setting

It's like that famous Miyazaki quote, the old generation of artists used to go into the world and copy it, the new generation just watches cartoons and copies the copy. Miyazaki's dad was an engineer and he saw hundreds of plane engines growing up. The parents of modern artists are salarymen with a 90% probability and the kids grow up alone with only anime and videogames to keep them entertained.

What did you expect, Kung Fu Hustle?

The Kenshin remake wasn't awful but it was just so boring to look at it.

Something that actually uses the city as a setting I guess
Bonus points for not turning to shit also

A show where a naive girl is dressed by her stalked friend with cute (and a little sexy) outfits while her life is in danger.

Ditto for Yaiba

based

No, you're just a retard.

Finally someone not afraid to speak the truth.

Are you literally just watching the remakes and sequels to stuff you already know? Get better at picking anime to watch, scrub

I noticed you gave zero examples because you zoomers think Frieren is the 'peak'.

???????
By the 80s anime had already develop its own style, it had evolved from the Tezuka cartonish style from the 70s.

At first I thought they were in the same frame and I was like WTF

Elves never left you fucking retard

I was born in 1995 and I think Frieren is peak.

Demonstrably false.

Technically it should be 90s’ as it would be the contraction for “of the nineties” or “nineties’”

I want to nibble on those ears

they're sweaty

Why not farther?

It is also why many companies started adapting shitty light novels

Wrong on two parts, Mushoku Tensei was not the first modern isekai to be popular and to be given a high budget and a great adaptation and it really is just Kadokawa pumping out shitty isekai adaptations, don't get me wrong it's not like other producers don't also occasionally make isekai, some low budget and some high budget, but Kadokawa is the reason we have like 75-100 shitty isekai a year and the reason isekai is probably even considered it's own genre in the modern day. 10 years ago they decided they where going to produce 100 anime a year and the cheapest option where WN adaptations, and cheap ones too.

I'll lick them clean

The Japs labelled the first half of the 90's, up until like 1995-1996, the anime ice age/animation depression because aside from a few shows here and there nothing good was actually airing on TV, not to mention this is around the time the bubble popped so animation studios started to pump out cheap, slideshow tier, OVA's that no one bought. Most shows from around this time where slideshow tier actually, it's just that most people don't actually remember them and only remember the semi-decent shows and even those shows had blatant cost cutting measures like reusing animation scenes constantly or just straight ripping animation from an entirely different anime and drawing over the slides.

If you think that you might genuinely be braindead

If Frieren released 30 years ago I can guarantee you old good new bad fags would be using it as a prime example of why the 90's where the best decade ever. In fact, I can almost guarantee that in 30 years there will be old good new bad fags using Frieren to show why the 2020's are superior to the 2050's.

I never saw anyone using FMA to defend the 2000s. It's shonen garbage.

If Frieren was released 30 years ago it would be made in the style and to the standards of that era.

In fact, I can almost guarantee that in 30 years

You retards barely remember things THREE years after they're over. Nobody is going to be saying shit.

Most shows from around this time where slideshow tier actually, it's just that most people don't actually remember them and only remember the semi-decent shows and even those shows had blatant cost cutting measures like reusing animation scenes constantly or just straight ripping animation from an entirely different anime and drawing over the slides.

I'm so glad that this is no longer the case
Haha

IDK about your pic but i can certainly see some contemporary anime opting for it.

I never saw anyone using FMA to defend the 2000s

This is a blatant lie and you know it, there are militant groups of 2000's better posters that are ardent FMA 03 fags and another batch that are ardent brotherhood fags on this very board.

Slopsance is a very nice word, thanks

You retards barely remember things THREE years after they're over

Don't try to push your dementia on me old man, if you can barely remember anything right now maybe that's just a sign that your brain is getting too old. I can perfectly remember my favorite anime of the 2022 anime year.

I see Frieren used as an example of why the 2020's are superior to the 90's and everything in between, actually. So you're right in the most wrong way possible. Somehow being right completely demolishes your entire point, quite amazing.

Somehow being right completely demolishes your entire point, quite amazing

You might be a retard, if anything that just makes my point correct. If 2020's fags are already using it now to show the superiority of their decade in 30 years they will still be using it against 2050's fags.

eyes not too big or detailed

transparent hair

nosebridge connecting to the eyebrows

guy's hair has no shading

This is definitely not the default contemporary slop style, but I wouldn't call it the 90s style, either.

Nevertheless, it looks very nice

For this style to come back, Japan needs many good animators who can convincingly imitate it. But most of their animators now are just robots who are only trained to redraw manga frames and the implied movement in between them, and do it quick. Japan has come to the point where they finally prioritise quantity over quality like in the West. It's oni.

It has its moments.

Japan has come to the point where they finally prioritise quantity over quality like in the West.

This has always been the case retard, most anime in the 70's, 80's and 90's where slideshow tier garbage that hurts to look at. Most OVA's where cancerous slop as well. Just because you've only seen the 10-20 or so good movies and shows from those decades doesn't mean that was the standard for the time you fucking mongoloid.