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TheKuchisakeOnna
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whats the manga that made your eyes burn and why
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the manga with the worst art that I've seen is the forbidden dance manga i haven't read much of it but I've seen how bad the art is . why is it bad ? the head shape is shaped way too weird and out of proportian and the body is a bit off too . i cant say the story is bad since i haven't read much but i heard it isnt good either -.-' |
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Blackpeppir
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That's a really difficult question to answer. I've seen the art in the manga you're referring to, and while it's not my first choice I can't say it's bad. Saying the art in Forbidden Dance is bad would be like saying the simplistic style of art used in say, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is bad because it isn't as detailed as some of the other series out there. Personally I don't like to dump on the art in a manga unless I know, for a fact that I can do better myself. I mean, sure there are styles I don't like. I'm not the fondest of the style used in a lot of shojo manga out there for example. something that has probably stopped me from reading a lot of great stories but I just can't get over it. So as I said, difficult question to answer and I'm pretty sure I didn't, but that's the response, so to speak, that I'm giving for the question.
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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The art isn't bad per say it's just really simplistic and the style is just very unattractive. However I love the story, and I think is worth reading despite the odd character designs and look. The manga I'm talking about is Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki.
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zawa113
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Seriously? That's why I really liked Parasyte (and Historie)'s artwork, I like the way he draws lines and whatnot and how creepy he can make eyes. Anyway, I really don't like any of the recent character designs by CLAMP, they are just way too tall looking and they freak me out (I'm specifically talking about Tsubasa and xxxHolic here honestly). I'm fine with their older designs, from say Cardcaptor Sakura and earlier, that area of their work, but their news ones...eeehhh....and the same thing applies to Code Geass' character designs. |
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Tamaria
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Oh, yes, CLAMP, the extremely tall bodies with those long arms scare me. I have to admit I like some of the XXXholic covers, the actual manga, no thank you.
I didn't think Parasyte was that bad either. Even if you aren't fond of the human character designs, you'd have to admit the avarage parasyte looks pretty damn awesome. Forbidden Dance... I don't remember much of it, but I do remember it is no Swan. Swan can make you believe the characters dance around on the pages, in Forbidden Dance, the dancer just pose for the reader. And yes, the heads are scary, as if there are huge dents in their faces. Some of the worst, well not exactly worst, art I've seen was in Trigun. If I have to stare at a page for half a minute to figure out what is going on, it fails as a manga. Oh, and I'm going to burn for this one, but I don't like Tezuka's more simplistic work. I admit he is great with panels and creating a good flow, but the drawings can be really inconsistent and crappy at times. It just feels rushed. |
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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Nahh.... you are right on about this. Looking at the context of Tezuka's time, there was nothing that compelled him to draw better. His drawings looked like crap because all the manga-ka drew like crap back then -- it was just disposable Sunday newspaper entertainment anyway. As far as overall worst, I'm gonna go with Akagi, which would look better if it were freakin' stick figures. Playing with intensely detailed mahjong tiles. |
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Agoston
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I have to agree with you on this one, the art in Trigun was just plain awful. The two women, I forgot their names, looked like really bulky men at parts, their bodies were just ridiculously out of proportion. The action scenes were a massive failure as well, they were near-impossible to follow. I was also unable to make very much sense out of the ending, not only was it rushed but the art didn't help. I'm sticking up for Parasyte too, I liked the way the emotions on the human's faces were drawn, especially the eyes, and most of the Parasytes looked pretty cool. Probably the worst I can think of though, is Full Moon o Sagashite by Arina Tanemura. From what I've seen of her other works, which is not too much, they all seem to follow the same trend as well. The characters are drawn .. I don't know how to explain it, in a very cliche shojo style. Their faces and hair color are inconsistent and so similar that I've been unable to follow the plot at parts, due to not knowing which characters were talking. Some of the art she draws for the covers and stuff is very pretty, but while you're actually trying to read the manga, it doesn't serve its purpose. |
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Tamaria
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I like a classic shoujo style, but those eyes are face-eating huge! They aren't filled with emotion like they're supposed to, they're just really, really big.
That's part of it, but Tezuka also had higher aspirations, he wanted comics to be taken seriously and succesfully brought the medium to new hights. I think he was a man who had so many stories to tell, that he wanted to put them all on paper as fast as possible so he could share them. A simplistic style certainly speeds things up.
It's all really too bad. Some of the character designs and story ideas were pretty cool, too bad everything was mangled by the artwork eventually. It was all readable in the beginning, but after 5-6 volumes it went really downhill. Oh, I remember some more awful artwork! Saint Seiya and pretty much everything else by Masami Kurumada. Sure, the series it more or less the definition of awesome, but it looks really shitty with the explosion of tones, questionable or downright impossible anatomy (see pegasus in volume 1) and asymetrical faces. |
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TheKuchisakeOnna
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ya i can agree . i liked the story of tsubasa but there were all too tall. there was this one pannal in one of the volumes ( i think volume 4...) that looks kinda odd . i think its supposed to be one of the charactor's arms thrashing around but it looks like theres a bent up arm on his head and a deformed leg for an arm 0_0 |
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Jump Guru
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The worst manga artist would have to be, hands-down, Ryoji Shibasaki...
Shield your eyes people... 
Pretty bad huh? Well look at this color one: 
Have you seen any crappier artwork in your LIFE? He was an artist in the manga magazine Nou Nou Hau, the magazine where Afro Samurai originally came from. |
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Moomintroll
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The first pic doesn't do much for me but the second pic is actually pretty cool (at least for heta uma art, which I'm not usually a huge fan of but which certainly has its moments). I'd certainly choose it over the tired, bland, generic, anime-friendly, characterless pap that serves as the art for most popular shounen and shoujo titles these days. |
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heatgirlj
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Um...what is that supposed to be from?
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EricDent
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IMO the art for Trigun kept getting worse & worse each volume. Also the art in Hellsing seemed to be doing the same.
Maybe it is cause they are both published (in the USA) by Dark Horse? |
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ikillchicken
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Uh, no. I'm fairly certain Darkhorse does not draw the artwork for Trigun of Hellsing themselves. |
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Yuruyuru
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i say the late chapters of Hunter x Hunter the art quality really dropped, and whats worse is that the author could'nt keep up anymore the series has been in hiatus for a long time.
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