What is your favorite anime art style?

[j03]

There are some distinct anime art styles, and you can sometimes notice the same details/similarities between different shows and movies...

Which is your favorite?

[TsUNaMy WaVe]

Oh wow there are so many I love!

First example will be (you need an account to see links). The characters look chibi and childish which gives a really wrong impression about what this show is really about. But aside from that, the background illustrations are freaking amazing.

Second example is (you need an account to see links). The show is super colorful and fun, and it adds a lot to its kinda-bizarre nature. The colors lighting/shadowing isn't detailed, but it's still really fun to look at!

One last example for now will be (you need an account to see links). As expected from a shaft series, the art style is pretty crazy with the colors and still shots, and also the very cool patterns on the cloths etc!

[Buizel]

I love the original art style for Soul Eater. Although, the appeal really seems to have fallen out with Soul Eater Not's anime art.

I also liked Seven Deadly Sins as well in earlier seasons, but I heard that the art really fell short as it was ending.

[Flordibel]

I know Attack on Titan has fallen out of vogue a bit lately, but I really loved the old Wit Studio style of the chunky lineart! It always felt like they were about to leap off the screen.

(And Levi never looked better lbr)

[kittyray]

I'm not much of an anime connoisseur, but I've watched a lot of Ghibli though and everything about them is so gorgeous. The backgrounds are fantastical and have so many details.

Also, I used to follow a blog that was just Ghibli food.

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I don't know if this counts because I'm so unfamiliar with other ones, but I really do love it so much.

[Ice]

KyoAni is definitely one of my favorite (if not, fav) animation studios and their clean and extremely aesthetically pleasing style for shows like Free! and Violet Evergarden is just gorgeous. Not just how they draw and animate people but animate nature (ESPECIALLY WATER) or environmental scenes (like in VE) just makes me cry... I could literally look at it all day!!

[Flordibel]

Ahhhh Ghibli is *so* dreamy, I really love it. Just pure aesthetic porn imho.

[Buizel]

I love how Ni No Kuni used Ghibli art, it just made the game all the more beautiful.

[Ariealle]

I think Studio Ghibli takes the cake for me. I mean, I love Sailor Moon, and it really is a beautiful style, especially in the manga. There's something though about Ghibli where you [I] don't want to take your [my] eyes off the screen. You don't want to miss a single second. Sometimes I rewind just to take it all in.
Just look at how soft.

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One Sailor Moon. Thank you.

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[Hollow]

My favourite will always be the Bleach art style. I'm a massive fan of Kuo Tite's style, his art has influenced me to become a better artist. His sense of style in his characters are pretty unique too, since Kubo originally wanted to be a fashion designer, you can definitely see that in his art and clothing he gives to the characters



The most impressive thing about the Bleach art style is how it's evolved and grown through out the years, Kubo really refined his art from the blocky/pointy style to the more rounded off look. I really admire how his art looked, espesially in the Soul Society arc!

The transition of his art from the manga to the anime worked really well, especially in the Soul Society arc, Fake Karakura Town arc Fullbring arc. They were animated to beautifully!