What is your favorite anime art style?

**Cinnamoroll** · 01-02-2022

OOoo yes time to show some of my favourites!

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Ao Haru Ride... so beautiful. Loved the manga and I was so happy to see an anime

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I really love Ai Yazawa's art style. Paradise Kiss and NANA are two of my all time favourites.

I also like colorful chibi style as well. But yeah, anything soft and feminine is up my alley :')

Another favourite, and how I wish it was an anime, is Sand Chronicles. (you need an account to see links) about it and why I love it so much. I Cry every time I read it.

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**TsUNaMy WaVe** · 01-02-2022

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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!!

OH YEAH KYOANI

Personally I'm in love with their animation in Hibike! Euphonium and Hyouka. Also the style they chose for the movie "Liz and the Blue Bird" is also special and complements the movie very well!

**Menine** · 01-02-2022

3gatsu no lion has one of my favorite arts ever. Artists surely knew how express emotions in the show.

Examples:

Innocence, cutesy:

Anger, mockery, abuse:

Depression, anxiety:

I think the way they used the art to portray character's feelings are truly poetic, this is one of the reasons the anime is in my Top 5 fav animes.

**Cat Purrson** · 01-02-2022

Loved the art style and animation for Blue Exorcist!

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**kittyray** · 01-02-2022

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I really like the depression/anxiety examples you shared! The style is great and I'm a slut for black/white/grey art.

**TsUNaMy WaVe** · 01-03-2022

Originally Posted by Menine

3gatsu no lion has one of my favorite arts ever. Artists surely knew how express emotions in the show.

Examples:

Innocence, cutesy:

Anger, mockery, abuse:

Depression, anxiety:

I think the way they used the art to portray character's feelings are truly poetic, this is one of the reasons the anime is in my Top 5 fav animes.

Thank you for mentioning it! This anime is in my top tier as well. It is so well crafted, and the special art style adds so much to it.

**Hollow** · 01-03-2022

Originally Posted by Cat Purrson

Loved the art style and animation for Blue Exorcist!

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I second this, Blue Exorcist was one of my favourites after Bleach xD

Noragami had some really cool animated openings too!

And of course JoJo's. I loved part 4 and 5's art style a lot! Super bright and colourful!

**radius** · 01-03-2022

Originally Posted by Cinnamoroll

OOoo yes time to show some of my favourites!

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Ao Haru Ride... so beautiful. Loved the manga and I was so happy to see an anime

Yessssss!!! Love this one. Similarly, Orange is beautiful as well!

Might be my nostalgia talking, but I’ll forever love the old style of Inuyasha.

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**Hollow** · 01-10-2022

I also wanted to add Your Name. The animation is so beautiful, very much gave me Ghibli feels. Very smooth and fluid, and the art style seems so soft! I highly recommend giving this a watch if anyone loves the Studio Ghibli art style and animation.

**Danny Phantom** · 01-10-2022

Aaahh that's a hard one for me! Here are some that are high on my list:

Wolf Children:

Blue Exorcist:

JJBA (especially Stone Ocean, they did an amazing job):

And, last but not least (this may raise some eyebrows, but hear me out, the scenery and animation is beautiful!)

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