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 Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:20 pm
 This is a recent sketch of Kenshin that Watsuki did for the collector's edition re-release of RuroKen. What's everyone think of this style as compared to his earlier ones? I love his face and eyes. I like hanten and boots he now wears. I'm not too wild about how his hair looks. I'm still out to lunch on how the horizontal part of his scar stretches across his face.  Here, of course is the original style.
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Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:37 pm
I don't remember if I already said this in this guild, but if not I'll say it again.
It seems that many manga-ka follow a pattern in their art. First they're just starting out and they're shaky, so the art is nothing magnificent (or not compared to their later style at least). Then midway they fall into a grove that impresses me from my head to my socks. And for some reason, towards the end, they fall through. They don't revert to their initial stage - it's more like they are so close to the end that they start to rush, and their art technique suffers.
Examples are:
CLAMP's Magic Knight Rayearth, their first popular work: CLAMP was always great, but if you compare their art from volume 1 of MKR with volume 6, you'll still see a huge improvement. I'm not fond of the new styles they tried in Angelic Layer and Chobits, but it is cute.
Ooshimizu Sachi's Twin Signal: Granted, Ooshimizu was never that great of an artist. But around volume 10 she really found her grove and was at her best for about 8 volumes. Then in the final volume 19 (and the subsequent shorts, Snow Queen and Moira), she completely lost it and was pushing frames too close together, messing with characters' bodies, etc. It was a big disappointment - the manga really couldn't afford the drop in her style.
And of course, Watsuki Nobuhiro's Rurouni Kenshin: From volume 1 through volume 4, he drew in a quite puffy, round style. In my personal opinion, volumes 5 and 6 were Watsuki at his peak - the way he drew at that time was my favorite. He kept in a very nice group through volume 20, and suddenly towards the end of 21 his style changed. It regained the roundness from his beginnings but without the puffiness. The inking grew bolder and the facial features more stylized, which disappointed me because it negated a lot of the individual characteristics of the Kenshin-gumi's appearances.
Personally I don't like Watsuki's later style, which he uses in his subsequent manga series and also the sequels to Ruroken. But I do think it's a good style. It's merely that he deviated so much from what I thought was best that annoys me. It's kind of cute, the roundness. But my personal opinion would be that the earlier Kenshins were better than the later Kenshins. xd
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:13 am
Akira_Hoshino I don't remember if I already said this in this guild, but if not I'll say it again. It seems that many manga-ka follow a pattern in their art. First they're just starting out and they're shaky, so the art is nothing magnificent (or not compared to their later style at least). Then midway they fall into a grove that impresses me from my head to my socks. And for some reason, towards the end, they fall through. They don't revert to their initial stage - it's more like they are so close to the end that they start to rush, and their art technique suffers. Examples are: CLAMP's Magic Knight Rayearth, their first popular work: CLAMP was always great, but if you compare their art from volume 1 of MKR with volume 6, you'll still see a huge improvement. I'm not fond of the new styles they tried in Angelic Layer and Chobits, but it is cute. Ooshimizu Sachi's Twin Signal: Granted, Ooshimizu was never that great of an artist. But around volume 10 she really found her grove and was at her best for about 8 volumes. Then in the final volume 19 (and the subsequent shorts, Snow Queen and Moira), she completely lost it and was pushing frames too close together, messing with characters' bodies, etc. It was a big disappointment - the manga really couldn't afford the drop in her style. And of course, Watsuki Nobuhiro's Rurouni Kenshin: From volume 1 through volume 4, he drew in a quite puffy, round style. In my personal opinion, volumes 5 and 6 were Watsuki at his peak - the way he drew at that time was my favorite. He kept in a very nice group through volume 20, and suddenly towards the end of 21 his style changed. It regained the roundness from his beginnings but without the puffiness. The inking grew bolder and the facial features more stylized, which disappointed me because it negated a lot of the individual characteristics of the Kenshin-gumi's appearances. Personally I don't like Watsuki's later style, which he uses in his subsequent manga series and also the sequels to Ruroken. But I do think it's a good style. It's merely that he deviated so much from what I thought was best that annoys me. It's kind of cute, the roundness. But my personal opinion would be that the earlier Kenshins were better than the later Kenshins. xd Ohmygod, I think so too!!! But I always thought that I was the only one ever noticing, so I didn't make a post about it. How silly ^^ And I also feel bad about Watsuki's change of style. I don't want to say anything bad about him (because there would be no Kenshin without him), but I have to say that I have been irritated about his art style too. Woah, it actually feels great to get that off my chest, LOL, and actually finding someone who thinks the same thing! ^^
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:26 pm
Ankha Ohmygod, I think so too!!! But I always thought that I was the only one ever noticing, so I didn't make a post about it. How silly ^^ And I also feel bad about Watsuki's change of style. I don't want to say anything bad about him (because there would be no Kenshin without him), but I have to say that I have been irritated about his art style too. Woah, it actually feels great to get that off my chest, LOL, and actually finding someone who thinks the same thing! ^^ ^0^ I'm glad someone else has noticed too. I always found it interesting. Kenshin was definitely at his cutest in volumes 5 and 6. whee
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:41 pm
Ankha Akira_Hoshino I don't remember if I already said this in this guild, but if not I'll say it again. It seems that many manga-ka follow a pattern in their art. First they're just starting out and they're shaky, so the art is nothing magnificent (or not compared to their later style at least). Then midway they fall into a grove that impresses me from my head to my socks. And for some reason, towards the end, they fall through. They don't revert to their initial stage - it's more like they are so close to the end that they start to rush, and their art technique suffers. Examples are: CLAMP's Magic Knight Rayearth, their first popular work: CLAMP was always great, but if you compare their art from volume 1 of MKR with volume 6, you'll still see a huge improvement. I'm not fond of the new styles they tried in Angelic Layer and Chobits, but it is cute. Ooshimizu Sachi's Twin Signal: Granted, Ooshimizu was never that great of an artist. But around volume 10 she really found her grove and was at her best for about 8 volumes. Then in the final volume 19 (and the subsequent shorts, Snow Queen and Moira), she completely lost it and was pushing frames too close together, messing with characters' bodies, etc. It was a big disappointment - the manga really couldn't afford the drop in her style. And of course, Watsuki Nobuhiro's Rurouni Kenshin: From volume 1 through volume 4, he drew in a quite puffy, round style. In my personal opinion, volumes 5 and 6 were Watsuki at his peak - the way he drew at that time was my favorite. He kept in a very nice group through volume 20, and suddenly towards the end of 21 his style changed. It regained the roundness from his beginnings but without the puffiness. The inking grew bolder and the facial features more stylized, which disappointed me because it negated a lot of the individual characteristics of the Kenshin-gumi's appearances. Personally I don't like Watsuki's later style, which he uses in his subsequent manga series and also the sequels to Ruroken. But I do think it's a good style. It's merely that he deviated so much from what I thought was best that annoys me. It's kind of cute, the roundness. But my personal opinion would be that the earlier Kenshins were better than the later Kenshins. xd Ohmygod, I think so too!!! But I always thought that I was the only one ever noticing, so I didn't make a post about it. How silly ^^ And I also feel bad about Watsuki's change of style. I don't want to say anything bad about him (because there would be no Kenshin without him), but I have to say that I have been irritated about his art style too. Woah, it actually feels great to get that off my chest, LOL, and actually finding someone who thinks the same thing! ^^ I agree too...I think I would do the same thing though...I mean if you have to do all that work after a while you would get tired. It's only natural and a lot of series do it. It's annoying but the series I've probably seen it do the worst to is Fruits Basket...the newer volumes look to much like the anime...but back to Rurouni Kenshin...I hate how in the end they all seem to just split up. I mean it's like they all seem so happy together but then some of them leave and the story's shattered.Anyways...that's my opinion.
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:43 am
That new one looks like a fanart to me! Well, probably better than a fan art, but that is not Kenshin's hair! The eyes are nice, but they take a while to get used to. What I don't like is that the scar is on the nose...
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:48 am
I guess the small changes in the art of the artists are just their sel improvement.
I have notice in the manga the evolution of Kenshin and the other characters. Hey you can even see it in the volumes' covers like cover one Kenshin and Kaoru look chubby,cute, big eyed. and going for the 3rd volume cover Kaoru and Kenshin looks sharper. (Not taking in consideration the exotic way she is on the floor.) Their eyes are thinner. I guess the drawings become more fierce. I like fierce, i think that Rurouni Kenshin should have more of the violent drawing rather than the cute one.
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