/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.6981942]

What are your thoughts on Jujutsu Kaisen character designs? Would you consider it to be one of the best shounen manga in general when it comes to this specific factor?

[Anonymous No.6981946]

Boring and generic

[Anonymous No.6981953]

>>6981942
JJ is peak fiction but it's character designs are not particularly the strongest in the genre. I think Bleach oozes more style. One Piece characters are goofy but have a lot of exaggerated character to them. Even shows like My hero do the wear and tear on the character's body better.

Gege's character designs are really solid but they aren't all that unique especially early on. It kinda fits the modern day aesthetic though, it's hard to go full jojo and believe that the characters live in a world that's just our world with an extra underbelly of curses to it.

[Anonymous No.6981963]

>>6981942
I really like Toji

[Anonymous No.6981966]

Any manga where you can actually tell the character's faces apart is kino in my books

[Anonymous No.6981975]

>>6981953
>JJ is peak fiction
opinion discarded

[Anonymous No.6981981]

>>6981975
That's okay you can be wrong, tell me more about your trash taste
What's are your favorite manga?

[Anonymous No.6981986]

>>6981981
>What's are your favorite manga?
Esl

yotsuba, blood on the tracks, one piece, bakuman, dr slump, baki, shounen abyss, unico and ykk

[Anonymous No.6981992]

>>6981981
>Peak fiction
Can someone tell me the appeal of this series and why seemingly lots of teenagers all over the internet regard it as some sort of modern masterpiece?
Even with manga I'm not a fan of like AOT I could at least see the appeal of storywise, but JJK is literally just another shounen with ADHD pacing that focuses on fights over everything else to me.
And for the record I'm not an elitist or anything, I mainly read non-action seinen manga, sci-fi series and chill stuff like Aria or Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou so I'm probably not even the target audience of most shounen anymore at this point.

[Anonymous No.6981995]

>>6981992
>JJK is literally just another shounen with ADHD pacing that focuses on fights
answered your own question

[Anonymous No.6982000]

>>6981992
cool fights, sakuga, and lots of fujo bait. Thats pretty much it. If none of those 3 things grab you then you wont be into it. Its mediocre at best.

[Anonymous No.6982008]

>>6981942
yes, if it's the first manga you read

[Anonymous No.6982018]

so this is professional level art?

[Anonymous No.6982032]

>>6981992
Been a fan of anime for over 15 years and I still can't figure this out. It's generic shonen slop. It has good animation, but that's about all it has going for it. I'm probably just not into shonen.

[Anonymous No.6982035]

From an outside perspective, I also don't watch much ankme in general, they're solid designs but I qouldnt go as far as to saying they're the best I've seen. To this day, I think Akira Toriyama is unmatched in both making unique and distinct designs but also memorable ones while also being versatile. DB and DBZ, regardless on how you feel about them have very unique and distinct designs that are very memorable to me.

[Anonymous No.6982044]

>>6982018
yes

[Anonymous No.6982046]

>>6981963
Built for Breeding

[Anonymous No.6982050]

>>6981942
10/10. One of the current Big Three

[Anonymous No.6982072]

>>6981992
I mean there's nothing really special to it, It's just current generational flavoring. Just how it goes. Dragon ball, one peice, naruto, hxh, attack on titan. It doesn't need to be a masterpiece, just needs a few really good/good enough qualities that the current younger generations can really identify with for it to become a culturally relevant touchstone. If i had to guess, i'd say jjk is popular mainly because of it's exuberant fight scenes and the power fantasy in its "autistic powers" worldbuilding.

[Anonymous No.6982113]

>>6981942
Gege is good at designing characters that look unique from each other but look bland and boring in isolation. They don't really tell a story like a good character design should. Gege just draws what he thinks would look cool or stylish and reduces the amount of details as much as possible because he can't be arsed to draw anything complicated repeatedly. That's why most of the characters wear extremely simple to draw clothes that look rather generic on their own. He doesn't give a fuck about designing characters, worldbuilding, writing a good story and great art-quality. He only cares about drawing cool fight scenes and how to get to the next one as soon as possible as well as writing his needlessly complicated power system. Everything else comes secondary.

The only reason jjk is popular is because braindead zoomers get a hard-on from muh sakuga-fight-scenes and because fujos would sacrifice a family member to get railed by Gojo and Toji.

On a side note, I should capitalize on this and draw more hot men. Anyone got experience with catering towards female coomers instead of male ones as an artist?

[Anonymous No.6982118]

>>6981953
lol it's just another generic shounen slop. experience more fiction

[Anonymous No.6982130]

>>6981986
ah yeah my eyes didn't work

also not gonna cap your taste is good, surprised you dislike jjk

[Anonymous No.6982133]

Am I in /a/?

[Anonymous No.6982175]

>>6981942
Never read it. The chick with the burns/scars on her arms looks cool. The rest look ok. I would not consider even close to the best, that would be Dragon Ball.

[Anonymous No.6982177]

>>6982113
>me, fujo
>doesn’t read jjk
>googles gojo
i should read jjk

[Anonymous No.6982208]

>>6981942
generic shit

[Anonymous No.6982254]

>>6982130
>not gonna cap
>fav is jjk

if your not trolling leave this board. Stupid zoomers like you who dont know anything are not welcome

[Anonymous No.6982269]

>>6982113
No experience, but it seems androgynous, youthful, soft looking men are popular vaguely speaking. Tough looking guys don't seem as popular unless they fit the former criteria. Being protective seems to be a plus as a trait. Accept or disregard my words as you like.

[Anonymous No.6982312]

>>6982113
>They don't really tell a story like a good character design should
I feel like this is meme advice. Look at any of the gold-standard character designs (you can even choose some yourself instead of going with my examples) and try and tell me even a single one of them "tells a story" at all. What "story" does Luffy, Naruto, Goku, Gon and so on tell with their designs? Spiderman, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, the TF2 cast... what storytelling is there in these designs? Where is this "a good character design tells a story" wisdom come from exactly, when so many iconic designs do no such thing?
>Gege just draws what he thinks would look cool or stylish and reduces the amount of details as much as possible because he can't be arsed to draw anything complicated repeatedly.
That's pretty much character design 101: come up with a cool concept, and simplify it. Reproducibility is a crucial part of character design -- you're going to be drawing them a lot, so don't make it harder than it needs to be. Bonus points if it's easy for other people to draw them too.

[Anonymous No.6982375]

dude, i don’t know, but almost across the board all the popular shounen manga have mind blowingly wonderful character designs, ‘specially the classic ones. each chara is always so unique and memorable even if i read one chapter in a shounen jump, i’d still remember those characters from that moment over a decade later. can say that of almost no concept arty character designs, ever. only rare finds from my favorite artists. those manga artists, specially the ones with series featured in ‘jump, are very often pretty much gods of chara design, when it comes right down to it. to me, at least. i haven’t even read manga since i was a kid, and it still blows me away.

[Anonymous No.6982620]

>>6982254
these are shitposts. I hate jjk (and also one piece a lot more, please end yourself) but you're behaving insufferable to him. It isn't even funny.

[Anonymous No.6982634]

>most popular new gen
>/ic/ is calling it shit
none of us are ever going to make anything memorable or widely loved are we

[Anonymous No.6982637]

>>6981942
i like the character designs. They suit each character but aren't over the top like a lot of other anime.
Also Takaba is a funny man and I like him (no homo)

[Anonymous No.6982642]

>>6981992
its simply the big shonen for current teens
like bleach / naruto were for most us us here

[Anonymous No.6982764]

>>6982312
Luffy looks like a guy that lives near a beach or on a boat, which is fitting because he is a pirate.
Naruto is dressed like a stylized ninja and incorporates elements of his fox powers in his hair and makeup.
Goku is literally dressed like a martial artist.
Gon's outfits tend to vary but his design reflects the current state he's at. Green simple clothes as a kid, etc.

[Anonymous No.6982778]

>>6982764
Something tells me "the design tells a story" isn't supposed to mean "the outfit they're wearing reflects their environment/occupation", because there's way better ways to phrase that if so. Like "the design shouldn't contradict the character" or something.
You have a fair point with Naruto, but IMO it's a bit thin. Those elements aren't exactly spelling anything out to the viewer -- if anything I'd argue the closer element to being a "story" with Naruto's design is his blonde hair/blue eye reflecting his status as an outcast within the village. That said, I asked that you point out one and I'd say that counts, so fair enough. I still think it's meme advice though, as I'm struggling to think of anything about any of the other character's designs that tell us much of a "story".

Thinking more about it, "the design tells a story" feels more like advice for costume design for tv/film than broader character design. In the context of film and tv, the outfit absolutely can tell a sort of story; eg we know Arthur Dent is an ordinary dude woefully out of his depth and ill prepared for his space-faring adventure because he's dressed in a bathrobe the entire time. It tells us, even if we missed the start of the movie (or tv show, whatever) that he was plucked out of his life before he could even get dressed that morning.
I feel like that kind of storytelling just isn't as relevant for comics and animation. It can be, but it rarely is, possibly because it's just a little bit too subtle to read well in an illustrated medium.

[Anonymous No.6982954]

>>6982254
>favorite one piece baki yotsuba
Zoomer on zoomer crime

[Anonymous No.6982955]

>>6981953
spbp

[Anonymous No.6983249]

>>6981942
extremely unremarkable, Naruto and Demon Slayer have way better designs.
I don't even watch anime but I see it everywhere and I can recognize shit right away, only one I recognize for this is the weird baby on that guy's torso.

[Anonymous No.6983257]

>>6982113
I think it’s because of the setting, the characters can’t really look radically different from each other they need a common theme (uniform)

[Anonymous No.6983259]

>>6981942
traced 3d models are not designs. even with henscratch attempting to cover up the tracing. and most are just copies/amalgamations of past shonen trash.

[Anonymous No.6985067]

>>6981942
maki's new design makes me cream my pants whenever she appears

[Anonymous No.6985471]

>>6981942
looks pretty generic. toriyama & blame are the goats

[Anonymous No.6985502]

jujutsu kaisen is like chainsaw man if it was really boring and uninspired. having both of them run at the same time in shonen jump feels like a joke at jujutsu kaisen's expense

[Anonymous No.6985505]

>>6981942
I don't know anything about this anime other than its name, so it's the first time I'm seeing the designs.

If these are official, WHAT A STEAMING PILE OF DOGSHIT.
Looks like Koreanslop for women.

Naruto had a generally ugly roster of women, but at least the designs were distinctive and the guys would mostly look decent.

These have nothing to remember.
Maybe the last one, because of the twintails at the top, but that's a low bar.

That woman in black with the axe is extremely offensive to me, not only is thee design boring, these proportions are extremely chunky and ugly, she looks as graceful as a pig.

Not to mention the girl to her left is clearly traced.

[Anonymous No.6985510]

>>6985505
>Naruto had a generally ugly roster of women
dismissed

[Anonymous No.6985514]

>>6985510
Their designs were nice, but Kishimoto can't draw cute females to save his life.

[Anonymous No.6986302]

>>6981942
Hate his art so much, zoomers have shit taste in shonen

[Anonymous No.6986304]

>>6981942
Looks like shit

[Anonymous No.6986305]

>>6981953
>JJ is peak fiction
Read more manga

[Anonymous No.6986308]

>>6982018
this shit wouldve gotten cancelled so hard in the 00s, crazy how quickly taste changes

[Anonymous No.6986310]

>>6986305
how about read an actual book nigga this is like telling someone stuck in a septic tank to move to a different corner of it

[Anonymous No.6986311]

>>6986310
>Thinking a JJK fan reads actual books

[Anonymous No.6986314]

>those awful hen swipes
>that bland design
perhaps we were too harsh on Naruto

[Anonymous No.6986316]

>>6986310
yeah he should read the game of thrones books

[Anonymous No.6986876]

>>6981986
this is just the epitomy of safe picking generic manga that you think is either le aesthetic or edgy has le deeper purpose

it's like the anthony fantano of manga ratings or me when i was 15 and wanted to seem cool for the things i liked

[Anonymous No.6986884]

>>6986876
I'd agree with you except he listed Baki and Shounen Abyss neither of which are safe picks like you describe.

[Anonymous No.6986899]

>>6986884
> Baki and Shounen Abyss
Anon, zoomers love that shit.

[Anonymous No.6986904]

>>6986899
Zoomers have no idea Baki even has a manga. Does Shounen Abyss even have an anime? And by that logic why would YKK be included? Do zoomers like that? News to me.

[Anonymous No.6986912]

>>6986904
> Zoomers have no idea Baki even has a manga.
They do, they constantly post it on tiktok and insta. Those get up words 100k+ likes and the people liking it or uploading it around 16-22. For the anime, clips of baki get close to 1 million likes.
> Shounen Abyss
Not as popular, but when ever i seen it on those apps, 8k-20k likes per post. Same age range as baki. You didn’t find some secret underrated shit, those are plagued by zoomers as well

[Anonymous No.6986930]

>>6986912
Guess zoomers have better taste than I thought.

[Anonymous No.6986994]

>>6981942
naruto?

[Anonymous No.6988982]

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