DCUniverseAficionado wrote:
And when was it last not going downhill?
Is it just this current style (2008–present in anime, 2003–present in the movies)?
Would you like to see a return of, say, the 2003–2008 style (Episode 333–Episode 504)? The 1996–1998 style (Episode 1–Episode 118)? The 1998–2001 style (Episode 119–Episode 252)? The 2001–2003 style (Episode 253–Episode 332)?
It's strange—you'd expect them to have changed the style, by now, considering how much less time it took them to change styles, before. Yet, we've had this current style for 8 years (and with two directors, each with 4 year runs). I wonder when they're gonna change it, again.
All the movies seems OK to me. What I mean is the anime series. And I'm referring to the art quality, not the art style. Each art style has its own pluses and minuses. Though I like the 2003-2008 art style, I have nothing against the 2008-current one because it looks much closer to Gosho's current art style in the manga, but that's only when the characters are drawn carefully.
By saying "in recent years" I didn't refer to the exact 2008-present period with the new art style. I just wanted to express my feeling that there are more and more episodes with really bad art quality recently. Especially the latest 2 episodes with the Girl Band case really got on my nerves.
I don't expect them to change the current art style. I just expect the animators to improve the quality of at least some canon episodes that features the appearance of important characters (Plz forgive me if I'm using the wrong words/terms cos I'm not a native English speaker). As @k11chi stated above, some episodes looked very promising (like the AOs about ebizo puppets or the kawanakajima and the 10 episodes after that) but then the art quality just kept going downhill in later episodes. Even in one year or just one anime season, the art quality for the episodes really fluctuates and isn't stable at all.
What saddens me the most is that the background (scenery,etc. ) has become more beautiful but the characters' faces and bodies are being drawn more and more carelessly.
If only Detective Conan's drawings could be as good as Magic Kaito 1412's, but Magic Kaito 1412 was done by another studio. TMS has animated the whole DC series since the beginning so it can't be helped.
@ to our mods: Since this is the Anime Discussion Thread I think the art quality is also a matter for discussion. I'm sorry if all these art quality things are considered to be off-topic. This will be my last post about this matter in this thread.
. It keeps going downhill. I understand that for a long running Anime series like Conan, high quality art would cost a lot. I had hoped that they could at least keep the quality art high enough for important episodes that were adapted from the manga. But I've just watched episode 836 and 837 and I couldn't believe they drew Akai, Sera and Scotch like that. I know that we cannot compare the art of the manga and the anime (not only Detective Conan) but the difference in quality is just far so much that it's hard to withstand.
