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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3810677" data-attributes="member: 18549">If I recall correctly, Spawn was pretty fond of spiky things.You know, I'd really love it if D&D art looked more like the work of Shinichiro Watanabe, Hayao Miyazaki, or a few other anime and manga artists and directors.  But it doesn't.  And because it doesn't, it bothers me to hear people saying that it looks like anime.  If it looked like anime, that would be a pretty good thing.  Of course, I also like the art from Eberron that looks like the work of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mignola" target="_blank">Mike Mignola</a>, which is a Western comic book style unlike the typical superhero style.  I'd love to see more in that vein as well.But all I ever see is the same weirdo dungeonpunk thing that looks nothing like anime and only passingly like American comic book art.  And every time it starts to look even vaguely like either, people cry bloody murder and they claw back the art style to toe the line.FWIW, the series called Avatar that runs on Nickelodeon is anime.  It is made by Americans.  So, no, you don't have to be Japanese or have worked in the Japanese film or comic book industry to produce anime-style art.  You just have to produce anime-style art, and WotC doesn't produce anime-style art.</blockquote>