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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4872654" data-attributes="member: 32536">If there actually was such a term, it would really make discussions like this a lot more clear. However, there isn't one. The best you can say is "anime/manga style art" or something like that, but even that gets messy.For example, many people who are less interested in japanese videogames and such would likely call many kinds of videogame character designs to be "anime/manga style". For some cases, like in the Suikoden or Fire Emblem games, this is quite true. For other cases, like the Final Fantasy games, it isn't so clear. In many cases, many people would consider you ignorant or stupid if you claimed that the rather distinct style Square-Enix uses for its CGI cut-scenes was "anime-style". I have seen this happen dozens of times, myself.One big problem with giving it all a big label, though, is that there really are immense differences in art styles you see in manga and anime. Trying to lump that all together is akin to trying to ignore the art style differences between Timmverse DC cartoons and Matt Groening's character designs. For example, two important japanese artists who have been involved in anime are Akira Toriyama and Yoshitaka Amano, and their art styles couldn't be more different (even though they have both done work for the same companies!). Actually, most famous manga artists have styles that are distinct enough that you can easily recognize their work on sight, without even knowing anything else about the image (or at least, you can tell that someone has been trying to copy a famous artist's style).Anyways, I think it really is important to recognize that the differences between "shounen" (young boy), "shoujo" (young girl), "seinen" (adult man), and "jousei" (adult woman) manga and anime are all very real and important. The way a typical man is drawn in the average shounen manga is totally different than the way a typical man is drawn in the average shoujo manga (typically, that man would be a lot prettier in the shoujo manga). Not to mention the difference between shounen and seinen can be pretty dramatic (shounen manga has big-eyed characters who bleed when they get hurt, seinen has more realistic-looking characters who get graphically disembowled when they get hurt).Actually, the "big-eyed, small-mouth" art style you are most likely familiar with is the cliché shounen style, but there are so many things that deviate from that style that it is hardly worth trying to lump all of anime and manga, or even anime and manga popular in the US, under its banner.I'll admit that I can't tell super hero illustrations apart at all, even though I can recognize Kentaro Miura's works on sight and I know when some random american artist is just ripping off Tite Kubo's style."Chibi" or "super deformed" doesn't work. Those terms relate to a particular kind of art (not even a style, more like the use of stick figures) in which proportions are exaggerated for a particular effect (usually comedy). It really isn't "super deformed" unless the character's head is the same size as the rest of the body, or close to it. Characters are often drawn more simplistically in "super-deformed" state compared to their usual designs, as well. You most often see this in comedy bonus material in the back of a manga volume.Definitely.Alternatively... I think anyone would have a hard time confusing the style Kentaro Miura uses in Berserk with the style used by CLAMP in Magic Knights Rayearth.</blockquote>

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