While we complain about the likes of Nagai, Tomino and Anno, let's not forget the real industry hack; Leiji Matsumoto.
Do you know a worse artist? Because I don't.
Do you know a worse storyteller? Because I don't.
The guy can't even draw a full human being for christ's sake.
If it weren't for talented directors who turned his shitty mangas into gold, this guy would have been forgotten very quickly.
Instead, he's praised as one of the greatest Japanese artists of all time. It's sickening.
>>14547441
Are you the guy who complained about Nagano not drawing realistic humans?
>>14547465
Nagano is ten times better than the hack that is Matsumoto.
Matsumoto's "art"
>>14547535
KUBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>14547535
This looks fine, it's not good but it's not that bad either.
>>14547623
*not that good
>>14547441
did he come over and rape you and your family OP? Its OK, post details
>>14547623
>This looks fine
>No background
>No shading
>No illusion of movement
>No full body drawings
>Uninspired panelling
Get some taste faggot
>>14547682
>No full body
It's clearly supposed to be close-ups, when I said it was fine I meant the actual drawings themselves, with stuff like panelling and lack of background it does look shit though.
The Matsumoto fags are the most annoying though. You know how there's entry level shit for plebs, well, Matsumoto is not only entry level shit, it's also SHIT
>>14547441
You disgust me.
>>14547724
I assure you I do not.
Matsumoto is legitimately the worst manga artist I can think of.
His mangas are absolute horse shit.
>>14547700
>What are stylistic choices in art
Leiji is the reason why Yamato is remembered. If we got what the director originally wanted it would have been shit.
>>14547465
>complained about Nagano not drawing realistic humans?
it's not like these are cartoons or anything.....
>>14547441
Then you must think Tezuka and Mizuki are shit
>>14547780
No? Dunno about Shigeru Mizuki, but
Tezuka is a fucking god compared to Matsumoto.
There's a reason why Tezuka is remembered for his manga, and Matsumoto is only remembered through the anime adaptations.
Even fucking Nagai is miles, I mean MILES ahead of anything Matsumoto has ever done.
Fucking hell, what manga (not anime) of his can compare to the likes of Buddha, Phoenix and Devilman? Not a single one.
>>14547807
>Tezuka is a fucking god compared to Matsumoto.
Ahahahaha
Also, Hi no Tori was complete shit in the latter volumes. Ever heard of Galaxy Express 999 or Harlock Saga?
>>14547844
Only famous through the anime adaptations.
the mangas of that are complete fucking trite.
Actually, the Galaxy Express 999 anime is complete shit too. It's so badly written that you wonder if an ape wrote it.
>there are people on /m/ who never heard of lazy matsumoto
>there are people on /m/ who unironically think that matsumoto is a legitimate artist
>>14547866
>Actually, the Galaxy Express 999 anime is complete shit too
You probably think Rintaro is a shit director too.
>the sheer amount of butthurt from OP
It'll either pass, or he'll shit up literally every thread about Matsumoto's work we have because of his raging autism.
>>14547441
>While we complain about the likes of Nagai, Tomino and Anno, let's not forget the real industry hack; Leiji Matsumoto.
Why has everyone been on this "XXXX is a hack" spree lately? You are all nothing compared to these industry giants.
>>14547892
It's probably the same guy (>>14535472)
Wonder what he thinks of Yokoyama and his constant use of a single pose for running.
>>14547926
There's also been that Anno and Fukuda thread, and a couple others that died a week ago.
>>14547934
Those two are legit hacks though.
Can someone explain to me why the backgrounds or certain objects (like cars, guns, etc) in mangas can look incredible and realistic while the characters can look like absolute shit? Are they just tracing over photos for the backgrounds?
>>14548031
>Are they just tracing over photos for the backgrounds?
Yes, actually. In some cases they don't even trace them, they just put a B&W filter over them and then draw in a few details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJTtbTa3AZE
7:30 onward
>>14548031
Yeah, sometimes people trace, on some rare occasions they were trained in engineering or architectural drawing, and in some hilarious circumstances (such as manga Riki-Oh) they were just flat lifted and copied wholesale from materials.
wew lad
Here, have Matsumoto's take on Cyborg 009.
>>14548081
Many things about Riki-Oh were hilarious
>>14548495
Why are you so angry?
>>14547763
You should thank god really talented people like Kazuo Komatsubara, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Toyoo Ashida were called to work on that show. If Matsumoto had complete control, you would have seen Harlock in that series and the plot would be aimless like all his shit.
>>14548519
Harlock didn't show up because the show was cut short, dummy.
>>14548547
He still shows up on his manga adaptation. And it's a complete pile of shit. We're lucky the show had bad ratings the first time around.
>>14547441
>let's not forget the real industry hack; Leiji Matsumoto.
Not in YEARS has a shitpost bait post gotten me this IRL MAD.
CONGRATS OP, WE ARE NOW ENEMIES FOR LIFE.
>>14548571
There are tons of manga adaptions of Yamato. None of them are meant to replace the TV show. Leiji's side story manga he did for Yamato is quite good, though.
>>14548668
Don't blame OP for your bad taste.
>>14548693
When did I said anything like that? Matsumoto had total control over his version and it's vastly inferior to the Tv show. And also unfinished, like everything else he did. That guy earned his "Lazy" title.
>>14548844
OP is clearly a Type B Otaku, and so are you.
>>14548856
Not familiar with the term. But if it means not liking bad manga, might be something good.
>>14548495
holy shit what the fuck am I looking at?
Is he THAT bad?
>>14549129
Yes.
>>14548851
>And also unfinished, like everything else he did
Because Ishinomori and Tezuka are known for finishing their work. And you have no way of knowing if it was his choice or whether is was cancelled.
The original run of the Galaxy Express manga is finished, by the way.
>>14549176
>why are my cartoons not realistically drawn but stylized
- You
>>14549184
>>why are my cartoons not realistically drawn but stylized
This is an stylized drawn cartoon. That's just bad art. And lazy paneling on top of that. His sense of action and dynamism is laughable. Lazy can't draw a line of action for his own good (he barely can draw a human body), so he use this kind of shortcut and thousands of close-ups and talking heads to hide his lack of skill.
>Because Ishinomori and Tezuka are known for finishing their work. And you have no way of knowing if it was his choice or whether is was cancelled.
Yes, they do. There's a clear end, even if cut short or abrupt, there's a conclusion for the story being told in which all the essential elements of the plot are answered.
Lazy just stop his plot when he feels like or when someone decide to adapt his stuff into anime. He presents an ongoing plot and just drop it in the middle of nowhere. And it's not just one single title, it's all of them. Galaxy Express have sort of a ending because the movie version gave him the proper conclusion. Even so he decided to bring it back and yet again let it end it in the middle of nowhere.
>>14549218
>Yes, they do. There's a clear end, even if cut short or abrupt, there's a conclusion for the story being told in which all the essential elements of the plot are answered.
I don't think you've ever actually read any of their manga. Come back when you've actually read them instead of googling random images.
Also, Leiji has written many manga and many of them are actually finished, fyi.
>>14549242
No, I didn't. I'm completely ignorant about them. Who are those guys anyway? When I google their names I see people's entire bodies and backgrounds. Even proper action scenes! Disgusting, where is all the splash-pages to show a single ship in space taking over the page limit? Where's the shadows covering the characters and close-ups in the eyes? Why everyone who is not a dwarf don't look the same? Where's my deep dialogue about what a "true men" is? What about the magical dicks of Japanese men? What hacks.
その船ならイギリスに沈んでいる、撃沈マークはけっこうなもんだぞ
>>14549361
I mean, look at this shit. The art is actually interesting to look at. Can't believe this lame excuse for a manga artist was born at the same day as manga legend Leiji Matsumoto.
Why be so autistic about Leiji of all people.
>>14549381
Because he has a good reputation and is considered "legendary", but most people on /m/ don't really know much about him or look at any of his non-animated works.
In other words, fertile ground for shitposting.
>>14549381
Because there's still people out there who truly believes the man is a genius because they watched Yamato and several anime with his recycled plots. I give some credit to his mechanical designs, though. And that's it.
Can you even tell what creature is this blob standing behind the bar at that second panel?
>>14549361
Yeah, it does seem you're completely ignorant of the fact that Ishinomori and Tezuka are both awful at finishing manga.
>where is all the splash-pages to show a single ship
Whoa, it's almost like he wants to show the ship in full detail!
>Where's the shadows covering the characters and close-ups in the eyes?
Why are there shadows when the characters are in a dark room? Why is Leiji drawing the gorgeous eyes he's known to draw?
> Why everyone who is not a dwarf don't look the same? Where's my deep dialogue about what a "true men" is? What about the magical dicks of Japanese men?
Go home, Carlos.
>>14549398
There are hardly ever Leiji threads on this board and even the few we have hardly get any posts. Fuck off.
>>14549218
I think that looks like shit and you can't convince me otherwise.
>>14549242
That's a much prettier page.
>>14549381
He's the resident Matsumoto shitposter who claims to know more than /m/ about Matsumoto but didn't read anything besides his most mainstream stuff and is mad people like him because he doesn't.
Besides, it's ironic, because /m/ doesn't really talk about Matsumoto all that much to begin with and the peak of irony the only thing here that people talk about often and can be vaguely associeated with him is Yamato 2199, but just because it's a Yamato show.
His only argument is literally complaining about Matsumoto's art and how sad can that be?
>>14549434
Maybe I can't convince you, but I will be a nice guy and recommend you to see an optometrist and maybe taking a few art classes. Maybe that will make you develop a better sense of aesthetics in art.
>>14547441
>Do you know a worse artist? Because I don't.
Go Nagai
>Do you know a worse storyteller? Because I don't.
Go Nagai
Jeez OP, you just mentioned him, how did you forget so quick?
>>14549432
Nice drawing. It warms my heart to know Miyako Maki is willing to give a hand to make her husband's art looks better. What a nice lady.
Also, what part of "Lazy" didn't you got by this point?
>Whoa, it's almost like he wants to show the ship in full detail!
Art books are for that, manga is supposed to have an interesting story to go with it.
>>14549436
His writing is probably even worst, that's what you want to hear? Matsumoto is a very sad man, his nationalistic pride is overblown. He lives perpetually in the past. In a fantasy land where Japan never lost the war and it's the most glorious nation in the world where "true" men of freedom lives with their ideal women by their sides to support their dreams and nothing else. He's also anti-progress and technophobic, what great features in an author known by his science fiction works. Should I mention how many time he repeats the exact same philosophical nonsense about what a "true men" is and the path they need to follow in search of freedom? Should I mention it never made sense in the first place other than sounding pretty to his ill-conceived view of the world? Should I mention how his self-insert characters are depicted as such great human beings and perfect in every way despite being an ugly dwarf? And how thousands of pretty women wants his dick for some reason?
Anyway, here's more Ishinomori for this thread to look better.
>>14549469
Oh, God knows I like to shit on Go Nagai as much as the next guy, but not this time, my friend, not this time. There was a time Go Nagai was an artist with great potential, his art was not pretty or polished, but could portray raw emotions with huge impact. But instead of keep improving and becoming a truly great artist, he decided he was satisfied with his own mediocrity and stopped evolving... To the point he started going downhill ultimately becoming a soulless carbon copy of his former self. He learned a few tricks like adding some details and backgrounds, but his character look stiff, bidimensional and hideous. Matsumoto, however, never had a good time. He's a bad artist and storyteller and, unlike Nagai, never proved otherwise in any occasion.
>>14549491
>Art books are for that, manga is supposed to have an interesting story to go with it.
We've reached peak retardation. Complain about people being obscured by shadows then complain about a ship being shown in full detail
> In a fantasy land where Japan never lost the war and it's the most glorious nation in the world where "true" men of freedom lives with their ideal women by their sides to support their dreams and nothing else.
That's compelling since he's responsible for toning down the nationalism in Yamato so foreign audiences could enjoy it Everything else you said is you complaining about re-occurring themes in a work. Fuck off.
>>14549534
You don't have much steam left, have you? Have you been reading the starblazers website too much lately? Maybe you should try go look for what Matsumoto's real war stories are like. But now, that's everything you got? How is it retarded to complain that looking at ships, eyes and talking heads all the time is not enterteining? Now, let me be clear here, there's nothing wrong with using shadows or showing a ship in nice detail. If you do it once or twice, but not in 98% of your story. Then it just becomes boring. And if you still think that's not enough reason to dislike Matsumoto comics, maybe the awkward angles he inserts on his panels might help you to show how messy and unprofessional his work looks.
Lazy's early days.
>>14549582
>Complains about 2 page spreads
>Posts >>14549491
>If you do it once or twice, but not in 98% of your story
Carlos why are you so dumb?
>It's an Ishinomori fag
This nigger literally invented tokushit. Fuck off cancer.
>>14549524
>not this time
>proceeds to shit on Nagai anyway
It's past your bedtime, José.
Did this fanboy really think that Matsumoto draws better, and can tell a better story than Nagai?
Yeah sure. Call me when Matsumoto stops drawing shit like this >>14549176.
Matsumoto's art is like a toddler's compared to Nagai's.
>>14550091
What a dumb comparison considering their art is nothing alike stylistically. If you want to get technical, a lot of background art and characters were done by Ishikawa before he died.
>>14549698
Sure, same way Disney inventended animation, Tezuka invented anime and Newton invented gravity.
>>14549694
>Complains about 2 page spreads
You cannot be this dumb. At this point you're forcing yourself to be contrarian.
>>14550155
>>14550155
>What a dumb comparison considering their art is nothing alike stylistically.
That's right, the closest we can get to compare with Leiji's style would be stuff like this.
>>14551446
Case in point.
>>14547535
The negative space gives it a cool aesthetic, I think. It's a weird comparison, but when your FOV narrows in a game and the sides of the screen start losing detail when you focus on something. It reminds me of that, kinda.
>>14550155
Ishikawa has been dead for more than decade now.
And if you want to get technical, at least Nagai can draw human bodies when he actually tries, unlike Lazy Matsumoto's dwarf looking shits.
Why are we even bringing up Nagai though? It's unfair not only on him, but also on authors like Kurumada who get so much flak for their drawings, yet are still superior to Matsumoto in every way.
>>14550091
>>14550078
And Nagai's stories are like a toddler's scribbles compared to Matsumoto's.
>>14551697
Don't mistake his laziness for creative panelling. Also what the fuck is this? >>14549419
He just shows the fist of some guy to denote that someone's getting punched? Guy's a hack, no other way around it.
>>14547535
This page is wonderful, though. The negative space portrays the split second tension as a grueling eternity. More lines does mean better art. You are far from qualified to judge any sort of art and you should probably kill yourself.
>>14551721
matsumoto fags everyone
>All these people misusing hack.
>>14551710
You're a retard. A fist filling up the "screen" is an incredibly common technique for showing an incoming punch. If anything, you can criticize him for using an overdone technique but you can't criticize the technique as nonsensical.
>>14551707
Yes, the incredibly naive, childish stories that come from Matsumoto's simple nationalistic mind are somehow above toddler scribbles. Keep drinking that kool-aid, kid.
Matsumoto is a disgrace to the science fiction genre.
>>14551710
Have you never read a manga or any form of comic before? This is super common
>>14551739
Oh come on. He only does it because he can't draw bodies, nor can he do action.
His panelling is incredibly simple and plain. I'd reckon even gag manga from the 50s and 60s look more interesting than whatever he's selling.
Still a better mangaka than Miyazaki in terms of shit like paneling and composition.
>>14551776
>get btfo
>start talking about something else
SLIDE IT
>>14551774
>This is super common
Among third grade artists. I don't read crap from them.
>>14551784
Not at all. He's using that technique because he has no skill to do any sort of action. How hard is that to understand? He's not Lazy Matsumoto for nothing.
>>14551721
Forget, it's the Berserkfag shitting things up. Unless it has MOAR LINES it's shit.
His panelling is barely better than Gundam-san and that only has 4 panels at a time.
>>14552027
Oops
>>14547885
>Rintaro is a shit director too
Not that guy, but aside from a few anomalies here and there (this includes GE999 TV), I think he generally is mediocre, at least after he got off the Matsumoto stuff.
The animation game ridiculous though.
>>14552561
He only directed the GE999 movie, not the TV series.
>>14547465
My inner /Monster/ idiot compels me to ask who this tailed semon demon is.
>>14552027
>>14552040
At least those have very clear action. You can tell quite easily what's going on in all of them.
Now, look at this page here. What the hell is going on in that second panel? Just look, don't read the dialogue on the page. What's that supposed to be?
>>14553258
He's got his hands around her neck. Her wide eye shows that she is scared, meaning that this is not a friendly gesture and that he is either attacking or threatening her. It looks like she's operating some sort of device from the first panel, so he may be forcing her to use it.
>>14553258
Holy shit that looks bad. I can barely make out what's going on here.
This isn't even assistant level crap. Holy shit.
And to be fair, it's not like Tezuka's simple art is anything to write about, but at least his characters can display a wide range of emotions, and most importantly, he can tell a story through decent panelling.
Matsumoto doesn't deserve to be called a manga artist. Maybe he's a decent anime producer, but not a manga artist, fuck no.
>>14555919
Hi samefag
Stop replying people, it's like saying Disney is a shitty cartoonist.
>>14555946
Except Matsumoto didn't really do much for his own animation. He was still remembered as a manga artist first. Not a business man like Disney was.
>>14556003
Okay, I'm convinced now that you're the shitposting ghost of Nishizaki. Take your Yamato butthurt with you back to the grave.
>>14556020
That doesn't even make any sense. Both Matsumoto and Nishizaki had issues of their own. They're not the reason why Yamato is so well remembered. It was the passion and effort all the creative staff put into it. That was no one single man's work.