Who is the best /m/ character designer and why is it Yuki Nobuteru?

It's kind of a nostalgic style and a bit of an acquired taste but it's all good in my book.

>>14658777
To be honest that pic is more reminding me of those How to Draw Manga books than selling me on that style.

>>14658777
I hated his designs for Escaflowne. Fuck those noses and furries.

>>14658777
He's definitely quintessential 90s style, along with CLAMP, Kimura, and Sadamoto. I like him but it's not really aged well.

Also didn't like his FSS chara designs either, they look too generic compared to Nagano's original drawings.

OP that face is a blade surrounded by 30 pounds of hair with a comically tiny hat plopped on top.

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>>14659071
Are you sure it's lots of hair and not a huge skull?

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>>14659071
At least Nagano's are treated as eccentric sci-fi designs and not mainstream sexy girls.

>>14659287
That's a good thing?

>>14658777
>Escaflowne
More like escablowme

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>>14659287
Are you talking shit about based Madoka?

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>>14659299
In the face of modern anime trends, yes. Though Nobu's character designs aren't really that sexual either.

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>>14659067
>"So even in Japan, when it first came out, fans responded “why do they have such pointy noses? They all kind of look like Pinocchio…” I want to make sure you all understand that that’s not my preference. It was actually what the character designer Nobuteru Yuki came up with, and he came back to me with “Akane-san, I thought you liked shoujo manga. So I tried to make it look like shoujo manga characters.” And when I first got his designs for the characters, I said “Nooooo, I’m not stamping my approval on these. The noses are too long and too pointy.” But he said “Nooooo, I think this is good, I think we should go with this.” And of course, I got the feedback from Japanese fans, and I found out that American fans and other fans abroad were like “What’s up with the noses?” And finally after a certain amount of time, Yuki-said got back in touch with me and said “Oh, Akane-san, I apologize, I’m sorry… my bad.” It was about a year after the show wrapped that I got the apology."

>>14659970
Honestly it could have been a lot worse.

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>>14659970
I love his noses. Just look at those beautiful arcs and pointy tips. Never has there been a character designer who puts so much love in drawing noses. It's a lost art.

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>>14659987
Even now with Yamato 2199, they're still beautiful.

>>14659987
Holy fuck that nose on the right though.

>>14659970
>>14659979
Could have been Detective Conan or some shit.

>>14660151
Or Oban : )

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>>14659987
Good noses are everywhere tbqf with you.

>>14659067

You're missing Rui Araizumi, the Slayers guy. Whenever I think "90s anime art style", I think Slayers.

I like the PLOT and BACKSTORY Kimura gives to his characters.

>>14659970
Yoshihisa Tagami is a shoujo manga artist, yes.

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>>14660641
Nobu's are still the best. His eyes are gorgeous too.

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>>14659907
They're pretty sexual m8. Yamato 2199 especially.

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>>14659287
I like how Nagano's character designs, no matter how tight or revealing their clothing are, always manage to come across as looking "pretty" without being sexual or moe. It's not as common as you would think.

>>14661087
it's prolly because they barely look human to begin with...

>>14661093
>they barely look human to begin with...
So a pretty typical anime style?

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>>14661093
Fatimas aren't humans.

My point still stands.

>>14661119
That Patra is cute. I would fuck him/her/it.

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>>14661051
>eyes
Yuki draws them well but I think Amano draws even prettier eyes.

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>>14661419
Leiji draws the best eyes. Truly the original master of dreamy and enchanting eyes.

>>14661955
It's a shame he can't draw literally anything else though.

Ignore it for once please

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>>14658777
>>FSS
Not his work, he adapted Nagano designs, pretty faithfully I must add but it's not his work.
>>Lodoss War
Not /m/
>>>Gunm
See point 1.
He's a good designer though, with lots of technical skill.
I personally like most of the classic designers, Matsumoto, Yas and so on, if there was someone who I'd like to see more /m/ stuff of is Tomomi Kobayashi, she has a very unique design style when it comes to /m/ stuff or just design in general, a mix of classic 70-80's sci-fi aesthetic and some fantasy details shoved in.
I don't know how many people would like her art though, it's pretty old school Shoujo in general.
>>14662261
Ignoring him isn't enough, report and hide.

>>14661955
No, he puts way too many eyelashes and his eyes end up looking goofy. Yoshitaka does dreamy eyes much better.

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>>14660146
Problem?

>>14662450
>Not his work, he adapted Nagano designs, pretty faithfully I must add but it's not his work.

Disagree, his way of drawing characters is both more detailed and refined than Nagano, and you can see all his personal favorite design quirks showing up in all his works like the aforementioned noses and eyes.

>>14663404
アイイ ルマオ

>>14662450
Old school shoujo is the only good shoujo

>>14658777
Literally everything about Escaflowne other than the mecha and music is garbage.

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I like some of Yasuomi Umetsu's designs a whole lot.

>>14659071
Someone isn't familiar with the 80s and 90s and their massive foreheads.

I remember when Nobuteru and Hirai were both considered the best character designers of their time. How things have changed since.

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>>14663404
>Disagree, his way of drawing characters is both more detailed and refined than Nagano

More detailed, sure, but refined? Not even close. Nagano's character designs (particularly proportions and facial features) have always been intended to look more flat, simple, and with strong emphasis on silhouette as opposed to your usual anime style. The movie redesigns keep these same features but attempt to make the design more "3-dimensional", with detailed faces and limbs, all the while keeping the proportions and general facial features, which pushes it into the uncanny valley territory, like converting an anime character into a CGI one. Whatever Nobuteru's intentions were, his redesigns for FSS were poor imitations.

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>>14663404
>Disagree, his way of drawing characters is both more detailed and refined than Nagano
Maybe more detailed in terms of shadowing, and his lineart for humans is a bit cleaner than Nagano, but more refined?
I don't think so, they're pretty much 1:1 designs, and they have nothing to do with Nobu's own style, which is a mark of craftsmanship in its own right, but still, it's not his own work and concepts.
>>14663595
As long as you like hunks I guess, she has the habit of drawing older looking men instead of young bishonen, most of her fanart has male characters looking considerably older than their canon.
I personally like her chromatic choices and costume designs, a shame she doesn't draw more mecha art, I think she's pretty talented for classic fantasy mecha.
>>14664997
>How things have changed since.
Nobu is still one of the most famous names together with Hirai though, there's people who've been almost completely forgotten, see Akihiro Yamada.

>>14664997
>Hirai
>best

What fucking drugs were people on back then?

>>14665238
This was before SEED ruined his reputation.

i cant find a working torrent with seeders for escaflowne. feels bad man.

>>14665070
Nagano needs to release another art book like that. Maybe looking over old iconic scenes but with the GTM designs.

>>14658793

Everything she draws just has this positively regal vibe to it. the Flowing hair and capes especially

>>14665842
Nobuteru is a he, anon, but yes I agree.

>>14665304
Hirai was shit well before SEED and still is to this day.

>>14666555
>Hirai was shit well before SEED
Nah, his design work around that era was pretty decent with of the characters having pretty varied designs.

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>>14658777

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>>14668125

>>14668125
>>14672319
pft

Anyways regarding Yuki, I think he's a very talented designer and artist who's able to adapt character designs really well while having equally as good originals (if at least non-/m/ examples like Seiken Densetsu 3 and Chrono Cross are of any indication along with /m/ examples like Heat Guy J and the aforementioned Escaflowne). He's one of the few Nip artists I know that utilize the whole "moe" thing at a level I find pretty tolerable; a pretty big achievement I'd say.

>>14659029
>I hated his designs for Escaflowne. Fuck those noses and furries.
>not liking noses and furries

>>14658777
What and where is the best way to read FFS?