Why did the male trainers gradually lose their masculinity as

>>27656506
Blame moe.

>>27656506
>liking the old art style
lmao

Because they're being drawn to look more like actual children, which is what they're supposed to be.

>>27656517

moe was a mistake

>>27656506
badly drawn little boy vs generic tween

both suck

The old one was is squat-looking though.

>>27656541
>fat, stubby and short

how does GSC Gold not look like a child?

>>27656506
Hello I'm your tour guide for today. If you look to the left you will see an angry manlet. On the right is someone much taller. Let's move forward

>>27656568
Oh, I see your problem now. Because the characters are fit, well dressed, and attractive; you can't self insert anymore. It's ok anon. Yokai Watch's protagonist is maybe more your style.

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They stopped looking children in Gen 3 and more like awkward teenagers.

>>27656506
besides hilbert you're right

>>27656541
children are fucking gay

>>27656604
>he doesn't know what children look like because he can't be seen within 20 feet of kids

Pre-pubescent children are proportionally shorter limbed, stockier, and uh, shorter than adults.

He even has a larger head in GSC era art work. The protagonists were always intended to be children regardless of art shift.

Sorry your midget mexican ass got triggered because I called your body type a child's body type.

They developed a more unique art style instead of copying Toriyama

>>27656545
This.

>>27656506
>left
>fucking dork that no one would befriend
>right
>balla ass Chad who will fuck your mom while you're training on a mountain

>>27656540
>not liking it
kys

>>27656748
If copying toriyama meant the male trainers not looking like girls, they should've kept copying him.

They were never "masculine" dude. They're gay little kids. If anything they're more masculine now because they're older (at least in the case of Hilbert, Calem, etc.)

>>27656779
You weren't around in the 200's were you

Because females like playing males believe it or not

>>27656506
That's a global trend. At least in the West and East Asia.

>>27656824
Well I would've wished to see the Han perish but sadly I was born in the 90s.

>>27656506
one looks like a fat 40y/o manlet trying to look like a kid, the other one actually looks like a teen

>>27656506
Left one looks like a manlet.

becuas testosterone is a poisin

following whatever the modern trends in anime at the time are

at the time of gold/silver they were trying to emulate dragonball style anime. at the time of hg/ss it's all about the latest moeblob stuff

Kidlets gtfo

>>27656638
>his hat wasn't his hair
What went wrong?

>>27656506
because the artists changed you fucking retard. this shit happens all the time, artists don't stay stuck to a franchise forever, they move on and the company hires new people.

>>27656989
Underrated

>>27656506
The right looks like an actual teenager.
The left looks like a midget trying to blend in with the "cool kids".

>>27656506
The only thing I really miss are the watercolors. Sugimori's old art style was cozy.

>>27656506
m-muh masculinity!!

>>27656733
Is this bait

>>27657282
>not preferring Ken sugimoris superior artwork
Enjoy that pleb taste of yours

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>>27656506
John GameFreak stumbled upon Tumblr one day and....

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>>27656989

>>27656506
Manlets, when will they learn?

>>27656506
Because testosterone levels have been globally dropping the last decades due to diet, environmental issues, lifestyle etc. so masculinity in general is declining as well, sadly.

>>27656506
post feminist society, masculinity is a bad concept right now in western society

>>27658014
Okay. Now talk about japan.

>>27656541
Umm...Ethan looks like a 14 year old brony while Gold looks like a actual 11 year old boy.

>>27656545
How is Gold badly drawn? He fits in perfectly with the art style of everything else in gen 2 and doesn't have any noticeable errors.

>>27656779
Looks like a Sinnohfetus is here. Original Gold is objectively better than Ethan. Ethan is that kid that wears his mothers dress while no ones around while Gold is the kid at school who you don't fuck with.

>>27657300
>The only thing I really miss are the watercolors.
This

>>27656540
Even if you don't like the old art, it's completely superior to the new "art"
Glossy photoshopped garbage.

>>27658265
>glossy
look at the OP image and tell me the new art is more glossy than the old art

>>27656506
Effeminate shota is easier to masturbate to.

But I still like 1st generation Red the most, simply for looking as much as a jerk as Blue.

>>27656779
>Ethan
>Chad
He looks like an MLP character.

Guys, I actually just found the correlation between liking Gen IV and being wrong. They're all bronies who's first game was Pearl.

>>27658313
Ok. It is. Looks like plastic filled in with. Paint bucket whereas the right image was hand drawn and hand painted. Looks fantastic. Bronies and Narutards get out.

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>>27658265
the pic of ethan in the OP isn't even the official art. it looks like he traced it and fucked up the colors

>>27658265
>photoshopped garbage
>digital art is bad and not a real medium

People like you are scum.

You must be extremely insecure OP

>>27658385
And it somehow looks even worse.

And why is "his" hair dark gray and not black?

>>27658394
Someone post the "how to draw an owl using photoshop" pic

And if you're using current Pokemon art as a positive example of what you can do with photoshop, then top fucking kek.

>>27658404

Black hair is hard to pull off in art, so it is sometimes stylized as dark gray,dark blue, dark purple, or dark green. White hair is sometimes stylized as light gray, light blue, and light purple as well, but that occurs more often in Western animation.

>>27658463
The old art had black hair and looked great. I guess they just forgot how to make good looking artwork.

>>27658404
I don't see how it looks worse than the fanart in the OP. I agree with your criticisms that it doesn't look like it was hand drawn and was filled in with the paintbucket tool, which doesn't apply to the original drawing.

His hair looks dark blue, which is the same color as Gold's hair in the old art.

>>27658431
>man they must hand-draw all those 3d models on paper
>a fucking creative cloud subscription isn't demanded by the industry

Digital is the future and is expected unless you're a spaghetti vagina street artist.

No one wants to hire traditional animators anymore unless you're a nip. It's so much more cost efficient to do a matte painting on a computer, faster too.

>>27656638
Seeing as all trainers are in their double digits in age they're already starting to become teens anyways.

Later gens they really are teens, so it really doesn't matter.

Brendan and May are confirmed 12 in ORAS, just a year away from their teens.

>>27658561
This whole argument is pointless because the "new" art in the OP is fan art digitally traced from the original which actually was hand drawn.

I guess your point is that being digital doesn't automatically make it bad, which I suppose is true, but the digital art in the OP actually does look kind of amateur.

>defending the original Gold design
I can understand Red, original Silver, and Blue, but Gold? Gold's design is SHIT. Now Ethan actually looks like a Japanese kid. Before Gold looked like some kinda white wannabe gangsta wearing a puffy jacket. That is to say, he looked like a fucking tool.

>>27656506
>Japanese game

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Sugimori drew him a lot better when they released Crystal.

>>27658625
>I can understand Red
Outside of meme Japanese art of Red he looks just like Ash, so he looks very meh.

>>27658638
See? Even Sugimori knew the initial Gold design was shit.
Move on Gold babbies.

Good they stop lying, masculinity is a myth

>>27658681
>someone will legitimately respond to this even though it's bait
It's true bait though.

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I made OP's picture several years ago, and just wanted to say I find it hilarious that you're still using it

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>>27658664
Exactly. They should've cleaned up Gold and Kris from Crystal for the remakes.

>>27658339
>MLP
>bronies

sick buzzwords, shithead

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>>27656506
>Why did the male trainers gradually lose their masculinity as the series went on?+ 0 post omitted.
You're full of shit

>Old
Friendless fat midget with no fashion sense.

>New
Cute popular teenager that makes pussies wet.

>>27656506
>lose masculinity
>Gold is literally a manlet

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>>27656989
Made me smile. You're a nice person, anon.

>>27658866
But his face isn't a smug sneer and he has shiny anime style eyes, that's not masculine at all!

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>>27656638
This design was pretty bad, to be honest, but Emerald's one is one of my favorites.

And then the horrible ORAS version came along.

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>>27658962
LOL

>>27658394
>digital art is bad and not a real medium

But this is true

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>>27658947
he looks cool, composed, and confident
XY's protagonists also look pretty cook, them military boots

>>27658987
What's the funny part?
ORAS Brendan's suit looks too skin-tight for me. Plus I don't really like the artstyle.

>>27658625
Except that's what kids looked like in the 90s. Even in Japan.

You would know this if you weren't born in 2001

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>>27658962
>shorts over pants tucked into sneakers
>short-sleeved turtleneck jacket
>in a tropical country

This is probably the most retarded design since pizza cutter swords

>>27659150
>>tropical country
When will this meme die? You clearly mean subtropical

>>27656506
Ethan looks eager, fit and trendy.
Gold looks like an autistic pedophile manchild

>>27659150
See >>27659194
Plus that's basically a typical "cool" '00s kid look.

>>27656506
the jews and also anime

>>27659360
Nobody ever tucked their pants into their sneakers

Ever

>>27657070
this

>>27659402
Okay, I actually never noticed it.

>>27658987
ORAS>RS>Emerald

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>>27658638
>those hands
>those legs
>that lack of volume
>people defend this

Yeah the Toriyama ripoff was so much better

>>27656794
>kys
say it properly dipshit.

>>27659402
It makes more sense in RS Brendan instead of Emerald brendan, because it looks like he's wearing High-top sneakers, which people do tuck their pants into.

insecurity: the thread

Badly drawn = masculine

Rob liefeld is that you

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>>27658780
Say that to my face and not online motherfucker.

>>27658866
Literally the cutest

>>27658664
?
he just got taller

>>27656506
Basically Pokemon gained an identity instead of Tori lite.

>>27658172
Except for his head shape, razor calves, general proportions and expressionless eyes.
It also looks like his arms are backwards.

>>27656506
Men don't have masculinity in 2016. Just look at all the homosexual hairstyles men get in 2016 and skin tight clothing.

>>27659117
>Except that's what kids looked like in the 90s.

Maybe the tryhard kids

>>27658987
>RSE Brendans died from Heat Stroke
>ORAS Brendan came dressed for the occasion and is enjoying his hike through the region

>>27658385
should have worn a full track suit

>>27656506
Does one of these exist for Brendan? I'm curious.

>>27662243
>>27659117
>>27658625
SPECIALLY in Japan, you uncultured swine.

>>27662291
>not using pants for protection then switching to shorts for swimming only
It's like you want your legs to get fucked up.

>RSE Brendans died from Heat Stroke
I'll give you RS but Emerald's looks fine.

>>27662348
Yes, it does. Though I don't have it.