• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netM
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    I mean, not even failed really was he? If he was published and then cancelled, that’s more successful than the vast majority.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      me seeing a great darkness in an artist’s eyes

      N-no… This is some amazing art. I l-love it haha. It’s important that you don’t give up on art and try to ummm… find another way to express yourself. In a visual medium… Without getting into politics or whatever, you know?

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    I thought it was pretty common for artists to crossover between the regular and the adult sides of the manga industry? (albeit usually the other way around)

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    This is apparently the basketball scene

    And don’t get me wrong, it’s better than I could draw, but there is some Rob Liefield shit going on with some of these proportions

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    I looked it up out of morbid curiosity and it’s really bad. He’s got that overly busy horror manga linework and shading style that’s just kind of visually repellent as its key point, and the actual content is the worst combination of generically dull and extremely gross. Also like a third of the stuff he’s put out is nonce shit, because of course it is.

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      You mean for the normal manga or hentai part of the mangaka works? Their style is really distinctive and borderline horror but that doesn’t make it bad art. Content wise hentai and manga have its own set of tropes and genres that would fall into the weird, gross or bizarre to outsiders so is it average because it’s repeating others or just cause it’s average to you?

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        that doesn’t make it bad art.

        I didn’t say the art is bad, but that the work is. The art is just extremely ill fitting for hentai, and the subject matter itself is, and I don’t articulate this better, that sort of composition where it doesn’t even matter what kink it’s trying to do it’ll still be really bland and uninteresting looking, kind of like the human equivalent of how AI generators can churn out a wide range of flavorless slurries that’s all ultimately equally empty and dull regardless of content.