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Anime art can run the gamut from primitive and realistic to psychedelic and trippy. It’s a big part of the experience for fans, and as a result, also one of the more hotly debated issues. Whether it’s an OVA or the adapted work of a mangaka, the artwork can make or break an anime series.
Realism in anime art can be just as imaginative as any other style. It’s what the artist puts into that sense of realism, and how it’s used to create the believable worlds where the stories take place, including the characters that live them out.
10 Mushishi Features Gorgeously Drawn Landscapes Of Japan That Follow Ginko’s Travels
Yuki Urushibara is the creator of Mushishi, a manga and anime series that has been praised for its lush and lifelike artwork style. The story, set during a fictional period in the 19th century as the Edo period fades and before the Meiji begins, follows Ginko, a man who can see Musi, primitive, ethereal creatures.
Ginko travels around Japan helping people with their Mushi problems. The scenery is beautifully drawn and is one of the main draws of the series.
9 The Flowers Of Evil Uses A Realistic Style With Rotoscoping For Great Action
Aku No Hana’s (The Flowers of Evil) unusual animation style is created by using a realistically drawn background and rotoscoping for the characters. In rotoscoping, the animator traces over film footage, frame by frame. It’s typically used to create convincing-looking action.
The result is a highly detailed and naturalistic background, with characters that seem much more primitively drawn, albeit still realistic in tone. It’s the true-to-life sense of motion that the director wanted to capture, and fans were intrigued by the look.
8 Black Lagoon’s Detailed Art Brings The Story Of Crime In 1990s Southeast Asia To Life
With its gritty stories of crime in Southeast Asia during the 1990s, the intricately representational style of mangaka Rei Hiroe’s Black Lagoon makes sense and adds to the story of Black Lagoon.
The Lagoon Company, a group of pirate mercenaries, smuggle goods in and out of the region, home to criminal syndicates like the Russian mafia and Chinese Triads, along with Vietnamese refugees from the wars. It’s a colorful scenario that’s brought to vivid life by the artwork.
7 A Combination Of Techniques & Realistic Drawing Style Create The Look Of Ergo Proxy
The story of Ergo Proxy takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where humans and androids live together peacefully… until the androids gain self-awareness via a virus. It combines fantasy, science fiction, and cyberpunk style with philosophy and a complex plot about secret government experiments.
The art is realistic, with a dark-toned aesthetic, created with 2D digital cel animation along with 3D modeling. Fans particularly appreciate the attention to detail in creating the characters, especially for Re-I, the story’s heroine.
6 The World Of Classical Music Comes To Life In Nodame Cantabile’s Art
Music, romance, and comedy combine in the story of Nodame Cantabile. It follows Shin’ichi Chiaki and his journey to a career in classical music. He begins as a child who travels with his mother and father, a world-renowned pianist, through Europe, eventually meeting Megumi Nodame, another student, and they help each other fulfill their dreams.
The art is realistic as it pertains to character and setting, and the way the various musical instruments are played is genuine. Of course, the various picturesque European cities where they learn and play are also incredible.
5 The Struggles Of High School Love & Basketball Are Given A Real World Treatment In Slam Dunk
In Slam Dunk, Hanamichi Sakuragi begins the story as a gang member with a chip on his shoulder, and a resentment towards basketball players because his former flame left him for one. It’s another girl, Haruko Akagi, who makes him change his mind.
The road to love and basketball, is, of course, not that easy, and he’s soon fighting with rivals, and in the end, actually learning and excelling at the sport. The true-to-life tone of the story is matched by the drawing style that captures the sport and high school life in detail.
4 Psycho-Pass’ Art Creates A Convincingly Dark & Dystopian World
With the exception of Akane Tsunemori’s larger-than-normal eyes, Psycho-Pass‘s art style grounds the story in a realistic look, and adds a convincing element to its cyberpunk premise. The thrills generated by the story are set up with intricate settings and character details, and an aesthetic that looks gloomy even in the daylight.
The series is said to be inspired by live-action films, notably Blade Runner (the 1982 original), among others, where the overall design contributes to world-building.
3 Intricately Drawn Backgrounds Highlight The Film The Garden Of Words
Makoto Shinkai (also known as Makoto Niitsu), is responsible for the films Your Name and Weathering with You, along with The Garden of Words, all of which feature his distinctive style of realism. Garden follows the story of two strangers drawn together, with a mutual love of poetry.
The movie, like many anime features, uses a combination of techniques, including hand-drawn and computer-generated animation, and rotoscoping. To create many of the movie’s intricately detailed backgrounds, Shinkai used Photoshop to draw over his own photographs.
2 The God Arc Weaponry Gets Hand-Drawn Detail In God Eater
When fearsome monsters attack humanity, and conventional weapons prove to be of no use, civilization collapses. But, a new, living weapon emerges: the God Arc. That explains why the creators of God Eater pay so much attention to the weaponry on the anime series.
In contrast with much of the show, which uses CGI, studio Ufotable used hand-drawn animation to depict the complex machinery of the God Arc weapons. The show’s attention to detail in its artwork has helped to make it a fan favorite.
1 Monster’s Stellar Artwork Is Beloved By Fans
In Düsseldorf, Germany, Japanese surgeon Kenzo Tenma realizes, with growing horror, that a former patient whose life he saved, Johan Liebert, is a serial killer. The lifelike artwork makes the creepy edges of the story feel all too real, and adds to the impact of a series that combines elements of a thriller with psychological horror, mystery, and throws in a government conspiracy to the mix.
Weird, unsettling perspectives on the action, and a bleak cityscape that seems steeped in perpetual shadow create a taut and suspenseful atmosphere.
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