how the fuck did anyone ever think this art looked good
How the fuck did anyone ever think this art looked good
Josiah Parker
Christian Reed
It had soul. Not that you would know anything about that, zoomer.
Connor Martin
nice hair detail
Dylan Smith
people used to fap to this shit
Luis Wilson
SOUL
Adrian Myers
Do not insult my wife.
Jose Bailey
It was 1999 I guess, it was extremely popular despite the art.
Lucas Sullivan
looks good to me dude
Dylan Taylor
This is from 1997.
Michael Harris
That's a major movie, not a low budget porn game for PC.
Carter Robinson
It was a different time.
Aaron Lee
The Air anime was high budget and still looked like this.
Sebastian Baker
Uguu~
Josiah Jones
it was a different time
Ayden Walker
I really liked the style of CLANNAD to be honest, it was goofy but at the same time charming.
Camden Gray
It's less about the art looking good than it is what it represented back when it was released in the early 2000s, when VNs sold as much as 200k copies.
Owen Hall
It's not like evetybody the same year used the very same style
Speaking of which, this is from a 2014 game, how come it looks so different yet so similar?
Aiden Adams
>CLANNAD
That's Kanon, though.
Christopher Garcia
same style anyways
Hudson Watson
It was passable. Eventually you don't even notice the badness.
Caleb Rivera
My wife Nagisa is so beautiful.
Jack Hill
I miss hair intakes.
Chase Rivera
This, there's nothing better to add volume to the hair
Jayden Gray
Is Clannad even worth playing still? It's on my Steam wishlist.
Austin Gray
>used to
Jason Perry
Sure. Grab it on the next sale though since it hits 60% off routinely.
Bentley Mitchell
Is the slice of life relatable/immersive or they just play the usual tsundere/kuudere etc tropes over and over?
Benjamin Miller
How was this ever acceptable?
Jaxon Perez
Quite possibly the ugliest mainstream Anime aesthetic. Nothing before or after is as bad.
Jason Martinez
it's good alright
dont ask too much questions
Ryan Peterson
SOUL
Ethan Stewart
>soulless
>soul
>soul
>soul
>soul
>soul
Hunter Clark
Everything looks good, except the face is hideous.
Chase Johnson
Gavin Clark
The 90's were a mistake.
Benjamin Torres
SOUL
Jack Wright
kawaii desu ka
Aiden Butler
Sup
Carson Bailey
That image really does nit apply to 90s VNs. They are by a very wide margin the best looking ones. Famous anime industry names worked on VNs back then. To think that they are basically dead in Japan at thus point... ;_;
Zachary Watson
The 90s had the best videogames and the best anime videogames too.
Christian Gutierrez
ayy lmao
Gavin Brooks
I actually prefer this art to the updated art in the PS2 version. They look so sweet and innocent, but when they go evil mode, shit's scary. I nearly had a heart attack when Rena's eyes went all glossy.
Michael Carter
lmao fuck no, I actually lived through the 90's unlike you gen z retards
Jaxson Reed
is it true that VNs are on their way out?
Charles Sullivan
Time to destroy that faulty model with some actual corpus of animu faces
And my pic is still shit, because many times they are emoting heavily or seen from very weird angles
Kevin Gray
No
Tyler Bell
that was already considered shit art back then. shit art sometimes gets good rep.
same goes for higurashi
Dylan Ramirez
What happened to Itaru Hinoue during Little Busters? She improved drastically from Key's previous work.
Jaxson Cruz
Are you implying that looks bad?
Asher Cruz
And you still have shit taste
Josiah Evans
It's can be quite immersion breaking though.
Oliver Nelson
>implying the 80's weren't god tier for giving us Slayers and Rance
Christopher Reyes
Haha but you had no way whatsoever of accessing 90s visual novels. They were neither imported consistently nor were they adapted to any anime. I lived through the 2000s and barely read any VNs back then because I played video games.
In Japan it's undisputable. Only big companies like Light and Key, and some lesser ones are still around. You get at most 2 or 3 relevant titles per month, the rest being 100 per cent porn. EGS (japanese vndb) used to get 500+ votes for important titles in early 2010s, 1000+ easily back in early 2000s, now at most a couple titles break out of 200 votes every year.
Several writers went to the LN market too, like Maruto (white album 2, working on saekano), Kinugasa (Akatsuki no Goei, working on classroom of the elite now), Wataru Hino, Sakurai Hikaru (WAB series, now works on FGO)... big names like Looseboy just disappeared from the face of the earth. Nitro+ only churns out Shimokura works instead of Haganeya Jin, Narahara, Urobuchi (who obviously left VNs a long time ago), etc.
You gotta love how VNs can be so deeply influential to otaku culture in general while having such a small userbase. The term tsundere came from a visual novel even (cosmos no sora ni).
Levi Powell
>Eventually you don't even notice the badness.
Actually this is what sticks in my mind more then anything else ever. For a long time I was so fucking put off by that style I dismissed it out of hand. But it kept on coming up. So eventually I gave it a shot and powered through some of it. And to my utter fucking astonishment eventually I actually got into it and enjoyed the finale just fine. And the second version of the anime (skipped the first) put me off all over again, and once again by the end I genuinely enjoyed it.
I guess it's no different then when I went back and replayed NES/SNES games for the first time in 14 years, it took a while to get back into it and then suddenly it clicked and I didn't even think about it anymore and enjoyed the shit out of them. But the style is just so off putting to me normally not merely "primitive" yet my brain still got used to it, made it stand out more.
Nolan Edwards
>fatal fury
Luis Myers
>excel saga
You fucking what, that's definitely Gourry from Slayers. And I loved both that one and Excel Saga also fuck you though for mixing them up.
Benjamin Ross
Big companies like Key, Alicesoft and Yuzusoft are safe. The smaller companies are all slowly dying though. Overall trend for years has the market shrinking. Their profit margins are so low that a bad selling release can cripple your company, and two bad releases in a row is more than enough to kill most of them. Sprite was huge and they're shutting down next month.
English market is even worse. There was a boom when Steam first started allowing VNs. That has since dried up in part from the novelty being over and Steam has started to ban shit again.
Noah Reed
biased shit. reeks of moepig
90s shojo characters were sophisticated and they had big influenced on other media. like yazawa ai's art. that image literally lacks non-moeshit stuff especially after 90s
David Collins
Coloring is easier now
Carter Evans
>Alicesoft
Let's see about that in a couple of years without it's workhorse Rance.
Liam Carter
it's not like there was much choice back then. either it was shovelware vn game or nothing
Brayden Ward
SOUL
Samuel Allen
That's why I'm saying it's shit, lacking in amazing designs from shoujo or hentai. Also it's anime-only, so no manga or VNs
Luis Rogers
60s and 80s are the best
t. someone who doesn't watch anime
Nathaniel Murphy
There was more choice than ever when Kanon was released.