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Message: [QUOTE="RustySK, post: 148221, member: 1411"] I'm not much of an anime guy, but while artstyles and stylistic preferences definitely do naturally evolve over time, I would not be surprised if this sameness you mention might be the result of production costs. That used to be a formative influence on Western animation back in the 70s to 90s at least. Even in the age of digital animation, if your style is too detailed, it'll exponentially increase the workload of any animation studio and from what I've read over the years, making meaningful profit off of animation these days is... a challenge, to say the least. So maybe that look has slowly become more and more prevalent as an implicit cost-saving measure? 🤔 Again though, I know next to nothing about modern anime - at least in part because most modern anime I've seen looks offputting to me - so I'm just theorizing. [/QUOTE]

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