Also, really heavy focus on Bewbs, which is rarely a good sign for a reboot.
Not that the original was exactly chaste, but the hyper realism gave the art a certain hard boiled grittiness. Nothing about this character looks ex-military.
I’m not 100% sold on the look yet myself, but to be fair, I think they’re really at least trying to channel the look of the original manga by Shirow Masamune, which I think had a lot more cartooniness and eroticism in it than what was depicted in Oshii’s movies or Kamiyama’s series.
It’s not as well executed in my opinion, but I’d say they’re going for something along the lines of
I don’t think they understand where the phrase comes from, since they’re drawing literal shells in…
Also, really heavy focus on Bewbs, which is rarely a good sign for a reboot.
Not that the original was exactly chaste, but the hyper realism gave the art a certain hard boiled grittiness. Nothing about this character looks ex-military.
I’m not 100% sold on the look yet myself, but to be fair, I think they’re really at least trying to channel the look of the original manga by Shirow Masamune, which I think had a lot more cartooniness and eroticism in it than what was depicted in Oshii’s movies or Kamiyama’s series.
It’s not as well executed in my opinion, but I’d say they’re going for something along the lines of
Yeah, Shirow was basically a porn artist across his collected works. I feel like this new art channels the original manga pretty well.
The original artist was clearly a thigh man, can always trust a thigh man.
Speaking of differences in style, every iteration of Birdy the Mighty has been so different from the original 90s OVA where she was such a badass.