Best anime art

[sunnyside]

Which anime do you think has the best art?

To start I'll put forward the cars from Initial D.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Initial_D_Keisuke_vs_Takumi.jpg/180px-Initial_D_Keisuke_vs_Takumi.jpg

http://animefanblog.com/Initial%20D/initial_d_fourth_stage_12.jpg

http://mikeformos0.tripod.com/initial_d_018.jpg

The people are frankly kinda fugly in the series. But the cars are nice. And this came out back in 98.

[_Freddie_]

The anime with the best art in my opinion is 'Persona Trinity Soul'.

http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/anime/13/6730l.jpg

Couldn't find a better picture, since I'm at school, but the artwork is amazing in the anime.

[Palindrome]

I'll have to go with Gankutsuou. Gotta love the trippy colors and textures and such.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/Palindrome88/Gankutsuou/Official/b0017336_1754260.jpg
Takes a little getting used to, though.

[Amarhyllis]

Best animation for me would have to be 'Mononoke'.

The art actually looks like an old painting come to life. I fell in love with the style after just the first 5 minutes.

I know the picture doesn't really do it justice but it's the only one I could find.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/Lady_goddess_Ceres/Blog%20images/AnimePaperwallpapers_Mononoke_redro.jpg

[Tasuke]

some of the very best art quality to be found in Anime will be found in the OVA series "GUNDAM 0083"

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/Anime/gdm027.jpg

more examples to be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/0092/0083/index.htm



but my favorite character design has to be the works of the Manga artist "Minene Sakurano" her best and most famous work being "Mamotte Shugogetten"


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/Anime/MamotteShugogetten01072.jpg

[Bluedini]

I'm going to go with Air.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/998/airph7.jpg

The details of the art are stunning~

[Diocletian]

Yami, the Hat and the Travelers of the Books. The anime has pretty damn good visuals for a friggin' eroge. It gets sketchy at the end. The manga was alot better.

[animesoul167]

I really like Soul Eater's art.

<a href="http://photobucket.com/images/soul%20eater" target="_blank"><img src="http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/donna_petlover/videos/Soul-Eater.jpg" border="0" alt="soul eater Pictures, Images and Photos"/></a>

My friend describes it as "Scary Dr. Seuss"

[animesoul167]

I really like Soul Eater's art.



My friend describes it as "Scary Dr. Seuss"

Oh, sorry I guess the pic didn't work from photobucket. My bad.... :wacko:

[Cocola-Weda]

I really like the art of Eureka SeveN. It's so much more different than any other style I've seen.

[Princely Dreaming Doll]

Best animation for me would have to be 'Mononoke'.

The art actually looks like an old painting come to life. I fell in love with the style after just the first 5 minutes.

Agreed.
Here is a screenshot, not the best but it does it better justice:
http://s415.photobucket.com/albums/pp235/Tom_Pickle/?action=view&current=mononoke4.jpg

Also another anime like I like the style is Kurozuka:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5664/image00003fw4.jpg

[Savage Muraki]

This art work was marvelous . I really loved the detailing works in the pictures. Trinity Blood Sure had so much to look on them man!@__@http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/6051/trinitybtk6.jpg

[.Lovebeat]

And the winner iiiis...
Spirited Away!
You have to watch the movie to be able to experience the stunning animation yourself, because there's not enough screencaptures and words to describe it.

[rikumi]

Trinity Blood ftw.

Besides that, I personally like 5cm per second's art. It touches my heart. =w=~o
http://big.org.ua/base/1/541.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/liljetjennie/Blog%2008/5cm1.jpg
http://www.concretebadger.net/images/blog/oavs-and-movies/byousoku-5cm-1.jpg
http://forum.saiyaman.info/w2box/data/1099742468/5cm%20-%20Medium%2001.jpg
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews37/5%20centimeters%20per%20second/BRD_HF7Y2780_5cm.jpg
http://twitchfilm.net/site/images/entry_images/5cm9.jpg
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews37/5%20centimeters%20per%20second/BRD_HF7Y2780_5cm.jpg

Believe it or not, it is anime.

EDIT: I have realized I posted the pictures massively. =_=; Par'n moi.

[Hamashimura]

Easily Air/Kanon/Clannad...not posting pictures,since I believe people already know how they look like...

Art is just lovely and cute <33

[skinnyp]

I agree with many people who said Air. That had amazing artwork. Also, Romeo x Juliet has some stellar art.

[Princely Dreaming Doll]

Another anime art style I like is Noien.

And Bokurano.

[Ezzy]

Id say pretty much anything done by Key, which would be Air, Kanon, Clannad, and such. I also really like the art direction in Soul Eater, although its not the prettiest ive ever seen, its just different from anything else that ive seen

[naotavespaboy]

O.K as an older fan let me put forward Ah! My Goddess the original OVA. Remember there was no fancy CGI when this was made and it still looks good today. Also Akira. Again an old Anime that still looks absolutely superb.

[little miss sunshine]

I like the work on Vandread.
The vivid colours and sort of 3D effect on the Vandreads is very eye-pleasing, although they may appear stiff every now and then.

[Akito0o]

The Neon Genesis Evangelion for sure
http://www.animeforum.com/image/thum_1885484961c2f2ef337.jpg (http://www.animeforum.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=39918)http://www.animeforum.com/image/thum_1885484961c2f2b97d0.jpg (http://www.animeforum.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=39917)
http://www.animeforum.com/image/thum_1885484961c2f33f6b1.jpg (http://www.animeforum.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=39919)

[-akichan-]

All that are done by Watase Yuu are my favorite. I love how she illustrates the characters to tell the story in many different views. If you look closer to her artworks, you'll notice a story behind each of her artworks.

[October.]

i say that yakitate japan and Cardcaptor sakura are nice..
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2816/yakitatemp9.png

[CrystalAce]

Which anime do you think has the best art?

To start I'll put forward the cars from Initial D.


Yeah, I also liked the art of cars in it but story started to turn pretty lame in the latter series.

Besides it, I liked the art of GITS:2nd GIG and also Hellsing.

[StabWound]

Big fan of the art style in Mushishi personally.

[Ridana]

The artwork in Hayao Miyazaki films is always superb.
I might be biased, but I always thought the settings for Cowboy Bebop were always pretty good... hitting the sort of realistic science-fiction they were shooting for.
Eureka Seven's visuals are pretty appealing to my aesthetic tastes as well.

[Sashikizu]

I love the style of Loveless and Nabari no Ou.

Clannad.. Of course...

And yea, Soul Eater is way unique.

Code Geass, because we all love Clamp.

Death Note is just beautiful.

And.. I'm sorry, but the art from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.. is... just.. wow. love it!
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/Kalfyra/TengenToppaGurrenLagann.jpg

[rikumi]

I'd have to say Macross Frontier is also a plus for me.

http://blog.jpopdb.org/media/macross-frontier-ost1.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f343/kljs/macrossfrontier.png

Ranka's hair moves.

[Amray The II]

The anime series' in which I think have the most amazing art are;
Gun X Sword, Code Geass, and Death Note.

Gun X Sword and Code Geass were both animated and designed by my favourite artist, Kimura Takahiro. Death Note was just simply wonderful to watch because of its beautiful animation. When I first watched it I was extremely amazed by the animation.

I also really like the art in some of the Studio Ghibli films, notably Only Yesterday. The reason for that is because the actions and dialogue went so perfectly with eachother and some of the facial expressions they managed to draw were just amazing and humourus (especially Taeko when she is told that people will think she is having her period when being absent for P.E).

[iDensuke]

well initiald like you have there has used gran turismo for car scenes is what i heard, and i think so also

[Datenshi]

Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell and Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. All of them were made in a time when anime was still art hand-drawn by real people, for better or for worse. I'll throw in Cowboy Bebop out of pure personal preference.

As for today, Shinkai Maokoto and Kyoto Animation (The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, CLANNAD) are probably the top of the industry in terms of artwork.

[Necro'lic Enigma]

This picture is not like how it was in the on going anime's animation but this is a artwork and i am always fond of Trinity Blood's artwork which are of this tone.Their detailing works , which i have seen many , is just amazing.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii20/domoinator123324/Trinity_blood.jpg


Other then this i liked XxxHolic's Art.....

http://i349.photobucket.com/albums/q372/XoX_Akemi_XoX/xxxHolic.jpg

[Orta Honehone]

Ive always liked the style from Basilisk and the Ninja Scroll movie...

[Datenshi]

[quote=Silent Madness;2204278]This picture is not like how it was in the on going anime's animation but this is a artwork and i am always fond of Trinity Blood's artwork which are of this tone.Their detailing works , which i have seen many , is just amazing.[quote]

In case you're interested, the artist who drew the illustrations of Trinity Blood is called Thores Shibamoto,and she's done some work for the covers of Kikuchi Hideyuki's Bionic Soldier series and the novelization of Devil May Cry 4 as well as few other light novels.