Sgirl wrote:Whoa - that sort of is just... discomforting. I know it's probably designed to bring in new readers but the style shift is pretty remarkable.
That's what I assumed, since the artist is very popular (not that that's a bad thing--I enjoyed the FMA manga well enough, though I know that since they showed the anime on Toonami or whatever, it's one of those series that has a huge following of dumb kids, too, lol.) I know his style is much more shounen and action-friendly; but I loved the almost delicate, detailed art of OAV and old manga:
So maybe they wanted to step away from the almost shoujo-y feel of it? Which I guess is understandable, but a bit disappointing to me--the art style was one of my favorite aspects of it.
