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Originally Posted by Ithekro
Just a random thought. Can you imagine if Haruhi was done by Toei like the various Key works were?
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Just stretch everyone's faces twice as long.
Though honestly, you can't fault Toei too much. The original Key designs for Kanon were pretty bad, and maybe I just don't like their artist, but most of the designs remained awful, except for a select few characters like Tomoyo. And honestly, Toei Air doesn't look that much worse than Kyoani Air. Toei Clannad was just -_- though.
Hell, I thought Little Busters! designs in the VN were still quite bad and even JC staff was able to make them look better.
But yes, I think one of the greatest accomplishments for Kyoani was to turn Key's crappy designs into something decent looking... sometimes. And it was not an easy process-- Air especially and less in Kanon had a lot of derpy looking moments. If you look at Clannad and then go back to Air designs, it's sorta like "uhh... no, why are those eyes so far apart?" And Kyoani also gave most of the female characters some actual curves instead of anorexic washboards (for a bad example, go look at Deengurashi season 1), so... yay?