/mai/ - Waifu★

Holo has been oficially dpeicted with three styles for the light novels, the mnaga and the anime respectively. I like the the cute style used in the manga, but my fatvorite eventually came to be the light novel style.

>are you happy with the art style that was used to represent your partner?

There are a lot of artists who officially illustrated Youmu at some point and I made a picture showing their respective art styles over time.

I also included their fan art for the sake of completeness.

ZUN is the sole creator of Touhou and therefore his depictions are arguably the only true canon ones. His art style is plain and unprofessional but has its own charm.

He also has the tendency to be a bit inconsistent with his designs, e.g. some characters suddenly have different eye colors.

Since he doesn't care much about consistency himself, his illustrators can canonize their respective art styles to a certain degree.

To be honest, I don't like his art style all that much, but his character design is unique.

I've ranted about this a few times already, but I dislike Youmu's depiction in Touhou 13.

My favorite art styles are alphes's and Hirasaka Makoto's. They've stayed fairly consistent over the years and are based on Youmu's depiction in Touhou 7 and Touhou 8.

The ones I dislike the most are Aki★Eda's and azmaya's. I like Aki★Eda's fan art of Youmu from 2006, but when she started illustrating Silent Sinner in Blue in 2007, Youmu was consistently depicted way to derpy.

azmaya's art of Youmu is completely out of character, but it has been getting better recently.

>Is there a certain style you'd like to see them else in?

Officially? Not really. The official illustrators always seem to adapt the contemporary trend of moeness. But fan art in different styles is always welcome.

Really there's only her game sprites and her in the anime prequel, kind of.

I love her sprites, her color palette is so relaxing to me and the color contrast is just right. During her cuter scenes, the sprites always make me smile. She has a decent range of expressions, but I'd love to see more of her like this. My only complaint is her sprites don't make her look as curvy as she's supposed to be. That has more to do with her fairly conservative dress code, I think.

Official art of her from the game can be hit or miss, I love her reference sheet for just making her look adorable, but usually something about the official art style in general is kinda wonky to me.

Her anime design is okay. They gave her a bit of an uguu treatment and her hair doesn't always look right, but I'm okay with that. It can be easy to miss, but sometimes her breasts are comically large.

I just decided to include another image from this artist because I love how they draw her. It's a shame there's only a handful of solo images with her.

>are you happy with the art style that was used to represent your partner?

Yes and no. Talking just about artwork here, not the in-game look. The art for SFIV was pretty good all around (1st pic), and what Gonzo did with her OVA special was fucking phenomenal (2nd gif & 4th pic). SFV is where I take issue with the art (3rd pic). This isn't the worst image I could've chosen, but the lead artist working on this shit has done some glorious fg art in the past but it looks like he completely forgot about how human anatomy works when he sat down to work of SFV.

>Is there a certain style you'd like to see them else in?

Another Gonzo OVA pls. I really think their art style really captures her well. the facial expressions are my absolute favorite in the 4th pic

Since Maya is a thing, I would've prefer the promotional art.

Well, there's the games, the light novel, Killer Killer, DR1's anime adaptation, UDG's manga and DR3. Of all those, my favorites are the games' art style and DR3's but Killer Killer's is also pretty nice.

>>60520 (OP)

>Let's talk art style, are you happy with the art style that was used to represent your partner?

(Pics are in the order I talk about them) I'm fairly happy with the style that's used to depict Ruby. My all time favorite is her Maya-animated model that is currently being used. I also like her Poser model, especially in Volume 1, It's a bit rough, but it's cute. In Volumes 2 and 3, I feel like they de-emphasized some of her facial features a little too much. There's also the promotional art by Ein Lee, I didn't like some of her earlier art (the first concept art from V1 made her look like she was wearing lipstick) but in more recent concepts/promotional art I think she's gotten much better at drawing Ruby. There's also a fanartist by the name of NDGD who draws her super cute, but unfortunately he also does a lot of shipping art.

>>60520 (OP)

>Is there a certain style you'd like to see them else in?

I'd like to see Ruby done in that sort of hand-drawn style reminiscent of late 80's-early 90's anime.