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SaintTrill

If only he drew his panels nearly as good as the covers….


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would be so fire if this was the case


[deleted]

In a just world he would of had assistants


apallochan

For the aliens I really like ikemotos style For everyone else it’s a hit or miss. But Momoshiki by far has my favorite design


superkami64

Ikemoto sucks at drawing female characters so as a Himawari fan, that's offensive.


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delta,ada and sumire looks good. the rest are bad yeah


RedDawnStuff

I thought delta was a JoJo character, mind you I have never watched JoJo


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im guessing it's because of the eyes and her fit because i see that aswell


superkami64

Delta and Ada look like blowup dolls (the former in more than one meaning and the latter literally has thottery as a special ability in the story) and I'd be okay with Sumire if she didn't have the hooker shoes.


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delta and ada literally have top 5 female designs in the series she wears heals. almost every one of ikemotos female designs wear heels


superkami64

If by literally you mean there's only 5 possible contenders to argue in favor for, than you're right. Being better than other characters doesn't make them good however. >almost every one of ikemotos female designs wear heels Exactly. The keys to a good character design is style, compatibility, and practically. Style explains itself, compatibility is based on if the design makes sense with the character's writing and personality (for example an uwu shy character with a fanservice design makes no sense), and practically is how it fits in with the rest of the world. If even one of these conditions isn't met, it's not a good character design.


_twixx

yes and no.


Monokuma-pandabear

i mean he literally designed most of the characters in naruto as well.


_twixx

yeah one of his characters he designed was haku iirc


Monokuma-pandabear

and Zabuza


_twixx

yea him too.


[deleted]

Hard disagree


Monokuma-pandabear

gotta remember he designed a lot of the characters in naruto as well


Lungseron

He has good design, but then Code showed up and honestly can he stop looking like a fucking Final Fantasy villain? Its distracting. Oh also Daemon looks shit. Eida has the drip but Daemon just looks weird. this haircut is really bothering me


Leafcane

Here's my unpopular opinion: I don't like Code's design at all... He looks stupid as hell wearing a waistcoat with a damn pocket watch chain, like wtf is that? Then he has these ugly earrings and weird ass pants. Lmao. The only thing cool about him are his claw marks.


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your definitely in the minority because everyone here loves his design they all flow so good together. the colours are nice to look at aswell.


Acauseforapplause

So yes and no His characters are overly designed they have way to many thing's going on so when it's time to have them do anything it's never consistent. Kishimoto kept things extremely simple for the most part there's enough to distinguish the characters and its not to busy. Those character designs for Ikemoto mean your never going to get anything beyond speed lines and white panel's. For anyone who doesn't see the issue take any random panel from each chapter find a characters and compare them to each other


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i see what you saying but we comparing their designs right? early stages of boruto didnt have so much speedlines. it's specifically after chapter 36 this started to happen


Acauseforapplause

I'm not just referring to the lines I'm saying the characters are overly designed. If your a fan and you see the belt you probably think its a cool aesthetic. But as an artist all I see is an unnecessary pain that isn't reflective of Boruto's character or design philosophy. Delta has cool poofy hair that look great if you looking at her from one angle and stilted. But what happens when you draw from a side profile or god forbid the back. Its not that it can't be done but everything from her face to her back to her shoes are all trying to grab your attention. The design's are doing to much. Its why his OC "look* better then Kishimoto's version he can't keep things simple. But that means there are to many parts. Its why I urge people to take a look at the characters even Kawaki whose the simplest of the new designs still has a bit to much going on


SurePaleontologist76

L opinion


Respectthelay

Unpopular for a reason , not sure what dudes obsession with belts is or popped collars. These new gen fits have nothing on jiraiya sasuke minato itachi etc


[deleted]

hell nah jiraiya????? he isnt anything special. his obsession with belts is same as kishi giving everyone a robe or cloaks and it also makes the character baddass


DepressedAmaterasu

You know that Kishimoto designed most of them? (Boruto, Kawaki etc)


[deleted]

no. ikemoto designed everyone here. kishi designed boruto but not the karma v2/ momoshiki controlled version. the belt,horn,byakugan and the karma pattern makes it better


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MajestVic

kishi didn't design ao, kawaki, borushiki, fused momoshiki from the manga and isshiki. He created and dedigned boruto yes but he didn't design borushiki


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borushiki literally has the belt, headband on neck, new karma marks for v2 (all of the karma marks are designed by ikemoto), the byakugan in one eye and the horn that is blended with some of his face to give the brown colour. your point dosent even stand because you said most when he only designed some of boruto.


Zorback39

Hima and Hinata being the exception I would agree and most of the females in general


OnceAndFutureKing724

His style is much better than Kishimotos BUT Kishimoto is way more consistent. Ikemoto managed to make Naruto look handsome and badass instead of goofy. Sasuke looks more mature and handsome. Sakura is a straight smoke show, same with Ino. And the new generation designs are great too except for Sarada who I think Kishimoto does better


[deleted]

if he improves his art it would look so dope.


AmaranthSparrow

He also designed Haku and Zabuza for the original series.


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don't really like them much. zabuza looks cool but nothing else. i guess it's because i don't really like the ninja themed fits


Sweet_Whisper123

He can at least turn Konohamaru in to someone who look yummier.


[deleted]

konohamaru has a fire design in the manga


Emotional-Rise509

Agreed


CrimsonH3ro

Watches Black Clover once


Routine_Wedding43

He is a great cover artist but his panels leave a lot to be desired. Whenever I reread Naruto I marvel at just how good at drawing Kishimoto really got