For that case, I feel that for people who are used to nice texture like Kanon or the like, this art is probably ugly. However, the fact is we have to see the context of the show together with the artwork. When we bring ourselves back one step and see, Red Garden in fact is utilizing the best artwork for its genre, in which the gothic and dark feeling permeates the whole atmosphere.

It will be very queer, i assure you, if the design is like kanon. I will be disturbed. Anyway, it’s good that people are blogging about Red Garden. I almost feel like I am the only idiot in the anime community that likes this show and continously blogging on it, wishing that people would discuss and bring their thoughts to this show.

This is good stuff ;o;

Second, the point of my post is exactly that: to you it may just be “ugly” but is that because you’re making a value judgment as an aesthetic judgment? It’s ok to say something sucks if you have a good reason for it, and my point is you (and others like you) really can’t a.rticulate a good, objective reason behind why you find it ugly. Why is it ugly? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but when the beholder is poisoned by “moe” (especially given many people’s attempt to not only articulate what is moe, but integrate it in their works), it stands to probing by reason.

Third, I think you make a good point about the Ayu slamming (and lesser extent with the Red Garden slamming), but in my own experience there are plenty of Ayu fans that are to be slammed (or people who think Red Garden charas are ugly), and while maybe a set of bloggers and people who post on forums you read may not share that tendency, I do so out of response of people who says “LOL Red Garden charas are ugly.” I don’t know if it’s a majority or not, and I don’t think I claim it either way. Still, plenty of people think that way (as you partly demonstrated by your own example)

As in “But of course, God forbid the use of thick lines in character art in anime. Even more so having to animate something without the use of moe dynamics. I think it’s more than just preferences and eccentricities when something that’s honestly quality gets slammed for being different.”

Not only is it NOT being slammed by most people, seeing as how ive seen a shitload of posts EXACTLY like this since the first episode came out (just like how everyones like OMG EVERYONE LOVES AYU IN KANON WTF SHE SUCKS LOSERS when really EVERY ENTRY BY ANYONE ALMOST is OMG I HATE AYU) so i dont know this horribly large majority of people you are referring to when you say these things. Cuz im one of the only people ive found who has talked shit on the show for its art. But also, it has nothing to do with it being different, atleast not for some people. It really is ugly, theres no way around it. Oh wait, i just did the same thing you did. Saying its ‘honestly quality’ is like me saying its ‘honestly shit’. So really, maybe your idea of it being quality is just incorrect. Its the same likelihood that YOUR wrong about it being anything good as me being wrong about it being shit.

So really, saying things like that are pointless. Especially when trying to force a reason upon everyone who doesnt like it for WHY they dont like it just out of your own mind.

There is nothing wrong with the character designs too. Perfectly good even the noses.