thought about this on the way home from work and felt like writing about it, so here's a couple of examples.
The best bits imo, visually-speaking, of Tokyo Ghoul's early parts are the instances where you're just shown A Character Or Two. There's good imagery in early Tokyo Ghoul for sure, but a lot of it is very... rough and bland, the style that starts dominating during :re just isn't there. :re's art gradually gets more and more erratic, scratchy, just generally kind of noisy, and the only thing that really compares (but is still VASTLY different in presentation) are a couple of bits towards the end of part 1 of Tokyo Ghoul, and some of the torture scenes in the middle-ish of part 1.
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here's a somewhat more subtle example with Girl Friends, since I'm really familiar with it as well.
Aside from the very obvious haha Milk Morinaga can only draw 2 kinds of girls for main characters (it's true and we love her for it), Milk Morinaga kind of had to learn how to draw Mari and Akko to not be such... generic blobs, and the solution to this seemed to be thicker lines and better shading, along with chibi renditions and usage of general anime/manga facial emotes, stuff like turning >:O or XD etc into an actual face. :P
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