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Which anime or manga, if any, do you think has a profound art style? Not just interesting, detailed, or cute, but deeper than that?

Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but the original art for Mob Psycho and One Punch man, by ONE, are notoriously bad. I have absolutely no artistic skills and if I tried to make a manga that's about what it would look like.

What I find profound is that the writing is so good that people noticed and enjoyed them anyway. And because we live in a society, they got adapted into anime by proper artists (and One Punch Man got a remake manga by a talented artist). This guy has amazing writing talent but garbage art talent, and thus on his own would only be able to make mediocre manga. But by synergizing with other humans where he can utilize his strengths to its utmost while someone else uses their strengths to compensate for his weaknesses, together they can make amazing art that is better than what either could make on their own.

It might be bad art, but it's presented well. Like in many ways the quality of the characters, and the general look is worse than Murata, the fights themselves are better presented in One's original web comic.

Dude has a genius level of artistic vision and just lacks the drawing skills. This is one of the things that makes me most excited for AI art as it develops. How many people are out there with creative ideas and vision but only have half the necessary skills and can't actually make their stuff? If ONE had been born 20 years later than he was he probably could have coaxed an AI into converting his character designs into high quality versions of themselves and generating each panel with him tweaking and coaxing it until it gets it right.

If there are dozens of ONEs with similar skillsets who never got noticed, they might be able to make their own stuff without needing a Murata to help them.

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