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The story
A thread reporting the PV release for the anime “Shin Oishinbo” popped up on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board. The focus wasn’t on how the anime itself turned out, but squarely on how closely the character designs matched the original manga. Posters flooded in with image comparisons arguing that Yamaoka Shiro and Kurita Yuuko’s faces look different from the source material — if anything, closer to the manga’s later-era art style — and the discussion spread into comparisons with the old anime adaptation and the current trend of reviving other long-running manga.
What people said
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So like a knockoff Akagi? (the off-model-art meme named after the mahjong manga Akagi)
but something's still off
Not the early stubbly Yamaoka Shiro holding a horse-racing paper
If Oishinbo could learn to respect MSG, it might actually earn some respect back.
Yeah, not happening though
Who wants to watch that?
Obviously it should open with the monkfish-fishing episode (a famous early Oishinbo arc)
same move as the Doraemon redesign
The eyebrows are weirdly thick too
The eyebrows are different.
The shading inside the eyes isn't in the original either.
And the hair flip looks half-assed
Kurita Yuuko just isn't cute at all in the original manga
This is already the face of a guy who's been tamed by Kurita-san
Obocchama-kun has real demand in India — the funding's actually coming from there
It's genuinely a ridiculous manga
It's not 'like' ridiculous, it IS ridiculous lol
The TV version was actually more sensible in that regard
I've looked at this page so many times
and I still don't get it at all lol
This gets mocked a lot, but even the final boss of 'Ramen Saiyuki' — the 'Millennial's Mom,' famous from the Ramen Hage series — ends up concluding that ramen started out as a substitute food, a fake
"Remake Anime 'Shin Oishinbo' PV Released, This Looks Bad" [668970678]
https://greta.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/poverty/1790847357/
No way, the manga's Kurita-san is the cutest version there is
Has there ever been an anime that succeeded by sticking close to the manga's art?
That's because the manga isn't popular anymore anyway
Background and key points
“Oishinbo” is a cooking manga written by Tetsu Kariya and illustrated by Akira Hanasaki that has run since 1983, and it was previously adapted into a TV anime. What sparked discussion this time wasn’t the quality of the new PV itself, but specifically which era of the manga’s art the characters’ faces most resembled. In long-running manga, the art style often shifts over the years, so which period gets used as the reference point changes how the anime comes across. Commenters in the thread pointed out that even the previous anime adaptation had faces that differed from the manga, and the discussion extended to the broader, fairly common trend of anime rarely replicating a manga’s art style exactly. Meanwhile, claims that the animation work was outsourced overseas were not backed by any evidence and remain pure speculation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “Shin Oishinbo… They Went and Messed It Up.”
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