Thoughts on art style change with Sun & Moon?

[Sheep]

This change was really controversial originally, but I've seen a lot of people grow to love the art and saga as a whole (me included!). What do you think of the updated art style in SuMo?

 

[YellowTemperment]

I have to admit, it grew on me as well! I'm about a little less than 20 episodes into the show and I have to say, I really, really love it! Aside from a few, ahem, cursed frames, it's very expressive and fun!

 

[pkmin3033]

It's a trashy art style when compared to DPPt and XY, but that works in its favour because of the absolutely ridiculous faces. It's a light-hearted show so it doesn't really need a more mature or detailed art style. It's...good trash. Or so bad it's transcended the boundaries of bad to become fairly good. It's a metaphor for the Pokemon franchise's gameplay - good content wrapped up in a terrible packaging that nobody seems to really mind for various reasons.

 

[PB]

to be honest, as someone who's a Kalos STAN (yes we exist!!), there are times when I miss the old style

but tbh I've always been in favor of the new style. It really assists in telling the story of Sun/Moon, and gives a more comfy, laid back, 'out in the sun playing on the beach' vibe. Alola is much more comfier than the other regions in my opinion so I'll always stand by the art style choice being one of the greatest decisions they made for the series. I will be honest though, I'm not sure why it was chosen for the 2019 series, but I don't exactly hate it. Ironically you'll find it's more of a hybrid between the old and new style

 

[jaylop91]

I love the artstyle they picked in Sun and Moon, X and Y's art style was too bland and lacked energy, Sun and Moon's was more expressive, energetic and looked more appealing than X and Y's art style.

 

[Roni]

i was so used to everyone's aesthetic from kanto - kalos looking relatively the same, that looking at ash's new face sorta threw me off for a bit. i legit thought it was a spin-off anime or smth bcs of how weird/different it was.

got used to it after a while though, and now it's whatevs. still prefer the originals.

 

[Momoro]

In comparison to XY & XYZ, Sun and Moon was a very serious downgrade.

Is it just me, or did Ash lose all of his character development in Sun and Moon? 🤔