It's so fucking crazy to me that mangaka can draw this level of realism but almost never do.

>>280292483 (OP)
Hyper realism is boring

>>280292483 (OP)
I agree. Bring back slavery

>>280292807
Hardly hyper realism. It's still just art.

>>280292483 (OP)
>realism
It's a dying art style in manga, mostly exists in porn/ecchi now (for obvious reason).
It seemed big because of how prominent Ikegami, Hojo, and Inoue were.

But even among "realist" manga artists only a few does proper realism. Hojo and Inoue, for example, still heavily stylize their art.

>>280293567
Kenji's art is so fucking good. I find like half of his stories boring as shit or just plain not that sexy, but I'll look through anything he writes just because he's so fucking talented.

Although his current series is absolutely GOAT tier.

>>280292483 (OP)
Is it nicer to look at than stylished art?

>>280293700
Realism is just a form of art style.
It's old movie poster art style.

>>280293567
>>280293630
I personally like that kind of art style (if it's done well).
It's somewhere between simple manga art styles and realism.
I call it the hentai art style.

Innocent will forever be toptier.
>realistic art
>no sfx
>great paneling

>>280294270
Obviously. The question in the OP was why don't mangaka use it if they can. I'd say it's because even if it's technically impressive you need to have both a discerning eye and fondness for it. It doesn't really play into strengths of the medium, which is depicting things out of ordinary.

>>280292483 (OP)
>realism
That's not what that art style is called and there's hundreds of manga drawn in the same manner. It's just typical gekiga stuff. Holy hell this board is getting really dumb now.

>>280293700
It all depends on the story you're trying to tell. For realistic stories, a realistic style can be powerful.

>>280294602
Are you a bot

>>280294531
nah most gekiga is still pretty stylized

>>280294619
I'm not a bot. I'm a frequent poster of /a/ - Anime.

>>280294645
Sanctuary is a gekiga and heavily stylized.

>>280294448
It is nicer to look at than the normal ones.
The reason why artists don't do it is because it takes too much time or they just can't. So most artists settle with something on the level of (peak) Murata, or all those "realistic style" seinen manga in the past like Zetman, Gantz, and so on.

>>280294682
He probably means something like Tatsumi Yoshihiro. Gekiga is a pretty wide category, ranging from him to Ikegami, because it just means a cinematic/cinema-like approach to manga sequences/paneling.

>>280294769
It just looks like pulp, which can scarcely be called art.

>>280294832
>It just looks like pulp, which can scarcely be called art.
Except it's a manga. Big difference.

>>280295335
Not really, >>280294345 absolutely nailed it. Even retards intuitively know it's pulp, even if they don't understand why or what that implies.

>>280293567
>It's a dying art style in manga,
It's not. Stop reading translations and you'll see there's lively output.

>>280295389
Sanctuary mostly looks like what I just posted.
It isn't really what you think it is.

>>280292483 (OP)
Some mangaka. Very very few, in fact. Believe it all not "mangaka" refers to more than just one dude.
And that's not realism. It's just detailed cartooning.

>>280292483 (OP)
That's because it's a fuckton of work to draw like this and it's almost never worth it for a manga, especially a weekly one.