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>experimental
Artists have become used to the old styles, and they begin pushing the boundries of the medium
Many of these are terrible to look at, such as the 90's giant droopy eyes.
This is also where the trope of razer sharp pointy chins comes from.
It was an experimental era, but out of it, some good did come.

At this point, everyone is just doing their own thing more or less, there's no real threads, we can only see new technologies emerging.

>Digital
Just like with comics, digital took off the reins, now artists can do whatever they want.
Many manga are ruined by this, but not to the extent that comics were. The artists here are more capable.
>Saturation
Manga is now more accessible than ever, it has become an enormous market and there is something for everyone.
Within this booming industry, ONE produces a popular webcomic with absolutely terrible art but a fun story (admittedly its redraw by a much stronger artists is key to its popularity, but it had popularity even as a webcomic). This sets the precedent for artists like Tatsuki Fujimoto to produce appealing comics but with lazy art.
However, this is not a decline, there is still good art, there is just so much art that there is more bad art now than there was any art in the past.