Define soul, /v/.

>>715660983 (OP)
Content that relied on creativity and effort to be made, rather than crutches and shortcuts like photoshop and adobe flash. Original Pokemon was drawn by hand on paper. Nu-pokemon is CGI and the soft, non-angular 'modern' artstyle is garbage. Just look at Ash and Brock in the top image vs the bottom image. They look the way they do because they were drawn with exertion and effort in the top image, and were drawn with shortcuts and corners literally cut in the bottom image.

>pokemon if it trans

>>715660983 (OP)
This is very depressing to look at. You can feel the love put into the top frame. But the bottom one... what is this shit? They are just aping yokai watch with how the characters are drawn, and have a generic CG background which could be from any visual novel

>Soul
Creation
>Soulless
Imitation

Old good, new bad

>>715660983 (OP)
Holy shit, ash is mexican now?

>>715660983 (OP)

>>715660983 (OP)
soul is effort, vision, passion. the opposite of half-assed and indifference

>>715660983 (OP)
>Misty didn't even watch him win the championship.
Dawn wins the Ashbowl yet again.

>>715660983 (OP)
soul = analog

>>715660983 (OP)
how long until AI of old pokemon blows up like the ghibli shit did

XY/Z > OS > DP = PM23/Horizons > AG = PM19/Journeys > BW > powergap > SM

>>715660983 (OP)
I want these two trainers to kiss

>>715661717
This.
You can do something unoriginal but have a strong vision for that, at the end of it all the thing you created may have zero originality but it'll ooze of soul because it felt like something people actually wanted to make, something people had ideas that they saw through on.

Versus following templates, from the very get go imitating others.

>>715661780
She watched it live on TV like everyone else, if it counts.

>>715661825
The moment normalfags learn that they can ask chatgpt for that style

>>715660983 (OP)
that's outdated

>>715661713
I liked A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. I wanna see a crossover between it and Codename Kids Next Door

Ash is a fag for ignoring Misty

>>715661713
I unironically loved Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue. They basically kept Shaggy and Scoob and turned the show into Austin Powers and it was pure kino andbl funny. People bitched about it being far from core Scooby-Doo while praising things like the Werewolf race and Phantasma movies (both doing nothing with solving clues).

>>715661713
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was great.

>>715661713
Scooby-Doo was never good

>>715661713
God I remember when everyone bitched about the Be Cool designs, and then it turned out to be a decently-written show and they all stopped caring

>>715662070
>>715662302
Why are this 10-yo's hips so wide?

>>715662512
Weirdest thing about the villain pictured is that he's a caricature of Bruce Timm and named after the quirky yet tragic Vincent Price classic The Abominable Dr. Phibes, despite having nothing in common with Phibes.

>>715662661
it's called puberty

>>715662661
I've seen 12 year old girls who look like 17 year olds. Puberty's crazy like that.

>>715660983 (OP)
sovl = looks like stuff I watched/played as a child

>>715660983 (OP)
Alola is a kino season you secondary nigger.
I hate people talking about the anime when they've never finished a single fucking season.
KYS.

>>715661713
Mystery Inc?
Now THAT'S a Kino cartoon.

>>715661909
Hell yeah motherfucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tki1JGb2r9Y

>>715662661
Because she's fertile and ready to breed, unlike what (((society))) forces you to believe.

>>715661713
Mystery Inc always caught my attention, I should give it a go.

>>715662302
>ignoring Misty
She’s still the only Pokegirl even till the very end that manages to get actual soulful reactions out of him, I’d say she won.

>>715660983 (OP)
>The actual definition of soul:
Passion was put into a work, not just effort, the people making it may or may not have had fun, but they certainly wanted you to enjoy it.
>nutroonslop/v/ definition:
literally anything they dont like.

For example
>tears of the kingdom was the result of the zelda dev team being given free reign to build what they wanted, a true passion project with the aim of being a video game for people to enjoy, marketed and sold on that merit alone
>/v/ calls it anti-soul slop because they cut off their penises.

>>715662661
>gym leader
>""""10"""" years old
she was clearly meant to be an 18-early 20s onee

>>715661713
Last one is fake, right?

>>715661912
same brother, same.

>>715660983 (OP)
bottom looks so fucking cheap and shitty, how can anyone defend something like this?

>>715660983 (OP)
>SOUL
Good, you wouldn't get it.
>SOULESS
garbage, you would love it

>>715663961
Sadly, no.

>>715663121
No, that art style sucks too.

>>715660983 (OP)
The redesign in an abomination of the likes that would warrant eternal torture in a lake of fire for the people responsible. This is not even a soul thing, being soulless does not mean being whatever the hell that redesign is.

Everything was better in the 2000s, not even a debate at this point
>muh resolution

>soul
thing i like

>soulless
thing i don't like

>>715660983 (OP)
>soul vs soulless

Well, lets try reverse engineering the answer. The top one has soul, while the bottom doesn't. what are the diffrences? The top is muddier looking, and is in a non-standard style of drawing when it was made. The characters are also seemingly drawn into the background with the lighting effecting everything correctly. It has more detail

Ow the bottom, Very clean looking, The style is also unlike a modern anime style as well. The characters are seemingly on another layer from the background. The lighting is seemingly non-existent except for cast shadows. It has less detail.

If I had to guess, soul is effort more so than say nostalgia, or just liking one over the other. The top one is harder to draw and create so we tend to appreciate it more over the bottom one that is seemingly much cheaper made and looking.

>>715660983 (OP)
soul = soul
literally the word for it, any other description is second rate at best

>>715662601
It was objectively so good it spawned dozens of other copycat cartoons, which literally got to the point of "kids and a talking dune buggy solving crime" and "kids and a talking shark solving crime" etc

>>715663961
Were you sleeping under a rock?

>>715661975
>like everyone else
Dawn was there in the arena.

What happened?

>>715660983 (OP)
Buzzword that people here often use because they can't articulate what they don't like about something.

>>715662661
This >>715662784
I'm genuinely shocked by what I see walking around supermarkets nowadays. Girls whose height genuinely do not match their bodies. It's actually quite jarring. All dressed in slutwear of course by their whore mothers. You're the bad guy though for noticing.

>>715663242
PUSA are doing fine with the dubbing but why the fuck is replacing Jap BGM with american BGM still a thing in this day of age? I thought that practice should've died back in the 2000s.

Chikoritabros...

>>715666914
that gen 1 style crabrawler is amazing

>>715662661
to easily bear many of ash's children.

>>715667507
Takeuchi was, is and will always be a shit awful artist

>>715661713
13 ghosts was just shaggy and daphne? what?

>>715661713
>2023
@grok is this real

>>715661713
The pajeeta fanfiction shouldn't even be included.

>>715666474

>>715660983 (OP)
This picture has the best two seasons of pokemon in it, good pick man

>>715661713
mystery inc's style didn't work for me but i actually enjoyed the series

>>715663748
Visually TofK's world looks souless. It may be fun to play but you are not getting around that appearance. Being a Zelda game makes it worse.

>>715666914

>>715667694
Yeah, it's real and somehow even worse when you actually read it. Grok couldn't hallucinate something that schizophrenic if he tried.

>>715661713
Why did they make Velma so hot in Mystery Inc? Not that im complaining

>>715663953
I don't think there's any requirement that gym leaders be adults. Look at Iris, no way is she an adult.

>>715661713
Best designs are the ones from Zombie Island - Cyber Chase home video era and you can't prove me wrong.

>>715661713
For me it's 2010 Velma. Just look at those magumbos.

>>715660983 (OP)
https://youtu.be/RcBw50wD9_o?si=JUt1V2UnCzkRDx6g&t=718
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXPwc-uKs3M
Even if the artstyle changes, there's some traces of soul on it. Still frames don't always make things justice.

Ken Sugimori's own change of artstyle doesn't help the cause of lost soul in pokemon, really.

>>715663748
This. Everything gets turned into a buzzword.

>>715667585
This is insane lol. I've noticed older kid's media had a bit of an edge to it as well, as opposed to stuff today where it needs to be completely sanitized of any grey areas.

>>715660983 (OP)
shading apparently

>>715669776
>you can't prove me wrong.
Well, yeah. Why would I want to?

>>715667585
Everything has to look like some inbred version of Pixar and Fortnite now, I hate it.

>>715661713
>turned the pot smoking highschool dropout into a nigger
What did they mean by this?

>>715666474
They switched from traditional to digital

>>715660983 (OP)
All anime and video game girls want to be with East Asian Jomon men only.

>>715669776
Fred must have found Shaggy's stash in this scene.

>>715671985
Original series was also designed with limited animation in mind, while the alola one is much more "animated" with more dynamic keyframes.
They had to simplify the overall design a bit and add less detail to each specific frame when they're going to be doing so many more unique keys for every episode compared to the limited animation in the original.

Always seems odd to me when anons on here compare animated shows with still images and exclusively argue about how detailed the frame is rather than how good the animation of the show is. Both have their place and can result in very good shows, but it just seems silly to act like the newer show is objectively worse because as a still image it doesn't look as detailed when in motion its doing a hell of a lot more than the old one ever was.

>>715667585
I didn't need to be aware of that. What have they done?

>>715660983 (OP)
Shading

Misty thread?

>>715660983 (OP)
Any creation made beyond the pursuit of just fame and money. Does the creator really care? Is it just being phoned in for money? Is it sterile and made for the masses, or evocative and divisive?
>>715670787
Kids today are being treated like retards, which sucks because it's doing them a ton of harm. You can see how much they freak out when they're pulled out of their bubble once in a while

>>715667585
I'm so very glad this shit is flopping.
Fuck off Konami

>>715660983 (OP)
You can't. You only know it when you see it.

>>715661713
THE WEST HAS FALLEN

This chart sums it up.
>1997: A kid who's going on his first journey, he's tense and uneasy, and he's got something to prove
>2002: Same kid gained experience, teaches a new trainer the ropes and is confident in what he can do. Still a long way to go, but he's getting there
>2006: Even more experience under his belt, he's a seasoned trainer and knows what to expect and is ready to face any challenge that comes his way
>2010: Disregard all of the above, he's back to being inexperienced and don't you dare ask why, also whatever character development the villain squad had was wiped out thanks to a natural disaster
>2013: He's showing more experience and knowledge, even more than 2006? This could be the redemption arc he needs.
>2016: Fuck that, he lost again, ALOLA LOL
>2017: Twenty years wasted on this faggot, member Kanto? I member!
>2018-19: Errm...let's clone him and see if it works. No? Okay, give him a win and put him out his misery
tl;dr 1997 is the GOAT and even he got sanitized before the west even got Episode 1.

>>715669490
Brutal mogging genwan supremacy

>>715670787
Corporate bullshit and focus groups have infantilized everything because emotionally stunted retards are the biggest spenders apparently. It's like there's a gap in media now, it's either for literal babies or for adults, with nothing good for 6-12 when that used to basically be the king of target age groups back in the 90's and early 2000's

>>715660983 (OP)
>>715662070
>>715662302
>>715666474
Get with the times. Ash is gone. This is Liko's show now with her anti-social gf

These threads are so braindead, autism and nostalgia is a deadly ass combo

>>715674950
We get it, you never breathed pre-9/11 air.

>>715661713
>Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Was this any good?

>>715674950
it must be hard to be blind

>>715674507
What the fuck do the designs have to do with the writing of the seasons, you goddam autistic schizo?

>Pokemon season 1
>"more effort" than Sun and Moon
Oh lord, you niggers are stupid

>>715675372
The music alone had more effort put into it than the entirety of Sun and Moon.

>>715675372
Yes actually

>>715675564

>>715673052
I can't see how more dynamic animation beats out the alternative when it sacrifices detail. The original series got its point across just fine despite it being limited in movement. It even gave it a calmer, more rewatchable feel because of how nice it was drawn.

>>715660983 (OP)
passion + effort = sovl

>>715675014
>>715675136
Nobody is forcing you to like the new show (especially since we're talking about a cartoon for small Japanese children), but saying retarded shit like it has less "effort" than the still frame-speedline era, or that it's no longer hand-drawn because it's not drawn on cells, is mental retardation of the highest order.

>>715660983 (OP)
the time needed for your nostalgia to kick in

>>715675159
Look at 1997 and look at the rest of them. The switch to digital hit the art direction hard and 2016 really smoothed out the designs. Nothing about 2019's design screams 'cool', and yes the writing correlates with the designs. 1997 may be a greenhorn but he looks like he could beat the shit out of 2019 in a fistfight. Your MC needs a little attitude to balance him out.

>>715675757
Please refer to my previous post, dumb nigger >>715675014

>>715675468
Based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kJ9wp-mog8&list=RD4kJ9wp-mog8&start_radio=1

>>715675667
>I can't see how more dynamic animation beats out the alternative when it sacrifices detail.
They're both good, they just have different pros and cons.
Limited animation has more detail on each keyframe, but a lot of scenes boil down to still images with flapping mouths on them. Looks better as a still image or a screenshot, but there's less actual animation going on.

Its simply two different approaches to anime/cartoons, neither is inherently better than the other, but its silly to compare them with a screenshot and say "wow look at how much animation has fallen..."

>>715660983 (OP)
rip Rachel Lillis

>>715675920
>Dubshit
Gross
https://youtu.be/B0xwyFQqQd0?si=ZkeQMfWuqPXyKCqr

>>715660983 (OP)
those couple episodes where misty had her shorts unzipped slightly

>>715676105
Yes, the dubshit Kids Bop singalongs had more effort put into it than Sun and Moon, that's what I was getting at.
The score was always godlike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF6XeEtG9no&list=RDnF6XeEtG9no&start_radio=1

>>715675564
>>715675639
>they think this is sakuga
nigga, one of your examples is from like episode 78 too. Early Pokémon was low budget as fuck

>>715661713
Scooby was at his prime in the 70s and 80s, and it should've stayed that way without the constant milking.

>>715676245
I don't give a shit about SM's anime. I'm just here to say dubshit of all kinds is shit
>but nostalgia
It was my childhood too, but it was still shit

https://youtu.be/TYP0EmCENGk?si=WTkizhP86n7HMPh7

>>715660983 (OP)
With regards to op's example, there's numerous things: going from simple to overly simplified, hand drawn to digital, and characters and backgrounds looking like they're in the same world, where bottom has the OVERLY simplified characters with a relatively more detailed background
From a time when many people worked on passion projects, or there was at least a baseline of skill and/ or creativity. It was before social causes, lowest common denominator focus groups became the exclusive demographic. There may have been budget constraints, but the people on any project made the most of it anyway, and the aforementioned passion, skill, and/ or creativity was enough to carry through.
We live in a time where soul is practically impossible to obtain, re-create
https://youtu.be/3G5EwTz-oS0?si=GbqVHXotxqCVK9pK
ATHF called this (as accurate as can be for the time) back in 04.

>>715661713
penny who

>>715661713
Mystery Incorporated was actually legit.
The 2019-2021 one looks alright.
Velma, lol.

>>715676553
Nobody cares, weeb.

>>715661713
Although a pup named Scooby Doo was part of the annoying trend of kid-ified Hannah Barbara cartoons, I believe it was the end of soul for this particular example

>>715676105
>>715676553

>>715673052
I'm certain the mons were retroactively design nerfed to synergize with this. Fuck I hate this timeline

>>715677209
>I'm certain the mons were retroactively design nerfed to synergize with this.
Don't forget the merchandise
Its easier to make plushies and shit when the new pokemon have really simple designs made out of simple rounded shapes and whatnot

>>715673052
>always seems odd to me when anons on here compare animated shows with still images
A pretty slideshow can be pretty, but a well animated turd is still a turd.

>>715666914
If you remove the pupils most nupokemon look retro

>>715676914
>>715677069
4kids is dead, you have no boots to lick anymore

is it true that Pokémonw as originally meant to end with Ash marrying Misty but they scrapped that off when they realized just how profitable it was?

>>715661713
>No Zombie Island era
>No post What's New movies era
Shit list

>>715678224
Nobody cares, weeb.

>>715660983 (OP)
Gamefreak must had figured if they can make banger bucks rushing the shit out of their games, they can do the same to the show.
At least it's over now. Still miffed we never figured out who Ash's dad was.

>>715678224
>not being an extremist retard means I'm a boot licker
Typical. There are genuinely good dubs, rare that they are. Try not having aspergers.

>>715661713
You can tell whenever the budget went to the shitter because that's when they were experimental with the style

>>715677524
>but a well animated turd is still a turd.
Its okay to just say "I don't really like animation that much", you don't have to pretend that subjective things are objective as if you have severe autism.

>>715661713
why does "be cool, scooby doo" look like it's an adult animated comedy

>>715678721
>you don't have to pretend that subjective things are objective as if you have severe autism
Your lack of self-awareness is beyond comical.

>>715673052
Oh shit, an Anon made a good point!

>>715678443
>>715678602
It's called having taste, you should try it some time

>>715674507
2019 ash would rizz the shit out of 1997 ash

>>715678798
Nobody cares, weeb.

>>715678431
I loved zombie island
I think that was more 90s/00s edge, which was soul in it's own way, but not soul like the original runs

>>715663734
It's kinda sad but true. Ash after awhile starts barely reacting to half the shit around him when early Ash was a real go getter.

>>715666474
Shit like this is what you imagined the games to be like as a kid. Shame we'll never get anything close to it.

>>715674507
2017 to me feels like the best balance between the two extremes.

>>715678772
I get what you're trying to say but it really doesn't apply in this context anon.
>"I think the designs are bad because they're simplified which means everyone that likes animated things is wrong!"
This is something that someone with autism would think, people with severe autism often get upset or annoyed because they have a hard time understanding that some people might like things that they don't like.

I have already said that both limited animation and more dynamic animation are good, they just have different pros and cons that go along with them. You however are saying that dynamic animation is dogshit unless it can have the same detail in each frame as limited animation, which is kind of dumb.

>>715673634
lmao, that actually made me chuckle, how cme redditors and anons on /vp/ claim the original series is bad and 0 good jokes? That was sincerely funny if simple

>>715660983 (OP)
Soul happens when an artist's vision is beyond what he is currently capable of or when he lacks the tools/technology to fully realize that vision. Despite this, he puts everything he can in to making that vision a reality and you as the viewer subconsciously recognize this, elevating the work above what it objectively is. Making it soulful.

>>715660983 (OP)
Unnecessary effort.

>>715661367
Brock was always the grounding anchor of the show.

>>715679473
Oddly it went downhill from the Johto series, picked up steam in Sinnoh, crashed into a fucking pit for Unova, climbed to the top in Kalos, then smashed through the crust afterwards.

>>715675126
It's stock standard. Nothing offensive, nothing stand out unless you like some modern guest stars mixed in with the oldbies. It plays the Scooby factor so straight there's no real wiggle room but pop culture references galore, and some guest star plots being elaborately batshit like Steve Urkel's.

>>715666474
these ending shots from the films still kind get me teary eyed. so much optimism thinking youll be able to take on the world and itll be this kino. LOL

>>715679606
I watched it from Indigo to Advanced Battle. SO the moment I got introduced to May, I started puberty. I barely remember anything from Diamond and Pearl's anime.

>>715666474
They sucked the soul out of our childhoods so they could turn a profit.

>>715660983 (OP)
the divine spark. a piece of God that resides within all humans.

>>715660983 (OP)
Soul is when you cherry pick a good screen shot and soulless is when you find a bad one

>>715662661
It's a well known fact that puberty starts first on females, (by 11-12 most girls get the first period, their hip widen and breast s grow) most boys don't start to get their growth spurts until they are 15-18...it's almost like nature gives females a head start to look for a grown male, it's almost like females should be dating older men and not boys....you can thank the Jews for this

>>715676917
>Although a pup named Scooby Doo was part of the annoying trend of kid-ified Hannah Barbara cartoons,

The art style was honestly lifted from Ralph Bakshi 's: The new Adventures of Might Mouse, which debuted in 1987. Pup Named Scooby Doo came out in 1988. But yeah, it also follows the 1980's trend of turning all their characters into kids/ babies. I think Muppet Babies started that trend. In any case, I still really liked A Pup named Scooby Doo.

>>715680129
girls exist to be F U C K E D

>>715660983 (OP)
>Shadows = soul

>>715666474
Damn, they don't make 'em like this anymore
I ask 'cause I'm not sure
Do anybody make real shit anymore?

>>715680158
Can't believe I grew up thinking it was the "new" scooby doo when it ended 4 years before I was born

>>715661713
get a clue is so underrated, easily one of the best if not the best

>>715660983 (OP)
WHEN IS ASH GOING TO FUCK MISTY FOR FUCKS SAKE?
IT'S BEEN ALMOST 30 YEARS

>>715680129
Men remain as boys longer because men are required to have an adventurous and heroic spirit.

>>715661975
I have no idea what this means.

It gets more brown as it continues.

>>715680036
Name a more iconic crossdresser.

>>715680528
Bugs Bunny

>>715680339
>Can't believe I grew up thinking it was the "new" scooby doo when it ended 4 years before I was born


My favorite character from that show was a character named Red Herring. It is such a dumb repeating joke, but as a kid it would get a laugh out of me.

>>715661713
the answer is these two movies

>>715660983 (OP)
soulless artstyle = Lucky Star
Soulful artstyle = Deathnote

>>715680528
>Name a more iconic crossdresser.

>>715667585
not even underrated obscure games are safe

>>715661713
Strangely, I remember watching and liking some Scoody Doo shows, never loving them, but just kinda liking them.... A pup named Scooby-Doo, what's new Scooby Doo and Zombie Island, I remember for some reason Zombie Island was Super hyped.

>>715680804
>I remember for some reason Zombie Island was Super hyped.
Because IT'S TERROOOOR TIME AGAIN.

>>715661975
>Serena and May are now idols
Eh?

>>715680759
The gen 1 anime was so soulful with its quirks. Too bad all of it went downhill with the gen 2 anime.

>>715661713
I never liked scooby doo. I watched it when it was on, because that used to be something we did in the olden times, but I would have rather watched Jabber Jaw, or the other stupid mascot-animal-detective shows. That said, i still have a moderate respect for it, and would rank it far above all the modern trash cartoons (I mean literally anything that uses that Calarts bean-mouth style.

>>715680982
Serena, May, and Dawn all do the same thing, they changed the name later for some reason.
They essentially just dress like sloots on stage.

>>715661713
>Scooby Doo and Guess Who is the closest thing we've gotten to an actual Scooby Doo show since 2006
Mystery Incorporated was too angsty. It's time for a proper revival.

>>715679268
Ironic how limitations is what brings out our most creative endeavors. With these restrictions removed, all we get is ai slop and shit. As technology improves, the craft just seems to be getting worse.

>>715661713
uh, why are Shaggy and Velma br*wnoids?

>>715681180
In theory, AI should bring about a resurgence as it improves.
"Artists" can't be lazy anymore if they want a career and have to prove they are better than AI.

>>715680804
>>715680869
it was essentially scooby x resident evil. There was a huge change of tone compared to, say, shaggy meets dracula and has to drive a monster truck in a race.

>>715660983 (OP)
OP there's a fascinating discussion to be had here but this board is far too retarded to ever have it.

They don't know what "define" means.
They post a picture of Battletoads or some random game that nobody actually gives a fuck about and says that it has "charm" or some random similar adjective. End thread.

Here's a quick rundown:

"Soul" doesn't mean "pretty". It means "charm". "Charm" is not the biggest and the coolest and "the best", but it has artistic merit because it makes its limitations part of the art.

There's something to be said about Castlevania looking cool, but Castlevania is not "charm". Castlevania is the most lifelike depiction of something that could be managed with specific limitations.

I wouldn't say Super Mario is "charm" either. It's what happens when the idea of moving graphics is a novelty.

I'd look at Fez or Super Meat Boy if you want an example of graphical limitations being used as a point of novelty without just looking at a game that's old and was forced to.

FEZ is in a similar boat, because it's effectively a brand new kind of engine and the world gets imagined with voxels.

Super Meat Boy is heavily inspired by old graphics, but it doesn't really rip anything off. It's basically a passion project for the guy that made it that grew up on extremely difficult NES games and the graphics kind of just formed around it. The animations are a Newgrounds esque cartoon and the game is pixelated like an NES game.

>>715681647
Phil Fish, the INDIE game dev that made FEZ

>>715681873
The crash was 13 years ago

Can you please let it go and have an adult discussion about a video game regardless of how much you dislike the developer

Hey, you know that gym teacher, Sabrina...
She's a piece of ass but fuckin' rude.

>>715681240
In reality AI is cheaper and normalfags gobble it down just fine so we are about to enter the age of slop.

>>715661713
That are some fat mystery tits

>>715663505
pedotrash

>>715660983 (OP)
in one word: craftsmanship

>>715681937
Hi Phil.

>>715681647
Your criteria is a little strange to me. Something that is cutting edge for its time is not inherently incapable of charm, and describing Castlevania as "the most lifelike depiction" of anything is a very tenuous take

>>715660983 (OP)
Oh man, you have to try the Uma Musume game—it’s this insanely polished mobile title where you raise these horse girls (yes, that’s right) into elite racing idols. The training system is super strategic, and you form deep emotional bonds with your characters as you guide them to stardom—and like, the drama? It hits. Like that one arc where Oguri Cap’s career is on the line and she’s recovering from injury, and her whole comeback hinges on that one final race in the snow at Nakayama. I swear, the way she pushes through the pain and wins—I was in tears. The pacing, the inner monologues, even the gritty rivalry with Mihono Bourbon... top-tier writing.

>>715661713
This, the witch movie and Mystery Incorporated are the only followups that matter

>>715674507
he became a brat

>>715660983 (OP)
0 jewish influence

10/10 cast

4/10 writing

>>715669664
Because it was an incredibly based show featuring Lovecraft and incredibly thinly veiled nazis.

I'll post it again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4AwAR20T4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYghusl1lQ

>>715680158

Season 1 of A Pup named Scooby-Doo made really good use of Hanna-Barbera's digital ink and paint system, and even uses multi plane digital background effects. All the later seasons used traditional ink and paint and doesn't look as vibrant as season 1.

>>715681873
Phil may be a dick, but he still put more effort into FEZ than the average indie slopper and his effort was rewarded.

>>715685984
>10/10 cast
>4/10 writing

Script written by James Gunn.

>>715685984
I like these movies cause they feel like glorified shitposts. I mean the plots are dumb and the CGI is really bad but at the same time I just treat them big budgeted shitposts.

A pokemon+scooby doo thread? Weird

>>715660983 (OP)
What was Ash's hat icon supposed to be?

>>715660983 (OP)
Soul:
noun
'Sol~
1 - the quality that arouses emotion and sentiment
2 - the immaterial essence within a person or thing
3 - the obvious passion and heart that went into a work of art

>>715686608
i dont think theyre very good but i still like them because they feel like actual scooby-doo episodes. i have a weird soft spot for them

>>715660983 (OP)
I can compound on >>715661250 's post. Art drawn by hand / traditional techniques has more SOUL than digital art in general, primarily because of the use of computers, which are effectively - at their most base and primal definition - complex calculators. Let me explain:
>a man wishes to illustrate a path from point A to point B
>subconsciously he wants it to be exciting
>he adds a lot of interesting shit on the way from point A to point B
meanwhile
>a computer is told to get from point A to point B
>it does it as quickly and as efficiently as it can
>takes every pre-programmed shortcut unless told otherwise
Therefore, traditional art will always have more SOUL than digital art, because digital art tools are built with convenience and streamlining in mind. This is also where much of the push back on AI generated art comes from, but normalfags can't comprehend why. Industry and hobbyist domination of digital art was eventually going to lead to AI art becoming the dominant force.

>>715685984
I really enjoyed them as a kid. Tar Monster and especially Captain Cutler were kino

>>715661713
RIP. Cartoons died with Hanna Barbara and old cartoon network.

>>715662661
Go outside, anon. Girls start developing hips, ass, and tits around age 10-11, and your monkey brain WILL notice it, whether you want to or not.

>>715661713
did a double take at how huge Velma's tits are in Mystery Inc. goddamn

>>715666474
You guys got me considering adding poke movies to my anime shelf. As is long as they look this way.

>>715661713
the original one was so short lived?
weird
...everything was short lived!

how is this thing so popular in spite of the show always seeming to fail?

>>715666914
I love when people make things like this.
Anyway, even in gen 1 artsyle, the new designs still suck ass. The colors are too sterile and the designs have no personality or flare that gen 1 designs put in.

>>715680269
Hayao Miyazaki. Once every few years he gets JP boomer retard initiative and whips out a kino by working his studio to death. It's fucked up but that level of stress creates an environment where a lot can be done, at the cost of burning out

The Boy and the Heron is fucking amazing but hard to understand unless you learn a bit more about him personally, read between the lines, and accept that he's illustrating the story and themes symbolically more so than writing a dialogue which tells the story explicitly

I think if it's his last work it'll be remembered more fondly than it was on release but all of his films are extremely raw as fuck and deserve the love and praise they have

>>715660983 (OP)
>This is the only series of Pokémon the Series in which Ash's outfit doesn't consist of a jacket or hoodie
>All of the Pokémon Ash catches were befriended rather than battled.
>All of his friends knew each other prior to the series.
>Neither Jessie nor James use a Grass-type Pokémon.
>This is the first series where Ash's outfit does not include gloves
>Where Ash does not challenge Gyms for Badges.
>Where Ash does not catch the regional bird Pokémon.
>Where none of its movies take place in the same timeline
>He caught his first gender unknown Pokémon with his Poipole.

>>715685984
>4/10 writing
"I think coolsville sucks" scene was brilliant. Sad that rest of the script wasn't.

>>715687202
Tar Monster could've ended the whole movie at various points but he was too damn stupid.

>>715660983 (OP)
>>715661367
>>715663961
>>715664165
>ITT: XYfags larping as OSfags because no one takes XYfags seriously anymore
Sun and Moon was kino deal with it.

>>715690162

>>715690237
Oh my god that pikachu is haunted!

>>715690237
Sun and Moon looks terrible in screencaps but amazing in motion

>>715660983 (OP)
Digital art got nothing to do with soulless shit on the bottom part, despite all these retards in this thread. Notice flat light on the bottom, sleek like a chinese toy color aesthetic. Overall roundish stylization. Background not even trying to match the style of the character, which makes it look cheap, like someone just rented some background stock images. Less details. And on top of that, amateurish lineart. All of this is not because of it being digital, it's because people behind it don't give a fuck.

Sun and Moon also had best girl.

Its not just Pokemon but why does everything need to look so saccharine and clean now? It was something people made fun of Disney for in the 90's but now everyones doing it. Nothing can look rough, rustic, industrial, intimidating, bleak or imperfect. It all has to look like it would give you a big hug and feel like plastic when you touch it.

>>715690612
Adding details like that cost money

>>715660983 (OP)
Decisions made out of passion instead of a desire for money.
Pokémon has never had it.

Top had actual fucking LIGHTING, bottom was made by sweaty brownoids in thirdworld countries or by dying neets in a japanese office with no soul left.

>>715661713
Be Cool Scooby-Doo's art style looks like it's aimed at adults, like family guy or bob's burgers.

soulless = genericism

soul = not generic, in some form or another, across some or multiple facets

effort matters too obviously, and a more "masculine" than "feminine" mindset that went into the creation (though that's my preference as a male). a feminine dominant mind going into a product can result in softer washed out tonalities in e.g color or theme, which i dont prefer

>>715676105
The dub still has this track anon.

>>715673052
I don't know, Alola was after XYZ, the most high budget Pokémon have ever looked.

I would agree comparing it to other seasons, but the battles and the overall vibe peaked in XY/XYZ imo

>>715680759
But how does he have tits?

>>715685984
The beach party movie was vibin'.

>>715661713
>be sick at home from school
>have to watch 2 hour block of pup named scooby doo

>>715661713
>a hate letter to the fans

>>715679207
The orignal series is a great show for kids, it got so popular for a reason. You explore a vibrant fantasy world with the main characters and meet cool creatures.

>>715692138
That and baby looney tunes were always the sick day cartoons

>>715660983 (OP)
The crystallization of ephemeral qualities in something that has been bastardized by a newer, inferior version.

>>715661472
All creation is imitation if you dig deep enough

>>715662881
Lillie so sexy. Best girl by far.

>>715690394
the most kino part of the conclusion of this battle and the whole sun and moon arc is that it was Ash the one who inspired Kukui to build the league and have this big epic battle because just like in the Celebi movie he meet the kid version of the professor. Peak soul. The interaction they had across the whole season is really reshaped until we are made aware of this detail and Kukui never forgot about it.

>>715660983 (OP)
I fucking loathe the way modern anime draws female mouths

>>715693524
>until
meant when

>>715692138
>>715693042
>americans never had tooncast to watch old zino on
>inb4 boomerang
don't care
thirdie channel wipes

>>715660983 (OP)
Holy shit what happened to blocks neck

>>715689634
I mean it beats working yourself to death for a shitty Isekai FoTM product

>>715660983 (OP)
Doesn't involve the input of women

>>715690612
i honestly think it's probably not much effort to add a filter to make the visuals more grainy and dark looking.
People on Youtube usually like to make videos of VHS inspired visuals. The dark grainy look could probably be recreated the same way and then applied to digital animation.

>>715660983 (OP)
>warm colors, obvious incestual attractions, interracial sexo: soul

>full frontal nudity, resting bitch face, side lamp brighter than the skin tone: soulless

>>715666474
holy kino
game for this feel?

>>715675014
lards really think 9/11 was important LMAO

>>715660983 (OP)
The answer is in the question. Soul is the immaterial essence of something, therefore in media something that is "soulful" is something that was made with a vision from it's creators, it has abstract properties that comes from the imagination used by the creators to make it, which can be felt by those who use said media, as it appeals to their own soul by stimulating their imagination, inspiring them, ect. which can be felt in various and often all parts of the media, whether the scenario, the artstyle, music, ect.

Souless media in comparaison has none of this.

The talk about soul vs souless in creative endeavors in fact might easily connect to the NPC theory and large amount of people lacking inner monologue, visualisation and inner experience in general as they would be more likely to make soulless creations

>>715697485
None, sadly.

>>715661250
There's a slight irony in saying that top doesn't take shortcuts or cut corners when a lot of these old shows reuse a shitload of animations episode to episode or have animation loops of only a couple of frames on repeat. If you actually ran a fine tooth comb through the old show you'd find a lot of bullshit.

>>715660983 (OP)
I remember there used to be an abridged series of the OG season on old YouTube but couldn't find it again

>>715666474
>tfw you never have friends traveling with you around the world

>>715675639
Better fight scene than majority of DBZ, kek

>>715698083
And still has 10000 more soul that the trash at the bottom

>>715680129
>girls puberty
>male growth spurts
male puberty happens at the same time as womens, and it varies heavily person to person.
the fact that boys continue to grow later into their teenage years while girls stop doesn't mean that boys are not growing until that point, its the point that boys outpace girls and its clear.
yeah, some women will have grown earlier than some men, the variance of when puberty starts and how long it lasts is quite varied in each person.
puberty happens at the same time for both genders, on average.

>>715661367
>They are just aping yokai watch
Fair game considering they ripped off Pokemon.

>>715697485
early days multiplayer minecraft server with a local ib got me like the bottom pic, where we all built an improvised shelter to pass the night and rain the first day

>>715663953
Retard.

Dawn mogs Misty

Watch Lilo & Stitch the original then live action back to back and it will be abundantly clear.

Something made with passion, emotion, intelligence, vs something mase by incompetent morons likely DEI hires forced to make something and then prioritizing political thoughts over sensical storytelling

>>715699865
Nah.

>>715661909
>we'll never get kino like xy/z again

>>715699976
overweight white women love lilo and stitch

>>715697485
Palworld

>>715666914
>i-its a matter of taste, its le subjective!!!
I hate this cope so fucking much. That's literally why all the new pokemon games are so shit.

>>715670787
100% this, this is why old kids cartoons were kino, as a good example go look hey arnorld, surprisingly mature show.

>>715678806
>>715685368
Both true.

>>715660983 (OP)
>>715661713
>>715664276
>>715666474
>>715666914
>>715667585
>>715674507
>>715674921
>>715693524
IT DIDN'T HAD TO BE LIKE THIS

>>715673052
>Always seems odd to me when anons on here compare animated shows with still images and exclusively argue about how detailed the frame is rather than how good the animation of the show is
Because you arw talking with retards that think unironically that the Pain fight in Naruto looks bad because they watched le ebin meme my pain is greater than yours image

>>715699976
The old is a classic and top tier, and yes the new one wasn't necessary with taking too many liberties, yet it was still an enjoyable watch at the cinema.
People who categorise soul in their heads aren't winning any battles and only make life more miserable for themselves.

The end of the last Evangelion movie was right all along, we need to grow up and move on. This is the toughest pill for NEETS to swallow

>>715681240
Everything ai looks sloppy as fuck, you are retarded

>>715700494
It looked dumb in motion as well, time to stop deluding yourself like a hipster. Go watch the Zabuza fight again and then watch the Pain fight, it's different in a bad way

>>715660983 (OP)
be big squigly lines on his cheeks bother me

>>715685984
Spy kids movies were kino af, also sharkboy and lava girl

>>715690043
U o ly think that because its a meme, no ody cares about this movie unironically

>>715671985
That's no longer the issue.
>>715674507
Ash used to be a flawed character, removing that removed the series' soul more than anything.

we all got ripped off not having a world of adventure

>>715674507
Team rocket never had development, they are always useless jobbers that can't do anything

>>715701017
>Things Jessie Likes.webm

>>715700874
Bottom looks better, top looks cheap

>>715674507
1997 looks like an ape with those arms proportions, 2002 is the superior version

>pokemon fans be like, which child has the bigger heart?

I thought Sun and Moon was kino

>>715701620
Where's Kris?

>>715661713
One of them is not like the others...

>>715700527
saying the new one was enjoyable was enough to confirm to me you have a dysfunctional, possibly leaking, brain. then the rest of your post just confirms it. im surprised you have enough brainpower to solve a captcha

>>715701343
It looks like comparing TV schedule animation to OVA or film animation

>>715661713
My fav one

>>715660983 (OP)
To /v/? It's literally just art style + age.

>>715701620
Juliana's plain youthful look has grown on me
Hilda and Rosa are still the best

>>715701343
In this particular case, bottom does look better, but does the entire show/ season have that same animation quality?
Also, top may not be quality, but it still has charm. I'm not familiar with this show, but this is a rare example of both having merit... At least at face value >>715702482
Inaccurate AND wrong, try again. But it's kinda impossible for you to tell, zoomies are incapable of processing and understanding soul

>>715673052
Animation quality mostly comes down to budget. The newer seasons sacrifice art quality for more frames of animation, but it doesn't have to be this way. The older seasons, when given a proper budget, looked fantastic.

>>715661975
I'm still mad he didn't use Charizard in his final team.

>>715702912
You need to keep in mind that scenes like this take away time and manpower from other scenes, the more shit they have to do like this, the more scenes with almost no animation or reused animation end up being used to fill time and pad shit out.
I'm not against higher detail animation, but the major benefit of lower detail designs is that you can have higher quality animation more often rather than just in major battle sequences in one or two episodes a season.

Again, there are pros and cons to both styles, but you're basically asking for every episode to have movie quality animation which would be cool in theory but would also be prohibitively expensive like 99% of the time.

>>715662302
holy hips of sex

The way I see it the way this board defines soul is once it's lost, it can NEVER be reclaimed because any attempt to discover the magic of the original, "soulful" work will be seen as artificial.

>>715666914
what's with that gay subtext, is this the reddit version of that image?

>>715702637
>but does the entire show/ season have that same animation quality?
Yes. It's still airing, give it a watch.

>>715700874
Why not compare high quality cel animation and high quality digital animation?

>>715660983 (OP)
20 years later, everything gets a downgrade.
This world is so fucked up

>>715660983 (OP)
Heterosexuality. And heterosexuality focused products.

>>715690316
What are you talking about? Between 10 and 15 seconds looks especially appalling, I'm getting motion sickness watching that.

>>715704634
We posting that sakuga now?

>>715660983 (OP)
You clueless (You) farmers need to stop spamming this shit.

This was only the artstyle of a single season from almost 10 years ago, it also wasn't an overall downgrade when it comes to quality, it just exchanged some detail for much better animation quality, which obviously can't be compared with single frames but by comparing action sequences.

>>715705293
Yeah, they need to update their scripts.

>>715661250
>They look the way they do because they were drawn with exertion and effort in the top image, and were drawn with shortcuts and corners literally cut in the bottom image.
modern pokemon anime has a much higher budget and animation quality than other shows (and especially the old pokemon anime), it's the one area where they actually spent the amount of money you would expect from the most profitable franchise ever you colossal fucking retard jumping the gun to give your shit uninformed opinion on every image you see

>>715660983 (OP)
Eternal, immortal, sentient life breathed by the Holy Spirit.

>>715661713
Damn. 2010 Velma was fucking stacked.

>>715676290
>Scooby was at his prime in the 70s
this, mystery incucks need to stay out

>>715666474
either they are gay or she got raped

>>715666914
Huh, I thought they'd lost their design talent but apparently it's a conscious choice. All of the cartoony balloon animals here look like shit while the more detailed versions look great.

>>715697691
Poors and thirds really do find every opportunity to seethe about America LMAO

The art style has just changed over time it's not a big deal

>>715705434
>RTX off
>RTX on

>>715704634
Okay, compare your webm to this.

>>715660983 (OP)
The irony of this picture is that outside of looks, the Pokemon SM anime had far more soul than the OS anime.

>>715706927
anime name?

>>715661713
The Original Run > The Scooby Doo Show > What's New > Mystery Inc. > The Rest >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AIDS and Cancer > Velma

>>715662512
You saying you didn’t like werewolf shaggy cucking dracula?

>>715661713
Okay but what the hell did they do to the cast from Velma?

>>715707821
Ruri Rocks

>>715681952
YOU OUGHTA KNOW SWEETIE

>>715660983 (OP)
Effort. Trying to make something the best you can despite limitations. Simply put: Id would be more proud having made the top than the bottom.

>>715707884
They gave it to people that are on-record stating how much they hate the franchise they were entrusted to.

>>715681647
>retards think it means "charm", but it actually means "charm"

Reminder this is how the Ash anime ended

>>715660983 (OP)
soul: 90s nintendo
soulless: 10s-20s nintendo

is this nigga still 10 years old

>>715707958
this is the power of Japan. I've always hated mineralogy but just put big boobs on top and suddenly I'm interested.

>>715709024
No, his series ended and they retired his character after he won the world championship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVPWbt7m-g

>>715660983 (OP)
Lighting and shading.

>>715662302
Misty is built for BBC (Big Brock cuddles)

>>715660983 (OP)
Ash really went from jap to chubby latinx mystery meat, huh? This art style reminds of steven universe for some reason.

>>715710104
Brock would sooner cuddle a cactus. It's curvier, and it'd hurt a lot less.

>>715660983 (OP)
>Define soul
Craftsmanship and honesty.

>>715700638
I love when people get irrationally angry over AI.
I said "as it improves" you stupid mogoloid fuck.

>>715660983 (OP)
>Define soul

>>715710104
>Brock
She's too young for him.

>>715660983 (OP)
This

>>715661912
>>715662302
Why didn't Ash and Misty hooked up?

>>715716674
Ash is for Serena.

>>715716674
ash only fucks his pikachu

>>715660983 (OP)
Bottom looks like a parody. Pikachu still looks the same at least

Did you cry, /v/?

>>715715779
Only series I've ever seen adapt the art into animation was probably Bible Black

Defining "soul" is hard. It's more of a "feeling"
Defining the lack of "Soul" is really simple. Does it look/sound like generic crap? Does everything have a vaguely familiar "feeling" to it? Is everything monetized to hell and back? It lacks "soul" and is just something to consume.

>>715717158
Here's Muv-Luv, visual novel from 2003 on the left vs anime adaptation from 2022 on the right.

>>715660983 (OP)
Judging only by this image, soul = amount of shading.

>>715716650
>scroll magically shortens

>>715716775
I still wonder what they meant by this

>>715660983 (OP)
Whites or Japanese involved

>>715716650

>>715660983 (OP)
>old good
>sexo good
Simple as

>>715670787

>>715666292
And literally all of them are fucking dogshit, just like Scooby Doo, even some that are further removed from it like Detective Conan, all pure shit.

>>715720169
What the fuck is that?

>>715661713
WHAT'S NEW SCOOBY-DOO? WE'RE COMING AFTER YOU. YOU'RE GONNA SOOOOLVE THAT MYSTER-Y

>>715720286
They remade the first movie in 3D.

>>715720981
Please, you have to tell me that this is fake.
Please. I beg you.

>>715721324
It's real.

>>715660983 (OP)
I'll never get why they kept the shitty squiggles on Ash in the new art style. Makes him look like he has a shitty pencil mustache as a ten year old.

>>715707884
Like everything 2015+: They gave it to writers/creators that didn't like the I.P.

It's why Velma (a long running white teenager/early adult) is now black.

Backlash wouldn't have happened if they said it was Velma's long distant cousin Amlev.

>>715693387
Lillie is fucking shit and ruined the 7th gen.

>>715707958
Holy butterface

>>715707884
It was "subversive"
Just ignore the fact that SD has already done meta humor and subversion to a much better degree with stuff like Pup Named Scooby Doo, Zombie Island, and the live action movies.

And like a lot of other things, it was designed and cast solely to get a rise out of people online. You don't actually think Disney thought Rachel Zegler was the best choice to play Snow White, did you? Of course not. It's all about those hate clicks now babe.

>>715691641
They're fake. Watch the episode

>>715661713
So, was Shaggy a jew or not?

SM doesn't look that bad

>>715674507
remember when the 2016 drastic change in artstyle happened and all the dickrider "animation experts" tried to gaslight us into thinking it's actually revolutionary and 2deep4u only for OLM to backtrack 1 year later