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Varies massively depending on the Part as Araki constantly changes his art style. Parts 1-3 generally have a very detailed, semi-realistic quality similar to Hokuto no Ken, though a few panels of Part 1 had Araki temporarily regressing back to his more cartoonsih pre-JoJo style. To put it into context for you, it's better than the art of the Black Swordsman Arc and early Golden Age volumes of Berserk, but below the art from the Wyald section and onwards.
Halfway through Part 4 and through the entirety of Parts 5 and 6, the manly aspect of it's art is replaced with a more effeminate style with far less shading. It's not exactly bad, but it's an utter disappointment from what it was before and I wouldn't rank it any higher than average.
Parts 7 and 8 are where the art peaks due to having a perfect balance between realism and detail whilst also maintaining Araki's signature touches. I'd rate Araki's art at this point in the top 5 of Mangaka artists for this, if not top 3.
As for the anime, the 2012 anime changes the art style of the manga somewhat for more self-consistency. It improves things such as body proportions, but falls short when it comes to the detail of muscles. The facial expressions of characters in dramatic scenes is just as good as the manga though.
Part 3's anime is the peak of the anime's art style due to perfectly capturing the detailed feel of the manga in almost every scene. There are a few scenes in the later episodes featuring frames where character faces take a downturn of DBS proportions, but they're few and far between enough for the anime to consistently look better than most other anime I've seen.
Part 4 does a good job in combining the masculine aspects of initial Part 4 with the change in art style of it's later self. Not as good as the former, but better than the latter. The outsourcing to Korean animators left some scenes looking as bad as an average Super episode, but when it looks good it looks amazing, such as in the Rat episode or Kira's last Bites the Dust.
Halfway through Part 4 and through the entirety of Parts 5 and 6, the manly aspect of it's art is replaced with a more effeminate style with far less shading. It's not exactly bad, but it's an utter disappointment from what it was before and I wouldn't rank it any higher than average.
Parts 7 and 8 are where the art peaks due to having a perfect balance between realism and detail whilst also maintaining Araki's signature touches. I'd rate Araki's art at this point in the top 5 of Mangaka artists for this, if not top 3.
As for the anime, the 2012 anime changes the art style of the manga somewhat for more self-consistency. It improves things such as body proportions, but falls short when it comes to the detail of muscles. The facial expressions of characters in dramatic scenes is just as good as the manga though.
Part 3's anime is the peak of the anime's art style due to perfectly capturing the detailed feel of the manga in almost every scene. There are a few scenes in the later episodes featuring frames where character faces take a downturn of DBS proportions, but they're few and far between enough for the anime to consistently look better than most other anime I've seen.
Part 4 does a good job in combining the masculine aspects of initial Part 4 with the change in art style of it's later self. Not as good as the former, but better than the latter. The outsourcing to Korean animators left some scenes looking as bad as an average Super episode, but when it looks good it looks amazing, such as in the Rat episode or Kira's last Bites the Dust.
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as Part 2 Naruto, manly men doing manly things will always be better than emo beta males doing edgelord things.
