The Moefication of A Certain Magical Index
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 2, 2009 02:22 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Character Design, Comparison, Index, Moe
The huge gulf between the character design used in the initial A Certain Magical Index light novels and that used in more recent volumes, as well as more widely in the anime and similar, has recently been pointed out by fans. Especially the differences in Index’s design…
You can see a simple comparison illustrating the huge differences below:
The initial, hardly moe at all, light novel design:
Volume 11:
The difference is as that between night and day, but that is not all…
Initial protagonist:
Later protagonist:
All the characters now seem to created along moe lines, as you see below:
There are some who speculate that the current huge popularity the series (of novels or otherwise) enjoys is all down to the new artist direction, as exemplified by Index having become something of a moe icon. Might this be close to the mark, or is it mere coincidence that such a radical revamping has taken place?
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Touma's original look is more manly. I don't like the Shonen Jump-ified later version.
I like the moe version a lot more, thank you very much.
me too.
You die!
You die and you go to hell!
That's because you're one of the sheep.
Hey, at least the intitial novel design is more Tsundere.
...And they let go of the awesome old designs to have the same moe look as everyone else. For sales.
It's a sad, sad, sad, sad market.
Well...it sales better....why woudn't they?
Ya... when it comes to moe.... less is more ............. >>
I love the anime, like the characters all in all could be better could be much much worse..... <<
Is the anime actually any good for anyone looking for real entertainment, not just for some moe?
I dropped the anime after 4 episodes, pretty rediculously forced drama and character reactions at some point.
I personally like the newer designs I mean in my oppinion index definetly looks better 10/10.
I would like to know what was the appearance of accelerator in the initial character design...
2nd last pic... is that misaka with wrong sized boobs?... she isnt that big is she?
What the hell is this...
Fucking moe.
MOE!~
Touma looks absolutely atrocious. Everything else is fine =D.
The first was far better, it looked far more unique than that common moe style. I wonder what happened for them to change the style, assistants perhaps ?
OMG! i dont know what to say! THIS is definitely 100% greater/better than the current art style!
Moar!
I liked all the moe-fied characters(lets ignore Touma for this), only Misaka.. I prefer the last one.
=/ I prefer the firsts ones.
The moe look probably has a bigger market and sells better, thus improving the bottom line for the studio. The studios are in this to make money, not artistic statements, so what sells is what you'll see.
Probably?
I personally prefer the moe characters including touma
I've preferred the more recent art style, including the anime's character designs to the earlier ones, even if the early designs did have quite the unique look to them.
Back to my C75doujinshi of Index, now...
i like index's original look. but most the others (touma excluded) looks better in moe.
Moe = Sales
and I like me some moe. we'll all move onto the next big thing for the next decade once 2011 hits.
true... sadly.
indeed