Viewers of new anime Fractale are pondering just what on earth happened to the character designs in the TV anime versus those of the light novel/manga.
Opinions range from the needs of easy animation (although this fails to explain the drastic change in palette) to interventionist animators going overboard in reworking the designs, but few have nice things to say about the changes.
The fact that the manga and light novels designs and the anime designs now look so different as to be hard to identify as even being the same title also comes in for criticism – a particular problem for homepages and merchandising.
However, a minority does insist the new work should be appreciated on its own merits rather than be pilloried for not looking exactly like the original.
The anime has also been unkindly referred to as “looking like some kind of Ghibli doujin anime”:
I guess character designs shouldn’t matter since it’s all about plot but characters are essential to a plot so it would be best if they retained their originality even if the change is just hair color.
Double-you tee eff?
ADAPTATION DECAY!!!!!!
you all bastard do some investigate first before go on like expert saying its bad and all that because different from manga
original is the anime. manga change it. and it looks better for a serious anime having normal color hair. wth with purple color hair anyway.
Japan and their Western-looking manga characters. Classic case of inferiority complex.