>>287506989
The 90s didn't have an artstyle but there were some defining characteristics to its visuals just by extension of being basically the pinnacle of cell-based production.

The industry expanded greatly in the 80s thanks to windfall from Japan's economic bubble and the colossal profit margins of VHS sales, which led to rapid advancement in production techniques. In the 90s, the bubble bursting gave the industry a chronic lack of funding and pushed the anime assembly line to maximize efficiency, reduce cost and churn out marketable mass-appeal projects quickly.

Maturing production techniques combined with a need to simplify and abstract to keep production fast, simple and cheap led to a lot of the signature features of 90s character designs.

The 2000s and the widespread adoption of digital production created a fundamental shift, since now character designs were principally made with digital tools (especially colouring) in mind.

>>287507084
retard

>>287506989
That's the point, it isn't like now that you can't find difference from watching a hentai anime from golden bear and watching an anime by shaft or mappa because both have same style.

>>287506989
When people say that, they're not referring to a specific style so much as a collection of trends that were common among many artists in/around that time period. As such, more generic artists tend to blend together a lot. You have to be retarded to assume someone saying there's a "'90s style" means there was only one style in that time period.
Also, Dragon Ball and Ranma were '80s.

>>287507920
You're blind if you think all modern anime look the same.

>>287506989
>Dragon Ball didn't look like Ranma 1/2
Both of these are 80's anime.

>>287506989
There is no definitive style for any era or decade but there are style traits that you can associate with a time period. One such 1990s traits was the zig zag cheek marks like in your image. Most 90s anime didn't feature them, but they did exist during the 90s in certain works. Simply put there are general design trends in each decade but artstyles have and will vary widely no matter what time period you look at.

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>>287506989
>Is there really a 90s anime Style?
Yes.

>>287507278
You just replied to an AI post, who's the real retard here?

>>287506989
I feel as though I can look at any anime for a just 5-10 seconds and accurately tell you at least what decade if not what half-decade (lustrum) it came out in going back to the 60's, almost 100% of the time. Even if a "new" anime is trying to imitate a "retro" style, it doesn't matter.

>>287509730
Not that anon, but remember the AI bots were trained on US. The Indigo children. They are only imitating how real autists speak. We're still the real thing. There are still mega-autists out there who literally memorized huge chunks of information and can regurgitate it into a recognizable lectures or narratives on command and use these pre-rehearsed lesson plans they have inside their head to converse with the board at large and even with chickenheads like you, because you're probably just a fuckin' Mexican pretending to be white on the internet right now, same as me.

>>287509909
AI bots are trained on Redditors and reams of amateur fanfiction written by teenage girls. Inputs from neurodiverse people will always constitute a minority of any large training dataset.

>>287509614
Something terrible happened in 2010

>>287509614
Then the moeblobs happened

>>287511790
The 2008 economic collapse.

>>287509614
OBJECTIVE RANKINGS
1970>1960>2020=1980>>>>>>>everything else

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>>287506989
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>>287509680
dragon ball actually had 2 art styles. mid to late 80s looked more nice and rounded, with a perfect balance of cartoon and semi realistic detail. Later dragon ball looked more sharp and angular and much more abrasive to the eye.

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>>287512586
Later he didn't want to draw animal people, tails and black Hair anymore