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clamp

not animated by clamp

wasn't them

During these initial planning stages, Kawaguchi also contacted the noted manga artist group Clamp.[1] This was the first time Clamp had ever been requested to design the characters of an anime series.[2] Clamp signed onto the project early during these development stages and provided numerous ideas, which helped develop the series' setting and characters.[2]

They did the character designs. Thus, they have the most responsibilities over the knife chins.

they designed the characters

and their style sucks hth

clamp confuses the shit out of me

i love the way they draw scenery and clothing but then i look at what the clothing is on and it's just like

why

what is happening why are there noodles

this is me

they're just awful at people

You can only partially blame CLAMP for the fucked up character designs. If you look at the original concept art for Code Geass, almost all of it looks fine. Some of it is even great! Very stylized and full of noodle people, but not nearly as jagged and overly angular as the anime.

The issue was the CLAMP had never designed characters exclusively for anime before, so they didn't know how to really adjust and compensate for the necessary changes that come with adapting something from illustration to animation. On the other hand, the animation director also didn't compensate enough and tried to stay too faithful to the original designs.

tl;dr: yes, it's partially CLAMP's fault, but Sunrise really dropped the ball, too.

Doesn't every adaptation of CLAMP manga look laughably bad too? Maybe people should just give up on trying to animate noodle people.

There are some exceptions! Blood-C actually looks pretty good, but its another case where they knew from the start they were designing for an anime rather than just a manga. If you look at the designs they're pretty different from both the Code Geass style and their normal style, so I'd say they learned from the CG disaster.

Holic looked alright. I'm pretty sure that's only because the manga and the anime both were intentionally a little surreal, but the end result is that the stranger bits of the animation aren't so jarring so it still gets a pass.

Honestly, though, the only two anime adaptations that were actually any good are Chobits and Cardcaptor Sakura, both of which predate their super stylized noodle people stuff. Everything else is trash.

Rayearth was also good, though it also predates the noodle people as well.

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