CATDOLL: What factors determine the success of an anime work, such as the painting skills or the plot?

When it comes to the factors that determine the success of animation and comics, what do you pay more attention to? For a work like this, is it the beautiful painting that makes you stay, or is it the extraordinary plot that gives you the motivation to follow it?

There has been no good answer to this question. Some works have been popular for a long time due to their wonderful storylines, but the painting skills are simply "not good enough". Of course, there are also some works that have weak plots, but still have otakus who like them because of their exquisite painting style. Recently, fans of a Japanese forum were divided into two camps, "storyline faction" and "painting first faction", and discussed this topic. Let's take a look at the interesting discussions.

Storyline:

1: 2016/05/19(Thu)00:54:30

After watching "Guilty Crown", you will feel that the story is still more important.

15: 2016/05/19(Wednesday)00:58:19

There are people who are good at drawing, but the author who can come up with an interesting storyline is really amazing. So I am a storyteller.

26: 2016/05/19(Wednesday)01:01:22

If it is a live-action movie, even if there are a lot of handsome men and beautiful women, but the storyline is weak, it will not be a hit. So in comics or animations, just relying on the drawing skills is not enough.

46: 2016/05/19(Wednesday)01:09:46

The painting skills of "Funny Comics Daily" are not necessarily very good, and the style is quite capricious, but it really makes people laugh.

Painting School:

4: 2016/05/19(Thu)00:55:51

If the painting is not good enough, you can't follow it at all. I have tried to slow down and enjoy works with beautiful painting but boring stories.

17: 2016/05/19(Wednesday)00:58:32

To be honest, if "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" didn't rely on this special style of painting, it could only last until the second part.

56: 2016/05/19(Wednesday)01:14:21

It seems that the requirements for painting skills and storylines are different depending on the classification of the work (such as funny comics, cute comics, and fighting comics).

59: 2016/05/19(Wednesday)01:17:07

The art of drawing cute and fighting comics is very important, but there are many people who like the original work of "One Punch Man". I am also very interested in this.

After the discussion between the two groups, what do you think? In fact, it is very difficult to balance the art and the story. Some authors tend to ignore the art while taking the story into consideration; while some authors really focus on the art to attract people to read. I personally think that it is also very difficult to maintain a beautiful style of painting. After all, the work of a cartoonist is not an easy task. I would like to pay tribute to the cartoonists here! I hope that there will be more good comics that have both in mind in the future.