Hey, true connoisseurs enjoy only the finest artisanal, handcrafted wankery! Seriously, though, not trying to yuck someone else's yum; just trying to understand why it's a polarizing issue.
After doing a bit more "research" ... my western eyes generally see koikatsu faces as less human than other drawing styles. The presence of inverted depth cues (for me, anyway) seems to be the tipping point that pushes the art into the
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(coincidentally, a concept coined by a Japanese scholar). Inconsistent light sources, in general, seem to have a lesser dehumanizing effect - using the right side example from my previous post but ignoring the nose ... the chest shading implies a light source at about 2 o'clock, whereas the light source for the entire face seems difficult to determine.Like anything else, you get used to it after a while - even after looking at koikatsu pics for just an hour or so, the style no longer looks as strange. I wonder if the koikatsu lighting/shading quirks are what affects the larger Western audience? Food for a pr0n thesis paper, no doubt.
