Which anime has the best character designs?
Silhouette tests, costume variety, and one artist who draws nothing but clean lines. Style over story this time.
1One PieceOda's cast of hundreds, where silhouette alone tells you who is who.1000pts
2Attack on TitanUniform gear against grotesque, unmatched titan faces.703pts
3JoJo's Bizarre AdventureHirohiko Araki's fashion-plate poses and shifting art style.569pts
4Demon SlayerHaori patterns that identify a character at a glance.568pts
5Sailor MoonNaoko Takeuchi's colour-coded guardians, a template still in use.481pts
6BleachTite Kubo's monochrome-and-accent styling and its enormous costume variety.481pts
7Dragon BallToriyama's clean lines and readable shapes, copied across four decades of shonen.374pts
8Hunter x HunterTogashi's deceptively simple leads against baroque Chimera Ants.374pts
9TrigunYasuhiro Nightow's red coat and desert-western silhouettes.374pts
10Chainsaw ManTatsuki Fujimoto's devil designs, ugly on purpose and unforgettable.374pts
11Neon Genesis EvangelionYoshiyuki Sadamoto's plugsuits and Eva units, still endlessly reprinted.240pts
12Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodHiromu Arakawa's military coats, automail and homunculi.240pts
13Cowboy BebopToshihiro Kawamoto's lean, lived-in cast.240pts
14Mobile Suit GundamYoshikazu Yasuhiko's pilots and Kunio Okawara's mobile suits.240pts
Comments
Toriyama drew for readability, Oda for density, and this ranking asks which approach won. Thirteen other ways to compare them: https://youpick.best/articles/dragon-ball-vs-one-piece-ranked
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