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Dec 22, 2020 8:06 PM
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Inio Asano and some other mangakas have been doing it for a long time. Recently, a lot of other popular mangakas have also started using this technique. Personally, I was never a big fan of it. Using photos as reference is fine, but directly using them with a few modifications in the manga (even if it reduces the workload) feels very out of place for me if not done correctly.

What do you think about it?
Dec 22, 2020 8:08 PM
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I think it is strange to see 2d with real images as backgrounds most of the time.
Dec 22, 2020 8:29 PM
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i think it’s pretty neat and cool
Dec 22, 2020 9:31 PM
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not really a fan of how asano inio, yamamoto hideo, oku hiroya etc do it. i think there's too much emphasis on detail and there ends up being too much black on the page, too many rigid, inexpressive lines that clash with the figures. inio asano's art is amazing to me, otherwise, and i feel like his figures really dont suit the style of the backgrounds. the style works best for yamamoto hideo out of those three, imo.

then you have yazawa ai, who (i think) was kind of a pioneer of using photos for manga backgrounds. the covers of every nana volume are extremely charming imo, but the washed out greyscale photo backgrounds never really worked for me in the manga itself. but still i like that she turned into a sort of unique, collagey style. sometimes random shots of just an object lying around in a room could be a photo, and that sort of works. it's when there are figures on the greyscale photo backgrounds that it looks the most weird.
Jan 2, 2021 7:15 AM
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I don't really like it, Unless it's just an art piece aside from the story. Like an intro cover
Jan 2, 2021 7:53 AM
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I don't mind as long as they've been filtered to match the manga style. Drawn backgrounds almost always look much better, but at the same time I recognize that mangaka have time constraints, or it's just not "worth" spending much time on a background.

Sometimes, though, it's clear that the photo's perspective is off compared to the characters', or the real people in the image are more bulky than the manga characters. That looks bad.
Jan 2, 2021 8:06 AM
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I haven't read much manga. The only one I've read that did this was Read or Die. I thought it made that manga look a bit more unique and interesting, although I imagine I'll become desensitized to it pretty quickly when I read more manga...
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Jan 4, 2021 10:24 PM
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Feels a little lazy when they just use converted photos rather than just draw it but I understand they have deadlines and I am not against use of references to copy by hand. It's okay if they use photos directly but it stops them from being better artists if overused.
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Jan 4, 2021 11:47 PM
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If I ever see one like that, I think it's completely fine as long the manga is good.

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