>>4033799>I wonder what caused the shift?My bet is on the rise of hypercapitalism, with companies cutting corners by replacing very skillful but expensive artists with artists that can do "good enough" art for a small fraction of the price. This along with the intentional simplification of character designs, eventually killed most of the American and European animation industry and turned it from a valid form of art to "slop" that only serves to promote a different medium, and I imagine that the same thing happened to the book industry.
