Are Illustration Styles Licensed?
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I used to be a big fan of Im Dil Yung. A large part because his illustrations were the most stunning I’ve ever seen. I now consider him my mortal enemy since he comes up with all these great plots and never finishes them. It is decently to harass the readers. But I don’t see many manga using his style despite how breathtaking it is, why?
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I'm pretty sure you cannot license an art style, but as to why others may not be imitating it, it's possible it simply takes too much work to do?
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Yeah, it's probably similar as to why there aren't a lot of anime that mimic Yoshitaka Amano's intricate, detailed style: you're on a tight schedule and you need to produce, so you're going to go with a style you can do quickly.
