[TalonDJ]

You are spoiled on modern art styles. Rominko is more oldschool in her stlye. Ranma is what like 10 years old now? and Masion was made in the mid-late 80s Do you mean the Ranma manga? it goes down hill after second season. The manga is better. Maison is always one of my favorites. The anime is pretty slow but the manga is a must-read in my book.

[JenB]

Sure she's old school. It's just not a school I love. Certainly I'm not going to spend money on it... I have so little anyway. And so little time.

Art style is why even though I don't like Naruto, I can watch the episodes at club. Well, art style and the sheer fun of heckling. I like pretty things. Not saying that the old style can't tell a good story, but... I give a story two volumes of manga, or ten episodes, to grab me. Inu-yasha and Maison failed that test...

[TalonDJ]

By spoiled I mean to compare Ranma and Maison to stuff made recently and computer animated is hardly a fair comparison. if you ignore differences in technology they each have their strong and weak points. For example Fruba is almost all characters but Maison has less refined faces and a much better back ground. Most of the time the Fruba manga ignores the setting altogether in favor of very pretty character art.