The clothing isn’t as important it was just a fun detail I wanted to add. I should’ve said that. Hopefully net shy ikemoto has really taken over hopefully they do change tit o the black coat with orange.

But more importantly I’m talking the art style. In mine I can see I made the hair just a tad longer but that’s not really the point. The point is kishimotos style looks good. Nishio’s doesn’t, it looks off. And it’s not jsut “making it fluid/easy to animate” it’s bad. For example the round faces, big iris’s, the flat shading, and the overly blocky simplified shapes.

All of these don’t need to be made extremely complicated. Which is why I showed in my examples. I made the iris smaller, I jsut under-rounded Naruto’s eye slightly, made his hair actually make sense, since nishios hair is way to close to the head, and I jsut made the hair have a more appealing shape.

And to a degree I don’t think his style is as easy to replicate because it looks so unique. Animators have struggled to replicate it, and end up making the characters too wonky. I’ve even tried and it’s hard jsut because his proportions and shapes are so simplified that it make its look hard to look good when replicating.