@beardalaxy @fugger @BJay ~vibe~ is certainly an important factor in measuring your impressions, but ~vibe~ is difficult to measure and hard to describe
hence where actually "calarts style" comes from, because yeah, idgaf what high school of education these animators graduated from (although schools killing creativity is another huge bag of worms....), it's just that describing "yeah, you know this popular current style which tries way too hard to look 'soft' and 'cutesy' and you just know that it will start to read you a fucking lecture right in the episode while referencing Sailor Moon even though it took zero lessons out if it?" sounds and looks clumsy, I'll just say "calarts style" and be understood
(also Laputa and Nausicaä have huge Soyuzmultfilm vibes, especially with bgs)