Shexyo is quite different. Gotta be honest though, there's this oroboros guy and shexyo and some other places who share this style so i assume shexyo is just a case of AI that was never found out or at least never had any pushback.

@BoundingBoxes Shexyo has been drawing for a gooood while now, I think even before AI gen really kicked off

Plus it really deoesn't look like Kenkou Cross pretty much at all. I know cause I'M STILL WAITING FOR THAT FUCKING GAME RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@Ravenfoot_ Even so, there were a lot of controversy about shexyo around 2022-2023 for AI usage and tracing. Considering their portfolio to this day, i do believe they use AI to some capacity for sure. Remember NovelAI models were very capable at the time for that sort of pinup drawing style, they had a lot of uniqueness to them depending your prompt. Any skilled artist could just trace over. and even today his output is like every 2 days or so a finished full rendered piece. It's a lot of work for that style to be hand doing it consistently for so long.

@BoundingBoxes Yeah I'm pretty sure he traces AI stuff nowadays but I don't think he started out like that

@BoundingBoxes @Ravenfoot - the eyes and body form is very close to Kenkou.

@Ravenfoot_ Kenkou Cross started in the 1980s, has Shexyo been drawing that long?