>>56661272Personally I feel the opposite; they tried too hard to shoehorn the soccer uniform-motif into whatever other type-related concept they were going for
>Soccer gardener>Soccer swimmer>Soccer karate fighter>Soccer old lady>Soccer punk star>Soccer king (he wears a stupid hat were the brim looks like a crown ok, and he also wears a shitty cape filled with corporate logos of all his sponsors. and yet this isn't a critique of the overcommercialization of sports)>Soccer etcOf them only Kabu and Raihan work because Kabu is *just* a veteran soccer player and Raihan is *just* a soccer player with a huge presence in social media. Aster also works because they actually put more emphasis on his typing motif than on the soccer aspect
>>56661281There's a larger issue at hand is that Sugimori has semi-retired from the role of art director and instead a lot of character designs are handled by freelancers with their own idiosyncrasies (take being the worst of them) but very little consistency with the stablished world or even each other