Talk:JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind/@comment-4110939-20180916022205/@comment-1739368-20180916105828

Evolving character design is a result of the character designer learning on the job (largely because of the difficulty in adapting JoJo and the fact we have a different designer each season). For example, as much credit as I give Terumi in p4, she clearly wasn't familiar with drawing JoJo at first, and I assume the finalized designs were largely due to Ishimoto's efforts (who is more of a veteran).

You're likely going to see even further deviation this season, since unlike the previous ones, the character designer and chief animation director are two different people, meaning Ishimoto is likely going to have more control over how they look in the anime, whereas Kishida will handle alot of the promo art and model sheets.

That said, the promo art's also going to look different at times since different animators draw them. That's pretty much the case for any anime; it's just alot more apparent for designs like JoJo's.