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

The first episode hasn't even aired, there's already notable and known differences in the character designs compared to when Part 5 was first announced. I mean this without disrespect, but it's like a trend for the people working at DavidPro to design characters with specific anime-stylized facial features and then stray from it in favor of looks closer to the original manga or something more "pleasant-looking" in general.

The concept pieces for Battle Tendency characters have eyes, noses, and mouths that look almost nothing like the final product, and the Part 4 designs stopped using the noses after a few episodes (also, there's Koichi's eyes). Part 3 is mostly spared from this same effect, but Jotaro's face still ends up shorter and wider by the end.

Looking at Giorno and Bruno, their noses, lip placement, and overall facial proportions are different (not to mention Bruno's hair) in the Lumine crossover promo art. At what point do the animators informally decide how liquid the original facial designs are? We don't see reworked character design documents, or at least any that are publicly released.