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Who's doing all the book covers and advertising art, then?

There's plenty of good realistic art coming out from young artists. Take a look at anime fan art. This is not a lost skill.

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Great, fun, creative, expressive awesome art yes - and in insane quantities - but rarely anatomically correct, right? And in that generation I would guess few of them took classical anatomy classes. But then for the people targetted by the fine article, this is not "art". That's the problem.

There is plenty of anatomically correct art. People do that, usually as a hobby or for school tho. There are whole books about how to do it too and whole youtube channels. There ia also a thing called hypperrealism where artist strives to be indistinguishable from photo.

This is just not something all that many people would paid for all that often.

Published manga artists in general often have a very strong command of anatomy.

American comic artists are often big fans of attention to anatomy - however deformed - and will go on forever discussing it :-)

But manga or anime? really? Do you please have interviews or other presentations where that comes up?

I found this one, where it seems more of a hobby:

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/interviews/2023/6/9/intervi...

Anime fan art, from Fanime 2023.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhUNTKqua4

I'm familiar with manga and anime art, pro or fan. This is not the level of anatomy we were talking about. Not even close. Classical anatomy drawing is this kind of thing:

https://www.google.com/search?q=classical+anatomy+drawing+sh...

https://www.google.com/search?q=classical+drawing+florence+a...

This does have direct application in american superhero comics. There the artist draws detailed muscle modelling and attempts to place tendons and shape of underlying bones all in the right place. Even when the character is really not human :-) I looked for one but wasn't able to quickly pull a video showing a critique arguing that some muscle is not quite located and anchored correctly.

I rarely see that concern in manga or anime. Very little in the video you linked would show such a concern. The usual manga artist does proportions, yes, often altered to serve their intent - but in my mind rarely goes to that intention of physical correctness.

Let's try and pull some manga muscle ... this is NOT classical drawing or derived from that:

https://www.google.com/search?q=manga+sports+muscle&tbm=isch

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