Artists like Shigenori Soejima are almost irreplaceable.
You might think the technical difficulty of his illustrations isn't anything special.
But no A.I., and very few other artists can match his taste for character expression, fashion and restrained yet distinct and iconic visual identities.
You look at his character designs and can't point out anything immediately striking, and yet, somehow they just look effortlessly cool and have high staying power in the pop culture canon.
And because their power is so subtle and hard to comprehend for uncultivated plebeians, artists keep staying underrated.