User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-4418173-20120408235309/@comment-4563270-20120409234736

a very key thing to look at with regaurds to style and design of monster hunter and ZSS is this.... 1. ZSS is the first cell shaded style of it's kind on the wii and is similar to.. but still very different from wind waker... 2. ZSS has a VERY cartoony/fantasy style with little realistic design to it.. (but still SO amazing in immersive design)

The similarities between ZSS and monster hunter are completely coincidental if at all because monster hunter is a more serious and realistic monster and human design with a few comical designs like chacha.. the felynes.. and yor pig where as ZSS is almost completely comical and fantasy in design (not saying ZSS is funny or childish but not very realistic in translation)..that would be like saying soul eater looks like trinity blood... while both animes are a bit dark and both have comedic moments... the styles couldn't be more different...

if anything i'd say (from an anime perspective as BOTH of these games are japanese) that ZSS has a more one peice/miyuzaki-ish style being both light hearted and comical where as monster hunter is more inuyasha/yugi-oh style in both the monster and human design department... I could definitley see rathalos' or akantor's design being stolen or genericly used by konami for their next monster cards in yugi-oh lol