Basic Trope: Temporary change in artstyle.
- Straight: In the series The Ballad of The Four Boxers, we're taken to Dotonbori, Osaka, Japan, the home of The Big Guy Flash Young, for a quick episode. Normally, The Ballad of The Four Boxers is set in the USA, and features a much more western-style animation, but Flash's homeland, it's more Animesque.
- Exaggerated:
- Art-Shifted Sequel
- Art-Style Clash: The creator of The Ballad of The Four Boxers just decides to make every character of differing races and nationalities to have different art styles. Flash and other Japanese are drawn Animesque, The Lancer Clay T. Finnigan, his father, The Leader, Billy T. Finnigan, and the other Canadians are drawn like a Scott Pilgrim style, The Heart Ulysses Smalls along with other Europeans are drawn in Disneyesque, and The Smart Gal Alicia P. Navarro as well as the other Filipinos are drawn like a Trese style.
- Medium Blending: The Ballad of The Four Boxers utilize a lot of different mediums to tell its story.
- Downplayed: A Medium-Shift Gag, but for Art Styles instead.
- Justified: It's just how the other characters see it, lampshades optional.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: The art shifts practically all the time; Instead of Depending on the Writer, it's Depending On The Artist.
- Averted: Nobody is drawn in different styles; Flash's homeland, Dotonbori, Osaka, has same art style as everyone else.
- Enforced:
- It's often used for a quick gag; Such as showing emotions, changing genres, etc. Essentially, it runs on Rule of Funny.
- In this trope's case: It shows the different aspects of a country, and it uses the art-style of said country to emphasize this.
- Lampshaded: Clay, upon touching down in Japan, remarks: "So, this is Japan? It looks a heck of a lot like the anime we're watching!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The Ballad of The Four Boxers has the Author Avatar always maintain a consistent, non-changing art style.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror: For some inexplicable reason, the art shifts into one of the most horrific, Eldritch Abomination-looking art, with all the characters briefly looking like creatures that came out of the minds of H. P. Lovecraft and H. R. Giger.
Back to Art Shift, which has a tendency to shift between this, Laconic, and Main.
