THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

author=Lucidstillness
Actually, the clash was entirely intentional. It's a throwback to things like the early Final Fantasy and Turbografx 16 games (as well as just Cell-shaded anime in general).

NFGMan's book Character Design for Mobile Devices, Mobile Games, Sprites and Pixel Art puts it better than I could:

"...compare the character design in Final Fantasy VI to that of the enemies encountered during the game. Unlike the player's characters, enemy sprites are intricately detailed static images that are much larger and properly proportioned, a design tactic used since the very first game in the series. The reasoning is pretty simple. Let's say the party is going to fight a huge dragon. The player is already perfectly familiar with the characters in his own party, and provided they're given the proper range of emotions, is likely already quite attached to them. The dragon the player is fighting, on the other hand, is not a character he's going to attempt to empathize with, but rather an enemy he's going to try to defeat in combat...At first, it might sound as if the two styles would jar together-a realistically drawn dragon fighting a bunch of misproportioned, comparatively plain party members. However, this is almost never the case...

...In a way, it's very similar to how a cartoon works. Many cartoons, especially those hailing from Japan, have main characters that are markedly less detailed than their surroundings. This is because a simple design on the characters makes them easier on a psychological level for a viewer to project themselves into. As a general rule, the more realistic a character looks, the more distances he is from the viewer and the less empathy he will inspire, a trick that goes as far back as the earliest Disney cartoons-the good guy always had a big, relatively blank expression. He had large eyes, exaggerated movements and facial features, and a lack of overall detail, while a villain would have small eyes and sharper, less inviting features, and was likely to be much more realistically proportioned."

So the idea of 'cheating' with two different art styles is intended to make it easier to empathize with the heroes of the game, as they do all kinds of emoting and appear often in cutscenes. At first I thought about making the monsters in the same cute anime style, but I found that it made the bad guys less fun to fight. I'm hoping the final aesthetic of the game will be appealing to players for these reasons.

author=PentagonBuddy
I SUGGEST DARKENING THE "CHAG CITY" ON THAT SIGN.