Higher quality I'd imagine. The beastman village is around 500 years old while the elves learned smithing during the 200 years since their village was destroyed.
Why are the Japanese pressuring kids to pick their career when they're still teens? Teenagers are stupid and fickle, they don't know the significance of the choice they're making.
Lol, the author don't know shit about art. Derivative means imitating someones art. Inuyama was drawing a picture of an object, that is not a derivative work.