[foxyshadis]

I always use vmtoon's line darkening and disable everything else. imo the sharpening method is misguided and tries to brute force recreate LSF+Warpsharp, which is what I use. This is how I call it:
vmtoon(sharpen=false,thinning=0,strength=35,luma_cap=203,threshold=8)
using avsp to tweak the darkening.

I find warpsharp has a more pleasant and much more tweakable 'thinning' effect, and oversampled xsharpen isn't really that great of a sharpener. (The entire reason vmtoon is so slow is that it feeds the equivalent of 16xFSAA into xsharpen, whereas LSF defaults to around 2x.) However, the darkening part is a little nicer than fastlinedarken's, so it's still useful.

Of course others may like its specific effects more, I'm not denigrating mf's work to create it.