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Nov 22, 10:54 PM
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Most arguments I see essentially boil to "it could be better".
Yeah, it could, but that's not an argument as to why something is bad.
I don't want to dismiss it as simply "people who haven't watch much anime overreacting", so I want to hear what people have to say about it.
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Nov 22, 11:02 PM
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Influencers hate on it and people follow their masters. For influencers it's about views and hating on stuff generates more views.
Nov 22, 11:09 PM
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Everything could be better if you nitpick, people just want to be negative and not see the positives
Nov 22, 11:13 PM
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idk maybe bcs its one of the worst adaptation of a big manga? and I've seen promise neverland s2 and blue lock s2. there is nothing this anime done to elevate the source material, and that's the whole point of an anime😭✌️
Nov 22, 11:15 PM
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it displays the worst side of the anime industry, showing a middle finger to art and creativity simply because you are greedy.

There is no passion or vision here. Animators like Aoki love OPM, but even their hardwork has been diluted by frame removal for quick reproduction. I simply can't defend something so anti-art, it feels wrong.
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"All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo
Nov 22, 11:21 PM
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Simply Just a trend
Nov 22, 11:23 PM
#7

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Hating on something critically acclaimed for attention is nothing new, but this animation is indeed very bad.
Nov 22, 11:28 PM
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bro they can't even do the still images properly. I really like the opm story so I didn't even want godly animation or anything but to see them adapt it this bad. I think the hate it's getting is justified.
Nov 22, 11:36 PM
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Saitama. He sucks. EP 6 was great because he wasn't in it. Lack of Saitama is why S2 is much better than S1.
Nov 22, 11:40 PM

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This season is terrible!! I wont deny that!!
But honestly, a lot of reactions dont feel genuine. Its crossing a line and one could even call it overreaction.
Nov 22, 11:51 PM
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Trend mostly based on horrible animation. Although a good amount of it is valid hate/criticism, I do think it’s too much currently seen by the ratings.
Nov 23, 12:00 AM
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Fans waited 6 years for this just to get a slideshow presentation. The animation is basically non-existent as most scenes are still frames. It doesn't currently have a 5.07 rating on MAL for nothing. We have every right to be upset over this terrible season.
Nov 23, 12:26 AM
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opm is one of those shows that needs good animation, othrwise its boring and lame.
Nov 23, 12:42 AM
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For me, I give it a 3.5/10 for now because it has bad animation, horrible writing, the works.
But of course the majority of the crowd that give it a 1/10 is just hating in based on the context of it being such a big anime adapted from such a big manga being handled so badly. It's the in thing to hate on it and that's why people do it. Though I still think JC Staff deserve just that.
Nov 23, 1:01 AM
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I can't seriously answer that question; just watch all the episodes released so far to know that it's very bad. In other words, just watching it will show you the hatred people have for it, reflected in the terrible animation.
Nov 23, 1:17 AM

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Because it's a massive downgrade compared to the first season, I find it mediocre so far.
*kappa*
Nov 23, 1:27 AM
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My beef with it is the animation, I was looking forward to some slick, fluid fights but I got stills and lackluster animation.
Nov 23, 1:48 AM
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People don't hate the anime, they hate this season. If you have any sort of standards and you watched S3, I think it should be obvious why it's disliked/hated.
Nov 23, 2:05 AM
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Its literally common sense...

The animation was just outrightly bad...

Funny enough if it had started out with this level of animation, the backlash wouldn't have been to this level, but the show already set a benchmark with season 1...

Funny enough when I was watching season 2, the downgrade was so minimal to me I didn't notice until a friend called it out, and even then I was like meh, its still pretty good and defended it online wherever I could...

But going into season 3.... naaa, naaa WTF is this. Its just bad....

There's nothing to say...

If you're just watching season 3 without watching 1 and 2 (I doubt any sane person would) then you might just overlook because there are a bunch of animes out there with this level animation and it might not be shocking
Nov 23, 2:13 AM
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Well, bro, for me it's the following:

If you flip the manga pages fast enough, it has better animation than this. The best thing to hope for is that this gets canceled and one day my grandchildren can see a decently done adaptation.
Nov 23, 3:31 AM

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Can you find another anime in which a male character was mistakenly drawn as a female?
Nov 23, 3:59 AM

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There likely is people hating on it just because it's the current trend, that will always happen but objectively it's a very bad season.

- Garou slide being a png moving down a hill diagonally with no dirt or dust flying up.
- Ripper being drawn as a female when the character is a male
- Atomic Samurais hair being chopped off at the top in episode 6
- episode 6 having weird neon filters put over it during the first half which made no sense as to why it's used and just looks bad
- Scenes where it's clearly still images with very basic animation to try and pass it off as animation, leading to it being a slideshow.
- A scene where, in the manga, Genos and Fubuki are climbing stairs but in the anime it's just a still image of the side of Saitamas apartment building
- An approximate two minute hot pot scene that was boring and uninteresting which was barely animated
- Lack of Saitama fighting - I assume he's going to fight at some point in S3 but with the quality of the animation overall, I don't have high hopes it'll be good
- Characters looking stiff and awful with no depth perception or shading, particularly Genos' new design from the doctor - in the Manga it looks sick, in the anime it looks dull and boring.
- Whole scenes being drawn awfully, the one that comes to my mind is episode 6 where the heroes are storming out of the HQ. If you compare the manga vs anime shots, the Manga wins every time for looking better.

I'm sure i'm forgetting some more in the above list that I could add but overall, it's a really bad season which likely comes down to Bandai Namco. I don't think the season will be cancelled, they'll see it out for another 6 weeks but unless a miracle happens, i'd be shocked if they announce a season 4.
Nov 23, 4:09 AM
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why are there people defending in the comments? if something sucks it is good to criticize. OPM is one of the biggest it's in anime and it gets treated worse than a random isekai
Nov 23, 4:20 AM

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It's always funny to me how people are allowed to criticize the most trivial of things of a bad anime adaptation but not the other way around.

People aren't hating the show because of a trend, they're hating because of lack of care and quality in every episode, while a few animators who work on it go to twitter and say "guys we did the very best we could so don't hate us please" as a shield. That kinda shit won't work anywhere else in the world. You do a bad job, you get shit. I feel bad for the animators for the impossible schedule provided by the higher ups but goddamn this season is bad. Two things can be true at once, people.

Fucking echo chamber of positivity every where my god. Keep it up guys, maybe we can make season 4 ever worse!

People who mindlessly praise this adaptation are the sheep lmao
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Nov 23, 4:24 AM
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I mean generally speaking there are some minor things thst could be improved but its pretty good anyways. People love to just nitpick stuff and just hate cus they want to hate or get clout and follow the influences and shit.
Nov 23, 4:57 AM
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I think cuz they're manga reader, and they're dissapointed by the animation (Tbh me as anime watcher, I only care about the story)
Nov 23, 5:30 AM
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This season is not good mainly because of the following reasons; the animation is atrocious, watch season one and tell me otherwise, the other thing is that the storyline for OPM 3 is boring, too much talking and to top it off, they keep sidelining the main characters, at this rate they might as well make Garou the new protoganist.
Nov 23, 6:24 AM
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anyone saying it's just a trend is lying to themselves and other people, this season is one of the worst adaptations of a popular manga you can get, it's completely butchered, from still images to the blatant lack of talent.
Nov 23, 6:37 AM

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Yuu_Kanzaki said:
It's always funny to me how people are allowed to criticize the most trivial of things of a bad anime adaptation but not the other way around.

People aren't hating the show because of a trend, they're hating because of lack of care and quality in every episode, while a few animators who work on it go to twitter and say "guys we did the very best we could so don't hate us please" as a shield. That kinda shit won't work anywhere else in the world. You do a bad job, you get shit. I feel bad for the animators for the impossible schedule provided by the higher ups but goddamn this season is bad. Two things can be true at once, people.

Fucking echo chamber of positivity every where my god. Keep it up guys, maybe we can make season 4 ever worse!

People who mindlessly praise this adaptation are the sheep lmao

Don't waste your breath or words on the sheep.

These guys are the ones actually following a trend. All these fake, surface-level positivity posts are for farming engagement. These threads are a projection.

These people are the ones following the trend. It's funny.
Nov 23, 6:54 AM
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I can overlook all the garbage that is happening in this season if this season is actually long, because long anime are supposed to be "quantity" instead of quality. But no, I don't accept shit like this in short seasonal animes with around 12 episodes, especially on this one, which is a franchise that raised the bar high and set a standard by having awesome animation and direction in S1 and being top-tier quality. And seeing this franchise degrade from masterpiece to dogshit tier is making even baby Jesus cry. And the animation isn't the only problem here, it's EVERYTHING, including direction. Even the dialogue scenes in this season are shit for the most part, I have seen way better dialogue scenes in other anime, so why is this season failing so hard? Because the direction is garbage too, and not much is happening on the screen other than still frames and camera pans, so shit is already bad there and the director is doing a terrible job, and when we finally get some action, it's equally as disappointing.

And the same would have happened to Demon Slayer, which is another anime that raised the bar high and set a standard. If that one suddenly degrades into dogshit tier quality, then almost everyone would be shitting on that one too.
Nov 23, 8:08 AM
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S2 is hated because of trend, it ain't even that bad, it just not that good compare to masterpiece like S1. S3 in the other hand, have bad animation, bad pacing, and bad style, I rather get those weird gloss on S2 than the weird rainbow ahh style
Nov 23, 5:03 PM

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because the show looks awful and the only character worth caring about is barely present in his own series.
Nov 23, 5:22 PM
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an action show that has poor rule of cool like no great animation and bad direction will be hated by default
Nov 23, 5:32 PM
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the terrible af animation? it's just that bad. it's bordering on TBATE level bad. it might even be worse than TBATE atp.
OPM is my #1 favorite anime on my t10 list.
believe me when I say I'm beyond depressed about the treatment it's receiving.
S3 was my most anticipated anime of the season and of the year but look at what we got.
smh. it hurts, man. it hurts a lot.
Nov 23, 7:01 PM
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the animation is bad

and let's face it, most people only watch popular anime that's ALSO popular because of their good animation

so when OPM gets bad animation, expectedly people hate it
Nov 23, 7:05 PM

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People keep talking about the animation but I'm surprise that rarely anyone mention how badly placed the music is in this season so far. The music placement is so off and jarring that it makes Plunderer's sometimes random as hell music and Funi dub DBZ's zero silence replacement scores looks like they were Oscar-worthy direction by comparison lol.
Nov 23, 7:26 PM

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Because the animation is garbage. It's just poor quality slide show pretending it's an anime. It's not hard to understand why people dislike it.
Nov 23, 8:14 PM
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What differentiates an anime from a manga is the movement, the fluidity, the frame-by-frame animation, the sense of real motion. Fans don't like an anime that basically has no animation — in other words, something that doesn't even feel like anime. And that's not even the worst part: the pacing is awful, the storyboarding is terrible, the filters look bad, they skip entire scenes and manga panels, and on top of all that, there are constant errors. Literally everything is wrong.
No real fan likes this. Right now the only ones defending it and saying they enjoy it are fanboys (those irrational, hardcore fanatics)
Nov 23, 8:25 PM
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because the show looks awful and the only character worth caring about is barely present in his own series.
@ryzxgum if you think OPM is just about Saitama you're in the wrong here buddy
Nov 23, 8:30 PM
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opm is one of those shows that needs good animation, othrwise its boring and lame.
@TheHenor This! Glad that someone actually said it. OPM is just like Demon Slayer or Solo Leveling. It technically has very less engaging story. 99% of the anime is purely carried by action. So, without good animation to carry it, shows like these are a complete flop.
Nov 23, 8:51 PM

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Well it's pretty obvious. compared to s1 and s2 this seasons quality is really bad. Fans were waiting for years and got garbage. Yes influencers are really exaggerating but it's still a fact that this season is bs. I love the story but Ep 7 was really just hard to watch. It felt like a one piece ep where you see all side chars fight with no progress to the story and in addition with terrible animation.

Nov 23, 9:03 PM
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Well it's pretty obvious. compared to s1 and s2 this seasons quality is really bad. Fans were waiting for years and got garbage. Yes influencers are really exaggerating but it's still a fact that this season is bs. I love the story but Ep 7 was really just hard to watch. It felt like a one piece ep where you see all side chars fight with no progress to the story and in addition with terrible animation.

@Nikaisaka I don't even like One Piece, but at least One Piece has an excuse for having plenty of crapping looking low quality episodes. It's a long-ass anime that has been airing weekly for years, and has more than 1,000 episodes. So I can at least defend One Piece there since it's "Quantity" instead of quality.

But OPM S3 is a short anime with around 12 episodes, so this one has absolutely no excuse for being this shitty, and I simply can't defend garbage like this. The least I expect from a short anime is "Quality", and OPM S3 is failing in every possible way when it comes to quality and deserves all the shit it's getting.
Nov 23, 10:15 PM
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I mean generally speaking there are some minor things thst could be improved but its pretty good anyways. People love to just nitpick stuff and just hate cus they want to hate or get clout and follow the influences and shit.
@Quithryx I didn't say much in the beginning specifically to avoid seeming like I was jumping on the hate bandwagon, but even I couldn't defend the show after these past few episodes. The characters barely move, even what is drawn isn't done very well, and it's frankly very distracting, especially for an action genre show in which fluid motion is a big part of the visual storytelling. This isn't just a typical slice of life. They even try to do techniques to avoid showing the lip flaps to save on the animation, like in the last scene of the ep 7 in which they show a panorama of the group from the back while they're talking.

I'll be honest, your post seems like the type of post a hardcore fan would make to cope that a show they like is rightfully getting criticized. I've seen this plenty of times before. "Sure there are some flaws but it's still good." It's always some version of that line. But it's not good. Not even close. The animation of someone's snot in Gnosia was better than OPM season 3, and Gnosia isn't even an action genre show.
Nov 24, 1:12 AM

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I mean there's literally dozens of examples of how awful the animation has been in this season. It's not even an exaggeration; there's been like no attention to detail and fans took notice especially because season one was so much better by comparison.

And yeah, people do tend to put a lot of emphasis on animation since watching something animated is why most people watch anime in the first place; if they just cared about the story, they'd read the manga instead.
Nov 24, 4:07 AM
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Its literally common sense...

The animation was just outrightly bad...

Funny enough if it had started out with this level of animation, the backlash wouldn't have been to this level, but the show already set a benchmark with season 1...

Funny enough when I was watching season 2, the downgrade was so minimal to me I didn't notice until a friend called it out, and even then I was like meh, its still pretty good and defended it online wherever I could...

But going into season 3.... naaa, naaa WTF is this. Its just bad....

There's nothing to say...

If you're just watching season 3 without watching 1 and 2 (I doubt any sane person would) then you might just overlook because there are a bunch of animes out there with this level animation and it might not be shocking
@Richlord "I defended it online everywhere I could" defending season 2 is fanboyish, as if anyone would pay you to defend it... which is true, it was a disappointing season 2 that didn't do the opm justice (I really hope you won't tell me at least it's not like season 3)
Nov 24, 4:18 AM

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One of the most enjoyable aspect of this show is crying fans in the forums.
Nothing can save this anime even Ufotable animation, S1 proved that, amazing animation result was mid sales.
Nov 24, 4:20 AM
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Reply to Richlord
Its literally common sense...

The animation was just outrightly bad...

Funny enough if it had started out with this level of animation, the backlash wouldn't have been to this level, but the show already set a benchmark with season 1...

Funny enough when I was watching season 2, the downgrade was so minimal to me I didn't notice until a friend called it out, and even then I was like meh, its still pretty good and defended it online wherever I could...

But going into season 3.... naaa, naaa WTF is this. Its just bad....

There's nothing to say...

If you're just watching season 3 without watching 1 and 2 (I doubt any sane person would) then you might just overlook because there are a bunch of animes out there with this level animation and it might not be shocking
@Richlord

Same. I could tell S2 was animated worse than S1, but it was still good. I loved S2, so people claiming it's only because it's "trendy" or whatever don't know what they're talking about. It was trendy to shit on S2 as well, but it didn't get NEARLY as much hate as S3. S3 is utter trash. OPM is my favorite anime of all time and one of my favorite mangas and S3 is just shitting all over the story. The animation is obviously bottom tier, the art style is a huge downgrade, even some of the VAs seem to have checked out. There's really nothing positive about this season other than some of the humor remaining intact.
Nov 24, 4:38 AM
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@Richlord "I defended it online everywhere I could" defending season 2 is fanboyish, as if anyone would pay you to defend it... which is true, it was a disappointing season 2 that didn't do the opm justice (I really hope you won't tell me at least it's not like season 3)
@Leon888 "as if anyone could" well i did...

"Fanboyish" dude we are literally on an anime forum, discussing anime...
That isn't "fanboyish" to you, and are you getting payed to talk thrash about it, I didn't get the memo...

Dude said "(I really hope you won't tell me at least it's not like season 3)"

I shouldn't have to, common sense should let you be able to tell...

But man did you really think you cooked or what?
Nov 24, 5:59 AM
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Because it looks like ass. You can say stuff like "it's not only about animation, story matters blah blah", but the animation exists in the word "ANIME" itself. And if you adapt one of the most popular manga, that is regarded as one of the best looking manga of all time and had 2 very popular previous seasons that looked way better than this one than yeah, people are going to be mad if this is quality of the product
Nov 24, 7:11 AM
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idk maybe bcs its one of the worst adaptation of a big manga? and I've seen promise neverland s2 and blue lock s2. there is nothing this anime done to elevate the source material, and that's the whole point of an anime😭✌️

That’s not the whole point of the anime lol if you want to be accurate the whole point of an anime from a manga id to make more money then anime is fine and I don’t see the problem
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