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Jan 1, 11:51 AM
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I just finished this season and it was shit, the lack of Saitama wasn't even the problem, it's the animation which is shit 90% of the time, and the direction and storyboard is equally as shit since they are just copy/pasting the manga panels in the most lazy way possible, and it even stopped following the manga a couple of episodes ago, and the weird-ass transitions in the soundtrack was bad too, I'm even complaining about the soundtrack usage here!

What even happened here? how did OPM drop the ball this hard, this is something that I would expect from a random no-named Isekai, but not in OPM, the fuck? even S2 wasn't this shitty.

And looking at the ratings, the people around here didn't like this season either. But what about the Japanese people, did they like this shitty season? are they complaining about it?
Jan 1, 12:14 PM
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iono what u mean bro but even though this season was absolute dog water ppl still watch it n thas why they keep releasing this garbage
Jan 1, 12:15 PM
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From what I’ve have seen, they def didn’t think it was good, but they didn’t hate it as much as we did overseas. And for the reason why it’s so bad, the main blame goes to Bandai Namco, the production company behind it all who gave the staff horrible scheduling and a general lack of resources.
Jan 1, 12:47 PM
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Japanese are coping in the OPM S4 announcement, other than that you can find the occasionally reply by a japanese that says something like "Nobody believes in you anymore" or my favorite "Please Bandai stop, I beg you to stop"
Jan 1, 1:20 PM
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The hate for Season 3 is so unhealthy
Jan 1, 1:41 PM
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Don't forget about Zombieman's fucking lollipop with that godawful censorship. That scene should have him looking cool as fuck smoking his cigarette, like having a smoke after sex, but it's the other way around here. With that fucking lollipop he looks like a 10-year-old kid who just failed fifth grade.

Jan 1, 1:42 PM
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This Anime is finished Give this season below 5 Rating and move on to read the manga
Jan 1, 2:03 PM
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_z3-Us_ said:
iono what u mean bro but even though this season was absolute dog water ppl still watch it n thas why they keep releasing this garbage

OP is asking if Japanese liked it, not watched it. you can watch it and not like it
Jan 1, 2:30 PM
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Davo-o said:
Japanese are coping in the OPM S4 announcement, other than that you can find the occasionally reply by a japanese that says something like "Nobody believes in you anymore" or my favorite "Please Bandai stop, I beg you to stop"

Yep, I went and quick translated quite a lot of JP comments from the S3 part 2 announcement teaser and pretty much every single one of them were confused af as to why they are even doing more of this crap. Still no idea how can they continue with this bs, like what profit do they make at this point?
Jan 1, 2:40 PM
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ajw215799 said:
The hate for Season 3 is so unhealthy

And the more I see people complain the more I'm convinced they don't know what bad animation is.
Jan 1, 2:47 PM
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WestOnAndrewAve said:
ajw215799 said:
The hate for Season 3 is so unhealthy

And the more I see people complain the more I'm convinced they don't know what bad animation is.

So you want to tell me this season had good animation? Is this actually what you are trying to say?
Jan 1, 3:16 PM
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GTRaijin said:
WestOnAndrewAve said:

And the more I see people complain the more I'm convinced they don't know what bad animation is.

So you want to tell me this season had good animation? Is this actually what you are trying to say?

Some below average, some above average, but most was just average. It was cheesy art that was actually the problem. And you're lying if you say there was no good animation because there absolutely was during multiple fights. People keep comparing it to season 1 instead of judging it solely on its own which is the entire point of rating seasons individually. If anything it just highlighted how lackluster the writing has always been, they're just not distracted by pretty images this time. Besides saying "watch more anime" so people can actually understand what bad animation is, there's not much else I can say.
Jan 1, 3:53 PM
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WestOnAndrewAve said:
GTRaijin said:

So you want to tell me this season had good animation? Is this actually what you are trying to say?

Some below average, some above average, but most was just average. It was cheesy art that was actually the problem. And you're lying if you say there was no good animation because there absolutely was during multiple fights. People keep comparing it to season 1 instead of judging it solely on its own which is the entire point of rating seasons individually. If anything it just highlighted how lackluster the writing has always been, they're just not distracted by pretty images this time. Besides saying "watch more anime" so people can actually understand what bad animation is, there's not much else I can say.

Why are you even comparing it to Season 1 when there is Season 2 which was done by the exact same studio and same producers as S3? Season 2 wasn't even bad, it was pretty good at best but then you have whatever this disco slideshow bs is.

Yes, there most likely are anime which have worse animation but they aren't from such a big IP as OPM and they aren't done as weirdly so it doesn't strike people as much I guess.

OPM S3 is such a massive disappointment, it's ridiculous that they would give almost no effort in making it "animated". In 12 episodes you probably have like 10-20 minutes or maybe a bit more than an episode in total of some kinda decent animation/movement, in an action packed anime..
They either cut as much movement/motion as possible or replace it with shitty speed lines or other crap. There is no impact to anything, it's just some bs on screen slapped on. It's inconsistent as hell and the transitions are whack as well. Then you have the everyone's favorite disco RGB lights paired with random censorship. You can barely call it animated at this point, more like a coloured motion manga but worse.

I've seen Berserk 2016 both seasons and it's probably one of the most atrocious animations from all the anime I have watched but even then it was somehow more enjoyable than OPM S3.
Jan 1, 4:36 PM
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GTRaijin said:
WestOnAndrewAve said:

And the more I see people complain the more I'm convinced they don't know what bad animation is.

So you want to tell me this season had good animation? Is this actually what you are trying to say?

Some below average, some above average, but most was just average. It was cheesy art that was actually the problem. And you're lying if you say there was no good animation because there absolutely was during multiple fights. People keep comparing it to season 1 instead of judging it solely on its own which is the entire point of rating seasons individually. If anything it just highlighted how lackluster the writing has always been, they're just not distracted by pretty images this time. Besides saying "watch more anime" so people can actually understand what bad animation is, there's not much else I can say.

@WestOnAndrewAve Mate, the cheesy art isn't even the problem here; this season could have the best art in the world, and it would still be hated due to the shitty animation, direction, storyboard, and weird soundtrack choices (as plenty of people have pointed out in plenty of threads around here). The only one complaining about the art is you or a small minority around here; the rest are complaining about the things the OP has pointed out.

This shouldn't even be compared to S1, but it should be compared to S2 at least, since it was made by the same studio, and this crappy ass season doesn't even compare to S2, and the cheesy art is the least of this season's problems.

And even if the writing is bad (which I don't even agree with, since I read the manga), the anime should at least improve it with good direction and storyboard, but the anime made it worse with an apparently incompetent director who should be making party animes since he likes disco filters this much.

Even those heavy dialogue moments were boring as fuck in this anime due to the shitty storyboard. I wasn't even bored in the manga, but I sure as hell got bored in the anime since it made everything worse.

I just wish this season could slide its ass down to 3/10, Garou style, but I guess that ain't happening anymore. It will stay at 4/10, and if it's lucky, it may reach 5/10. Whatever the case, an anime with a 5/10 rating is considered shit around here.
Jan 1, 5:57 PM

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Davo-o said:
Japanese are coping in the OPM S4 announcement, other than that you can find the occasionally reply by a japanese that says something like "Nobody believes in you anymore" or my favorite "Please Bandai stop, I beg you to stop"

Yep, I went and quick translated quite a lot of JP comments from the S3 part 2 announcement teaser and pretty much every single one of them were confused af as to why they are even doing more of this crap. Still no idea how can they continue with this bs, like what profit do they make at this point?
@GTRaijin In YT most of the japanese comments are negative, denying the possibility of the quality being better this time. But in X, japanese seem to be coping telling the staff to "please do better this season"
Jan 1, 8:24 PM
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It’s not really that big and popular in Japan, not really any opm merchandise besides some saitama, and the psychic sisters.
Jan 1, 10:43 PM
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ajw215799 said:
The hate for Season 3 is so unhealthy

And the more I see people complain the more I'm convinced they don't know what bad animation is.
@WestOnAndrewAve no I agree that the animation is disappointing and definitely not up to scratch but a rational and reasonable explanation has been given by the production team
Jan 2, 4:42 AM
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"itu is a greight hı show ıh, i ıh dontu know u whay pepırı ar kompreyning ıh"
Jan 2, 11:05 PM
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anime fans pretend they care about censorship and bad animation but only for shows they like
Jan 3, 6:52 AM
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xZabuzax said:
Don't forget about Zombieman's fucking lollipop with that godawful censorship. That scene should have him looking cool as fuck smoking his cigarette, like having a smoke after sex, but it's the other way around here. With that fucking lollipop he looks like a 10-year-old kid who just failed fifth grade.


🤣🤣🤣 they rage baited you all and suceeded beautifully. That shit was hilarious
Jan 3, 10:30 AM

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OPM Season 3 was a huge success on streaming in both Japan and worldwide.

Rankings for the final episode on release days were:

Amazon Prime Japan, the episode ranked #1
Hulu JP, the ep ranked #1
Netflix JP, #4

And on global scale, it was heavily watched, as expected from a massively mainstream anime.
It's still being heavily watched in Japan and overseas.

So, the show got people hooked from first to last episode and it's safe to say the production committee got everything and maybe even more than they asked for.
Jan 3, 11:18 AM
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The Japanese are mostly passive by nature, meaning they will always let themselves be trampled on and mistreated, only after extreme mistreatment and years will they act, unfortunately that's how it is, if they weren't like that, no company would have released something so bad without fear of doing so.

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