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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- About time this show returned... It looks the episode starts off from where it left off and we got another round of the tournament (America vs China apparently). Seems that Hazuki is warming up and training for her future fights too. I guess they managed to retain the same visual quality as the previous epsiodes. |
Stark700Mar 22, 2018 8:04 AM
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Stark700 said: I guess they managed to retain the same visual quality as the previous epsiodes. Eh, the 7th one was awful, but the 8th was fine, so... not sure what do you mean by that. x) I didn't watch it yet, but did they announce how the two last episode will be airing? |
| That's what an extra two weeks work got us? I feel cheated. REALLY cheated. Dropped. |
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| Okay so I kinda liked this anime at the beginning but what on earth happened? The art/animation was only getting worse and worse over time and I still found it somewhat tolerable to some level but this is just ridiculous. This is what we get after 2 weeks of delay? Already in the first 15 seconds there is terrible art and a 2 frame animation on Xuemei's raiment? I'm not even gonna bother watching the rest of the episode, it was sorta entertaining while it lasted but.. dropped. |
quality improvement :> one frame right after is slightly less derpy  how to wink |
karmashizzleMar 22, 2018 9:23 AM
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| I may have found some answers about why the anime is in the situation it is right now: https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/976829455279771648 If it's true, then it really sucks, especially since the source material seems to be good. |
GoldenPincers said: I may have found some answers about why the anime is in the situation it is right now: https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/976829455279771648 If it's true, then it really sucks, especially since the source material seems to be good. I saw that tweet on the reddit review. This looks like Jiggly Jiggly Heaven made real. |
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| This show is back and the art and animation looks really terrible. The council are a bunch of old hags. |
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GoldenPincers said: I may have found some answers about why the anime is in the situation it is right now: https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/976829455279771648 If it's true, then it really sucks, especially since the source material seems to be good. Well, should we be NOT surprised at that? This show was already disappointing to begin with, although I did agree that the source material was more than enough for the unique backstory. Waiting for 2 weeks for this episode IS indeed an exercise in frustration, because it all goes downhill from now on... |
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| I don't mind much character design and quality animations in general, but this time was really painfull to watch, Evil or Live was better than this. Hopefully the last 3 episodes will be better, i prefer they delay it further than release it with this awfull quality. |
| Wow... the first half was already bad, and then it got even worse at the second half... at least the preview looked okay? |
Was going to post this too. Beat me to it. ><;; Noticed quite a few off-model/bad anatomy shots, but this is definitely the worst of the bunch. Anyone else notice that stretching scene ~11:15 mark appears to be missing at least half it's frames? T_T I liked this little show. Impossible to defend it now. :( |
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| 3 weeks and it got worse XD fuckin kek Strangely fun though, hazuki training with Russians and quazar's squad. The committee is prime example that the ones with power can accuse you of anything and get their way. |
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GoldenPincers said: I may have found some answers about why the anime is in the situation it is right now: https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/976829455279771648 If it's true, then it really sucks, especially since the source material seems to be good. Oh dear... I put the anime on hold around episode 6, hoping it'll improve, but after reading this, I have given up hope. Dropped to oblivion. I might check out the light novel instead. |
gomennasaiMar 22, 2018 11:55 AM
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GoldenPincers said: I may have found some answers about why the anime is in the situation it is right now: https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/976829455279771648 If it's true, then it really sucks, especially since the source material seems to be good. With such horrible animation and if thats the current status on the project its just better to stop and restart the whole thing later from the episodes where the quality started dropping. Cuz srsly how could they do such crap..., the mangaka is surely turning himself around in grave in his agony of what they are doing with his work. |
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| WHAT. THE. FUCK?! We waited 2 weeks for THIS kind of animation quality????????? There were tons of off model characters, extremely low fps segments, heck, there were even a few segments where the mouths weren't animated at all but you could hear the VA talking lol. Just how did this episode look like before the "fix"? Was this the leaked bad episode? Did we get pranked?? Well, on the other hand, the story progression and voice acting were alright for the most part.... I hope at least the show can finish airing because the inside problems they got in the studio must be crazy at this point. I am not going to drop it because I am genuinely interested in what will happen next but with this reputation the chances of a second season in the future are pretty much zero which is sad. Hopefully I can get my Japanese up to light novel reading levels in a few more years so I can finish the story. Regarding the animaton quality still, I NEVER witnessed something like this, escalating from beautiful art to monsters so fast. It's a real shock. Just...wow. |
| This makes me wonder what the episode would look like if they didn't take the 2 weeks break.. |
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| I did find it interesting that 2/5 of the American School's members are based off of "concepts" and not "stories". There is no classic book called "Santa Claus" or "Zombie" after all. XD Also, I think the ponytail girl is supposed to be based off Star Wars? Slightly amusing that they are all named after film directors too. Cameron Welles, Drew Verhoeven, Lucy Burton.. Do the Daves sisters fit this pattern somehow that I'm forgetting? |
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MyKamiList said: This makes me wonder what the episode would look like if they didn't take the 2 weeks break.. 23min of nice boat footage. |
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| THAT IS ONE SEXY ASS OUTFIT HOLY SHIT now if only the art didn't constantly look sloppy :/   |
EcchiGodMamsterMar 22, 2018 2:05 PM
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| Well, damn... Never quite saw a reason to complain about the animation quality as much as the other people here in the previous episodes, but this one was just painful to watch. Almost rivaling The Third episode 8... And damn, that committee is sure doing all they can to sabotage Japan's chances just to destroy the remade Cinderella. At least it looks like most of the American team are actually decent people and didn't even know about their leader's sabotage attempts. |
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| Yeah if they have production issues i dont think 2 weeks is enough to complete an episode lol. This episode was sacrificed and slashed in to oblivion and probably they are rushing to complete the later episodes that are action heavy. They are way behind schedule. |
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Quality Improvement my ass:  |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| @Morag_23 I understand your frustration, but lashing out on people won't do you any good. Also your link you posted just throws out a blank page. Anyway, the reason I dropped it has less to do with animation quality - I feel sorry for the animators, actually -, more with the creators disowning it. It's a bad sign. |
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Morag_23 said: LeSponge said: Ahh well ive just observed it but the animation of the characters are way not great for me, its so inconsistent i can noticed it easily. From the first minutes and even up to its last, there are times its ok and then it became worse... * 2 wks has been waited for such quality. Its a sad. And by the way im shocked that its MAL rating drops to 5.xx already. The last time i have checked its still on 6.xx. many sure are hating this series already... Because normioes are stupid and full of prejudices and when it have a problem, it's automatically a 0 for them. They don't know humans create animes, not gods! Lol what, how can you be so salty about the rating it has? Honestly 5.95 is quite high for this show. "Normies" lmao |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| So they took two weeks only to fuck up the animation. Not to mention it was just another slice of life episode. No character progression besides that they learned that castle has a time limit which of course it should have, but they didn't even bothered on how to improved the only spell that she can use properly. Instead they choose to have a pillow fight. I never dropped an anime which is the sole reason i'm still watching it. |
| "Where the yummy things are, there I shall be!" - Charmy Papittoson "It would be wise for you to stop talking nonsense." - Mitsuki |
| I laughed so hard. Some great comedy in this episode! Real talk: Why do these cute lesbians have to suffer from such shoddy writing and horrible animation? |
| Those 2 weeks were not enough, what a train wreck. Too far in to drop but man the score I'm going to give it is very much going to suffer. |
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| I don't think I've ever witnessed such a severe drop in animation and quality before.... Even while they took a break to improve it, lol. |
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| Haha taking 2 weeks break to "improve" the animation quality they say. What a train wreck. I don't know how to make gif, but this animation sequence right here is ridiculous. I thought I accidentally made the video 0.5x speed.  This looks like a poor attempt of photoshopping her head on her body xd  |
UImoetardMar 22, 2018 6:10 PM
| Well, I honestly think this was a cute little training episode, with the serious matter of Shizuka's clan and the uncertainty about what really happened with her mother, towards the end. I still love the show as a whole and I'm willing to forgive this episode for the art quality after all the staff issues. Despite that, though, I have to admit that there were certainly a few scenes that just had bad art that really ruined the scene. I know this isn't the most well liked show, but even so, having this much of an art quality drop is a huge slap in the face. Luckily the preview for the next episode looks like it has the old art back. Maybe, just on episode was rushed and has this art, but the others will be closer to normal. At least, I hope that's the case. |
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| Looks like the studio had lied to the viewers of this anime and the animation quality of this anime got more bad no offense anyway this anime will had a low score bcoz of that :| |
| The current game that i play: Azur Lane :3 |
| Seems as some problem with the storyline went bad or something even worst but who knows and now the animators don't give a fuck anymore. For the incoming episodes the quality might to be worse, if not cancelled. Too bad, actually I found super hot the design for the green-eyed chinese girl. Edit: japanese viewers are also wonder what the fuck happened https://twitter.com/maerchen_anime/status/976765367769997312 |
arubaro89Mar 22, 2018 7:22 PM
| Is it just me or this episode has the worst possible animation quality? I thought all of the previous episodes were still okay, but this one just seems to bite the dust. I hope the studio hasn't given up on this show. There's still couple more episodes to go, and I really hope that they don't turn out like this. Yuck. Story was getting a little bit interesting (just a little bit), but the poor animation quality is so distracting. |
| To be or not to be... that is not the question. ;3 |
| Didn't the studio hold this off for two weeks to make the animations better? If that was the case, I think it had gotten worse. .-. |
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andzalot55 said: well u had already found out that the animators will lied to the viewersDidn't the studio hold this off for two weeks to make the animations better? If that was the case, I think it had gotten worse. .-. |
| The current game that i play: Azur Lane :3 |
| I want everyone who said the "animation quality" was "good" two weeks ago to formally apologize. This is hilarious. Not nearly as bad as Blade and Soul, but this is pretty close to the worst you can get. |
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| I thought because of the delays of episode 9, the animation will get better, but it was the opposite! it got WORSE! I could not recognize anymore the character design faces! some heads are bigger than the body and others are distorted figured of faces! there's even one point that the voice actor voiced the wrong opening of the mouth! DAMN! I'm going to put this as 4/10 for now. Unless it gets better but probability is I think there's no hope anymore. I'll rate this episode as 1/5 because of the appalling abomination animation. oh DAMN! almost all of the comments section are talking about the low quality animation? no one's gonna talk about the plot? looks like Hazuki needs to train more because even herself could not understand her own power. jap team and rus team are having a nice get together! damn the animation! ooopps...I should talk about the plot...damn faces...oh here I go again! EDIT: wow! this is the first time i've seen Poll Results "1 out of 5: Hated it" went-up to 39.22% ! That's a new record!! EDIT 2: This episode alone beats one of the worst animation shows which is ISUCA! lolz i'm just comparing worst shows that I have encountered and there's always someone who dare breaks that record! |
matias067Mar 23, 2018 12:08 AM
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| I honestly didn't find any problem until episode 8.. Probably a bit in some scenes on episode 7.. but it's really no problem at all... But when i watching this episode, i really want to punch my laptop.. lol They're not even made the characters awful.. but also a mistake for the VA as well.. I believe there is scene in train station with Maria's Voice, but instead of Maria, it's Charles who showed up.. and when Pillow Battle began.. they put Tatiana's voice on Maria.. some scenes also have a voice without movement on the lips.. which made a weird explanation. here's some souvenirs |
How dare you !!!
Episode 9 and Other Episode
Gorgeous means nothing
That Smirk
RyuuZyMar 23, 2018 12:00 AM
| i wanna burst the head of that Sensei with a Trench Gun or impale her instead |
| The current game that i play: Azur Lane :3 |
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