What are your honest and non-biased opinion on EX-ARM

Theo1899 said:
ex arm is as bad as the memes make it out to be

Ennricco said:
yaa, this anime still very damn bad... almost no effort , heart and soul in the production...

alshu said:
As production is pure trash but for some reason enjoyable to watch. You don't care about plot or characters but how many ways will invent its creators to mess up.

revzy said:
absolute shit, anyone who thinks different is a psychopath.

Krugerman said:


I think it's at least 4.5/10

Krugerman said:



same lol, I'm starting to like it and look forward to it too

Krugerman said:



guess I'm a psychopath lol, jokes aside i think it's watchable at least, most of the time and if u think this is shit then what do u think abt Berserk w016?

revzy said:
absolute shit, anyone who thinks different is a psychopath.

Haruyuri said:
I'm kinda liking this anime and i don't know why.
Am i weird? Is there Anyone else also likes this anime?

Anonymous_Moose said:
I recommend you get an MRI if you think this is good

LeviathanTheEsp said:
I don't think it deserves the 2.24 it has, but it's still really bad. I personally find it kinda enjoyable to watch, but a lot of the time I'm like "WTF is up with this animation quality".

That, and the story is rushed as heck.

And they're censoring all the kisses.

I don't know who are the people behind the scenes, but I honeslty wonder if half the staff got ill and had to stay home in bed, because it's terrible.

In episode 3 they put two pictures overlapping each other about those droids killing people, and judging by the answer by the characters it's supposed to be a video. So it's really lazy too dood.

Punkuin said:
Did you accidentally post this on your bot account?

Znra said:
I actually saw a few episodes after watching Canipa's coverage about this, and here's my thoughts.

This would've turned out good if the production hired animators to aid the whole process.

I get Kimura's vision but he doesn't have the right people to work with in the first place. Given that the stunt coordinator team were the exact same ones behind the live-action Kenshin trilogy, it's a total waste of their effort as there's no capable personnel in the team who can translate the same level of live combat dynamics that they've demonstrated to 3D, let alone 2.5D CGI. Let's just imagine if their mocap data were composited and finished by someone who has adequate experience in CGI anime than being completely handled by an inexperienced newbie.

Visual Flight has only worked on world designs so far and most of the people who were involved with this has little to no experience with anime in general, let alone working in theatrical CGI pieces. If the committee was wise enough to hire an actual anime co-director to guide the whole process just like what IG did when they hired Naoyoshi Shiotani to aid Katsuyuki Motohiro for Psycho-Pass, this would've turned out better.

I can compare this on how Berserk 2016 went behind the scenes but that, at the very least, was still an honest attempt despite several shortcomings in a technical sense. The people involved were experienced and are knowledgeable about what they were doing though they had little to no time and adequate hardware to envision the whole thing properly. So despite a lackluster result, we can pretty much tell that they would've done better if given enough time to work on it, and if LIDENFILMS wasn't adamant about the choice of using full CGI.

If there's anything, I can't really blame the director about all these. It's clearly the committee's oversight and this also shows that committees doesn't really give a damn about who they work with nowadays. If you're an author who's about to get an anime, you're in luck if you'll even get a decent staff for your piece to begin with.

Krugerman said:


I never said it's good, I said it's kinda fun to watch, never fails to make me laugh after all

kokusu said:
Ex-Arm is definitely bad, but not as bad as many people make it out to be, though I say that as someone who genuinely loves to watch bad movies. Even looking at animated things, this isn't on a level of something like The Christmas Brigade, Rapsittie Street Kids, the Studio Brinquado stuff or that chinese Cars ripoff. Ex-Arm feels simply extremely outdated to me.

This feeling already starts with the OP, which sounds more like early 2000s pop-punk than anything you'd hear today. It's the Sum41 kinda bullshit, that I grew up with, but also outgrew over time. Same goes for the animation which looks like videogames of that time and not like something you'd see today. At least for the most part. Because the terrible mesh of 2d and cgi, there are some decent character designs and even moments that look like they came from a game like Danganronpa or Paradise Killer.

This still doesn't look great, but it's one of the moments, where I'd say someone in the team thought about what they wanted to do. And sadly it feels much worse, when I see terrible CGI in an otherwise really good looking show, like why the hell did Urasekai Picnic do this shot in CGI?

Or the writing shots in Saekano, which were simple shots of hands writing on a keyboard, but the CGI just looked off.

I also feel like the story of Ex-Arm could definitely be decent if not even good, but with the mediocre pacing that's hard to really say. And the voice acting is also pretty good. I'd love to see a better version of this, but I'm still getting some fun out of this version. I'd call it acceptably bad.

dompsterfire said:
i enjoyed it.


10/10

T1mma said:
The best anime on earth, 10/10

Kuta1 said:
Ex Arm is the ultimate form of the anime medium. In fact, after it started airing, Miyazaki retracted his statement that “Anime was a mistake”.

dompsterfire said:
i'd also like to mention that ever since it aired, ufotable has been quiet with their anime recently.