| What are some examples of this? What series have absolutely ass animation but are carried by fantastic storytelling? What was it about the Animation that made it so bad and the story that made it so good? How much did it actually affect your engagement with that story? The most recent thing I can think of is Way of the House Husband. It was short, fun and didn't take things too seriously, so I really didn't mind that it was basically a dubbed Manga. I tend to not watch series that offend me visually so I don’t really have any other examples beyond that. Inspired by these posts here and here. |
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| Kingdom, in particular for its first two seasons. If you just look at screenshots or clips from the first season in particular, the CGI is abysmal (and almost an insult when you look at how fantastic the manga art is in comparison, especially in battles) and the visuals can look inconsistent too down the line. There are cases where you'll find a character talking animated in bad looking 2D style in one frame and then it just switches to another in CG. The adaptation of the source material isn't perfect but the storytelling and characters are still mostly fantastic in the anime, but it's spoiled by its super cheap and terrible looking visuals and epic battles feel a lot less intense and engaging as a result too. Doesn't help that those ugly battles lack enough blood too for what is supposed to be gruesome overall. The poor animation is generally why there's barely any attention towards this anime on this site despite how critically acclaimed the manga is. I still thought the first season was decent for me because of how amazing the content/writing is, but I did feel so disappointed and sometimes sick of just looking at it. It's improved generally though in a lot of ways in the 3rd and 4th season, but it still doesn't hit the high peaks that the manga's art has. At least it's palatable now and even the CG doesn't look bad when it's used solely in shots where thousands of soldiers are involved. Just a shame that there's 70+ episodes of a visual barrier for the average anime watcher to consider when jumping into this series to get to those later seasons. |
| Currently airing Biscuit Hammer.. |
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| 91 Days I guess? I mean its not bad animation persay, but its not that well animated. However it is competently directed with a lot of emphasis on "show, don't tell" and characters that you end up rooting for in the end. Vinland Saga's animation also wasn't that good, especially compared to WIT's other anime. |
| Kumo desu ga, nani ka. Heard the studio got bankrupt in the middle of animating it. The latter half is mostly CGI. What an amazing anime it would have been otherwise.... |
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| I don't remember how was the animation itself, but at least the visual style of Alderamin on the Sky was dog water. What light novel had:  What we got in anime:  If anybody knows why this happened, I would gladly hear about. |
| Kingdom Season 1 Look at this incredible piece of animation  |
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| Lots of people don't like Yuasa's animation |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
Man... wish real life could look this good |
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| I immediately thought of 'Miss Kuroitsu from the monster development department', aired this winter. I won't say the story is great, but it's really solid, the characters are well established, and though it's a comedy, it's enjoyable even if you don't find it funny. It has horrible animation though, especially later on in the show. Not 'Seven deadly sins season 3' bad, but for something that looked decent, it's really dissapointing. |
| https://myanimelist.net/anime/36873/Back_Street_Girls__Gokudolls https://myanimelist.net/anime/43692/Gokushufudou https://myanimelist.net/anime/37979/Mahou_Shoujo_Tokushusen_Asuka Especially salty about the last one, because the first two are just comedies, and the garbage animation makes it funnier... The anime actually makes the anime paced better, but oh boi, does it look bad, |
| I guess Kotaro Lives Alone does not really have bad animation but strange character design. |
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Honestly, this isn't even bad compared to some of the other scenes--I dropped Kingdom because there were scenes that made my eyes hurt trying to watch them. |
| Poyo. |
Bidoof_PMD-EOS said: I immediately thought of 'Miss Kuroitsu from the monster development department', aired this winter. I won't say the story is great, but it's really solid, the characters are well established, and though it's a comedy, it's enjoyable even if you don't find it funny. It has horrible animation though, especially later on in the show. Not 'Seven deadly sins season 3' bad, but for something that looked decent, it's really dissapointing. I didn't expect anyone else to have watched it, but animation being a critique of all things? It's not Violet Evergarden, but it's a solid above average... |
Phosphophyllita said: Lots of people don't like Yuasa's animation Oh god, that... Devilman Crybaby actually looked good though. Half the time. |
JaniSIr said: Bidoof_PMD-EOS said: I immediately thought of 'Miss Kuroitsu from the monster development department', aired this winter. I won't say the story is great, but it's really solid, the characters are well established, and though it's a comedy, it's enjoyable even if you don't find it funny. It has horrible animation though, especially later on in the show. Not 'Seven deadly sins season 3' bad, but for something that looked decent, it's really dissapointing. I didn't expect anyone else to have watched it, but animation being a critique of all things? It's not Violet Evergarden, but it's a solid above average... The part I remember the most for this is the ending of episode 10, with the idol performance. In any other show with a performance I recall watching, there's a lot more 'motion', but more importantly, more than 2 diffenrent dance moves. The art looks good, but the animation is 'lazy'. Edit: Cut the double quotation. |
JaniSIr said: https://myanimelist.net/anime/36873/Back_Street_Girls__Gokudolls https://myanimelist.net/anime/43692/Gokushufudou https://myanimelist.net/anime/37979/Mahou_Shoujo_Tokushusen_Asuka Especially salty about the last one, because the first two are just comedies, and the garbage animation makes it funnier... The anime actually makes the anime paced better, but oh boi, does it look bad, Ah yes, the karambit waifu show. Asuka is definetely a top tier waifu material.  |
Bidoof_PMD-EOS said: JaniSIr said: I didn't expect anyone else to have watched it, but animation being a critique of all things? It's not Violet Evergarden, but it's a solid above average... The part I remember the most for this is the ending of episode 10, with the idol performance. In any other show with a performance I recall watching, there's a lot more 'motion', but more importantly, more than 2 diffenrent dance moves. The art looks good, but the animation is 'lazy'. Edit: Cut the double quotation. Most idol shows switch to Bad CG to do the dancing performance. This is better than those. |
LainToast said: Berserk, kingdom, Inuyashiki, 7 Seeds, Ajin, Dorohedoro, BLAME!, King of Thorn, Gokushufudou, One Piece.. ( Most of them are cgi) great stories & ironically the manga's art is so good So by your logic cgi=bad animation? |
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SkyfallStar said: JaniSIr said: https://myanimelist.net/anime/36873/Back_Street_Girls__Gokudolls https://myanimelist.net/anime/43692/Gokushufudou https://myanimelist.net/anime/37979/Mahou_Shoujo_Tokushusen_Asuka Especially salty about the last one, because the first two are just comedies, and the garbage animation makes it funnier... The anime actually makes the anime paced better, but oh boi, does it look bad, Ah yes, the karambit waifu show. Asuka is definetely a top tier waifu material. I prefer to call it the PTSD waifu show, but yes. |
MrSpenfo said: Honestly, this isn't even bad compared to some of the other scenes--I dropped Kingdom because there were scenes that made my eyes hurt trying to watch them. Dropping Kingdom is the biggest mistake of your life my dude |
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| kingdom for sure. reminds me of ajin in a way in how its unsettling to first watch. xD |
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| probably aku no hana. the animation is fucking atrocious but the story is good |
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Katou81 said: MrSpenfo said: Honestly, this isn't even bad compared to some of the other scenes--I dropped Kingdom because there were scenes that made my eyes hurt trying to watch them. Dropping Kingdom is the biggest mistake of your life my dude Nah, I was at risk of going blind from that garbage. Blame the trash-ass adaptation, not the consumer who isn't willing to put up with it. |
| Poyo. |
Piromysl said: Currently airing Biscuit Hammer.. Read the manga, its great. The art good too. |
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| Ginga Nagareboshi Gin is the first thing that came to my mind. |
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| Aku no Hana: Great story, lousy animation. |
| I'm watching gilgamesh now, and it's one of the ugliest thing I've laid my eyes on. At least it's better than Kemonozume, especially when it comes to story. |
| World Trigger S1 comes to mind. Toei is lucky that the fights are good because of the strategy and not because of the flashiness, so it’s still a decent adaptation. |
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| I think Angel Beats could have benefitted from more dynamic fight scenes I know they weren't the main focus of the story, but they got into a battle almost every episode and it felt repetitive when every fight was handled with handguns and grenades We had characters like Noda and Shiina with more traditional weapons, but we barely got to see them in action |
| Some people would probably say ping pong the animation. I find its rough artstyle and animation charming though, which fits in neatly with the theme of the show. |
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LainToast said: No, the post asked the reason why the animation was bad, that's why i said most of them are cgi referring to bad cgi of course like berserk and King of Thorn, there are many good anime with cgi like houseki no Kuni and beastars but it's quite rare. And i obviously inserted titles with bad cgi only. How do you consider Dorohedoro to be bad though? It should be grouped with the good cgi. |
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LainToast said: @EndlessMaria Dorohedoro's problem isn't really the cgi but compared to the manga the animation is terrible, i feel like the animators didn't understand the world of dorohedoro, if you watch the anime & then switch to the manga the atmosphere will completely shift while maintaining the same comedic tone. I read the manga and I didn't notice any problems. Also, can you please elaborate on what you mean by "compared to the manga the animation is terrible"? |
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