jurke_ds said: I personally dindn't mind that they chaged the animation style for s2 but the 5th ep seamed kinda off. It looked like it was made with AI or CGI or with smth third, especially the scenes were they show getos' forehead & eyes. It was kinda disstracting. Idk if it's a problem w me or did anyone else noticed it. Please tell me your thoughts. Neither of these are the case. |
j_ds said: BezzaziFawzi said: true ep5 is by far the ugliest episode I have ever watched. It looked like Flower of Evil. it was giving chainsaw man vibes in some scenes with the animation Takuya Niinuma animated and was an animation director on episode 8, so that's where the "vibes" came from. |
| Personally, I agree that the direction and quality of animation is, despite not being really comparable due to being very different, as good or sometimes better than S1. However, and it might be a hot take, I also think that they overdid it a bit in this last episode on the "different" art-style, since it was the first time I found it a bit unpleasant or not that greatly executed (especially the characters in the beginning). Overall, great season, as expected, so far! |
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| just ep 5's 2nd half felt off to me...other then that it was pretty chill |
| It’s legitimately top tier |
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Isekai-Enjoyer said: The direction is a lot better for non-action scenes and FAR worse for action scenes. Scenarios are much prettier but the designs are much worse. It’s clear that they aren’t as knowledgable when it comes to martial arts, because yes, the previous director actually openly studied about martial arts during his career (he talked about that while commenting on God of High School). Plus, the direction makes some weird ass choices such as the “I am the honoured one” moment, which looks like ass compared to the manga. That said, we basically went from 10/10 action scenes to 9/10. The Gojo x Toji fight as very easily one of the best scenes in the entire anime. It’s really not such a huge loss. It’s enough for us to acknowledge it, but really not such a big deal. This anime is still receiving an ultra-premium adaptation, after all. It’s similar to the Mushoku Tensei situation. Is the animation worse? Yes. Is it still leagues above 99% of all anime? Also yes. That Mushoku Tensei comparison does not work at all, because it's not the same thing. It genuinely lost a lot of it's talent both due to Idolmaster and due to Onimai, to the point Q Kawa is solo carrying the production all by himself. JJK simply had a visual overhaul. A different approach than S1 had, absolutely, but the level of raw talent overall is still just as strong as S1 was, except this time with more catching direction and without the visual issues S1 had like awful backgrounds and inconsistent compositing quality. S2's style, particularly th action and designs, just doesn't appeal to you the same as S1, that does not mean it objectively "got worse". Unlike Mushoku Tensei where it's an actual case of production circumstances leading to a lesser product. |
Ae4iousMC said: j_ds said: I personally dindn't mind that they chaged the animation style for s2 but the 5th ep seamed kinda off. It looked like it was made with AI or CGI or with smth third, especially the scenes were they show getos' forehead & eyes. It was kinda disstracting. Idk if it's a problem w me or did anyone else notice it. Please tell me your thoughts. The technique prominently used in the fifth episode is called "rotoscoping", and it's used to give the characters a lot more realism in their expressions by taking motion from real actors and applying it to animation. It looks VERY different compared to the usual exaggeration used in most animation techniques, but it's still a beautiful form of expression when used properly. In this case, it's used in the first few episodes quite well, and it brought a lot of energy and expression to the scenes it was used in. The closeups are just a cel shading technique, it's not CGI or anything (at least from what I know.) It's a good way to add emphasis to certain features, like how disheveled Geto was beginning to look. This was also very prominent in Chainsaw Man. Both techniques are honestly beautiful to me. Adds a lot of artistic flair compared to most anime. Rotoscoping was not promptly used for this episode. Takuya Niinuma was assistant episode director and animation director, and he is an animator who specializes in character acting, particularly this loose, yet realistic-ish animation style. He animated the scene of Geto taking over the association, and you can see his kicks for animation showing through. |
OongbuhAug 3, 2023 8:45 PM
| First 5 episodes of Season 2 clear first 5 of Season 1. |
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kArtCam said: JJK2 looks better JJK2 is better animated JJK2 is way better directed JJK2 is objectively better than the JJK1 by any means Anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong the only truth effort speaks, S2 had more effort |
| I really don't see much of a difference from the first season. It will most likely be a lot better than everything so far, especially considering the delay for episode 6. |
| JJK is cinema now, it's incredible how much better it is compared to S1 and JJK0. This is what happens to a soulless anime when a great director takes the lead, I'm happy I un-dropped S1 to be here for this now and witness the greatness this season delivered so far... now, the chances of this project imploding are pretty high so I'm not expecting it to be as good as these first five episodes but hope is the last to die oh, also, there's no need to debate casuals on S2E5's animation direction, they are indeed casuals after all and whatever they say won't change the fact that it was probably the best episode of the whole series so far |
| looks great and even better than s1, i was worried when the trailers dropped but the animation and directing are spot-on so far. reminds me of csm so that's a plus on it's own. |
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WilfredJohnson said: chiku08 said: I think Ep 5 is the best looking episode of Season 2 I do not understand what was off looking We got amazing character acting Amazing AD work Hand drawn crowd not good as CSM but alot better than the CGI ones Great DOP work and art direction The characters looked off model for the entire episode Being "off model" is not a bad thing when it's done simply because of one artist being responsible. |
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