why is the animation mid?

while the movies do affect the production, i dont think it does as much to the series as people expect it to. if anything s6 proved that. s6 had no concurrent movie production and yet it didnt rlly look any different to the rest of the seasons.

i think the main reason is, like you said, primarily the schedule. releasing a double cour season back to back, and every year at that will obviously affect the show.

exactly. It breaks my heart. Every single Shonen mangaka that I can think of has acknowledged that Horikoshi's art is remarkable and astonishing even at times. But Bones just don't seem to be dedicating enough resources and skilled people to work on this MHA project. There's also the issue with movies. From what I know, Bones is made up of 3 teams, Studios A, B and C, and some people claim that the animators working on the movies and the series are usually from different teams, but in any case, I believe the Studio must be setting a certain amount of budget for the MHA project, which includes both the movies and the series. Somehow, in more than one scene, since season 5, they've messed up minor details. Season 6 was great. I almost don't have any complaints. But it's not like Endeavour's fight against Shigaraki, then Deku's fight, couldn't have been better.

different studios. demon slayer is animated by ufotable studio and jjk is animated by mappa. meanwhile my hero academia is animated by bones studio. they are mid who only care about mob psycho 100

It's kinda sad when you compare the animation to the detailed and amazing work of art that the manga is.

I believe that many viewers have been spoiled way too much with Top tier Animation from studios like Mappa, Ufotable, clover works, and production IG to the point that they can’t appreciate others. The animation for MHA isn’t on Demon slayer’s level, but it’s by no means a badly animated series. It’s above average and I believe doesn’t cheat the manga with the visuals. Go watch animation from shows like failure frame and you’ll appreciate what Bones do for MHA a lot more lol

I mean different animators have different ways of animating and each might have downfalls but have its peaks as well. Like if demon slayer have one scene where an animation gone wrong it doesn’t makes the whole show bad. MHA to me looks like normal MHA and I love it a lot

21-25 eps in a year is crazy, the material that has to be adapted is also heavy, the schedule is terrible, plus a lot of animators are going to MHA movie projects instead.

while the movies do affect the production, i dont think it does as much to the series as people expect it to. if anything s6 proved that. s6 had no concurrent movie production and yet it didnt rlly look any different to the rest of the seasons.

i think the main reason is, like you said, primarily the schedule. releasing a double cour season back to back, and every year at that will obviously affect the show.

they give more resources to the my hero academia movies instead the next movie will be another sakuga fest

Oh boy, here we go again. I was starting to hope there wasn't going to be any of these posts this season.

MHA fans when their anime doesn't have Fate level animation:

yeah it’s not amazing but it’s still pretty good

i mostly don’t like shigaraki’s CGI hands

Better than Mappa

I don’t want the animators to be overworked but totally agree. The first few seasons were so great at then s5 or s6 (not sure which) it just felt like it really went down hill?
I’d at least love s1 & 2 levels. I don’t care about Mappa or ufotable level. I just feels a little like animation / still frames kinda brings enjoyment and storytelling down

I’d say it’s cuz it’s rushed out. Bones can obviously make great looking anime like FMA and Vanitas, but MHA is rushed out for a yearly release. I used to be a big MHA fan and I still keep up but I fell off a bit after S4.

My main problem is the background, every background looks so plain, flat and boring. They use the same texture over everything and some manga panels they just replace the background with nothing. There’s just so little detail in the background.

My hero was the thing that brought me back to anime so I have a soft spot for it but I do agree the animation has fallen. There is still way worse tho😂

MHA has good animation, it's not god tier like other shows but it doesn't have to be, it's good as is. The only thing i could note being off about it are the cgi hands and even those aren't a big problem so stop complaining.

Also in my opinion neither Demon Slayer nor Jujutsu Kaisen have improved their animation, Demon Slayer stayed pretty much the same over the years and I find Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 just a tad bit better (animation wise) than season 2. Either way those two have god-tier animation and should NOT be the standard for good animation.

I feel like saying jjk’s animation gets better every season is a bit premature. We only have two seasons right now

mha for how strange (in a bad way) the storyline is, has genuinely good animation compared to average (my standard for average is like Kami no Tou Season 2 LMAO).