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Oct 12, 3:14 PM

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The quality of animation is abhorrent.
@Sanitizer_trio quality? They deliberately held back this episode probably to go all out in future ones.. if that's the case I'm fine with it.
Oct 12, 3:21 PM

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@Anime_Phenom Season 1 was made by Madhouse, a studio that better managed their inner resources, barely making 2 anime yearly, while J.C Staff pumps 10 in average. Also, the crew who got to work in season 1 was one of a kind event, like, the the sun, the moon and the planets all aligned. J.C Staff has good in house animators, but they are overloaded. Also, whoever was the director of art and/or photography in season 2 did a lame job.
@ManoCustaff JC Staff is also a much larger studio than Madhouse. The issue with JC Staff animation usually isn't due to overwork either. Even here, it's clear that every single scene has pacing and design issues. It's almost like the manga is being stitched together into an animated form instead of designing and storyboarding each scene out and animating it.


Not to mention season 1 was not a one of a kind event. Yes, they had talented staff, yes, it was animated well, but it's not a one of a kind production. Madhouse has other works that look just as good, lots of other anime have been animated just as well if not even better than OPM. There's lots of other talented animators, directors, and such out there. What differers is JC Staff tends to contract in more of the staff like directors to work on projects at the studio. While MadHouse has a lot more of their own in house staff working on their projects. Which is a large part of the reason why JC Staff productions like Danmachi, or more recently Maou 2099 look as good as they do.
MewsicMagicOct 12, 3:31 PM
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Oct 12, 3:24 PM
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Sexyjutsu said:
@Sanitizer_trio quality? They deliberately held back this episode probably to go all out in future ones.. if that's the case I'm fine with it.

So you want to say that it makes sense to put barely any effort at all into an episode just because some of the other episodes *might* have good animation?
So let's have, for example, 8 episodes like this one and the remaining few maybe with good production? Where have I heard this exact same line of "they are just saving animation for later!"? Oh wait, it was ToG S2 and how did that turn out?
Oct 12, 3:27 PM
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LITERALLY A SUMMARY OF THIS SHIT FEST OF EPISODE ONE https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/1ko0a9o/why_bandai_has_no_belief_in_one_punch_man/

FUCK BANDAI CHEAPSKATES they ruin BLUE LOCK, ZENONZARD, BLEACH, OPM
Oct 12, 3:33 PM
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eventho this looked like a colorised manga panels with bare minimum animations. it soo nice to have onepunch man back.

fubuki seeing more and more S rank hero's packed into saitama's apartment is always hilarious. lmao

wonder what organization that armored robot thing from. hm


im reaaally hoping for some justice for upcoming fight scenes.
@ultramb That's a massive insult to the manga, the manga is at least a few thousand times better.

(the web comic is better too)

(I guess Saitama's character is still assassinated, nice. Worst part of "s2", and s2 was extremely badly done in so many ways. But that was the most unbearable part. Seeing Saitama gutted completely.)
Oct 12, 3:36 PM

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Long time no see, hum? I am waiting for season 3 with a lot of impatience but also with a lot of doubt because the season 2 was cool but not great at animation level. This first episode was meh, so let's wait to see if it's gonna be better next!
Oct 12, 3:56 PM

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Sexyjutsu said:
@Sanitizer_trio quality? They deliberately held back this episode probably to go all out in future ones.. if that's the case I'm fine with it.

So you want to say that it makes sense to put barely any effort at all into an episode just because some of the other episodes *might* have good animation?
So let's have, for example, 8 episodes like this one and the remaining few maybe with good production? Where have I heard this exact same line of "they are just saving animation for later!"? Oh wait, it was ToG S2 and how did that turn out?
@GTRaijin Literally too early to tell anything. But if you wanna expect everything to be shit you can just switch off not watch it and or not come into the thread with hot takes.. it's not hard bro, chill.
Oct 12, 3:58 PM
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one of the worst things I ever saw. It's just a bunch of coloured frames with moving lips,there's no animation at all,neither any transitions or impactful moments,it's simply it's soulless,not even the sound effects and tracks are well positioned to grant some effect. unfortunately,power point man is real guys,idk how things are going to go on but well,I guess the only thing we can do is pray tbh
Oct 12, 4:04 PM
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Not soooo bad as i was expecting, but it's still bad.
I hope it really get better on the next temp
Oct 12, 4:06 PM

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Very unpopular opinion but this is quite decent..

After chaos of S2 ending obviously there will be calm. Idc for hate imma gone enjoy it anyway.

Saitama will Saitama. And Fubuki looks damn hot.
Oct 12, 4:14 PM
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back in the business, after reading the manga i want to see the best of ONE PEAK MAN!
Oct 12, 4:14 PM
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Very poor directing and inconsistent art, I can only hope that this is the lowest priority episode of the entire season otherwise this is gonna be rough.
Oct 12, 4:33 PM
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One punch man came again and all the people are excepting the new season to be epic as season one due to the many years the studio took to produced this anime but, as we know it just can't happen from the moment I saw the trailer said it will be as season two the manga in the other side is unbelievable with so many scans that one of them will take as one anime budget so when they took so many years i was hoped that the anime will be great and unbelievable as the manga but it will never happened so if you went to see the real one punch man i really recommend you to read the manga first and you will see how One punch man could i actually be as one piece or bleach if we speak a bout the animation if the studio give it the love it deserved and finally i read the manga and i don't see a point from waiting another 7 or 8 years for anther season and in the end it will be bed from the animation which is the hart of this anime in my opinion.


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Oct 12, 4:36 PM
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I was looking forward to finally watch it. My impressions based on the first EP:
- OP is shit (ED, too)
- not sure about animation yet, looks kinda plain
- story progression is too fast paced for the first EP

Let's see what is coming up.
Oct 12, 4:41 PM
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[This was copy/pasted from a reddit thread where I participated in a discussion of the first episode , I just didn't feel like writing the same thoughts differently]

It was alright . Very fast paced as a whole , but when it comes to individual scenes some of the stills lasted for waaaaaay too long , making for a very plain and boring direction . The art in general was pretty great however and some shots had very good and creative colours. Animation was all over the place . Mostly it was justs stills and some animations (especially Garou's walk cycle) looked bad . A lot of manga panels were traced , but you know what I don't mind that at all as long as they still look good , and fortunately they did . Everything in Saitama's house was pretty great though .

My MAIN Problem however has nothing to do with visuals and animation . It's the screenplay . I feel this should not have been a 1:1 adaptation of the manga , as weird as that sounds. Scenes should have been rearranged and make for a more coherent episode . A prime example is the roughly-10-second scene of zombieman . I know it was in this exact pointof the manga but it had no business being here , They should have left it for the episode where he actually goes into the ((Spoiler)) so we can have a complete scene , because right now it just felt weird , unrelated and completely broke the flow .

Still , the voice acting was pretty great as expected from this cast and the deliveries had the desired effect . I especially LOVE Takehito Koyasu's portrayal of Gyoro Gyoro because you can make out a hint of femininity in this voice and tone , for those who know.
Oct 12, 4:43 PM
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If there are people excusing this then standards really are in the gutter. This is an absolutely abhorrent episode of anime, let alone of OPM. Flat, boring, devoid of any visual creativity.

I understand that love for the source material can make you overlook some flaws but good God, man.
This barely even qualifies as animated. I can flip the pages of the manga and simulate more movement than JC Staff did here.

I don't know anything about the production woes and frankly I don't care. An objectively awful end product. Unacceptable and borderline unwatchable.

It's an absolute shame too. I feel sorry for everyone involved.
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Oct 12, 4:43 PM

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Just finished episode 1! I can't wait to see if the sakuga animation this season will outshine Season 2’s.
Also super excited to see @jumpaoki's cuts again... his work last season was amazing!
Oct 12, 4:47 PM
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Fubuki's boobs!! 😍



Do-S's boobs!! 😍





@Elysett Yes, that's the only good reason to watch this anime, girl's boobs.
Oct 12, 4:48 PM
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Not much happened but I'll see where it goes lol
Oct 12, 5:02 PM
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Power Point Anime. No Budget, No Effort. Very Poor from studio and producer.
Oct 12, 5:12 PM

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The character designs are better than s2 but... the entire episode was no better animated than it. Exactly what anyone with eyes expected after the trailer. I at least hope it isn't this bad for the upcoming action scenes because unlike s2, depending on how far they even manage to get, this arc should be full of fight scenes.

I rarely nitpick about this but Saitama's voice acting also sounded really bad. It's like they didn't give any voice acting directions and just told him to stay monotone the entire time.

For now, I've set my bar so low that I'm even willing to start ignoring all these stills with moving mouth flaps and moving pngs to imitate motion until we see how the actual fights are.
Oct 12, 5:22 PM
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Poor animation quality
Oct 12, 5:22 PM
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hate this new art style
Oct 12, 5:27 PM
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It’s PEAK we’re back boys
Oct 12, 5:32 PM

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6 years damn... Even if isnt the best adaptation hope we dont wait that long. Anyway, it was decent, not a episodeto display everything anyway, i enjoyed it.
And loved the opening, isnt as catchy or good as the first, but it was very good.
Oct 12, 5:33 PM
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it useless to complaint about the quality since they even proclaimed the outcome was bad, we can clearly see it got the same treatment as Blue lock or even worse, the material is too much that they had to compiled lot of event in one episode, I have read the manga long ago. i only came to see fubuki, king and amai mask

You guys need to stop coping, it will only go downhill from here.
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Oct 12, 5:33 PM
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Man, the comments for this season are going to be an absolute dumpster fire. I'm not even talking about the production values, just waiting for people to get stuck in on the arc itself and have considered, reasonable opinions. Pffhahaha.

I'm not even going to bother watching, I ended up dropping the manga shortly after this arc. Not what I enjoyed in the series.
Oct 12, 5:37 PM
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it's ok for first episode, sadly it doesn't show any fight to see if the animation it's good or not. and it shows a lot of times very little movement and just png drags.
Oct 12, 5:39 PM

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Why tf did this sequel take way too long to release? 6 fucking years bro that's before the pandemic. Now I think everything they will show is something that I've watched in parts from those fan animations from youtube.
Oct 12, 5:40 PM
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i mean I'll definitely watch it and I do love this show so much, but something felt very off during this episode, Im not the most observant or the most knowledgeable in technical terms, the colors were great, but the animation felt very weird.and the way they cut from one scene to the next had me feeling like I missed something. I missed the gang so I'm happy they're back at least.
Oct 12, 5:42 PM

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Meh episode to start the season off but it's expected considering the chapters S3 EP1 adapted. Garou is going to hard carry this season.

OP3 was decent visual wise and song wise. ED was okay.

I can't believe the low rating this entry has but yeah ik because it's only the first episode and it doesn't have any action in it and the art direction and etc was all right.


Oct 12, 5:47 PM
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Almost hard to believe Season 3 is finally here, I remember it being announced back in 2022 and just never really hearing anything about it after that, flash forward to 2025 and it’s actually real after all. And now that’s it’s here, well… the OP and ED were really good at least lol. Yeah I know it’s just the first episode and there haven’t been any action scenes yet, but most of this episode being still images panning up or down doesn’t bode well for the rest of the season. However, I’m optimistic, the OP’s animation looked pretty sick and if the action looks anything close to that, I’ll be happy, but it’s just the OP so I won’t get my hopes up, one thing I will give it tho is that the drawings are good most of the time, so at the very least we’re gonna get a good looking PowerPoint with voice acting.

About the story tho, ngl I really should’ve done full rewatches of the first two seasons (watched them both in 2019, 6 years ago) because I don’t remember anything specific lol, mainly just that the heroes are currently fighting the monsters, but it seems like it’s not the biggest deal because so far, that’s all that’s happening pretty much, the heroes are gearing up to strike back at the monsters and the monsters are rallying up as well, kinda unfortunate what happened to those poor folks in the high tech suits tho, they look quite goofy now, it beats becoming a gross monster tho I guess lol. And of course there’s Garou, it’ll be interesting to see what he ends up doing, but he’s still quite the cool fella here in Season 3.

But yeah I guess Season 3 is really happening huh, I hope it’s the best it can be because as easy as it is to joke about the production, I do want One Punch Man’s anime to be good, I remember liking Season 2 despite how it was received and I hope that can happen again.
Oct 12, 5:57 PM
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At least they upgraded from google slides to powerpoint, animation deffa better than season 2 tho
@KingShisui That is DELUSIONAL! Season 2 looked incredible! This was just a slideshow with lip flaps.
Oct 12, 5:59 PM
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each season the animation gets worse and worse; I might just start reading it... it feels like even one could have drawn better, and I feel that anime in general should be at least a bit cinematic... I do not like the path of this quantity-over-quality that the industry is taking.
@Sparkrich It's not even quantity over quality because we have gotten an extremely small amount of quantity of one punch man in a decade. For six years it's been 0 quantity and now 0 quality.
Oct 12, 6:00 PM
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Well I expected this ngl.

Maybe it will get better? Doubt it. Better than S2? Tbh I don’t remember lol

I will give to next episode to see what we are dealing with here. Since there is no action this episode at all.
@Confused_100 It will not be better than S2. S2 was peak. This is garbage.
Oct 12, 6:13 PM
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HOLY SHIT I WAS HERE

It's gonna be a good time, looking forward to some laughs
Oct 12, 6:15 PM

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murata fucked up the manga with all those redraws and jc staff fucked it up with the slideshows, one punch man's fall off needs to be studied. this is one of the most underwhelming sequel return first episode i've had to sit through. there's romcom slice of life anime from this season like yano's ordinary days which has more animation than this shit.
Oct 12, 6:35 PM
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I personally loved it. Of course the animation could’ve been better but I don’t think we’ll ever get something like season 1 again… it was good and I’m just glad it’s back + I looooved the ending song! Always the best
Oct 12, 7:30 PM

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So we finally got Saitama and the same year we got to see Ainz, I guess these are the signs of the times people...
@prejudicellama Overlord movie was last year. Came in theaters in like Sept in Japan, Nov in US. Over a full year ago at this point.

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Anyway what I thought is that this episode was pretty mid. Nothing happened, so of course it's mid. And the animation was just panning still images with moving mouths. Gonna temper my expectations real real low for animation this season.
Oct 12, 7:33 PM
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The animation has reached a new low. If you haven't read the manga yet, I suggest skipping the new season and just read instead
Oct 12, 7:35 PM
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ive seen the trailer before it came out so its as i expected

then again we are all expecting fights not dialogs so this is fine for the moment, until we get serious fights

the quality and depth of art is nice

i just hope the entire thing isnt just like that
Oct 12, 7:35 PM

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It definitely looks better than the last season, at least in the art department for sure
For a build-up episode with no action scenes I think it was done very well, we'll just have to see how it goes when the real fights come in. I'm optimistic about this season despite all the doomposting about it over the past few months, either way the story will be great
Oh and the OP was awesome!
Oct 12, 7:45 PM
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what a decent start😭😭
Oct 12, 7:55 PM
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The animation is the exact same with Tower of God S2... Basically tons of face close ups and still shots with just moving mouths. Vomit inducing lazy slop work.


And before some people rush in to say "they were just talking" or "they are setting up for X Y Z" or "they are saving budget fOr thE fIgHt SceNeS"

Save me with that BS. Animation involves movement cuz.... you know people when they talk are animated, believe it or not eyes are moving, hands are moving, the neck and head are moving... and cherry on top even the facial expressions are changing some times.... so taking the manga panels, coloring them and slapping the voice actors talking on top of them is definitely NOT what anyone would actually consider professional level animation, thats what you expect from your 12 year old brother/sister to do if they are getting into animation.

This is as lazy as it gets and it should be frowned upon, not glazed, not supported and definitely not enabled in hopes of "better animation will probly come in that 2 minutes long fight scene".
Oct 12, 8:03 PM
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alpo42ab said:
Yes its back and they jumped right in.
The humor is still on point, the animation is mid but that is true for most of the shows out this season.

If you folks can do a better job animating go for it!
Just glad Saitama and company are back.

“Other things are mid so this gets a pass”

Super interesting logic, friend.
Oct 12, 8:05 PM
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Boy, the ending seemed rushed. The overall continuity and flow was off, but otherwise it was decent.
Oct 12, 8:07 PM
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A lot of still pictures with moving lips. Not a lot of actual 'animation'.

thats wgat i noticed as well. what is it with Japanese studios. on the other hand, if you see animated shows from other countries, like Inside Job, Family giy, their animation is so good, so much movement
Oct 12, 8:07 PM
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Oct 12, 8:32 PM

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Calm ep

Definitely a better op than s2's.

Man, ain't nobody gaf about that dude's son 😂

The fine ahh psychic sisters are finally back and man are they stunning.

The day blue hair guy gets humbled will be a beautiful day indeed.

OH HELL NAH, the way the prison hero caressed bro’s hand. 😭

NOOOOO, Fubuki's turtleneck has been erased. C'mon staff!!!

Love the drawings, they are very strong, but damn the animation is quite limited. Along with sum slideshows, not much is great. Tho, imma excuse it since this is a non action ep. Also, quite happy that the metallic comp got fixed cause Genos's was so damn ugly in s2.

Oof, that Garou walk looked bad.

Good thing, the szn will start picking up next ep. Weird direction and pacing, but it’s alr for now.

This ep adapted ch "Is it because i'm the caped baldy?" and "Hideout".

7.5/10
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ts is actually pathetic lol
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