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Oct 19, 6:14 PM
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There is a lot of talk around OPM's animation in season 3 and there is a lot to fault here, bandai's incompetence as a producer, the short timeframe of it's production and also the fact that this isn't jc staff's best team but people need to realize that nowdays the most prolific animation cuts are done by freelance animators and the way to get high tier freelance animators to work on your projects is through connections in the industry.
A recent example i like to bring up to my friends is re:zero season 3, white fox isn't a studio that has extremely high tier in house animators yet it had one the best animated sequences of 2025, why is that?
Because one of the action directors(Hamil) is friends with Vincent Chansard who did the animated sequence, and with this domino effect Vincent now came in contact with the director and the production team of re:zero and has made a business connection, this means that if contacted he can return and make more animation cuts in the future if available.
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones and ufotable, having connections in the industry and being able to contact freelancers is what is more prevalent nowadays, i feel like this is what will make or break OPM in the future, let's see how it plays out.
Oct 19, 6:24 PM
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EdoSensei_ said:
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones


I'm pretty sure Bones doesn't have that many in-house animators. They have an animation department, but AFAIK most of the ones that get promoted to key animators tend to go freelance either way.

But that is another example, veteran animators keep returning to the studio because Masahiko Minami actually appreciates creative staff.
Oct 19, 6:29 PM
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EdoSensei_ said:
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones


I'm pretty sure Bones doesn't have that many in-house animators. They have an animation department, but AFAIK most of the ones that get promoted to key animators tend to go freelance either way.

But that is another example, veteran animators keep returning to the studio because Masahiko Minami actually appreciates creative staff.
@Oongbuh Isn't yutaka nakamura in house for bones?
i know he's worked as freelance for other series as well but i'm pretty sure he has appeared in every anime bones has made.
Oct 19, 6:35 PM
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Facts. This is why many were scared that our director was a former hentai director. Most of the time, hentai directors don't have the craziest connections so their productions don't look as strong as it could look.

Not sure if its true, but I saw on reddit that "opm went to jc staff's non-action production line and sent their best producer on another project".

Since we all know what is going to be adapted next ep, we can only pray that was either the final product or close to it, cause if it was pre-animated, then we are slightly beyond cooked.


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Oct 19, 6:35 PM
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the missing thing in your puzzle are the anip aka animation producers employed by an anime studio

think fukushi of madhouse being their top animation producer that did one punch man season 1 and frieren season 1

think of umehara of cloverworks being their top animation producer that did my dress up darling, wonder egg priority, etc

animation producers aka anip by default has the duty to gather the main staff especially talented staff if they can they have the connections or nepotism

so when people praise an anime studio they are secretly praising the animation producer employed by the anime studio
Oct 19, 6:55 PM
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Yeah most people think it's the studio that means everything, but what really matters is the staff.
Oct 19, 7:06 PM
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the missing thing in your puzzle are the anip aka animation producers employed by an anime studio

think fukushi of madhouse being their top animation producer that did one punch man season 1 and frieren season 1

think of umehara of cloverworks being their top animation producer that did my dress up darling, wonder egg priority, etc

animation producers aka anip by default has the duty to gather the main staff especially talented staff if they can they have the connections or nepotism

so when people praise an anime studio they are secretly praising the animation producer employed by the anime studio
@deg Yeah true, to me it seems the main problem is bandai namco, they also produced blue lock, they seem to be incompetent at handling their ip's.
Oct 19, 7:10 PM
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@deg Yeah true, to me it seems the main problem is bandai namco, they also produced blue lock, they seem to be incompetent at handling their ip's.
@EdoSensei_ yep true bandai namco filmworks also owns sunrise studio now and surprisingly they own 8bit studio that did blue lock anime according to wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai_Namco_Filmworks
Oct 19, 9:02 PM
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@Oongbuh Isn't yutaka nakamura in house for bones?
i know he's worked as freelance for other series as well but i'm pretty sure he has appeared in every anime bones has made.
@EdoSensei_ I don't think he is, maybe he has a special contract, but him being such an integral part of the studio anyway is another great feat from Minami.
Oct 19, 9:04 PM

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Facts. This is why many were scared that our director was a former hentai director. Most of the time, hentai directors don't have the craziest connections so their productions don't look as strong as it could look.

Not sure if its true, but I saw on reddit that "opm went to jc staff's non-action production line and sent their best producer on another project".

Since we all know what is going to be adapted next ep, we can only pray that was either the final product or close to it, cause if it was pre-animated, then we are slightly beyond cooked.
JayDaAnimeLord said:
Facts. This is why many were scared that our director was a former hentai director. Most of the time, hentai directors don't have the craziest connections so their productions don't look as strong as it could look.


Y'all really need to stop hyperfocusing so much on the hentai time of his career, Nagai's lack of connections is simply because he never worked on any super production with star animators.
Oct 19, 9:46 PM
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Yeah, I agree with you, buddy.
Oct 19, 11:05 PM
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Normies will never understand or care that's why video game development use many trick to hide unfinished level or texture so normies won't find out about this

From Master video, he said
Merchandise company :Bandai Namco
License holder: Shueisha and
Production community aka Producer are fault there who put very small budget or Time to make one punch man season 3 , where JC staff's hand is already full with other 10 anime project

Just like how Blue Lock season 2 got 6 months deadline to finish a episode
Oct 20, 2:33 AM

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EdoSensei_ said:
There is a lot of talk around OPM's animation in season 3 and there is a lot to fault here, bandai's incompetence as a producer, the short timeframe of it's production and also the fact that this isn't jc staff's best team but people need to realize that nowdays the most prolific animation cuts are done by freelance animators and the way to get high tier freelance animators to work on your projects is through connections in the industry.
A recent example i like to bring up to my friends is re:zero season 3, white fox isn't a studio that has extremely high tier in house animators yet it had one the best animated sequences of 2025, why is that?
Because one of the action directors(Hamil) is friends with Vincent Chansard who did the animated sequence, and with this domino effect Vincent now came in contact with the director and the production team of re:zero and has made a business connection, this means that if contacted he can return and make more animation cuts in the future if available.
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones and ufotable, having connections in the industry and being able to contact freelancers is what is more prevalent nowadays, i feel like this is what will make or break OPM in the future, let's see how it plays out.

Vincent Chansard, in an interview recently, (indirectly) said that he was also disappointed with the way season 2 was handled, and would've loved to participate if had been invited. When he was asked if he knew anything about season 3 production, or if he is involved anyhow, he simply commented "I'm not allowed to speak about its production".

Now this comment got me thinking, Why would he not talk about it when he's not involved and if he was aware of what was going on?

Food for thought....

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And white knights people like you must realize how real world works outside of mal, Reddit, Twitter/X etc. We are under no obligation to care or to find the exact reason why the product failed. When buy a car you expect it to be with the features that it was advertised to you, when you go to a restaurant and you order a dish you are gonna have to get that dish with the quality that you expect from a x expensive restaurant. If you get your BMW with exhaust gas & differential pressure sensor failure it is not your business to learn about who was the big bad guy that didn't care about the problem in your car, you sent the car back to BMW to fix the problem. When you order a Almas Caviar from a Michelin restaurant you expect the chefs to give that dish with the quality you must expect. OPM s3 is the exact same. You pay for it ( for example like me via Crunchyroll etx) and you expect the quality as close as possible to the manga. It's not like the manga is crap and somehow people want god like animation . In this anime case we... literally... don't... have... animation at all. Most of them are still images and for some strange reason white nights like you are very frequent on anime productions that have similar animation like OPM S2,S3 that either have the same kind of animation because the mangaka like that way for example The Way of the Househusband anime series or anime production that can't afford better animation such as billion of romance and isekai anime and trash in the worst way possible without giving a damn why the animation quality is low or ''about animation and anime nowadays.'' . How you expect people to take you seriously and like what what I said in another thread, we are not union to care about what happens inside the studio.
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In other words: Studio animators are noobs.
Oct 20, 6:30 AM

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In less words: Imma eat you
Oct 20, 6:45 AM

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And white knights people like you must realize how real world works outside of mal, Reddit, Twitter/X etc. We are under no obligation to care or to find the exact reason why the product failed. When buy a car you expect it to be with the features that it was advertised to you, when you go to a restaurant and you order a dish you are gonna have to get that dish with the quality that you expect from a x expensive restaurant. If you get your BMW with exhaust gas & differential pressure sensor failure it is not your business to learn about who was the big bad guy that didn't care about the problem in your car, you sent the car back to BMW to fix the problem. When you order a Almas Caviar from a Michelin restaurant you expect the chefs to give that dish with the quality you must expect. OPM s3 is the exact same. You pay for it ( for example like me via Crunchyroll etx) and you expect the quality as close as possible to the manga. It's not like the manga is crap and somehow people want god like animation . In this anime case we... literally... don't... have... animation at all. Most of them are still images and for some strange reason white nights like you are very frequent on anime productions that have similar animation like OPM S2,S3 that either have the same kind of animation because the mangaka like that way for example The Way of the Househusband anime series or anime production that can't afford better animation such as billion of romance and isekai anime and trash in the worst way possible without giving a damn why the animation quality is low or ''about animation and anime nowadays.'' . How you expect people to take you seriously and like what what I said in another thread, we are not union to care about what happens inside the studio.
@Yubisoft Facts. While I do appreciate the work put into the adaptation, there's simply a lot to be desired from it and it's only fair if anyone (including me) is hoping for something of better quality.
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Oongbuh said:
EdoSensei_ said:
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones


I'm pretty sure Bones doesn't have that many in-house animators. They have an animation department, but AFAIK most of the ones that get promoted to key animators tend to go freelance either way.

But that is another example, veteran animators keep returning to the studio because Masahiko Minami actually appreciates creative staff.

Bones’s animation team has been primarily focused on My Hero Academia since 2016
Oct 20, 7:56 AM
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Honestly, people are complaining about the quality of animation for Season 3; I have seen far worse and in fact there are some moments of Season 3 so far I think are actually well animated
Oct 20, 8:17 AM
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Rezero S3 had a pretty poor production quality Imao
Oct 20, 8:19 AM

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EdoSensei_ said:
There is a lot of talk around OPM's animation in season 3 and there is a lot to fault here, bandai's incompetence as a producer, the short timeframe of it's production and also the fact that this isn't jc staff's best team but people need to realize that nowdays the most prolific animation cuts are done by freelance animators and the way to get high tier freelance animators to work on your projects is through connections in the industry.
A recent example i like to bring up to my friends is re:zero season 3, white fox isn't a studio that has extremely high tier in house animators yet it had one the best animated sequences of 2025, why is that?
Because one of the action directors(Hamil) is friends with Vincent Chansard who did the animated sequence, and with this domino effect Vincent now came in contact with the director and the production team of re:zero and has made a business connection, this means that if contacted he can return and make more animation cuts in the future if available.
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones and ufotable, having connections in the industry and being able to contact freelancers is what is more prevalent nowadays, i feel like this is what will make or break OPM in the future, let's see how it plays out.

Vincent Chansard, in an interview recently, (indirectly) said that he was also disappointed with the way season 2 was handled, and would've loved to participate if had been invited. When he was asked if he knew anything about season 3 production, or if he is involved anyhow, he simply commented "I'm not allowed to speak about its production".

Now this comment got me thinking, Why would he not talk about it when he's not involved and if he was aware of what was going on?

Food for thought....

Source
@V1P3R0P There have been leaks of Chansard being involved in an Overgeared adaptation at the studio
Oct 20, 8:22 AM

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Rezero S3 had a pretty poor production quality Imao
@Skeltro105 No, it didn't.
Oct 20, 8:36 AM
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Yea sure buddy S3’s production woes were very noticeable in the second half 🤣
Oct 20, 8:48 AM

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Yea sure buddy S3’s production woes were very noticeable in the second half 🤣
@Skeltro105 Cool, a screenshot that has...literally nothing wrong.
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Oongbuh said:
EdoSensei_ said:
While in staff animators will always contribute like we see with studio bones


I'm pretty sure Bones doesn't have that many in-house animators. They have an animation department, but AFAIK most of the ones that get promoted to key animators tend to go freelance either way.

But that is another example, veteran animators keep returning to the studio because Masahiko Minami actually appreciates creative staff.

Bones’s animation team has been primarily focused on My Hero Academia since 2016
@ajw215799 That only applies to studio C, not the entire department, and it was only been that way since season 2.
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Wait people still watch One Punch Man after season 2? Seriously?
Oct 20, 12:41 PM

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Yea sure buddy S3’s production woes were very noticeable in the second half 🤣
@Skeltro105 Still objectively more watchable on its lowest unpolished points than everyone just standing still in the frame like in One Photograph Man
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The consumer doesn't give a shit about why the animation sucks ass, the only thing that matters is that the animation sucks ass. Imagine paying for this

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