One Punch Man 2nd Season Episode 12 Discussion

todd2580 said:
but i think if we can stay positive as possible is better than just being toxic and ignorant people that think they didn't notice we didn't like what we got there's still hope but not a big one can't deny that since the tv version aired makes things hard but in the end Full Metal panic S4 got a lot of fixes in its BD and it might was having the same situation as OPM S2

Hraktuus said:
Was it as bad as the reviews say? No way. Was it a bit disappointing? A little.

Most of the complaints are a bit stupid, imo. There's nothing actually wrong with the animation or sound or any of that. I really think a lot of people here have sticks shoved wayyyy up their asses. But..

But...

The way the series ended was disappointing. That's not even what you call a cliffhanger. There was no epic finale like the first series. It just kind of... ended. With nothing resolved. With the crisis ongoing. Like it needed to go on for maybe three more episodes.

The absolute need to have 12 episode series in the anime industry is rather annoying, especially when we often do get three more episodes via OVA.

Oh well.

Frankly I thought this series was pretty clever, especially the bit with King. It had me laughing my ass off throughout. People seem fixated on the fights, forgetting this is a parody series making fun of series focused on fighting.

Meh, not like this will make anyone think any differently. Just my two cents.

Ichi_Exorz said:
I really liked this episode & the entire season 2.

I think the story is better than S1 and even though the animation quality dropped in S2 it was still quite enjoyable to watch.

todd2580 said:


they were have the same budget as S1 but in a situation like this it wasn't enough

the budget of S1 was normal like any anime shows and S2 is the same but in a different situation which makes think why even people complain that much it's ridiculous they weren't in situation like Madhouse and now they're getting the hate from that and they call that right while it's not lamo
they have to move their hate to the right person and it's the production committee for being pathetic

ClickBaitBuster said:
How can you tell that the budget was the same? and how can you tell that the schedule of S2 isn't the same as S1? You claim a lot of things to defend J.C Staff, but I don't see you providing any sources for your claims, which makes you look disparate tbh, while it's true that the producers are the main culprit here, I find you're attitude of not accepting any margin of criticism towards J.C Staff to be unsettling to say the least, it's not like they're saints who can't do wrong, they fucked up, and they deserve to be criticized for it, you should stop playing the victim card for them, they had every ability to turn down the project when it was presented to them, but they still took it, and most of those poor animator who tried their best you were talking about are actually freelancers, so you can't use them to shield J.C Staff, and even their in-house employees who also tried their best are irrelevant here because when people blame J.C they precisely blame their higher-ups who accepted this project without negotiating for better conditions and pushed it on their lower rank employees who themselves pushed it on freelancers.

todd2580 said:


LMAO sakuga anime blogs said it's the same budget as S1 which was a normal one too it's reasonable why it won't be enough in a tight schedule and cut corners make sense too and it's obvious they weren't have more time and that the schedule is tight and i'm not defending J.C Staff that much yeah it's their fault for taking a lot of projects ofc but still find people overreacting that much that it's like nitpicking rather than telling the real truth than just spreading their hate by their Pathetic ignorance like they don't know how anime studios even work !! and what makes it's so obvious most of people want madhouse to produce this season rather than J.C Staff without knowing they're in bad state also all anime studios want money so it's obvious J.C Staff will take OPM when they think they can do the job or they'll simply won't accept it from the beginning and it's Popular also when it was announced that they'll handle this season they weren't have that much projects coming but Kadokawa and JC are BFFs so they took a lot of their shows because Kadokawa is the most greedy publishing company that they don't care about quality in some of their shows like Date Alive S3 and Index III Which they wanted to rush it as possible but J.C Staff wanted 2 additional episodes for this season to able to give a decent ending at least (not like they're saints but at least they were reasonable with it even if things weren't going with them) i heard also the director before working on OPM S2 he worked on the OVA of his previous directorial debut anime that'll be for sale in 9 July (you can check the PV and how it's having visuals than OPM S2) which might holded the production of this season for Late 2018 although it's just an OVA but to ensure quality of it and they might even weren't known that it'll air that early or they didn't have that much of plan since the production committee wasn't even did a good planning for this season from the beginning and it shows from their way of their Advertising of this season and J.C Staff wasn't even in the production committee of this season so they can't do much except of just doing what the production committee wants (i've some doubts that it's TV tokyo and banadi's fault for rushing the project more than shueisha ) unlike MadHouse which was the 6th or 7th one so i know what i'm saying bro it's all about business for the production committees and that's the sad part and i gathered all of these information by the internet it's an easy thing lamo but sometimes can be tough but some researches is useful about studios's previous works and the way of handling things helps to make an idea of how things works but from some research the studio isn't that bad it's not my favourite but still have some nice works you can see that and they can do a great job if Things are in their favor and you can tell they tried their best even with the tight schedule given which it's an achievement but yeah it could be better ofc i can't deny that and they weren't that lazy whether a JC animators (Aoki seems having fun too) or a freelancer animators and some of them from studio Lan wasn't even bothered with them (you see that from one of them on his twitter )they also let one of their top action directors handle episode 11 which is why it's really good in terms of action so it's like Black Clover in some aspects

Fluxje said:
So for anyone reading the manga, will we ever meet Blast?

Zaugr said:
To really no surprise the finale for this still sounds and looks like shit; with it's signature god awful, often ear-raping sound direction and odd mishmash of 99% awful/awkward/inconsistent cuts and 1% decent, but I gotta say the pacing was at least a bit better than usual. It felt coherent. That's something good they managed for the finale. They butchered Saitama's final punch (they couldn't even top the punch they imitated with it from season 1's OP...) and just about everything else content-wise, and it ended on a really weak note as a season, but yeah.

Overall everything sucked about this. I wish the animation was the only problem here but it's not. It's literally everything. The art, the sound direction, the opening, the ED, the pacing, the direction (especially the direction), the voice acting (which also somehow failed to meet last season's standards), the adaptation itself, the editing, the color palette (with that god awful "tanning" and metal texture)... It's amazing how J.C. Staff managed to disappoint not just art and animation-wise, but EVERYWHERE, and defy even the lowest of expectations like this. This can not be understated--and I really cannot understand how so many people are happy with what we got here. Is it fanboyism...? Low standards? People just eager and happy for any and all "content" no matter the quality?

God I so hope this ends up being a massive financial failure for J.C. Staff and the production committee, and that they learn a lesson. To not impatiently rush production for cash milking and to not cheaply hire the incompetent (great, talented artists can't be replaced like that). Pls Japan-bros, pls don't buy this. Say no to being served utter mediocrity trash like this.

Click for a manga comparison of the Blast reveal and the Saitama vs Elder Centipede "fight"
(and please do click)



EDIT: Also can someone tell me how the top review for this is a 10? How can anyone look at this horribly designed, wildly inconsistent art and animation (that had just one standout animator the whole season--who tried desperately to save it), and hear this ear-raping, cheaply put-together sound design and go "yup. This is a masterpiece.". ????? (for reference he gave both the animation and sound a 10). This has got to be butthurt, defensive fanboyism right? Subjectivity can't possibly go that far?

Anax_of_Rhodes said:
If I wanted to watch typical shonen pulp, I'd binge any of the thousands of episodes of Bleach, Naruto, or Dragon Ball. Season 1 of OPM went beyond that pulp, worked off of it in an interesting and unique way. Season 2 became the pulp.

Hugely disappointed. 5/10

KRKodama said:

Can someone please explain to me why Mumen Rider is so popular? I really don't understand it.

xZabuzax said:


I believe that complaining too much about this is indeed toxic but praising this kind of mediocrity is toxic as well, if you don't complain about this and only praise it then the anime studio (or production committee or whatever) will keep doing this crap over and over again so we should complain about it to let them know about our dissatisfaction and once our voice is heard then hopefully they won't make that same mistake again in the future.

Of course, we complaining over this here won't resolve the situation, we are just the minority, to resolve this situation more people need to complain about it including the Japanese people but I believe that mindlessly praising this anime will hurt it even more.

xZabuzax said:


I believe that complaining too much about this is indeed toxic but praising this kind of mediocrity is toxic as well, if you don't complain about this and only praise it then the anime studio (or production committee or whatever) will keep doing this crap over and over again so we should complain about it to let them know about our dissatisfaction and once our voice is heard then hopefully they won't make that same mistake again in the future.

Of course, we complaining over this here won't resolve the situation, we are just the minority, to resolve this situation more people need to complain about it including the Japanese people but I believe that mindlessly praising this anime will hurt it even more.

Max09 said:
The last three eps were good. If only JC staff were given a little more time they could've done good. They tried, you can see that. They didn't just blow it off like studio clown did to tokyo ghoul.

Max09 said:
The last three eps were good. If only JC staff were given a little more time they could've done good. They tried, you can see that. They didn't just blow it off like studio clown did to tokyo ghoul.

KRKodama said:
Can someone please explain to me why Mumen Rider is so popular? I really don't understand it.