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MeanEYE said: Am reading responses here and people really need to learn the difference between animation and art style. Show has gorgeous art but it's animated like shit. There are so many frames missing between the key frames. It's like they make 3 images, maybe four, for each dialog and then swap 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1... It's just frames repeated. There are very little dynamic shots. All of them are still with multiple layers of repeated frames. Perhaps panning or zooming in/out. Only exception is that fight where he's trying to survive and that scene only lasts like 30 seconds but it's still choppy. ClowerWorks is known for their animation, but while art is still great it feels too choppy for their work. Look at, for example, Spy x Family. Top notch animation all around. People reacting and moving. While talking their bodies are not still. It's just good. You clearly don't know what shit animation looks like if you think this is animated like shit lol |
| I really liked that. Lets hope the rest of episodes would be as insane and fast paced. |
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MeanEYE said:
Am reading responses here and people really need to learn the difference between animation and art style. Show has gorgeous art but it's animated like shit. There are so many frames missing between the key frames. It's like they make 3 images, maybe four, for each dialog and then swap 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1... It's just frames repeated. There are very little dynamic shots. All of them are still with multiple layers of repeated frames. Perhaps panning or zooming in/out. Only exception is that fight where he's trying to survive and that scene only lasts like 30 seconds but it's still choppy.
ClowerWorks is known for their animation, but while art is still great it feels too choppy for their work. Look at, for example, Spy x Family. Top notch animation all around. People reacting and moving. While talking their bodies are not still. It's just good.
Am reading responses here and people really need to learn the difference between animation and art style. Show has gorgeous art but it's animated like shit. There are so many frames missing between the key frames. It's like they make 3 images, maybe four, for each dialog and then swap 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1... It's just frames repeated. There are very little dynamic shots. All of them are still with multiple layers of repeated frames. Perhaps panning or zooming in/out. Only exception is that fight where he's trying to survive and that scene only lasts like 30 seconds but it's still choppy.
ClowerWorks is known for their animation, but while art is still great it feels too choppy for their work. Look at, for example, Spy x Family. Top notch animation all around. People reacting and moving. While talking their bodies are not still. It's just good.
You clearly don't know what shit animation looks like if you think this is animated like shit lol
| @Cestlavie_ okay. You are right, I exaggerated. It's far from "shit". But in context of the studio it's far from their best work. |
| The art and animation were well done. I really enjoyed that just about the entire show, this kid is running away from people, that was hilarious. I totally called it, when the kid said "I should die with my people", I knew the priest was going to push him to experience almost dying, so that he would want to live. I really enjoyed this anime and look forward to watching it. |
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| can't say this hooked me right from the start like the mangaka's other work; assassination classroom did but eh, we'll see how this goes. shizuku's design looks pretty cool tbf. |
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| I dunno, that was an odd watch, and not in a good way either. Far too much weird tonal whiplash for my liking. |
| Really nice animation and use of colors, fun to watch just with those alone. Looking forward to more. |
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Am reading responses here and people really need to learn the difference between animation and art style. Show has gorgeous art but it's animated like shit. There are so many frames missing between the key frames. It's like they make 3 images, maybe four, for each dialog and then swap 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1... It's just frames repeated. There are very little dynamic shots. All of them are still with multiple layers of repeated frames. Perhaps panning or zooming in/out. Only exception is that fight where he's trying to survive and that scene only lasts like 30 seconds but it's still choppy.
ClowerWorks is known for their animation, but while art is still great it feels too choppy for their work. Look at, for example, Spy x Family. Top notch animation all around. People reacting and moving. While talking their bodies are not still. It's just good.
ClowerWorks is known for their animation, but while art is still great it feels too choppy for their work. Look at, for example, Spy x Family. Top notch animation all around. People reacting and moving. While talking their bodies are not still. It's just good.
| @MeanEYE All ill say is that i would advise you to go to stuff like sakugabooru to learn a bit more about animation, and to also see the posts from this show that are on there, because they are certainly of extreme high quality, both drawing, and animation wise. |
| The animation is great. Not sure if I like the characters... But the setup is interesting... |
| Dang I don't remember the manga being that explicitly violent! |
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GakutoDeathGlare said: Far too much weird tonal whiplash for my liking. Very good point about the "tonal whiplash." But it was so strange that I'm still kind of interested. The absolutely gorgeous colors, carefree atmosphere and goofy/annoying comedy, smash-cutting back-and-forth with horrific violence, tragedy and almost nightmarish imagery. Add to these some stunning "elusive" animation and striking artistic flourishes. It was way more unhinged than I expected, and I just have to see where they go from here. |
| This animation goes so hard wtf... |
| This is worth watching just by the animation and art style alone. |
| I will never play Shogun 2 the same again... Anyway, this is probably the best start to an anime this season. I'm pretty hyped now. |
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| I liked how it was comedic and kinda boring at first, then suddenly turned into a dark turn where a traitor emerged and everyone was committing suicide for the sake of honor. Also, I'm loving the protagonist (Tokiyuki) already, especially when he was thrown on the cliff by the shaman and instinctively clung to life. The animation was beautiful too (it's Cloverworks, so what do you expect?) and the plot seemed interesting, so I'm looking forward to this~ |
also this screenshot is gonna be used for so many memes i already know it  |
| I really love the animation style. Great OP and ED song, and interesting story too! CloverWorks starts to cooking again in this season. |
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| So many emotions in the first eps. This anime maybe one of the better of the season. |
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| Very VERY quirky premise^^ I can see that kind of elusive trait applied to the maincharacter either creating plotholes all over the place or getting old, real quick... But damn... if it keeps looking as beautiful as this first Episode....I might go along |
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It's an okay start. A bit rushed and cramped to a point of being hard figure out across how much time first episode spans. But story feels good and art style is great. Wish animations could be more fluid than slideshow at times. But we'll see.
| @MeanEYE The very first chapter is as fast paced as this. So don't worry about the rest. :) |
Life is too short for looking at the past. Enjoy your 'now' and just prepare a bit for the future~ |
| I discovered this through trailers and I'm glad I gave this a watch since the animation is honestly amazing. Surprised to know that CloverWorks is already at this kind of level and also the fact that Nakamura Yuichi is part of the cast won it for me. Definitely a hidden gem this season and deserves to be noticed more among the others. |
| The visual storytelling and embrace of surreal imagery really put this over the top for me, the story itself is a solid basis on its own albiet fairly familiar but the tone really made it pop, if it can keep up this level of creativity this is gonna be an absolute treat. |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| ah yes another revenge story. really liked the transition when the ball fell to the ground, and my whole mood from there changed completely crazy. there are lots of Sakuga scenes in this episode and the colors in this anime really spoil my eyes, and I would say maybe this will be one of my favorite anime this season, lets see.  |
| The first episode is interesting, comedic but not entirely so, with dramatic scenes that are almost horror-like, featuring indiscriminate and unscrupulous killings. I also appreciated the stylistic choices for the characters, the color combinations are very beautiful. |
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| So, this is actually an indirect sequel to Heike Monogatari, transformed into Shonen Jump battle shonen... while maintaining the historicity and naturalism characteristic of the era... I do not even know what to say. It's like someone playing Luc Besson's Joan of Arc on Disney+. But what interests me even more is how they are going to develop the story taking into account the real fate of the characters and what happened that we actually started getting so many historical anime? And yes, they actually raped and killed a seven year old girl? And this is part of the premise of my new Shonen Jump anime about shota samurai? What? |
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