Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi Episode 4 Discussion

This was the worst episode by far. The comedy as usual was insufferable with Sadamune being such an annoying, 'turn off the television' kind of villain that fits with the unfunny comedy of this series really well as well as the tonal clashes present with the setting itself. The animation was bizarre as a whole to talk about. Some shots looked pretty good and reminiscent of the first few episodes and some were expressively animated (overexpression at times to the point of looking stupid rather than cool with some of the closeups of Sadamune and Suwa's facial reactions - especially with Sadamune and his eyes). Then there was shots of Sadamune's face just moving like a panning shot with no actual movement to his face whatsoever while talking a couple of times, and then the dreadful looking CG shots of Sadamune at times in the archery stuff in the second half of the episode when riding the horse. The horses themselves weren't too bad but Sadamune looks so terribly drawn and unfitting in the backgrounds and world that the art and visuals have set standards for with its start, and even Tokiyuki didn't look great either. Legitimately felt like I was watching a slightly upgraded Kingdom season 1 visually in that scene there with its CG implementation. I don't mind CG in general being used here but as long as it can be decently implemented and not be overly distracting and clunky compared to how well-drawn the series can be in other times, or if the issues with them are only shown a couple of times max in an episode. Just jarring stuff and the tone clashes didn't help.

The animation and overall visuals really had been carrying those first couple episodes to fit the intensity of the setting well but this episode was jarring, looks very disappointing with some real flaws in the second half and the unfunny comedy is still really deep-rooted to the core of the series. There is some focus for growth with Tokiyuki to embrace real practice as an archer to have some offensive firepower to have alongside his evading and running capabilities but that is about it. Tonally, hard to take any of the antagonists seriously whatsoever, even after such a brutal coup d'etat that was shown in the first episode that should make them feel far more threatening than how I feel now.

The visuals definitely had a noticeable downgrade this week but it's pretty normal for most anime to have a few episodes that get the short end of the stick production-wise. Kind of unfortunate that that's become an expectation nowadays but it is what it is. I wonder if CGI was used to make it easier to animate all the movements on horseback.

Some cool archery on display this week and Tokiyuki seems to be enjoying the thrill of it all at the end there. Let's see how he comes back against this bug-eyed weirdo. And lol at Yorishige making the comment about how what they were doing is considered animal abuse in modern times.

That dog hunting competition looked like absolute ass compared to everything before it. wonder if this will be fixed in the blurays for this or if this be close to the final version then since this looked uncharacteristically awful in comparison to the rest of the series so far. Some shots of Sadamune whether closeups, slightly wider shots or shots of him on the horse in the background look fucking terrible.

@MangagnaM It looked perfectly fine. Grow up

@animejas hypocrite seeing you still watch yet complain the whole time. Move on

@thebrentinator24 Horseback is notoriously hard to animate. So if you're A JoJo fan expect part 7 to have mostly CG horses.

@animejas

I think you want this show to be something that its not or for it to be more serious like Kingdom. This is an adaption from a loosely historical comedy manga, it lives on tonal whiplash. Most villain's will be over the top, literally the first villain takauji is laughing inside a burning building LOL. If you cant accept that then just move on, this isn't for you.

OH god Takauji's eyes

and then we get the other guy with his protruding eyes like wtf.