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| Finally, Nagai actually takes a break and hands the storyboards to someone else, and not just anyone, but Takashi Hashimoto of Bleach fame. And man, while it’s not the wildest thing ever, seeing real ambition in the boards for once is so refreshing after Nagai’s usual copy-paste-the-manga approach. Like holy shit, the camera was actually following and moving with the characters during a fight?? And it was a mech fight of all things?? Yeah, Hashimoto being the mech AD explains everything. Ozawa’s effects were fantastic too, I honestly expected Hashimoto to handle them like he usually does, but Ozawa killed it. Took nine episodes, but we finally got an episode on par with season two’s best. Bravo. |
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| Well, it's slowly getting better, but perhaps it's already a bit "too late" or something. |
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| Can I speak? I found it quite exciting. Today couldn't have played out any differently. Ever since last season, Phoenix Man has been a formidable opponent. Donkan Bird comes from a cartoon character. Trapped in fantasy, he basically became immortal. Kid Emperor had to use his powerful trump card: activating what looks like a classic Power Rangers Megazord… or, for the younger guys, an Optimus Prime. Kid Emperor thinking Flashy Flash had died was hilarious. Chuckle. But things got scary fast when the dead started turning into zombies. And then it got even worse. He had to give it his all, even destroying his precious robot. For a moment I genuinely thought Kid Emperor was done for. But when he stuck that toy inside the suit. Dude, that was priceless. And Phoenix Man tearing the whole thing apart himself? LOL. And not just him, those two guys from the last episode are alive too! Just… completely naked. Lmao. I hope next week we have another hero's spotlight. The staff is getting into their groover now! |
ancora07Dec 7, 2025 2:40 PM
| Dubious and honest analysis from neonerd. |
Reply to IzanaSolos
Finally, Nagai actually takes a break and hands the storyboards to someone else, and not just anyone, but Takashi Hashimoto of Bleach fame. And man, while it’s not the wildest thing ever, seeing real ambition in the boards for once is so refreshing after Nagai’s usual copy-paste-the-manga approach.
Like holy shit, the camera was actually following and moving with the characters during a fight?? And it was a mech fight of all things?? Yeah, Hashimoto being the mech AD explains everything. Ozawa’s effects were fantastic too, I honestly expected Hashimoto to handle them like he usually does, but Ozawa killed it.
Took nine episodes, but we finally got an episode on par with season two’s best. Bravo.
Like holy shit, the camera was actually following and moving with the characters during a fight?? And it was a mech fight of all things?? Yeah, Hashimoto being the mech AD explains everything. Ozawa’s effects were fantastic too, I honestly expected Hashimoto to handle them like he usually does, but Ozawa killed it.
Took nine episodes, but we finally got an episode on par with season two’s best. Bravo.
| @IzanaSolos The thing that frustrates me is how people are screaming on youtube that Takashi Hashimoto should quit his job because he made that stupid statement. Like yes, stupid thing to say but if these people had any idea of who this man is you would NOT want him to quit lol |
It's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. |
| Finally a decent episode. |
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| Animation and drawing is definitely better but ... let's be honest, the pacing, the transitions are weird, sound just cuts and new scene plays, everything is slow. This really looks like a bad hentai lmao, but the P scene just never comes |
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| the editing is so baad |
this ep actually hit different. No neon filter spam for once, and the animation didn’t look like it was drawn during lunch break 😂. Phoenix Man’s transformation was sick af. dude went from majestic angel vibes to full-on fallen demon mode after that blast. |
| Noooo, not the chicken-man! |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| Wow this episode's fight scenes were also half-decent. Worse than the last episode with Flashy Flash but it could've been worse. And Phoenix Man was an interesting villain I guess. Waganma you selfish little asshole. This guy's really going to be like his dad when he grows up. |
| Talk about a rise from the ashes, even if only temporarily. Something about Big Bird having evil Captain Falcon as a second form just works. |
| Back to back decent/pretty good episodes (by this season's standards ofc). Really can't ask for more than that at this point lol. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords. |
Reply to Gonta29
so I decided to check the manga this time and the whole ep is very different from the manga, am I tripping or has this been going on for a while?
Gonta29 said: so I decided to check the manga this time and the whole ep is very different from the manga, am I tripping or has this been going on for a while? Multiple fights were redrawn by Murata during this arc. Some of them were better before the redraw. You should read both versions of the fight in the manga and decide for yourself which you like better. I'm not watching S3, but from comments it looks like the studio went with the original version of the fight for this episode. |
| Decent episode but... this is one punch man Where is all the one punching / saitama damnit. 2/5 |
| Not too bad but I'm just bored of fights like that, we just got so many weak and low budget episodes and now we have this kind of mecha fight which isn't too bad actually (still average) but not that interesting so another meh episode, still not as worse as the beginning ones (just like the previous one) |
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| Why did they adapt the retcon version of this fight? Did they forget that the volume version exists? It had a good character development arc for Child Emperor, but they traded it for the big boom. |
| Imagine normies saying: "Peaky Blinders is mid and overhyped. Just another typical crime drama show. Breaking Bad is much better.". Or: "Without action choreography no one would've cared about John Wick. Kingsman, on the other hand, is not like other action franchises!". |
| today i watched a kyoto animation movie before and i was afraid haha. It was okay, i will never watch season 3 again, but i enjoy the ride i guess?! |
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| The Phoenix Man twist was pretty sick. Hype episode. And Child Emperor is actually one of my favorite characters(not only because he got Conan's voice) |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| best episodes 5 and 9 they said. more like peak boring |
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| At-least the Child Emperor is actually entertaining than boring as shit Storm or Blizzard whatever, or those idiots who wasted two episodes fighting generic monsters on the surface. One Punch Man still just walking around, they really will drag him doing nothing till the last episode, aren't they? Fucking twat of a director. |
| That woman producer was tearing its hair out saying we should pay attention to episode 9, and it was the most average thing in the universe. There was nothing remarkable about it, it was all very standard anime quality... At least it wasn't the awfulness of episodes 1-7, I guess... |
Deiki-kunDec 7, 2025 12:43 PM
Reply to phantomfandom
This episode is so engaging, I almost forget to breath because it's so intense. I'm one of a very few believers even when all things went wrong and I'm glad that this anime doesn't betray my trust.
The MVP of this episode is the editing team which carefully arrange the action scene, frame by frame, resulting in an award-worthy achievement.
The sound and music team is always at 100%, they're the backbone of this season, and in this episode the visual aspect finally catch up to the audio aspect.
Child Emperor has such a great character design, and by character design I don't mean just his physical appearance, I also mean the way he think, the way he act, the way he fight. He's good enough to be the main protagonist if OPM has spin-off.
This episode hints that the monster transformation can be undone, which is a good news for me since I'm a pacifist since heroes don't have to kill human-turned-monster anymore, but it's probably too soon to tell.
Next week can't come soon enough, and please SS4 announcement soon.
The MVP of this episode is the editing team which carefully arrange the action scene, frame by frame, resulting in an award-worthy achievement.
The sound and music team is always at 100%, they're the backbone of this season, and in this episode the visual aspect finally catch up to the audio aspect.
Child Emperor has such a great character design, and by character design I don't mean just his physical appearance, I also mean the way he think, the way he act, the way he fight. He's good enough to be the main protagonist if OPM has spin-off.
This episode hints that the monster transformation can be undone, which is a good news for me since I'm a pacifist since heroes don't have to kill human-turned-monster anymore, but it's probably too soon to tell.
Next week can't come soon enough, and please SS4 announcement soon.
| @phantomfandom You're the one who deserves an award for the best sarcastic comment of the day. 😂 |
Reply to ancora07
Can I speak? I found it quite exciting.
Today couldn't have played out any differently. Ever since last season, Phoenix Man has been a formidable opponent. Donkan Bird comes from a cartoon character. Trapped in fantasy, he basically became immortal. Kid Emperor had to use his powerful trump card: activating what looks like a classic Power Rangers Megazord… or, for the younger guys, an Optimus Prime.
Kid Emperor thinking Flashy Flash had died was hilarious. Chuckle. But things got scary fast when the dead started turning into zombies. And then it got even worse. He had to give it his all, even destroying his precious robot. For a moment I genuinely thought Kid Emperor was done for. But when he stuck that toy inside the suit. Dude, that was priceless. And Phoenix Man tearing the whole thing apart himself? LOL. And not just him, those two guys from the last episode are alive too! Just… completely naked. Lmao.
I hope next week we have another hero's spotlight. The staff is getting into their groover now!
Today couldn't have played out any differently. Ever since last season, Phoenix Man has been a formidable opponent. Donkan Bird comes from a cartoon character. Trapped in fantasy, he basically became immortal. Kid Emperor had to use his powerful trump card: activating what looks like a classic Power Rangers Megazord… or, for the younger guys, an Optimus Prime.
Kid Emperor thinking Flashy Flash had died was hilarious. Chuckle. But things got scary fast when the dead started turning into zombies. And then it got even worse. He had to give it his all, even destroying his precious robot. For a moment I genuinely thought Kid Emperor was done for. But when he stuck that toy inside the suit. Dude, that was priceless. And Phoenix Man tearing the whole thing apart himself? LOL. And not just him, those two guys from the last episode are alive too! Just… completely naked. Lmao.
I hope next week we have another hero's spotlight. The staff is getting into their groover now!
| @ancora07 Uh... Westerners know about Power Rangers too. |
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| Barely got to see Saitama, and why is nobody dying. I was sad when I found out the ones that flash fought literally had no scratch on them, makes these fights just even more meaningless |
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