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Dec 15, 6:04 AM
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Zombieman and Atomic Samurai in action!
The fighting scenes underwhelming though :(
Dec 15, 6:48 AM

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Feb 2021
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back to one frame yooohoooo
Dec 15, 7:28 AM

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Dec 2013
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Its safe to say at least, the only good thing coming out of this season was the Opening...
Dec 15, 9:21 AM

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Jul 2007
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Meh. The whole season is slow and boring. I have been reading the manga and I like that, but the anime... went down another point in my scoring.
Dec 15, 9:50 AM

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Reply to Sexyjutsu
@Zarutaku Can say that again. Can't imagine any Japanese animators watching this are respecting it at all just like the rest of us.
Sexyjutsu said:
Can't imagine any Japanese animators watching this are respecting it at all just like the rest of us.

That's the joke, the animation was over-the-top lazy on purpose, and the show generated quite a lot publicity this way, an ingenious feat they pulled off.
*kappa*
Dec 15, 10:07 AM
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Apr 2024
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I wanna punch everyone involved in s3 production so hard that even Saitama would be terrified.
Dec 15, 11:02 AM
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Jul 2015
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trash..........
Dec 15, 11:44 AM
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Jan 2017
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garbage animations and pacing
Dec 15, 11:53 AM
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Apr 2016
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In the next Crunchyroll awards this anime will be in the top of the worst animation of the 2025!!! Horrible animation episode again, the characters deformed and without natural movements, that destroyed the rythm of the episode!!!

Zombieman is inmortal!!! kekeke
Dec 15, 12:17 PM

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Apr 2020
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Once again, they changed a whole fight for no reason, ruining the story, and making some of the following arc impossible to adapt
Dec 15, 12:36 PM
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Apr 2021
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wow what a fight

furst we see him walking behind a column
then fifhts behind this pillar and cuts to his victory

then he faces rhe vampire "lets get the fight started"

*wall text* "pls do ur bedt tp imagine/visualize an epic fight"

aaaand its over...
Dec 15, 1:28 PM

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Jun 2011
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What the actual funk is this. Stop the production, abandon this sheet and erase the memories.
Dec 15, 1:32 PM
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Nov 2025
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voltamos pros filtros coloridos uma direção que não empolga nada nas lutas um monte de cortes repetição de quadros
Dec 15, 1:33 PM
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Sep 2024
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Waste of time again..
Dec 15, 1:39 PM
scientia exitus

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Mar 2020
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what the f*ck

aura: lost
speed-lines: hello

anyway, Black Sperm, let's freaking go. But they're probably gonna mess up that fight too, oh no. Good thing for them, Atomic Samurai's fights are basically putting slash-marks on his enemies and calling it a day: easy to 'animate' and at least looks cool at the same time.



NYANPASU
whiskey tango foxtrot

Dec 15, 2:00 PM
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Oct 2013
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It was painful to watch ngl.
Dec 15, 2:10 PM

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Oct 2013
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Seems my cope theory is at least partially confirmed by now (about this season being handled like shit because they want to get all the prep out of the way for season 4, which maybe will get better budget and care, but i'm not holding my fingers out for that last part to be true too anymore)..
Dec 15, 3:28 PM
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Jul 2021
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Lollipop Zombieman😭
Dec 15, 4:31 PM

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Jul 2016
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Reply to Ryuseishun
That was literally one of the worst anime episodes I've ever seen in my life. They couldn't even make up their minds for which canonicity to even adapt ffs.
@Ryuseishun

I mean it was not the worst thing ever. Lay off the hyperbole a little.

Was it good? No.

Dec 15, 5:36 PM

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Feb 2011
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@Scootboi
Are people seriously asking for the entire episode to be consumed by the Zombieman vs Vampire fight? Cause that's what it sounds like when I hear people complaining about this cut.
I'm glad his fight got cut short. I don't know what I'm missing, but a stretched out Zombieman vs Vampire battle would be the third episode in a row focused on a single hero.
@Alternate_Wraph my lgbtqia+ in christ
This entire season has been about everyone aside from saitama
Dec 15, 6:00 PM

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Jan 2019
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Oh man, at this point, I'd be surprised if Saitama shows up for the last episode.

You know what the mark of truly shit writing is? When the writer can't figure out how to use his/her own protagonist, so they try to do everything BUT write that fucking character that made their show. You see this shit in a lot of isekai shows, where the MC is made OP and the writer can't figure out how to make things interesting past the first episode/season.

Anyway, I'm guessing 11th episode us where Saitama will eventually reach the fucking lair and get into fight, probably like 3 mins reserved for this while rest will be filler fights with third rate "heroes" and "dragon threat" level villains like.. Dracula (very imaginative). Then the 12th episode will have slightly more action and screentime, before the day is saved.

And here I thought that season 2 was utter shit, but it seems like a fucking masterpiece compared to this shit-show.
Dec 15, 7:19 PM
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mkzxwing said:
Seems my cope theory is at least partially confirmed by now (about this season being handled like shit because they want to get all the prep out of the way for season 4, which maybe will get better budget and care, but i'm not holding my fingers out for that last part to be true too anymore)..

That is not how it works...
Dec 15, 9:05 PM
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Feb 2022
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That was absolutely buns holy shit. I can’t set my expectations low enough at this point, they just keep shattering any floor this series had.
Dec 15, 9:09 PM
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Aug 2025
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In first, I thought, "This anime can't be THAT bad, people are actually exaggerating." I regret thinking that
Dec 15, 11:16 PM
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Aug 2018
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Please fire hentai director shinpei nagai
Dec 16, 12:01 AM
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Nov 2016
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I wasn't even in the mood to watch this garbage, but I finally finished the episode just now, and yeah, it was dogshit. And Zombieman with a fucking lollipop instead of a cigarette is a crime. This godawful censorship should go to hell. And not only does this episode barely have animation, but seeing those fucking Ghosting/Dimming effects in a dogshit looking episode makes everything WORSE!!! and the lollipop, the fucking lollipop... I just can't.

After 2 decent episodes, we are back with the usual dogshit looking episodes. Fuck this dogshit season.

1/5
Dec 16, 12:13 AM
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its just sad that the animation quality as gone down so much from the first season
Dec 16, 1:49 AM
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solid ep

dammmm they really went with the original amai mask plot!! love it hahah

unlucky ONE. your redraw did not work
Dec 16, 2:13 AM
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Jan 2023
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biggest disasters of the century
Dec 16, 2:33 AM

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Oct 2014
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Reply to Dyno98
As both a manga and webcomic reader, I literally don't understand what the complaints are talking about. The animation could be better? Yeah, sure. Still nowhere near bad enough as the 1-3 episodes. The fights were well paced, good voice acting and fun moments. Does anyone even remember how Season 2 looked?
@Dyno98 This is far worse thans S2. Dont even compare this
Dec 16, 2:56 AM

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Apr 2013
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Holy slideshow, this was probabl the worst one so far. Whole fights getting offscreened and even in the fights shown mostly still frames. And in some instances it seemed like complete images were just missing, for an action anime that's really really bad... also no Saitama to be seen anywhere -_-
Dec 16, 3:45 AM

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Jul 2015
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So they changed cigarette into a lollipop.
That's some real 4kids censorship nostalgia.
Dec 16, 4:19 AM

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Nov 2021
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It’s been a while since I read this arc in the manga, so my memory was hazy on some parts. The only reason I even bothered sticking with this was for a simple recap… and now they go and adapt a part that was literally discarded and retconned. Like, congratulations! It doesn’t serve that ONE purpose properly anymore either. Holy hell, what a mess. ┌( ´_ゝ` )┐
prozyneDec 16, 4:28 AM
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Dec 16, 4:47 AM
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Dec 2025
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Terrible Animation and dragging that shit so much
Dec 16, 5:00 AM
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May 2018
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Png slide show waste of my time i would rather watch paint dry
Dec 16, 5:44 AM
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Sep 2024
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Lol did they just skip the fight.
13:08 I mean he's just gonna kill the brainwashed people probably.
13:46 YUP, of course.
15:00 bro is cooked. 17:47 I gotta be real though, they couldn't even get bro a new robo arm. Like fighting with one arms is significantly more difficult, it basically halfs your potential power and even influences your balance. Sure of course there's people like Red Hair Shanks, but even he would likely be even stronger with 2 arms.
How did the kid not see Atomic Samurai, he's literally running away from his best chance at escape.
Dec 16, 5:48 AM
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Its safe to say at least, the only good thing coming out of this season was the Opening...
@Viriathus except the fact that they even censored that after like 2 episodes.
Dec 16, 7:54 AM
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Sep 2024
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Enough od this bullshit, I'm not watching this crap anymore.
Dec 16, 9:56 AM
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May 2021
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very bad, congratulations bandai namco and jc staff :)
Dec 16, 10:27 AM
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Dec 16, 10:42 AM
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Jul 2022
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Not going to lie, I thought they were going to redeem themselves with episodes 9-12 but this is genuinely just embarrassing. To think that there would be a stain on anime as bad as this is so disappointing. Seasons 1 and 2's production quality was so much better but season 3 aside from episode 9 has been none stop slop. the animation company and animators can release whatever they want but they deserve every ounce of criticism they are receiving.
Dec 16, 12:04 PM
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Nov 2025
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absolute trash...
Dec 16, 5:17 PM

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Nov 2016
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You really can't feel any pity for these guys lmaooo, awful animation + censorship xD
Dec 16, 7:46 PM
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Jul 2017
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No sé pero OP se me está haciendo muy aburrido
Dec 17, 2:54 AM

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It’s not just that the animation is bad, it’s badly directed. The fights have no sense of impact, no rhythm, no buildup. Hits don’t land, cuts feel random, and there’s no weight to anything that’s supposed to feel explosive. I mean you can have limited animation and still sell impact with timing, framing, and pacing. Right now it just feels flat and unconsidered.
Dec 17, 12:22 PM

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Well, so now this arc is becoming a rundown on how every here battles.
Honestly, the pacing was once again horrible, it was super fast, like "oh, here's the zombieman, now here's the big hero, now here are the disciples of the Samurai hero, oh, but look, it's Sweet Mask". For me, it just didn't make the episode enjoyable at all.

The animation was inconsistent, there were some good shots, and some shots where there was 0 animation with the fights, sometimes to the point it was hard even figuring what was about to happen.

The best part of the episode was the 1st part with Zombieman, since it was the more slow paced one, and it was still fast paced, so yeah.
Once again, this episode shows the problem with this season isn't the animation only, the pacing, directing and even the overall plot are not helping.

Edit: Forgot to mention, it was mentioned this episode that Sweet Mask is a monster, but I'm not sure if they meant it for real (and hence why he didn't want the Samurai disciples to be there) or just in the way that he is ruthless with monsters (I mean, he didn't even flinch to kill the brainwashed humans).
Also, just discovered now that Zombieman's lollipop is supposed to be a cigarette in the original source... xD That's actually so funny, especially because they switched it to one of those big lollipops xD
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Jun 2025
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Straight dick ngl
Yesterday, 2:54 AM

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Aug 2016
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Sigh….when is it over
Yesterday, 5:19 AM
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Jul 2014
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I heard it was outsourced to chinese companies lol ?

That explains a lot of things and explains the censorship
Yesterday, 9:20 AM

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Keep calm everyone, the worst episode is aways the next!
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