What did they do over the course of 4 years???? What happened to animation quality on ep 2

The difference in quality between episodes 1 and 2 is so huge I can't even believe they're the same show. So disappointed.

they got a different director and animation studio for this episode

First of all, the production stopped for an entire year during covid.

https://www.vulture.com/article/uzumaki-anime-release-date-trailer.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture

Usually when something takes so long it's because the whole thing is a mess behind the scenes which was a case here. When the show was announced, studio Drive was listed for animation production, meanwhile they're not even credited in the actual thing, meaning they're probably left at some point. Fugaku is credited as the animation for ep 1 and Akatsuki for ep 2.

Also, it seems that the director, Hiroshi Nagahama, was semi-fired during the production and wasn't allowed to attend the production meetings, hence he's not even credited as the series director on ep 2. Also, ep 2 episode director (Taiki Nishimura) is a guy who's pretty much banned in the industry for his incompetence. The whole thing's just a big, big mess.

https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1842325100059836431
https://x.com/pizza_rigatoni/status/1842467995886506073
https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1842472951888982205

First of all, the production stopped for an entire year during covid.

https://www.vulture.com/article/uzumaki-anime-release-date-trailer.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture

Usually when something takes so long it's because the whole thing is a mess behind the scenes which was a case here. When the show was announced, studio Drive was listed for animation production, meanwhile they're not even credited in the actual thing, meaning they're probably left at some point. Fugaku is credited as the animation for ep 1 and Akatsuki for ep 2.

Also, it seems that the director, Hiroshi Nagahama, was semi-fired during the production and wasn't allowed to attend the production meetings, hence he's not even credited as the series director on ep 2. Also, ep 2 episode director (Taiki Nishimura) is a guy who's pretty much banned in the industry for his incompetence. The whole thing's just a big, big mess.

https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1842325100059836431
https://x.com/pizza_rigatoni/status/1842467995886506073
https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1842472951888982205

First of all, the production stopped for an entire year during covid.

https://www.vulture.com/article/uzumaki-anime-release-date-trailer.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture

Usually when something takes so long it's because the whole thing is a mess behind the scenes which was a case here. When the show was announced, studio Drive was listed for animation production, meanwhile they're not even credited in the actual thing, meaning they're probably left at some point. Fugaku is credited as the animation for ep 1 and Akatsuki for ep 2.

Also, it seems that the director, Hiroshi Nagahama, was semi-fired during the production and wasn't allowed to attend the production meetings, hence he's not even credited as the series director on ep 2. Also, ep 2 episode director (Taiki Nishimura) is a guy who's pretty much banned in the industry for his incompetence. The whole thing's just a big, big mess.

https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1842325100059836431
https://x.com/pizza_rigatoni/status/1842467995886506073
https://x.com/sarca_sc/status/1842472951888982205

@ukloim it’s a shame really because I was going to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Even with the delays and executive meddling a show can still turn out great in the end. Just look at Pluto. That anime took many years to make and the production got so bad that at one point they announced its cancellation. Yet when Pluto finally came out in the end, it looked amazing. It actually looked like an anime that took many years to make. It still managed to pull through even with all the problems behind the scenes.

So I thought this wouldn’t be the case for Uzumaki. But, I was wrong.

Poor toonami, these 4 episodes basically represents what Japan seems to think of US companies "cash cows"... imagine getting paid to do 4 episodes over 4 years and you outsource one?


Unless toonami really underpaid by a gigantic amount this has no excuse

Wow that’s interesting, can you elaborate on that?

@Runasius Nah Pluto was fucked over really bad in the art direction/comp department, shit was an eyesore already but they made it look even worse by replacing work done by legendary animators such as Shinya Ohira with awful cheap green screen effects. It is by no means a polished anime that took many years to make cause the management has been extremely sloppy throughout and even the simplest of mistakes somehow went unchecked, in fact a lot of time was wasted.

@KatoWorks I completely agree with you ! The show was so bad looking I dropped it at ep 2. The colors were horrible and too saturated (Gesicht orange suit urg), the garden of North 2's ep was the same flower copy pasted and inverted with some colors changes. The war flashback and the dust made by North 2 takeoff to fight Pluto were some horrible after effects shit. Brau voice is so stupid, why an old man it's a damn robot it makes no sense ? The suspense of the realisation that Gesicht was a robot at ep 1 was nonexistent since they showed us his hand transforming into a gun immediately, and didn't hide it untill the reveal when he arrests the criminal like in the manga. I only saw people disliking the anime for it's story and not as an adaptation so I'm glad to see people on the same page as me and my friends :).

Blame toonami for this

They always happen to fuck up every single type of original anime they’ve made

Blame toonami for this

They always happen to fuck up every single type of original anime they’ve made

It's WORSE than Junji Ito Collection, honestly......some eps of Ito Collection anime is at Least Watchable......

WORST ADAPTATION by far(along with GYO by Ufotable),,, not just the animation but Cramming too much into a single eps,,...... it's like they're forced to do it, rather than passion.

Ep 1 was not good either, just decent.
But I Hated ep 2.
6/10 for now, let's see what's more in it to torture us.

Hello everyone

Isn't this anime from the same infamous director of Aku no Hana? Like, that terrible rotoscope garbage adaptation?

What were people expecting...

@S5_0014_81

The biggest reason why the production crashed was because he got essentially fired, and the first episode was great because of his input.

And you're forgetting the fact that he also made, you know... Mushishi? Nagahama is not a bad director at all. This is a major executive fumble, not any fault of his.

@S5_0014_81

The biggest reason why the production crashed was because he got essentially fired, and the first episode was great because of his input.

And you're forgetting the fact that he also made, you know... Mushishi? Nagahama is not a bad director at all. This is a major executive fumble, not any fault of his.

Well to answer your question. The main director was kicked off the project after episode 1 and had a completely change in staff with the new director for episode 2 being someone blacklisted from the industry. It’s the same guy who did some of the tog season 2 action sequences that people have been clowning on.
Episode 2 went to a small outsourcing studio who outsourced it even more to like 8 studios and directors were changed to hentai animators.

As to why the main director was kicked off the project? We don’t know but we can theorise as to why. Everything in episode 1 was mocapped, completely redone in 3D and completely redrawn in 2D. The producers could’ve have seen this as so unbelievably demanding to do for the entire show that they kicked him off, and since they had spent so many resources in episode 1 they went to someone who’s really shit at the job just so they can get it done.

So all those 5 years then went into this anime? Most of that time wasn’t even being worked on to begin with probably.

@HoesEatinDogFood Just curious, what exactly was it that make Nishimura so blacklisted in the industry? was it just because of utter dogshit quality or something more heinous?

@LoliSatan He’s so incompetent that he can’t do basic sheet work despite being in the industry for 28 years so he only works at small outsourcing studios and hentai.

@HoesEatinDogFood

Stop bashing hentai bro, the directors and animators there make things much better than this

@HoesEatinDogFood

Stop bashing hentai bro, the directors and animators there make things much better than this