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| This fight was some next level shit. Really epic. Now it's time for Kuwabara to lose :) |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| wow my favorite episode this far. Incredible showing of visual presentation. You can tell top notch animators were involved in this episode. They have shown us 2 ways to portray fine art. The first one is the incredible art in general. A lot of these shots had amazingly detailed character art with deep black shadings and a very nice storyboard. Some amazingly frames shown. The scenes of the dragon were all very nicely drawn and the way the colors changed at the start was just epic. The other one was the animation. It is rare for Yu Yu to show actual combat animation, most of the animation we get is range attacks with good background animation. This episode had some nice close combat scenes. I saw people commenting "the animation was bad" And I instantly had a reminder of naruto's pain fight, where people said the animation was bad when it wasn't at all. The thing I agree on, and that is what they probably mean by "bad animation" is the loose art in some scenes. Character art was sacrificed to deliver smooth animation but that doesnt excuse completely normal shots of hiei where he is more or less only standing around with complete off model design. He sometimes didn't look like Hiei at all and more like a cartoon character from the 60s. Besides that this episode was great not only visual and animation wise but also story wise. I liked the fact that Bui was able to withstand the darkness flame. Hiei absorbing the dragon and completely overpowering Bui at the end. This must have consequences for Hiei though. There hasn't been a single person that has mastered the darkness flame. |
Monad said: Cheap work is cheap wok though. You can't go dropping the artwork quality to shit so it's easier to draw a few frames more and pretend that you made awesome animation. That's cheap work. Try making a long weekly anime that looks impeccable all the time. With limited budget. |
Switch_ZOct 27, 2020 8:07 AM
| Animation got really... expressive at the second half. And Sleeping Hiei is cute. |
| Hiei be taking naps |
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| The fluid animation was nice, but I wasn't a huge fan of the looser art style this episode, especially with some of the close-ups on Hiei's face. Generally, I prefer it if non-episodic shows maintain a consistent style, as sudden changes such as this can be quite jarring. Still, finally seeing the perfected Ensatsu Kokuryu-ha was definitely worth it. |
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| The Animation was bad and good at the same time Hiei is just awesome! There is know way that the Toguro's are gonna let Bui live now. |
| --AbiSa-- |
Switch_Z said: Veethorn said: Cheap work is cheap wok though. You can't go dropping the artwork quality to shit so it's easier to draw a few frames more and pretend that you made awesome animation. That's cheap work. Try making a long weekly anime that looks impeccable all the time. With limited budget. You are not quoting me here, carefull how you edit your posts. For me this was the best episode of the entire series, action-wise. So please do not misquote others. |
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Veethorn said: Switch_Z said: Try making a long weekly anime that looks impeccable all the time. With limited budget. You are not quoting me here, carefull how you edit your posts. For me this was the best episode of the entire series, action-wise. So please do not misquote others. Oh shit, I'm sorry. I was a MAL noob and cropped it way too much |
| the art was little...strange, but worked out for this badass fight. |
| Best episode of the series so far. I loved the unique art and direction. Fascinating and memorable episode. |
| Hiei was insanely badass this episode!!! |
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| One of my favourite episodes of the series. Hiei at his best, everybody totally confused and stunned at what they were seeing, Koenma terrified XD |
| I know this is going to change, but one thing I love about this show is that so far, we've got little hints about Hiei's power along the way and that he could even be more powerful than the MC in Yusuke. It never takes much away from Yusuke though which shows how well the characters are handled. |
| I am having a hard time comprehending some of these comments. Are people judging this episode/anime animations and story by today's standards? Thanks to the advancements in production and storytelling, there's no comparison. But I am almost sure this was peak anime in the early 90s. This style of animation seems to sacrifice details over fluidity, similar to modern anime like Fate Apocrypha episode 22 or Fate Camelot part 2. I would understand if you prefer DBZ over this episode's animation but to call it awful is just wrong. I am honestly mind blown by what I just watched. To think an early 90s anime *series* could achieve something like this. WOW! Series' best episode production-wise, and maybe overall thus far. Hiei's power boost was ridiculous! Now all I want is Kuwabara to humble Elder Toguro (: |
LavenderHazeAug 13, 2022 10:20 PM
𝓘 𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓶 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓯𝓵𝓪𝔀𝓮𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓼. |
| Still as orgasmic as I remember |
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| Really nice animation. The art itself suffered a bit cause of that (a lot of funny faces), but I think it was worth it in the end. |
| Hiei is literally that guy bro is just built different |
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| Hiei vs. Bui just immediately reminded me of Naruto vs. Pain. Both Anime are done by Pierrot, but many years apart. So I'm guessing that that animation is a specific style of one of the animators. Regardless, amazing fight. Seeing Hiei power up was long-awaited. |
CrimsonRuinMay 4, 2023 6:11 PM
| God that was such an awesome episode. Hiei basically once again proving he's an awesome character, a lot of people are saying that the animation in this episode is "bad", to that I'll say not really, while yes it's very off-model in some places it's kind of got some of the best fluid animation your gonna get an shounen anime especially when Hiei is using his Dragon of the Darkness Flame attack and the way the dragon slithers about the place is amazing. Otherwise the fight is just incredible, Bui's also a cool character as well as we got to learn why he's in the tournament and the reason he has that scar on him was pretty neat. Probably one of the best episodes we've had in Yu Yu Hakusho. |
| THIS. WAS. AWESOME!... Except for the animation, it wasn't very good. |
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| As other have said the fight was nice, but man the animation downgraded quickly, especially Hei but almost every character seemed to have been drawn off model. Did they have a different crew animate this episode? |
| That animation of Koto taking out the annoying fish girl out of the ring was the best part of the episode, then all the faces Bui was doing saving him from being just another boring villain xD Hiei also got some funny moments too. |
| Hiei finally got control of that dragon and got a win! Now, Kuwabara and Yusuke have to win their match. |
| By now, Hiei is probably everyone's favorite! That was an outstanding performance right there! And I like how he didn't even finish off Bui because he didn't want anyone "Dictating" him! That was so marvelous when he said it. |
KoniginElleAug 13, 2024 8:58 PM
 She got him back. If you understand the characters well enough, you'd know she did! |
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