Anime with the best "graphics"

Recuvan said:
So many people recommend Fate... I guess it's worth watching

Recuvan said:
So many people recommend Fate... I guess it's worth watching

Recuvan said:
So many people recommend Fate... I guess it's worth watching

Helenus said:
I nominate Free - Eternal Summer for the musc... cough... WATER!

Wensbane said:
If by graphics you mean a combination of artwork and animation, I'm going to say Akira. Even after all these years, I still haven't seen anything better.

Milk_is_Special said:
Than you haven't seen a lot..... <.<

merryfistmas said:
Highest detail would be Shinkai's works like others have said. Angel beats! Has detailed backdrops but is otherwise unimpressive, and I've heard Kyoani's other shows are similar in their art.

I just started watching Fate/Stay Night, and I can see why people call it unlimited budget works, it's amazing in both detail and animation. K also has both of these qualities but is kind of lame outside of that. KnK has awesome cinematography, detailed setting, and fluid animation.

As far as styles go, FLCL, KLK, and Space Dandy are easily the best looking shows I've seen. I also think Psycho-Pass looks really good. fantastic color design, the setting is still detailed, but not to the extent of others I've listed.

TheBrainintheJar said:


Based on the .gif here, Fate has a lot of details and high-end animation. That doesn't compare to KLK's creativity.

TheBrainintheJar said:


Based on the .gif here, Fate has a lot of details and high-end animation. That doesn't compare to KLK's creativity.

merryfistmas said:

I just started watching Fate/Stay Night, and I can see why people call it unlimited budget works, it's amazing in both detail and animation.

CherryLover said:

I think "good animation" can be defined in many ways. No doubt KLK's animation is great in that it is unique, but I think shows like UBW that use CGI masterfully or 5 Centimetres that utilise breathtaking backgrounds can also called "great"; however, I think they cannot be compared with each other or with KLK because of the difference in grading criteria. They simply cannot be compared in my opinion.

worldeditor11 said:
Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children

Monstrum said:


Just root for Shinkai's work. e.g.

Recuvan said:
So, I've been wondering what people consider as an anime with good artwork, animations, graphics - you name it. Wait, I'm talking about the anime with THE BEST GRAPHICS...

P.S. Pls don't troll and come up with anime such as Love Hina or Boku no Pico ;w;

-Elevated- said:
Akira, One Punch Man and 5 cm/s are by far the greatest looking anime

Fai said:
Monogatari franchise still has some of the best cinematography and set piece design in anime ever(I know its not that big of accomplishment since a lot of anime looks like shit, but still).

The sense of directing is exquisite. Adding a sense of surrealism and mystique to setting that is very much contemporary, presenting a setting which has enough equipoise between natural and supernatural to feel unique. The use of camera, the use of abstract elements, the use of contrasts, the set architecture that borders between mix of modern and postmodern and minimalist/abstract interior design also adds to the feeling.



That is untill you actually pause, look past bland sfx effects and notice all the mediocre stick animation going on.

Or watch anything with actual choreography.

The only thing ufoubw has going for it are scenery backgrounds(which in itself is nothing out of ordinary as there's plenty of kitschy nature paintings in real life). Everything else looks like an ass once novelty of having thousands of bright flashes thrown at you wears off.
- The character designs look awful. I never knew someone had a talent to make Rin look completely ugly(Well I guess thats what you get when you decide she did not look Japanese or "cute" enough and mess with every aspect of her design). Shirou looks decent most of times(the only design that is mostly an improvement over the source), but every single female has weird fisheye face and when camera is set to show them at profile, they look like furries(Rhino is a meme).
- The choreography is non-existent. The fights lack actual character movement and mostly are just two objects being thrown at each other with lots of flashy lights to obscure it all. And when the show tries to do anything creative in terms of fighting, it ends up looking completely and utterly silly(not to mention ends up breaking the logic within the lore making it an asspull)
- The cinematography, yet again is non-existent, which, paired with completely mediocre directing, results in most supposedly emotional scenes ringing completely and utterly hollow. Which, when adding a completely rushed pacing, leads to the show eliciting nothing more but a "Huh?" from a viewer.
- The writing is mediocre to awful mot of the times. Characterization is non-existent so there's no way to like, understand or be impressed by the main character. Lore is mostly completely removed so most of the spoken exposition ends up being nothing more than a bunch of chuuni terminology thrown together. Most of romance is subdued, altered or removed(because we can't have the main character being pro-active or being in charge - that would ruin the trope of generic dense MC being bullied by abusive bitch of a tsundere). Most of philosophical depth the source has rings hollow without actual inner monologues that should flesh out character worldviews. Most of exposition removal, and lack of choreography leads to every scene feeling like an asspull(ex: charcters retreating for no reason, MC pulling out powers out of his ass).
- The music is subdued and unimpressive generic "movie soundtrack" that you can't even hear most of the time. Barring one or two tracks, its literally same generic track rearranged.

Ufoubw is a creatively dead, cynical, lifeless, mediocre attempt by aniplex to gather some cash from the fanbois. Nothing more. Everything in its production shouts "we don't have to try since it will sell anyway"

merryfistmas said:

I finished the first season just now and will admit the fight scenes are much less enjoyable as the show goes on and even become a drag, but there are many types of fight scenes. OPM has no choreography to speak of but still has great fights, you can tell very clearly what is going on even though it's flashy and over the top. The first two fights in UBW are a bit like that but less stylized. There are many shows that have high detail, look at all the ones listed here, but UBW is one of them, so it's worth mentioning.

Agree with Rins character design. The character designs aren't amazing in general, but I don't think I dislike them as much as you do.

The writing isn't relevant to this thread, but I do have some of the same issues as you do with it.

Programmer69 said:
Fate series from ufotable has the best Art for me. But ufotable isn't good at animating. I think they must colaborate with Production I.G or Madhouse for a beter animation. Production I.G has their own 'Good Art and Good Animation' anime such as Psycho-Pass or Attack on Titan. And Madhouse has their latest work One Punch Man which is really good for me...

Fai said:

You are not the only one. Zero in all of aspects: Music, animation quality, character designs, cinematography, choreography, etc - shits on ufoubw.

black1bait said:
UBW does have a handful of really good fights imo but there are quite a few which are really bad. I laughed watching arkada's review because when showing examples of "beautiful fight scenes" it showed the archer vs caster fight where archer was dodging lasers over an ugly 3D plane...