| The only change in the order of events this time is at the very start they show Touru in the action on the stage for a brief like less than a minute then it goes to the start of chapter 17. The last episode basically skipped the first half of chapter 16 so some of the build-up to the auction was pretty badly cut short. They cut out the first scene of Hinami, Torso, and Ayato in a room where we first see her using her new (as of this season anyway, she's probably had this ability for a while but to the viewer/reader it's our first seeing her use it.) At first, I was really upset by that, I thought to myself: "Really? They cut out something like this that gave us our first hint at Hinami's much more powerful abilities for the first time. I thought shit, this is going to be like Mutsuki again who this season has continuously fucked up over and over again in addressing important backstory about. (Come to think of it I just remembered they DIDN'T show us her second flashback albeit more brief flashback to her childhood AGAIN.) leaving out the part about kids saying Mutsuki I just really wish they didn't do this. It's just so disappointing. I really like this season, it's been a pretty faithful adaptation overall despite at times skipping too much dialogue and at the end of the last episode, a whole chapter and a half just to more quickly get to the Auction. Then the sad part about it is this episode wasn't even well animated at all when the fights happened. I honestly was quite surprised at how limited the animation seems. Some of the worst animation of fight scenes I've seen in a mainstream popular anime. Again another blotch on an otherwise pretty good adaptation despite some pretty bad decisions being made that hinder character development or characterization. There's been a lot of surprisingly good things done this season though. The fact that they've used monologue at all for anyone but Haise is a little surprising. I was definitely worried before episode 1 came out they'd for instance cut out Urie's wonderful thoughts that are added to his dialogue in the manga. Overall the dialogue has been very faithful when they actually keep stuff in. Almost all the lines are the same as the manga. Another issue that I've noticed this season that I dislike is how they often don't make the characters have the correct facial expressions like they do in the manga. In this episode, I noticed almost every time Kanae was meant to have a sinister face she just stared blankly. Takizawa's introduction was frankly not done as well as I was expecting. They BUTCHERED the iconic scene of the first shot of his face where he looks completely deranged and has his fingers in his mouth and all that creepy shit. Instead of the wonderful shot of his full face like in the manga they did this really weird up close shot of his lower face without his eyes even being shown, and his hair doesn't look white in the first shot of him for some reason it looks black with white streaks in it. And he doesn't even have his fingers in his mouth either so it's not just a poor framing issue. They literally just didn't have him doing the right action at all. That alone really fucked up this episode ending for me. And they ended it in an unexpected place. I thought for sure they'd end it on the first shot of his face sort mirroring how episode 1 ended with the knuckle crack. Instead of ending it before the end of a chapter for cool factor they ended it at the end of chapter 21 this time. I'm going to add some images for comparison at the end of this post just to illustrate how terrible the anime is at getting the facial expressions right in really expressive and crazy shots from the manga. (Assuming you can add pictures on here. Manga  Anime  Manga (don't know how to crop the panel any better than this right now)  Anime  As you can clearly see especially with Takizawa the anime version just doesn't compare. I'll put just one more set up pictures to show the censorship at the end of the episode compared to the much more clearly violent end of chapter 21. Manga version. And here's the anime version of those two panels as two separate images. So the censorship is again like the rest of this season handled in ways that work pretty well. There's no covering with black or blurring. Though it's possible that it will be harder to get uncensored versions now because the shots would be at times different. (Unless they did make a less zoomed out version of this scene and just zoomed in for the broadcast to make it less violent. But in the case of blood and gore some of the time there's just not much blood like for instance when Juuzo stabbed people with his knives this episode there isn't really any blood. Though to be fair the manga didn't seem to have almost any in those scenes either. It makes me wonder if it's even possible they'd add more blood back into it for the uncut version. I think they might have added more blood in Root A in the uncut version though it might have been that it was just blurred out in the broadcast and unblurred for the uncut version so it's less likely Pierrot would bother to change the scenes to add some extra blood. I mean if they were SHAFT or almost anyone else who handles seinen I'd have more hope. But Pierrot is a LAZY AS FUCK studio who don't seem to care at all if their shows have bad animation, sub-par art in some scenes or whole episodes, or just produce terrible adaptations. They make so much money so they have no incentive to do any better than they have in the past. Though the Kagune's have usually been pretty cool in Tokyo Ghoul. I like the way they all have animated stuff on them. Though since season 2 they at times draw the kagunes like garbage. Here's an example of what I mean.  This to me just looks really ugly compared to something like  From season 1 episode 1.  From season 1 episode 12. Now I'll show you guys how bad Root A is in comparison to season 1 Kaneki's kagune.  From season 2 episode 1. Blocking Ayato's shards to protect Touka and Nishiki. From season 2 episode 5 Kaneki fighting Shinohara in Cochlea.  Note how Rize's Kagune looks pretty shitty there too. |
| Really dissapointed with the look the gave seidou compared to what it should have been. |
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| Garbage adaptation, I know the manga give Edgy vibes to Takizawa but damn at the same times he made like a good villains due the arts. But here in Anime it almost like a shitty man in lipstick. Most of fight seems like a bad or just random picks between ghoul and Doves, Its so plain.. and people praising this garbage? Really? |
| The problems mostly come from Pierrot being a lazy studio. Supposedly their animation during the 80's and some of the 90's was pretty good, nothing like today. Cutting production costs is probably a big factor influencing that. As you said, this is seen in the fight scenes and the facial expressions. Seeing the comparisons of the faces makes this really obvious as the anime version falls flat with not much impact. I have to agree with the censorship as well. Instead of the black blurring, beams of light and inverted colours like previous seasons, the framing works better to make the censoring not blatantly obvious. |
| well yea. episode 2 of :re made me wanna watch more but the last 2 eps have been really disappointing in terms of animation and co. I started reading the original manga yesterday so lets hope i continue with that. Really wanna know the complete story and not this butchered studio pissrot shit. Worst studio ever |
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