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Apr 21, 5:03 PM
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Animation Director of One Punch Man Season 2 had some harsh criticism on Super Cube Episode 7 which is a Chinese Anime. Nian41 did a huge segment of the episode that the anime community loved and enjoyed. However its clear Aoki didn't share the same opinion as anime fans. This has caused Anime Fans to bring up how OPM S2 was directed, but also the fears of Season 3 that still has no staff listed. https://youtu.be/7e01MC5lU-I?si=RDbNFbahPJvNwZNk

so thoughts? the youtube video has the chinese animation and i say its great better than any one punch man season 2 sakuga

this is what animation director typically does
Animation directors typically supervise the key frames drawn by animators, revising the drawings and giving feedback when necessary. Because animation directors are usually entrusted with the task of maintaining consistency in the animation, they are highly sought after among anime studios. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-01-29/berserk-2016-anime-director-says-industry-has-shortage-of-animation-directors/.142670

do note animation directors can enhance the sakuga like remember imai of attack on titan? he is the action animation director of most of its seasons https://myanimelist.net/people/36709/Arifumi_Imai
Apr 21, 9:42 PM
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I agree with animation director.
Apr 21, 9:49 PM
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I mean, Kenichiro Aoki is a well known animator and he was just providing constructive criticism to a 19 y/o up amd coming animator who needs guidance. Flaming at him wont change anything. His opinions were about how the tempo was too fast which led to no feel of impact in the fight scene and the reuse of LOs. Dont see why anyone has to get mad at this and bring OPM in specific, while he has worked on tons of other anime, where he did really good cuts.

P. S: His cuts from OPM S2 and danmachi series were really good, you might wanna check it.
Apr 22, 12:06 AM
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He isn’t the director or animation director of the entire season, he was one of many Assistant ADs and Action AD for a few episodes and did Key Animation every episode
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Apr 22, 1:56 AM
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the animation is so good what 😢
Apr 22, 2:23 AM
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the animation was good and did not see a dip in quality from the 1st season. I remember there being a big fuss about it when S2 aired and was perplexed as to what the problem was. S2 was really good.
Apr 22, 5:35 AM
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The animation director doesn't really seem wrong. It just felt like respectable criticism coming from a veteran to a young talent. And OPM is not the only series he worked on. Tbh his cuts for OPM 2 are among the best parts of the Season. I don't see what's wrong in it. He is a prominent figure in the industry but ofc the dumbfck incels of Twitter are crashing out, calling him incompetent and what not. Talk about being Jobless!
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Apr 22, 9:03 AM
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I'm quoting what I've seen other people say but
"great animation, almost nothing in terms of [story]boarding"
"boring debris"
(paraphrased) "their movements seem like there's no weight behind them, like it's too perfect"

like for me, from the little I've seen, it feels like a rehearsed performance, akin to a theatrical stage fight than an actual brawl
Apr 24, 3:09 AM
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GabiiNova said:
the animation was good and did not see a dip in quality from the 1st season. I remember there being a big fuss about it when S2 aired and was perplexed as to what the problem was. S2 was really good.

I recall having the same feeling about OPM S2, I liked it and didnt knew what was all the fuss about, or even that was controversial to start with.

Then I read the manga :v and all made sense. Leaving aside drop in quality or not, what the animators did in the Garou vs. Rank A heores fight was ATROCIOUS. S2 looks fine until you know how should have all come along.

Im pretty sure other fans of the OPM manga can pinpoint other things but that did it for me. And now we wont be seeing that animated in this timeline T-T (prolly)
Apr 24, 3:21 AM
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ah shit I see. they left alot out of the fights it sounds like🫄
May 3, 12:35 PM
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i don't think this related to one punch man except one of the animator talk about it and this shouldn't be a topic here at all

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