Fayez_bin_A said:CodeBlazeFate said:Fayez_bin_A said:What I can't wrap my head around is all the talk about poor animation.
They got so used to watching high-quality anime that they demand nothing less than perfection. Damn, you guys are entitled as all hell.
People should be grateful at how far animation has come and cut the shows some slack.
No one should be grateful for this. No one asked for this (they asked for season 2, but not for a botched product made by people who are horribly mismanaged and badly scheduled). This is low-quality even by the standards of anime that have been coming out nowadays, which generally don't look anywhere near as good, fluid, or detailed as anime of previous years and decades. We should be thankful for the Mob Psycho 100 and Redlines of the world, the stellar titles made by passionate, seemingly well-run studios and people, not stuff like this, where it's cynically shat out by companies who destroy their staff working on way too many shows a season for next to no pay, without any heart, soul, or talent being put in. Hell, I've liked many shows with decent or even lackluster visuals like Happy Sugar Life and Fairy Tail respectively. Some do overreact but even still, let's not do this. What you're demanding is this:
Enjoy it if you may, but let's not demand others to curb their criticism just so you can enjoy your shit in peace (which you can do anyway since unless the criticisms speak to you, none of this should impact your enjoyment).
That's all pretty fair and sound, but I think you misunderstood my suggestion or used my post to bring up another point or something.
To clarify, you and another guy who quoted me seem to think that I'm asking for people to enjoy the show
despite its animation. I think you both misunderstood my point: its animation is
great IMO. Not the best I've seen, but it's well within modern-day standards. I don't see myself as an old-timer by any stretch, but I did watch enough anime on VHS to know that it has come a long way, so it's kinda sad that not many people appreciate what they have at the moment.
It's a curious trend in general, not even limited to anime. People who moved from Atari to PS1 thought that graphics can't get any better than that, whereas those that started gaming later on tend to be more critical on graphics.
In the end, there's a ton of stuff you can gripe about in OPM. It was always built on a flimsy gimmick but the animation really shouldn't be on the list of things wrong with OPM's anime.
It seems absurd to give this show a pass because it looks better than old shows. Like yes, that should be standard with advances in animation technology and techniques. I am currently watching Fist of the North Star and it has recycled animation galore. I give it a pass on that type of stuff because it was a long-running shonen in an age when animation of any real kind was beyond the budget of a weekly show. When I see this show pull out limited animation and blur to make the fight scenes look halfway decent I am far less forgiving, because with how much animation has progressed in the last 35 years they really ought to give us better for important fight scenes.