Apr 29, 2019
A WORD OF WARNING!!!! I hereby bestow upon this anime the name of "GIF's, The Animation!"
I'm so annoyed with this that this is literally the first review I've ever done. Maybe the first of many, I don't know.
The animation for this season is AWFUL! I'm writing this review to rant as well as point this out because I don't see anyone else talking about how lazy, ugly, & absolutely pathetic the quality of the animation for this show has become.
This is literally like watching a colored picture book with shaking backgrounds. Hell I'm nicknaming this "GIF's The Animation." Every fight scene consists of still cutouts
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of the character in question, then they animate the hair for 3 frames in repetition, add some screen shaking, movement lines, and wallah! That's your fight scene! What the heck is this!?
On second thought, calling this show "GIF's The animation" is an insult to GIF's because I've seen GIF's with better animation than this.
What the hell am I even watching this for when I read the manga? I thought this was supposed to be an anime! You know, with ANIMATION! Not a glorified coloring book!
I actually went back to season 1 to check out the fight scenes there because I don't remember it being this bad and guess what. They're not! Season 1's fight scenes are actually animated! Granted there are a lot of the same lazy still frames, but they animate when it counts! Their punches and kicks have "Movement!" But this show, just when you think there's going to be a big fight, when they introduce a new character into a major fight to change the outcome.... nothing but still frames.
This is a new low, a new level of how to not even try, a new level of lazy, a new tier of cutting corners. All the fights are GIF's! They're not even bothering to animate punching. The most basic of all fight moves!!!
They've actually masked this laziness with CG Special effects for their magic! So at least it "looks cool" right?
This is just a review on the animation aspect of this show. Waste your time at your own will. This is my warning. If you've read this, you may as well just stick with the manga, because this anime, is not really an animation.
Episode 41 update:
I'm impressed. With the Gildarts vs August fight in this episode, they really put some effort into it and it looked fantastic!
Edit: I've decided to summarize everything else.
Story: 6/10
It deviates from the manga a bit as expected, but major plot points still in line. Watchers can still easily follow the story. They did add extra, extra, ultra layers of plot armor.
Characters: Meh 5/10
Not much to say. They haven't changed much. Just new abilities that have deus ex machina'd their way into the show. Everyone still has plot armor so there's really no suspense at any point whatsoever.
Update: Deus ex Machina plot armor powers intensified hardcore.
Art: 1/10
We talked about this.
Sound: 7/10
Well thank god there's at least audio. I'm no sound expert so, wish I could be more critical.
Overall: 4/10
I'm being very generous with this because I've seen worst shows. At least there's plot.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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