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Nov 9, 2023
Preliminary (5/50 eps)
I will keep it as short and as simple as possible.

I never care about animation or quality, I've seen countless animes where people in chorus complain how terrible the animations were, yet I never saw anything wrong at all. But Gensoumaden Saiyuki is the first anime where the animation is so lacking and rudimentary that I can't help but call it "BAD", because it is. Most visible in fighting scenes that look so poorly animated it's almost painful to look at.

What I mean is there is barely any animation whatsoever. Just static images moving around the screen with some flashy background. One example is when the characters were riding the truck and fell into a river. You would imagine this is depicted, but it's not - you see them driving towards the river bank and shouting, next thing you see is the sky and a splash animation coming from the bottom of the screen.

Now imagine this is the level of animation for 50 episodes. How do I know it keeps going for 50 episodes when I dropped it on episodes 5? Well, I skimmed through the last 3 episodes and it's the same thing. When I began watching it, I was hoping the animation will get better later on, assuming the anime became more popular, but alas.

The second problem is the story - overall it seems like an interesting plot, but each episode feels like an anthology and as if they aren't interconnected. The pacing is so slow and boring that for 5 episodes I could not get intrigued, I found myself pausing and doing other things all the time. I had to watch the episodes on x1.25 speed too. All signs of really a boring presentation.

In comparison when I began watching things like One Piece, Naruto, Bleach or something else, they became interesting in the first 2-3 minutes of the first episode and after that I just couldn't stop watching them until I realized hours have passed.

For me it just isn't worth it wasting time watching it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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