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Quick Rant About Current Animes
4 years ago
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So as someone who really likes anime, good artwork and a good story, I've been slightly disappointed in a few of the
current releases and I'm just gonna quickly rant about why and explain why some of the arguments I've read online so
far really get on my nerves.
Attack On Titan - No Spoilers since I have not read the manga
The big thing I wanna talk about when it comes to AOT is their current use of CGI.
Now you have to absolutely understand just how much I hate, despise and loathe CGI. I cannot look at it, it actually
hurts my eyes. It just becomes immediately obvious when it's on screen and makes the characters and their movements
look so... goofy. It is so unbelievably out of place to me and just takes me out of the experience.
I understand why it is used, mostly to make animating a highly detailed character easier or to save some
budget or time since the studio is on a deadline and there are rare cases where I think it's absolutely fine. A good example
would be Inuyashiki if some of you have seen it. All the scenes in which the robotic parts in his body become visible are done
with CGI and I understand it completely, that would be a horrible task to animate in traditional 2D and I was completely fine with that.
But here is the deal with CGI. You can make it look as good as you can, but it will still not look as good as what it could have been, had
they used 2D animation. Which especially hurts on AOT because the animation so far throughout all seasons has been absolutely incredible
and people got used to the quality. In a bit of context, the first seasons have been animated by Studio Wit, while the current one is animated
by Mappa. Which is ALSO freaking weird because Mappa has been on a real roll lately with Jujutsu Kaisen, The God of Highschool, Kakegurui,
Ushio to Tora a while back, and so on. Just seeing Inuyashiki was also animated by them.
Now here's my biggest question. Why did the CGI even have to get used on really all the titans? I mean... they are muscular and all, especially
the Armored Titan, but to my eye they are not really any more detailled than the humans, especially with their 3D Maneuver Gear and aerial
movement that is just so complex sometimes. Like take the Jaw Titan or the Warhammer Titan. They are good, but simple designs. They do not
warrant the use of CGI to me. Even Eren's titan is not all that detailled, for me he would be, but not for professional artists I would assume.
And it just sours the experience for me is all I can really say. I would take stiff 2D animation over fluid CGI any time. Like have you seen Berserk?
Or Kengan Ashura? Neither have I. Also just a disclaimer, if you have seen them and liked them, that's alright, everyone can like what they want,
just my personal opinion here.
The Promised Neverland - Contains spoilers, this rant does not work without spoilers
So if you're still reading that means you also have read the manga.
I cannot even put into words how they are annihilating the story right now. And just FYI, I have not even read that many manga in my life, especially
not the big mainstream ones like Naruto, One Piece, etc... I do occasionally look at some pages that have really good artwork or just skim through the
pictures, but not much else. Only thing I've completely read so far are literally all of Junji Ito's works, The Promised Neverland, Toriko, Baki and Kengan
Ashura/Omega. Probably forgot some. (Coincidentally they also completely ruined Junji Ito's stuff <-< ... and some of Toriko, and Kengan... wait <-<;;; ... )
So... Neverland is getting an anime original season two at the moment, and by that they mean they are just going to completely cut the most beloved
characters, arcs and character development moments from the manga and try to cram the entire story into the next like 10 episodes or something.
Yugo? He gone, boy! Goldy Pond? Dried out, boy! From what I remember in the manga, they literally skipped ahead like 1 or 2 years in the story and...
that's just it. No Louis/Lewis, no epic showdown at the demon hunting grounds, like come on, that's the point in the story where you see the actual
resolve of these kids to survive despite sheer hopelesness against beings on a clearly higher level. And it's just gone.
Instead they completely jumped the gun on revealing Norman's return and it was sooo lukewarm, so lackluster, so undeserved. When I saw Norman
being alive in the manga and how he has become this.. near criminal mastermind, that was amazing. And now it's just "lol, I'm still here by the way, lmao."
And the argument I hate the most is "just be glad we got anything at all animated, and it's good so far."
I bet those are the people actually defending Pokemon Sword and Shield because "Hey at least we got some game at all." How can people be so okay
with just sucking up anything that gets fed to them without imagining at all what there could have been instead? And it really is not good so far at all,
it is atrocious, it cut everything manga readers loved and immediately jumped to Emma's current character arc about "Demons are just trying to live,
just like we humans." Without it being deserved in any way, shape or form. Like... you do not know what you are missing, and you are fine with that, and
that in the face of people with information actually telling you what you do not see.
COINCIDENTALLY THE CGI DEMONS IN NEVERLAND ALSO SUCK REALLY, REALLY BADLY. D8<
...Ok, that was my rant.
Now back to drawing fluffy creatures.
*steals your free opinion and runs away*
current releases and I'm just gonna quickly rant about why and explain why some of the arguments I've read online so
far really get on my nerves.
Attack On Titan - No Spoilers since I have not read the manga
The big thing I wanna talk about when it comes to AOT is their current use of CGI.
Now you have to absolutely understand just how much I hate, despise and loathe CGI. I cannot look at it, it actually
hurts my eyes. It just becomes immediately obvious when it's on screen and makes the characters and their movements
look so... goofy. It is so unbelievably out of place to me and just takes me out of the experience.
I understand why it is used, mostly to make animating a highly detailed character easier or to save some
budget or time since the studio is on a deadline and there are rare cases where I think it's absolutely fine. A good example
would be Inuyashiki if some of you have seen it. All the scenes in which the robotic parts in his body become visible are done
with CGI and I understand it completely, that would be a horrible task to animate in traditional 2D and I was completely fine with that.
But here is the deal with CGI. You can make it look as good as you can, but it will still not look as good as what it could have been, had
they used 2D animation. Which especially hurts on AOT because the animation so far throughout all seasons has been absolutely incredible
and people got used to the quality. In a bit of context, the first seasons have been animated by Studio Wit, while the current one is animated
by Mappa. Which is ALSO freaking weird because Mappa has been on a real roll lately with Jujutsu Kaisen, The God of Highschool, Kakegurui,
Ushio to Tora a while back, and so on. Just seeing Inuyashiki was also animated by them.
Now here's my biggest question. Why did the CGI even have to get used on really all the titans? I mean... they are muscular and all, especially
the Armored Titan, but to my eye they are not really any more detailled than the humans, especially with their 3D Maneuver Gear and aerial
movement that is just so complex sometimes. Like take the Jaw Titan or the Warhammer Titan. They are good, but simple designs. They do not
warrant the use of CGI to me. Even Eren's titan is not all that detailled, for me he would be, but not for professional artists I would assume.
And it just sours the experience for me is all I can really say. I would take stiff 2D animation over fluid CGI any time. Like have you seen Berserk?
Or Kengan Ashura? Neither have I. Also just a disclaimer, if you have seen them and liked them, that's alright, everyone can like what they want,
just my personal opinion here.
The Promised Neverland - Contains spoilers, this rant does not work without spoilers
So if you're still reading that means you also have read the manga.
I cannot even put into words how they are annihilating the story right now. And just FYI, I have not even read that many manga in my life, especially
not the big mainstream ones like Naruto, One Piece, etc... I do occasionally look at some pages that have really good artwork or just skim through the
pictures, but not much else. Only thing I've completely read so far are literally all of Junji Ito's works, The Promised Neverland, Toriko, Baki and Kengan
Ashura/Omega. Probably forgot some. (Coincidentally they also completely ruined Junji Ito's stuff <-< ... and some of Toriko, and Kengan... wait <-<;;; ... )
So... Neverland is getting an anime original season two at the moment, and by that they mean they are just going to completely cut the most beloved
characters, arcs and character development moments from the manga and try to cram the entire story into the next like 10 episodes or something.
Yugo? He gone, boy! Goldy Pond? Dried out, boy! From what I remember in the manga, they literally skipped ahead like 1 or 2 years in the story and...
that's just it. No Louis/Lewis, no epic showdown at the demon hunting grounds, like come on, that's the point in the story where you see the actual
resolve of these kids to survive despite sheer hopelesness against beings on a clearly higher level. And it's just gone.
Instead they completely jumped the gun on revealing Norman's return and it was sooo lukewarm, so lackluster, so undeserved. When I saw Norman
being alive in the manga and how he has become this.. near criminal mastermind, that was amazing. And now it's just "lol, I'm still here by the way, lmao."
And the argument I hate the most is "just be glad we got anything at all animated, and it's good so far."
I bet those are the people actually defending Pokemon Sword and Shield because "Hey at least we got some game at all." How can people be so okay
with just sucking up anything that gets fed to them without imagining at all what there could have been instead? And it really is not good so far at all,
it is atrocious, it cut everything manga readers loved and immediately jumped to Emma's current character arc about "Demons are just trying to live,
just like we humans." Without it being deserved in any way, shape or form. Like... you do not know what you are missing, and you are fine with that, and
that in the face of people with information actually telling you what you do not see.
COINCIDENTALLY THE CGI DEMONS IN NEVERLAND ALSO SUCK REALLY, REALLY BADLY. D8<
...Ok, that was my rant.
Now back to drawing fluffy creatures.
*steals your free opinion and runs away*
I just saw anime and a list and didn't see my favorite anime that I'm watching right now so I'm gonna throw it out there.
Wat about "That time I got reincarnated as a slime".
There
CGI should compliment 2D like in Jormungand or GATE but shouldn't be the primary medium unless you can pull it off really well.
Up until the last season, the biggest threat was Titans themselves and there was the secret behind people transforming into Titans and what they were after.
But the reveal of the outer world and the introduction of a more modern enemy really dragged what was unique into something boring.
I read some of the manga ahead and was surprised to see them make the last season as they are clearly cutting off the rest of the manga, which is still going last I checked. But I guess all that's come out has been trash anyway.
Animation wise, cgi has been in anime for years, way back as far as digimon to the earliest I can remember but it's never stood out to me as so terrible.
Season 3 of Seven deadly sins animation, now that's an eye sore.
I don't think it's the worst CGI I've ever seen, like frankly it isn't honestly that bad. There's stuff out there that is absolute dumpster fire quality, far worse than Attack on Titan. Honestly I don't like the CGI in the new season myself, I still think it's pretty stinky and I'd much rather see the glorious hand-drawn stuff. There are close-ups and static shots of the characters that are hand-drawn 2D and they look epic, I wish the rest of the show could look that good.
1. How not to summon a Demon lord. They REMOVED anything that had to do with plot, only kept the porn, and changed the main characters personality. If you want to see an incredibly hack job of a series watch only the first episode and then read the manga.
2. Assassin's pride. They gutted, slaughtered this series. They removed so much context that ever single moment in the first episode I had to explain everything they skipped. One of my friends thought it was a heavy romance series. They cut so much that they changed the general from fantasy mystery to romance. I think this one would have better impact of what's cut if you read the manga a few chapters and then watch episode 1.
Okay and my final complaint is in its own section. Gonna follow along with the CGI. There are definitally some good uses of CGI, but more cases than not it's terrible. Now, I've been reading "I'm a spider, so what?" For years and was very excited to hear it's get an anime. Yo, the CGI is atrocious. It sucks more because they seem to be putting all the effort into getting all the plot from book (manga doesn't have the human side of the story), but visually it's disgusting. The 3d animation is jankey as hell and it's so weird that they 3d all of the spider scenes but 2d the human scenes. It's so.... Bad. There so many limitations to cg for this series that's holding it back. The character isn't as cute as it can be, expressions aren't coming through the best, and monsters look like they don't belong at all.
Then it got worse. Them being forced to leave the bunker. No Andrew. No Goldy Pond. No fighting with the poachers and no Lewis. It's just rushing right into meeting Norman, meaning we're going right into the "Hey I've got a plan to kill off all the demons" thing...which was the final arc of the story. So we've gotten NO real development of the characters as being able to hold their own, which Goldy Pond was meant to show, to show how far they've come in skills of planning, fighting and everything else, while also having them make bonds with humans outside the Farm system and to show what Emma COULD become if all her friends and hope were gone in Yuugo. Plus, it also showed her that, despite her pacifistic intent and her strong morals, with Lewis, there would be some people she simply couldn't talk down. Some people who's morals were simply far different from hers that couldn't be simply reasoned with. All of that was character growth.
We're not getting any of that. It's just...rushed. Sloppy. And after the first season had done so well of adapting the manga and the second season had started out so promisingly, looking like it'd continue that...
This is just so disappointing. I'd followed the series to the very end. It's just...this sucks. I feel your frustration.
And any anime where it's entirely CG-animated with characters moving around at like 12 FPS just looks... so bad.
It just comes off shoddy and cheap, even if it ironically wasn't the case in terms of spending.
Wait. WAIT. You were just making me mad so I wouldn't notice you stealing my opinion! You get back here with that!!