So far season 2 hasn't been the tire fire it was hyped up to be but it is a very noticeable downgrade (which looks literally and figuratively even worse coming directly off of Mob's second season) and the production is certainly not in a very good place (you should never need five chief animation directors on a single episode and all but two of the season's stand-out scenes so far have been drawn by a single animator). Fortunately ONE's still a good enough writer and the artwork has been mostly competent enough outside of episode 2 to carry the material so far for me, but those who check in purely for the eye candy are definitely going to be disappointed.
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No one expected it to live up to Madhouse oustanding animation. Whoever believed that lie was in for disappointment. Yet the finished producted has turned out to be (so far) much better than what the denialists predicted.
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[…]but those who check in purely for the eye candy are definitely going to be disappointed.
As someone with "medium" standards I agree. Watched the first episode and wasn't disgusted or anything, but this is also not worth my time. I would rather re-read a few chapters worth of Murata's godmode drawings in those 20 minutes.
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The second season is pretty meh, but also the source material isn't that great in comparison. Everybody complained about the martial arts tournament and the amount of "filler" (aka everything that wasn't in ONE's version, no need to have that discussion again). However…
The quality is inferior to season 1, with overuse of cheap animation techniques such as lines and colors instead of backgrouns during action scenes, a lot of cuts and zooms or repetitive motions. It feels like they've been strugling to keep the quality of the manga fights instead of improving on them, but I'll wait until I see Garou vs Metal Bat before judging on that.
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Just watched the first episode. Really not feeling it. The action is flashy, but the flashiness is used to hide the details and distract you while the scene is skipped clumsily. Not enough that they cut the flow, but they even ended up cutting up that song that always plays when Genos is fighting.
It looked a lot better in first season. Honestly, didn't expect it would be such a noticeable downgrade. Direction is the worst part. Everything, starting from King appearing and interacting with bystanders, looks sloppy and hastily put together. As if they were doing check listing by manga panels. They end up reducing the impact of certain scenes. By far the worst example is the reveal of Saitama blocking the bird monster. We see the bird smashing into building and the next scene has Saitama holding it in place. No pause, no transition, no impact.
So, not too hyped about seeing all those awesome action sequences now. Can already see them butchering Garou's fight in the woods with multiple cuts and zooms.
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The second season is pretty meh, but also the source material isn't that great in comparison. Everybody complained about the martial arts tournament and the amount of "filler" (aka everything that wasn't in ONE's version, no need to have that discussion again). However…
The quality is inferior to season 1, with overuse of cheap animation techniques such as lines and colors instead of backgrouns during action scenes, a lot of cuts and zooms or repetitive motions. It feels like they've been strugling to keep the quality of the manga fights instead of improving on them, but I'll wait until I see Garou vs Metal Bat before judging on that.
I think they should bother put the effort in the Post Superfight material, thats what really matters, the tournament can be Berserk 2016 level of bad, at least we could laugh at it.
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Personally I am having fun like it, it is far from unwatchable or any of such nonesense and what is the most important think. I am happy they went for season 2 animation of this awesome manga
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What happened to Murata? The last update of the manga was a month ago, which is weird, since lately chapters are coming out every two week, three at best. I'm not really following his twitter, so i don't really know, but is there a date for the next chapter?
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Well his father recently passed away…
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I did't know about that, RIP. Last month The Pokémon Company hired him to do this image and some comic panels for merchandise.
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WRYYYYhost
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S2 was doomed from the start because S1 staff was busy with Boogiepop, Mob S2 and Attack on Titan Season 3 Cour 2.
https://twitter.com/moga1216/status/1129047275806842881Chapter next week confirmed.
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Season 3 is infinitely more important to get right than S2
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Just let new seasons of Neverland, Vinland Saga and whatnot air at the same time, and the struggle begins anew
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Well his father recently passed away…
Oh…
S2 was doomed from the start because S1 staff was busy with Boogiepop, Mob S2 and Attack on Titan Season 3 Cour 2.
https://twitter.com/moga1216/status/1129047275806842881Of course, but if the higher ups weren't so greedy and waited at least another 6 months, Madhouse and director Shingo Natsume would gladly have come back for season 2, and we could have had the same exact quality of S1. They had FIVE YEARS to plan this… now i'm stuck with this shitty fight between Metal Bat and Garou, one of the fights i was dying to see animated... instead i got this garbage... still images, dust and smoke and slapping sounds... also, the enphasis put on the power of Metal Bat wasn't even close to give him justice...
And it's not like Madhouse and Natsume are the only ones capable of creating a decent shonen anime with decent animations, it's absurd that they went for this mediocre below average quality for an anime with this level of success.What a giant disappointment. After patiently waiting FIVE years... Thankfully, the manga is amazing enough, i'm just sad for all the anime only watchers... they definitely don't know what they're missing.
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I watched a little of the season 2 material.
It was…not half bad, honestly. Then again, I grew up in the era before high definition display, and had to wait twenty-five years for a proper English translation of the Nausicaa anime. Long-suffering is a coping mechanism that helps immensely in life.
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@_Meh_:
I watched a little of the season 2 material.
It was…not half bad, honestly. Then again, I grew up in the era before high definition display, and had to wait twenty-five years for a proper English translation of the Nausicaa anime. Long-suffering is a coping mechanism that helps immensely in life.
How? How can you not see the still images? The incredibly low number of frames? Sometimes, even for a complex animation, there are literally THREE FRAMES! Oh, and don't let me start talking about the sounds… oh god, awful... How can you not see the incredibly bad quality? Why are you talking about high definition? What does that matter? It's a fact that it is bad, just look at it...
I watched tons of anime in my life, literally dozens or even more, and i swear to you, this is the UGLIEST anime i've ever seen.
I would give it a 4/10 only because episode 3 was at least decent, still ugly as fuck, but accettable, like, i would accept it if it was the worst episode of the whole season, but instead it's the best it seems... without that episode, i would give it a 2/10. -
I watched tons of anime in my life, literally dozens or even more, and i swear to you, this is the UGLIEST anime i've ever seen.
You've not seen enough anime if you think that; especially not stuff from the '80s.
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At this point he must be trolling. Season 2 is bad compared to season 1 which is the main complaint: ONE's OPM is good but Murata's art is THE biggest selling point and season 1 stood up to the challenge. But season 2 it's still better than the average "popular outside Japan" shonen even if it's nothing outstanding.
Wash your hands.
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For me, Murata’s art is the cherry on top of the OPM cake, it’s One’s story that is the real treasure, here.
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At this point he must be trolling. Season 2 is bad compared to season 1 which is the main complaint: ONE's OPM is good but Murata's art is THE biggest selling point and season 1 stood up to the challenge. But season 2 it's still better than the average "popular outside Japan" shonen even if it's nothing outstanding.
Then I must be trolling too when I say it's crap and not worth wasting time on.
Plain mediocrity.
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Its not as good as season 1 no doubt, but lets not get ridiculous here and claim it as the worst animated out there.
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From among most expected anime to "at least it's not the worst one". ^^
Might as well be, lol.
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From among most expected anime to "at least it's not the worst one". ^^
Might as well be, lol.
Maybe Im not feeling the appropriate level of hate because Im too busy with my disappointment with the final season of Game of thrones? Lol.
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If something is mediocre, then it's average. If something is average, then it's above the worst and below the best. I think there's a language misunderstanding here.
S2 adds nothing to people who read the manga, but it works for those who consume anime only. And again, this season is adapting a very critiziced part of OPM bloated with side characters and no sense of risk. The metal bat vs Garou fight is the only casualty so far, the rest are uninteresting fights.
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Not sure about others, but I don't have a lot of free time. So what I have won't be spent on anything mediocre. Might as well be total crap because the end result for me is same.
Think that people who enjoyed the smooth action and nice editing of S1 will definitely notice a drop in quality all across the board.
It's not like people who consume anime only have shittier tastes or slower eyes, lol.
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For me its fine and i am mostly just happy its even out and animated. Could it be better. Sure, does it bother me up to the point that i would have needed it to be? No…
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At this point he must be trolling. Season 2 is bad compared to season 1 which is the main complaint: ONE's OPM is good but Murata's art is THE biggest selling point and season 1 stood up to the challenge. But season 2 it's still better than the average "popular outside Japan" shonen even if it's nothing outstanding.
How the f… YOU CAN LITERALLY COUNT THE FRAMES IN THE LAST EPISODE.
I don't even know if this is an anime, or a bunch of BADLY drawn still images. Seriously, guys, do you have EYES?? Or are you in total denial???
Tell me a single shonen anime that, in your opinion, has worst quality than this. I'm all ears. I don't think you can, since this is not even animated. The images are not even moving, they're just shaking, with smoke and dust all around and glowing effects. And man, the coloration, and the worst sounds ever heard in an anime... what an unbelievable mess.
Jeez, even the initial episodes of Dragon Ball Super were ten times better than this shit. And that was harshly criticized, and it's a WEEKLY anime... but this? Oh no, this is fine....
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How the f… YOU CAN LITERALLY COUNT THE FRAMES IN THE LAST EPISODE.
I don't even know if this is an anime, or a bunch of BADLY drawn still images. Seriously, guys, do you have EYES?? Or are you in total denial???
Tell me a single shonen mainstream anime with a similar budget that, in your opinion, has worst quality than this. I'm all ears.
Oh god... with people like you, i'm afraid season 3 will be the same...I truly hope it is just for the reactions. Maybe you should make youtube videos to showcase your disgust.
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That supposed to be "shonen mainstream anime with similar budget"?
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The other user just showing how bad an animation can be compared to other animations in its era.
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There's a pretty wide gap between a 30 year old 30 minute obscure OVA to one of the most popular and hyped seasonal shows of this decade.
Original Dragonball has more fluid action scenes than OPM S2. That would be a closer comparison in my opinion.
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Hinomaru Zumou, Killing Bites and Angolmois last year were not perfect either. You don't see me complain about it all over the place.
As if there is some divine right that my favourite show has to get the biggest production budget…
“As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature: Man must explore!” – David Scott, Moon
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Complicating things since 2009.
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Hinomaru Zumou, Killing Bites and Angolmois last year were not perfect either. You don't see me complain about it all over the place.
As if there is some divine right that my favourite show has to get the biggest production budget…
OPM is bigger than all those shows and one of it's main selling point is Murata's art. It is very understandable that people are upset about the lackluster quality of season 2 especially after the high bar set by the first season.
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Madhouse will probably animate 3rd Season anyway… "Raid" would be incredible if animated by Madhouse.
A big NO NO to animators of second season working on anything related to OPM in future.
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That's an OVA with a ten month production cycle and pretty much right in the prime era for that sort of animation to boot.
Just got a good laugh out of it.
And the dude asks to see something worse than OPM S2 and gets a link of a 30 year old anime. Gotta admit it's funny taken like that.
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Berserk fans laugh at your complaints about animation quality.
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Madhouse will probably animate 3rd Season anyway… "Raid" would be incredible if animated by Madhouse.
A big NO NO to animators of second season working on anything related to OPM in future.
Madhouse is no longer the bastion of quality that it used to be and even if it did animate the 3rd season, they may not replicate the quality of season 1.
This is mainly because, apparently, the team that worked on OPM season 1 was a result of a rare occurence where the elite guys of the industry were working on it on a freelance basis. So basically, the lead director used his influence to convince extremely talented guys to work on the Animation, something that could only be achieved by that particular guy.
So unless they just give him the reigns to the show again and probably have to wait maybe 3 years at best for the next one, I think the best studio that might prove to be worthy is Bones.
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Ah, from two naked zombies, to a demon dog, to a bad kitty, to the god-king of monsters himself. Perfect fight progression! (Don't mind me, just caught up to the series, it's great. The release schedule really is random?)
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ONE PUNCH-MAN 150 RAW
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Raaaaah it's for chapters like these that I'm into this manga ! Murata has an unrivalled way of conveying raw firepower, I'm totally digging it.
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This was the most sexiest Beam Ive ever seen. How exactly is it possible to animate this epicness in the Future?
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I just realized, we currently have a prominent antagonist in One Piece named Orochi and a prominent antagonist in OP Man named Orochi lol
Well, maybe had for the second one now.
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So all these cool new monsters only exist to one shot by baldy how disappointing.
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So all these cool new monsters only exist to one shot by baldy how disappointing.
That's like the whole premise…and satire.
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I think Orochi might not be dead yet, he could pull a PhoenixMan…
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Yeah I think Orochi still has a role to play but Im happy either way, Saitama pooping on big bads never gets old to me shrug.
