Here we go again.

Surprisingly, this episode was actually pretty watchable. It’s still not quite where it should be, but I have to admit I nearly enjoyed it.

IMDB seems to agree with you, TimelessBear. It's a 6.0 episode. Still lower than the worst episode in S2, but a whole 2 points higher than any other episode this season, so that's something.

'thank you for not breaking my nose today' - battered boywifes of l'Anime

Hey, I’m not singing any praises for it. The season is still absolute garbage. Unless the next few episodes are insanely good - like way beyond Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 levels - there’s no saving it. Heck, I'll tell you what. If it even comes close to JK s02 I will give it a 10/10 just out of pure respect for their tactic of saving all the money for the last few episodes, it takes some balls. But we all know that's never going to happen.

What little animation they actually had was ruined with overzealous ghosting and dimming, so bad.

I'm really not that mad @ this season because I'm just not that invested, mostly I just feel bad for the poor fuck staff who got this as a career moment. 'what's our animation budget?' 'uhhh draw anything except the four keyframes we gave you for the season and you will be forced to commit seppuku by the production committee'.

I legitimately don't understand why people are so upset about the animation thus far. Is OPM a lot of people's actual favorite anime??? Why are people mad af that a 3rd season of an anime is animated shoddily, it's not like it's the first time this has ever happened. Also, with the way I saw the general population talk about the shitty animation from prior episodes only for them to turn and say the animators finally locked in for this episode, I thought god himself descended and offered at least some notable keyframes or something. At best it has a few sub two-second sequences of some semblance of fight choreography/movement, perhaps some atypical camera perspectives, and maybe they added one more in-between frame per movement than usual. Still it's literally mostly whoosh lines (but with colors!), static/tweened backgrounds in the cave and background that turns into that shitty "speed lines on top of a shitty gradient" during the moving camera sequences, blurred ass textures as floors, obscuring movement (or lack thereof) using low-effort smoke effects, 3D generated backgrounds (even when the background is literally just the clean and flat walls of the square corridor), etc. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this was still a bad episode and as a connoisseur of trash-tier anime I don't need much production value to find enjoyment watching anime, it's just so surprising how seemingly impossibly high some people's standards were, only for THIS level of animation to somehow meet it. All this to say, mfs should just be like me and have 0 standards.

>Why are people mad af that a 3rd season of an anime is animated shoddily 'cause it's just cynical as fuck. they wanted to sell the bare minimum product to people who like the series enough to choke down the slug of stale cum that passes for this production. you should be critical of exploitation like that because it means we get shittier products for higher prices. it's a world of difference to the z-grade garbage I also LOVE to consoom, because z-grade garbage knows what it is, what its audience wants, and needs to deliver - with some studios being pretty fucking good at finding compromises between the budget and the production. also with garbage, you have the benefit of being surprised when your expectations are exceeded which is just a really luxurious position to be in. shit that isn't self aware, that doesn't have some soul to it, that just tiredly ticks off a list of manga pages to be converted into tv slideshows? boring, worthless, this series right here. that's why I rated 'The Irregular at Magic High School' season 3 a fucking NINE because it's fucking HILARIOUS watching a dude deus ex machina while his sisterwife's cunt drips on the floor from his antics and the studio knows exactly how to deliver. I rated JJK S2 a seven. if I hear gojo talk about _Ao, to Aka_ again I will personally fly to japan and disassemble the scriptwriters into packaged meat products. it's procedural, repetitive trash with only kino to save it from its own boring yap. fuck chainsaw man. anyway none of us are fucking paying for this work, so it's all very hypocritical and pointless for us to be whining about any of this in the comment threads on a torrent site. but that doesn't mean we can't say anything and shitpost. though ngl, most of the bitching I see on this site is worse-quality than the shit it's aimed at. weebs got no taste and no game.

Hey. It is what it is. I never claimed to have some moral high ground. I do what do because I like doing it and to hell with everyone else.

that's why I'll never stop killing