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This Week in Anime - When A New Studio Takes Over Your Favorite Series

That said, it's too early to tell whether WIT will really do a "better" job at animating Bookworm. Ajia-do's work on the three seasons is charming and gorgeous in its own way, albeit going for a more subdued and what my friend calls "kiddie-anime style" than what we are used to these days. But I'm of course, hoping for the best!

Full Metal Panic has to be the biggest víctim ever. Three studios but no completition. They delayed Invisible Victory a Lot and despite any issue with the animation, nobody wants to anímate the few missing novels.

Date A Live could also using a topical mention, with a new season airing now and all. It's another show that had to get through a rough patch at J.C. Staff before bouncing back with stronger productions since.

I still have a bone to pick with many One Punch Man fans. I didn't like S1 nor S2, so I have little incentive to defend it, but S2 could have turned out far worse. Whenever I hear people act like OPM S2 is one of the worst anime of all time in terms of animation quality, it shows massive ignorance

BigOnAnime wrote:

I still have a bone to pick with many One Punch Man fans. I didn't like S1 nor S2, so I have little incentive to defend it, but S2 could have turned out far worse. Whenever I hear people act like OPM S2 is one of the worst anime of all time in terms of animation quality, it shows massive ignorance

There will always be fans who, in their disappointment, go overboard with criticism. It's almost par for the course at this point, and I don't think much can be done about it except taking such statements with a grain of salt.

That said, I don't think "could have been far worse" is saying much about the end result either. There is almost always something that's worse, but that hardly means it's good. It's not necessarily a bad thing to have higher standards. And what should serve as a reference point for a second season of a series, if anything, but the first? One can hardly blame people for making that comparison.

Honestly, I don't even think OPM season 2 was objectively horrible. As I wrote above, I found it somewhat okay, if unremarkable. But compared to what came before it? Yeah, it sucked. Badly.

I still have a bone to pick with many One Punch Man fans. I didn't like S1 nor S2, so I have little incentive to defend it, but S2 could have turned out far worse. Whenever I hear people act like OPM S2 is one of the worst anime of all time in terms of animation quality, it shows massive ignorance (How much anime have you even seen, and from what time periods?). Watch say all 26 episodes of .hack//Roots, then get back to me. The amount of panning and still shots that had, meanwhile One Punch Man S2's animation while inconsistent still turned out okay. Nowhere near the standards of S1, but still okay and better than many other older digipaint anime.
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=one-punch_man_2+order%3Ascore

One of its main issues was its poor scheduling, but again, it could have turned out far worse. It could have turned out like say, the broadcast version of Wizard Barristers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhmBnaEcbfA

Or this mess for The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls. Fun fact, it was never intended to be split-cour, it only became that way because of its production meltdown, leading to Bamco having to purchase additional timeslots and to reair the original The iDOLM@STER to give time for A-1 Pictures to catch up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQkeHwYKOAk

Season 3 if it has a much better prouction schedule should be mostly fine. It also will have Kenichiro Aoki back, the man who really helped hold S2 together as much as possible.

lemurs wrote:

Date A Live could also using a topical mention, with a new season airing now and all. It's another show that had to get through a rough patch at J.C. Staff before bouncing back with stronger productions since.

That would require people to be watching it. Nobody covered Date A Live V in the preview guide. There's been so little coverage on the series here after S2 (Theron Martin being the sole person to cover S3 and S4 for the Preview Guides, then this article from 2021), which is just such a shame given what it's doing right now. It's not a series one should judge by its cover. It didn't become one of the highest-rated shows of Spring 2024 on say MAL out of nowhere.

At this point, I actually prefer how S4 and S5 look compared to the prior seasons, despite the CGI at times. The character designs by Naoto Nakamura I feel match the original light novel illustrations by Tsunako best, especially with the eyes. I liked what S1-S3 did, as well as Mayuri Judgement, but I like what S4-S5 has done far more at this point.

by just not comparing both seasons which i know it's hard but it's the only option because both were in different situations and circumstances and more than to be understood.

Todd_Harry08 wrote:

by just not comparing both seasons which i know it's hard but it's the only option because both were in different situations and circumstances and more than to be understood.

There's another option: decrying it for being so inferior. It is not the audience's job to research the production and cloy the suits involved, there's no need for the velvet glove.
It's not like there's a rivetting story here that will leave anyone in suspense if no more seasons are produced. There's no point to an adaptation that can't capitalize on any of the source's strong points, specially when the opposite has been already achieved before for the same source.

your option is just being salty , nitpicky and complaining for a silly reason while you could have take it easy.