Hope season 2 comes quick so we can see these 4 animated.

Cy_Man said:

Hope season 2 comes quick so we can see these 4 animated.

Oooof. Considering the quality of the animation, it's honestly something I'd rather stay in the novels and manga. (Especially the "hero" side of things, where "combat choreography" consists of just throwing random frames together and playing "clang" noises to hope people get the sense that there's totally a cool sword fight going on here without having to actually draw any of it.)

Never seen the show but... that totally sounds a lot like DBZ.

rom_collector said:

Never seen the show but... that totally sounds a lot like DBZ.

I adore the manga and original light novels, but they really did the anime too cheap and didn't pace it well. The anachronic "hero side" of the story was done by the same studio that did Berserk 2016, and the animation is just LAZY. In the manga, they basically don't show the hero side until much later and only as back-of-the-book extras. In the novels, they're between-chapter extras. In the anime, they're half the show, and they obliterate the time spent developing what abilities Kumoko is learning and practicing, which is the interesting part of the story, and only shows the fight scenes where, to save time, she just constantly pulls new powers seemingly from her ass if you've only watched the anime, with shit choreography so you can't have any awareness of the situation that instead has to be narrated directly to you. This means it's nothing but the boring fights with no tension because kumoko apparently gains superpowers from nowhere whenever the plot demands. The crap 3d animation is also nowhere near as expressive as the manga, where the internal banter from Kumoko's split personalities is the main focus. It's just a total letdown on every possible front where the novels and manga were something really unique and above most of the other stories in its genre.

NWSiaCB said:

Tl'dr

Anime sucks

Dude, the anime wasn't as bad as you're making it sound. Especially the 3D stuff with Kumoko which is used 90% in her appearances to make the action more fluid than having it drawn. Also, if you really read the novels, you'd know that the entire story is told via a pov monologue narration, with the characters commenting on what's happening around and to them so we can try to visualize the scenarios. An anime can't really do that as we're seeing moving visuals we don't need to imagine them, and just like how a movie adaptation of a book works, there's a limit of what you can and cannot include in an anime based off of a novel, especially since some things might need to be changed to work better in animation, like how in the novel Katia blew herself up while she was brainwashed[spoiler/] which even as a novel reader I thought was stupid, as instead in the anime Katia impaled herself with a sword[spoiler/] which worked much better in my opinion. And considering the anime was following the novel, which repeatedly swapped between story perspectives, so would the anime but also adds some skipping between scenes, as like I said, there's a limit to what they can do with 25 minute long episodes in a 24 episode long anime season.