One Punch Man 3

Non-bias opinion here. Even if at times S3 is power point presentation its 10 times better than S2 and the picture quality has gone up a lot too. Characters and scenes look good and peoples faces are not elongated as it was in S2.

Watchers of the anime are still expecting Madhouse quality and give bad rating just because their expectation was not met. People need to be thankful we get continuation at all and its not Demon Lord Retry S2 kind. Even when we get part 2 of S3 now.

Just finished rewatching the season again and after the 6th episode it does not feel bad ... at all. People just need to drop the expectation that we will get Madhouse type quality ever again and actually encourage the current studio to keep improving until there is at least some minimum of good quality animation.

Its not the end of the world and I know it could be better but at this point with such negative reviews two things will happen: 1. the show might get cancelled and dropped because of it or 2. The studio keeps going with directors resigning until some scumbag gets the project and push it into worse grave.

In conclusion it could have been a lot better I agree and the matter is now how to find a way for the studio to actually improve what it is and not just to throw the project into the trash bin.

My advice on all the "mad"(house) people is to suck it up and try to enjoy at least a little because it could have been a lot worse.

I have mixed feelings about this, I was ready to say "it's not that bad" but it kind of is that bad
JCStaff and Bandai didn't care about this season, there was no one working on it until the last minute, episodes were outsourced and it shows in the total lack of quality.

The first few episodes are 'okay' yes the animation is bad but when it's more based around Saitama and everyone in his apartment it is able to get away with it a bit more, scenes look bad, there are inconsistencies with animated scenes and there are parts that are barely animated, but at this ... point it's the average to mediocre low effort anime that you often see but with somewhat snappy dialogue

Most of the time you can live with bad animation, unless it's an action series, and that's where things really fall apart in OPM, especially as we move forward into the season and it becomes more action focused.
The problem with bad animation in an action series is that poorly animated fight scenes feel lacking, they don't have the energy needed to 'sell' the scene and too many repetitive frames, still shots, shots away from the action and overly simplified animation tends to make it feel lifeless and dull, fight scenes that are supposed to be exciting become boring and uninteresting .

But it's not just bad animation.
The pacing is terrible, maybe it's because the fights are dull, but I think it's more than that, through the whole season you spend a lot of time waiting for events to progress, it goes at such a slow pace that you feel like you hardly get anywhere, there were times I felt bored there were times I wished it would just get on with it.

I still have mixed feelings over it because it didn't start off terrible.
The first few episodes were focused around Saitama and other characters we know and love from the previous seasons, the flawed animation didn't matter too much as it was relatively light on action, instead they were more character focused episodes, we had the wit, the banter, the dialogue we expect, and while there were issues, it was at that point average.
The fact that the Hotpot scene is the most memorable part of the season for me over any of the fights says a lot, the absurdity the banter, the way it is classic OPM
It's just after those first 4-5 episodes that everything goes downhill, or rather further downhill as it was never good to begin with but it went from mediocre to poor.
It was still watchable, but should there be a season 4 and I ever feel the need to watch this again, I'd probably just stick to those first 5 episodes and skip the rest.

Words cannot express how disappointed this season made me feel. Years of waiting for this. Pretty much a PowerPoint presentation turned into anime form.

I don’t understand how or why this happened, but One Punch Man deserves better. I find it disrespectful to turn the manga into such a travesty. The animation and the drawings were incredibly poor, and the characters barely moved most of the time. Nothing really captured the greatness of Yusuke Murata’s and ONE’s manga.

Definitely the worst anime I saw last year. I’ll go straight back to the manga to forget I ever saw this pile of junk.