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Average 3.5
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| Well apparently, if someone wanna learn how to make good presentations with a variety of colours and a touch of animation here and there, this show does seem like the go-to choice, but trust me, a 10 minutes tutorial on youtube is more fucking fruitful, as I mean who would want to waste their 30 mins learning from something, which isn’t even the 10th best thing in its own category. Seriously, there is something called trying and then there is completely giving up. This show has given up! I mean it’s like only faces and lips moving, as gotta show people are talking after all. Rest is just placing one slide over another and playing a slideshow with those “aURa” effects. Lol, man one of the best selling series from the last two years and yeah we got this. Isagi at least could shut those edgy heads down, so yeah, a bright side I guess. Do feel they were able to give his zone part and that goal some sort of “animation”, but yeah, the bar for anything ain’t high anyways. |
| How do animators (and just... staff in general, whoever watches it, but especially those actually supervising) look at an episode, see so many instances of flashback-replay-seconds-after-they-happen, and go "oh yeah that's good"?? Just. Genuinely curious at this point, I guess. Especially when so much of the episode is, indeed, a barely animated slideshow. Did too much of the BL money pool gp down the Blaze Battle drain or something, because if there's a franchise with seemingly infinite amount of funds, this would be it? I don't get it. At least Hiori's kansai gets to be a saving grace, though I'm not so much into the translation trying to emulate things so forcibly. Even additional time got a kick in the nuts - hilarious as it was in other aspects, did they really have to put in that "i'm not into dudes" line? Come on... |
yellowheartrenOct 19, 2024 9:15 AM
| At this point it really seems like their mouths are the only things moving on the screen, and even then there are moments where we won't even get that at the minimum lol. Nice comeback I guess, and a cool "power-up" for Isagi, but it's difficult to feel the hype that they're seemingly trying to emulate when the action is just still images and colored manga panels. Imagine you're watching a cool fight in the anime adaptation of your favorite action manga, and it's just slideshow images with punching sound effects over it. You wouldn't feel the hype right? Same thing here. What a shame man. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords. |
| Nanase, that's the name of the third guy who didn't show up at all last episode. Well he certainly put some positive energy in this one as the goal searchers were doing their things. Hiori has some nice movements as well as visions to make Premier League assists instead whatever garbage passes some first division players do nowadays. Obviously we can't undermine Isagi's "explosion" that was more of a reflex mixed with luck than anything, something that smokeseller Ego might exploit in the future. However, that shot from Shidou is something you'd normally in Brazilian beaches so it was a nice addition I guess. |
| ⠓⠥⠍⠁⠝⠊⠞⠽ ⠞⠓⠗⠕⠥⠛⠓ ⠎⠕⠍⠑ ⠎⠞⠥⠏⠊⠙⠊⠞⠽⠂ ⠎⠕⠍⠑ ⠺⠊⠇⠇ ⠎⠅⠊⠏ ⠺⠁⠎⠓⠊⠝⠛ ⠞⠓⠑⠊⠗ ⠓⠁⠝⠙⠎ ⠁⠝⠙ ⠑⠝⠙ ⠥⠏ ⠗⠥⠊⠝⠊⠝⠛ ⠊ ⠞ ⠋⠕⠗ ⠑⠧⠑⠗⠽⠕⠝⠑ ⠎⠓⠊⠊⠅⠕ ⠁⠕⠎⠕⠊⠂ ⠼⠃⠼⠚⠼⠁⠼⠓ |
| Loved the Isagi explosion part. Excited for the upcoming episodes! |
Isagi Yoichi, the hero of the match 😎🧩 |
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| Puzzle fetishist and dubbed colorized manga is what we living for. Count of drawn animation for this episode - 0, only png slides plus effects plus 3D models. In this season only ball has animation. Still 10 out of 10. |
| The animation during the ball-handling scenes leaves a lot to be desired. I hope they’re saving the budget for when they face the U-20 team. However, Isagi’s introspective scenes or the moments when he shines are pretty good (even if they’re just colored manga panels). In the end, Isagi was able to prove he’s not mediocre. Even though he doesn’t really know how he scored, he did it by instinct, so he should be able to tap into that state again later. I have to admit, though, Nanase and Hiori deserve some credit for choosing to cooperate with Isagi instead of just trying to stand out individually. |
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| Isagi has a new "wake up"! kekeke |
| Even with the limited animation, they were able to make this match so epic. The adrenaline was flowing through my body during the match, especially that last scene where Isagi scored the goal moving past Rin and Shidou. It was so fucking cool. With more animation, that scene would've been even more epic but it is what it is. Can't wait for more epic matches. But, yeah Isagi has to do less thinking now and move more on reflexes going forward if he wants to compete with the best. |
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| I can only give a middling score; the episode as a story was good but the animation is the worst I have ever seen. I hesitate to even call it animation. Usually I don't nitpick on animation but this is so glaringly dialed in that even a toddler can notice. |
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| SEE? THIS WAS MUCH BETTER! AND SO MUCH DRAMAAA Ah, flow state, this is actually very applicable in the real world. And the pink tips eyeliner guy is not so bad, he is just feral, he even complimented our boy Isagi. Rin on the other hand... Omg this additional time tho LMAO WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT, A NINJA-WANNABE-HOE? "Go get yelled at by your ancestors" LMAO this whole segment really was cherry on top, love how they had to clarify ninja wasn't gay, good god. Anyways I'm so excited to see who gets they ass handed to them in the next ep <3 |
| They should've just used ai |
| Isagi entered Flow or rather said the Zone(lol). It was to be expected that he would score the decisive goal. Cool moment. But I'm honestly more hyped for the upcoming match with Nagi and Reo. Is it still fun to bash the animation? We're 3 episodes in, the horse is bloody dead. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Liked it. Loved it. That was the best ep so far without a doubt. I mean, don't get me wrong the animation was still rough as ever but it definitely feels like a step up compared to the 2nd ep. We can only get higher in terms of animation hopefully. I loved Shidou's goal and how I could actually make out what was happening this time. I like the focus on his foot as he makes a pivot and shoots in one motion. Once again, he comes up with a play simply out of this world. Nanase, Hiori, and Isagi are determined to not be left behind as they combine with each other and even Rin to get the fifth goal. The focus on Hiori's footwork before the goal is something I appreciated and Isagi did the rest. Wonderful direct shot. Although I was expecting him to use his head for some reason xD |
  𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊. - 𝑅𝑒𝒾 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓎𝒶𝓂𝒶   |
Reply to FMmatron
Isagi entered Flow or rather said the Zone(lol). It was to be expected that he would score the decisive goal. Cool moment.
But I'm honestly more hyped for the upcoming match with Nagi and Reo.
Is it still fun to bash the animation? We're 3 episodes in, the horse is bloody dead.
But I'm honestly more hyped for the upcoming match with Nagi and Reo.
Is it still fun to bash the animation? We're 3 episodes in, the horse is bloody dead.
| @FMmatron I thought the animation kinda upgraded from whatever last ep was but ig not lol. Last ep felt like a visual novel at times... I don't think they'll show the Nagi and Reo game in its entirety but I'm looking forward to how that pans out as well. It's weird bcz I'm a manga reader and not remembering many things that happen in this arc just allows me to relive the hype again. |
| 𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊. - 𝑅𝑒𝒾 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓎𝒶𝓂𝒶 |
| That episode was a total letdown, not even close to what I was expecting. |
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| Meh with ToG S2, at this point I'm already numb to PowerPoint presentation animation. At least the visuals, effects, and directing are still great. The CGIs never fail to make me laugh though. Anyways, it was a more enjoyable episode than the last one. Still a lot of Isagi yapping, but it was bearable this time around and he got a goal at the end. |
  "As promised, all that you seek, all that we desire, is prepared up there. On top of the Tower." |
| It was okay. I can't understand ppl watching things they don't like. Just drop it. For me it is a 5-6/10. They obviously don't have the money for more animations, so it will not get better. |
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| he had to go ultra instinct |
| I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers |
| I had to take a break at some point, in the middle of this episode. the animation is so bad and i really hoped this episode will be better. there was so much potential for this to make it amazing and they ruined big time again... To be honest, i lost the hype i had for this anime |
2024:      2025:  x2      |
| YES the "animation" is bad and people will still watch it and complain every week xD I have an appeal to people who are so hurt by this animation, stop watching it and read the manga, you won't lose anything and you won't irritate people who still like this anime despite everything😙 In any other anime I would rather hate such "animation" but here it doesn't bother me that much, I'm just interested in the course of the match, even though most of the things Isagi says are obvious, he still works well as a commentator and sells all this nonsense as something really exciting haha But still...I hope they saved the budget for the U20 match (yes I know it's coping) 4/5 |
| A sports anime without animation, what's even the point of this. Dropped, onto the manga. |
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| It's wild how this can be hype and boring at the same time. I like the parts that are actually happening, but the presentation of those events are severely lacking |
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