DKaitoAug 27, 202365 replies1.5K views~Best Guy Appeared!~
To be honest I'm bit dissapointed about censorship though...
Well we are getting closer, so strap your belts, it's gonna be wild ride!
Been laughing my ass off this ep
Badi is one of best chara in series in my opinion, he really brightens up everything with his stupidity and easygoing-ness (if this is existing word).
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The guy feels like he was built to be a slice of life VIP
Badigadi is definitely on a list of anime characters I'd love to take shots with
Ayo?
wdym "ayo"
nah fam you misunderstood, read it again but slowly
wdym by censorship? something happnd?
During the duel, Badi was supposed to be blasted into tiny bits with that "drill" spell... And rebuild his body from that lol xD Also, there was no mention at all about Rudeus "wounding" Orsted. During his talk, after Rudus revealed he almost died to him, there was supposed to be short exchange in which Badi asks something (sorry don't remember what was this, but definitelly in context of surviving Orsted). Rudeus was supposed to answer about "doing as much damage as scrapping bit of skin from his hand". That sentence was supposed to trigger that "one attack" deal.
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Is it only me who missing Erirs and Rijuierd and how can Rudy be so dense he mistook his childhood friend for a boy first in his childhood and now
Rudy's understanding of women is about the same as the average anime watcher, so it checks out. XD
Hope we'll get to see what Eris has been up to with Ghislaine though!
Yeah, Rudy is kinda dumb tbh. But this is also omniscient viewer effect. If we didn't got introduction, you wouldn't guess right away thats Sylphie. Did you recongized her when she was shown as Fitz in S1 (part 2 i think)? During execution scene of Sauros (I think that was Sauros, my memory is getting bad :( ).
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She's gonna have to make her move before Rudy gets snatched up by some other girl guy
Bodybuilding arc with Badi incoming?
sylphie makes my day better
No fucking way this actually worked lmao
Rudeus and Badigadi stuff was fun, cool that Badigadi is joining the class
Good episode again
Chad Cliff
Really like the episode. Wished they would have spent a little more on that one shot animation. Again it was still great nonetheless.
I like this episode the pacing is great
Poor Nina (the blue-haired girl), she only got 2 seconds of screen time :(
Hope they'll dedicate a special episode describing her side of the story.
yes, it was a little sad that they didn't explain the reason for her visit
Why did Silphy take so long to bring his staff? Did she see Roxy's panties?
speedrun episode, RIP Orsted conversation
Damn it, these episodes feel like they're five minutes long. And we only have four of them left until we have to wait to the end of April for more.
This is just cruel, like a drug dealer who only lets an addict have one dose per week of one of the most addictive drugs ever, then watches and laughs as they suffer through withdrawal for the rest of the time.
I wish some billionaire out there would just give them all the funding they need to be able to release the series continuously in 45 minute episodes each week until they run out of material to adapt.
Just, you know, hire literally everybody out there, pay them 4+ times their usual rate, and rent out or buy a giant, super fancy office complex with an attached luxury apartment complex for them (and their families) to stay at, hire top class chefs to keep them well-fed and healthy, and have enough main staff and assistants so they don't have to work crunch hours and burn out.
Anime is so cheap to make (relative to big hit Western series) that, even with all the luxuries, high pay, and reasonable work conditions, the entire operation would still probably end up costing significantly less than a single season of The Walking Dead or GoT.
The last season of GoT, for example, was averaging $15 million per episode. The average anime episode today costs between $100,000 to $250,000 to make. Naruto Shippuden was averaging only around $90,000 per episode!
Why couldn't Elon Musk throw a tiny chunk of his billions towards something like this, instead of wasting it on killing off Twitter? It would be like a rounding error for him.
the issue isn't really money lol
it's the fact that they have a small team that animates everything by hand, that shit takes TIME, did you know a single manga panel takes an average of 5-15 HOURS, a single panel, not a page, a PANEL and that's for a normal panel with basically no detailed background and just a character and some dialogue, now imagine having to draw an entire page basically, color it and a while bunch of other stuff for every single tiny frame for a scene
I cannot be the only one thinking that something is wrong with season.
I just feel that it's on the severely lower bar than last season. Like, sure, comedy is top-notch, but it's just not the same anime I watched last time. Comedy was supplementary, not main. I hope cour 2 has something good to deliver.
That's just this arc. Fear not after this short breather there will be so much you will be begging for next breather...
Was wondering when cliff will show up again... will rudeus ever duel with cliff in the anime?
Hi, novel reader here!
This episode was a little disappointing, but still awesome for anime viewers. There was just a lot of content that was cut out and important dialogue missed especially with badigadi and rudeous. I wish they did better with that aspect in adding those details. Unfortunate. Still excited about the next episodes!
Anime only here. I have a headcanon so strong I'm calling it a spoiler:
I'm assuming Badigadi can see right through Sylphie's Mulan ruse! xD
Such a good comparison, and damn...Mulan (1998 animated version) is such a great movie, even after all this time. Iconic songs.
He beat demon lord just like that He would have been dead if he wasn't immortal. And the last punch was personal
Well, whatever with so descriptive destruction of Badi, but I cannot understand why they left out that bit of dialogure regarding Orsted...
Yeah that was a significant part that got left out, not sure why they've skipped it. They might have decided to reserve the entire talk about the "armor" for the future when Badi will reveal how powerful that spell really was.
I was disappointed aswell during badi duel about rudeus mentioning orsted (saw the panel on tiktok manga prob).
I didn't read the LN , thats why i was confused, didnt know about his body exploding in small parts
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Kind of a minor spoiler regarding the power of Rudy's 'Stone Cannon'
It's normally a very low rank spell, but because of how Rudy creates it, and how much mana he pumps into its speed and hardness, it's about equal in terms of raw destructive power as an Emporor level spell. I believe Badigadi mentions this to him, and it may be mentioned in a future episode.
I hope they do an additional talk where thay finally battle aura and Badi explains just how powerful the stone cannon that Rudeus casted really was
At least tiny Badi was adorable though
I didn't know that was sylphie but you have to be a different level of dumb to not see that's clearly a girl. That whole campus is dumb lmao
It's been a long, long time since everything was animated by hand. It's even been quite some time since ANYTHING was actually animated by hand, probably late 90s, very early 00s at the latest. Nowadays, for a series like this, it's mostly just for storyboarding, static backgrounds and character key frames, and even for those last two, they make heavy use of digital art programs to simplify the process.
Money makes a world of difference. Because more money lets you hire more, better and more experienced artists, lets you outsource the tweening to the best dedicated studios (or, God, forbid, even hire or assemble one in Japan), lets you pay your staff properly so they can focus on their work without having to worry about paying rent, lets you flood your studio with PAs to take care of all the little things, lets you work with the latest equipment without having people need to take shifts on it, lets you buy time on the fastest rendering farms so you don't have to wait ages for everything to see the results, etc, etc.
Anime production has long been chronically underfunded and overworked, even for the really big productions, one of the reasons it has become hard to find and keep good staff. No matter how much money a series makes, the studios that actually create it are effectively treated as a contractor, and generally get a set amount of money regardless (perhaps with a little bonus, if they are lucky). All the actual money goes to the production committee, which is generally composed of the company holding the rights to the original source material and various investment groups.
It's a vicious cycle: they get hired by a production committee on a contract basis, which they need to take to keep the lights on, but then they get paid so little that they don't have the cash to fund the development of their own independent series, so they once again have to hope to get another offer from a production committee on a contract basis.
Even in the occasional case where they do manage to self-fund the production of an anime based on a new IP that they will hold the rights to, it's usually a huge gamble, because if it isn't sufficiently successfully, it could mean the end for them. A contract job at least ensures they will get paid as long as they deliver, but an underperforming independent production will generally mean bankruptcy, as they don't have any financial safety net to fall back on.
So yeah, money, or, more specifically, the absence of money, is one of the major issues faced by the anime production industry right now. They can't afford enough staff, or to pay the staff they do have a proper living wage. They can't afford not to put the staff they do have through hellish hours that make the crunch controversy in Western gene development seem like a joke in comparison. They can't afford the technology that could make production easier. They can't afford to hire local tweeners, forcing them to outsource to foreign studios, resulting in frequent miscommunication due to language issues. Even if they could afford more staff, they usually wouldn't be able to afford the extra office space or equipment needed. Etc, etc.
Money is definitely the biggest issue right now, and is the direct cause of most of the next-biggest issues. The industry is cannibalizing itself, crushing the actual people making anime underfoot to provide profits to the investors in the production committees, resulting in fewer and fewer people entering, and staying with, the industry. It's not a sustainable system, and something needs to change, ideally yesterday.
oh they still animate by hand my guy, sure yeah it's on a tablet rather then paper but it is VERY much still hand drawn, of course you have reused assets but for well done shows like MT, JJK etc... everything is still made frame by frame, also you know... the fact that animators are payed by frame, not by hour
KEY frame by KEY frame - there's a gigantic difference. It would take decades with the current staffing to actually animate frame by frame. Also, they wouldn't be able to afford it, even with reused assets, base models, etc.
Funny you would mention JJK and Mushoku Tensei - they both use far more CG than the average anime (especially JJK), and less hand drawn art. That doesn't make them any less great, getting CG integrated that seemlessly (well, aside from some of the big creatures in fight scenes) is incredibly hard, but they have done a great job pulling it off. CG animation and compositing like that is just far more expensive than regular animation, which is why you don't see it in lower budget series.
You should visit an animation studio sometime - I get the feeling you might be surprised by what you see. Animation technology has come a long way over the past quarter century, and is quite heavily used in most departments of anime production.
True, though MT has more slice of life than action. It's definitely not an action-driven show.
Rudeus: Hold my staff
I'll trust you on that - people do hype up cour 2
That's what people kept saying me since the episode 2.
Cour 2 is certainly not action-heavy either, but if you are looking for touchy scenes similar to season one. God damn, you are going to experience that a lot. It does have action, if done right it's going to be awesome. If you end up not liking it then, that's up to you.
Praised by most of the Mushoku tensei novel readers. Myself included.
That's exactly what people kept saying me since the episode 2.
It feels like nothing has happened at all. This feels like a huge filler arc.
That too
Ep 1 was very high quality, similar to season 1.
Ep 2 was quite weird because they pushed expectations of the cave scene in the first trailer and ended up using something else. A lot of weird frames that were noticeable,, transitions were weird (most disliked episode by a lot of people)
Ep 3 is good, some minor stuff for nitpicking people. Rudy's scene venting out with Soldat was pretty good, him trying to take his life was shocking for a lot. It shocked me too.
Ep4 good. a lot of beautiful backgrounds, etc. Dragon fight was really good. funny faces all over the place
Ep 5. Pretty good. Sylphiette's fight was as short as in the novel yet, it looked pretty cool. I always enjoy how they use the demon eye.
Ep 6 Controversial for some, beautiful for me ngl. I had no issue with it.
Ep 7 is Another high-quality ep along with Ep 1. Clean everywhere, a lot of sakuga for such a random episode. Funny fight, very cool.
Ep 8 again, some stuff was weird, personally, I liked the fight against Badigadi, could've been better? yes, it can always be better.
well yeah, sure it's key frame by key frame but again that still takes a shit tone of time, and like you mentioned with CG, doing it that well is hard and again, takes a LOT of time, anime studios make more then enough money, if you REALLY want to make this about money then it's less that they don't have the funds and more that they refuse to give them a large amount of it, i mean animators get payed next to nothing, they get payed just above minimum wage in the united states... if your EXPERIENCED, they cheap out quite a bit considering all the money their anime brings in (unless of course it's a smaller studio)
Like I said, the studio doesn't really see much of the money that the anime brings in - they get paid a pre-negotiated amount, which doesn't change much based on the success of the series. The ones whose revenue is affected by the success of the series are the production committee. Everyone in an anime studio is underpaid, even the producer salary is generally only around $50,000 a year. The director (and, if internal, potentially the writer) gets a bit more, but, in general, the production staff gets paid way less than they would be in any other industry.
