Anime series which started off with great visuals but declined in quality?
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My personal answer would be One Piece. I actually loved the art alot back in the day and think the current one looks hideous.
Pretty much this. Old School tom & Jerry had great animation too and it was goofy and funny, but it works because that's the point of it. The goofy and comical animations in Pain fight didn't work because it was supposed to be super serious and intense yet countless people and I ended up both laughing and disappointed.
When so many people end hating on it, you know something is wrong there. Anime fans aren't shitting on great animations just for the sake of it.
Pretty much this. Old School tom & Jerry had great animation too and it was goofy and funny, but it works because that's the point of it. The goofy and comical animations in Pain fight didn't work because it was supposed to be super serious and intense yet countless people and I ended up both laughing and disappointed.
When so many people end hating on it, you know something is wrong there. Anime fans aren't shitting on great animations just for the sake of it.
A few examples were already named.
But do you know what got better over the years? Detective Conan! It was never bad though, they just got more modern and expressive. Always good action scenes, especially in the movies.
Movie 2:
Movie 18:
But do you know what got better over the years? Detective Conan! It was never bad though, they just got more modern and expressive. Always good action scenes, especially in the movies.
Movie 2:
Movie 18:
Man, Dragon Ball Super Broly is easily the best animated and directed piece of Dragon Ball media, period.
I went and watched the movie with a superfan friend of mine and couldn't help but walk out disappointed.
Like, it was a bombastic movie with a completely alien (to me at least) plot structure, but it was obviously a budget production. But that might have been my fault because I was expecting my mind to be blown a-la Eva 2.22 or even like Redline style.
That being said, I was absolutely captivated with the Planet Vegeta prologue stuff. I played the hell out of FighterZ but never really watched the show other than when my middle school friends were gushing about it.
outlaw star looks like garbage most of the time lmaoWhile I don't think it ever gets BAD, the first few episodes of Outlaw Star have SUCH a slick, dark, and fluid art style and animation quality to them.
This could simply be Gainax: The Thread, but I'm going with one near and dear to my heart:
Tenku Senki Shurato
It suffered the usual curse of blowing your budget early enough and then just finishing with what scraps they had left. The first 28 episodes or so are fantastic, well animated and well drawn. The last 10, aside from one scene at the very end, looks so bad that there times calling it a slide show would be generous.
Compared episode 13's animation
to episode 30
What you're seeing that looks like they're just missing some animation between key frames is like that for the rest of the show, frequently. It was never a downright gorgeous show, by any means and had a somewhat typical budget for a late 80s shonen thing, but man, it hurts so much because the show is really damned good.
Tenku Senki Shurato
It suffered the usual curse of blowing your budget early enough and then just finishing with what scraps they had left. The first 28 episodes or so are fantastic, well animated and well drawn. The last 10, aside from one scene at the very end, looks so bad that there times calling it a slide show would be generous.
Compared episode 13's animation
to episode 30
What you're seeing that looks like they're just missing some animation between key frames is like that for the rest of the show, frequently. It was never a downright gorgeous show, by any means and had a somewhat typical budget for a late 80s shonen thing, but man, it hurts so much because the show is really damned good.
"Sailor Moon Crystal" Season 3
It started off great, especially after the not-so-great first 2 seasons, but the animation slowly began feeling... off?
I don't know, but aside from a few scenes, the animation felt like it was dipping, and it seems it's getting worse with the upcoming Sailor Moon films.
Even the transformations from the upcoming films look worse than the original 90's anime.
It started off great, especially after the not-so-great first 2 seasons, but the animation slowly began feeling... off?
I don't know, but aside from a few scenes, the animation felt like it was dipping, and it seems it's getting worse with the upcoming Sailor Moon films.
Even the transformations from the upcoming films look worse than the original 90's anime.
A few examples were already named.
But do you know what got better over the years? Detective Conan! It was never bad though, they just got more modern and expressive. Always good action scenes, especially in the movies.
Movie 2:
Movie 18:
I humbly disagree. Much prefer the original artstyle. It does better job with scary faces
Wait as a Manga reader, what happened to the animation in S4?
it wasn't as bad as some people make it out to be but there was a movie that came out close or during the production so it would make sense that talent was split between the two
The quality took a dip in comparison to earlier seasons because they were working on Heroes Rising at the same time.
Mirio vs Overhaul was an actual slideshow