It's crazy how I see many people keep "criticizing" the s2, when what they're doing is not criticism at all, but just their own personal taste and sometimes their hate for Mappa. No matter how deeply and objectively you analyze the scenes for them and try to explain why those are great, they really just want pale colors (because according to them, that's what makes the series "dark") and shiny lights/effects. Nothing more. For me, this season absolutely exceeded my expectations, not just in terms of animation, but in directing and cinematography. I especially love how they often use diagonal compositions to make the frames more dynamic and all those heavy perspective wide-angle shots are just icing on the cake.
I this point, we don't know what's happening with the Season 3 production. With JJK S2 and Fate suck up most of the sakuga talents, wonder what will be left for OPM
We're so close to witnessing this colossal meeting of every animator in the industry during fall. Seshimo & Gosso with everyone they know + the next big 2 Cour Madhouse Passion Project with Saitou as director. Oh and to casually top it all off you get Pluto which already has Okiura credited as doing some storyboard work, and some heavy Ohira KA. I think being blessed is an understatement.
I mean fukushi is probably the best AP in the industry. So his projects will be wonderful with whatever production time. He is only ''good'' remaining AP in madhouse if I'm not wrong
Can you believe that people are comparing Mappa's Sukuna cut with a fan animation of the same which has a lot more details (And is really good by the way. Its made by a guy called Nick), and then saying that Mappa's version is bad. Like, this is the mindless Naruto vs Pain argument all over again. Less details does not equal to poor animation. Sorry there, just wanted to rant and get it out of my chest.
On top of that, all compliments to Nick's animation, but it was like 15 seconds of animation probably produced in a month, a schedule that is literally order of magnitudes slower than this studio is allowed. Honestly, bandwagon audience comments on bad animation in general, especially with Naruto vs. Pain, while pointing at the art on singular frames, is full blown Dunning-Kruger effect on display.
I'm here for the JJK animation break downs. I am really glad I found your channel this is kind of perfect content for me I really wanted to learn more about the industry for animation and techniques.
It's sad that casual fans will complain about this season having "inconsistent" and "bad" animation while it actually will be a technical masterpiece. Though sakuga fans will just cream all over themselves.
Casuals when jumping in to discussing supposed "bad animation" from JJK2 almost always feels like watching a bunch of case studies for Dunning-Kruger interacting with each other. One of my favorites is when they mix up compositing with animation.
I've commented before but I'll say it again - thank you so much for these animation breakdowns. it really helps when you point out exactly what makes a scene/drawing good (like changes in perspective and such). and as an artist, I'm happy when people appreciate the incredible work that goes into making art. very much am looking forward to your video's about jjk s2!
I'm sure Seshimo has already gotten to the point where he doesn't need sleep to survive. Even Otsuka tbh, managing this many projects while also being directly involved in some of them AND managing the whole studio's explosive growth is ridiculous.
Thank you very much, another great video. It would be really helpful if you could make a video explaining the main concepts like genga, compositing, CGI, Sakuga.... It took me the last month to grasp the basics and I'm still not over basic things like the difference between art direction and photography.
There was concerns with Park gone that the fight choreography will get weaker but last episode alleviate some concerns imo. I think the focus of the fight choreography in S2 will still be just as good it’s just will have a different emphasis. Park and most of S1 was heavy impact and rapid movement (like a lot of Parks cuts have that 360 camera movement) whereas S2 is more on flow and creativity. Plus the fight choreography in the manga is already peak so there isn’t much for them to really do to make the fights look good outside giving it top tier animation and making sure the storyboards properly capture the fight. They don’t have to do extra work to make fights good unlike say Bleach seeing a few action cuts I don’t recall in the manga means they’ll still some extra spice to the fights. The problem with HI and it’s not really a problem just a thing about the arc the nature of the fights didn’t really give much way for tight fight choreography because of the nature of the fights but how MAPPA handled those fights were beyond masterful. How they weren’t afraid to make bold decisions and change things from the manga to make the fights so much better. Like how in the manga Geto vs Toji happened in one spot whereas the fight in the anime happened throughout the entire Tomb of the Star Corridor. The fights in Shibuya are peak Shonen fights unlike HI so while I’m up for making changes to improve upon what is there but I hope they’re careful with that.
After seeing recent ep 6 characters look thin compared to season 1 which is actually good. Now they look like 16-17 year old students. In season 1 characters looked more buffed.
Congrats on 6K subs my favorite person on TH-cam🎉🎉🎉 I won't write any other thing this time because even you would be getting bored of that same thing repeated again and again😅😅
Really surprised you know about Fog Hill of the Five Elements, but then again, it makes perfect sense that you caught on it lol. I'd REALLY like to see you analyze it, although I have practically no knowledge of Chinese animators much less the team at Samsara Studio
I would like to analyze it as well, but I need to find time for it and most importantly the right words. It would be like a painting review channel analyzing the Mona Lisa; very difficult to talk about something that is a masterpiece of the highest level. This is also why I haven't made a video on Redline.
i only realized it today but the opening uploaded to youtube with no credits has some difrend parts than the op we got in the episode ther are some shading changes and editing changes to character drawing corrections
Hey I dunno if you’re still reading comments on this vid, but I’m fairly certain that the crowd cut at 10:09 is done by Takuji Miyamoto. It has his signature wobbly lines if you look closely.. it’s just a hunch. Let’s see if my Sakugan is correct 👁️
16:40, it maybe park since there are leaks that one episode from this arc is being outsourced to relatively new studio(coping it may be park's new studio that he had just started)
@@A1000-b9sif it's his studio probably it's because he wanna return the favor due to almost a decade as a Mappa only freelancer, but also because the studio needs money. After all i doubt that he opened his studio without contracting a debt with a bank. It's very rare.
Also... Yes, he should avoid to take too much sub-contracred work if his small studio his already that busy. But since Japan is not in the 80s anymore is basically a passage that most studios pass trough. Even already established ones like Shaft, that least of them all should take extra and consuming work like a fully outsourced ep, but since ep 2-5 of zom 100 were made by them I guess that they really needed to
@@lorenzorizzi864 yeah they would probably get a good money if they work on JJK. I wish him the best but i don't know if it was The best choice. Since he lost a lot of Resources that big studio can give him. Yeah you can say he can carry the Animation side of things in a 3 shows lmao. But they probably need mass outsourcing on other things. That's a gamble on the Quality and the money of the Studio. Hope it can pay off at The end, cause it looks like they growing at a good pace
To be fair to people Ren Onodera does heavily use cg in their work. From my understanding in cuts like the one from Boruto you showed they start by making a 3d model that they then reference and draw over for their 2d work.
Yes, he uses CGI to get the perspective down for the character. Ikuo Geso also does this, and like 70% of action scenes in Ufotable are also made like this. The final scene though has been transformed by drawings to the point where the CGI doesn't show at all. In Ren's case he started off a bit rough, like his black clover OP cut, but by the time the JJK scene came around he'd perfected it; besides those drawings have another layer of polish given due to TNK's corrections.
I’m only a manga reader for Bleach, but the fights in Bleach tend to not lend themselves to be traditional sakuga, so it makes sense that the animation is limited.
@@simplyrohith2163 oh. Thank for the comment but Wdym by "the budget goes"? Is it like they don't care how expensive the animation is and they just focus on the quality with no regard for the money spent?
@@thatguytax no people who do those high quality animation cost more. Anime is very limited with budget. Ofc you have Mappa with boatload of money who can easily buy the whole industry. Studios sacrifice some parts to have those expensive high quality shots. But there are shows were the" sakuga" Starts from 0:00 of ep1 to 24:30 of final episode (Chainsawman, Violet Evergaden, JJK s2, Mob psycho 100, Space Dandy) .
Sakuga just means "Drawing" nothing more. But it's used for well animated cuts and scenes now. Well animated scenes are Sakuga, it can be Character Acting, Fight, Effect, Walking, anything can be sakuga it just has to be well animated and it usually stands out.
It's crazy how I see many people keep "criticizing" the s2, when what they're doing is not criticism at all, but just their own personal taste and sometimes their hate for Mappa. No matter how deeply and objectively you analyze the scenes for them and try to explain why those are great, they really just want pale colors (because according to them, that's what makes the series "dark") and shiny lights/effects. Nothing more.
For me, this season absolutely exceeded my expectations, not just in terms of animation, but in directing and cinematography. I especially love how they often use diagonal compositions to make the frames more dynamic and all those heavy perspective wide-angle shots are just icing on the cake.
Then when chainsaw man has pale colors, they complain too. They just hate mappa for some reason, which is weird.
The second OP for season 2 is visually mindblowing. Looking forward to see your analysis on it!
I think if Seshimo were to be put in charge of OPM it would 100% rival season 1. He's easily one of the best ANP
he only will need to learn some time bending techniques with hayashi or park, cause right after jjk he have csm movie and s2 sequel to go into it
I this point, we don't know what's happening with the Season 3 production.
With JJK S2 and Fate suck up most of the sakuga talents, wonder what will be left for OPM
@@Kabutsujithey will probably co-produce it at some point since they already did with JJK s2 and CSM
@@Kabutsujiyeah stop taking leaks as facts or true
@@urameshii6672 lmao i just make a joke about what he said, i know that’s not mappa producing dumbass
We're so close to witnessing this colossal meeting of every animator in the industry during fall. Seshimo & Gosso with everyone they know + the next big 2 Cour Madhouse Passion Project with Saitou as director.
Oh and to casually top it all off you get Pluto which already has Okiura credited as doing some storyboard work, and some heavy Ohira KA.
I think being blessed is an understatement.
I mean fukushi is probably the best AP in the industry. So his projects will be wonderful with whatever production time. He is only ''good'' remaining AP in madhouse if I'm not wrong
Man if Park really returned i'm gonna cry out of happiness
I hope so...
Everytime i see notification about new video from your channel, I instantly experience a burst of endorphins and just "monkey neurons activate"
Can you believe that people are comparing Mappa's Sukuna cut with a fan animation of the same which has a lot more details (And is really good by the way. Its made by a guy called Nick), and then saying that Mappa's version is bad. Like, this is the mindless Naruto vs Pain argument all over again. Less details does not equal to poor animation.
Sorry there, just wanted to rant and get it out of my chest.
On top of that, all compliments to Nick's animation, but it was like 15 seconds of animation probably produced in a month, a schedule that is literally order of magnitudes slower than this studio is allowed.
Honestly, bandwagon audience comments on bad animation in general, especially with Naruto vs. Pain, while pointing at the art on singular frames, is full blown Dunning-Kruger effect on display.
The composition of the show looks crazy good!
I'm here for the JJK animation break downs. I am really glad I found your channel this is kind of perfect content for me I really wanted to learn more about the industry for animation and techniques.
trust me manko we are here for the jjk analysis and i personally don’t care if its the only thing you drop, keep up the great videos man
It's sad that casual fans will complain about this season having "inconsistent" and "bad" animation while it actually will be a technical masterpiece. Though sakuga fans will just cream all over themselves.
@@DarkKing-z6bdo you have wings? Cause that's a load of BULL
@@DarkKing-z6bhow?
@@DarkKing-z6b .
@@heisenberg3206 don't engage with these people 😭
Casuals when jumping in to discussing supposed "bad animation" from JJK2 almost always feels like watching a bunch of case studies for Dunning-Kruger interacting with each other. One of my favorites is when they mix up compositing with animation.
I've commented before but I'll say it again - thank you so much for these animation breakdowns. it really helps when you point out exactly what makes a scene/drawing good (like changes in perspective and such). and as an artist, I'm happy when people appreciate the incredible work that goes into making art. very much am looking forward to your video's about jjk s2!
Manko did manko. My 20 mins watching TH-cam has never been this satisfying.
I really want Shingo Natsume to be the director of OPM s3 with Keisuke Seshimo as the AniP but man does Seshimo need a long term vacation.
I'm sure Seshimo has already gotten to the point where he doesn't need sleep to survive. Even Otsuka tbh, managing this many projects while also being directly involved in some of them AND managing the whole studio's explosive growth is ridiculous.
@@-MankoManyeah idk how otsuka could do the role of AP for some productions (at least Before for the Most part) while being a CEO
Ngl your op analysis is my most anticipated thing for 2024
Idk how it took me so long to find your channel. As an animator your channel is extremely insightful! Definitely learning a lot. Big sub my dude 👌
Can't wait for everyone to experience the greatness of Shibuya
Thank you very much, another great video.
It would be really helpful if you could make a video explaining the main concepts like genga, compositing, CGI, Sakuga....
It took me the last month to grasp the basics and I'm still not over basic things like the difference between art direction and photography.
Was patiently waiting for you to upload this, and it’s here thanks for your efforts in talking about how the animation industry works!
There was concerns with Park gone that the fight choreography will get weaker but last episode alleviate some concerns imo.
I think the focus of the fight choreography in S2 will still be just as good it’s just will have a different emphasis. Park and most of S1 was heavy impact and rapid movement (like a lot of Parks cuts have that 360 camera movement) whereas S2 is more on flow and creativity. Plus the fight choreography in the manga is already peak so there isn’t much for them to really do to make the fights look good outside giving it top tier animation and making sure the storyboards properly capture the fight. They don’t have to do extra work to make fights good unlike say Bleach seeing a few action cuts I don’t recall in the manga means they’ll still some extra spice to the fights.
The problem with HI and it’s not really a problem just a thing about the arc the nature of the fights didn’t really give much way for tight fight choreography because of the nature of the fights but how MAPPA handled those fights were beyond masterful. How they weren’t afraid to make bold decisions and change things from the manga to make the fights so much better. Like how in the manga Geto vs Toji happened in one spot whereas the fight in the anime happened throughout the entire Tomb of the Star Corridor. The fights in Shibuya are peak Shonen fights unlike HI so while I’m up for making changes to improve upon what is there but I hope they’re careful with that.
Lets Gooo!!! Man i love your channel. Especially with aiming at becoming an animator.. Thank you for the uploads.
Toji's personal manko goes crazy....
MANKO thanks for the video , always look forwards to them
Love how much mappa cares for JJK, this finna be one of the best animated arcs in all anime🔥
I wonder how many people actually understood the joke in the first sentence 🗿
Tomorrow we will see Ishitani-san's shingoyama rival who will blow our minds with her new opening song, One Piece.
After seeing recent ep 6 characters look thin compared to season 1 which is actually good. Now they look like 16-17 year old students.
In season 1 characters looked more buffed.
True lol
Congrats on 6K subs my favorite person on TH-cam🎉🎉🎉
I won't write any other thing this time because even you would be getting bored of that same thing repeated again and again😅😅
this is so so cool i love hearing you talk about this
Please do the opening animation review, it really pops
+2 it was great
Sadly miso's ep will be dimmed heavily and will also get a lot of hate (sukuna scene is already the most controversial scene from the trailer)
Fuck them man, We animation enthusiast will enjoy it.
Morons gonna be morons. If only people were able to ignore them
@@seya_2 Well said, fuck them.
It dosen't matter since you can't do anything about it. Btw did you followed him on Twitter?
@@A1000-b9s who miso then yes and he will most probably direct that sukuna ep even though he hate the awful condition in which jjk is made
"It would be interesting to see how Gege writes tension into Jujutsu Kaisen now" YOU WILL SEE VERY SOON!!! :O
Really surprised you know about Fog Hill of the Five Elements, but then again, it makes perfect sense that you caught on it lol. I'd REALLY like to see you analyze it, although I have practically no knowledge of Chinese animators much less the team at Samsara Studio
I would like to analyze it as well, but I need to find time for it and most importantly the right words. It would be like a painting review channel analyzing the Mona Lisa; very difficult to talk about something that is a masterpiece of the highest level. This is also why I haven't made a video on Redline.
@@-MankoMan Ohh that's something else I haven't heard about...here's another thing to check out I suppose :D
i only realized it today but the opening uploaded to youtube with no credits has some difrend parts than the op we got in the episode
ther are some shading changes and editing changes to character drawing corrections
If I ain't wrong this also hapens with CSM OP.
Illuminate us
that opening line is insane lmfao
You are my favorite youtuber.
Dude your chanel was recommended by someone under the comments of a video and I love you. I feel so intelligent watching it 🤓
Yooo nice! was waiting for this
Thank you for the video! I wonder how you will manage to do reviews of episodes 4,5,6. Wish you luck 😂
Imagine they drop a pre-amimated PV by the end of the season for what's next?
🔥
Great video bro!
6k subscribers soon, you had like 4k a week ago lmao
16:48 If that was the case, it would be so amazing
NOOOOO BRING BACK THE AHOGAE BACKGROUND THAT SHIT WAS FIRE LMAO
That Sukuna cut looks like one of those old japanese paintings no? Who agrees with me?
Great and very informative video, as always! :)
Both Probably Pretentious and MankoMan uploaded at the same day 😍😍
now do the OP, because holy fuck the OP is so gorgeous
Awesome video! Love this!
By the way, what was the next special generation project after JJK?
Frieren
Jujutsu manko mans new video Letsgoooo!!!!!
Nice hoodie
Hey I dunno if you’re still reading comments on this vid, but I’m fairly certain that the crowd cut at 10:09 is done by Takuji Miyamoto. It has his signature wobbly lines if you look closely.. it’s just a hunch. Let’s see if my Sakugan is correct 👁️
love the vibes.
Nice analysis. We not letting that intro slide tho…😂😂😂
Bro, Make animation analysis for One Piece too. Soo many GOAT animators involved in Wano arc.
16:40, it maybe park since there are leaks that one episode from this arc is being outsourced to relatively new studio(coping it may be park's new studio that he had just started)
How tho? They are already very busy with 3 shows which is ridicilous
@@A1000-b9sif it's his studio probably it's because he wanna return the favor due to almost a decade as a Mappa only freelancer, but also because the studio needs money.
After all i doubt that he opened his studio without contracting a debt with a bank. It's very rare.
Also... Yes, he should avoid to take too much sub-contracred work if his small studio his already that busy. But since Japan is not in the 80s anymore is basically a passage that most studios pass trough. Even already established ones like Shaft, that least of them all should take extra and consuming work like a fully outsourced ep, but since ep 2-5 of zom 100 were made by them I guess that they really needed to
@@lorenzorizzi864 yeah they would probably get a good money if they work on JJK. I wish him the best but i don't know if it was The best choice. Since he lost a lot of Resources that big studio can give him. Yeah you can say he can carry the Animation side of things in a 3 shows lmao. But they probably need mass outsourcing on other things. That's a gamble on the Quality and the money of the Studio. Hope it can pay off at The end, cause it looks like they growing at a good pace
Lesss Gooo Boiss....
6:24 whoever said that it's his blood? 😉
the arc is going to be insane tho, so the animation will as well, can't wait to see more of your reviews.
7:57
good old days lol
amazing
I too am sick my friend 😂
Hey Manko just heads up the OP for the shibuya arc has spoilers in it so if you are gonna do an analysis of it be prepared for a few major spoilers
They're definitely saving up the animation budget for later episodes that will really need it! The arc is insane
Oh no don't say the B-word (budget)
Animators be scanning their Key-frames along with a few yen bills to automatically increase the quality.
BUDGET
Please do the opening analysis 🙏🙏🙏
凄い！！！！
You should make a video analyzing the new opening for shibuya.
To be fair to people Ren Onodera does heavily use cg in their work. From my understanding in cuts like the one from Boruto you showed they start by making a 3d model that they then reference and draw over for their 2d work.
Yes, he uses CGI to get the perspective down for the character. Ikuo Geso also does this, and like 70% of action scenes in Ufotable are also made like this. The final scene though has been transformed by drawings to the point where the CGI doesn't show at all.
In Ren's case he started off a bit rough, like his black clover OP cut, but by the time the JJK scene came around he'd perfected it; besides those drawings have another layer of polish given due to TNK's corrections.
toji's personal what
Fog hill animation breakdown? 😳
I could listen to you ALL DAY taking about whatever stupid opinions weebs put out on whichever platform
I just wanna slap this video to those who think "WaaH sUkUna FirE arRoW sCenE uGLy"
Is frieien the upcoming anime about the elf adventurer?
❤😊
Do Shibuya Op please!!!
Bleach tybw cour 2 animation has been mostly stiff still frames
I won't say it's still frames. Limited animation might be the right word.
I’m only a manga reader for Bleach, but the fights in Bleach tend to not lend themselves to be traditional sakuga, so it makes sense that the animation is limited.
Can you recommend any anime that has same animation as monogatari series
Did you watched the latest one piece episode?
Will you be talking about mushoku tensei s2 i think its downgraded compared to s1 it is still amazing but compared to s1 it feels inconsistent
Ok.... *PLEEEAASE* don't murder me.....
Tf does Sakuga mean💀
High quality animation where the budget goes.
@@simplyrohith2163 oh.
Thank for the comment but Wdym by "the budget goes"?
Is it like they don't care how expensive the animation is and they just focus on the quality with no regard for the money spent?
@@thatguytax no people who do those high quality animation cost more. Anime is very limited with budget. Ofc you have Mappa with boatload of money who can easily buy the whole industry. Studios sacrifice some parts to have those expensive high quality shots. But there are shows were the" sakuga" Starts from 0:00 of ep1 to 24:30 of final episode (Chainsawman, Violet Evergaden, JJK s2, Mob psycho 100, Space Dandy) .
Sakuga just means "Drawing" nothing more. But it's used for well animated cuts and scenes now. Well animated scenes are Sakuga, it can be Character Acting, Fight, Effect, Walking, anything can be sakuga it just has to be well animated and it usually stands out.
@@simplyrohith2163 oh makes sense
Make a video on mushoku tensei
w
extremely overrated show
It's not
It takes inspiration or whatever from major shonens and improves on everything
@@Cocxy69It's basically just hxh but alright
@@Tub-Nub takes most inspiration from*
As he's a fan of togashi
Missed opportunity to talk about the huge controversy the Sukuna flame scene had, vs the fan _animation_
There's no reason to talk about that. Not even worth joking about as the video is already long enough.
😂
Disagree, i think CG BGs are also well done 4:16
I feel like it was ugly in the forest scenes but everywhere else it was pretty good
Not in s1