@@mothersbasement An 8-pack of what? We need to know what he did with all that unprocessed motion captured outsourced cell-shaded money. If someone can go into 2011 3DS Max and slap a texture on default animations that pull even half the views your videos do and get paid twice as much, I need to know what they're getting so I can make an offer for slightly less.
I was kinda curious and while looking at EX-ARM's wiki, this was in Minami's page: "She is a hotheaded and brash. She also can’t stop smiling for some reason (perhaps due to Animation limitations, as opposed to a personality trait). "
Alma's is even better: Alma is a prototype android with a four-year lifespan. She was given a job as member of the police force, and partnered with Minami Uenozono. They kiss sometimes whenever the plot wants them too and it would be really hot if the light of Jesus didn’t blind me every time they did.
“Throughout the show, Akira is shown to be unable to close his mouth. It can be inferred that this is a result of the accident in 2014, although this is unconfirmed.”
It's really sad to see how far Promised Neverland has fallen. S1 is one of the most beloved and popular anime of the past few years, and S2 is honest to god considered one of the worst anime of this year. A truly impressive fuck up.
I, honestly, had a lot of issues with TPN S1 as an adaptation and I don't think CloverWorks was ever up to the task of adapting the entire manga which would've demanded around 70 episodes and plenty of sakuga. They completely omitted all internal monologues. This is a weird one. Pretty much all anime adaptation keep the internal monologues if the OG manga had them. I guess the director wanted to be unique? So, basically, either we don't get a character's thoughts or they say them out loud. Or, in the case of Krone, shout them out loud. Yeah, that's a smart thing to do - just shout all your dastardly plans out loud for everyone to hear through the house's thin walls. The manga also had a bunch of visual aids during exposition. Which the anime, once again, omitted. Another baffling decision for a visual medium. TPN was also one of the few anime where I didn't like all the Japanese VAs (that's very rare for me). Norman, Ray, Isabella & Gilda were on point but Emma & Don were a tad "eh." Also, I think they should've made the demons sound a BIT different from humans. Maybe a very mild filter? Maybe I'm just nitpicky because TPN is one of my favourite manga. It absolutely deserves a top-tier adaptation like Demon Slayer or Attack on Titan S1. It has to be the absolute biggest betrayal from Weekly Shounen Jump. It's, like, the 16th most popular manga in the history of the magazine (1,600,000 sales per single volume). It's almost on the level of My Hero Academia (1,670,000 sales per single volume) and THAT manga got 6 seasons and counting. By the time it's over, it's probably going to have over 200 episodes.
I hype for TPN season 2 but nahh i just pretend its never exist,before i quite not satisfied with manga ending but now welp at least the manga are 99% better than anime one.
Everyone was so busy shitting their pants over High Guardian Spice, they failed to realize that Crunchyroll's actual crime was greenlighting this year's number one entry.
HGS wasn’t even that bad if you accepted that it was gonna be terrible from the start and tried to enjoy it anyway. I don’t remember the last time I had so much fun watching a show out of spite as I did with HGS. They said it wasn’t a ‘so bad it’s good’ show but they were wrong and I’m probably the only person on earth who wants a season 2.
@@Prodmullefc no matter how low your expectations are you never expect to see a stock photo (WITH THE WATERMARK) used in animation (UNEDITED)! and not just once!
the comments on all the videos i got recommended of hgs were full of barely disguised ‘anti-woke’ bs, so i watched it to see if that’s where all the hate was coming from. genuinely enjoyed the show. it feels as cute and fun as the school sections in The Owl House. i’ve heard there’s a bunch of technical problems, but i only noticed a few things with the audio (offset for me by the 2 or 3 side characters that sound like a DM having fun with npc voices, in a charming way). the only writing nitpicks i have are 1) the mean girl makes fun of the ‘old magic’ mage’s hat, then we see that her ‘adventuring gear’ has the same type of hat, and 2) in the rainy day episode, someone says something about it being ‘broad daylight’ while we can see through the window that it’s overcast and gray. it’s not edited like an intentional joke, if that was the point. the only other thing that seemed weird was that the swearing and blood in the later episodes made me question who the target audience was supposed to be. i wouldn’t expect this audience to have that same brand of hateboner, so can someone explain to me which parts i was supposed to be laughing at the show rather than with it?
Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a piece of work that you wrote, composed, sketched, inked, and published yourself, then watching it get popular in a twist of fate you always dreamed of… only for its anime adaptation to be so awful that people retch at the sight of your work.
Man, it's crazy that we all collectively had the exact same nightmare about The Promised Neverland season 2. Good thing it wasn't real, that would suck. I do hope they adapt it soon, I'm sure they'll nail it when they eventually get around to it.
Even the manga gets terribad once they start explaining anything. It's the JJ effect where you pose interesting questions and don't think about how to answer them, so just come up with trash on the fly.
The thing about Ex-Arm is that we also have actual proof that a single random person can do a better job with the exact same source material than an actual anime studio did.
When you described Record of Ragnorock battles using DBZ, I was like "How could anything make a DBZ battle longer and worse?" --- I was truely impressed.
he totally skipped over how retarded the premise was, and the slap stick like approach they took to that one chick's boobs. The show was trying to be goofy and overly edgy at the same time and it was like a whiplash fever dream. I had to stop watching half way through episode 1.
@@RaulDiaz-mp8ms when I heard it was going to be an anime I was excited. I never watched it after hearing the criticism. If we do more episode hopefully they do it justice.
the joke about Cloverworks mailing every TPN fan a personalized picture of Emma giving the middle finger actually made me tear up a bit-- still working out whether its from laughter or from the lingering trauma of (hypothetical) S2.
The Promised Neverland Season 2 was never made. I'm as sure of that as I am sure of how RWBY was cancelled after Volume 3 and we were all sent pictures of Team RWBY collectively flipping the bird
Ever since Geoff's first video on anime made by a cult, my mom has been watching his channel, and uses these videos as a guide on what to try out and what to avoid regarding anime. Thank you, Geoff, for giving us videos to watch together and laugh at, and for getting her interested in anime as a valid art form and storytelling vehicle. We watched this video after dinner together and it was a cozy moment. If you're ever in Montana, please know my mom would happily make you a lasagna if you'd like one.
Awwww!!!! That's wonderful! I'm so glad you can share his videos with your mom! I have to be careful whenever I play his and I know my mom is in the next room because I never know what he will say🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (or what strange anime summary she will overhear) /lh 😅🤣
I love that Crunchyroll decided to go with someone who had no experience with anime for Ex Arm. I also love where restaurants decide to hire people with no cooking experience to run their kitchens. I hate when people get tied down doing things as they've always been done. Just because everyone else cooks poultry before serving doesn't mean we shouldn't allow exciting new ideas like chicken carpaccia.
Remember when the creator of The Owl House said that Luz's favorite anime is The Promised Neverland? Let's hope that she doesn't watched this before she going to another world.
I have never felt so bad for a fictional character. Considering the depth and depravity of tragic origin stories that exist in fiction, I feel like that says a lot.
She'd be so emotionally distraught that upon entering the Demon Realm she would've let the first demon she saw have her full permission (in murmured cries and sobs form) to eat her alive to end her weeb misery. Good thing that stuff doesn't effect me because I don't watch nearly enough anime.
@@rjs4176 the worst timeline is when she was so disgusted by S2 of TPN that definitely only exist in her world that she became Belos apprentice like Marcy to King Andrias and shit's popped off
@@aobasuzukaze1032 The thought and idea of Luz working as a servant or a spy for the Emperor actually sounds kind of cool, y'know, when you leave out the whole heavily implied physical and psychological abuse part of it. It'd be cool just for the aesthetic though. Other then that I can't wait for the 2nd season of TPN, a series that I've totally watched and am totally watching still instead of spending my time by watching episodes of Infinity train on loop for days on end (go watch that by the way, it's spectacular 😉). I SWEAR I WATCH ANIME, I DON'T WATCH ANIME TH-camRS JUST BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE GOOD CHANNELS NO.
@@rjs4176 i mean I found out Mother's Basement because of his Gravity Falls video since I watched cartoons before anime so I get you there jsjsj. Anyways Amphibia S3 is low-key more disturbing than Wonder Egg
I love the fact that it sounds like netflix did a better job of the editing of the 6 minutes of no.5 that they gave you than whoever was actually writing and directing it
@@George_M_ Thank you for pointing this out. A lot of weebs like to criticize Netflix for some of the stuff they put on their service in a way that explicitly blames them for the creation of those things, when all they did was license them. Like the live action Bleach and Fullmetal Alchemist movies.
@@SomeRandomJackAss To be fair, that's a reasonable mistake to make when they slap their "Netflix Original" label on anything even when they just license it.
Can’t lie, I’m actually impressed at how one of the best animes (TPN) ended up being one of the worst from season 1 to (the hypothetical) season 2. I didn’t know it was possible.
@@BuzzabeelYT I'd say it turned into an entirely different anime, not a bad one but mediocre. Like it took a 90 degree turn (or maybe 120) rather than a full 180.
I love that the TPN fandom pulled a "There's no War at Ba Sing Se" instead of the old "Secret Good Episode" coined by a side of the BBC Sherlock fans. I only consider canon the first two seasons, BTW.
@@jesuschrist7631 I lost intrest after I stopped being able to piece together the mystery from the info given. Sherlock Homes shouldn't be a genius because he can pull out deductions out of thin air, he's a genius because he has a meticulous way of going about a crime scene, and an improbably large store of knowledge memorized. Any deduction he makes should be "elementary" from the prospective of someone holding all the clues, which, by the nature of how media written following the prospective of the character is, should include the viewer. To me it should elict a mix of "naturally" and "of course, why didn't I think of that?" for responses. Not suggest mysteries with no answer and ass pulls using info deliberately hidden from the viewer.
Fuck wait what? I needed you to say this for me to realise that it happened this year. Even while watching I didn't consider it was released in 2021. Shit I thought it was like in 2018 or 2019... I need help 😫😩😕😞😪😢😫😩😕😞😪😢😫😩
Can we get an honorable mention for the parts of "So I'm a Spider, So What?" that got outsourced at the end of the season and made the directors put out a statement saying they knew it was terrible, but either had to keep it, or redo the entire thing? The rest of the series was great, but man, some of that stuff at the end was definitely Ex-Arm level.
@@grandr.4279 from what I remember a contractor they'd outsourced work to gave them unusable shite, so they had to make do with what they had and rush to compensate episodes. A good chunk of the last few episodes use pretty bad CGI on a generic brown battlefield (extra bonus that this is narratively meant to be a forest) as they tried their best to make it at least not be a slideshow. In the end they delayed the final episode so that at least had a significantly better quality again.
Holy shit i'm so glad you mentioned the smoke, i swear this shit went through it's own character arc. First they just overuse it to the point you start to notice it. Once you notice it the inappropriate use of it seemingly increases by the minute, they use the same smoke with every camera angle, sometimes having it move while the smoke remains static. Then it will be just present at all time. Small closed room? Fuck it, smoke overlay for no apparent reason. finally they added a mirroring effect to it, i still have no idea how or why this happened. You can see an example at 28:27 in the shot with the cat robots. They clearly had a smoke overlay that was wide enough for the entire screen, yet they chose to mirror the smoke making it even more noticable and shit looking. By the last episodes i was just watching the smoke the entire time, it was hypnotizing. They took the most basic visual asset possible, misused it in every way i could think of and then just went out and invented a new, never before seen way of misusing it, it was amazing. My second favourite thing about this show is how the ED is legit the cover art with the 2D characters that look nothing like their model just zooming out slowly for the entire duration. It's the most basic motion to even concider it animated, i heard this "i couldn't do a worse job if i tried" thing before, but i'm convinced it's physically impossible to do animate worse ED (the song was ok though)
As you already mentioned, the record of ragnarok Manga is all you would imagine it would be, gorgeous art, super interesting and diverse characters, a compelling plot and generally just good action scenes with enough hype to back it up Practically its everything you need in a fighting tournament story Even if the anime was hot garbage, I hope this doesn't make anyone feel like not trying the Manga, please do try it, it's good I swear
Man, I decided to pick it up and the character designs are really good and well thought-out. Even how the panels played out is great. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@mozart4344 It's really stupid. If they had adapted 4 fights instead of 3, they would've fixed the absolutely atrocious pacing and ended on probably the second best or best fight in the series. The anime that way would easily have gone from one of the worst to one of the best.
@@belshazzarsf3ast thank you for defending bad writing and bringing nothing of value to the table. Id like to call you a Dissapointment but considering your comment, your Parents do that most likely enough already.
The Promised Neverland Season 2 only existed in our collective minds because we were caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, fortunately Team 7 punched a rabbit and freed us from our suffering.
I feel exactly the same way as you do (and possibly many other people) about (the hypothetical) TPN Season 2. It stings extra hard for me since TPN Season 1 (the real one) was the anime that got me into anime in the first place. It was such an incredible, unique experience, and TPN Season 1 is still one of my favourite animes! But now The Promised Neverland is forever ruin by the atrocity that is TPN Season 2. And just like you and many others, I am perfectly content with calling TPN Season 2 a 'hypothetical' anime season. At least in my mind, TPN Season 1 is the only 'real' TPN anime adaptation we got. I guess now the only thing left to do is pray that one day we will get The Promised Neverland: Brotherhood. Also, I am very glad to have read most of the manga, it's so amazing.
Your review of Record of Ragnarok perfectly encapsulates my feeling about the show. I could tell the adaptation wasn't doing the source material any justice and I'd never read it.
3:40: GLACIAL Record of Ragna-slower-than-a-Rok 10:15: Turd-colored Nexus 14:05: Bullshit Athletes, Victory WTF!!! 22:05: The Painful Neverland 24:28: The Dunning-Kruger Effect personified and in motion
0:48: Dunning Kruger Effect, you say. But nothing is desplaying that as hard as the Flat-Earthers that Sci Man Dan and Professor Dave Explains covers. Well... maybe one exception though: 'This man thinks he debunked Einstein', a video of Sci Man Dan that was NOT about Flat-Earthers.
I got a degree in 3D and I shit you not a ton of the student projects make Ex-Arm look like someone playing around with pre-vis work in Unity. It's the worst thing I've ever seen supposedly published for mass consumption and rather than arguing about whether or not Avatar is Anime (because it absolutely is) we should be discussing whether or nor Ex-Arm is actually Anime.
@@AcornPlays I'm not convinced Ex-Arm is anime. If it is it is only because the source material is a Japanese Manga. Otherwise you could call Red Vs. Blue with it's far superior 3D anime.
@@talltroll7092 the earlier stuff was all machinima and there was some machinima mixed in with the later seasons but in the latter half much if the show was done entirely in 3D. Ask me how I know (I was the first commissioner of their "Grifball" league and Nico and Burnie are friends).
Can confirm that I also received that picture of Emma flipping me off in the mail. Not sure how the Studio got ahold of my address, but that's a less serious crime than them creating that horrendous season 2 you dreamt up.
I've heard of stories accidentally being LGBT, but never in my life would I come across how something can be accidentally homophobic. Show #1 really said: Let's make the worst thing possible, as a treat.
It’s actually really easy to. Especially happened with a lot of early 2000s sitcoms. You just try to do representation, but do absolutely no sensitivity checks.
@@thevioletbee5879 I still love how well quoted "Not that there's anything wrong with that" still is today because that's just honestly the perfect way to do it.
32:37 -- LOL, they used that same cheat in Sonic '06! To paraphrase Geoff, Sonic's character model was nowhere near articulated enough to sell a convincing kiss with Elise, and the animators' solution was to just clip their lips into each other and cover up the intersecting weirdness with a point light.
I was told to touch Record of Raganrok but I was told to read the manga. After checking out the preview for the anime, i understood what they meant. Like the manga is really, really freaking good and deserved a better adaptation than whatever we got...
I admit this kinda baffles me. I tried Record of Ragnarok and I fount it to be outright awful. Like, it's a very lackluster Dumb Tournament Manga, with a very lukewarm premise, and if you know the first thing about any of the Gods that are allegedly being used, these are REALLY shitty portrayals of the Gods in question. Like Shiva especially. They got Shiva VERY wrong in this, as well as Thor, and basically every God. Record of Ragnarok makes Fate look like a well-researched Academic paper based on genuine folklore and myth. Like, if you want mythic and folklore in-line or to see any effort put into making these Gods and Heroes FEEL like the people and Gods they allege to be, 0/10. Absolutely terrible. If you're going to fuck up THIS bad, why the fuck are you using the names of these Gods and Heroes?
@@Kyman102 To each their own I guess, but keep in mind that some god's personalities were changed to make for better fights and more interesting characters. Shiva in mythology is nigh omnipotent to the point where he could just think you away, all the gods are. RoR shines because it does gods differently while still keeping their essence imo. The humans are also extremely well researched, all of their backstories are accurate, only with a few things changed to better suit the narrative. If you go into this manga expecting gods and humans to be copy/pasted on from the real World, idk about you but that'd make for an even worse manga
it's a consistent issue with hyper-detailed manga based anime. Berserk, Baki, Records of Ragnarok and all. trying to bring the same level of art to animation when it's just not built for that(like super detailed muscles and stuff) is super difficult and time-consuming. and anime works on really tight schedules to begin with. without a major downgrade or change to the art, or a dramatically changed budget and timeframe, there's not a lot they can do. Jojo is basically the closest any adaptions of that type have come to succeeding, and none of the Jojos are really known for great animation at all. they're built on a mountain of cut-corners.
@@MegamanStarforce2010 JoJo does a LOT they wouldnt need to. Rotating shots, 1st Person, incredibly detailed shots from above that is almost exactly like the Real World counterpart. The last part is obviously because of the mangaka, but still.
@@Kyman102 If you are so keen on it being a direct portrayal of gods from mythology, why didn't you outright notice that an indian god is participating in an event called "Ragnarok"? After seeing that, you keep on reading and expecting something else? Clearly what you are expecting isn't what the manga was going for in the first place, it's not like you were deceived. Why can't a piece of fiction be good just because it makes its own characters, inspired by folklore? What makes a story good is not that you need to be a connoisseur of mythology to appreciate it, but that the story itself makes you interested and invested in these characters( characters' fights, in this case).
RoR hurt me so badly. I read the manga a bit before it came out. A friend and i gushed over the characters and lost our minds at the anime release. I even told random people i was looking forward to it coming out. I told an neighbor to check it out, and now i avoid him on trash days to the point I've collected a small landfill in my living room. The pacing blows. It's god awful. I hate it.
Tbh I'm not that surprised about the pacing, the good part of the manga is that you can read everything of that in 1 minute or even less, but in the anime they have to read that with patience, I'm really worried about the next fights because I felt those flashbacks and commentary long in the manga
I seriously don’t understand how the manga can be better here. Bad animation as side, all the problems I have with it seem to be core to the thing. I guess that the manga can be pretty maybe but I don’t think it can save the piece from its format issues or the cardboard stereotypical characters or etcs.
small correction, the arifueta anime was enough of a screw up that the author was able to force white fox to pay for the second season to be done by a different studio. the LN sales however did recover upon the second seasons release as it was better done if still lack luster meaning its sales were less crippled and more badly injured.
Geoff, your ability to cut down these anime to their component filth with such colorful and precise descriptions is profound. Thank you for the service you’re doing. I hope you have a good holiday and new year.
Damn really sucks hearing about record of ragnarock. I remember reading the manga and it was pretty damn good so I got exited to hear It got an anime, now I feel sad itl probably never get another anime again.
When I was reading it before the anime was announced, I figured it an adaptation would either be like one punch man S1 or one punch man season 2. It ended up being much worse than S2 unfortunately
Conceptually, Promised Neverland had a great first season that left me wanting more. However, I felt that there was so much potential for the second season that they just didn’t utilize. Stories untold, character developments missed, and just so many other things could have made it much better. Long story short, season two felt incredibly rushed and focused too much on story arcs that really should have had an episode or two before moving to another arc.
They litteraly had to cut out half the story which would've been around 3 seasons worth, that's how rushed it is. Then the rest of the content that was adapted is just trying to hit the plotpoints that *WEREN'T* removed. No time for character development or an intriguing story that's suspenseful, just as long as it hits the key moments, that'll do.
"THis is the only bad anime I've seen that is so bad its ACCIDENTALLY HOMOPHOBIC" as a queer person who KNOWS that that make out is purely for men to get off too because lesbians are so often treated like p*rn that made me laugh so hard
Yeeeah, I was really disappointed with the Battle Athletes one, personally. Fun facts y'all: It's actually not _that_ big of a horn-fest, in the sense that though the outfits were revealing during sports challenges and the racial stereotypes were problematic, the actual adventure was decently interesting, the main cast was properly showed to grow and the MC's biggest conflict was that she was the most obnoxiously pampered child of all time who would always suck so long as she didn't align a healthy mentality with her actual abilities. What that means is that her suddenly getting super good over the course of the anime is due to the fact that she was _always_ a good athlete, she just has terrible self-esteem; and in fact, the other members of the class slander her name for her sudden boost in ability and dismiss it as her having pretended to be bad instead of recognizing her growth. The most memorable part of it for me was Ayla's character, growing from a cold deadpan human robot to a mildly philosophical gentle soul who understands the value of healthy rivalry. Which she chooses over destroying her body for the sake of proving she's the best or something. The sports were also still super wacky and equally as fun to watch because of the animation quality. Uh, what I'm saying is that the 90s version of the show was honestly really good and would prolly be more popular if the concept wasn't as specific as it is (kinda got the Skullgirls treatment as a result), but the people working on it most likely cared given the result. I love that show's climax way better, too; it was also a "normal" run, but A: 4 of the most important MCs participate in it against a single boss who's good enough to run a 400m baton-passing dash by herself, and B: that boss has a personal connection with both the MC and the viewer, as she's been shown to be a legendary super athlete since episode one, so, seeing her show up as The Final Boss is... well, for those who play Pokémon, basically think of it as a smaller version of what it feels like the very first time you meet Red. _Right after_ you've played through Gen 1. Extra cool because that woman has a _hilarious_ personality. Still fun to watch this reboot/stealth sequel kill itself though (the gorilla dude especially), but uh, yeah. Between that and LBX Girls, I _really_ got hit in the gut this year. XD
Yeah I need to watch this sequel. I wasn't a big fan of the original Battle Athletes OVA, but I LOVE the much MUCH sillier Battle Athletes Victory. I had a huge soft spot for an old arcade game called Numan Athletics (Track & Field but with anime super heroes with Tenchi Muyo looking character designs) and Battle Athletes Victory was the closest thing to a Numan Athletics anime. The old anime was really REALLY not that ecchi. The promo art was. The PS1 game's options screen is literally just a picture of a bunch of butts. But the anime is so far below Tenchi Muyo in terms of fanservice (as it came from the days when Tenchi was the pinnacle of fanservice in anime) that Mother's Basement's description of it honestly kinda bothers me.
I remember enjoying the original Battle Athletes in spite of or because of the stuff Twaggy listed here. (Not sure if I saw the OVA or Victory lol I forgot there were two versions?) I also didn't recall it being an ecchi show because frankly those shorts are used in most anime with girls doing a gym scene, right? It's just a shame the new series isn't nearly as good.
I love Battle Athletes Victory and Twaggy nails it so well that it's like my own thoughts of it are thrown back at me. Two things I have to add though: The original BAV writers are Hideyuki Kurata and Yousuke Kuroda... I hope I have that right.... and they are titans, absolute titans of anime comedy. The OVA was only written by Kurata and it shows. BAV specialized in outrageous sport contests but always climaxed in basic track and field activities: A triathlon, the hundred meter dash and 1500 meter relay. Why? To nail down how inhuman these humans ultimately are. Speaking of INHUMANS, Restart left something out I take? I only made it through about 6 episodes or so before my entire will was crushed under bad art and even worse writing.
It’s amazing how PN2 is just so bad he couldn’t bring himself to cover it. No one should be that emotionally destroyed during the holidays. I’d like to hope that maybe years down the line, a proper adaptation could happen. But man, hope is hard.
Watching the clips of Ex Arm I realised something that completely threw me for a loop for a moment. I genuinely straight up couldn't tell you what emotions were being... expressed(?) by any of the characters. For a moment I was worried I'd somehow lost the ability to read faces, but nope, it's just like that. Just these blank soulless faces staring into my soul.
There an anime movie (which I can't remember the name of) back in the 90s where they ran out of time mid-production because of IP/contract shenanigans and had to put pieces of animatic and storyboard instead of sone scenes, and show it in theatres on release date with a promise of free VHS tape of the thing actually done to people who showed up. I can bet you those animatics had more expressive faces anyway.
Lol. "Animation" so bad that it induces a limited form of prosopagnosia sounds like some type of SCP rather than something capable of existing in real life.
honestly, i knew that record of ragnarok's anime adaptation would be a huge dissapointment the manga is similar to murata's one punch man, where the art quality and character designs are just too detailed to be animation friendly
I’d also like to add its formatting with backstories and such works.. meh in the manga. But does take way too fucking long in the anime, it needs to be modified for it to succeed.
@@bocodamondo I agree, season 1 especially for it’s time is incredible. Season 2 doesn’t quite live up to it but hey, at least it’s not RoR animation 😭
even though I consider myself an anime fan I never really watch much anime because of this. So many anime are just the same shit over and over, and the misogyny is such a huge "turn-off" for an anime. Anime is such a great medium for telling some of the best stories I have ever experienced but there is a lot of this garbage that is sadly prevalent in anime
I got curious about MAL scores after this, and turns out that of the 12,000 or so anime listed on MAL whose scores don't read as 'N/A' - Ex-Arm is 12th from the very bottom of the list. There are 11 anime at this moment with a lower MAL score than Ex-Arm
Extremely low user ratings aren't as accurate as middle or high rankings, because people will get turned off so fast that they might not even get to the point of rating it. It might just be up to which ones drove off fewer viewers based on the thumbnail or clip you see before even clicking on it.
I'd like to say, having watched ragnarok, that an important secondary indictment of the story is that nobody seems to have any issue with the blatant unfairness of the whole situation aside from the seraph lady. Like, the gods are stacking the deck, *hard,* and that's definitely in character for a group of prideful and douchey pantheon heads, but it's done pretty blatantly and yet none of the humans involved say anything about it. Things that are done in clear view of the audience of all of humanity, which is not commented on or argued against by any member of *all of humanity:* All of the gods get to bring godly artifacts to the fight, while the humans have to settle for seraph-sourced enchanted weapons to keep up. Sudden change of who is actually going to be fighting on the god's side, violating the pre-established roster with no reason given. As mentioned in the video, hermes gets to do a whole bard pump-up ritual on Zeus before a fight; it's never stated to be a magical buff or anything but it could've been and nobody said anything. Poseidon gets to conduct his fight on a platform surrounded by water, his domain element. Hercules is allowed to participate on the god side of things, despite being a demigod and thus half human. Again, all of humanity is watching this fight, and the closest thing to a scene of anybody raising a stink is when one of the humans dies and a bunch of his followers are like "we'll follow you into the super-double afterlife!" and then die trying to zerg rush the god what killed him. Aside from that none of the humans complain or even really jeer at the dickhead gods who are trying to apocalypse them to death, when that's really out of character for a panel of every human ever.
And here I am just being salty they didn’t ask anyone with two X chromosomes to fight. Seriously, way to ignore half the world and some of the baddest asses therein. (Extra insulting is the inclusion of Durga and Kali…as part of Shiva’s cheer section in the audience.)
I have seen a group of professional women cops lose to a man and call for backup. We don't need to pretend that having women fight would not end up as anything other than a catfight, but one side has divine powers.@@sarahcole9661
“Never again be helmed by a live action director…” A line that’s been said since the invention of animation. Last time we heard that was after Katzenberg took a chainsaw to The Black Cauldron, leaving a good 15 minutes of film to be lost.
I have to admit, as someone that has seriously considered learning japanese but not having the resources, with covid making the booking of public college classes backed up to high hell and that lifetime discount, I'm seriously considering that rosetta stone deal.
I’d recommend Japanese From Zero as the way to self-teach yourself. It’s pretty much a workbook that holds your hand through the language. The author even has free supplementary videos for almost all of the lessons right here on TH-cam. Best of luck with your Japanese journey!
Here's the thing, me and my little brother started watched Promised Neverland after her told me how awesome the manga was, and we loved it. The second season had started airing and they were at episode 4 and already the fan base was declaring war on it for anime original content. We shrugged it off figuring it was some small change people were blowing out of proportion as we watched it and twist after twist I was audibly gushing about how blown away I was at the sheer strength of the writing, the considerations to the smallest details and the surprisingly dark tones they were able to sudden pull out of a show that up to that point had been mostly cheerful and they did so every time with skill that would make the mangaka of Kaiji blush in envy. Then we started season 2, and even without having read a single page of the manga up to that point, I absolutely hated it, and by episode 4 we decided to drop it. Then he told me all the stuff just in those episodes that was missed, and now I've started reading the manga. It's fucking awesome by the way.
I think it's heartwarming that all it takes to make the great anime-pope Geoff break down giggling like a schoolgirl, is to walk up to him and say "Blow yourself". Also, Merry Christmas, Geoff and Tenleid!
Wasn't motivated to draw for the past few days. This video has reminded me to keep drawing and to keep improving more and more. Thank you! I'll keep watching your content with joy, so please keep up the videos!
I remember hearing about how about how bad ex harm was, and deciding to watch it just to make fun of it. I do it often and it is always far more fun than the show itself. But ex harm was so bad, I couldn't make it past the first episode. I WAS TRYING TO INSULT IT FOR FUN BUT COULDN'T BECAUSE IT WAS JUST THAT BAD.
For some reason the fact that the stabilizing fins don't deploy on that RPG-7 rocket at 27:19 really rubs me the wrong way. They literally just bought an RPG-7 model from the unity store and didn't even bother to watch a youtube video of one getting fired.
26:16 that robots arm is somehow clipping into that wall, halfway in, at the middle of his blade. That is: two straight objects somehow interected in such a way that only the middle of the first object is intersecting the latter one despite them pointing in the same direction. HOW DOES ONE MESS UP THAT BADLY?
I liked that you bring up the arifureta light novels to compare *first place “winner”* to. I picked them up this year and they are certainly an experience. Not sure if they’re good but I definitely think it’s worth checking out if you liked the ideas of the anime though. Anyway happy holidays and congrats on the house!
Man it's really weird that so many people including me had this weird nightmare about the continuation of TPN. That has to have something to do with the vaccines, they make our nightmares feel more realistic /s Hope you get some good rest at the end of this year :)
The anime awards should have an award for biggest disappointment. Promised Neverland S2 would win by a slide. The fact that S1 was so good made S2 much worse
I can kinda see what Record of Ragnarok was going for, showing just how apocalyptically devastating a fight between two literal gods would be, but the execution is so slow. It should have been more like Ashura's Wrath, still showing how devastating a fight between gods would be but at a much faster pace.
22:19 This is simultaneously both hilarious and uncanny, because this is the exact way that we talk about the theoretical sequel season to the Promised Neverland, which thankfully has never been seen by anyone outside of A1's production team, and most certainly not been seen by myself.
"It makes you feel like a disappointed fan even if you've never read a page of the source material." Amazon Prime's Utopia is exactly like that. I didn't even know it was a remake of a BBC series. I watched the American version and all I could think was... "Well, that was an exceptionally bad attempt at conveying some really cool ideas."
@@gwoolham Absolutely! The only good part of the American series was finding out it was a remake of a show that was also available to watch on Prime. Watching the two shows back-to-back was rather illuminating as to why most American remakes of British shows are so godawful. It makes ALL the mistakes.
the american version of Utopia is one of the only shows that has genuinely made me angry UK’s Jessica Hyde is a traumatized child forced to become a killer to survive. US Jessica Hyde is a narcissistic psychopath.
@@mojoforthewin3069 OMG! When she shoots that one superfluous character in their group just to make a point to the others?! That was the moment I think I instinctively knew that I was watching a bunch of bad writing being propped up by someone else's good ideas.
That episode of Battle Athletes Victory Restart you described sounds about as bad as a couple of Cross Ange episodes I've watched. I forget the episode numbers, but in one episode Ange (the main heroine) sees her love interest die in battle alongside her maid. Then it's all COMPLETELY undone in the following episode as she later finds them both alive & in one piece with NO EXPLANATIONS GIVEN WHATSOEVER! I heard there were production troubles partly due to the director's & producer's disagreements, but they still could have come up with SOMETHING!
@@avalanchemkii7506 I haven't seen the entirety of Gundam Seed so I wouldn't known much about it. I think I only saw the original series on Cartoon Network years ago. I didn't see Gundam Seed Destiny though. I can't remember if I only saw the original series on Toonami or if it was on Adult Swim too. I only know about some of the things that the director & producer of Cross Ange disagreed on thanks to the TV Tropes site. I was somewhat surprised when I heard that Cross Ange's characters were included in the Super Robot Wars series though. Unsurprisingly, SRW got rid of some of the sleazier aspects of the story when it was included too. One such part being when Ange's psycho lesbian commander tried to rape her early on in the story. The SRW developers chucked that into the trash where it belonged!
Cross Ange had problems, and over-the-top fan service, but it is not an accident, that it is 7.4 on MAL, and a top 2000 anime (which is not great, but not terrible), and Battle Athletes has a whopping 5.1 score. Cross Ange can not be compared to the worst of a season's when actually most new animes are inferior to that show.
So glad you mentioned reboot in regards of ex-arm. It was the first fully 3d animated cartoon and was better than ex-arm at many points. I just hate seen Crunchyroll who blamed entirely for it, when others, like the director made some dumb mistakes.
The Promised Neverland is literally one of my favorite animes ever. It's (hypothetical) season 2 hurts me so bad that I'm literally sitting here wearing merch for it and (half-jokingly) tearing up because I was so excited to see what any anime adaptation of the manga would do with all of its interesting concepts (even if the manga itself fell off a bit after the resolutions that came about after the goldy pond arc) only to realize that we're never gonna get that ;-;
Every time I see you show clips from Ex-Arm it makes me long for the incredible skill and technique style of Monty Oum who is probably one of *the greatest 3D animators ever* His breakout short Haloid is nearing on its 15th anniversary and if you feel up to it I’ve been craving an animelee style breakdown of one of his fights for *years…* he was really a genius who should have gone on to do incredible sequences in more professional settings. I oft wonder what it would have been like if he’d been hired for things like Spiderverse, Arcane, or even a cheap 3D anime like Ex-Arm. RIP Monty ❤️
Seriously. I know Oum's RWBY is a show everyone like to shit on, but it looks significantly better than Ex-Arm,. It's animated competently enough even outside of Oum's amazing fight scenes in the early seasons (even if the early dialog scene were a bit rough, it's better than what we get in EX-Arm), and is at least genuine and isn't arrogantly trying to one up an entire genre without any skill to back it up.
@@tyrkun1624 Not really, if anything some of the show's best fights happened later on, like Raven vs Cinder or RWBY's fight with the Ace Ops in Volume 7.
I'd say that Ex-Arm has only one redeeming quality: no incest or pedophilia. But honestly I'm afraid Geoff is just protecting us from more nausea and headache by choosing to not mention those. If that's the case, please let me stay in my blissful ignorance.
I get what you're trying to convey here, but that's not a "redeeming quality". It doesn't have some uncomfortable elements that are toyed with in unusual frequency in anime, but a show isn't made better by not having something it never did to begin with. The Room not having any gore or sacrilegious themes didn't make it a better movie for some people. "It could have been worse" isn't a redeeming quality, or meritorious reason to watch the show made by the show. I think what I want to say most is that a show isn't defined so ubiquitously by its medium (anime). Much like Ex-arm seemed like it wasn't concerned at all with its medium.
10:59 Honestly the TWEWYANI had a lot of ups and downs (the speedrun comment was definitely true) but as a huge fan of the series I still really loved it. The jankiness of the 3D animation was... a thing.. but it's 2D sections were really great and translated the style over from the games pretty well. And despite the huge amount of content that was cut, the content that did stay was done (mostly) well. Hell, I'd say they even bettered some of it. (MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD) The 777 section hit hard in the game and hit harder in the anime. I already enjoyed the characters from that band despite the little screentime, but after the anime they've become my favorite background characters. Anyways, I really enjoyed the anime. Maybe that's just content deprivation speaking though lmao
I enjoyed this video more than I expected to! I think it's because you toned down the hyperbole of "this show sucks so much that..." in the script compared to your older rant videos. It felt less like a writing exercise of how many ways you could explain something was bad and more of a general overview of telling people exactly what was terribly wrong with these anime.
Honestly, I love ROR but I can look past my enjoyment and say that the way Netflix did it was really bad, I'm glad to see that it finally got an anime but the manga is by far the BEST way to consume the series, the art is marvelous, you can easily blitz through the backstory & commentary if you want, & best of all, the action flows like a river of pure ambrosia dipped in the greatest honey (the metaphor is running long but you get the idea). I'm glad it got an anime but it's hard to watch it w/out comparing it to the godsend (pun intended) that is the ROR manga, it's like comparing (insert anime w/ an objectively superior manga here)'s anime to it's manga, there's basically no comparison
I had such high hopes for the detective is already dead. But that first episode was complete dogshit and did not hook me into watching more. The line, "A good detective solves a case before it even happens" is just code for "The writer cant write for shit and just gives me the answers" Reminds me way too much of that yokai anime with the girl with a fake eye and leg.
Well what do you expect? The author himself stated that he never wanted to make a "detective mystery" story, he just chucked the name so it can gather people's attention easier lmao, and look, it's working
Maybe some day, The Promised Neverland will get a season 2. I'll continue waiting in anticipation for one of the greatest single season anime to ever exist getting a proper follow up greenlit.
I LOVE that Arcane has basically been accepted with open arms as anime (as is implied by its inclusion in this video) but Last Airbender? “Eh” “But” “Not really”
The Promised Neverland season 2 made me buy the manga, so in that regard it did do some good. Too bad the cost was never getting to see these arcs animated.
It must be so freeing not being tied down to how anime is usually made; you know awesome, entertaining, quality, inventive, complex, featuring fluid movement, engaging storytelling, likeable characters, visionary direction, inspiring rabid fanbases, honoring source material, limited only by imagination, able to appeal to a wide array of ages, settings so engrossing they come to nearly define entire genres, and just simply being cool as hell. Definitely not tied down to a single one of those things. At all. Not one bit. None. Nope. Not the teeniest, tiniest part of a single one of those things.
@@kwasibrew8072 that was a joke towards The last Jedi, cause people said that movie wasn't bad, it was just to subvert expectations My expectations to watch a good movie were totally subverted
@@vhfulgencio I know, maybe I should've phrased it definitely. I'm comparing the Ex-Arm creator's proclamations of it subverting expectations to throwing yourself into the dirt.
It wasn't on the list but Wonder Egg Priority was a phenomenal series with a terrible last episode. It NEEDS a season 2 desperately. This is the hill I've chosen to die on.
I will say I have a strong soft-spot for Record of Ragnorok due to loving the manga. But it definitely feels like something got lost in translation. If I had to guess what it's that the pacing of events works a lot better in a monthly manga where a large number pages with truly gorgeous art will really show off the fight, with one or two chapters each mixing that in with the backstories of the two fighters that basically exist as a means of hyping them up. Making it so that when the fighters are winding up for the final clash the reader is on the edge of their seat to see how it all ends. As I once described it to a friend "every individual fight in this series has the amount of hype and passion going into it that whole other series would put into their climatic final showdown." And it works. But that same pace is very hard to adapt neatly into the episodes of an anime with a specific episode count and runtime. And while the anime does indeed try to give each fight a decent beginning, middle, and end the split of 3-4 episodes apiece does not do it any favors. Honestly I think the series might have benefitted from being adapted into an OVA like Hellsing Ultimate. Letting each fight be about an hour long special that can divide its attention accordingly and really give each round its due.
The manga pacing could've been afapted but one of the problems also came from the studio in question. They have never truly made an action anime, I think their biggest work was an Yaoi romance and they had like, 2 months only to make the adaption so they had to cut corners
@@michealfoster4411 they helped Madhouse in doing it. we don't know exavtly what they did in Hellsing so we can't give the whole credit ti them. Maybe they only did the comedic bits who knows
I actually liked record of Ragnarok a lot . I thought of it more of being fictional historical drama than a action anime that you have to be invested in the stories of the characters to find it appealing. I personally enjoy mythology, and thus the character interaction entertaining for me to look over the animation quality.After watching read the manga up to the buda fight and found both to be great.
10:00 now put yourself in the shoes of someone who's been a fan of the manga for years, then witnessing the literal power point presentation of the (at the time) fan favorite character's fight. Please, read the manga, it's a million times better. If they do Round 4 justice, we'll forgive them for season 1. But I doubt they'll happen.
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I hope whoever made ((Show in the #1 Worst of 2021 Spot)) is doing okay, Merry Christmas to them honestly, they need it
I hear he's really rich and has an 8-pack
@@mothersbasement The time tested criteria for happiness.
Haunted by the monstrosity they created. Sleepless nights littered with night sweats from each moment they drew a line on a frame.
@@mothersbasement what do u mean by gacha game being empty?
@@mothersbasement An 8-pack of what? We need to know what he did with all that unprocessed motion captured outsourced cell-shaded money. If someone can go into 2011 3DS Max and slap a texture on default animations that pull even half the views your videos do and get paid twice as much, I need to know what they're getting so I can make an offer for slightly less.
I was kinda curious and while looking at EX-ARM's wiki, this was in Minami's page:
"She is a hotheaded and brash. She also can’t stop smiling for some reason (perhaps due to Animation limitations, as opposed to a personality trait). "
I find it f*cking hilarious,that whoever wrote that put it there
Shinra Kusakabe is disappointed.
that's a lot of damage
Alma's is even better: Alma is a prototype android with a four-year lifespan. She was given a job as member of the police force, and partnered with Minami Uenozono. They kiss sometimes whenever the plot wants them too and it would be really hot if the light of Jesus didn’t blind me every time they did.
“Throughout the show, Akira is shown to be unable to close his mouth. It can be inferred that this is a result of the accident in 2014, although this is unconfirmed.”
It's really sad to see how far Promised Neverland has fallen. S1 is one of the most beloved and popular anime of the past few years, and S2 is honest to god considered one of the worst anime of this year. A truly impressive fuck up.
I, honestly, had a lot of issues with TPN S1 as an adaptation and I don't think CloverWorks was ever up to the task of adapting the entire manga which would've demanded around 70 episodes and plenty of sakuga.
They completely omitted all internal monologues. This is a weird one. Pretty much all anime adaptation keep the internal monologues if the OG manga had them. I guess the director wanted to be unique? So, basically, either we don't get a character's thoughts or they say them out loud. Or, in the case of Krone, shout them out loud. Yeah, that's a smart thing to do - just shout all your dastardly plans out loud for everyone to hear through the house's thin walls.
The manga also had a bunch of visual aids during exposition. Which the anime, once again, omitted. Another baffling decision for a visual medium.
TPN was also one of the few anime where I didn't like all the Japanese VAs (that's very rare for me). Norman, Ray, Isabella & Gilda were on point but Emma & Don were a tad "eh." Also, I think they should've made the demons sound a BIT different from humans. Maybe a very mild filter?
Maybe I'm just nitpicky because TPN is one of my favourite manga. It absolutely deserves a top-tier adaptation like Demon Slayer or Attack on Titan S1. It has to be the absolute biggest betrayal from Weekly Shounen Jump. It's, like, the 16th most popular manga in the history of the magazine (1,600,000 sales per single volume). It's almost on the level of My Hero Academia (1,670,000 sales per single volume) and THAT manga got 6 seasons and counting. By the time it's over, it's probably going to have over 200 episodes.
I hype for TPN season 2 but nahh i just pretend its never exist,before i quite not satisfied with manga ending but now welp at least the manga are 99% better than anime one.
It's like what black butler 2 was to season one
what do you mean season 2 ? It was cancelled after season 1
@@glark7368 I come from an alternate timeline where S2 was released. Consider yourselves lucky you didn't have to go through what I did
Everyone was so busy shitting their pants over High Guardian Spice, they failed to realize that Crunchyroll's actual crime was greenlighting this year's number one entry.
At leaat High Guardian Spice didn’t enter DECLARING WAR ON ALL FANTASY SERIES IN THE WORLD, shtty as it might’ve been.
HGS wasn’t even that bad if you accepted that it was gonna be terrible from the start and tried to enjoy it anyway. I don’t remember the last time I had so much fun watching a show out of spite as I did with HGS. They said it wasn’t a ‘so bad it’s good’ show but they were wrong and I’m probably the only person on earth who wants a season 2.
@@Prodmullefc no matter how low your expectations are you never expect to see a stock photo (WITH THE WATERMARK) used in animation (UNEDITED)! and not just once!
@@Prodmullefc based??? i dont want to see this shit again but i respect your attitude buddy pal
the comments on all the videos i got recommended of hgs were full of barely disguised ‘anti-woke’ bs, so i watched it to see if that’s where all the hate was coming from.
genuinely enjoyed the show. it feels as cute and fun as the school sections in The Owl House. i’ve heard there’s a bunch of technical problems, but i only noticed a few things with the audio (offset for me by the 2 or 3 side characters that sound like a DM having fun with npc voices, in a charming way).
the only writing nitpicks i have are 1) the mean girl makes fun of the ‘old magic’ mage’s hat, then we see that her ‘adventuring gear’ has the same type of hat, and 2) in the rainy day episode, someone says something about it being ‘broad daylight’ while we can see through the window that it’s overcast and gray. it’s not edited like an intentional joke, if that was the point.
the only other thing that seemed weird was that the swearing and blood in the later episodes made me question who the target audience was supposed to be.
i wouldn’t expect this audience to have that same brand of hateboner, so can someone explain to me which parts i was supposed to be laughing at the show rather than with it?
Imagine pouring your heart and soul into a piece of work that you wrote, composed, sketched, inked, and published yourself, then watching it get popular in a twist of fate you always dreamed of… only for its anime adaptation to be so awful that people retch at the sight of your work.
Berserk fans crying loudly
i think i also feels that for exarm
Look up "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" if you want to see the most heinous example of this.
Ex-Arm?
@@gamin546 yep
Man, it's crazy that we all collectively had the exact same nightmare about The Promised Neverland season 2. Good thing it wasn't real, that would suck. I do hope they adapt it soon, I'm sure they'll nail it when they eventually get around to it.
Yea, didn't they also think of making a dragon ball and avatar live action adaptation? I think they both got cancelled. Do you know anything?
What season? That was a weird nightmare.
The promised neverland needs a season 2 man. Season 1 was amazing. Hope we get one soon. 🙃
is this a real comment
@@murcielagoat its a joke
Still living in denial.
@@murcielagoat of course it's a real comment. There is no season 2 of Promised Neverland. There has never been a season 2 of Promised Neverland.
@@murcielagoat what? I've never heard of season 2 being a thing. Not at all......
The Promised Neverland season 2 will always live on in the Hall of Infamy in the anime realm
No it won't, because it doesn't exist. lol
Inb4 "I SeE yOu EvErYwHeRe"
Worse than what they did to Tokyo ghoul
Even the manga gets terribad once they start explaining anything. It's the JJ effect where you pose interesting questions and don't think about how to answer them, so just come up with trash on the fly.
The chosen
The thing about Ex-Arm is that we also have actual proof that a single random person can do a better job with the exact same source material than an actual anime studio did.
Browntable yeah?
You gonna expand on that thought?
MMD animations from 2009 look more fluid.
Ex-Arm wasn't made by an anime studio so not really
That one guy who made Dead Fantasy and the battle animations in RWBY
When you described Record of Ragnorock battles using DBZ, I was like "How could anything make a DBZ battle longer and worse?" --- I was truely impressed.
he totally skipped over how retarded the premise was, and the slap stick like approach they took to that one chick's boobs. The show was trying to be goofy and overly edgy at the same time and it was like a whiplash fever dream. I had to stop watching half way through episode 1.
Yeah, sadly the Manga is leagues better.
@@RaulDiaz-mp8ms when I heard it was going to be an anime I was excited. I never watched it after hearing the criticism. If we do more episode hopefully they do it justice.
@@thefoolishjester5125 They ended this season just at the start of the Hercules vs Jack fight, which is arguably the best fight of the series.
@@RaulDiaz-mp8ms honestly yeah i prefer watching those manga edits of the fight on youtube than the anime
the joke about Cloverworks mailing every TPN fan a personalized picture of Emma giving the middle finger actually made me tear up a bit-- still working out whether its from laughter or from the lingering trauma of (hypothetical) S2.
I liked season two thought it was even better than s1
@@garfield5647 how does it feel to have your head empty
@@garfield5647 ur joking right
pls tell me ur joking
there is no s2
@@baseballcap- i would never joke about a subject as serious as anime mate
So we're all in agreement in pulling a "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" on Promised Neverland Season 2, right?
Promised Neverland Season 2? What are you talking about? It got cancelled after season 1?
There is no Promised Neverland Season 2
The Promised Neverland Season 2 was never made. I'm as sure of that as I am sure of how RWBY was cancelled after Volume 3 and we were all sent pictures of Team RWBY collectively flipping the bird
@@BurningAzure It's weird they hired those actors that were randomly labelled as dragonball characters in 2009 in that picture I received in the mail.
Wdym there never was a promised neverland season 2
Ever since Geoff's first video on anime made by a cult, my mom has been watching his channel, and uses these videos as a guide on what to try out and what to avoid regarding anime. Thank you, Geoff, for giving us videos to watch together and laugh at, and for getting her interested in anime as a valid art form and storytelling vehicle. We watched this video after dinner together and it was a cozy moment. If you're ever in Montana, please know my mom would happily make you a lasagna if you'd like one.
This is one of the most wholesome comments I've ever seen ^^
Usagi Drop and My Roommate is a Cat are two adorable and wholesome anime that are perfect to watch with Mom!
@@OddLeah ...as long as she doesn't go looking for the manga of Usagi Drop--/SHOT
Awwww!!!! That's wonderful! I'm so glad you can share his videos with your mom! I have to be careful whenever I play his and I know my mom is in the next room because I never know what he will say🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (or what strange anime summary she will overhear) /lh 😅🤣
Heartwarming content that we desperately needed, big thank
I love that Crunchyroll decided to go with someone who had no experience with anime for Ex Arm.
I also love where restaurants decide to hire people with no cooking experience to run their kitchens.
I hate when people get tied down doing things as they've always been done. Just because everyone else cooks poultry before serving doesn't mean we shouldn't allow exciting new ideas like chicken carpaccia.
I mean they also greenlit Gibiate so lol
It is quite understandable that it is not our responsibility if the person who takes it falls sick in bed for a week.
I felt so bad for the EX ARM mangaka... Seeing his work animated like shit, when an anime adaptation is all mangaka's dream. Such a pain.
Remember when the creator of The Owl House said that Luz's favorite anime is The Promised Neverland? Let's hope that she doesn't watched this before she going to another world.
I have never felt so bad for a fictional character. Considering the depth and depravity of tragic origin stories that exist in fiction, I feel like that says a lot.
She'd be so emotionally distraught that upon entering the Demon Realm she would've let the first demon she saw have her full permission (in murmured cries and sobs form) to eat her alive to end her weeb misery. Good thing that stuff doesn't effect me because I don't watch nearly enough anime.
@@rjs4176 the worst timeline is when she was so disgusted by S2 of TPN that definitely only exist in her world that she became Belos apprentice like Marcy to King Andrias and shit's popped off
@@aobasuzukaze1032 The thought and idea of Luz working as a servant or a spy for the Emperor actually sounds kind of cool, y'know, when you leave out the whole heavily implied physical and psychological abuse part of it. It'd be cool just for the aesthetic though.
Other then that I can't wait for the 2nd season of TPN, a series that I've totally watched and am totally watching still instead of spending my time by watching episodes of Infinity train on loop for days on end (go watch that by the way, it's spectacular 😉). I SWEAR I WATCH ANIME, I DON'T WATCH ANIME TH-camRS JUST BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE GOOD CHANNELS NO.
@@rjs4176 i mean I found out Mother's Basement because of his Gravity Falls video since I watched cartoons before anime so I get you there jsjsj.
Anyways Amphibia S3 is low-key more disturbing than Wonder Egg
I love the fact that it sounds like netflix did a better job of the editing of the 6 minutes of no.5 that they gave you than whoever was actually writing and directing it
Probably the same hype guys behind Raid: Shadow Legends.
Lol true, much as I love to hate on Netflix, they just buy a lot of this stuff off of other studios.
@@George_M_ Thank you for pointing this out. A lot of weebs like to criticize Netflix for some of the stuff they put on their service in a way that explicitly blames them for the creation of those things, when all they did was license them. Like the live action Bleach and Fullmetal Alchemist movies.
@@SomeRandomJackAss To be fair, that's a reasonable mistake to make when they slap their "Netflix Original" label on anything even when they just license it.
@@12thLevelSithLord True.
Can’t lie, I’m actually impressed at how one of the best animes (TPN) ended up being one of the worst from season 1 to (the hypothetical) season 2. I didn’t know it was possible.
Tokyo Ghoul fans: first time?
It wasn't possible... It didn't even happened
It happens a lot on TV series. Vikings is a very recent example.
@@Edino_Chattino Vikings wasn't good, but don't insult it by comparing it to this
@@BuzzabeelYT I'd say it turned into an entirely different anime, not a bad one but mediocre. Like it took a 90 degree turn (or maybe 120) rather than a full 180.
I love that the TPN fandom pulled a "There's no War at Ba Sing Se" instead of the old "Secret Good Episode" coined by a side of the BBC Sherlock fans. I only consider canon the first two seasons, BTW.
JohnLocke is not endgame when it comes to TPN
none of sherlock is good
@@jesuschrist7631 I lost intrest after I stopped being able to piece together the mystery from the info given.
Sherlock Homes shouldn't be a genius because he can pull out deductions out of thin air, he's a genius because he has a meticulous way of going about a crime scene, and an improbably large store of knowledge memorized.
Any deduction he makes should be "elementary" from the prospective of someone holding all the clues, which, by the nature of how media written following the prospective of the character is, should include the viewer.
To me it should elict a mix of "naturally" and "of course, why didn't I think of that?" for responses. Not suggest mysteries with no answer and ass pulls using info deliberately hidden from the viewer.
“She runs so fast she outruns the edge of her animation cell” 💀💀💀😂😂😂
Wait. Promised Neverland Season 2 was this year?!?!?!?!
I’ve really blocked it from my memory.
Traumatic memories really mess with your sense of time
Lucky! I can’t forget it.
No, it never happened.
Fuck wait what? I needed you to say this for me to realise that it happened this year. Even while watching I didn't consider it was released in 2021. Shit I thought it was like in 2018 or 2019... I need help 😫😩😕😞😪😢😫😩😕😞😪😢😫😩
It really was this year they sent us that jpeg of Emma flipping us off and definitely didn’t release any episodes
Me looking at the promised neverland season 2: *You were the chosen one! You were supposed to be an amazing anime, not a rushed mess!*
Yeah... As a former Gen:lock fan, I get what you mean. But I'd say the difference is a rushed mess isn't the WORST thing a second season can become...
@@bowenorcutt78 then what is it
@@geckopecko A boring rushed mess is my guess.
is it that bad? can you explain? I only read the manga tho
@@geckopecko An abomination. The kind of bleak, overly edgy slog that utterly ruins your ability to even enjoy what came before it.
Can we get an honorable mention for the parts of "So I'm a Spider, So What?" that got outsourced at the end of the season and made the directors put out a statement saying they knew it was terrible, but either had to keep it, or redo the entire thing? The rest of the series was great, but man, some of that stuff at the end was definitely Ex-Arm level.
At least they warned u about it Ex Arm didnt even give u a heads up lol
I haven't watch it yet but what's bad about that adaptation?
@@grandr.4279 from what I remember a contractor they'd outsourced work to gave them unusable shite, so they had to make do with what they had and rush to compensate episodes. A good chunk of the last few episodes use pretty bad CGI on a generic brown battlefield (extra bonus that this is narratively meant to be a forest) as they tried their best to make it at least not be a slideshow.
In the end they delayed the final episode so that at least had a significantly better quality again.
I thought they did pretty good with what they had tbh.
@@grandr.4279 The last episodes look like they were using the original PS2 FFX backgrounds...
Holy shit i'm so glad you mentioned the smoke, i swear this shit went through it's own character arc.
First they just overuse it to the point you start to notice it. Once you notice it the inappropriate use of it seemingly increases by the minute, they use the same smoke with every camera angle, sometimes having it move while the smoke remains static.
Then it will be just present at all time. Small closed room? Fuck it, smoke overlay for no apparent reason.
finally they added a mirroring effect to it, i still have no idea how or why this happened. You can see an example at 28:27 in the shot with the cat robots.
They clearly had a smoke overlay that was wide enough for the entire screen, yet they chose to mirror the smoke making it even more noticable and shit looking.
By the last episodes i was just watching the smoke the entire time, it was hypnotizing.
They took the most basic visual asset possible, misused it in every way i could think of and then just went out and invented a new, never before seen way of misusing it, it was amazing.
My second favourite thing about this show is how the ED is legit the cover art with the 2D characters that look nothing like their model just zooming out slowly for the entire duration. It's the most basic motion to even concider it animated, i heard this "i couldn't do a worse job if i tried" thing before, but i'm convinced it's physically impossible to do animate worse ED (the song was ok though)
As you already mentioned, the record of ragnarok Manga is all you would imagine it would be, gorgeous art, super interesting and diverse characters, a compelling plot and generally just good action scenes with enough hype to back it up
Practically its everything you need in a fighting tournament story
Even if the anime was hot garbage, I hope this doesn't make anyone feel like not trying the Manga, please do try it, it's good I swear
^ I won’t rest until everyone I know reads the Jack the Ripper vs Hercules fight
Man, I decided to pick it up and the character designs are really good and well thought-out. Even how the panels played out is great. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@mozart4344 It's really stupid. If they had adapted 4 fights instead of 3, they would've fixed the absolutely atrocious pacing and ended on probably the second best or best fight in the series. The anime that way would easily have gone from one of the worst to one of the best.
Was? Dawg it's still going and the Kojiro vs Poseidon fight was pretty damn good
Ok, hear me out... what if they actually make The Promised Neverland season 2? Sounds crazy, but I think it deserves a second season.
On second thought...
This is the proof that manga readers are a bunch of sad wankers.
@@belshazzarsf3ast thank you for defending bad writing and bringing nothing of value to the table.
Id like to call you a Dissapointment but considering your comment, your Parents do that most likely enough already.
@@belshazzarsf3ast 👁👁
@@FallenDemonFly you killed him dude. He didn't even reply to your comment
The Promised Neverland Season 2 only existed in our collective minds because we were caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, fortunately Team 7 punched a rabbit and freed us from our suffering.
But the Infinite Tsukuyomi was supposed to be a good dream
Yeah. Infinite Tsukuyomi at least gives good dreams.
I feel exactly the same way as you do (and possibly many other people) about (the hypothetical) TPN Season 2. It stings extra hard for me since TPN Season 1 (the real one) was the anime that got me into anime in the first place. It was such an incredible, unique experience, and TPN Season 1 is still one of my favourite animes! But now The Promised Neverland is forever ruin by the atrocity that is TPN Season 2. And just like you and many others, I am perfectly content with calling TPN Season 2 a 'hypothetical' anime season. At least in my mind, TPN Season 1 is the only 'real' TPN anime adaptation we got. I guess now the only thing left to do is pray that one day we will get The Promised Neverland: Brotherhood.
Also, I am very glad to have read most of the manga, it's so amazing.
Thank you ❤️
TPN s1 does work as a standalone.. since we’ll never get a s2 it’ll have to do.
Too bad season 2 just doesn't exist. But... Hypothetically... HYPOTHETICALLY... our channel does 👀
Your review of Record of Ragnarok perfectly encapsulates my feeling about the show. I could tell the adaptation wasn't doing the source material any justice and I'd never read it.
The manga is pretty good imo, great art and lots of fun, even has a few fairly moving moments. The anime does jy no favours.
3:40: GLACIAL Record of Ragna-slower-than-a-Rok
10:15: Turd-colored Nexus
14:05: Bullshit Athletes, Victory WTF!!!
22:05: The Painful Neverland
24:28: The Dunning-Kruger Effect personified and in motion
Let's take a moment to appreciate how many conditions had to coincide for ex-arm come into fruition
The anime anti-christ
0:48: Dunning Kruger Effect, you say.
But nothing is desplaying that as hard as the Flat-Earthers that
Sci Man Dan and Professor Dave Explains covers.
Well... maybe one exception though: 'This man thinks he debunked Einstein',
a video of Sci Man Dan that was NOT about Flat-Earthers.
It's really incredible. You could actively try and make a worse anime than it and it would still somehow come out better.
@@avalanchemkii7506 Ah yes. Springtime for fuhrer.
I got a degree in 3D and I shit you not a ton of the student projects make Ex-Arm look like someone playing around with pre-vis work in Unity. It's the worst thing I've ever seen supposedly published for mass consumption and rather than arguing about whether or not Avatar is Anime (because it absolutely is) we should be discussing whether or nor Ex-Arm is actually Anime.
I think we should agree that it is just so we have a definitive worst anime that we can all agree on
@@AcornPlays I'm not convinced Ex-Arm is anime. If it is it is only because the source material is a Japanese Manga. Otherwise you could call Red Vs. Blue with it's far superior 3D anime.
@@RemedialRob Machinima, please
@@talltroll7092 the earlier stuff was all machinima and there was some machinima mixed in with the later seasons but in the latter half much if the show was done entirely in 3D. Ask me how I know (I was the first commissioner of their "Grifball" league and Nico and Burnie are friends).
sadly yes, as "anime" is simply the japanese term for animation, yes, ex-arm is an anime 😔
Can confirm that I also received that picture of Emma flipping me off in the mail. Not sure how the Studio got ahold of my address, but that's a less serious crime than them creating that horrendous season 2 you dreamt up.
I've heard of stories accidentally being LGBT, but never in my life would I come across how something can be accidentally homophobic. Show #1 really said: Let's make the worst thing possible, as a treat.
ikr i was like damn how
It’s actually really easy to. Especially happened with a lot of early 2000s sitcoms. You just try to do representation, but do absolutely no sensitivity checks.
@@thevioletbee5879 I still love how well quoted "Not that there's anything wrong with that" still is today because that's just honestly the perfect way to do it.
we need a promised neverland: brotherhood
32:37 -- LOL, they used that same cheat in Sonic '06!
To paraphrase Geoff, Sonic's character model was nowhere near articulated enough to sell a convincing kiss with Elise, and the animators' solution was to just clip their lips into each other and cover up the intersecting weirdness with a point light.
I was told to touch Record of Raganrok but I was told to read the manga. After checking out the preview for the anime, i understood what they meant. Like the manga is really, really freaking good and deserved a better adaptation than whatever we got...
I admit this kinda baffles me. I tried Record of Ragnarok and I fount it to be outright awful. Like, it's a very lackluster Dumb Tournament Manga, with a very lukewarm premise, and if you know the first thing about any of the Gods that are allegedly being used, these are REALLY shitty portrayals of the Gods in question. Like Shiva especially. They got Shiva VERY wrong in this, as well as Thor, and basically every God.
Record of Ragnarok makes Fate look like a well-researched Academic paper based on genuine folklore and myth.
Like, if you want mythic and folklore in-line or to see any effort put into making these Gods and Heroes FEEL like the people and Gods they allege to be, 0/10. Absolutely terrible. If you're going to fuck up THIS bad, why the fuck are you using the names of these Gods and Heroes?
@@Kyman102 To each their own I guess, but keep in mind that some god's personalities were changed to make for better fights and more interesting characters. Shiva in mythology is nigh omnipotent to the point where he could just think you away, all the gods are. RoR shines because it does gods differently while still keeping their essence imo. The humans are also extremely well researched, all of their backstories are accurate, only with a few things changed to better suit the narrative. If you go into this manga expecting gods and humans to be copy/pasted on from the real World, idk about you but that'd make for an even worse manga
it's a consistent issue with hyper-detailed manga based anime. Berserk, Baki, Records of Ragnarok and all. trying to bring the same level of art to animation when it's just not built for that(like super detailed muscles and stuff) is super difficult and time-consuming. and anime works on really tight schedules to begin with. without a major downgrade or change to the art, or a dramatically changed budget and timeframe, there's not a lot they can do.
Jojo is basically the closest any adaptions of that type have come to succeeding, and none of the Jojos are really known for great animation at all. they're built on a mountain of cut-corners.
@@MegamanStarforce2010 JoJo does a LOT they wouldnt need to. Rotating shots, 1st Person, incredibly detailed shots from above that is almost exactly like the Real World counterpart. The last part is obviously because of the mangaka, but still.
@@Kyman102 If you are so keen on it being a direct portrayal of gods from mythology, why didn't you outright notice that an indian god is participating in an event called "Ragnarok"? After seeing that, you keep on reading and expecting something else?
Clearly what you are expecting isn't what the manga was going for in the first place, it's not like you were deceived.
Why can't a piece of fiction be good just because it makes its own characters, inspired by folklore? What makes a story good is not that you need to be a connoisseur of mythology to appreciate it, but that the story itself makes you interested and invested in these characters( characters' fights, in this case).
RoR hurt me so badly. I read the manga a bit before it came out. A friend and i gushed over the characters and lost our minds at the anime release. I even told random people i was looking forward to it coming out. I told an neighbor to check it out, and now i avoid him on trash days to the point I've collected a small landfill in my living room.
The pacing blows. It's god awful. I hate it.
Tbh I'm not that surprised about the pacing, the good part of the manga is that you can read everything of that in 1 minute or even less, but in the anime they have to read that with patience, I'm really worried about the next fights because I felt those flashbacks and commentary long in the manga
I seriously don’t understand how the manga can be better here. Bad animation as side, all the problems I have with it seem to be core to the thing. I guess that the manga can be pretty maybe but I don’t think it can save the piece from its format issues or the cardboard stereotypical characters or etcs.
@@sweatyslapfight7900 but in the Manga you read it pretty 1quiqly. And it's a monthly so you don't get taierd
Aren't we all glad Promised Neverland had just one season and will live in our memories as one of the best anime ever?
small correction, the arifueta anime was enough of a screw up that the author was able to force white fox to pay for the second season to be done by a different studio.
the LN sales however did recover upon the second seasons release as it was better done if still lack luster meaning its sales were less crippled and more badly injured.
Yay! We get to bash Promised Neverland Season 2 again!
I had erased it from my memory but this works too😂
@@ItsYuhBoyyyy It's impossible to erase it from my memory!
Yea it’s a very weird choice to cancel the show after just 2 episodes of the second season
@@devonhalford5522 For a Shonen Jump series I expected a lot more.
I lol'ed good sir, a happy Christmas Eve for you
Geoff, your ability to cut down these anime to their component filth with such colorful and precise descriptions is profound. Thank you for the service you’re doing. I hope you have a good holiday and new year.
Damn really sucks hearing about record of ragnarock. I remember reading the manga and it was pretty damn good so I got exited to hear It got an anime, now I feel sad itl probably never get another anime again.
To be fair the manga isn't as hyped as it once was. It's not bad or anything, but it isn't hitting the same hype level as it had before for me.
@@shawnjavery damn really. I still think it's pretty good,I agree it cools down quite a bit but still enjoyable either way.
Season 2 was already confirmed😂
@@pursuedsubset5915 I meant another anime, as in by a studio that would actually make it good.
When I was reading it before the anime was announced, I figured it an adaptation would either be like one punch man S1 or one punch man season 2. It ended up being much worse than S2 unfortunately
Conceptually, Promised Neverland had a great first season that left me wanting more. However, I felt that there was so much potential for the second season that they just didn’t utilize. Stories untold, character developments missed, and just so many other things could have made it much better. Long story short, season two felt incredibly rushed and focused too much on story arcs that really should have had an episode or two before moving to another arc.
How do you rush something that was never made?
They litteraly had to cut out half the story which would've been around 3 seasons worth, that's how rushed it is. Then the rest of the content that was adapted is just trying to hit the plotpoints that *WEREN'T* removed. No time for character development or an intriguing story that's suspenseful, just as long as it hits the key moments, that'll do.
"THis is the only bad anime I've seen that is so bad its ACCIDENTALLY HOMOPHOBIC"
as a queer person who KNOWS that that make out is purely for men to get off too because lesbians are so often treated like p*rn that made me laugh so hard
Yeeeah, I was really disappointed with the Battle Athletes one, personally.
Fun facts y'all: It's actually not _that_ big of a horn-fest, in the sense that though the outfits were revealing during sports challenges and the racial stereotypes were problematic, the actual adventure was decently interesting, the main cast was properly showed to grow and the MC's biggest conflict was that she was the most obnoxiously pampered child of all time who would always suck so long as she didn't align a healthy mentality with her actual abilities. What that means is that her suddenly getting super good over the course of the anime is due to the fact that she was _always_ a good athlete, she just has terrible self-esteem; and in fact, the other members of the class slander her name for her sudden boost in ability and dismiss it as her having pretended to be bad instead of recognizing her growth. The most memorable part of it for me was Ayla's character, growing from a cold deadpan human robot to a mildly philosophical gentle soul who understands the value of healthy rivalry. Which she chooses over destroying her body for the sake of proving she's the best or something.
The sports were also still super wacky and equally as fun to watch because of the animation quality.
Uh, what I'm saying is that the 90s version of the show was honestly really good and would prolly be more popular if the concept wasn't as specific as it is (kinda got the Skullgirls treatment as a result), but the people working on it most likely cared given the result.
I love that show's climax way better, too; it was also a "normal" run, but A: 4 of the most important MCs participate in it against a single boss who's good enough to run a 400m baton-passing dash by herself, and B: that boss has a personal connection with both the MC and the viewer, as she's been shown to be a legendary super athlete since episode one, so, seeing her show up as The Final Boss is... well, for those who play Pokémon, basically think of it as a smaller version of what it feels like the very first time you meet Red. _Right after_ you've played through Gen 1.
Extra cool because that woman has a _hilarious_ personality.
Still fun to watch this reboot/stealth sequel kill itself though (the gorilla dude especially), but uh, yeah. Between that and LBX Girls, I _really_ got hit in the gut this year. XD
Yeah I need to watch this sequel. I wasn't a big fan of the original Battle Athletes OVA, but I LOVE the much MUCH sillier Battle Athletes Victory. I had a huge soft spot for an old arcade game called Numan Athletics (Track & Field but with anime super heroes with Tenchi Muyo looking character designs) and Battle Athletes Victory was the closest thing to a Numan Athletics anime.
The old anime was really REALLY not that ecchi. The promo art was. The PS1 game's options screen is literally just a picture of a bunch of butts. But the anime is so far below Tenchi Muyo in terms of fanservice (as it came from the days when Tenchi was the pinnacle of fanservice in anime) that Mother's Basement's description of it honestly kinda bothers me.
I remember enjoying the original Battle Athletes in spite of or because of the stuff Twaggy listed here. (Not sure if I saw the OVA or Victory lol I forgot there were two versions?) I also didn't recall it being an ecchi show because frankly those shorts are used in most anime with girls doing a gym scene, right? It's just a shame the new series isn't nearly as good.
Nah, the original series wasn't good. Akari was dumb back then, too. Go rewatch it again.
I love Battle Athletes Victory and Twaggy nails it so well that it's like my own thoughts of it are thrown back at me. Two things I have to add though:
The original BAV writers are Hideyuki Kurata and Yousuke Kuroda... I hope I have that right.... and they are titans, absolute titans of anime comedy. The OVA was only written by Kurata and it shows.
BAV specialized in outrageous sport contests but always climaxed in basic track and field activities: A triathlon, the hundred meter dash and 1500 meter relay. Why? To nail down how inhuman these humans ultimately are. Speaking of INHUMANS, Restart left something out I take? I only made it through about 6 episodes or so before my entire will was crushed under bad art and even worse writing.
What racial stereotypes ? and why is outfit being revealing a problematic thing ?
It’s amazing how PN2 is just so bad he couldn’t bring himself to cover it. No one should be that emotionally destroyed during the holidays.
I’d like to hope that maybe years down the line, a proper adaptation could happen. But man, hope is hard.
I thought it was just a hypothetical thing...
@@StellarStarGaming No no it is. It never happened. Don't worry about it.
@@StellarStarGaming Yeah, purely hypothetical. It never happened. It doesn't exist. It's fine. I'm fine. It can't hurt us.
@@saffronnie3969 Worry about what?
@@boopergoober What can't hurt us?
Watching the clips of Ex Arm I realised something that completely threw me for a loop for a moment. I genuinely straight up couldn't tell you what emotions were being... expressed(?) by any of the characters. For a moment I was worried I'd somehow lost the ability to read faces, but nope, it's just like that. Just these blank soulless faces staring into my soul.
There an anime movie (which I can't remember the name of) back in the 90s where they ran out of time mid-production because of IP/contract shenanigans and had to put pieces of animatic and storyboard instead of sone scenes, and show it in theatres on release date with a promise of free VHS tape of the thing actually done to people who showed up. I can bet you those animatics had more expressive faces anyway.
Which is really sad, since the manga actually looks good.
Lol. "Animation" so bad that it induces a limited form of prosopagnosia sounds like some type of SCP rather than something capable of existing in real life.
honestly, i knew that record of ragnarok's anime adaptation would be a huge dissapointment
the manga is similar to murata's one punch man, where the art quality and character designs are just too detailed to be animation friendly
Yet One punch man turned out really well, Record of Ragnarok could’ve been awesome with a studio fit for it 😔
I’d also like to add its formatting with backstories and such works.. meh in the manga. But does take way too fucking long in the anime, it needs to be modified for it to succeed.
@@bmix8140 i feel like season 1 was the anime equivalent of lightning in a bottle, i dont think we'll ever get anothr OPM season looking that good
@@bocodamondo I agree, season 1 especially for it’s time is incredible. Season 2 doesn’t quite live up to it but hey, at least it’s not RoR animation 😭
Man still love both lol
I wish the terrible and incredibly annoying misogyny still so prevalent in anime over all would be called out more.
Yep. Sex-Sells should go extinct already. It's overdue; and linked to other things who i could say
the same thing about.
@@loturzelrestaurant Sex selling ain't misogyny especially when women are partaking in selling sex.
@@TheDeadlyBlueWolf i dont think a furry should be talking about what is and isnt misogyny
even though I consider myself an anime fan I never really watch much anime because of this. So many anime are just the same shit over and over, and the misogyny is such a huge "turn-off" for an anime. Anime is such a great medium for telling some of the best stories I have ever experienced but there is a lot of this garbage that is sadly prevalent in anime
@@TheDeadlyBlueWolf I didnt use the word misyogyny, so wtf, dude.
How random.
"Hey how did you survive that bomb?"
"Fucking built different 😤"
10/10 anime.
Reminds me of Dragon Half: "My brain is extremely compact!"
it's pretty simple if you have an IQ of 530,000 CPU
There is no Promised Neverland Season 2 in Ba Sing Se.
I got curious about MAL scores after this, and turns out that of the 12,000 or so anime listed on MAL whose scores don't read as 'N/A' - Ex-Arm is 12th from the very bottom of the list. There are 11 anime at this moment with a lower MAL score than Ex-Arm
Extremely low user ratings aren't as accurate as middle or high rankings, because people will get turned off so fast that they might not even get to the point of rating it. It might just be up to which ones drove off fewer viewers based on the thumbnail or clip you see before even clicking on it.
The"I'm not gonna be tied up by the way things are usually done" sounds to me like a rock climber refusing the safety rope...
I'd like to say, having watched ragnarok, that an important secondary indictment of the story is that nobody seems to have any issue with the blatant unfairness of the whole situation aside from the seraph lady. Like, the gods are stacking the deck, *hard,* and that's definitely in character for a group of prideful and douchey pantheon heads, but it's done pretty blatantly and yet none of the humans involved say anything about it. Things that are done in clear view of the audience of all of humanity, which is not commented on or argued against by any member of *all of humanity:*
All of the gods get to bring godly artifacts to the fight, while the humans have to settle for seraph-sourced enchanted weapons to keep up.
Sudden change of who is actually going to be fighting on the god's side, violating the pre-established roster with no reason given.
As mentioned in the video, hermes gets to do a whole bard pump-up ritual on Zeus before a fight; it's never stated to be a magical buff or anything but it could've been and nobody said anything.
Poseidon gets to conduct his fight on a platform surrounded by water, his domain element.
Hercules is allowed to participate on the god side of things, despite being a demigod and thus half human.
Again, all of humanity is watching this fight, and the closest thing to a scene of anybody raising a stink is when one of the humans dies and a bunch of his followers are like "we'll follow you into the super-double afterlife!" and then die trying to zerg rush the god what killed him. Aside from that none of the humans complain or even really jeer at the dickhead gods who are trying to apocalypse them to death, when that's really out of character for a panel of every human ever.
read the manga literally 10/10
And here I am just being salty they didn’t ask anyone with two X chromosomes to fight. Seriously, way to ignore half the world and some of the baddest asses therein. (Extra insulting is the inclusion of Durga and Kali…as part of Shiva’s cheer section in the audience.)
I have seen a group of professional women cops lose to a man and call for backup. We don't need to pretend that having women fight would not end up as anything other than a catfight, but one side has divine powers.@@sarahcole9661
"I am a child... a man child."
I felt that my man. I felt that
“Never again be helmed by a live action director…” A line that’s been said since the invention of animation. Last time we heard that was after Katzenberg took a chainsaw to The Black Cauldron, leaving a good 15 minutes of film to be lost.
This is without a doubt one of the videos you have ever made. Looking forward to another year of Mother's Basement!
One of the videos?
It definitely is one of the videos he has ever made! 1 among hundreds!
It is definitely a video
Please don't edit this lol
I have never read a more accurate statement in my life
I have to admit, as someone that has seriously considered learning japanese but not having the resources, with covid making the booking of public college classes backed up to high hell and that lifetime discount, I'm seriously considering that rosetta stone deal.
I’d recommend Japanese From Zero as the way to self-teach yourself. It’s pretty much a workbook that holds your hand through the language. The author even has free supplementary videos for almost all of the lessons right here on TH-cam.
Best of luck with your Japanese journey!
Here's the thing, me and my little brother started watched Promised Neverland after her told me how awesome the manga was, and we loved it. The second season had started airing and they were at episode 4 and already the fan base was declaring war on it for anime original content. We shrugged it off figuring it was some small change people were blowing out of proportion as we watched it and twist after twist I was audibly gushing about how blown away I was at the sheer strength of the writing, the considerations to the smallest details and the surprisingly dark tones they were able to sudden pull out of a show that up to that point had been mostly cheerful and they did so every time with skill that would make the mangaka of Kaiji blush in envy.
Then we started season 2, and even without having read a single page of the manga up to that point, I absolutely hated it, and by episode 4 we decided to drop it. Then he told me all the stuff just in those episodes that was missed, and now I've started reading the manga. It's fucking awesome by the way.
I think it's heartwarming that all it takes to make the great anime-pope Geoff break down giggling like a schoolgirl, is to walk up to him and say "Blow yourself".
Also, Merry Christmas, Geoff and Tenleid!
He's admitted it doesn't take him much to laugh. We know that he really likes Girls Bravo after all.
Wasn't motivated to draw for the past few days. This video has reminded me to keep drawing and to keep improving more and more. Thank you! I'll keep watching your content with joy, so please keep up the videos!
I’m with ya, merry Christmas 🎄
I remember hearing about how about how bad ex harm was, and deciding to watch it just to make fun of it. I do it often and it is always far more fun than the show itself. But ex harm was so bad, I couldn't make it past the first episode. I WAS TRYING TO INSULT IT FOR FUN BUT COULDN'T BECAUSE IT WAS JUST THAT BAD.
I'd rather watch generic isekai like Smartphone. Tho I do like those
You need a group of friends and beer. I trashwatched Ex-Arm with my buds and it was one of the most entertaining shows of the year.
That shit makes Berserk 2016/2017 look like masterpieces.
For some reason the fact that the stabilizing fins don't deploy on that RPG-7 rocket at 27:19 really rubs me the wrong way. They literally just bought an RPG-7 model from the unity store and didn't even bother to watch a youtube video of one getting fired.
thank you for the rosetta stone deal mr basement :) currently learning tagalog, with japanese and welsh on the docket for the future
26:16 that robots arm is somehow clipping into that wall, halfway in, at the middle of his blade. That is: two straight objects somehow interected in such a way that only the middle of the first object is intersecting the latter one despite them pointing in the same direction.
HOW DOES ONE MESS UP THAT BADLY?
I liked that you bring up the arifureta light novels to compare *first place “winner”* to. I picked them up this year and they are certainly an experience. Not sure if they’re good but I definitely think it’s worth checking out if you liked the ideas of the anime though. Anyway happy holidays and congrats on the house!
Man it's really weird that so many people including me had this weird nightmare about the continuation of TPN. That has to have something to do with the vaccines, they make our nightmares feel more realistic /s
Hope you get some good rest at the end of this year :)
Curse you 5G!
The anime awards should have an award for biggest disappointment. Promised Neverland S2 would win by a slide. The fact that S1 was so good made S2 much worse
I dunno, Wonder Egg Priority was also pretty damn disappointing... Not a great year for Cloverworks.
I can kinda see what Record of Ragnarok was going for, showing just how apocalyptically devastating a fight between two literal gods would be, but the execution is so slow. It should have been more like Ashura's Wrath, still showing how devastating a fight between gods would be but at a much faster pace.
22:19
This is simultaneously both hilarious and uncanny, because this is the exact way that we talk about the theoretical sequel season to the Promised Neverland, which thankfully has never been seen by anyone outside of A1's production team, and most certainly not been seen by myself.
"It makes you feel like a disappointed fan even if you've never read a page of the source material."
Amazon Prime's Utopia is exactly like that. I didn't even know it was a remake of a BBC series. I watched the American version and all I could think was...
"Well, that was an exceptionally bad attempt at conveying some really cool ideas."
The original Utopia is a masterpiece, cannot reccomend it enough!
@@gwoolham Absolutely! The only good part of the American series was finding out it was a remake of a show that was also available to watch on Prime. Watching the two shows back-to-back was rather illuminating as to why most American remakes of British shows are so godawful. It makes ALL the mistakes.
the american version of Utopia is one of the only shows that has genuinely made me angry
UK’s Jessica Hyde is a traumatized child forced to become a killer to survive. US Jessica Hyde is a narcissistic psychopath.
@@mojoforthewin3069 OMG! When she shoots that one superfluous character in their group just to make a point to the others?!
That was the moment I think I instinctively knew that I was watching a bunch of bad writing being propped up by someone else's good ideas.
Wait it's on BBC? I thought it was a Channel 4 series
That episode of Battle Athletes Victory Restart you described sounds about as bad as a couple of Cross Ange episodes I've watched. I forget the episode numbers, but in one episode Ange (the main heroine) sees her love interest die in battle alongside her maid. Then it's all COMPLETELY undone in the following episode as she later finds them both alive & in one piece with NO EXPLANATIONS GIVEN WHATSOEVER! I heard there were production troubles partly due to the director's & producer's disagreements, but they still could have come up with SOMETHING!
Yeah, Cross Ange is basically Gundam SEED 3, so that quality of writing is to be expected.
@@avalanchemkii7506 I haven't seen the entirety of Gundam Seed so I wouldn't known much about it. I think I only saw the original series on Cartoon Network years ago. I didn't see Gundam Seed Destiny though. I can't remember if I only saw the original series on Toonami or if it was on Adult Swim too. I only know about some of the things that the director & producer of Cross Ange disagreed on thanks to the TV Tropes site. I was somewhat surprised when I heard that Cross Ange's characters were included in the Super Robot Wars series though. Unsurprisingly, SRW got rid of some of the sleazier aspects of the story when it was included too. One such part being when Ange's psycho lesbian commander tried to rape her early on in the story. The SRW developers chucked that into the trash where it belonged!
They show bras as merchandise in the anime, but for some reason, the protagonist never wears them.
@@avalanchemkii7506 Both being gundam, code fairy was way better.
Cross Ange had problems, and over-the-top fan service, but it is not an accident, that it is 7.4 on MAL, and a top 2000 anime (which is not great, but not terrible), and Battle Athletes has a whopping 5.1 score. Cross Ange can not be compared to the worst of a season's when actually most new animes are inferior to that show.
Nobody can ever do "It takes a lot more than that to kill me" after The Misfit of Demon High School. They perfected that move.
“You really thought killing me was enough to make me die?”
So glad you mentioned reboot in regards of ex-arm. It was the first fully 3d animated cartoon and was better than ex-arm at many points. I just hate seen Crunchyroll who blamed entirely for it, when others, like the director made some dumb mistakes.
The Promised Neverland is literally one of my favorite animes ever. It's (hypothetical) season 2 hurts me so bad that I'm literally sitting here wearing merch for it and (half-jokingly) tearing up because I was so excited to see what any anime adaptation of the manga would do with all of its interesting concepts (even if the manga itself fell off a bit after the resolutions that came about after the goldy pond arc) only to realize that we're never gonna get that ;-;
Arcane and Ex-Arm came out in the same year…what a spectrum, they’ve created.
Every time I see you show clips from Ex-Arm it makes me long for the incredible skill and technique style of Monty Oum who is probably one of *the greatest 3D animators ever*
His breakout short Haloid is nearing on its 15th anniversary and if you feel up to it I’ve been craving an animelee style breakdown of one of his fights for *years…*
he was really a genius who should have gone on to do incredible sequences in more professional settings. I oft wonder what it would have been like if he’d been hired for things like Spiderverse, Arcane, or even a cheap 3D anime like Ex-Arm. RIP Monty ❤️
And Monty put together a 3d show better than Ex-Arm in every way basically singlehandedly.
Seriously. I know Oum's RWBY is a show everyone like to shit on, but it looks significantly better than Ex-Arm,. It's animated competently enough even outside of Oum's amazing fight scenes in the early seasons (even if the early dialog scene were a bit rough, it's better than what we get in EX-Arm), and is at least genuine and isn't arrogantly trying to one up an entire genre without any skill to back it up.
@@PatManDX It's also funny considering RWBY's action got worse after Oum.... you know.
@@tyrkun1624 Not really, if anything some of the show's best fights happened later on, like Raven vs Cinder or RWBY's fight with the Ace Ops in Volume 7.
Stop overestimating him
I'd say that Ex-Arm has only one redeeming quality: no incest or pedophilia. But honestly I'm afraid Geoff is just protecting us from more nausea and headache by choosing to not mention those. If that's the case, please let me stay in my blissful ignorance.
It’s a shame that anime is in such a state to where that has to be said.
ex arm is so bad it's a masterpiece
I get what you're trying to convey here, but that's not a "redeeming quality". It doesn't have some uncomfortable elements that are toyed with in unusual frequency in anime, but a show isn't made better by not having something it never did to begin with. The Room not having any gore or sacrilegious themes didn't make it a better movie for some people. "It could have been worse" isn't a redeeming quality, or meritorious reason to watch the show made by the show.
I think what I want to say most is that a show isn't defined so ubiquitously by its medium (anime). Much like Ex-arm seemed like it wasn't concerned at all with its medium.
It's not like every anime has incest or pedophilia.
@@shyguy5473 Really?
10:59 Honestly the TWEWYANI had a lot of ups and downs (the speedrun comment was definitely true) but as a huge fan of the series I still really loved it.
The jankiness of the 3D animation was... a thing.. but it's 2D sections were really great and translated the style over from the games pretty well. And despite the huge amount of content that was cut, the content that did stay was done (mostly) well. Hell, I'd say they even bettered some of it. (MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD) The 777 section hit hard in the game and hit harder in the anime. I already enjoyed the characters from that band despite the little screentime, but after the anime they've become my favorite background characters.
Anyways, I really enjoyed the anime. Maybe that's just content deprivation speaking though lmao
18:44 - don't know why but that visual is hilarious to me. There's no Impact conveyed so it looks like a PaRappa the Rapper dance(KICK! PUNCH!)
I enjoyed this video more than I expected to! I think it's because you toned down the hyperbole of "this show sucks so much that..." in the script compared to your older rant videos. It felt less like a writing exercise of how many ways you could explain something was bad and more of a general overview of telling people exactly what was terribly wrong with these anime.
Honestly, I love ROR but I can look past my enjoyment and say that the way Netflix did it was really bad, I'm glad to see that it finally got an anime but the manga is by far the BEST way to consume the series, the art is marvelous, you can easily blitz through the backstory & commentary if you want, & best of all, the action flows like a river of pure ambrosia dipped in the greatest honey (the metaphor is running long but you get the idea).
I'm glad it got an anime but it's hard to watch it w/out comparing it to the godsend (pun intended) that is the ROR manga, it's like comparing (insert anime w/ an objectively superior manga here)'s anime to it's manga, there's basically no comparison
I had such high hopes for the detective is already dead. But that first episode was complete dogshit and did not hook me into watching more.
The line, "A good detective solves a case before it even happens" is just code for "The writer cant write for shit and just gives me the answers"
Reminds me way too much of that yokai anime with the girl with a fake eye and leg.
Well what do you expect? The author himself stated that he never wanted to make a "detective mystery" story, he just chucked the name so it can gather people's attention easier lmao, and look, it's working
Ah yes, the BBC Sherlock effect
Maybe some day, The Promised Neverland will get a season 2. I'll continue waiting in anticipation for one of the greatest single season anime to ever exist getting a proper follow up greenlit.
That battle athletes explanation was a total rollercoaster, and made it sound hilarious.
I LOVE that Arcane has basically been accepted with open arms as anime (as is implied by its inclusion in this video) but Last Airbender? “Eh” “But” “Not really”
The Promised Neverland season 2 made me buy the manga, so in that regard it did do some good. Too bad the cost was never getting to see these arcs animated.
It must be so freeing not being tied down to how anime is usually made; you know awesome, entertaining, quality, inventive, complex, featuring fluid movement, engaging storytelling, likeable characters, visionary direction, inspiring rabid fanbases, honoring source material, limited only by imagination, able to appeal to a wide array of ages, settings so engrossing they come to nearly define entire genres, and just simply being cool as hell.
Definitely not tied down to a single one of those things. At all. Not one bit.
None. Nope. Not the teeniest, tiniest part of a single one of those things.
This anime was made to subvert expectations
Well, throwing yourself into the dirt also subverts my expectations, so I’d say they’re in the same level.
@@kwasibrew8072 that was a joke towards The last Jedi, cause people said that movie wasn't bad, it was just to subvert expectations
My expectations to watch a good movie were totally subverted
@@vhfulgencio I know, maybe I should've phrased it definitely. I'm comparing the Ex-Arm creator's proclamations of it subverting expectations to throwing yourself into the dirt.
It wasn't on the list but Wonder Egg Priority was a phenomenal series with a terrible last episode.
It NEEDS a season 2 desperately. This is the hill I've chosen to die on.
How was getting copyrighted in the same video where you vehemently went anti-piracy?
“The Promised Neverland Season 2” is an anomaly and anyone who claims to have seen it must report immediately for a memory wipe.
Maybe it's an SCP
@@boopergoober Yes. Yes it is.
I will say I have a strong soft-spot for Record of Ragnorok due to loving the manga. But it definitely feels like something got lost in translation.
If I had to guess what it's that the pacing of events works a lot better in a monthly manga where a large number pages with truly gorgeous art will really show off the fight, with one or two chapters each mixing that in with the backstories of the two fighters that basically exist as a means of hyping them up. Making it so that when the fighters are winding up for the final clash the reader is on the edge of their seat to see how it all ends. As I once described it to a friend "every individual fight in this series has the amount of hype and passion going into it that whole other series would put into their climatic final showdown." And it works.
But that same pace is very hard to adapt neatly into the episodes of an anime with a specific episode count and runtime. And while the anime does indeed try to give each fight a decent beginning, middle, and end the split of 3-4 episodes apiece does not do it any favors. Honestly I think the series might have benefitted from being adapted into an OVA like Hellsing Ultimate. Letting each fight be about an hour long special that can divide its attention accordingly and really give each round its due.
The manga pacing could've been afapted but one of the problems also came from the studio in question. They have never truly made an action anime, I think their biggest work was an Yaoi romance and they had like, 2 months only to make the adaption so they had to cut corners
@@vcamv2354 Jesus no wonder it's bad. Whose dumb idea was that (probably some rich capitalists, I bet)
The absolute best part about Record of Ragnarok are for me the figher-introductions
@@vcamv2354 they apparently actually made three episodes of Hellsing Ultimate and Hellsing: The Dawn, at least according the wiki.
@@michealfoster4411 they helped Madhouse in doing it. we don't know exavtly what they did in Hellsing so we can't give the whole credit ti them. Maybe they only did the comedic bits who knows
Okay, so I would be totally up for seeing him do an in-depth review of Reboot. That would be awesome.
I could see Promised Neverland getting a Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood treatment.
I'm confused, Geoff says "Imagine If DBZ fights took until the heat death of the universe" as if that's not already how DBZ fights worked...
Yet another reason why the manga is better
DBZ takes until the Suns Expansion Event per episode
The Anime of Ragnarok takes until the Heat Death of the Universe
I actually liked record of Ragnarok a lot . I thought of it more of being fictional historical drama than a action anime that you have to be invested in the stories of the characters to find it appealing. I personally enjoy mythology, and thus the character interaction entertaining for me to look over the animation quality.After watching read the manga up to the buda fight and found both to be great.
Then read the manga, it's actually great without the jank and filler.
The anime was ok for me the music was great, but ya the manga is so much better.
Most people are, primarily, disappointed in how much worse it was than the Manga.
That's honestly prolly why I liked it cause it was new to me but .... I can't hate it it got me into the Manga which is better imo
@@Mrcaptainmorgan93 Same i watch the anime first then i read the manga and i get hype for each new chapter release.
good to see the creators of "the amazing bulk" attempting a CGI anime movie. Not to mention it got the NUMBER 1 SPOT on a ranking!
10:00 now put yourself in the shoes of someone who's been a fan of the manga for years, then witnessing the literal power point presentation of the (at the time) fan favorite character's fight. Please, read the manga, it's a million times better. If they do Round 4 justice, we'll forgive them for season 1. But I doubt they'll happen.
It's really funny how ExArm managed to be a worse version of Gen:Lock, a show which is ALREADY awful
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I can’t wait for your 86 video!! I love that show so much! One of my favourites from 2021 and possibly my anime of the year