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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#1: Nov 24th 2024 at 11:52:07 AM

I was told I should come here and I did.

Animation Bump seems to have a bit of a problem. Tropers put A LOT of negativity and even use the trope to bash the animation in some places, to a concerning degree.

  • Black Clover is perhaps the most jarring example of any modern anime. The show is frequently criticized for its mediocre to non-existent animation in most episodes. But then every dozen episodes or so, an episode featuring a major climatic fight will occur and animation quality will skyrocket to a level many anime films struggle to reach.
  • All of the Inuyasha movies have considerably better animation than the rest of the series, which causes the characters to be drawn in extreme amounts of detail... but the shift is so extreme and so far removed from Takahashi's art style that the characters just end up looking Off-Model instead.
  • Love Hina had about three or four episodes in which characters sang. In episode 11, where Naru became a pop idol, it looked fluid and believable. The other times? Not so much.
  • In one bizarre scene in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, the animation suddenly got much more detailed and fluid. The scene wasn't particularly important; it was just Nanoha and her family having dinner. The jump was so extreme that the whole scene looked Off-Model, despite being better in quality. It's quite telling that The Movie, despite having much higher animation quality overall, actually reduced the framerate and detail for this particular scene.
    • Additionally, both Shippuden and the original Naruto have a handful of episodes with much, much more fluid animation than normal, usually during major battles. Some examples include Rock Lee vs. Gaara, Naruto vs. Sasuke, typically once per Akatsuki battle, and Obito vs Kakashi. This is generally the work of a specific team which is very skilled at fast-paced action sequences and not much else.

One Piece:

  • Sadly, we have the highly erratic animation of the New World Saga. The animation changes quite often throughout the episodes of the Return to Sabody and the Fishmen Island Arcs. The animation always seems to be either ridiculously top notch and smooth, poor, or very poor, depending on the situation. For example, all of Luffy's fights in the Fishmen Island arc were given the best of the best animation; particularly impressive was Luffy's kick against Hody, Gum Gum Red Hawk, and Elephant Gatling. But, the animation of the crew's fights were noticeably sub-par, using many sudden still shots and slow, almost frame-by-frame animation. And by far the worst animation was during the flashback arc; the frames were practically crawling in the Jinbe vs. Arlong fight along with unusually cartoonish yellow "pow stickers" whenever Jinbe punched Arlong.

I am sorry for any rudeness, It really wasnt intended.

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#2: Nov 24th 2024 at 6:05:37 PM

I wonder if a cleanup thread would work here. I don't think TRS could do much, but this is a big enough trope (2,162 wicks) that I could entertain a cleanup thread.

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