I’m so sure the animators didn’t care about the story much at all and just wanted to show off their new animation skills in this series. And if so it worked.
I also feel there might have been a strong use of AI in the development of this series, not to discredit it of course. It just does feel like a lot of AI was used in developing this. The mistakes seem very AI like.
Here are some samples:
In one scene, the protagonist is running up the stairs to rescue someone and gets kicked by the enemy and falls. He catches on to the staircase to prevent himself from dropping all the way. In this process the railing of the staircase vanishes. I just don’t see how actual animators would have missed this, but it does seem perfectly plausible for AI, and I’ve seen similar issues when I attempted AI video generation myself.
Another:
Protagonist jumps to avoid enemies kicks and does a backflip, but becomes a ball mid-jump. Why add a ball mid-animation. It would have been easier still to rotate the image of the person than to import in a stupid looking ball. Makes no difference for AI though. It’s all just slop.
Another:
Here the enemy is slightly taller than the protagonist, but sometimes enemy becomes really big like a monster kaiju thing. Seems unlikely humans would animate this way, looks like AI to me.
So much of this looks like, the animators gave jobs to AI and AI came back with this, they eventually gave up and screamed ‘Fuuuuck!!’ and just uploaded it.
And that I believe is the right thing to do. Most people won’t even notice these things. If they dump all their effort making a few minutes of animation and no one pays any attention to any of it. My god, would it be a waste.
I feel like they kinda just gave up mid-way though, since the protagonist really wasn’t as powerful as they animated him to be. It felt like, fuck it, I’m gonna make this the coolest animated fight around.
Good work though, since that got the animators hired to work on Jujutsu Kaisen I guess. One of the fights just looked a lot like the jujutsu kaisen, and I googled it. Yes, the same artists did work on jujutsu kaisen season 3 as well. And they did an even better job there. It was really good.
Was the show any good? Not really..
It was engaging though. Not worth recommending to anyone though.
I only really watched it since it resembled DICE, another manhwa I’d read in the past. That was pretty good.