Did the first season look this bad visually?

Recently rewatched S1 a couple months back (Before this is airing) and I think it's an improvement from S1, definitely.

While overall it might looks the same but this one has more consistent quality whilst in S1 you'd get quite a lot of jank frames/drawings, animations are a bit better.

But that's just me, though it's a shame that A-1 decided to use their name to credit this one while it's clearly that it's still mostly 3Hz's works (After A-1 put the amazing spectacle last season called "Makeine" so watching this is a bit shocking)

I wished the core A-1 is the one that doing this tho, it might comparable with it's parent anime.

@EgatammaN A-1 bought 3Hz animation department in June. Why should they credit it differently when the former studio is now part of theirs?

@Nachtwandler_21 It's a last call thing since in the trailers 3Hz is still the credited ones, I'm pretty sure the studio sales/deal/proposal etc didn't took overnight and the anime has been in works for probably at least a year or so before they made the deal.

I mean, A-1 has better quality than this and they definitely risked it to put this under their names. I'm still thinking making this as an official last anime for 3Hz would be a better choice since I'm pretty sure they finished 75% of the anime before the sales is official.

To those that new into anime might gonna think that this is actually being made by A-1 which isn't good PR or maybe confused why this one has worse quality than the parent story despite being in the same studio. But of course, weebs like us know the answers but regular average people probably won't.

@EgatammaN gave you actually seen a lot of A1 productions. They do great when the project is in thre priority but they have a lot of projects in genertal so a lot of them look bad. If you consider this series bad by A1 standards, sorry to disappoint you. It is not the bnest but is higher than average.

No, they don't look. Most A-1 series look average at worst.