Amazing people are working on this anime

Etherius_ZS said:
Nakamura was also rumored to have been involved in the OP, but MHA S6 OP2 might've overlapped with it (also both 1st and 2nd KA on Mob 3). So, only an end card for now :(

Regarding the staff, director Fuji is an exceptional freelance animator and has been working all over the industry for more than a decade at this point, building up more and more connections with other industry people, also being with people like Yoshimichi Kameda/Shinichi Kurita/Hironori Tanaka (u can check the names if u want) for his early career helps a lot too.

Similarly, designer Imamura has also worked on a lot of stuff, and being closely involved on a lot of studio Shaft shows meant some Shaft animators will appear on this.

Then anime so far has been blessed with incredible staff members, credit also goes to the animation producer too for bringing a lot of people on board. Just like Nakamura on ep 4, every single episode has some special people involved too.

FocusIssues said:
While the animation is good in Onimai, it is not as good as Mushoku Tensei, in part because the scenes are more difficult to animate in MT.  The character progression is similar but MT takes more time with more ups and downs and deals with mature topics.  Both stories are similar in that they both started out as free, public stories.  Onimai was on Pixiv while MT was a narou novel.  They also deal with similar themes and have similar messages about the dangers and costs of choosing to be a shut-in.  Rudy starts off as a more problematic character because he is much further down the path than Mahiro.  MT is technically an isekai but it really doesn't feel like one because the story follows Rudy's whole life.  The side characters are really fleshed out.  You do get that unique "Studio Bind" feel in the directing of both anime, which I think is actually stronger than the animation.  It may fade in Onimai because the story is more of a 4-koma.  It will take some skill to get that full MT feel.  So far, I would say MT is better but both are very good.  

Rachiba said:
I think the two are going very different ways, especially when their demographics and genre are aimed at different audiences, as if to compare.

I think Onimai has too high a budget than expected from a CGDCT manga. Lots of creative freedom to redesign characters and fill some scenes with fanservice or cultural references. It's too good, in my opinion, that Onimai gets this deserved treatment.

zarrapha said:
Higher budget =/= better animation. What matters more is the director and producer.

One Punch Man looked spectacular, but that show had a mediocre schedule. The reason why Yutaka Nakamura worked on One Punch Man was because the producer coaxed him into making a scene for them. If they had another producer, I don't think that scenario would happen.

The only reason why Bocchi the Rock had such amazing animation was because of the director and producer. They gave their animators a lot of freedom in the production process and never restricted their ideas.

Rachiba said:
I think the two are going very different ways, especially when their demographics and genre are aimed at different audiences, as if to compare.

I think Onimai has too high a budget than expected from a CGDCT manga. Lots of creative freedom to redesign characters and fill some scenes with fanservice or cultural references. It's too good, in my opinion, that Onimai gets this deserved treatment.

FocusIssues said:
The demos overlap more than we in the West think.  Studio Bind doesn't really aim for a mainstream audience and definitely not  the international audience.  In fact, they seem to like the outrage its animes get in the West.  They want the otaku crowd that still watches on NicoNico.  MT led the NicoNico ranking from first to the 23rd episode and it looks like Onimai will do something similar even though it doesn't really get the same love in the West, thus we think it has a different audience.  However, it is crazy popular among otaku so Studio Bind doesn't care about any other market, honestly.  They had a sale of twix bars in Akiba with a rough drawing of Mahiro and it sold out in 15 minutes.  They are now auctioning them off for around 4000 yen.  Plushies of Mahiro and Mihari that are the cheap kind you find in arcades are going for twice the amount of other popular anime, only matched by Hatsune Miko.  The NicoNico crowd goes down to Akiba to buy the merch and the BDs so it is the best audience to shoot for.  That market, though, demands high quality in terms of animation, production and directing, especially from beloved stories like MT and Onimai.  Studio Bind is aiming for love from the otaku so nothing they produce can be half-assed.  Otaku are discerning viewers.