Why so much animation difference between movies and seasons?

Jan 3, 2024 6:04 AM

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I have completed season 5 and its three movies and the most noticeable difference was animation quality. I was waiting for it to get better in upcoming seasons but it's the same. If the seasons were in animation quality like movies then it would have been a cherry on the cake. They have enough production for movies but not for seasons. I do not have any hope for animation to get better in season 6 and 7. I like MHA although its season 5 was not that great, overall it's a good anime but if its animation was better then it would have been a different story. Why don't they upgrade animation despite its popularity?

Jan 3, 2024 6:16 AM

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As per my thought, the Movies animation team is planning to prepare from the start. Or on average movies are 100 min long(about 5episode). So they have to focus on Action scenes.
Whereas Series Animations are planned only about 1 month from the Airing date and their work continues till the end of the episode.

Jan 3, 2024 6:20 AM

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Otaku_guru said:
They have enough production for movies but not for seasons.

Yeah.

A Movie generally have a better return on investments, so it may give investors confidence.
And if you think about it, if they invest the exact same budget, due to the runtime of a Movie being way much shorter than a full Season, the budget is virtually higher. The production of a Movie tends to also be healthier for all the parts involved.

Otaku_guru said:
Why don't they upgrade animation despite its popularity?

Because the popularity declined a lot compared how it was years ago ?
It also depends on the staff involved, and their disponibilities.

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Jan 3, 2024 6:34 AM

WilfredJohnson

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Budget and time period. Also popularity matters very little as it barely ever means animators are paid more or given better conditions

Jan 3, 2024 10:24 AM

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I assume movie has larger budget but idk

Jan 3, 2024 12:16 PM

Elti979

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I don't have a problem with the animation. the movies no doubt is better but not all animation in anime can be amazing. it is watchable unlike some of boruto

Jan 3, 2024 12:17 PM

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Otaku_guru said:
I have completed season 5 and its three movies and the most noticeable difference was animation quality. I was waiting for it to get better in upcoming seasons but it's the same. If the seasons were in animation quality like movies then it would have been a cherry on the cake. They have enough production for movies but not for seasons. I do not have any hope for animation to get better in season 6 and 7. I like MHA although its season 5 was not that great, overall it's a good anime but if its animation was better then it would have been a different story. Why don't they upgrade animation despite its popularity?

Me personally, I would like for there to be less mha movies and I would want more time and effort to be put on the anime itself.

Jan 3, 2024 12:17 PM

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movies are equal to 4-6 tv episodes only so they can allocate a lot of time for it to improve its animation quality

Jan 3, 2024 12:28 PM

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Because movies get higher budgets than series, it's as simple as that

Jan 3, 2024 8:27 PM

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how tf you don't like the animation when S5 Joint training arc had great animation lol

Jan 3, 2024 8:53 PM

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Some long running shows tend to drop in production quality over time. Or the studio had more projects that year.

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Jan 4, 2024 10:02 PM

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Saimatsu_Fan said:
how tf you don't like the animation when S5 Joint training arc had great animation lol

Yea but the second half was lacking compared to the first, I feel like the team struggles to spread out their talent, the first half of s5 and s6 are full of good animation, but the second half is way more conservative with it's animation, leaving lot of important moments of the story looking bland

Jan 4, 2024 10:58 PM

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Saimatsu_Fan said:
how tf you don't like the animation when S5 Joint training arc had great animation lol

oh god you're one of those people

Jan 5, 2024 7:09 AM

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Saimatsu_Fan said:

smashsalmon said:

oh god you're one of those people

what do you mean one of those? 25 episodes a year is way too much so ofc there won't be like amazing animation. but I think it’s smarter to spread out the quality over the season, make the first half look a bit worse for the second half to look a bit better, mainly with scenes that are important but get adapted as a bunch of stills cuz the good animators they had on hand were used for a small fight that doesn’t really matter. In an ideal world they would get more time. But they wanna push it out yearly

Jan 5, 2024 10:19 PM

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dude i don't want to deal with you just STFU

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