Why

It is the best series of the season even despite the 3dcg imo. The 3d doesn't even look too bad to me, a bit wonky in some areas but the faces got a decent amount of expression to them. And I like that it doesn't go super over the top with the camera movements like some other 3d anime.

It is the best series of the season even despite the 3dcg imo. The 3d doesn't even look too bad to me, a bit wonky in some areas but the faces got a decent amount of expression to them. And I like that it doesn't go super over the top with the camera movements like some other 3d anime.

@JKKH it's so good but the visuals are so bad, it just kills me

@billybub I dunno if you compare it to mediocre 2d animation I think it comes out on top. I think it's better that having a slideshow anime with characters being mostly static with just lip movement. Though I used to watch Rwby so maybe that show's wonkiness completely desensitized me to 3d anime lmao. This show's at least on the higher end of how good 3d tv anime tends to look.

I am very turned off by the 3dcg but still willing to give it a try, can anyone say if its near the quality of Studio Orange's Beastars or Houseki no Kuni?

Counter argument, the show would be lower if it wasn't for the CG.

People see remotely good CG work and reward it.

@Dumb imo it is around the same level, here's a couple twitter posts I found with short gifs/clips from it to give you a bit of an idea of how it looks https://twitter.com/Mystic_Stirling/status/1777742835137339423/photo/2
https://twitter.com/AureliaSpectral/status/1776428849015763077
I'm someone who doesn't really like the look of the Beastars anime but I find this show's appearance doesn't bug me at all.

@JKKH it's so good but the visuals are so bad, it just kills me

@sodrainz I specifically stated had this been animated by Polygon I'd probably find the cg less jarring. You do know who Polygon are right?

@billybub The problem with criticizing CGI is that most of the people who do it, like you are also, provides no meaningful baseline for what they expect "good" CGI is. From a technical standpoint, Land of the Lustrous, does not look a lot better but it's 8.4 so that demonstrates that CGI is not inherently bad even if it's not Pixar level.

So if you're complaining about CGI, give something more meaningful than "but CG" because otherwise the opinion is useless and vacuous.

@billybub Which isn't a meaningful statement since Polygon gave us the 5.6 rated Fist of the Blue Sky

@sodrainz so you didn't know who Polygon were, looked them up real quick and cherry picked a low rated show in order to prove what? That a company that literally does nothing but make 3d animation occasionally makes something terrible. Wow you sure got me.

Since your so big on ratings if you bothered to look through my list you'd see I've rated Land of the Lustrous, Ajin, Knights of Sidonia and numerous other CG shows pretty high.

@billybub That's because you refuse to give us a baseline. Their most recent works back like 3 years are all rated under 7. Ajin and Sidonia are both 2015 or earlier. So your baseline for good is a random D tier company that makes one passable release every 9 years? And even if you considered it passable, you gave no qualities that makes it passable.

My "cherrypicked" example was more recent than the works that you consider "good" by them and seems in line with all their recent work. Based on that fact, if it had been animated by Polygon, it'd be bad.

IMHO

it's disappointing, but it's not bad

it's obvious that it would have been so much better visually if it wasnt cgi. we've had many similar shows that did well

compared to high speed etoile which is just complete garbage, this is bearable as the cgi isn't horrible

@sodrainz are you just dense? First off ratings mean nothing, second even if they did more goes into a score than just the animation.

Polygon is widely recognized as the top cg studio, The reason most of there shows have a mediocre rating on here is because MOST PEOPLE HATE 3dCG. Calling them some "random D tier company" tells me you A) a troll or B) a tourist. And judging by your list its the later.

@billybub You're still dodging the base question to cry about ratings. You haven't listed a single basic quality that makes, in your opinion, something by Polygon "good" CG as opposed to "bad".

They're so good at CG the last time they did anything worthy of praise was 9 years ago and all the people who worked on those are no longer with the company.

They're D tier.

And if your logic is that Polygon's ratings are low just because people hate CG, then this show is 8+ by that same logic with CG haters just rating it low. That still makes it better rated than anything Polygon has ever made including Ajin and Sidonia.

@sodrainz with evey post you just prove how utterly clueless you are, and I'll leave it at that

Haven't seen the Land of the Lustrous or new Trigan yet so I can't compare, but I'm still loving CG in this show! Yeah, it may feel odd if you're used to "ordinary" animation, but I find some unusual charm in this one. That's what happens when you make a good story with good characters; you may fall in love with unusual animation too. Character emotions especially are IMO more fluid and "alive" than your average anime. Well, it all depends on your personal taste, as always - whether you enjoy this or not. I for instance am not going to drop score (eventually) simply because it uses CG. I just don't see how it's a con, at least for now (after seeing 3 episodes).

To be honest, I even enjoy this show slightly more than somewhat similar show this season, called: Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai; which I also love and can see just how good the animation it has, BUT, still, if one were to ask which one you like more (as of now at least), I'd say "Girls band cry".

@Sigmar-Unberogen you make some valid points, but I'd have to give Kurage wa Oyogenai the edge solely on the art.

And I think I've figured out why, it's the background art. I can deal with the cg main characters, but not having that beautiful background art just takes away from my enjoyment. Maybe it's because I'm a huge KyoAni/PA Works/Science Saru fan and I'm just spoiled, but if I had to put a finger on it that's why.