Even the opening song has MID animation hahahhahahha

Yeah… unfortunately this series heavily depends on its fights scenes. Plus it’s literally the debut, you know which should attract people into watching it. Story being good isn’t a thing till a specific arc.

So if the animation sucks -> death of this anime. Hence why you should criticise it not be okay with it looking like this…

People trying to defend the animation of this op are copping hard… The characters are still and when they move it looks so stiff, there’s literally a blue lock moment where the characters stay still and camera moves.

I still have hope that maybe just maybe it will get better than this but leakers recently really shut that down along with the director. Sakamoto Days really deserved so much better than this!!!

On a good note: Gintama like opening and nice song.

Cry more.If the story is good that's all that matters

@Confused_100 I'm so tired of this shit. This is nothing new and certainly isn't just a 'Blue Lock' moment. This type of shots has ALWAYS existed. You guys have this debilitating fear of still frames, which is ridiculous. Still frames have always existed, they will continue to exist and SHOULD exist. This OBSESSION with animation has been increasing since Demon Slayer and it's unbearable.

Still frames in OPs existed? What type of anime did you watch that did that without making it look artistic?

Bruh I literally said I hope it is better than this because I am a fan of the manga and I know this deserves one punch man season 1 kind of treatment but all I am seeing is worse treatment. Something like oshi no ko that isn’t even shounen has a better art and animation than this… So stop acting this looks good and actually criticise to get a better product.

Dandadan got better treatment, wind breaker got better treatment, frieren got better treatment. Almost all of the new gen got better treatment, but when we reach one of the GOATs of the new gen, we get this… Like CMON!!! If you want mid animation for great mangas, then you weren’t a fan because you didn’t care for it. Logic applies.

(Btw frieren is one of the GOATs of new gen and I am happy it got the treatment it deserved)

@SCYTHER07 Dumb opinion. If story is the only thing which matters, why make an anime adaptation at the first place, just read the manga. or maybe just voice over the manga and present them as episodes like blue lock. Production matters more. A manga like sakamoto days deserves a good anime production and it's fair to criticize what we are being presented

@LIVI___ The greatest of animation doesn't save the crappiest and the most bottom of the barrel stories. Production does NOT matter more than story. That's one of the dumbest takes I've seen in this site, and I've seen a few. That's like saying prettying and swagging up a pile of shit is more important than the fact that it's a pile of shit. Of course it's fair to criticize visual aspects, but that opening didn't look bad at all. It wasn't crazy or anything, but it's crazy that this would be worth the criticism. This sounds more like entitlement and immaturity.

Cartoon adaptations allow for fun and enjoyable direction. Hell, I even liked the Way of The Househusband anime because it hit the comedic bits. You can have subpar animation and still create an enjoyable sequence. Likewise, you can have very talented people drawing, but because the scene is so poorly directed and edited, it ends up being garbage. If the direction and story aren't good, it's probably not going to be good. Doesn't matter if Hayao Miyazaki blessed the show with his artistic talent.

@SCYTHER07 Dumb opinion. If story is the only thing which matters, why make an anime adaptation at the first place, just read the manga. or maybe just voice over the manga and present them as episodes like blue lock. Production matters more. A manga like sakamoto days deserves a good anime production and it's fair to criticize what we are being presented

And here’s the thing, you think demon slayer’s story is bad, yet it sold better than jjk and csm with lower number of volumes…

I know this is gonna sound weird to you, but the theme of family is huge in eastern culture compared to western, hence the popularity. You thinking the story is weak is your opinion.

Now for the animation criticism is equal to childish remark? Really? LOL

Best answer using your pfp: imagine sasuke vs itachi fight with mid animation, I would love to see you defend it.

My guy, SakaDays is more abt the action than the story. Imagine now, how an action show would work with mediocre animation.

@daft_mariner A good production always elevates the story while the bad one cripples it. Demon slayer is the best example for it, People call demon slayer overrated and mid but the popularity it achieved is a dream every other producers dream of. So "greatest of animation" does save the crappiest and most bottom of the barrel stories, you can look up sukuna vs mahoraga from JJK, the manga itself doesn't really contain much, it's just 2 chapters of fight and mahoraga was just introduced out of nowhere yet the anime adaptation just elevates it to the extent that they are both different media now and the anime version is just way too superior than the manga too much that sukuna vs maho is considered one of the greatest fights in anime.

Story doesn't mean shit when the production is bad(altough in a very few exceptional cases story is too good for an average production to affect it), a bad production will always handicap the story in some way you have already seen badly produced shows being turned into shit despite it having crazy good writing and story, The most recent example is Blue Lock and uzumaki. You just never notice how important the production is.
Blue Lock and Haiykuu are both animes belonging from the same sports genre, blue have been the best selling manga of all time surpassing even one piece and jjk. But when it comes to the anime, y'know the rest of the case.

Also "direction" comes under the production too,
Even in the most of the genres, the production has carried it's popularity. Let's just ignore action, let's take slice of life. The bests of the slice of life animes have one thing in common, and that's a good production. That's the same for Kyoto Animation projects, they hold a reputable position for how they produce their anime and the quality of their production
altough they may not have the best stories but their production is responsible for making that story feel special to you. Speaking of Hayao Miyazaki, let's their example, studio ghibli films are carried by the production. Sounds like a hot opinion? but it's not, people just don't notice this. If you take away the production from his movies they wouldn't feel special at all, the plot and stories in itself aren't great, all the love which people have for ghibli films are because these movies feels beautiful and immersive to a beautiful fictional world. that is because of the artistic talent and vision of miyazaki and his direction which comes under production.

I would just suggest you to watch this 10 min vid and then share you counter opinion or otherwise we would just be aruging back and forth for hours and reach nowhere

It's a very good video which changed my opinion in how i viewed animes too