Which studio did you prefer for Aot?

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Jan 25, 9:06 AM

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Both did greatly, but it would have been batter if animation was like in a trailer for the last season. I recall how I watched that trailer for the first time, Eren got me bricked up with his majestic looks 😂
I was like damn is this Eren ?!
also, everything looked smoother, so the only thing I would have changed is mappas schedule of work.

@GIGI_0 I wouldn't say it's a great job by Mappa, just to say it's enough to just check the Blu-rays of Mappa they had to make thousands of improvements to each season just because they couldn't bring a concrete result to the screen, as well as the final part makes you think that they divided the 2 episodes at a distance from each other instead of being able to make a cinematographic production (which is what they are proposing now)

Jan 25, 9:16 AM

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Leon888 said:
I have always preferred Wit because it really made you enter the world of Aot, with Mappa it was a horrible experience, with bad cgi, poor direction and animations not up to par I have always regretted that Wit did not complete this adaptation. And you?

CGI was bad only in part 1 due to the short time period but direction wasn't in any way bad. Episode 5, 6, 7, 14 & 15 still in the top 15 episodes of AOT. So Idk what you're talking about. Also CGI and animation in both part 2 & 3 of the finale was top notch, you're just hating.
Although I prefer WIT any day, Mappa did an excellent job.

@Reckless_weeb I wouldn't say it's a great job by Mappa, just look at the Mappa Blu-rays, they had to make thousands of improvements to each season just because they couldn't bring a concrete result to the screen, also the episodes you listed are the first 15 of aot on what basis? Mappa's direction was easily average at best, just taking ep 5 they couldn't convey the same vibes as the paper counterpart and despite the many potentials they decided to opt for making Willy tibur's death a dead moment instead of one of exaltation, not including an OST that really made the scene stand out, even ep 6, 7 and 14, where had so amazing in terms of direction? considering that technically they were among the worst episodes of the season, while the direction was not the best precisely because of the wasted opportunities they had left out, just go and watch the first pre-animated trailer of Mappa, it had a better direction than any season created by them: that scene with Eren in titan form screaming freely while the camera rotates around him, the scene in which the jaw was about to attack Mikasa as if it were about to swallow her, the giant chariot screaming while the camera moves 360 degrees to show all the dynamism of the scene... damn those were really scenes in which the direction stood out and the scenes stood out, instead in the season it was mostly mediocre, just compare ep 14 with that of season 3 of Levi vs Titan beast, there was no comparison at all, you immediately notice the downgrade that the series had. As for the rest of the seasons although the 2nd part and the final part had much more to show

Jan 25, 9:17 AM

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Dan_ALves said:

baymaxemon said:
Both studio did excellent job

I agree. We got two of the best studios around animating a great story, can't ask for more.

W fan. People don't realise just how much effort went into making s4.

@Anime_Skaddiel The effort did not bear fruit, however, as it was still a disappointment.

Jan 25, 9:19 AM

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I mean they’re both good but imo mappa fit the show way better than wit studio did.

Like I could imagine s1-3 animated in Mappa’s style and work

But realistically I couldn’t picture wit studio animating s4 it just wouldn’t fit well in my opinion.

@Phantom_Siren652 Wit, in fact, according to some statements, if they had had more time they could have even increased the production level. Mappa honestly causes so much uproar only because its style was closer to the manga than Wit did, but then in the concrete results Mappa wasn't that amazing.

Jan 25, 9:20 AM

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AOT got destroyed by studio and art change
even though it was good art work
but seemed kinda out of the place
i didn't enjoy tht season 😐 , very bad experience for me ,
s3 p2 peak fiction fell off frm my mind....

@SoloNecromancer Wit was better, there's little to do

Jan 25, 9:26 AM

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@Leon888 as I said, Work schedule of Mappa was atrocious. Animators were looking half dead 😂
,so considering in what environment they were doing their job, Mappa did decently good.

Jan 25, 9:29 AM

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well I agree wit studio's art style complement AOT's art style more but how the heck can you say that mappa did a bad job? the animation is excellent and the CGI isn't bad at all and did you watched the final part? and if after watching it you say that mappa did a bad job then the problem's in your eyes.

@tanjim_ahsan16 I honestly appreciated in the second part technically speaking only episode 11, ep 6 and the one of the bonfire that I found interesting storyboard-wise, for the rest, except for small exceptions like the scene of Eren's father going crazy, I found the rest really terrible, I understand that the action was reduced to the bone, but for the rest imho it seemed like watching 10 episodes of slides from right to left or vice versa with a fixed camera on still faces where only the mouths move, if I find the first 2 episodes mediocre but all in all in line with the previous season while I was finding the first part of the third part quite good in my opinion the series is technically dead from the second half of the third episode, even the rendering of the rumbling itself did not convince me at all, or at least, more than that everything that came before, which in terms of both direction and animation I find to be the sum of what I had talked about before, animations reduced to the bone supported by a direction of disarming mediocrity, 11 and 6 instead nothing to say, it has some bomb of cuts, but I guess it's because they put all the best animators they had there without doing anything in the rest of the series. The 3rd part I found more interesting things especially a sequence between Mikasa and Levi in the finale while facing Eren, but even there, I don't understand where all the amazement is? if we consider it a production at a cinematographic level it loses on the whole line, while instead if we consider it at a television level, it has some interesting scenes and defends itself well but it ends there, it has nothing that makes it stand out neither in terms of direction nor in terms of animation, even the OST component had nothing new to offer because they always recycled the same OSTs of the first seasons except one or two new ones, honestly if we consider everything that Wit has given, that of Mappa turns out to be just a huge downgrade on many points of view, and the problem is not in my eyes, but in the fact that having a certain experience with many anime productions I can easily notice how this of Mappa is a very incomplete one. And yes, cgi is terrible

Jan 25, 9:32 AM

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People really need to get over it because both look great. Mappa's work on AoT is extremely underrated based on how much i see it get dragged. It's not anywhere remotely close to looking bad.

@riqmoran It wasn't bad but it was extremely mediocre, I don't understand what it has to overcome? Wit gave a lot to this series and Mappa's work seems to be just a huge downgrade of everything, reduced animations, constant abuse of questionable cgi, flat direction, not so innovative soundtracks... everything about this production borders on superficiality

Jan 25, 9:35 AM

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In my opinion Mappa was better than Wit studios

@MirikoToga_69 I would say no, with Mappa I have yet to find an episode that can even come close to many of the best episodes of Wit, such as the episode where Levi, Mikasa and Eren argue about who to save between Armin and Erwin, that episode for example on a directorial level was of a truly unheard of power, the only thing I found of Mappa that could come close was ep 9 of part 2 but even there, it wasn't all that much of a sensation

Jan 25, 9:36 AM

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I really like Wit studio animation so i prefer wit over mappa. But mappa's art style was more suited for the final season. So it is perfect as it is.

@KOLOPS Well the map style was closer to the manga, but on what basis do you say it was the best to represent the final season?

Jan 25, 9:38 AM

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Leon888 said:
poor direction

My fucking ass, The Final Season had plenty of excellently handled episodes.

@Oongbuh Like which ones? If you're talking about the 3rd part, they were only 2 very long episodes, if you're talking about the 2nd part I only found 2 that I fully promote (6-11) and 2 others that I found decent (3-9), the rest seemed dishearteningly superficial.

Jan 25, 9:40 AM

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S1-3 were nostalgic and Wit’s studio was perfect for that
s4 seems more modern, i cant imagine Wit studio animating this season, mappa did a great job

@Parufka I could easily say that Mappa didn't do a great job, and you can also see that on the numerous improvements he made during the course of the bluray, but Wit simply had a more interesting direction, he could have really made the final season better than Mappa did.

Jan 25, 9:41 AM

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Production IG 😏

@SCYTHER07 This comment is underrated, nobody ever remembers that he was in the middle too 😂

Jan 25, 9:42 AM

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Obviously, Wit. Is this even a question?

@Flying_Hawlucha Unfortunately yes, you can notice how some prefer Mappa I don't know why

Jan 25, 9:43 AM

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I like WIT's art style for AOT more, but that's not to say that MAPPAs animation was bad. IMO the final parts of the manga that MAPPA animated were just weak in general, but people just didn't want to attribute that to the series so they made it MAPPA's fault why the season was bad

Jan 25, 9:43 AM

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MAPPA for some subtle attentions that are a bit more faithful to the manga. Wit for just about everything else. Well, at least they kept Sawano for the music. Would've taken a nosedive in atmosphere if we lost him.

@Notshane But what improvements would Sawano have brought to the season finale? Because the OSTs used were practically the same as the first 3 seasons with only 2/3 new OSTs filling the final part, I wouldn't say there was a big improvement.

Jan 25, 9:46 AM

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I love Wit studio, but I won't hate on MAPPA just because I preferred Wit. Season 4 looked and was a masterpiece just like the previous seasons, so I'm satisfied and happy with what MAPPA created.

@Mortal18 I not, I found the work done by mappa very inconsistent and mediocre, certainly not what you would expect from aot

Jan 25, 9:49 AM

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@Leon888 as I said, Work schedule of Mappa was atrocious. Animators were looking half dead 😂
,so considering in what environment they were doing their job, Mappa did decently good.

@GIGI_0 Honestly it doesn't change the final result for me, because knowing the terrible work of Mappa this doesn't help me improve the animations, and honestly you can find many interesting works with time and budget constraints hindering the program, JJKS2 is a great example.

Jan 25, 10:05 AM

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@Leon888 well Let's be real it wasn't that bad in terms of animations.

soundtracks,character designs, Openings&endings and all other aspects of work production were Peak.
And they had only 10 months allocated for 23 episodes while also working on jjk so I guess they bit more than they could chew but, at the end of the day we should give them credit for giving us more or less satisfying final season for one of the Greatest Anime Series Ever.

Jan 25, 10:22 AM

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@Leon888 Wit studio was better in motion animation, I agree about the bad SGI done by mappa, but the colors and shading were better in the mappa adaptation, also the characters look more realistic, (thanks to the colors and shading) the whole world looked better and realistic

personally I felt the brutality of this world more in the mappa adaptation bc of how more gray it was

Jan 25, 10:53 AM

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I like the studio WIT seasons more and I think that season 3 was the peak of the series overall. MAPPA did a decent job but I don't like the cgi titans and the fights as much.

Jan 25, 3:07 PM

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@Dan_ALves Actually we could, there are much better studios than Mappa that could have given a better direction to the show, I really don't understand where all this acclaim for Mappa comes from when their works are a coin toss, you never know which one will be done well and which one not, with Aot for example they failed to give it the treatment it deserves

@Leon888 That´s your opinion, which is fine. I´m sticking with mine.

Jan 28, 1:01 AM

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Mappa suited the Final Season. But they seriously needed a lot more time to work on that CLUNKY TITAN CGI in the first 16 episodes. Also the ODM gear sequences didn't have the sauce of Wit. It just wasnt as impactful.

Jan 28, 4:38 PM

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Okarym

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Overall Wit studios but MAPPA had way better cgi especially for the colossal titans

Jan 29, 8:08 AM

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SyedAli64

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Wit was so much better

Jan 30, 8:40 PM

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Leon888 said:
@YamiLoon Mappa's dark art style depends a lot on the context he used it in, for example the watermark in part 2 was a bit off since the environment was more "yellow" than it should have been, in part 1 instead I noticed that they used many more dark elements than normal probably to hide the animation flaws, even if it wasn't exactly optimal to immerse us in the action of the show, in general I found Wit's work better on many points including the style.

yeah u talkin' about facts I agree with u

Feb 7, 7:30 AM

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Leon888 said:
@MirikoToga_69 I would say no, with Mappa I have yet to find an episode that can even come close to many of the best episodes of Wit, such as the episode where Levi, Mikasa and Eren argue about who to save between Armin and Erwin, that episode for example on a directorial level was of a truly unheard of power, the only thing I found of Mappa that could come close was ep 9 of part 2 but even there, it wasn't all that much of a sensation

It is just my personal opinion but I liked the art style of Mappa better.I am not saying that The animation of Wit was bad.I liked Mappa more.

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