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REVIEW: BEASTARS Season 1

I mean if the shows animation is heavily praised on a widespread general level, then is it really “failed”?

Like compared to Berserk and the whole other host of CG shows that come out this year & years past, if your not critically lambasted then I’m pretty sure that’s a good indication that you are doing something right.

Can anyone truly prove it's praised on a 'widespread general level'? I see lots of complaints about the animation everywhere so I could try to claim it's widespread hated. And to be fair, I'm sure someone could name a popular show or movie that gets a lot of hype that you despise. People often point to the Michael Bay Transformer films, or the Anderson Resident Evil films as examples of "just because it's popular doesn't make it good

I felt the same way about Beastar's animation. I saw some people praising it's animation very heavily but while watching it myself I found it looked so floaty and off-putting. It had almost marionette-style animation where you can tell where the model's animation joints were and how it was being moved around by puppet strings and model rigging, especially all the small movements which made it look super uncanny, like I was watching a show done in a video game engine. Some people might not be able to pick up on that jarring animation effect, like how some people can't see 3D films, but I certainly could and it never went away and it prevents me from enjoying any CG anime that uses this style of animation.

And Bayformers hasn’t been popular in at least a decade.

Even the recent Bumblebee movie in spite of being an improvement only did so so in theaters.

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Budget $195,000,000
Worldwide gross, $1,123,794,079

Transformers: Age of extinction (2014)
Budget $210,000,000
Worldwide gross, $1,104,054,072

Transformers: The last knight (2017)
Budget $217,000,000
Worldwide gross, $605,425,157


Bumblebee (2018)
Budget $135,000,000
Worldwide gross $467,989,645

Source: Box office mojo

Tossing out random global box office numbers isn't telling the whole story as a lot of those numbers probably come from China [...]

The Last Knight especially did poorly and lost Paramount over $100 million and was considered a box office flop.

It’s not a matter of not liking a popular art style. It’s saying the show failed when by all intents and purposes it’s a runaway success and probably one of Netflix’s biggest anime shows. And Bayformers hasn’t been popular in at least a decade. Even the recent Bumblebee movie in spite of being an improvement only did so so in theaters.

I'm also pretty sure that the animation is 2D sometimes, like it was in land of the lustrous (not every scene and character was 3D there).

Yea, Netflix really messed up a lot with promoting it to come out “first thing 2020” and then wait till mid March, as well as the dumb “Rouis” subs (thankfully “Hal” is only in the episode descriptions. Her name in the subtitles is still Haru). I recommended it to my sister and she watched the whole thing in one sitting, and then her boyfriend watched the whole thing in one sitting, lol. I’d like to see some numbers as I’m curious to know how successful this was for Netflix.

LegitPancake wrote:

Yea, Netflix really messed up a lot with promoting it to come out “first thing 2020” and then wait till mid March, as well as the dumb “Rouis” subs (thankfully “Hal” is only in the episode descriptions. Her name in the subtitles is still Haru). I recommended it to my sister and she watched the whole thing in one sitting, and then her boyfriend watched the whole thing in one sitting, lol. I’d like to see some numbers as I’m curious to know how successful this was for Netflix.

There was also some implication that S2 was supposed to be out this year.

Money is money, it doesn't matter where it comes from. The worldwide numbers show that what you initially said is wrong. The Transformers movie franchise was hugely successful overall, even considering a decline about 18.5% in worldwide box office revenue for the last three movies (starting from 2014), the total gross still is $2'177'468'874.

There was also some implication that S2 was supposed to be out this year.