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Farafra
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| Quote: | | On its most basic level, this first arc of episodes is a story of the rich exploiting the poor, and the poor accepting it. |
I can see why Disney wanted this show.
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Philmister978
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 11:45 am |
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Were we watching the same show? I thought the animation was shockingly bad. The CGI felt really weightless and undercooked. And the 2D really took a nosedive once episode 6 hit. I genuinely thought E&H farmed the keyframe animation out for those last few episodes of the batch, but no, they did it themselves.
Did they run out of time and/or money?
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bassgs435
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 12:45 pm |
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| Philmister978 wrote: | | Were we watching the same show? I thought the animation was shockingly bad. The CGI felt really weightless and undercooked. And the 2D really took a nosedive once episode 6 hit. I genuinely thought E&H farmed the keyframe animation out for those last few episodes of the batch, but no, they did it themselves.
Did they run out of time and/or money? |
Small team. Sunghoo is ambitious but doesn’t seem to be able to gather the personnel required for his vision like he could at MAPPA.
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EmeraldSaucer
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:12 pm |
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| Philmister978 wrote: | | Were we watching the same show? I thought the animation was shockingly bad. The CGI felt really weightless and undercooked. And the 2D really took a nosedive once episode 6 hit. I genuinely thought E&H farmed the keyframe animation out for those last few episodes of the batch, but no, they did it themselves.
Did they run out of time and/or money? |
Monsters looked similarly bad, and that had the backing of being attached to One Piece. So will second that more so than anything it seems like Seong-Hu Park just hasn't been able to leverage whatever contacts he had to form a solid team (someone could speculate that maybe this says something about the state of JJK and especially JJK0's production)
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MFrontier
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 10:30 pm |
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Well, I guess it's good that about everything else about the show worked even if the MC didn't.
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Philmister978
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 10:43 pm |
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| EmeraldSaucer wrote: | | Philmister978 wrote: | | Were we watching the same show? I thought the animation was shockingly bad. The CGI felt really weightless and undercooked. And the 2D really took a nosedive once episode 6 hit. I genuinely thought E&H farmed the keyframe animation out for those last few episodes of the batch, but no, they did it themselves.
Did they run out of time and/or money? |
Monsters looked similarly bad, and that had the backing of being attached to One Piece. So will second that more so than anything it seems like Seong-Hu Park just hasn't been able to leverage whatever contacts he had to form a solid team (someone could speculate that maybe this says something about the state of JJK and especially JJK0's production) |
The problem though is that MAPPA, even after cutting ties with Park clearly learned nothing given the disastrous conditions on JJK's second season or Chainsaw Man (even if that doesn't reflect on the final product of either for the most part). So even if Park was at fault, MAPPA clearly took all the wrong lessons from it.
That said, even with a smaller team (save for animation contracting studios on Inbetween/paint duties, given no individual credits are given for them), the fact the animation is as messy as it is makes me feel like they would have been better off outsourcing it a bit more.
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Silver Kirin
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 2:54 pm |
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Well, I just watched the first episode, so it's not like I can judge the whole thing, I can understand humanity is living in a sort of post-apocalyptic world, though at least it seems more confortable than the one from Mad Max, which, by the way, I think the show is sort of inspired by it, at least in the opening there was a chase that kind of remind me of Fury Road, but what surprised me was the talking polar bear  .
I don't think it's fair for me to comment on the characters since I only saw the first episode, but talking about the animation and overall designs, it looks pretty cool, I particularly like the first three vehicles that appeared, in terms of animation, I can understand why they use CGI, just like mecha, nowadays it's pretty rare to see hand-drawn cars, the days of anime focused on cars like Future GPX and Let's & Go are long gone, but at least the action in Bullet/Bullet seems to be choreographed, though CGI does tend to make vehicles seem kind of weightless.
By the way, Bullet/Bullet is Disney+' first anime dubbed in Argentina, and despite me being Argentinean, and without delving too much into it since, as I said, I only watched the first episode, Noelia Lastani's performance as Gear doesn't convince me, I'm not that familiar with some of her other roles, I know she voices Sasha Waybright in Amphibia and Pomni in The Amazing Digital Circus, and she has worked in some anime, but her voice doesn't sound very convincing for a young male character, and it's not like I don't like when a woman voices a young male character, there's tons of good examples, it's just that I feel like maybe Gear should have been voiced by a male actor who could do a convincing child voice or maybe even a child/teen VA, though I think in Argentina there aren't any child VAs like in Mexico.
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