One Punch Man 2nd Season Episode 1 Discussion

JokerVentura said:

Also the one thing we can say about OPM S2, is that it brought together a community of animation experts. Perhaps you can all get together and make OPM S3 and show them how it's done.....no? Yeah, somehow I didn't think so.

JizzyHitler said:
The artwork and animation was serviceable for this episode, but spells pretty big disaster for whats to come. This season will see dramatically improved writing and characterization alongside genuine story beats to follow rather than random events, but it seems that the production itself will sadly not do justice to it, it wont be a bad anime but it will be a big letdown especially compared to the wonderful work before it.


My big worry though after this episode is how much more low energy it feels like cause of the lack of movement, it ends up changing the whole tone for the worse

I'm going to be a bit controversial, but whatever. I watched first season in October (as one of my first anime ever), and found it good (7/10), but nothing special. It is not my type of anime, as I don't really like action shows. But now I watched this episode and you know what? I enjoyed it more. The focus is more on comedy and plot, which is great, fight scene was short yet not horrible (Steins;Gate 0), only thing that was kinda weird were those shiny elements like Genos's arms. But for me, there's not much difference between both seasons, therefore I'll keep watching it and who knows? If plot will be brilliant I may even rate it higher

eglepe said:
Bet most of these crybabies never even read the webcomic. The art is fine. Not as good as season 1 but it's fine. Complaints about pacing are ridiculous this early. Maybe it'll be rushed but you sure as hell can't tell from a single episode.

Eschasintra said:
Well....the scene with King was actually well executed, they didn't fail to catch the comedy feeling and it was rather funny...but that's all. The fight with Genos was absolutely HORRIBLE, with poor animation and weird screen frames, the smoke ending up taking the whole screen so they didn't have to animate the actual fight, not fluid at all and failed to bring the viewers excitement.

Funny how every footages in the PV was already shown in the first episode, on another hand episode 01 was probably their only "well" animated episode.

Also, if that was the OP visuals then it's pretty shit to be straight forward, but yeah expected from JC, why would they bother animating an OP when they couldn't even animate a fight properly.

lostinexistence said:
c'mon guys it's not that bad. It's decent, actually

Yourmom53 said:


You and I have a very different standard for decent because if I saw this level of quality from another anime I would call it crap

Meta_Yoshi said:
I came in, expecting this episode to receive a mixed reception and I was right. But honestly, I still enjoyed this episode.

While it's great to have One Punch Man back on air, the talk about the negativity of the PV leading up to the first episode won't go away anytime soon. Heck, those voices will probably get louder as the show goes on, but either way, I'll enjoy as much of the show as I can. =)

The animation, for starters, wasn't as bad as some people would say. Although some scenes in the Genos fight were rushed here and there and the camera felt like it wanted to be Sonic the Hedgehog on a chilli dog rush or something, but the fight itself was still good. S1 fights were far better, but this one was still good in its own right.

As for King, his scenes were very good. I didn't expect him to be a closet otaku and his reactions were funny and were well detailed, too. =D

Saitama did a good job in giving him a motivational speech as he took down the bird that was naturally attracted to King. I hope we'll get to see more of him in the future.

So I liked this episode, but I'm not surprised that certain parts of the visuals and the use of CGI for Genos have been going down badly with more passionate users here.

Only time will tell if things do pick up here or not, but I do see J.C. Staff's reputation taking yet another hit, especially after their lackluster effort with Index 3. =/

GoldenDevilGamer said:
For anyone that's saying that this looks bad, name me 5 anime this season that showcased better sakuga than this episode. Let's face it, this is an average production. Not good, nor bad. This episode had bad cuts and good cuts. There's no point in comparing it to S1 because that was one rare production that can never be recreated again.

It's fine to feel disappointed from this, even I am too. But some people really enjoy talking outta their ass. It's bad when compared to S1, average when compared to other seasonal stuff, and good when compared to J.C Staff's usual
TV production in the last couple of years. Comparing it to S1 is futile because even Shingo Natsume and Madhouse can't replicate the same quality anymore. Comparing it to J.C Staff's other stuff is also futile because it makes sense as to why they should put more scheduled time into OPM. The only thing we can do is compare it to the average production.


Also, contrary to what people think, the animation of Genos' body is hand drawn, so they're not trying to save effort or anything like that. Genos was given a post-animation metallic filter. So basically, 2D animation, but 3D-styled coloring. It's not an effort saving thing, but a stylistic choice. And a really shitty stylistic choice if I do say so myself.

GoldenDevilGamer said:
For anyone that's saying that this looks bad, name me 5 anime this season that showcased better sakuga than this episode. Let's face it, this is an average production. Not good, nor bad. This episode had bad cuts and good cuts. There's no point in comparing it to S1 because that was one rare production that can never be recreated again.

It's fine to feel disappointed from this, even I am too. But some people really enjoy talking outta their ass. It's bad when compared to S1, average when compared to other seasonal stuff, and good when compared to J.C Staff's usual
TV production in the last couple of years. Comparing it to S1 is futile because even Shingo Natsume and Madhouse can't replicate the same quality anymore. Comparing it to J.C Staff's other stuff is also futile because it makes sense as to why they should put more scheduled time into OPM. The only thing we can do is compare it to the average production.


Also, contrary to what people think, the animation of Genos' body is hand drawn, so they're not trying to save effort or anything like that. Genos was given a post-animation metallic filter. So basically, 2D animation, but 3D-styled coloring. It's not an effort saving thing, but a stylistic choice. And a really shitty stylistic choice if I do say so myself.

TheRay28 said:
Okay this a pretty hefty downgrade. Fans really wanted a second season and looks like they are happy with even this shit, but should we really settle down for something like this?

And those of you who haven't read the manga, please check it out. It's great and has just the kind of fun that was present in the first season. This cheap-looking adaptation is not going to do its source material justice.

Danpmss said:


You better take a look at Berserk 2016-2017's BDs, some differences were like day and night.

https://i.redd.it/piytt0serhsx.gif

While most don't improve the overall quality, they do revamp several sakuga sequences and straight insert new and more consistent sequences in the place of the TV version (which is the case in here as well, some scenes look really fine, although barely animated at times).

JC Staff almost always provide some BD fixes even for works they barely have time to improve upon in a tight schedule (see ToAru 3 bluray and its 50 fixed scenes per episode).

Yourmom53 said:


I mean the season hasn't started yet but Kimetsu no Yaiba, Piano No Mori, RobiHachi and Shoumetsu Toshi while the last two don't look great they are at least average.

GoldenDevilGamer said:
RoboHachi and Shoumetsu Toshi don't have better or more sakuga that this episode. They wouldn't even fit the criteria of being average either. Stuff like Mix, Furuba, and Fairy gone have better production values, and out of the three I've mentioned, only Fairy gone has better production values than this episode. I was asking for 5 better looking productions, and the ones I'd list of the top of my head is Kimetsu no Yaiba and Fairy gone. As for upcoming, BSD S3 and SnK S3 P2 are bound to look better, and maybe even Sarazanmai. But I'm not trying to prove a point of OPM S2 looking good. I just want to prove that it's an average production.

Also, Piano no Mori is technically from last season, and I can't say it's anything better because its low points are worse than this episode, and its high points aren't quite sakuga heavy

GoldenDevilGamer said:
RoboHachi and Shoumetsu Toshi don't have better or more sakuga that this episode. They wouldn't even fit the criteria of being average either. Stuff like Mix, Furuba, and Fairy gone have better production values, and out of the three I've mentioned, only Fairy gone has better production values than this episode. I was asking for 5 better looking productions, and the ones I'd list of the top of my head is Kimetsu no Yaiba and Fairy gone. As for upcoming, BSD S3 and SnK S3 P2 are bound to look better, and maybe even Sarazanmai. But I'm not trying to prove a point of OPM S2 looking good. I just want to prove that it's an average production.

Also, Piano no Mori is technically from last season, and I can't say it's anything better because its low points are worse than this episode, and its high points aren't quite sakuga heavy