| Well I do consider the animation to be lacking in some aspects and not as fluid as other recent anime. But I just consider it to be the style in which the production company chose to go with. Usually they try to stick close to the manga in terms of style, tone, setting etc. So even though it is static at moments, I don't feel the need to complain about it because it's like that for a reason. Every anime is unique within its on right and most of the time it can or will be different from its source material. I just accept it for what it is. I'm just grateful it's an animation and not just a manga anymore. Although I love manga! So I think it is a successful anime. It gives us the experience of witnessing an intense match close up along with Ei-chans monologues. Also allowing us to visualize the tennis match through another medium. Even if some of the plays are static I've always understood what was going on and where the ball went. So those are just my thoughts about it :) |
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| I've never read the manga, but I can still understand it fine. I don't think you really need overhead shots to understand tennis unless there's a close out (like Wimbledon's hawkeye), so long as you're reading the subs for the calls. I do watch real life tennis regularly though, so that might be helping me out. I definitely didn't need to pay attention to any of the rule explanation to understand the terms/why they were doing what they were. In fact, this anime's so realistic with the tennis it portrays that I don't think it's really possible for it to be hard to understand when you understand tennis itself. It's more just a case of listening to the rules, like any sports anime with an unfamiliar sport. It's not like they weren't successfully making sports animes in the 70s and 80s with similarly jerky animation. |
| Indeed, there is a lack of quality and good animations but for me that doesn't hinder my enjoyment for this show so that's fine. |
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| I agree with the OP. The manga is AMAZING!!! While i just get slightly disappointed while watching the anime :( But i can assure you that if you like the anime you will love the manga even more. |
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Akanezora said: Indeed, there is a lack of quality and good animations but for me that doesn't hinder my enjoyment for this show so that's fine. ^ |
| There are times when I find the manga expresses its point more dynamically, but I find it hard to fault the anime for anything more than a low budget. It's a serviceably enjoyable adaption of a fantastic sports manga, and it's great to experience the matches (and Eiichiro's growth) all over again. Also: I didn't start as a manga reader. I think I got maybe four or five episodes in before deciding that the experience was too good to wait it out; I had to find out what happened next. So in that way, I think the show's succeeding. :) |
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| The animation fluctuates a bit. It could just be my imagination but it looks as though the animation is better during the matches than during normal screen time when you can clearly see the poor quality of animation. There is another problem too, the onlookers of a match look a bit like mannequins. The pace is slower too, if you compare it to other sports anime like Slam Dunk or Prince of Tennis but that does not mean it has no good points. Compared to Prince it's waaaaaay more realistic and the matches are pretty interesting ( though not as exciting) and thus IMO it's a good anime. Now as to whether it's great or not, well I suppose we must wait to see how it ends, though to be honest it doesn't look like it'll be much successful. Oh well ( shrugs and then posts the comment). |
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| Well the character design comes from the manga ^^'... They are actually really well adapted in my opinion. Isin't tennis a kind of old school sport anyways ? :P The animations aren't amazing, but its hard to animate a full tennis match i'm sure.. i hope a future season might get a bigger budget ^^ |
BossVinnyDX said: so i just saw ep17 araya vs takuma match and the animation seem to got better its more fluid, i like where they are going with this Yes definitely. I really liked the usage of CGI there. They have redeemed themselves from those shitty CGI audiences a few episodes ago. LOL |
| So I'm also watching Prince of Tennis which is the other biggest tennis anime and Baby Steps has better tennis animation overall, even if everything else has flaws (CG audience, proportional errors etc.). So overall, the animation is solid for Baby Steps, as long as the sports are animated well. |
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