Ore dake Level Up na Ken Episode 11 Discussion

@yanchen03 Tetsuya Takeuchi wasn’t on this episode. That was a rumor. He also wasn’t a fight scene director, he was a key animator. He barely did anything for that episode. Only about 15 seconds or less of animation. Wait till a later ep tho since he’s still a great animator

I can't overemphasize how wonderful the anime adapted the manhwa-- they did it justice.

@Peenutz i think 15 seconds or so is still impressive, noting how many frame for that smooth 15 seconds pov

@yanchen03 it was a good cut but the way you credited him is disrespecting the person who actually cooked up the Yuki VS choso fight. Also his cut wasnt even really all the fluid or as you put it "many frame" in that ep. He's done much better things and tbh you should check some of them out:
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post?tags=tetsuya_takeuchi+order%3Ascore

This will probably just be my mini-review for the whole season so time to just spill out all of my thoughts in general. There ain't nothing one more episode is gonna do to alter my tune at this point. I couldn't write these characters into a less boring story myself even if my life depended on it. I'd need to start back from episode 1.

So.

Solo Leveling is a tiresome and predictable action self-insert fantasy. Characters are about as deep as a tide pool, about as compelling as factory-made Ikea desks, and about as visually interesting as cardboard; everyone in this show has THE worst drip. Action scenes occasionally look fantastic (when it's not stilted or just dizzying like spin-art). But when you don't care about the characters' motivations in the fight or the entire story conceit of the action scenarios themselves? Well, then that's basically a x0 multiplier to your action scene right there.

These aren't unfamiliar problems.

If you've seen SAO, you've seen this. If you've seen Goblin Slayer, you've seen this. Only this time, Anime YouTube (probably?) won't neg-bomb it into vitriolic "the worst anime ever" status. It isn't. But it isn't my jam either. Even I expect my wish-fulfillment anime to be a hit above this. If I was 17 again and had only seen like 10 anime before - I would have thought this was pretty sick. But regardless of age and level of media experience, I feel like we could do better. It would need JJK season 2 levels of improvement to get me on board for a Season 2. And even that didn't *fully* fix JJK for me.

@Annibei49

Pfft, no they didn't. They spit on the source material.
The pace is absymal and ruins the whole flow of the show. You can read the content of this season in like 45 minutes in the manhwa.
They could've wrapped up these 12 episodes in 7 if they just upped the pace and stopped sprinkling in all these pointless NPC scenes.
Instead of that useless recap they could've put all the side character crap in there for all i care.

@BlueSnow93 cool if you want them to just speedrun the adaptation , not everyone wants another noblesse or the god of highschool , the pace is just fine

@Peenutz its not that deep, i just say a shoutout because there is the also the news of someone from yuji choso fight joining for part of eps 11. thats why i said the fight scene is crazy and i put a full stop (.) after that i add honorable mention of whoever does join part from yuji choso fight to solev eps 11. its a completely different sentences, i guess thats easy enough to understand, right?😅 dont be mad because i didnt credit who cooks for yuji choso, i didnt even know anyones name and i didnt mention anyones name too, so just take it as a hole group of animator doing a great job buddy

The fighting sequence with Igris was really well done and I thought he was in real trouble for a second there although he's not out of the woods yet since he dropped his teleport stone.

Side note, I'm curious about the island and why it seems to be a big deal, maybe it's the origin of these portals.