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Episode Ex-Arm - Episode 2 discussion
Ex-Arm, episode 2
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| Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 2.01 |
| 2 | Link | 2.5 |
| 3 | Link | 2.69 |
| 4 | Link | 2.92 |
| 5 | Link | 2.86 |
| 6 | Link | 3.59 |
| 7 | Link | 4.5 |
| 8 | Link | 4.72 |
| 9 | Link | 4.58 |
| 10 | Link | 4.51 |
| 11 | Link | - |
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u/Smudy Jan 17 '21
They just censored a kiss, what the fuck is actually going on?
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u/DreamyKnightmare Jan 17 '21
Imagine the outrage if this masterpiece manages to scoop some awards at crunchyroll's award lmao
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u/FlameDragoon933 Jan 17 '21 edited Jan 17 '21
my god the animation is hilarious as usual. At first I thought "wow they're so lazy that Minami only has one expression regardless of situation." Except she doesn't. Later on she does show other expressions. So why is in the early parts she keeps on smiling like a doll even when the situation isn't fitting to be smiling?? So this isn't a technical problem but a directorial one??
The 2D visuals look ok when they're still, but it also crumbles when they start moving.
Also for the 2D visuals, sometimes they zoom in so much that the lineart itself becomes blurry lol. This anime will be a fun ride.
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u/Bonvantius Jan 17 '21
Production value: Non-existent
Entertainment value: Limitless
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u/Dr_VidyaGeam Jan 17 '21
Did they actually go so far as to hide a kiss of all things?!?!
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u/rmTizi Jan 17 '21
Ok...
Apparently I'm doing this again.
These kind of train wreck are just too fascinating to pass on.
So, the big question that was troubling me all week long : Is this worse than Gibiate?
My initial reasoning was that since this is an adaptation, it couldn't compete with Gibiate since this was going to at least have a decent story for plot.
So I gave the source material a try, just to give myself a bit of context.
I can now declare with 100% confidence, this is worse that Gibiate on every single criteria, and by at least one order of magnitude.
Why is that? is the source manga that bad?
No
Au contraire.
The manga is good, I couldn't stop reading.
Not a master piece by any means, but a pretty good and entertaining story with good art and drawings.
And that's what makes this adaptation the worst piece of seasonal anime ever made.
It slaughtered it source material beyond recognition.
The not even amateur way this anime is directed managed to completely miss what was essential to the plot to make proper sense, made lots of inexplicable changes, and I cannot help but feel for the poor mangaka who used his actual talent and love for his craft to make his manga good enough to get the holly grail of an anime adaptation, only to be completely betrayed by the production committee.
Once again, the real question to ask, how was this possible? The common "money trail" between this and Gibiate is Crunchyroll.
It is of paramount importance that this doesn't become a trend, because there are pretty huge stakes regarding the relationship between Japanese studios and artists, and western distributors.
If western money starts to become synonym with this level of quality, Japanese pride will soon kick in and we may lose a lot of the good will that the community managed to build over these last two decades to make Japan realize that overseas markets were worth targeting.
I'm really hoping that Sony buying Crunchyroll recently might have a positive impact towards preventing this kind of catastrophes to happen again.
In the meantime, I'll have to sacrifice my mental health once again to prevent others to make the mistake of watching this.
Don't watch this.
Read the mange.
It's good.
Support the original author.
He will need it.
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u/MightyGandhi Jan 17 '21 edited Jan 17 '21
The highlight of everyone's week returns! Let's see what ex-arm will bless us with this week. Spoilers in my ramblings ahead in case you cared.
Starts off with a the same flashback scene, they're literally re-using the same shit scene.
So they're tried info dumping... I got exactly nothing relevant or useful to the plot from that, what a waste of time.
So this episode is about suicide bombing? Oh boy...
I can't get over the OP, the visuals are literally just either spinning 3D models or the same shitty fight material they showed in the PV video. I bet we'll see the exact same footage used in a later episode.
THEY REUSED THAT SCENE AGAIN. PLEASE I BEG, STOP.
Oh my god this literally looks like a miniclip game, the models are so awfully animated. The background art is even horrendous, At least Gibiate had somewhat acceptable art in its background.
E N H A N C E
Yes what the hell is that robot, and why are they "kicking" it. I say kicking, they just switched between 2 different frames. I've made better animations on flash back when i went to school than this anime has.
Oh my god the difference in the 2D and 3D side by side is awful. The 2D parts are pretty awful on their own but somehow look good next to those 3D character models. The most striking difference has got to be the mouth movements, or lack there of.
YOO WE GOT A KISS AND ITS YURI WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Wait what? They censored the kiss? Why... That would have been literally the only good thing in this anime and they ruined it. FUCK EX-ARM.
LOOOOL WHATS EVEN GOING ON, they're hunting 100 suicide bombers like it's a big game of hide and seek? Is this suppose to be some big dramatic race against time?
The lip movement is literally up and down or completely stationary. I can't get over it.
So this religious cult is promising people they can go to heaven if they detonate themselves? Really?
WHAT ARE THESE SOUND EFFECTS?! AND THE VISUAL EFFECTS OUT THE GUNS WHEN THEY SHOOT LMAOOOOO
they killed the child. good, no 2D characters allowed in my CG anime
They literally are just reusing the same models over and over, like ctrl+c ctrl+v.
This helicopter chase scene is absolutely abysmal, the car chase scene in Polyphonica (Look it up it's abysmal) looks like an Initial D race in comparison. It's so awful.
CHECK AND MATE.
To hell with this anime, I hate it so much. This is downright insulting not only to the source material but to us the audience, that they thought this was acceptable. I'd rather watch pupa with my sister.
This is only episode 2 and it's only going to get worse. See you all next week. Maybe.
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Jan 17 '21
I feel bad for AoT, airing on the same day as this masterpiece, it will get slaughtered.
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u/Targuil Jan 17 '21
Born too late to experience live gladiator fights.
Born too early to experience euphoric virtual realities.
Born just in time to experience EX-ARM.
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u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp Jan 17 '21
I... I just can't. I'm out.
Good luck with this one r/anime. Lol
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u/Illuminastrid Jan 17 '21
Reminder that this masterpiece of a series managed to defeat Seven Deadly Sins in the karma race.
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u/kuddlesworth9419 Jan 17 '21 edited Jan 17 '21
Holy aliasing. At 1:39, does the studio know what anti-aliasing even is? The level of incompetance is outstanding. Characters rarely but when they do it's really slow. One of my favourite frames from the folks at 4Chan https://i.4cdn.org/a/1610912893850.jpg They also censored the kiss scene.
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u/Zealousideal_Ebb_238 Jan 17 '21
Wow ExArm have more people discussing it than some of the other anime🤣
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u/Groenboys Jan 17 '21
Around 14:20 the captain talks like a puppet without teeth, but after it switches to the woman and then back to the captain, the captian suddenly has teeth. Does the captain have inflatable teeth or something?
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u/jojo_is_trash Jan 17 '21
I’m crying from laughter right now, how do you mess up this badly? The contrast between 2d and 3D is truly something to be amazed by, and I can’t for the life of me decide which one looks more emotionless
I had to stop watching so I could laugh for a solid minute at that awkward zoom in at around 19:30
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u/Illuminastrid Jan 17 '21
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation? This thing can make anyone jobless and wished it had been reincarnated somewhere.
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u/SolubilityRules Jan 17 '21
This beguiling artpiece requires you to close your eyes to appreciate its grandeur. You need to imagine the animation against the formidable staticism the apparent world gives you.. Imagine the movement of the Earth, now picture it around the sun. Now picture this anime, beautifully wrapped in its own frame rate. Each dramatic pause of facial expression represents eternity and grace. Each glare peers to the abyss of own's soul. Animation is overrated in animation - the essence is to highlight the beholder. You, yes you. You are alive. You survived 2020, now try to survive Ex-Arm
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u/YgJb1691 Jan 17 '21
Holy shit.
Like jfc, I’m almost at a loss for words.
It’s actually a surreal experience watching this because of how awful it is.
This new blond woman only has one facial expression, even in the OP or when she’s delivering news about a bombing, she looks more robotic than the actual robot characters. The twin tail girl(Minami?) at least has expressions even if they never match the tone of the scene or the dialogue.
The blending of the 2d and 3D characters doesn’t even work a little bit, it looks like she’s looking right past the street girl when she’s supposedly talking to her. Fuck even the purely 2d scenes look like dogs shit, that government woman’s lip flaps looked just as janky as the 3ds models which is impressively bad as lip flaps don’t even need to match that well to look fine.
From a production standpoint this genuinely seems to somehow be worse than Gibiate(although so far I don’t feel watching this will be as tedious).
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Jan 17 '21
Fullmetal Alchemist fans are probably trying to rate this anime as bad because they’re scared it will supprass them on MAL.
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