Humor is inapplicable to this animation, so I wonât critique it.
This started out fantastic. Then, the characters started talking. Letâs get into it.
The animation quality and overall visual design is very well-done. Movements are crisp, effects are sound, and the backgrounds are superbly done. It even decided to play a bit with visual storytelling at the start through the introduction of the village. This episode is at its best with these moments where no characters are talking and one just gets to take in the surroundings and see how the animation establishes the setting. The fight lacks a bit in quality, and it certainly isnât as powerful as it could look. From a visual aspect, this episode does solid work.
However, a story exists. Characters exist. And dialogue exists, unfortunately.
The moment these characters start to interact verbally, the episode takes a dramatic dip in quality. This dialogue is absolutely atrocious. The funny part is, I speak Spanish and was reading both dialogues, so this lack of quality canât even be blamed on getting lost in translation. Itâs just horrible, horrible dialogue. The backstory is well-introduced with the concepts of elements and spirit, and the main characterâs flashback to his village being burned was also decently executed, but these are the only decent story aspects of the animation. Character personalities are completely askew, and it is nonsensical for bandits to talk to the protagonist about âletting hate consume him more and moreâ when theyâre litERALLY MUGGING HIM
In visual quality, this episode does fine work. In storyline quality, it is ridden with problems and complications. I was debating a low 3/5 or a high 2/5, but I came to the conclusion that the storyline of a series episode is critical for it to be high ranked, and since this episode botches that aspect in a horrible way, it canât be ranked above a 2/5. There is serious potential here for something of quality, even artistic beauty, but as of now there isnât any. If these story aspects were improved, something wonderful could be created. For now, I canât recommend viewing this for the story.
This was really nice. But there’s very big problems in this. Visually this is very good with it’s angles and backgrounds. They are consistent and well made in a simple art style. Movements are very good and really impressive considering the physics in the cloth and enviroment. Quite incredible for SN at this time. The effects are also pretty cleanly done as well. The only problem I have visually is some things look odd along wit some characters in terms of faces. Designs aren’t very distinct. The use of music compliments the cinematic work immensely here with it flowing along with the camera and visuals. Problem comes in with the story. You are completely confused as to what is going on as the visuals try to tell a story. There’s something with certain objects that are attached to the main character but there’s the problem coming in when you don’t have the viewer understand the attachment to the object. Going on character personalities and dialogue don’t make sense with bandits being sentimental and all that talking about hate consuming someone. It’s so out of place. There should have been more time taken to build up characters and events in this but it just goes through everything too quickly. But I’m still quitr impressed with the majority of this. The story needs a lot of work though.
Low 3/5
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Humor is inapplicable to this animation, so I wonât critique it.
This started out fantastic. Then, the characters started talking. Letâs get into it.
The animation quality and overall visual design is very well-done. Movements are crisp, effects are sound, and the backgrounds are superbly done. It even decided to play a bit with visual storytelling at the start through the introduction of the village. This episode is at its best with these moments where no characters are talking and one just gets to take in the surroundings and see how the animation establishes the setting. The fight lacks a bit in quality, and it certainly isnât as powerful as it could look. From a visual aspect, this episode does solid work.
However, a story exists. Characters exist. And dialogue exists, unfortunately.
The moment these characters start to interact verbally, the episode takes a dramatic dip in quality. This dialogue is absolutely atrocious. The funny part is, I speak Spanish and was reading both dialogues, so this lack of quality canât even be blamed on getting lost in translation. Itâs just horrible, horrible dialogue. The backstory is well-introduced with the concepts of elements and spirit, and the main characterâs flashback to his village being burned was also decently executed, but these are the only decent story aspects of the animation. Character personalities are completely askew, and it is nonsensical for bandits to talk to the protagonist about âletting hate consume him more and moreâ when theyâre litERALLY MUGGING HIM
In visual quality, this episode does fine work. In storyline quality, it is ridden with problems and complications. I was debating a low 3/5 or a high 2/5, but I came to the conclusion that the storyline of a series episode is critical for it to be high ranked, and since this episode botches that aspect in a horrible way, it canât be ranked above a 2/5. There is serious potential here for something of quality, even artistic beauty, but as of now there isnât any. If these story aspects were improved, something wonderful could be created. For now, I canât recommend viewing this for the story.
2/5.
PL Team Slave OwnerThis was really nice. But there’s very big problems in this. Visually this is very good with it’s angles and backgrounds. They are consistent and well made in a simple art style. Movements are very good and really impressive considering the physics in the cloth and enviroment. Quite incredible for SN at this time. The effects are also pretty cleanly done as well. The only problem I have visually is some things look odd along wit some characters in terms of faces. Designs aren’t very distinct. The use of music compliments the cinematic work immensely here with it flowing along with the camera and visuals. Problem comes in with the story. You are completely confused as to what is going on as the visuals try to tell a story. There’s something with certain objects that are attached to the main character but there’s the problem coming in when you don’t have the viewer understand the attachment to the object. Going on character personalities and dialogue don’t make sense with bandits being sentimental and all that talking about hate consuming someone. It’s so out of place. There should have been more time taken to build up characters and events in this but it just goes through everything too quickly. But I’m still quitr impressed with the majority of this. The story needs a lot of work though.
Low 3/5