So good I give it a 8/10 because nobody NEVER gives 10/10

Best animation ever

10/10 because its hard to see anything, and thats how an anime works

Story and humor are relatively inapplicable to this animation (there isn’t an overarching story, the dialogue is just for the sake of the fight and it’s just a fight animation), so I won’t critique it.

It’s painful to critique this one.

I enjoy Aeon’s content, and the animation quality is well-done, but a good chunk of this entire animation is traced and referenced. It’s good that Aeon actually put the specific fights he traced within the description, but I went through every single reference he listed and combined the specific parts that were traced together, and unfortunately those specific fight sequences made up practically a majority of the fight animation. When they weren’t overtly traced, their ideas were taken and reapplied to this animation in a very similar fashion. It’s good that Aeon is publically admitting that he traced animations, and the overall animation looks great and is enjoyable, but I still can’t give credit to him for this fight when every aspect of the fight that is the most powerful or memorable is taken from something else. Aeon needs to learn how to be his own creator with his own character, it is a constant factor that he traces other animations and includes them in his own work, as well as taking aspects of other characters and adding it to his own (Dark under the law wolf gloves, Ruby Scythe, Gildedguy sword scene, the list goes on). Honestly tracing some elements for the sake of improvement is fine (if one actually lists what they traced and doesn’t take full responsibility for it, as Aeon did), but when a majority of the work you produce is traced, is the animation itself good because of the animator who made it, or is it good because it is a Frankenstein’s monster, a conglomerate of other well-done animation projects made by other people all put together into one package? Credit should be given where credit is due, and you can’t give someone as much credit for tracing another popular work as much as you can give credit to the original creator. There are instances when a complete trace is actually fine (TeamFabulous2 vs. TeamFabulous2Reanimated, Heavy Is Dead vs. all other Heavy Is Dead parodies using different mediums), but the reason for this is that they are attempting to take the core aspect of these original creations and recreate them in an homage while also adding on a new aspect. Credit is still being given to the original creator, it is a tribute of respect if anything. But this? This is taking one’s own content and meshing it together with other animators in an attempt to define one’s own character and creation by the traced references of other artists. It is taking the energy, the power, the creativity, and the hard work of other talented artists and essentially taking it for oneself to define their own work.

We define our talent, our work, and ourselves by what we do, but if all we do is take the talent and hard work of other individuals and use it to define the majority of who we are, we become crude illusions, meaningless reflections without substance depicting greater glory and talent created by hard-working artists who set to define themselves.

The term “Steal like an artist” is widely used for a reason, and nothing in the world is completely original, but that is no excuse to define ourselves and our work entirely based on the merits of other people.

I won’t give a 1/5 because there are some parts in which Aeon animated himself, but he needs to find his own style and own character without directly taking content from other artists. Lose the Dark under the law gloves, lose the Ruby Scythe, lose the traced My Hero Academia and Naruto scenes, get rid of all of it, and create something that is of your own substance, not a pale and crude imitation of something else. Tracing is fine (when you credit the people you are tracing) as long as it doesn’t define what content you produce and who you are as an artist. Artists can trace, but tracing doesn’t make one an artist, only a charlatan.

Low 2/5.