Kendo said:
Nice camera movement and impact frames

MySpaceDandy said:
Floaty animation, the concept of weight seems non-existent here.

AlexHowland said:
Does fujimoto work for a specific studio?

biscobisco said:
K1ro is tremendous, but CGI background/compositing issues aside, he really needs to get over his obsession with characters 'skating' on rough and uneven surfaces like concrete and wood as if they're on an Olympic ice rink - it's horrible and ruins any sense of immersion.

It's not just an issue with the backgrounds either, it's quite literally the skating motion he chooses to animate, which would look bizarre on top of the best possible concrete background..

Sabotower said:
there isn't anything wrong with diverting from factual reality as far as physics are concerned as long as the energy of the scene is kept.

Sabotower said:
I feel like K1RO is kinda like modern Yutapon in the fact that he tends to utilize the animated medium by avoiding realism. His obsession with having characters skating around is no less absurd than Yutapon's obsession with cubic debris, but I don't see either of them are problems. This is an animated medium and they are showing characters doing impossible things to begin with, there isn't anything wrong with diverting from factual reality as far as physics are concerned as long as the energy of the scene is kept.

biscobisco said:
Good point, but my issue is not so much the avoidance of reality - it's the lack of consistency with the show's established 'laws of reality' that it creates. Yuji and Nanami as characters have to move like human beings 99% of the time, running, jumping, rolling - they just happen to run faster and jump higher thanks to cursed energy.

Case in point, the cut that's literally prior to the skating sees Yuji having to slide down the embankment on his butt, fully subject to gravity, like a regular human being - the very next cut he's now skating up the same embankment and getting huge height like it's a half-pipe or something, completely defying and even seemingly reversing the gravity that visually governed his movement seconds before.

Defying regular reality is fine, but if you visually create a set of rules (physics, gravity) that characters are bound by most of the time, and then ignore them for a full sequence of animation for seemingly no reason, it tends to be extremely jarring and for my money, it does ruin the energy of a scene.

It's not a HUGE deal, because the offending cuts are very short and the overall fight is awesome but yeah, IMHO animation should be consistent with the laws of physics/reality that have already been established in-universe.