Are we really supposed to take this animation seriously? It's melting like crazy.

Kvin/Yuyucow, one of the admins was signing it's praises on twitter, so yes. We're supposed to see as janky but magical if you're the "weirdo target audience". If not, it's not for you. But it's not bad, just for weirdos and a little janky

I didn't upload it myself here for a reason, and you might want to look up what janky means, buddy. If your takeaway from threads about how it's a mix of extreme idiosyncrasy, messy production, and Nishimura's sometimes baffling directorial choices is that it's beyond criticism, I recommend relearning how to read.

Anyway weird randos aside, I think there are a bunch of Miyazawa shots that easily justify the archival, but also a bunch that fall short in amazing ways and editing a cleaner version feels like it'd just wreck the flow. I'm leaving up to other mods.

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FierceAlchemist said:
Are we really supposed to take this animation seriously? It's melting like crazy.

this isnt the even the wackiest looking cut miyazawa has on this site. i get that its new and prob tripped your radar because of that but, this if nothing else is neat and, I'd go as far as to say way more interesting then a lot of the sakuga I've been seeing this season lol without dogging on anything in particular.

DemonKageaki435 said:
Kvin/Yuyucow, one of the admins was signing it's praises on twitter, so yes. We're supposed to see as janky but magical if you're the "weirdo target audience". If not, it's not for you. But it's not bad, just for weirdos and a little janky

https://myanimelist.net/people/5068/Masaaki_Yuasa

I don't watch the show, so I don't have any context for anything, but I have no clue if 0:34-0:39 is intentional or just some weird error.

I haven't even seen this show, but this looks fantastic. Do people really think things need to stay on model all the time for it to be good animation nowadays? This is why so many anime look so boring and static.

FierceAlchemist said:
Are we really supposed to take this animation seriously? It's melting like crazy.

I just straight up looked at your favorites and you favorited a clip from this show animated by the same person and the exact same style. Are you sure you just don't understand animation? Because that clip has the same "problems" that this one does lol.

Calal321 said:
I just straight up looked at your favorites and you favorited a clip from this show animated by the same person and the exact same style. Are you sure you just don't understand animation? Because that clip has the same "problems" that this one does lol.

I like Miyazawa as an animator but there's only so far he can push the off-model style. I like some of his work on this show but this section looks way too off to me. Simple as that.

I think you're misattributing Junji Nishimura's board and direction for something Miyazawa is doing because this is no different in approach compared to the 2+ minutes of his animation that comes immediately before nor for most of the 300+ uploads he has on this website.

I actually think there's plenty of reason to be critical of Miyazawa's work itself - which doesn't necessarily mean it's his fault, we're talking about a messy production with episodes like this where the entire in-betweening process is cheaply outsourced. Idiosyncratic animation doesn't play nicely with that, even smaller errors introduced during the tracing process can make things look off. Also worth noting that he's been extremely active in the show so far, appearing in the first 4 episodes and dumping some long scenes like the ~3 minutes he did for this one. Can't really expect him to match his more focused work. Add to that dodgy CG and the likes, and I'm not surprised that it can put off people who'd normally dig better-realized versions of his work aren't into that. Imo the more stylized shots are the best ones, the rest is very uneven.

And yeah, Nishimura's deranged choices are definitely a factor, lol. I swear working with Oshii unlocks something special in his brain, his quirks are very well known but in these projects he's cooking some wild stuff.

I like this a lot, actually. It's odd and unnatural but in a good way in my opinion. Reminds me of Yuasa and Ohira a bit...

So is Miyazawa one of the only “Yuasa-school” animators?

Miyazawa is older and developed his style before/around the same time Yuasa did