Jujutsu Kaisen Is Not That Well Animated 

So its not that JJK isn't well animated, its just that its not composited well.

Glad to see you talking bout compositing on this show. An underappreciated artform for animation, as well as an extremely vital one. Poor guys got they're work cut out for them with the rise of 3D camera's in anime within the last decade or so.

Yeah you’re gonna find it really weird but I (for some reason) loved how the lava looked in the domain expansion for jogo. As for the 3d backgrounds for the fight before the domain expansion, I did notice how weird the trees looked but honestly didn’t care even a bit while the fight went on. When paused though, it does make me uncomfortable

Imagine being the animators that need to work hard to perfecting the products just for the people watch it illegally is unthinkable 💀🤣

I don't think that is bad animation, composition is different from animation. Jjk has some great sakugas that are holden back by the composition some times, but still great animated, the bad animations are the exceptions. I think that is better say that jjk is not well produced. It's no that polish, we can feel that was rushed

For me, the technical flaw that stands out is the utter lack of spatial perception in this show. Two steps can look like a mile, but 50 meters can look like 1 meter. That sort of spatial distortion kinda makes it hard to watch. Which is a shame, because the panelling in the manga is simply unmatched. What keeps me hooked is the story and the characters.

/: I think you're being picky. It looks great. Just because a handful of shots or fights don't have perfect perspective or off kilter lighting doesn't mean its "average" the animation is down right stunning for like 80 percent of the show.

I never noticed the flaws in JJK, didn't even think of them. This video is a nice one, explaining it properly. I am going to give a watch to the video you put on i-card about composition since I do not understand it well. Anyways, nice video!

This didn’t age quite well now

It got the animation it deserved for the first season, not the *best* but pretty good for the most part. Which coincides with the story at this point, season 2 needs to be some of mappas best cus those arcs are responsible for jjk being the success that it is

This season animation was really good looking

I hope jjk season 2 looks better, I hope they fix this stuff as well as lighting

And Mappa took that personally

Nice video. I loved JJK season 1 but it had some problems because of the scheduling and lack of time

Glad to know I'm not the only one who noticed those backgrounds. Nice video btw

he is so right! just like as is my A hole is tight!

watching your recent videos and watching this now man did you talk really fast before 😂😅 your voice too has changed slightly now and your commentary overall has really improved significantly there's a reason you are the only channel i watch for animation analysis 😄

I agree in general with the idea that the compositing was this shows greatest flaw when it comes to animation. If you look at the demon slayer animation video i did a breakdown of how when looking at animation I largely break it down into two categories, animation quality (sakuga/flow/animation consistency) and animation style (art style, compositing, background style). There is sometimes a grey line between some aspects of these two categories but in general breaking it down this way is fairly simple. Anyway, when it comes to animation quality, the quality of the overall show including non action scenes is decent but could definitely be a bit better. But when it comes to many action scenes (not all) the animation quality and flow and sakuga generally is really high and there is a surprising amount it. When it comes to style character and background style rarely matter to me as long as the animation quality is really good. Compositing for things like lighting on the environment and characters also rarely matters to me. Of course if it's more dynamic and they can maintain an animation quality above a certain point than that is better. But either way I would consider both great animation. Anyway's I'm taking too long to get to my point, vfx and compositing of those vfx, things like using real fire, liquids, fireworks, etc in animation even if done really well on a technical level by the best in the industry tend to IMHO still not look good. Sometimes they don't look terrible or as jaring as you would expect them to, which is impressive in its own right, but they still tend to be jaring despite this. This scene in particular ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J7xTVy9xP80.html you point out for being bad and I remember thinking the same when i saw it and being a disappointed in those effects. That said I would categorize it as actually not that bad all things considered. I don't like it and I don't want to see it but at least it does seem fairly well integrated into the scene and it's more of a background effect instead of being front and center. At least this is the case for the portions that you show in this clip. I haven't watched recently so i can't remember if there are more egregious portions of the scene that you just didn't show in the video. But what I'm confused on is why you bash the scene I have timestamped above but praise the real fire assets that were used in demon slayer. I agree, it's of integrated fairly well, UFO table is one of the best at compositing stuff like that. But even the best can't seem to composite it at a satisfying level to make it actually worth doing. More impressive from a technical standpoint doesn't automatically make the animation good, satisfying, or appropriate for the scene. I feel like you conflate the two a lot especially when it comes to demon slayer. If you agree with what I'm saying it would be nice if you tried to include stating X is better from a technical perspective, but from a subjective perspective it still has obvious flaws that detract from the overall experience. Hence, this is why some people consider it bad animation. I personally fall in this camp, I recognize that from a technical perspective it's impressive, but it's still jaring and or has very noticble flaws that take you out of the experience. Hence I would categorize it as bad animation. To be clear, you personally might think that it's impressive and enjoyable from both a technical and subjective point of view. But mentioning something along these lines to your viewers I think would be beneficial. There are a variety of ways you could define good animation but these two I think are the most important and most common to touch on.

As a normal viewer, I never focus at these issues and they don't annoy me as much as the heavy use of CGI, especially the scene where Sukuna cuts Mahito.

Loved the breakdown bro , personally I like 2D backgrounds and effects as well.

I called it clever use of all the tools in disposal.😂

JJK imo doesn’t have bad animation, it has bad compositing imo. They’re different things in my mind haha. The animation in general is great.

The problem with mappa. The original art was well drawn with details but after composition it looks bland and the details are gone.

What is mappas best animated work ever? 🤔

Man, you're probably not gonna see this, but I'm so glad that somebody other than me is actually aware of the obviosuly flaws in animation, I regards to mappa, tho you ended up picking up stuff that I myself haven't seen. I always just wondered just how nobody can actually see the problems, no youtuber save for you has actually talked about this. Solid video, you earned a new subscriber.

I think they improved a lot in jjk0 and teppei is also director of photography of CSM I hope he improve even more What about Dance dance danseur composition??

I get your points, and I agree. But wow, you must be fun at party's

-^- run both ways with a sword or long sharp object and tell me which one feels like you're not going to stab yourself if you trip... looks goofy but it has a purpose.

Very good video, composition is a subject that is not frequently discussed (at least on yt), i appreciate that you mention the subject and the problems that JJK had in that section, about Jujutsu Kaisen 0, i watched it and it seemed to me that there was an improvement in photography, or at least in the backgrounds, do you think there was an improvement?

lol no. I can hear literally 1h of these minute technical details/flaws, and will still think it looks god-tier... What matters is the flow of the animation on the speed it was meant to be played at, after all - simply couldn't care less about slowmo or zoomed-in breakdowns. I do prefer season 2's style a lot tho, especially the goddamn Hidden Inventory arc, it's just so smooth (Shibuya is great too, altho clearly rushed thanks to Mappa being Mappa). Of courrse, the compositing is a lot better and overall more efficient, no needless to say - which is also the only point I truly can agree with. Altho I don't think its entirely necessary to look super artsy on every damn fight scene, sometimes simple fast paced and intensive action (like in Panda vs. Mechamaru) can feel better than anything else. besides, tbh I feel like Mappa's cgi is WAY ahead of the curve in 99% cases. Maybe only behind Demon Slayer's and dunno, Heavenly Delusion? Very rarely I've seen CGI integration better than their recent works (jjk s2's and aot final ep included).

Where can i get all anime episode animation process ., please tell😅

What do you think about Spy x Family adaptation? Compare to similar show in the genre like Kaguya, I feel like it's too "basic", for a lack of a better word.

I thought the cg magma looked cool tbh

Idk i like it

Yea glad someone looked around the hype and spoke some truth U know i was soo tired of mappa fanboys praising the shit out of this show ,i mean there's a 100 other shows with a better animation

The freeze framing is too much cause if u just let it play out without freezing u don’t notice this that

You must consider the budget for an anime then talk about how well animated is that anime. Did you think that there is unlimited time and money?

1:09 this was the only scene that was weird. Nanami running 😂

To me this only shows it could have looked even better with better choices

Jujutsu Kaisen is a beautifully and masterfully animated show with some bad compositing. There. You got my angry view.

Did the Blu Ray Fix any of the issues they Mentioned, like the characters disappearing and the compositing issues?

Nice job man

I am waiting for your video on mob psycho and Kyoani shows.

The fights look way too fluid if that makes sense. The toji hanami fight and even the yuji punch in the opening

I’d say it is just really well animated. Not always, but so much is.

It's not all about animation like DS, it's about how the viewers react to it. I enjoyed S1 animation anyways and I like S2 even better. The animation is good, and the fight scenes are fluid. It's all about enjoyment in my opinion. But if you don't like it, can't blame ya.

I can hardly tell while watching

Yeah I didn't like the composition at certain times. And the 3D backgrounds 😮‍💨. I thought you were purely hating on the animation, I'm glad I stayed around.

this video aged well lol

Is very hard animate even more in a hard situation not well payed and also with a lot of work to do

I don't care 😑 to animation. what mappa did is go good

This did not age well

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I gave you a thumbs down before I even watched this. :3

Then u animate it

Can u pls make a video about JoJo :)

"despite that jujutsu kaisen is the most good looking shows ever, which is not true unfortunately" was the most best lies ever! keep up the good lies bro!!! (ALL ANIME IS GOOD THESE ARE JUST OPINIONS YOU CANT CHANGE MY MIND)

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YES IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THAT JJK ANIMATION IS OVERRATED AND UGLY, also pls do a animation breakdown on kaguya sama

I think chainsawman won't have those problems

The characters look weird and plasticy and the movement can be funny and the textures are weird I guess

850th liker

nit pick

U really fak uo with this vidio Jjk have really good master piece animation better than demon slayer

Jujutsu kaisen just looks, unfinished, Idk how to explain it. The art is just ugly and inconsistent, same with the animation

Season 1 was way better

nah its good animated cope more