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 LordofHats wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
I think most of what bothers me is that the action is rarely visually interesting. It's very comic panel static with spikes of gore. I suppose that's fairly source accurate, but there's not a lot of tension behind any of them. The mob boss fight is probably the one that most stands out as potentially interesting, but kind of turns into a Rocky slugfest that lacks the sense of personal stakes that made those interesting.

I can see what you mean here.

The most recent episode especially kind of hammers home the very 'by the numbers' combat and how it really really wants to hammer home on the gore. Like, episode 8 actually goes so far at some points it's hard to even remotely take it seriously. Initially I liked the idea of a super hero battle that acknowledge smashing buildings and subways would have lots of collateral loss of life, but at a point it became kind of over the top and a bit cringy.

I think the 8th episode is trying the hardest but either the budget or talent isn't quite there to animate what they want to. A great example of this is the Itano Circus scene. They clearly know what they want to accomplish there, but Omni Man doesn't weave through the missiles the way that makes it feel as fluid and mesmerizing as it is when Macross does it. Like, I'm not someone who usually notices animation quality nor am I usually bothered by this, but there were a couple bits that really surprised me. Probably the most noticeable is when Mark tumbles through the street. It's a really awkward 2 frame cycle front to back and the wave of concrete that follows has a very static quality to it that moves like a paper doll with some digital scaling. I'm more surprised than anything, because elsewhere you see things like Mark's little league game which has way more work put into it than the climatic fight of... IMO the franchise. I'm mostly nitpicking through as I don't think the animation ever actually fails to tell the story, and its a good story overall. I'm just a little surprised how consistently uneven the production quality is.