I like the '89 and '93 Patlabor movies.

You should. It’s very entertaining and probably the greatest animation showcase from madhouse.

I’m a big fan of this post-outro gag.

I wasn’t sure what to expect after the production team told people that episode 5 would show them something they’ve never seen before, but heavy use of mixed media claymation, what must be a new record of simultaneous split-screen footage and experimental animation techniques to focus on various details of a giant animated shot surprised me either way. I’m not sure if this episode will work for everyone, but it’s honestly so technically impressive that you have to watch it. I’m sure that the staff had fun working on this, even with the amount of work it must have been.

It’s the opposite for me. I’ve enjoyed each Episode more than the previous one, with the exception of some standout gags - like the yakisoba bag incident, which is a master class in direction, animation, setup and timing. It’s probably one of my favorite animated scenes ever.

Of all comedy anime I have watched, this probably has the best direction. Incredible stuff.

I haven’t seen this episode yet, but most of the low budget comedy anime adaptations fuck up the comedic timing in my experience. Mostly by lingering too long on random shots (padding the runtime I suppose). Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai comes to mind.

CANCER

Blue Locks animation fucking sucks and was a result of poor management and unrealistic time constraints. That the final result is even watchable, given the production woes, may be a credit to the poor animators and editors, but it doesn’t “work well”. The existence of worse animation doesn’t make it better either. A minimal animation style can work, if it was planned from the beginning, but that wasn’t the case with Blue Lock.

Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan, if you speak Japanese or can read subtitles fairly quickly.

Frieren feels like a fantasy SOL for 80% of the time to be fair.

GoHands has a style in the same sense that Neil Breen movies do.

I agree. Maybe it was just easier to gloss over that in the manga, but I don’t remember it being so unnecessarily drawn out. Maybe it’s like that in the light novel? At any rate it really doesn’t fit the tone of the series in the beginning, so it just comes across as incredibly tasteless and awkward.

The storytelling wasn’t bad by any means, but it was probably the weakest aspect after the music direction. It’s possible that my viewing experience differed due to not having played the video game or knowing anything about the world from the tabletop rpg.

That’s because this started as a manga not a light novel. Different mediums use different ways to grab viewers attention and most light novels summarize the entire plot in the title. I highly recommend reading the manga for this series, it’s very good (can’t say if the anime is any good, but they must be doing something right if it’s entering the fourth season).

This was a bit too heavy on the whole revenge porn thing for me personally. It is exactly what it says on the tin though, so you’ll definitely know if you’re interested from the title alone.

No. I have no idea how anyone would think so.

I stopped reading the manga after the erectile dysfunction at magic high school arc dragged on for months and ended with a relationship that still puts me off when I think about it. It’s like the author just can’t stop reminding the reader of what an unlikeable turd the MC can be. It is a very good story aside from those aspects, but that’s not enough for me to agree with your bold statement. I much prefer Iruma-kun, Overlord, Konosuba or Tsukimichi.

You’re probably right, but that doesn’t seem like much of an indicator for anything regarding the quality of the final product. Production was handled by Trigger and we don’t know if Netflix had any kind of supervision. Dungeon Meshi aired on all the usual TV channels in Japan as well, so Netflix isn’t the only licensee.

That “Netflix-produced” label seems very vague. Beyond being licensed by Netflix outside of Japan I don’t know of any way that they influenced the production of Dungeon Meshi.