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EP. REVIEW: Ninja Slayer From Animation

Ninja Slayer is simply honest where other anime try to deceive you.

Anime is limited animation, and will often use tricks to hide its limitations. The long static pans, dialogue spoken by characters with their backs to the camera, recycled footage, and so on.

Ninja Slayer will not lie to you, its limitations are there on the screen for all to see, and they make the moments of exaggerated movement even wilder in comparison. It is the mechanics of anime construction laid bare.

For christ's sake. Bad animation is bad animation. And Trigger is synonym for crap animation. Kill la Kill exemplified this. This studio, either doesn't have the money or the talent or both to come up with a 2015 standard animation quality. Maybe they should be inspired by Xebec to see how to do quality animation.

You're right, Ninja Slayer won't lie to you. It says "we don't know how to animate". If you enjoy this be my guest. There are a lot of worthier animes this season to waste time with this show.

I bet 100 $ had this anime been "animated" by another studio we would hear statements like "what crap, how can this be done in this day and age etc...". Trigger is a substandard studio. Nothing they have produced stands above mediocrity in the animation department.

Going into this I knew of 2 possible outcomes.

1, a show like Kill La Kill
2, a show like Inferno Cop

I'm not really a fan of Inferno Cops animation. I applaud them for doing something completely original, it's almost like those parodies where they use sprites from 16bit games. But the animation is just too bad, I will continue watching it since there is entertainment to be had. But the fact we aren't getting anything more like KLK is disappointing.

For christ's sake. Bad animation is bad animation. And Trigger is synonym for crap animation. Kill la Kill exemplified this. This studio, either doesn't have the money or the talent or both to come up with a 2015 standard animation quality. Maybe they should be inspired by Xebec to see how to do quality animation.

I'm not really understanding the complaints about this. I mean, yes, it looks horrible, and it's full of jarring transitions. That's part of the humor. It's like those stupid-looking cutout sequences in Monty Python; the crude animation only makes it funnier. You weren't really expecting a show with such a camp cliche concept to be serious, were you?

There's nothing wrong with cutout animation. But those Monty Python sequences are full of intricately detailed art with lots of comedic exaggeration, as well as interesting and dynamic shot composition, and carefully considered slapstick movement. Really, that's a great example of why Ninja Slayer doesn't work. You have to be a really good animator with a deep understanding of visual humor to actually effectively be intentionally "bad". Ninja Slayer can't begin to grasp this. It's just dull, flat, cheap and lifeless. It is the anti-Monty Python.

There's nothing wrong with cutout animation. But those Monty Python sequences are full of intricately detailed art with lots of comedic exaggeration, as well as interesting and dynamic shot composition, and carefully considered slapstick movement. Really, that's a great example of why Ninja Slayer doesn't work. You have to be a really good animator with a deep understanding of visual humor to actually effectively be intentionally "bad". Ninja Slayer can't begin to grasp this. It's just dull, flat, cheap and lifeless. It is the anti-Monty Python.