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REVIEW: Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods

When discussion is biased like that, it makes it difficult for some people to enjoy SDS in community, and rather enjoy the series for themselves. Of course I don´t mean that the prod. values can´t be criticized, but Theron Martin´s review is not the only one focused on how bad the series looks because of the production downgrade. Other online reviewers opted to talk more about the story and character development, if they´re well writen or not, etc., and people should be allowed to talk about it with no bias.

Many would argue it's still far worse. Despite how limited the later episodes of Digimon are, there's still a highlight once in a while: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/129058
SDS doesn't even have those. Action has no impact and some episodes are literally melting.

So question for everyone who might know?
how much did the animation for this season get corrected in between the tv/amazon broadcast and this netflix/bluray release.

Piexouar wrote:

Many would argue it's still far worse. Despite how limited the later episodes of Digimon are, there's still a highlight once in a while: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/129058 SDS doesn't even have those. Action has no impact and some episodes are literally melting.

The way you phrase this, and then link to a sequence that, while cool, was a 2 minute part of a 20 minute slide show episode (and really only the first 50 seconds are good), tells me all I really need to know. SDS fans are sounding just a liiiittle bit spoiled here my man.
Your animation being a step down sucks don't get me wrong, but hey put up with a bunch of Digimon Adventure episodes then get back to me haha. Forget action having no impact, we just sorta get battle sequences that don't really have action sometimes.
The MetalGreymon sequence looked cool but sucked because it came after 20 minutes of literally powerpoint slides. The WereGarurumon sequence next episode gave me life though, felt like the first time anything had been moving properly since the first 3 episodes

Stelman257 wrote:

Piexouar wrote: Many would argue it's still far worse. Despite how limited the later episodes of Digimon are, there's still a highlight once in a while: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/129058 SDS doesn't even have those. Action has no impact and some episodes are literally melting. The way you phrase this, and then link to a sequence that, while cool, was a 2 minute part of a 20 minute slide show episode (and really only the first 50 seconds are good), tells me all I really need to know. SDS fans are sounding just a liiiittle bit spoiled here my man. Your animation being a step down sucks don't get me wrong, but hey put up with a bunch of Digimon Adventure episodes then get back to me haha. Forget action having no impact, we just sorta get battle sequences that don't really have action sometimes. The MetalGreymon sequence looked cool but sucked because it came after 20 minutes of literally powerpoint slides. The WereGarurumon sequence next episode gave me life though, felt like the first time anything had been moving properly since the first 3 episodes

The idea that "complaining about a show's bad animation because other shows have it worse makes you spoiled" is such an unproductive approach to media criticism. By that measure, "Digimon fans sure are spoiled, they should watch [Dynamic Chord/Sailor Moon Crystal/whatever show that was so badly done it became memetic] to know what truly bad animation looks like" And mind you, I like Digimon a lot more than I like Seven Deadly Sins, and let me tell you, Digimon may not have stellar animation, but at least it doesn't give us a slide show of freeze frames of off-model melting character faces. The production in this season of SDS is abysmal. But even if it weren't the idea that you can't complain about something being bad because something else is worse is just absurd.

What I do find troublesome is the argument that the season is bad because it has "bad animation". It does, but that's not the only issue with it. A good director can make a great show even with limited budget/animation (see 1997 Berserk or The Twelve Kingdoms). That's not the case here. The direction and editing is atrocious, one has to wonder what the director was even thinking with some of the camera angles. Even the still frames look bad, the key art itself is a mess. The pacing is also terrible, it's painfully slow and jumps at random from one group of characters to another in awkward moments. It's all just incredibly jarring.

Of course the last nail on the coffin is how bad the story is. It started decaying in quality since maybe halfway through season 2, but this season is just atrocious. It feels like a soulless hodge-podge of classic shonen anime tropes without any of the legwork that makes them work. The power levels are completely out of control: the idea of giving them a numerical value was stupid, but even stupider if the mangaka knew he was just gonna inflate the numbers willy-nilly every time the plot demanded it. There is no sense of gravitas to anything because there is no logic or reason to any of the fights, the villains are absurdly overpower until they no longer need to be and the fights look incredibly dumb when everyone is shouting attack names every minute. There are no stakes because people keep dying and undying. The script is painfully juvenile and silly, but not intentionally funny. It's a full-on trainwreck, which is a shame since I really enjoyed the first season and all the bits up to Escanor's first appearance, but it's all gone downhill since then.

The idea that "complaining about a show's bad animation because other shows have it worse makes you spoiled" is such an unproductive approach to media criticism. By that measure, "Digimon fans sure are spoiled, they should watch [Dynamic Chord/Sailor Moon Crystal/whatever show that was so badly done it became memetic] to know what truly bad animation looks like" And mind you, I like Digimon a lot more than I like Seven Deadly Sins, and let me tell you, Digimon may not have stellar animation, but at least it doesn't give us a slide show of freeze frames of off-model melting character faces. The production in this season of SDS is abysmal. But even if it weren't the idea that you can't complain about something being bad because something else is worse is just absurd.

What I do find troublesome is the argument that the season is bad because it has "bad animation". It does, but that's not the only issue with it. A good director can make a great show even with limited budget/animation (see 1997 Berserk or The Twelve Kingdoms). That's not the case here. The direction and editing is atrocious, one has to wonder what the director was even thinking with some of the camera angles. Even the still frames look bad, the key art itself is a mess. The pacing is also terrible, it's painfully slow and jumps at random from one group of characters to another in awkward moments. It's all just incredibly jarring.