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REVIEW: Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? Anime Series Review

Animation : D+

− A degradation in animation quality after the first few episodes that makes the series just barely watchable.

Richard Eisenbeis, from your review, you wrote:

Animation : D+ − A degradation in animation quality after the first few episodes that makes the series just barely watchable.

I take it this is the broadcast version you're watching (and using it for this review), and the home video/blu-ray release will fix those animation problems, right?

If this is the final product and those degraded animation quality appeared on blu-ray, then I can facepalm.

Disclaimer: this anime doesn't appeal to me (nor do I have any plan to watch it), but reading the review and the part I quoted above, makes me wonder if this anime you're using to review is the TV broadcast version, and not the final product that'll appear on home video/blu-ray with the bad animation on there.

Richard Eisenbeis, from your review, you wrote:

Animation : D+ − A degradation in animation quality after the first few episodes that makes the series just barely watchable.

I take it this is the broadcast version you're watching (and using it for this review), and the home video/blu-ray release will fix those animation problems, right?

If this is the final product and those degraded animation quality appeared on blu-ray, then I can facepalm.

Disclaimer: this anime doesn't appeal to me (nor do I have any plan to watch it), but reading the review and the part I quoted above, makes me wonder if this anime you're using to review is the TV broadcast version, and not the final product that'll appear on home video/blu-ray with the bad animation on there.

Very few BD releases fix major problems with animation, a lot of the time they'll just clean up some off model characters, adjust the scale/size and touch up background art and colouring.

(1) Crunchyroll does NOT update the shows in their catalog with the BD/DVD version. And for TV anime, reviewers review whatever version is in official sites, not whatever appears in pirate sites.

(2) If an anime has horrible art and animation in the broadcast version, it should be called out. The streaming services who paid the licensor are most likely using the broadcast version of the show for simulcast, and that version was the one that was watched by the majority of paying CR subscribers. Studios shouldn't be passing off sloppy work for TV broadcast. This isn't 2006 anymore.

(3) With studios being overburdened by projects and BD/DVD sales being surpassed by streaming and some shows outright NOT releasing home video anymore, are they even fixing up animation errors? This isn't 2006 anymore.

(4) With respect to "Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World", the show has massive art and animation issues since Episode 4 that they would need substantial amount of rework to get it to a watchable state.

Glordit wrote:

Very few BD releases fix major problems with animation, a lot of the time they'll just clean up some off model characters, adjust the scale/size and touch up background art and colouring.

The reason I brought this up is because well in the past you probably know about the infamous Naruto's Pain incident or Dragon Ball Super having bad animation (particularly, this scene which became a bit of a meme, which were fixed up for the home video and later streaming) when it comes to bad animation:



I better hope they fixed that animation for the home video release, otherwise, are we going to have another Gundoh Musashi, or is this going to be another Lost Universe, like this:




Source of these pictures: Resetera forum, and ANN's Mike Toole's article from 2014 about lousy animation in anime

Yep, the pictures above are really real bad animation from past anime (that had to be fixed, or re-drawn as a result of that), and this particular title in the review is not the first time I've read and seen bad animation.

I better hope Why does Nobody Remember Me In This World?'s animation doesn't become another Lost Universe judging from Richard's review.

Ermat_46 wrote:

(1) Crunchyroll does NOT update the shows in their catalog with the BD/DVD version. And for TV anime, reviewers review whatever version is in official sites, not whatever appears in pirate sites. (2) If an anime has horrible art and animation in the broadcast version, it should be called out. The streaming services who paid the licensor are most likely using the broadcast version of the show for simulcast, and that version was the one that was watched by the majority of paying CR subscribers. Studios shouldn't be passing off sloppy work for TV broadcast. This isn't 2006 anymore. (3) With studios being overburdened by projects and BD/DVD sales being surpassed by streaming and some shows outright NOT releasing home video anymore, are they even fixing up animation errors? This isn't 2006 anymore. (4) With respect to "Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World", the show has massive art and animation issues since Episode 4 that they would need substantial amount of rework to get it to a watchable state.

I'm already aware of this, thank you. I'm a long time anime fan like you, so I'm very very familiar with whatever you said (although as I said in my first post, this anime is not my cup of tea).

Funny thing is I stopped watching fansub anime (with some exceptions) because of the anime that the fansubbers use is from the TV broadcast version which contain not only bad animation, but censorship (censored as in nudity gone, or violent death being altered or censored). So a lot of my fansub anime I used to watch was censored or heavily censored to some major degree.

So yeah, I would be worried if the home video/blu-ray release for this anime didn't fix these bad animation. Otherwise, this anime will become something close to Gundoh Musashi, or if they fixed it, it would be pair alongside Lost Universe.