Will One Punch Man Season 3 part 2 get better animation?
Season 3 part 1 was a travesty. I get that JC Staff isn't a huge animation company, but they did pretty well with Season 2, so creating a good show is at least within their capabilities. I wanna know what the thought process was when they were deciding the budget, and whether or not it'll be increased for the next part. I don't think I can watch another season if it's as bad as part 1 was 🫤
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Season 4 is gonna be sock puppets
Production Committee: This group of investors (which can include the manga publisher, music labels, merchandise manufacturers, and TV stations) sets the overall budget, number of episodes, and schedule. Their primary goal is often to maximize profit by spending within a certain range that they believe will allow them to recoup costs through merchandise and Blu-ray sales, so they determine the resource allocation.
Budget: The allocated budget directly impacts how much the studio can spend on hiring talented staff and the amount of time available for production. Higher budgets generally allow for more key frames, better quality control, and less reliance on money-saving shortcuts like static images or heavy outsourcing.
Schedule: Tight deadlines are a major cause of quality dips, as studios may have to rush episodes or outsource work to meet broadcast schedules. A well-planned, longer pre-production and production schedule is crucial for consistent high quality.
Staff: The specific creative staff involved (director, character designer, chief animation director, etc.) are crucial to the final visual outcome, as most staff are freelancers who move between studios. A highly skilled and well-managed team can produce excellent work even with some constraints, while a chaotic production schedule with limited resources will likely result in lower quality.
Studio Involvement: While most studios are just contractors, some large or highly successful studios (like Toei Animation or Kyoto Animation) can be part of, or even lead, the production committee, giving them more creative control and financial stability to ensure a certain standard of quality.
The actual answer is, none of us are going to know. A lot of us were pretty confident that season 3 was going to be much better than 2 since it wouldn't be as last minute, yet here we are.
This season just told every studio that one punch man is not worth the effort because no matter what the fans will shit on it because it's not 100% accurate when compared to the manga.
I think people were more upset that there were more frames in the manga than the anime than they were about deviation from the source material.
Season 1 of OPM was a freak of nature passion collaboration between top animators. A one-time occurrence.
There are no resources nor free schedules for anyone to work on anything nowadays, so whatever is airing right now is not going to get well animated. The good animators are too busy.
But jc staff did really well with season 2, so is it too much to ask for something better than season 3 part 1?
An anime season tends to have the same production values throughout at best, and at worst, it degrades linearly/exponentially towards the end as they run out of time to finish it last minute.
OPM looks like it got abandoned by the animation committees. I love OPM, but I haven't even touched season 3 (I enjoyed season 2).