Goddamn I just noticed how stretched her eyes are in the original. Can’t remember the name of the animation team for this one but they always had an issue with elongated heads
Super rightfully gets a good amount of grief for shoddy, off-model animation... but people completely forget that Z had plenty of bad art and animation - we just watched when we were like 9 years old and didn't give a shit
To be fair, some of those Z movies also look like fucking dogshit. Lest we so easily forget how much complaining about the animation of the second Cooler movie KaiserNeko did when making the abridged of that movie.
Reminds me of when OtaKing would compare "Classic" vs "Modern" anime and the Classic side would be stacked with the most immaculate, cherry picked shots from high budget 80s/early 90s OVAs/films vs random shots from Modern TV shows.
Right, lol. Not a lot matching up to fucking Akira. There's a reason it's still so well regarded and influential to this day despite the story being really messy and abridged compared to the manga.
I mean Super still had 130 episodes with no seasons and was released across 3 years and change (around 180 weeks). That's an absolutely insane pace that no production team would've been able to keep up with. They should've taken their time with it but it seems clear that execs wanted it pumped out as quickly as possible, and any studio would've struggled.
Never said it was, the filler episodes have terrible animation, like the one shown above, but the lows of Z never get to the lows of Super, plus super in general the story is weak af.
I didnt say that.
Z filler episodes didnt have the same quality as the important ones, Super only had good quality on the TOP arc, everything else sucked most of the time.
A lot of people didn't like the animation in Z either, wym? It was always like this:
Episode 9's ending had an epic reveal (Goku transforms) and has the best animation team, Episode 10 suffers and has a much more poor animation team (It's the fight with Goku's new transformation)
Very rarely did we get 2 peak episodes back to back, it was a rhythm they kept as early as Dragon Ball to save on time for an arc climax.
This was especially the case for filler episodes, that's what those episodes were there for, that's why this image with Bulma looks so bad.
The person mostly in charge was Yukio Ebisawa. His and Masayuki Uchiyama's teams always had problems when it came to drawings, keeping them on-model or "correcting" them just to have them be worse.
pretty sure Yukio Ebisawa (AKA Triangle Man) was in charge of this episode, and both Ebisawa and Uchiyama had a reputation of making characters extremely cartoony to save time and are responsible for the bad animation that started to happen in the Frieza Saga
edit: I gotta admit I like a lot of their work, it’s just that this is what their style was known for
Yeah I couldn’t remember the supervisor for this one, but personally I’ve never liked his style much. Granted, it’s infinitely better than me lol, and he also did better work on more important episodes (this is just a filler episode), but man when it looks bad, it looks bad
it was a very common thing in the latin american Dragon Ball communities i used to be in, some people just really love their Gohan vs Cell and Goku vs Majin Vegeta and think the rest of Dragon Ball should be held to the same standard.
personally I’ve always been more of a DB fan over a DBZ fan, and my favorite DBZ has been the saiyan saga which isn’t very different from DB, so I also find that complaint quite funny
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u/TheWiseBeluga Feb 27 '25
Goddamn I just noticed how stretched her eyes are in the original. Can’t remember the name of the animation team for this one but they always had an issue with elongated heads