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Comment on Top 20 Anime You Wept Over by gutsy frog:

“If you read my post again, you’ll notice that I wasn’t talking about artistic merit though. It was about hard, measurable quality.”

and I don’t think level of detail and amount of frames equals ‘measurable quality’. the dance/concert scene in Symphogear episode 1 is animated on 1s and quite detailed, but it looks like shit because the art is trash and the movement is amateurish-looking.

maybe I’m misunderstanding your point but by your definition of ‘measurable quality’, DRYL is inherently of higher quality than Mind Game because it’s more detailed and (likely) has more frames.

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  “Visual quality is not a matter of opinion. It can be quantified by looking at the details, relative occurrence of drops in art quality, and average frame rate. This movie (and in fact a good number of later 80s and early 90s features and shows) score higher than most of todays shows in all these points” – Oh god there’s so many misconceptions here, and your self-assured wording just makes it worse because people will actually take it as a knowledgeable post. Good drawing isn’t about ‘detail’; …

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  “A turd in high-definition is still a turd. And unfortunately a lot of recent anime are just high definition turds. I’d rather watch a good anime in B&W… the distraction of the visual quality goes away once you get into the characters and plot.” WHAT!? This comment makes no sense. What does “high definition” have to do with animation quality? You can show off fucking Musashi Gundoh in high definition and it’ll still look like garbage, and you can watch old Looney Tunes shorts on freaking …