Angel Beats has been touted as a major cross-media production, but the error-riddled first episode has already been made a laughing stock, being variously described as “cheap” and having “pathetic composition.”
Apparently nobody trained her how to aim a rifle either – or perhaps she is just having difficulty on account of her hands.
Viewers point to animation mistakes, inconsistent character design, poor scene composition, and an overwhelming feeling of “cheapness” – and all in the first episode, traditionally where the quality is kept unrealistically high – as reasons for their disappointment.
Possibly the overwhelming similarity of the heroine to a certain iconic monomaniac (although in the actual anime the resemblance seems to have deteriorated along with the quality) was a major warning flag about the title.
Theses comparisons, though tired, are unlikely to stop and the similarities must have been obvious to producers from the outset. Just why they went along with the design is quite the mystery – laziness, sheer unoriginality or worse?
In spite of all this plenty were prepared to call the title amusing (although as many were seemingly unable to comprehend its convoluted storyline), so it may be too early to write it off as a failed anime.
I was so excited that ep.1 was out,that i didn’t notice any of the mistakes…
Well,anyways,i’m gonna wait for the next ep to see if this is as shitty as everyone expects it to be.
Estoy esperando a que salgan más capítulos de este gran anime 😉
Comment Spanish WTF. 😉
Didn’t notice the Rifle mistake :O
However,the animation quality is FAR from generic,the action scenes and the live presentation was mindblowing.
1st episode? of course it’s still early to call it a failed anime. Those who do are just sensationalist cows.
It ain’t sankaku if we aren’t bashing popular anime, is it?