Talk:Mekakucity Actors - Episode 02/@comment-5986522-20140421175129

I unfortunately have to agree with most of the statements below. This episode was disappointing to a degree where I would not even consider it "acceptable" anymore, focusing on the low quality excuse of an "animation" that this episode is. I do not know if Shaft is low on budget for the series or if there was another reason but this episode had almost no actual animation beside the same overused head/eye movements that I generally dislike about Shaft animations. The used "metaphors" seemed like they just did not have enough money or were too lazy to draw humans. I mean come on: Almost every anime out there at least manages to draw some background people - and if they do, they actually move. If you looked closely, one could see that about 80% of the scenes including pedestrians/fans were still or had a super little amount of animations.

Aside from that... I have looked through some streaming websites and there were many people who had no clue how this episode was even related to the first one, which I can understand very well. A person who did not know about KagePro before would definitely get confused, especially by those extremely weird "metaphors" (which were unnecessary and made little sense in general) and I hope the next episode clears everything up for those people, at least.

I was happy to see that at least the Kisaragi Attention part of the episode had actual, very nice animation and neat backgrounds, but overall this episode was definitely worse than the first (animation wise) and I hope the rest of the series will be better than that.