So basically, the average anime watcher and the fan of animation have two completely different ideas of what constitutes "good animation". On the other hand, the average anime fan is bothered by anything that doesn't strictly resemble the average style of the show he's watching. As long as the animation itself stands out as something unique and exciting that you're not gonna find anywhere else, everything is fine. To the fan of animation it doesn't matter how distant the character designs or the style of animation are from the show's standard, they could be completely different for all he cares. As such he craves for scenes that are animated with interesting and unique drawing styles, and goes after the animators that have interesting and unique ways to make things move. Unfortunately the average anime fan is not a fan of animation.Ī fan of animation sees animation as a form of art, and appreciates animators that are particularly skillful at that art. And the action scenes should look as if shit is happening a mile a minute. As if someone had been simply making like 100 frames with one single picture (which just was used to draw out the anime). Pain fight) because it seemed very limited. I never liked the way Naruto was animated for the fight scenes without that style (from the Naruto vs. So, why do you people like/dislike? Does the art style really suck that much? Am I missing out on something? As a casual watcher of the series, am I not noticing something? As far as I can tell, they've used that technique for many fight scenes: Lee vs. I was surprised, and I wanted to hear why people dislike it. How could anyone dislike it? It looked kinda goofy, yes, but it was perfect for the fluid fighting techniques that Naruto needed in order to show off his Kyuubi and Pain's fighting style.Īnd then I talked to another friend, and he didn't like it either! After further discussion I learned that the community was actually pretty divided. A friend of mine recently told me that he dispised the animation technique used in the Naruto vs. Those games are amazing and I really enjoy them.ĪNYWAY- fast forwarding a few years and I'm now in college. I bought the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm and Ninja Storm 2 games just so I could imagine fighting like that. This is was maybe summer 2010, whenever the fight was initially released for the anime. So, after a few years of me not noticing the anime, my brother showed me the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight I stopped watching anime almost entirely. It was like DBZ except much more fluid.Īfter the Naruto vs. Lee fight with my brother on Cartoon Network- and I fell in love with the animation style used in the fight scenes. I think when I was about 12 or 13 years old I watched the Gaara vs. All right- I don't watch much Naruto, I don't know much about the anime/manga, but damn do the fight scenes get to me.