Ohhh I see. I just saw people saying second paragraph and was confused how it was a spoiler. Shame on me for coming late to the conversation and trying to comment haha.
This season has 16 episodes as of now, so it will probably end mid-late March assuming it's not extended.
Thanks, I looked it up and just read funimation has them all dubbed?
No, Funimation only has the two episodes, they'll keep a consistent schedule at one a week.
Because they take on any and all projects without any regard for their staff and the show they create. Pretty much the whole industry declined the offer to animate season 4 of AoT due to the horrible conditions given by the production committee. Mainly a lack of time and resources. Mappa because they are greedy fucks said "yeah let's go" and that's why a lot of their shows struggle from production issues. That's why they use CGI so much because it enables them to pump out more shows.
I don't follow the behind the scenes stuff and I don't watch a lot of anime in general (just for context) but fwiw I think this season has looked awesome so far - the last two episodes had some crazy memorable scenes. The CGI horses in the previous seasons looked laughably bad - it was like PS2 Kessen levels of ugly...
They're taking on a ridiculous number of projects (for the money) at the detriment of their staff's wellbeing.
While production issues do show themself in the quality of the anime, that is not always the case. Sometimes the staff despite the inhuman working conditions pull through and still manage to create a great work of art. Especially this episode despite the CG looked decent even good at times.
That's what I would call the bare-minimum. Not a disaster but also nothing special either. The anime certainly doesn't elevate the source material, which to me should be the goal. The character designs are often quite off-model too which tells me that the animation directors can't keep up with the corrections. I think I saw one animator tweet out, before they had to delete the tweets, that the production is a mess and you can see that quite clearly.
I think at this point for Kodansha AoT has run its course. They really just want to create one last big push for the end of the manga which is why they offered such a horrible schedule to a lot of studios with only Mappa willing to do it. Bad situation all around because it seems like it's the animators and overall staff that have to face all the vitriol from those so-called fans, when it's those greedy executives that are at fault.
So basically it's the worst studio ever because you're mad they picked season 4 and you don't understand the praise despite the fact that they just released a bunch of amazing show in a row ?
Yikes. See, that's what I meant. Tbh I don't even want to argue about this. Mappa is a mess and they take on way to many projects to the detriment of their own staff. They even admit that and are proud of it. If you don't see what's wrong with that and even attempt to defend them, then you don't really understand the mechanisms of the anime industry. Because studios like Mappa are part of the reason why the industry is getting worse and worse.
Well with Founding and Attack he seems to have both aspects/powers while keeping the general "Attack Titan form." Like, if he touched a royal while in his titan form I doubt he'd change shape or form, he would just have access to that power. To be honest we don't know how different combos of the 9 would mix so I suppose it is really hard to say. I think specific combos would drastically alter the form forever, like if he had Colossal+Attack he could never not be Colossal-sized lol.
Nah, the manga will end in April, they have plenty of time to end working in the animation
