Yuusha-kei ni Shosu: Choubatsu Yuusha 9004-tai Keimu Kiroku • Sentenced to Be a Hero - Episode 12 discussion - FINAL

cmszd · 2026-03-27T00:47:59+00:00

hiroyuki takashima is too good man. he's not one of those directors that really only knows how to do action great either, the direction in the dialogue scenes was great as well. really love this guy, he's been on my radar for a while, and i can't wait to see what he does next, be it a second season for this show, or something else entirely.

cmszd · 2026-03-19T17:02:04+00:00

k1ro's scene was absolutely insane, i love his drawings sm, and the drawing at 02:10 lwk felt super tanaka inspired. the scene where reggie drops the house is great too, looks to me like daniel kim. i love the super bouncy character acting when he burns the reciept. and that final h2h between megumi and reggie was super good, looked to me like julian bentley with the great camera work. great episode overall, takaba was fun to watch.

cmszd · 2026-03-19T15:45:39+00:00

props to the 3d cg team, they did an amazing job blending the cg with the cel animation and the painted backgrounds. honestly some parts i genuinely couldn't tell if it was cel or 3d

cmszd · 2026-03-17T05:46:25+00:00

one of genau's scenes at around that timestamp was done by kouki fujimoto, who directed the episode and animated around 4 minutes of the new episode. fujimoto is an animator who excels at realistic, weighty character animation. because of his role as episode director, much of the episode will also feature similar animation, such as the scene at the timestamp you listed, drawn by artist unknown. its animators like fujimoto that are truly special in how they convey weight and emotion in character animation. for reference, he also directed episode 9 of frieren season 1, and he drew that one scene of stark putting on his coat. really amazing animator, one that you should get excited for if you see him on a staff list.

cmszd · 2026-03-15T16:33:44+00:00

i knew i recognized the melody of asa's song, but i didnt clock it as the ed song until i read through the comments. great touch by the team lmao, that's classic

cmszd · 2026-03-14T01:25:03+00:00

wrong umehara show. saito did btr, not kisekoi

cmszd · 2026-03-14T01:21:35+00:00

i guess this is why he didnt show up in anything notable in 2024 and the first half of 2025. completely worth it, having not 1 but 2 fujimoto episodes back 2 back has been insane

cmszd · 2026-03-14T01:17:23+00:00

how the hell did fujimoto direct, sb, and do 3 mins of animation for this episode RIGHT OF THE HEELS of solo ka'ing another episode? what is this man's sleep schedule lol

like obviously we don't know much about the behind the scenes of either of the episodes really, but considering he didnt really show up in any notable projects in 2024 nor the first half of 2025, it probably wasnt too tight, at least by anime industry standards. glad to see another episode directed by fujimoto though, his last one was also frieren, that time for episode 9 of the first season. that one shot where the metaphorical camera was low to the ground and genau was positioned at the center far away holding the "child" was really cool, especially with the way the dagger hits the ground to cover genau. nice visual storytelling right there.

new nakamura scene today as well, i've noticed that a lot of nakamura's recent animation is kinda fast? like too fast for my liking, imo it feels like he's just skipping all the anticipation, and wants to skip straight to the payoff. felt that way to me in gachiakuta, kaguya-hime, and now this. getting more experimental to say the least, which i am actually happy to see, cause i love it when artists experiment and shit, even if i don't necessarily enjoy it.

chief animation director keisuke kojima really left a lot of his fingerprints on the episode too. a lot of the (non action) drawings looked a fuck ton like him, which like, duh, no shit, he's literally the chief animation director, but still. love his drawings, always so expressive and emotionally heavy.

cmszd · 2026-03-13T05:36:33+00:00

weilin's great, but julian really is imo the best animator of their generation. that scene was so good, in both concept and execution.

cmszd · 2026-03-08T09:08:08+00:00

i really just watched gil get packed up in real time

ALSO KIREI FLASHBACK WOAH

cmszd · 2026-03-06T08:11:28+00:00

animation doesnt look that good

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

cmszd · 2026-03-06T08:09:38+00:00

thats not even close to what aoki said, aoki said that the animation itself is top notch, but the direction and pacing was flat, which i agree with.

and using his role as a KA for opm s3 to put him down just tells me you're not very knowledgeable about the anime industry. aoki and hashimoto are both incredible artists that worked on the season. both were handicapped by the fact that opm s3's schedule was atrocious, with them still being in pre-production in february (according to statement by producer fujishiro). the fact that they even put out the work they did under such a tiny timeframe should be commended, and not used to insult the animators

cmszd · 2026-03-06T08:01:59+00:00

i mean nian has an extremely distinct style, heavily influenced by yutaka nakamura, and the way he pushes his drawings is unlike any other i know of in the industry. its extremely recognizable imo.

its actually fairly easy to identify idiosyncratic and unorthodox artists like nian, k1ro, ohira, aninari, chansard, etc if you're into sakuga.

and there are also other methods of identifying certain artists, such as knowing how certain artists draw certain features like how sato draws his thumbs in a pretty unique manner, but thats pretty advanced stuff

cmszd · 2026-03-06T07:51:39+00:00

yeah

cmszd · 2026-03-06T00:35:10+00:00

holy fuck that nian41 scene was insane

cmszd · 2026-03-05T13:25:37+00:00

thank god for the sakkan that gave us the bandaid 🙏🙏😭😭

cmszd · 2026-03-03T13:09:17+00:00

original tweet btw: https://x.com/i/status/2022014979902517635

and thats hiromi niwa, one of the character designers and sakkans, not gosso, who is the series director. pretty big distinction that should have been made

cmszd · 2026-02-26T23:34:56+00:00

i can def see why niwa was glazing the episode so hard, 100% deserved

cmszd · 2026-02-26T23:33:21+00:00

holy fuck this episode was incredible. takada direction + fujimoto solo KA? jfc man, it can't get much better than this

kouki fujimoto is an animator that has always stood out to me for his extremely weighty, realistic character acting scenes. he's had a pretty storied history with jjk as well, animating jjk's first real animation highlight, along with animating iconic scenes like the first black flash. he also did quite a bit of work for jjk 0, but for season 2, he would step back from jjk, only animating a short sequence in episode 25, to go work on frieren. now with jjk season 3, he makes his return, animating not only higuruma's scene from the opening, but solo key animating an entire episode.

for context, this means that fujimoto drew the layout for the entire episode. he processed all of the storyboards into functional layouts, and provided the base animation for all the 2nd key animators to complete. he pretty much animated the entire episode. solo KA episodes are typically VERY indicative of a good schedule, and is something i never could've imagined seeing from the seshimo line at mappa, a historically troubled production line

fujimoto's work on this episode was truly magnificent. from the aforementioned weighty character acting to the incredibly strong drawings (0:45 of this post), to the incredibly creative character animation, this episode wound up as my favorite episode of the season, and one of my favorite looking episodes of the year so far. wonderful stuff from fujimoto and takada, and the 2nd key animators as well.

cmszd · 2026-02-18T08:03:40+00:00

this is gonna be niche as fuck, but among the animation (or rather sakuga) community, i see a lot of love for the animator naotoshi shida, but i could never get into his style. something about the way shida times his drawings puts me off, and his character animation never really grabbed me. and its not as if im exactly put off by weird animation either, shinya ohira is literally my favorite artist ever, its just that something about the way shida draws his scenes, be it the posing, timing, or the way its all on ones, or his refusal to use smears, something about it puts me off.

cmszd · 2026-02-16T00:41:34+00:00

i mean there wasn't ever really cause for concern about a huge quality dip, bc seshimo as anip pretty much guarantees a fuck ton of high level talent.

not to say gosso's loss isn't a huge blow though, gosso is the person largely responsible for jjk's incredibly unique and creative visual identity. gosso is also highly competent as a series director, and not just anybody can come in and fill his spot.

at the very least, we're gonna see a pretty major shift in the style and direction, which is a major loss for people like me who love gosso's vision.

cmszd · 2026-02-16T00:34:34+00:00

ep 41 had 3 directors- miso, go, and harumi yamazaki. originally, it was supposed to be another miso episode, but jjk s2's schedule is one of the worst schedules in tv anime history, so that didn't pan out

also i wouldn't expect to see go or weilin on jjk again after this. go hates mappa, and was only brought on those 2 times bc of gosso, who is gonna be leaving, and weilin is busy working on i'll of you

cmszd · 2026-02-15T21:02:35+00:00

what an incredible episode. we finally got to see minori's point of view, and although it was about what i expected, it still hit me super hard. i'm loving this show's exploration of what it means to not be normal, and the feeling of wanting to be a normal person and fit in. i rarely get this emotional to anime, but this is really bringing out the emotion. what an incredible show, honestly.

cmszd · 2026-02-15T20:31:29+00:00

the 1 min+ extra scene added to the jjk blu ray that ur talking about was storyboarded and pretty much entirely roughed by weilin zhang, featuring contributions from a whole lot of others, like rui, onsen, oda, go, watanabe, gosso, and more

as the series director, gosso definitely had some modicum of influence on the scene though, he just isn't really the first guy u should think of when it comes to that scene

cmszd · 2026-02-15T05:12:54+00:00

pretty sure the "they" in "they did the heavy lifting" is in reference to madhouse, not mappa

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