Ridiculously good! The smears are particularly great!

Damn that Denji little dance!

Why did no one upload the epic train sequence yet? Does that not count as sakuga?

MarshMellow said:
Why did no one upload the epic train sequence yet? Does that not count as sakuga?

It's because the nerds who have the power on this site consider things mostly containing CGI with no substantial 2D cuts as non-sakuga.

MarshMellow said:
Why did no one upload the epic train sequence yet? Does that not count as sakuga?

Was going to wait for one of the mods to re-answer but since there's significant misinformation here, Sakuga is not "good animation", the translation is closer to the action of "drawing", and hence Sakuga is mainly, if not completely, focused on hand-drawn animation (it's why drawing qualities are also important alongside movement). There's some ambiguity with heavy CG referencing or vice-versa (CG heavily based on 2D layouts) but the bottom line is that the final product should have a significant hand-drawn element. As Geth said before the great time shift, anybody is welcome to make a CGBooru if they want to, there is nothing against that.

tl;dr: Yes, pure CGI with no significant hand-drawn element is, by definition, NOT Sakuga. It can still be great animation, and anyone who wants to archive those is welcome to do so, just on another site reserved for that purpose.

With each subsequent episode, this series became less and less impressive.

BiriBiri said:
With each subsequent episode, this series became less and less impressive.

Sure

BiriBiri said:
With each subsequent episode, this series became less and less impressive.

Episodes 7-12 are fantastic though.

Fettedmalice said:
Episodes 7-12 are fantastic though.

There’s definitely a quality drop from the first 6 episodes but not because it looks bad, they just couldn’t keep it up which is reasonable considering how insane the first 6 looked. The rest still look phenomenal and I’m sure they’ll look even better with the blu-ray corrections

Silvershake said:
There’s definitely a quality drop from the first 6 episodes but not because it looks bad, they just couldn’t keep it up which is reasonable considering how insane the first 6 looked. The rest still look phenomenal and I’m sure they’ll look even better with the blu-ray corrections

drop in quality? would you be able to explain in more detail because i thought the second half looked better

Untitled said:
drop in quality? would you be able to explain in more detail because i thought the second half looked better

The Douga sweatshop couldn't keep up

Untitled said:
drop in quality? would you be able to explain in more detail because i thought the second half looked better

Imo ep 8 and 9 were the two best looking in the show so far, but 11 and 12 might’ve been the two worst. Still very good though.

I feel like fans have trouble differentiating between "episodes and content I enjoyed the most" and "episodes that were sound production wise" which is why people are under the impression the back half of Chainsaw Man is better than the first production wise, because that's when the show really breaks into its own story wise. However, we are typing this on a database that tracks the highlights of each episode. While I never endorse using booru posts as a metric of quality as there's a lot you can find outside of what's shown (movement), I think it's pretty clear that episodes 1-4 and 6 had the most steam amongst the shows run, with and 8 and 10 being the highlights of the 2nd half. The output of Hironori Tanaka's #03 and Tatsuya Yoshihara's #04 are night and day compared to what they managed for #09 and #10 respectively. People should put chainsaw_man source:#(insert whatever ep here) into the search bar and pick apart how thin the highlights became as the show ran along since I feel like it'd help people gauge the difference between the peaks of the show, since whatever metric people are using now just isn't the reality of it unfortunately.