Quick question: is there a way to categorize anime—even informally—based on perceived quality?For instance, distinguishing between "premium" titles, mid-budget productions, and clearly low-budget ones? The same way in the west we distinguish a primetime like Breaking Bad from a serial like Smallville, from outright weekly stuff like Gray's anatomy?Recent examples so everyone gets it, and this is just animation quality I'm talking about:JJK, Mob Psycho, and Demon Slayer are clearly "primetime premium," boasting top-tier production quality across the board and allowed to do experimental takes on the original manga.Then you have something like Call of the Night or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; while thing like character animation and camera work itself aren't necessarily high-end constantly, it compensates with excellent work from the compositing department and imaginative direction.Dr. Stone features good art quality but focuses primarily on staying faithful to the source material.Sakamoto Days aims for a premium feel and includes sakuga moments, yet it has its limitations, specially with flat scenes or limited character acting.And then there are low-budget titles that lack polish likely due to time or financial constraints such as Gushing over Magical Girls or Magical Destroyers.Is there a classification like this that the community generally accepts?Is there examples of works jumping from one tier to another, in western comparison, like when Buffy jumped from monster of the week to a more consistent show?Or when things like Criminal Minds cancel their series so the new season can have another pipeline with more modern cinematic standards?Also, what's your favorite anime and where do you think it would fit in that classification according to the time it came out?Mine is pic related, I think it would feat into cheap animation but dealt with a lot of imaginative directing and select sakuga.
>>290874281Sorry about the broken english at the end.I'm almost off work and when I'm tired I can't keep it.
There are ways to distinguish between high and low budget productions but your measuring stick is clearly whack.>JJK, Mob Psycho, and Demon Slayerspastic sakuga shit. if this is what you consider premium then any anime before 2010 that isnt a movie wont meet you expectations. truly good animation is actually far more reserved than that.>character animation and camera work itself aren't necessarily high-end constantly, it compensates with excellent work from the compositing department and imaginative direction.this is wrong. good character animation and camera work means utilizing techniques that make even low-end animation appealing. good direction can make cuts with low frames, still images sliding and canned footage still look pleasant without making the viewer think "this is low budget", the goal is to give the animation a consistent and unified feel without making the viewer conscious of sakuga vs. non-sakuga segments.shows with consistently good direction that know how to cover for their low-budget animation segments are stuff like Ashita no Joe 2, TV Utena or Tetsuwan Atom 2003. Atom clearly is a higher budget production than Utena or Joe but they all have equally good direction that gives their animation a consistent feel even though every episode isnt spastic sakuga out the ass.Compare to something like Tekkaman Blade which has less consistent direction and sucks at utilizing limited animation and canned footage so you end up with more "quality" segments with bits of good animation interspersed.>Is there a classification like this that the community generally accepts?no thats too subjective>in western comparison, like when Buffy jumped from monster of the week to a more consistent show?this comparison is completely wrong because serialized shows arent strictly better than episodic ones in the way movie-budget animation is better than tv-budget animation
Basically theresDogshit and there's kinoEverything I don't like is dogshit and everything I do is kino
>>290874281I've barely watched any other pre-2000s anime but Utena must be far better than "cheap animation"As for classifications TV anime and films belong in separate tiers but that's mostly it.
