4K ANIME is dumb

The Color Owl's channel: / @thecolorowl5923
I'll say it here again. There's nothing inherently wrong with upscaling anime. It's just that it's extremely low effort content and gets millions of views, so I'm salty about it. There are channels that's even releasing animemes in 4K. No one's watching memes because it's in 4K, but having that crap in the title is still beneficial, which is hilarious.
About 60 fps anime though, that's a whole different story. If it ain't broken, don't fix it, and if it ain't broken definitely don't break it, which is what these interpolation "artists" do. Stop it. Get some help.
0:00 - TL;DW
0:46 - Upscaling won't add detail
1:40 - Most anime is already upscaled
4:13 - Why you should't watch anime at less than 1080p
5:31 - Upscaling beyond 1080p is useless; example
7:42 - Bitrate is just as important as resolution
9:12 - KZbin 4K EdItS
10:31 - Saturation slider go brrrrr
11:53 - Please don't attack anyone
13:00 - Please attack 60fps anime channels
14:13 - "Motion blur" techniques in anime
16:23 - Interpolation ruins motion blur techniques
17:08 - Animation "timing"
19:20 - Sword of the stranger ruined by interpolation
20:36 - My favourite type of comments
21:31 - To the enemy forces of interpolation, a declaration of war
24:06 - Conclusion

[@frizen9328]

1 thing I disagree with is the idea that you can't depict motion in cgi without just blurring it. Like you said smears are just a combination of squash and stretch. Same applies for cgi, many animators will break the character model and stretch certain parts. The issue is simply that cgi isn't used very well in most anime.

[@-MankoMan]

That's a topic for an entirely different video that I did not want to go into deep with this video. I literally even recorded the explanation for that but cut it out because the video was too long lol. There were requests by a few people for me to talk about CGI in anime so I thought I'd include it in that, but here's a brief one for those interested: CGI in anime is used mostly as substitution for hand drawn animation to save time. Adding smears on CGI models, like spiderman into the spider-verse, can be done even in anime, but it's a complicated procedure and would beat the purpose of using CGI in the first place, which is to save time. D4DJ is a full CGI anime with beautiful smears, because in it, CGI is not meant as a replacement but is the core animation itself. I think I've seen smears in one punch man season 2 CGI as well. But generally, in anime, literal motion blur is used on CGI. Thanks for pointing it out cause what I said in the video is wrong.

[@pcvl9637]

Dude that drawing was really good

[@-MankoMan]

Thanks!

[@asg9973]

How these 30-minute explainer videos genuinely capture my attention is bizarre but very welcome, great vid!

[@PriyanshuDotCom]

People need to respect the hard work that the people in industry put on their cuts. btw another great video,, ^_^

[@VillixEdits]

Came here from your new jjk analysis. As you said on the upscaling bit, yt compression is dogwater. The reason ppl are upscaling resolutions is because 1080p gets way more compressed than 2k or 4k. Especially small channels get compressed heavily, atleast in my own experience. Agree with the 60fps shit though, absolute garbage.

[@randomguy2053]

Omg!!! Your videos are so great!! How TF could anyone be this underrated???

[@frankunderthecastle]

This is my first time seeing someone agree with me on this topic. I am genuinely happy. Also, your videos made me appreciate animation in anime even more. Thank you.

[@shirouamakusa5935]

Thanks to you, my knowledge on animation has greatly expanded.

[@sanykorodrigues8790]

Another great video. Already looking forward to seeing the next one. Btw your drawing is really good

[@Bonyuu_Miruku]

The "60 FPS" people are terrible... the worst part is that thier uploads are still up because it bypass the copyright system. Basically it's so horrible that the KZbin bot can't recognize it...

[@anurag4813]

14:23 me at least 7 times a day

[@MyNansGangrene]

Amazing Video. Love That It's Educational And Funny At The Same Time. Looking Forward To More

[@TopSecret2022]

Same go for IMAX, it isn’t always a good idea to have the ENTIRE film to be filmed 100% with IMAX camera, because it might ruin some scene, so only selected scenes are filmed with IMAX camera. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a good idea for Anime to have some selected scenes to be made in native 60FPS.

[@vibinig_sora]

I really learned so many things from this video🤩, I used to thought If 60fps and 4k anime are better , then the animators and studios must be stupid? but one day I watched that video 1080p anime to 4k in capcut 💀💀and you already know my reaction "I was the one who was stupid" I thought 4k have more pixels so It might improve details and movement then my common sense told me that if you record 480p video in 4k from your mobile there is no way it'll improve your video in case of details. yeah that's it, and can you explain me what's meaning of 'PDE'? 😅

[@ionlyspeakfacts4395]

Man I love this channel, deserve more views

[@saifors]

I think a pretty good exercise anyone can do to see what you mean about rescaling things back to the native resolution it was made at is to open up an image in something like MS Paint, scale it up, confirm the process and then reselect it to scale it back down again and then compare it to how it was supposed to look.

[@cineglasses]

I do upscaling videos without the interpolation and would love an opinion if it's something you'd consider watching. The idea is just to make the original shine the best way I can. I also do a little of color correcting!

[@notationmusical]

I keep watching these 60FPS videos and they just look choppy. It's like the same with animating. Obviously we can't do 24 FPS as that's really hard to do, which is why 12 or even 9 frames is easier to get done.

[@DeltaPiss]

I do need to upscale my content just to counteract the blurriness the comes from watching something on a billboard sized 4k monitor, but most people probably wont notice a difference (especially if you are watching it on some 21 inch 1080p screen)

[@stevedave42swag37]

the blu ray you can upscaled to 4k 8k and more detall and sharpper images

[@FlameSkull95]

As an addendum to the resolution section, generally speaking, TV programs are made with, you know, television in mind, which is even often being output at an interlaced 1920x1080 (which is the current standard, afaik), or even lower pixel counts, which is attributed to the technical limitations of the broadcasting process in general, and I'm willing to assume it's a similar story for theatrical screenings (if anyone's willing to either correct me on this or add something feel free)

[@kenmaru777]

Didn't know about 480p Megalobox lmao I just thought its a part of the style like in Mushoku Tensei

[@Ayeato]

On the topic of 60 fps interpolation, I find it interesting that the 'normies' say it looks better. Its not like they are all just collectively lying to themselves they must genuinely think it looks better, and I really wonder why. Is the smoothness just more appealing?

[@szklon4247]

22:01 how do you know that? where can I find what scene was done by who, ANN isn't so precise

[@-MankoMan]

Check out sakugabooru website.

[@avinashsoren9523]

What about the anime movies that are shown in theatres?🤔 Pls someone answer 🙏

[@stevedave42swag37]

which is better 1080p anime or 4k anime

[@christopher4227]

Someone has to say it omg i am tired of see that shit on my recommend

[@glorifiedscribbles9761]

You need more subs

[@Akhmed_2004]

When the 60 fps animation part of the video started, I just died of laugh

[@sandeepkant1815]

Pls react to Aot ep 11 and do animation analysis. I think this had the best animation Mappa offered thus far

[@-MankoMan]

I can't make a promise about the reaction, but I'll make an animation analysis if it's good.

[@sandeepkant1815]

@@-MankoMan thankyou

[@TopSecret2022]

Native 4K >>> Upscaled 4K

[@stevedave42swag37]

is this navite 4k or upscaled

[@stevedave42swag37]

fire force is actually made with 4k 8k now if you had a 4k 8k player with anything

[@kenmaru777]

Cool art

[@nelisezpasce]

I'm pretty sure HiTop Films also "color corrects" footage of superhero movies on his videos. Can you share the channel that you mentioned that did it well?

[@-MankoMan]

I've put the channel in the description of this video. Idk why I didn't do that in the first place. Smoothbrain moment.

[@Cactimaniac]

I need the channel link of the color owl Now!!

[@-MankoMan]

KZbin hates links so this comment might get deleted, but here it is anyway: kzbin.info/door/Q0iFZyh1L08doQn70zUofg

[@Cactimaniac]

@@-MankoMan thanks!

[@gigaacademia9313]

10:33 ive never seen mr man laugh like this before

[@melster3618]

aye make a drawing account

[@xSoporific1]

mm

[@TheSideGuy]

Yea the 4k anime community is pretty dogshit ngl but the good 4k anime channels do a lot more than upscaling, ofc they do upscale but the MAJOR thing that makes them look good is the color corrections and i don't just mean saturation slider go brrr It takes a bit of testing to get the right image that looks beautiful. Its the main reason why filters exist Also 60 fps anime looks good when its twixtored good and the time remaps are satisfying But those heavenly idiots that do nothing and just do 60 fps, I would genuinely attack them

[@Hetsu..]

I disagree actually, in motion 60fps anime isnt that bad imo. The timing is still there, yet it isnt, but it is.