Worst Show I've Ever Seen

[@tuv]

the concept of having some 3D and some 2D characters was done extremely well in the amazing world of gumball. but this. this is something else.

[@db3games]

true

[@FATHERBATZ]

this show turned mixed media into mixed up media

[@crimsonite09]

hey tuv or as charlie likes to call you "toov".

[@Hideor]

The animators must have felt so stupid making this

[@cheeky_gaming1027]

Tuv more like tub

[@unknownvariable9239]

Imagine putting your heart and soul into a manga, writing the perfect story you’ve been developing for years. Then a company is like “yo let’s make it an anime”. Your heart flutters, joy bubbling over as you stay up at night imagining all the cool moments you envisioned fully animated and colored. Then it comes out like EX-Arm

[@forgivezharion6989]

Ratio + yb better + nobody asked + this u 🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻👶🏽

[@akhimahathir2004]

@@forgivezharion6989 stop

[@o_ver2.094]

I seem To see you everywhere, are you the next guy without a mustache?

[@JK_King]

Berserk...

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Seeing it would be the worst case scenario. Some people die before they can even see people destroy their work.

[@chaosahoyhoy]

The studio behind Ex Arm once had to put out a statement denying that the anime was a front for money laundering, that's how bad it got. And the trailer boasted that it was "declaring war on all of the Sci-Fi series around the world". Not SF anime, ALL sci-fi series. Good job CrunchyRoll.

[@forgivezharion5704]

Ratio + yb better + I don’t care + this u🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👶🏽👨🏼‍💻

[@postsingluarity6159]

@@Instabruh.User.. ratio + L + I don't care

[@Kaineeee]

@@forgivezharion5704 Ratio + yb better + I don't care + this u 🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👶🏽👨🏼‍💻

[@ngoclamtruong5033]

Is there any link of the article or post that talk about this Ex-arm studio statement? I kinda curious for full story

[@_Void1000]

@@forgivezharion5704 npc🤡🤡🤓🤓🤓☝️☝️☝️🥩🥩🥩🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️

[@CurrentlyCleeping]

“It’s basically like watching a Doctor Seuss book in a PowerPoint presentation” you are a true poet with your words Charlie.

[@christiandittmer4787]

dr seuss is better

[@e.l.studios455]

dr seuss is artistic. Nothing about this show is even remotely artistic in fact its even autistic

[@ViIgax]

He’s reading a script that took him hours to perfect it.

[@BlurryDoggo]

@@ViIgax it's his job that's no problem

[@Lunk87]

Imagine trying to make Sam I Am watch this shit

[@jcbtiller]

Idk. The hero having internal conflict about saving a damsel and finally, after overcoming his self preservation getting fucking WRECKED by a truck is unexpected comedy gold.

[@cha0sd3v3l]

It was the first 7 times it happened...but they can't keep getting away with it 😭😭

[@dflaming1371]

And I was like "oh, is it worse than Berserk 201-- this wouldn't even be a good storyboard." Truck-kun lifted my moods a little

[@leoncoben6983]

@@cha0sd3v3l Sure they can...it's a trope. Tropes exist because people like it despite it getting repeated. Which is why we have Tsundere tropes where they punch the guy that accidently walked in on them to the moon. It was funny the first time, it's still funny now which is why it keeps getting utilized.

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

It was cut like the dude would have been running away from the girl and not towards her 😂 It's so bad, this is why it's important you don't cross-cut like that so it doesn't confuse people.

[@anit6667]

I burst out laughing the moment I saw that truck and couldn't stop for a few minutes; that's how good it was.

[@BaskBall2]

If he’s 3D and everyone else is 2D then anyone that’s 2D would see him as some unbelievable eldritch horror since they couldn’t comprehend a being on a higher dimensional level

[@Ribstar]

Ok that got a laugh out of me. I never thought about it as that lol

[@whatsittoya7718]

Good observation. Hope someone can find out how to do that in our world 😆

[@rafaelc.8306]

Maybe they can't see all of him but just a 2D slice of him

[@Juanito_Pecados]

​@@rafaelc.8306 Hopefuly with organs and all

[@m_dog3440]

@@rafaelc.8306 Nope, its like trying to imagine a sphere in 2D, you cant and no it ain't a circle

[@Lunk87]

Charlie I gotta say, look at the manga panels for EX-ARM. It's truly disgusting how they completely betrayed the artists vision. The manga's visual beauty vs the anime's horribly done sweatshop rushed 3D trash will truly take you aback.

[@Zulf85]

Ex-Arm's artist is hella good and I hope they found good work after this + the manga's cancellation being a double whammy of being fcked over

[@garfield5058]

@@Zulf85 how come it got cancelled?

[@theepicduck6922]

@@garfield5058 Guess the sales fell off potentially. Tends to be the cause.

[@joshshrum2764]

@@garfield5058 Well you see Shonen jump axes series’s, a lot that can’t keep up like a one piece.

[@exelentr2lite]

I wish that the manga writers will hire a much better company to remake the anime

[@someryebread]

My heart sunk a little when I heard the villain speak, he's played by Takaya Kuroda (best known as Kazuma Kiryu) I really hope that Kuroda got a decent paycheck to be a part of this, his performance in Yakuza is legendary.

[@doctorm3518]

It hurt when I heard his voice too. I can't believe this

[@deadasfboi]

Now I feel more sad, I like the Yakuza series...I guess they tried.

[@icehoof]

To be fair, imagine hearing all of these voiced characters, and you want to blow your own ears out, then kiryu shows up and you have to wait for the villain to show up just to enjoy something

[@JLCL01]

A true "baka mitai" moment 😔

[@wazkalia]

OK I WASN'T HALLUCINATING, THAT WAS MY MANS KURODA. jesus...how did they even pay for him??????????

[@rs_kira5710]

You know it’s gonna be bad when Charlie doesn’t even make a sarcastic joke about it being good

[@xxxvyra_triple.xmaniac]

He did in the desc

[@spike5499]

@@xxxvyra_triple.xmaniac tbf he always writes that kind of description

[@incognitoman3656]

420 likes

[@zorenmaniego5698]

@@spike5499 Here's a fun(?) fact: There's a video made by Charlie titled "Call of Duty Gamers kills a man". The story is messed up that the description is "Just a horrible story".

[@JimmehRulez]

@@zorenmaniego5698 its one of the few times its not a greatest of all time description

[@-MankoMan]

To add insult to injury, all of the main fights in this show were rotoscoped using professional martial artists. They spent a very good amount of money to make the action sequences. This is one of those rare cases where the behind the scenes footage of the show is better than the show itself.

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

Motion Capture, not rotoscoping IIRC.

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

@@makeitthrough_ I always thought back to that cave scene in the Sinbad episode of Popeye, but I gecha. It to some extent is also a major aesthetic facet of Gumball.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@makeitthrough_ What about old Disney films or Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings? Way better examples I'd say that a lot of people would have watched.

[@dirkwallace8011]

Can't believe Crunchyroll, the same folks responsible for High Guardian Spice, would put out a shit original anime. Shocked, I tell you.

[@leaflotus6726]

It's like platinum games, and that one new game that no one plays

[@forgivezharion6989]

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[@justabulbasaurlover.4711]

@YeaMan wow it's crazy but I don't see anyone who asked.

[@Pirz-ik2nv]

@@forgivezharion6989 Ratio + yb better + I didn’t ask + this u🤓🤓👶🏽👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻Ratio + yb better + I don’t care + this u🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👶🏽👨🏼‍💻

[@lockerbuddy2039]

Did Crunchyroll also make God of Highschool? I hear that was okay. Never watched it but they clearly seemed to do something right there.

[@Arc_Viper]

*Interviewee, Yoshikatsu Kimura:* "I have no experience animating whatsoever. I don't know what anime is. I kind of just walked into this building because I needed to use the bathroom. Honestly if you hire me I will fill my entire staff with random people I know that have no idea what they are doing." *Crunchyroll:* "Say no more. You're hired!"

[@afeathereddinosaur]

this anime was very inspiring, it showed me that I don't need expertise to make it into the anime world, that I can just pop in and make something

[@cynthia6514]

Lmfaoo

[@akridosila]

​@Kavetion ok PenguinΩ

[@WHOMSTDIVE]

Have you ever heard of high guardian spice?

[@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463]

@@WHOMSTDIVE Unfortunately they were actively sabotaged. They wanted to make the show for kids but then they were forced to make it more “adult”.

[@WHOMSTDIVE]

@@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463 oh i didn’t hear about that, but even if, there are still things a kids show shouldn’t do.

[@crisptomato9495]

I used to be a firm believer in “good writing can fix bad art” but this has proved me wrong.

[@RPGgamerWolf]

On the level of Ex Arm, it’s now “no kind of writing bad, good, or abridged can fix this art”

[@John_EMIYA_Miller]

@@RPGgamerWolf I don't know, I think TeamFourStar, SomethingWittyEntertainment, or TheSmuckSquad might be able to make something amusing out of this dumpster fire.

[@aleksisuuronen5969]

It atleast have to be appealing like the original One Punch Man 😅 Ofcourse it wasn't drawn good but there is some level of understanding how hey this is actually pretty hooking on a goofy way. When it's just sad bad and awfull to look at, there just is no point. Good example is the shorts of Junji Ito's short-stories and how badly they translated into anime just by budged and choices (they are actually making much competent version now tho). Or the continuation for Berzerk but even that is more watchable in funny way than whatever this garpage is.

[@calvinwatterson3270]

there was good writing?

[@xerobeat9142]

In what anime is there good writing lmao

[@Declan_ChristoTube_VA]

Makes Berserk 2016/2017 look like a visual masterpiece. I'll never be ungrateful again.

[@juancampos9468]

Tell that to aot fans

[@NetBattler]

Well berserk get a new movie but it's CGI animation

[@isaiahgarraway5568]

Nope those are still bad. It just happens this is worse. Never forgive, never forget

[@negate4828]

@@NetBattler cgi isn't bad if its done right for example Fate Stay night UBW and HF use cgi and they are known for being top 5 in terms of animation

[@SoI_Badguy]

@SEGASammyTheWhale not a movie. The movies were 2013 through 2015 if I'm not wrong.

[@MiniMight]

The fact that the manga was good enough to be recommended by the author of Hunter x Hunter, literally one of the greatest shonen manga of all time, and they still botched an adaptation with that good of a source material is WILD 😭😭

[@redinmolator]

Yeah, Ex-Arm's manga is pretty good, and on a same note, Tesla Note's manga is VERY good. But, well... They kinda dropped it in the adaptations.

[@Lucifer_Is_Not_Amused]

If the manga is good I'll read it

[@kayramah2531]

Yeah, I was thinking that the concept seemed pretty interesting, glad to know it isn't a wasted idea

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Eh it looks like generic fanservice shit

[@lokrj]

I heard that the author stopped resuming the manga entirely. Even his twitter wasn't active since loooong ago

[@Ash-ow5yc]

The fact that his line at 1:56 is, “Yeesh, I still can’t get over how much you hate technology.” is meta af given the jarring, horrible 2D-3D combo they inflicted on my face eyes in the same moment.

[@forgivezharion5704]

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[@favoritemustard3542]

Lol! ...I went to school with a girl who would call ppl _AssEyes_ . . ! Face Eyes. I like it.

[@jshh628]

@@forgivezharion5704 onggggg

[@professionalnerdyboy1235]

"Um… Actually, according to my calculations , your comment is extremely misleading. Everything said or acknowledged in your pathetic comment is false. You people waste your time making these dumb and inadequate comments, this is simply ridicule. Watching my professional content would maybe add one or two brain cells in your minuscule brain." 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@ZoMbi5lAy3r]

Face eyes? Implying that you have eyes elsewhere?

[@mattguy1773]

It makes me so sad that many animators with talent wasted their time on EX arm

[@forgivezharion6989]

Ratio + yb better + I don’t care + this u🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻👶🏽

[@akhimahathir2004]

@@forgivezharion6989 pls stop

[@gayYoungThug]

@@forgivezharion6989 I get the joke

[@dixonbutts3929]

@@forgivezharion6989 eat this ratio

[@mattguy1773]

@eli thank you

[@akiakarii]

I'd like to remind everyone that the main antagonist in ep1 is voiced by the same guy that voiced Kiryu Kazuma from the yakuza series, my friends couldn't believe such a *masterpiece* included him in the cast

[@GMStarworld]

Guess thats where they spent all their budget.

[@Zicolie]

he still did a good job at acting but holy shit it sucks that they placed a good actor in such a shitty show :(

[@NetBattler]

Bruh moment

[@alex99x99x]

That’s the first thing I noticed. But they kind of ruined his voice by making his voice sound like a robot. He also sounds really uninspired, like the writers didn’t give him that much to work with.

[@TheOfficialBacon]

Honestly, that's fully on brand. That's something Kiryu would get tricked into doing in a side story or something

[@doremi6544]

i feel bad for the voice actors and actresses who did a good job dubbing this show. i wouldve refused if I see this nightmare

[@gingermcgingin4106]

I mean, paycheque's a paycheque, & they get paid the same regardless of how successful the show is. Why some producer would bother to localize this is the real question (I guess Cruncyroll either think that low of us Westerners or just give that little of a shit)

[@brookelynnwu8016]

They’re just given the lines, not really shown the animation lol

[@Terrortrooper]

Saw the thumbnail and HAD to come in. I read the manga and was blown away. The Manga is visually impressive and would make for a great anime. When I first saw the first episode when it released I really wished this was an actual crime and people would get prosecuted for it. Crunchyroll dishonored the source material SO HARD that they should have released an apology. Not just towards the fanbase, but the mangaka themselves. Give the manga a chance and try to delete the pictures of the anime in your head. The manga deserves so much love and would really deserve a true, well animated show.

[@tunamayhoe]

Just a quick google search shows this work had so much potential and Crunchyroll owes the mangaka an apology for the atrocity they created.

[@prematuredgravy8033]

It definitely seemed like a cool idea after what Charlie was explaining. What a shame.

[@Terrortrooper]

@@prematuredgravy8033 I really can't recommend the manga enough!

[@brandonhughes4076]

Crunchyroll are just so fucking awful

[@incognitoman3656]

690 likes

[@EmQue33]

The line "i still can't get how much you hate technology" was a foreshadowing of how bad the animation will be as you can tell the animators hated it

[@VikingTeddy]

Oh c'mon. it's not that bad, it's bland, ugly and mediocre, but doesn't even come close to *bad* anime. You guys have been spoiled if you feel this is bad :)

[@sirshotty7689]

@@VikingTeddy I’d rather watch a bad show than a bland one. At least you can laugh at the bad ones.

[@EndymionThemightyMasterofMagic]

@@VikingTeddy Then what do you consider a bad anime?

[@VikingTeddy]

@@EndymionThemightyMasterofMagic There's quite a few that have been drawn by amateurs with no idea of proportion or perspective. But even bad animation is tolerable if the story is good. I've seen cobbled together 'movies' that are obviously from the cutting room floor of different films. Wish I could remember the name of the worst one, but it's been like 20 years. It had characters change names and appearance and the 'plot' made no sense because it was from 2-3 different movies. They weren't even the same genre 😔. Yet it was an official release!

[@tidwardsquentacles4790]

"I have never seen faces this emotionless" 7:02 Well Charlie I know you're a world class actor but you need to buy a mirror in your house someday

[@spiderjerusalem8505]

True...

[@cristiangomezmontt6248]

Ex-Arm is truly one of the animes ever made. It has characters, a plot and an OST. It was directed by a director and written by a writer. The characters were played by voice actors and the show was animated by an animation studio. If I had to rate it, I would rate it a 1 ex-armillion /10

[@AngryBoozer]

Finally, an unbiased review

[@maniacalmurderer4123]

It was also given a review by a reviewer, then watched by a viewer, and criticized by a KZbinr

[@twisted_coconut4093]

“Oh Charlie, it can’t be worse then Berserk 2016’s animation!” “Oh”

[@DrakesdenChannel]

I still remembee B2016 using quite literally 3 villagers identically pasted over and over as s crowd of 200.

[@fredsmith9714]

@@DrakesdenChannel that CAN work, even in live action. In star wars episode 3, when the confederacy assaults kashyyyk and the wookie war chief growls and like 500 stand up behind him shouting. Yeah thats only like 8 guys in costume then digitally copied, they may have had them hold different weapons in some takes? Don't know, but its still the same 8 dudes.

[@DrakesdenChannel]

@@fredsmith9714 It waa only 3 identical characters with clearly visible faces up close.

[@fredsmith9714]

@@DrakesdenChannel no I get it. I meant more like, its possible to use the animating technique, but you still have to put some work in

[@SlavKnightVlad]

I swear they spent 90% of the budget on the voice actors, because they have some pretty big names in there

[@vikareus1257]

I thought the bad guy's voice sounded familiar, and lo and behold, it's Takaya Kuroda - the same guy who is essentially Kazuma Kiryu from the Yakuza series. He doesn't deserve to his name attached to this piece of garbage.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The only good part about this anime is the presence of Truck-Kun. Truck-Kun really be everything sending people to the afterlife in every anime nowadays.

[@Dragonchamp5]

Truck-Kun is life and death.

[@chrislail3824]

Big fan of Truck kun

[@gex3922]

Gex

[@JohnDoe-uf3lj]

Truck Kun is the only good thing about shitty Isekai like Mushoku Tensei and those other shows 😂

[@Narumi_Nokami]

touch grass?

[@kamakachow1]

I just read the manga and Charlie's guess that the truck was some kind of time travel assassination is actually super spot-on. It's hinted in that same panel that the driver was somehow himself from the future given that he had a picture he took with his brother's gf on the dash. This is wild and I can't believe this manga wasn't done any justice lmao

[@Haileycartero]

The fact that there was only one person who was familiar with anime that worked on this tells you everything you need to know

[@forgivezharion6989]

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[@akhimahathir2004]

@@forgivezharion6989 stop

[@Tw0Dots]

That’s actually hilarious

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

"Uh, yeah... I know what anime is... it's that cartoon with the big eye people, right?" ".... you're hired!"

[@Jsslade]

@@forgivezharion6989 *UNO REVERSE*

[@alipali]

Fun fact: This literally aired all over national TV in Japan during March 2020; a great majority of Japanese people made fun of it. Edit: Ok why tf are people talking about their father issues in the reply thread???

[@kikuchiLOV]

And I'm one of those people.

[@jodanjo4295]

@@kikuchiLOV how chaotic was that back then in Japan?

[@shaboingboing799]

@@jodanjo4295 how chaotic was your father when he beat you

[@jodanjo4295]

@@shaboingboing799 my father only beat me once or twice so it wasn't that bad

[@LarryLongBalls]

@@shaboingboing799 bro tf?

[@xxTC-96xx]

all the characters are full of helium with how they all move I guess

[@forgivezharion5704]

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[@thomas_moore3527]

@@forgivezharion5704 Bot

[@nekoruumew]

yo nice seeing ya here...

[@eletriky6715]

Yo it’s the endertale guy.

[@poodytanx8611]

Reminds me of butt ugly martians

[@BillytheCorgi]

"It was a crunchy roll original" is literally all you had to say, lmao. Have they had a good exclusive anime? In fairness, I guess I've only heard of 2, this one and High Guardian Spice, but damn, so far they're batting 0.

[@Swedester]

They have some decent ones, this and guardian spice are probably the worst of them all

[@arathoras12]

If Netflix can make some pretty amazing originals, I'm sure Crunchyroll can too. After all the animation studios doing them still locate in Japan.

[@youngboyxaj6692]

Tower of god?

[@piedpiper1185]

Batting 0 implies that they just couldn't hit the pitch. Crunchyroll have done the equivalent of swinging the bat, losing their grip on it, and knocking out three people in the stands

[@redstarwarrior85]

@@arathoras12 Most “Netflix Originals” are shows for which they just purchased the rights to bring to market in which they didn’t direct or produce them.

[@lukisprieston477]

Oh boy! It’s always a joy seeing someone else discover the horrors of ex arm, it’s really a perfect storm of garbage

[@forgivezharion6989]

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[@M4r1111]

@YeaMan can't even spell page💀

[@Brendan-kx8iy]

I’m about to start watching, what kind of shitstorm we talkin?

[@orbrat212]

@@forgivezharion6989 yb better? exactly. why be better when im already perfect

[@oozly9291]

@@M4r1111 can't even realize it's a bot

[@sonofhades57]

What makes me feel the worst about this is that the anime adaptation was so godawful that it ended up taking down the original manga's sequel with it.

[@tuesday5457]

it's so god awful i can almost think that it was intentional

[@Noone-fq4zy]

"I found an anime and I'm comfortable calling it the worst one, and I'm not finished with it yet." Me: Oh so he's talking about Ex Arm.

[@dend5151]

Legit what went through my mind

[@maiamcdonald6900]

As an animator, I will 100% be adding "spagetification" into my wheelhouse of terminology

[@hebleh5771]

The real sad thing is that the manga was actually really good and reviewed well too, but because of the flop of the adaptation and the subsequent preconceptions about the manga from anime watchers, the manga's sales tanked really bad and their sequel was canceled.

[@man3son1]

So crunchy roll fucked up so bad, they ruined any chance of the mangas future…. That’s sad.

[@hebleh5771]

@@man3son1 really is. I enjoyed the manga quite a bit too

[@sortedevaras]

@@man3son1 nah the manga had low sales and was going to be cancelled anyways

[@-MankoMan]

About 2D-3D mixing... In aot final season ep 8, there's a brief fight between eren and Reiner. In that fight the attack Titan is 3D and the armoured Titan is 2D. The models even make contact as the attack Titan punches and breaks Reiner's jaw. Another example of good 2D-3D mixing is of course demon Slayer or anything by ufotable. The Jewels hanging off of Tengen's head are animated in 3D, and so are the Obi attached to Daki's back. Ex-arm just looks terrible because the people who worked on this have never worked on anime before. Also, Charlie needs to watch Gibiate next, another Titan of disgusting 3D animation.

[@jeannelily7054]

And bang dream s2-3 has a 2D-3D mixing

[@tlr3191]

Another example of 2D and 3D being blended masterfully is the Rebuild of Evangelion series. The only 3D is done on machines and some shots of the Evas, and the 3D animation itself is well done. especially on the Eva's themselves.

[@thewingfather4325]

Not really an action anime but BEASTARS does an exceptional job of mixing 2d and 3d to the point that I didnt notice it until partway through the second episode

[@Dekkard5]

Karas was another good cg 2d hybrid anime

[@newp0rt]

i mean plenty of anime mix 2D and 3D. one piece has mixing in random bits of 3D for a WHILE and its almost ALWAYS looked good. plenty of mecha anime do it too and it looks fine. even a shitty isekai with a low ass budget called skeleton knight in another world that just finished this past season, mixed so much 3D in and it actually looked solid. ex arm had no excuse for this dogshit.

[@bosunbill9059]

Ironically, a sad fact, the team behind animating this Anime is the same guys that animated Sekiro. But telling a bunch of Fromsoft dudes to animate an anime, is just like asking a Brain Surgeon do a Heart Surgery.

[@lethauntic]

You make it sound like Fromsoft themselves were like, "we'll do it". Either way, you people make anime sound like some kind of alien form of entertainment. The dumpster fire of a show wasn't as horrendous as it was simply because they got people who work on games to do an anime. Your animating skills, 3D or otherwise, don't simply vanish *POOF* when changing projects. It's not 1-to-1, obviously, games are quite different, but such a leap in quality doesn't just happen. It's funny, because I would say that telling a *"brain surgeon to still just do brain surgery"* is closer to this situation than what you said.

[@lartts7483]

@Diavolo Jaegar I wouldn't say bad history, they're just not used to animating 2d "anime" stuff, they usually animate for 3d realistic games, it's like telling an anime studio to make a hyperrealistic AAA game

[@twilightexabyte]

@Diavolo Jaegar Someone can fact check me if I'm wrong but I believe that this is a studio that worked with the guys who made Sekiro but they only helped with things like backgrounds and such. Theyre talented no doubt with how pretty the game looks, but there was so much that was against this series from working out from the start.

[@GiosGoreGrotto]

you dont animate video games you develop them. 🤦‍♂️

[@Goutyard]

@@GiosGoreGrotto part of the development process features animating 🤦

[@toasterfricker7248]

Man this show makes rwbys first season animation look good, i didn’t even think it was possible.

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

And that was 8 years ago too.

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

@Yaboi LilDepresso made by a fairly small studio at the time that just got into 3d animation and it was web series too.

[@JasonDevil06]

RWBY's first season animation is honestly just that good it felt stiff at times and there were awkward moments but it's still nice overall 7/10 for it's time as a 3D series

[@StitchMouthArt]

I'm pretty sure the shipyard in this is the exact same one from rwby's first season too

[@brianmattei7134]

I was gonna say this doesn't look much different than that piece of shit show.

[@Thischannelisdicontinued]

It's actually a shame because the mangas illustration was actually good but the anime turned out to be a fucking 3d dumpster fire

[@sailormoonfan224]

If I were the creator of the manga, I'd be livid. That poor bastard.

[@mercylavigne]

@@sailormoonfan224 Well...The mangaka ended EX-Arm manga after this DISGUSTING anime was released. So yeah, he was pretty mad.

[@couchpotato7909]

@@sailormoonfan224 I hear the author was *extremely livid*

[@GamerBoy870]

@@sailormoonfan224 I thought his Manga was shit because now I feel bad

[@mitchellaneous2804]

As someone who has watched it from start to finish, it really is an amazing train wreck. Really makes you wonder how they looked at their visuals and said to themselves "yeah this is good enough to air".

[@EmoElmo007]

Thats really what I don't get! Crunchyroll has hundreds of anime in their catalog and they even have a "most popular anime" list to browse through when looking for something new. So they know what a good show looks like. So how then did the executives that run the platform screen this abomination, pay for marketing and then after all of that decide it was still presentable for the public? You mean to tell me not one pair of eyes out of the many it had to have crossed before airing didn't think this looked like the equivalent of plaque buildup on 3 week old unbrushed teeth?????

[@shadowsstep6188]

@@EmoElmo007 I mean, clearly they're incompetent since High Guardian Spice exists...

[@mathieulevasseur4082]

Everyone and their mothers knew this anime was going to be a dumpster fire when they released the trailer. Yoshikatsy Kimura, the director of the ex arm anime, said that he was going to redefine the 3D animation space. Please, a Newgrounds animator could of done better.

[@BottleOBile]

He definitely redefined it, by making something so bad that every other new 3d anime after ex arm look way more better

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

Literally every overwatch rule34 3D animation looks better than ex-arm. Hell, I've seen *fnaf sfm ytp videos* that look better You know you've fucked up when your animation looks more uncanny than the creepy 3d creatures in courage the cowardly dog.

[@blank6377]

RWBY looks much better than whatever this is I saw.

[@anthonylevasseur8421]

Aye we have the same last name g

[@fistofwaterpolocarbonation2356]

you mixed up "could've" and "could of"

[@ForestBoyProductions]

I like to imagine that the villain was ACTUALLY voiced by Kiryu. Just another substory where Kiryu gets roped into helping a person in need.

[@complimentbot7015]

There's a new worst show every week at this rate

[@forgivezharion6989]

Ratio + yb better + nobody cares + this you 🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻👶🏽

[@akhimahathir2004]

@@forgivezharion6989 stop

[@vagamer522]

Man the bots are complete aids right now

[@akhimahathir2004]

@YeaMan stop

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

A lot of people really only do it for money, instead of making a good story.

[@JJQ666]

This makes me appreciate all the work that goes into making an anime good

[@muffin2147]

Wow....you said a lot in that comment. Big brain obvious over here.

[@yarddweller]

@@muffin2147 Such a big boy, being able to form your own opinions about a perfectly normal and correct comment.

[@b3byb4t]

It’d probably take more effort to make something this bad

[@e.a.s.9808]

10:09 is no one gonna mention how pause worthy that is 😭😭😭

[@blackmanta3243]

Lol what their saying thought 🤣

[@Furufoo]

The character being 3D while everything else is 2D for some reason gives me the vibe of when my customized character appears in cutscenes, like, something about the way the 3D guy moves just has that distinct "Gordon Freeman during a half life 2 cutscene" vibe

[@shinkinshin001119]

It's so sad and hilarious that Ex-Arms manga isn't even bad. I will always call Ex-Arm a masterpiece. Even the opening is amazing, and the fact that they "declared war against all sci-fi" is crazy.

[@forgivezharion5704]

Ratio + yb better + nobody cares + this you 🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻👶🏽

[@flare0114]

The manga even ended after this anime was made

[@Linosek279]

@@flare0114 That’s fucking painful

[@joeneateyskeety3576]

@@forgivezharion5704 134 comments on this channel….

[@tallesrodrigues5994]

"HELLO HELLO" 👋😀 Good opening indeed.

[@the_destroyers130]

I bet the mangaka of Ex-Arm goes heartbroken the anime when it got released. Ex-Arm shows you how to not use 3D correctly. I bet even the voice actor themselves probably lost their spirit voicing the character on just how astonishingly bad the animation quality really is

[@zenda132]

I randomly found the manga not so long ago and I liked it, then I heard that an upcoming Anime of it would launch and man I was disappointed

[@magentapurpleyap5566]

This man must be freaking depressed.

[@wisksk8550]

This anime is truly a anime of all time

[@forgivezharion6989]

Ratio + yb better + nobody cares + this you 🤓🤓👨🏼‍💻👨🏼‍💻👶🏽

[@akhimahathir2004]

@@forgivezharion6989 stop

[@smoke_monster]

Ratio + yb better + i dont care u baby + this u + 🤓🤓👨‍💻👶🏿👨‍💻

[@dixonbutts3929]

@@forgivezharion6989 who is yb

[@Tw0Dots]

@@dixonbutts3929 Nba Youngboy. The rapper

[@LMR__1]

The thing is, if you actually have the know how, combining 2D and 3D characters is very possible, Beastars did it, characters that are only on screen once or twice were drawn, cause it would be cheaper than modelling, texturing and rigging a 3D model, only for that model to never be shown again for the rest of the show. Where as characters that are shown a lot got full 3D models. But to combine the two you need to design the 3D characters in such a way that they look 2D, which isn't easy, and if you can't do it, just stick entirely to 3D or entirely to 2D, don't combine the two if you can't make the characters' appearance match across the board.

[@cynicat74]

It's done so well that I had no idea some of the Beastar characters were only 2D, until this comment lol

[@RickleVR]

This is almost as bad as Berserk 2016

[@From_A_Diverging_Timeline]

As someone who watched the whole season because of how bad it was, it was actually funny af. No. Berserk 2016 is a masterpiece compared to this garbage.

[@karakappa]

nah cause berserk 2016 was at least based on a really good manga

[@sleepytoast2903]

@@From_A_Diverging_Timeline not really. Berserk is a beautiful manga turned to shit in the anime. Ex arm always had low expectations.

[@From_A_Diverging_Timeline]

@@sleepytoast2903 Ofc. I've read berserk. RIP Miura. 2016 is still shit. the 1995 or 1996 anime is better. (not sure what year the 90's anime came out)

[@Kingnothing7x]

The cutscenes from MegaMan x 4 are more entertaining...ouch

[@kweep1]

The line “he looks like he just escaped from a lobotomy” got me out of sheer absurdity

[@dacarly1330]

I studied animation. They most definitely have bugs. It has to do with the type of rig you have. They can pop and twist the wrong way and you do have to fix them. This is definitely a 3D issue anyway

[@leucome]

Yeah.. There was also some issue with weird joint deformation. There rig were not that good to begin with.

[@rolandtheenigma5475]

Those were decisions made by the showrunners in order to better portray a grounded, realistic setting. You don't know anything about 3D techno-realism.

[@shaldurprime7154]

4:52 I know people joke about recoil never being done properly, but my God this is the worst of the worst. To bend at both the elbow and wrist that far, you'd need to have a complete bitch grip and/or a few severed tendons. The attempted epic slow motion is just added insult to injury

[@kortcobane]

1:39 holy shit I thought I was ready for how bad it was going to be but that is so much worse that what i was expecting. I can say with 200% confidence that the characters In this show sit comfortably into the uncanny valley

[@Carl-ld5jy]

Yeah like it's chilling honestly

[@bleerd8228]

Charlie’s finally confirmed “The General” has sponsored him, now to get great deals on auto insurance

[@armouredjester1622]

How do insurance companies turn a profit? By refusing to pay valid claims Insurance is a scam and a racket imposed upon the people

[@Brindlebrother]

@@armouredjester1622 You're definitely right tho. An insurance company's entire business plan is to sell people on legalese that's supposed to protect them, and then find every possible legal loophole to circumvent that. Every term and definition in an insurance contract is made to be just vague enough or so complexly defined such that they are technically never in the wrong when they reject your claim. Plus, they have the monetary advantage to burn you out with court costs for any dispute. It's definitely a one-sided game. It's a shame that such a self-serving industry is basically an essential in everyday life. With that being said, did you know that 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance?

[@thecaptain6520]

Geico Cavemen fooled people into believing insurance companies are good

[@Bwaaattto]

Amazing to think how the animators watched this beforehand and were like “yeah, this is good enough to broadcast”

[@EpicAwesomeYo]

3:06 "I should help, shouldn't I?" "But I can't interact with them because I'm trapped in this third Dimension! DAME MY CURSE!!!"

[@richcast66]

The 3D character moves too fluidly when idle, while most of the 2D characters are as stiff as statues. It completely removes you from being able to immerse yourself into the world

[@sailormoonfan224]

Every time I see crappy CG, I am reminded just how much work went into Jimmy Neutron. And it always manages to look better in comparison no matter how much time has passed.

[@314rft]

It does help that Jimmy Neutron has a distinct art style that is intentionally supposed to be kind of strange looking (since it really is a STRANGE show).

[@bruhvenant]

@@314rft They really knew how to work with the medium, and understood that if the characters looked too much like real people it would be super uncomfortable and uncanny valley

[@blank6377]

If people are saying Jimmy Neutron looks better than most modern "3D" anime, then you really screwed up big time.

[@sailormoonfan224]

@@bruhvenant exactly! Which is why, in its own way, it still looks good while being dated at the same time. It’s still a good show that people today would willingly watch. Unlike this anime and others like it.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

fun fact, this "anime" flopped so hard that the manga it was based on got canceled. and literally the main profit objective of anime is to sell manga volumes.

[@DeterminedTorres]

which is saddening because the manga afaik was miles better than the “anime” 😬

[@PikachuYoutuber.]

Director: WE NEED 2D STOCK IMAGE CHARACTERS Animator: But sir we can't have 2D animations in 3D animated sho... Director: WHY NOT HAVE BOTH

[@shyguypro9876]

Glad Charlie got around to Ex-Arm, now he needs to watch Garzey’s Wing.

[@Playernumbernull]

I love how they had to have her say "Hurry up and get inside me!" to the guy, during the scene where it's heavily implied they're both stark naked. You stay classy, anime.

[@AC03115]

Live-Action Directors can make some good works in anime if they have the right team. The director for Psycho-Pass had worked in live-action too like the EX-ARM director, but what the Psycho-Pass director had was a good team that could translate his directing techniques to animation

[@DS-xg7hk]

Right, having both an inexperienced team AND director is never a good combo

[@chunyinkwan7756]

I feel sorry for all the voice actors who participated in this anime

[@jadeorbigoso5212]

Fun fact Mikasa and Nezuko voice actor are one of the cast here

[@boualiracim2939]

​@@jadeorbigoso5212😨😨😨😨

[@myhairhasamindofitsown]

I watched this from beggining to end, and what a ride. From puting a director that was specialized on live action, to having an animation crew entrely unfamiliar with the tools needed to make 3D animation, the decision to combine 2D and 3D, the atrocious editing. This is a one of a kind, no other show of such subpar quality had behind a company with such weight as crunchyroll. It was the perfect alineation.

[@kuribro443]

Omg he discovered x arm. This was big news in the anime community. Everyone knew it was gonna be terrible, but the studio who made it hyped it up as the GREATEST SIFI ANIME EVERY MADE. Truly a grade A fuck up by everyone involved.

[@Superfreaky2]

8:30 As soon as i heard that voice i was like is that kiryu from yakuza? And oh dear i looked it up and it is, poor Takaya Kuroda, his god of a voice should not be used for such trash.

[@oVerdrive-pt5uk]

I'm still searching for that old anime I saw when I was a kid . The one about some teenager who becomes a super soldier and goes fighting an alien kid and claps him in a 1v1

[@betrayed117]

Do you have a vauge idea of the decade? That could help narrow it down. Did you watch it on tv? Or was it a vhs tape? I'm willing to help you.

[@oVerdrive-pt5uk]

@@betrayed117 it was like 5 or 6 years ago I think. Watched it on TV in some random cartoon channel . I still remember how 1 or 2 characters looked. It had the almost same art style as akira . So it was some old anime

[@betrayed117]

@@oVerdrive-pt5uk any other defining things? Do mechas have a part in it?

[@oVerdrive-pt5uk]

@@betrayed117 maybe it had mechas in it. I really don't remember

[@oVerdrive-pt5uk]

@@betrayed117 some other stuff I remember was that the final fights of the anime happened in like an laboratory mining site thing Edit: the final fight with the alien happened in a full white space . The alien was also pale and had a hat with white hair

[@tallesrodrigues5994]

I think i'll re-watch some good reactions that i saw of this anime at the time. "He looks so happy in this picture" "Because he was 2D, can't you see?!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@kevinhofman8369]

Where was that from again

[@tallesrodrigues5994]

@@kevinhofman8369 "Ex-Arm is really the best anime", is from RocksterCA, they reacted to all 12 episodes.

[@kochiyamochiya]

The easiest "Spot the main character" game you've ever played

[@sigmen4020]

2:47 This looks like someone's Vtuber avatar reacting to an anime lmao

[@Razertas]

I like the Source Engine, like, body taking fall-damage sound effect at 9:20

[@Ishimqru_Sora]

All the memes and sht this anime got aside, I still felt bad because this adaptation didn't do the manga justice Shinya Komi's illustration on the manga was amazing

[@someloser6041]

Artist and writers were probably ecstatic when someone licensed it for anime. Sucks that it got such a shitty animation

[@GageMorrison-v5h]

Spaghettification is now a word in my vocabulary, thank you.

[@teodellorcio4590]

Bruh no joke, spaghettification is a phenomenon that causes matter to stretch when it falls under the gravitational pull of a black hole. I don’t know what scientist was snorting Scooby snacks while naming phenomenons of theoretical science but here we are!

[@rayquazzenron3853]

Gotta love how Charlie perfectly emulates the grunts without even changing the expression on his face

[@camobeasto6909]

This takes “my grandma could run faster than you” to “my grandma could animate better than you”

[@irben]

The part where the main character looks at his arm after all those fight scenes and says "So this is what my normal arm looks like... my ex-arm" was so beautifully written. 10/10 anime

[@aguywearingonlyshorts]

This is the best anime to watch with friends while being absolutely shitfaced. -10/10, would recommend

[@akhimahathir2004]

@YeaMan stop

[@joeneateyskeety3576]

@YeaMan 1k plus comments

[@cheesy_potato9243]

3:14 the assaulter on the right is floating lmao

[@Lind_Bl]

4:17 Ah, the infamous : "I'm the hero and my life sucks, but no worries, I'm just gonna go real quick get hit by a car to find myself stuck in an other dimension to be relevant or smth". Most of the times this scene instantly indicates how bad the scenario's gonna be 😅

[@stephanandersen8439]

Moistcritical when my parents walk in: 9:35

[@hugmuun]

I can't believe that they hired the guy that voices kiryu from the yakuza games to be the bad guy In this but because they didn't direct him he doesn't know what to do really and just kinda grunts and reads the lines

[@breaddefenderthe9th231]

Anime plot for those who are interested: *We have a new technology that lets people control this war machine of a robot and we gave it to this highschool student who got hit by a truck 16 years ago....it would certainly not back fire* ... sadly....it didn't

[@IIIOldSchooLIII]

Oh my god, that sequence at 4:51 is straight-up shoot-for-shoot taken from Kingsman: The Secret Service. The beginning of the fight between Eggsy and Gazelle near the end of the movie. Holy shit, lmfao.

[@samuelthanopoulos9799]

I’ve spent the past 5 minutes trying to find someone who’s noticed this as well, no one else has noticed!!

[@fakeomen4172]

You know times are tough when even truck-kun has to take up job in a b-grade Anime

[@pinecone3498]

b-grade is being kind

[@fakeomen4172]

@@pinecone3498 I'm just having a good day but a correct grade for this animation would be, take the lowest grade make it do drugs, destroy it's life and stoop it to the lowest dredges of the bottom of the barrel and that still would a generous grade for this abomination

[@shubashuba9209]

The worst part is that it doesn't even fall into the category of "it's so bad, it's good". There's no entertainment value and it's just painful to watch.

[@mathsasian]

the truck park had me laughing so hard, along with Charlie's vocabulary

[@MK-om5pn]

Dude the way you just drag the animation is too great. 😭

[@alexandro7552]

Damn, here 10:56 you can see and feel charlie's pain when he realizes the amount of shit he will have to go through. Dont know if to laugh or feel bad...

[@Stephhii7]

At first I thought, 'He's just being over critical.' But after throwing up multiple times in my mouth I'm very sorry for doubting you Charlie.

[@dopesickdog]

over critikal?

[@vincentmanuella8806]

Charlie’s recreation of the fight sound effects were terrifyingly accurate

[@supasketchy212]

I vividly remember reading a little synopsis of the plot and thinking to myself, “this seems semi-interesting” so I decided to give it a watch and holy shit I did a real un-ironic spit take when I saw the animation. I didn’t know if this was the show or some shit bowling animation. Never watched past episode 1 but believe me, this shit is T E R R I B L E

[@spy9553]

me before the video: how could he hate an anime if he only watched the first episode? me after the video: ah.

[@RADZIO895]

2:40 this looks like a vtuber reacting to some anime

[@doodlehobbo8697]

3:58 The getting hit by a truck trope is somehow done much more lazier than a Isekai anime.

[@thewiseone2717]

Just from the thumbnail I immediately knew this was ex-arm, and as someone who saw the anime and the manga, I can confirm the anime is truly a masterful work of art that has no flaws whatsoever