amberalvia Review of Astro Boy

Astro Boy (1963–1965)

Bad Japanese animation but may not be the best

[3/10 · 8 November 2020]

I know of you liked the animated series from Japan, but let me tell you what's wrong with this series: First things first, it has to be the animation, before I get into it, let me tell you about the 12 principles of animation, you know that, all animated shorts, film and television series use the 12 principles of animation, all of them have full animation and make the animation fluid, natural and very believable, this series however doesn't, due to cutting cost and everything, the animation has very poor quality, even for television standards, If clutch cargo was bad enough, then this animation is even bad, I mean, animation is just messed up, the movements aren't smooth, it's really choppy, it's very jerky and the frames stay still instead having actual fluid animation whatsoever, the animators behind this series just miss every frame their animating and it's like did it with their eyes closed. top of all, they didn't even bother do the in-betweens or any key poses in which resulting to very jerky and choppy animation, it only has little of actual animation, but it STILL has very jerky and choppy animation, and thus they didn't even animate on twos or threes to due to having little to no actual animation, all on all the animation of this show has very jerky and choppy movements the animators miss a frame and not the in-betweens, the dialogue in the show is laughable, I mean they just talk so fast , sometimes they just talk over the characters and they didn't bother to slow down, but they do slow down, the lip sync is bad, in scenes the character doesn't move their mouth when talking and the character's mouths move so oddly when they're talking, at least the art style is okay and the backgrounds are nice, the characters in this are okay but they just get one-dimensional, at least in the 1980 and 2003 version had more character, but in this they don't act in character, there are scenes they go so fast , they not even time properly, that goes for the fight scenes in which they just still pictures with out any actual animation, some of the animation goes like loop like usual and sometimes the cels get reused in some episodes, Don't get me wrong, I mean there's nothing controversial in the show, but just the animation and the aspects of the series, I know this isn't Disney but the animation may not be the best. I like the 1980 and 2003 versions because they have actual animation, anime has been improved through the years, the animation got fuller and better and start animating on threes, I've seen decently made animated TV series from The US Europe, Hanna-Barbera shows from the 60's and 70's (because the animation is better), Commercials, TV specials and everything that are better than this, It's an okay series, but the animation is unintentionally bad but funny to watch.