CATDOLL: The most famous animation collapse incident in history, an animation that even mothers can't recognize

Due to production cycles, budgets, and action performance, animations may have problems such as disproportion, simplified scenes, and deformed characters. The severity of these problems is beyond the audience's acceptance, which is called "animation collapse". Animation collapse is particularly common in TV animations. This time, we will briefly introduce those famous TV animation collapses.

1. GUN

"April 2006 wasn't just about Haruhi Suzumiya, it also had Gundao."

The full name is "Musashi -Gun Dao-". It was broadcasted in 2006. It was said that it took twelve years to conceive and produce, but the quality of the finished product was far inferior to the works of twenty years ago. Therefore, it was ridiculed by the audience as "Showa 81" and "self-made animation"; it won the "2006 Shit Animation Award" championship, and since then it has been seen in the "History's Shitest Animation Selection".

It's been broken since OP.

The mysterious disappearance of the character's facial features

The action is so stiff that it makes people doubt whether they are watching the homework of a FLASH beginner: such a large shotgun is directly rotated on a finger like a windmill

The "shooting" action just repeats the muzzle flash effect three times; the monsters that are hit never react.

The "Dance of the Sages" in the third episode has become the most famous segment of the animation due to its many ambiguous movements and weird fights:

The monk is not imitating Lanlanlu

Not ballroom dancing.

He is performing the "Sage's Dance"!

Since the degree of collapse is beyond imagination, this animation quickly became an excellent spoof material as soon as it was broadcast. Some people even set up a website to collect and study the fan works of "GUN Road".

2. The events of Gurren Lagann episode 4

"Gurren Lagann Toppa", which maintained excellent quality in the first three episodes, suddenly had animation problems in the fourth episode. The problem was so serious that it was even compared to "GUN Road" aired the previous year.

The cause of the collapse was pointed out by angry otakus as "supervisor Hiroyuki Imaishi's deliberate connivance of the animation supervisor"; the inappropriate remarks made by Akai Takami, the then director of GAINAX, in response to audience criticism added fuel to the fire of the collapse incident, and GAINAX had to make a public apology afterwards.

If you rewatch it, you'll find that the degree of collapse is not as serious as rumored, and the smoothness of the action is not affected too much. The problem is that there are too many facial close-ups in this episode, and all you see are Hiyori's faces. It's understandable that the audience, whose appetites have been whetted by the first three episodes, cannot accept it for a while.

* Spin-off: Episode 4 of "Double Slash Girl"

After leaving GAINAX, Hiroyuki Imaishi founded TRIGGER with his team. In the company's first TV animation "Double Slash Girl", he also played the "four-episode collapse" stalk:

3. Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode 200

The legendary animation collapse episode. The animation supervisor Inoue Yoshikatsu, a leader in animation collapse, was awarded the title of "Great Evil God" for his unique character distortion.

The characters who suffered the most were Kaiba Seto and Bakura. In episode 200, Kaiba's president's "college handsome" chin was unforgettable to the audience:

After that, "Super Sharp Angle AGO (Chin) President" became the most popular "Yu-Gi-Oh" spoof material among NICO craftsmen after "AB President".

4. Gundam Seed Destiny/Iron Blood Orphans

There is no need to explain the misuse of various dual-purpose cards and the messy character drawings in the later stages of the game:

...Who are you all?

Iron-Blooded Orphans has been criticized for its unstable animation, but a scene in the fourth episode slightly softened the criticism:

Because Atla's painting style was too weird and had a kind of stick-drawn mischievous feeling, this one-second-long collapse became a spoof material, and soon there was a series of GIF images.

5. "Five-word Temple"

One of the famous animation failures. In addition to the cigarettes that disappeared due to self-regulation and the explosives that spontaneously combusted clockwise, the TV animation of "Katekyo Hitman Reborn" also has a series of animation failures that are unbearable to watch, among which the "Gohua Temple" incident can be called a legend in the history of animation failures.

When I first watched the fifth episode, the audience who originally had low expectations for the animation had no idea what they were going to face next: in just over ten minutes, the production team made all the main characters appear one after another, and the collapse was renewed. You thought the next scene would not collapse again, but it still collapsed in the next scene; you thought it would not collapse more ugly, but you didn’t even know how to write the word "ugly"; an episode was almost over, and you thought "Oh my God, this episode can't collapse again!", but it continued to collapse until the preview of the next episode.

Gokudera is particularly famous for his outstanding performance among the monster characters in the fifth episode. It is said that the pronunciation of "Gowadera" is similar to Gokudera, and it is used to refer to Gokudera Hayato, whose painting skills are broken. Other extensions include "Monster Sparrow", "Bad Book", "Cabbage Head", etc.

6. Green Cabbage

“The memories fade, the cabbages remain.”

The yellow-green unidentified spherical object that appeared in the third episode of "The Color of Glass Before the Night Rising" was later confirmed to be just a cabbage.

For the audience who were attracted by the beautiful scenes in the first episode and the OP, such a degree of collapse in the third episode was too big a gap, so a large number of related spoofs appeared, and there was even an animation that specifically made fun of this scene:

In NICO barrage, the symbol "●" that resembles this green sphere specifically refers to the collapse of the painting.

7. Blood of the Guilty Dog

Due to internal disagreements within the production team (mainly between the supervisor and the animation team), two animation supervisors left and had to temporarily recruit people to make up the numbers. As a result, the "unfinished OP" rarely seen in animation broadcasts appeared:

Episode 1 broadcast screen

The second episode after the correction

To be honest, I have never seen a man's nipples painted so extravagantly. I really want to tear them off.

The characters are generally broken, and are described as "Five-word temples everywhere"

Even people who haven't played the original game couldn't help but complain. How would those fans who love the original and have high expectations for the animation feel when they see such a tragic situation... I can't bear to think about it.

8. Naruto Episode 387

In a long animation like Naruto that is full of battle scenes, there are many such collapses that can be appreciated by pausing at will:

However, the "Honkai Impact 3rd" which has been recorded in the history of animation, with evaluations hovering between the two extremes of god-like and shitty, and is still being studied today, only has 387 episodes.

The rocks that shattered into standard cubes, the appearance of the Nine-Tails that could be described as mental pollution, Pain's retractable face, and the emotional expressions that seemed "completely OOC" to supporters of the original work were the most criticized parts of this episode.

Although the level of collapse is unprecedented, the smoothness gained from it is unprecedented. It is worth mentioning that the nearly 10,000 animations of the battle between Pain and the others were all produced entirely with Adobe Flash, of which more than 5,000 were completed by Yamashita Seigo alone. When asked about the drawing of episode 387, he said: "I hope that those animation fans can have a deeper understanding of the hard work of the animators. Although there is a bit of indifference and hard work, what I really want to convey is the 'down-to-earth sense of despair'."