If the show was at least 24 episodes and had a higher production budget like jjk or csm it would’ve lived up to everyone’s expectations cause the manga is genuinely incredible.
@@Narutoislife12couldn’t agree more, however what non manga readers don’t understand about CSM is that the first 12 eps was just a prologue, it doesn’t pop off until season 2
@@Infinite_exhilaration Yeah, I remember all hype about Chainsaw Man when the anime was announced from manga readers talking about how insane it was gonna be. With them obviously assuming it would be 24 episodes like JJK was, but when the 12 ep announcement came out a lot of manga readers went like: "ah shit, hope we didn't overhype it".
As someone who hasn’t read the manga and had no expectations coming in, this was one of the top shows this season for me. I absolutely loved this show from episode 1, I didn’t notice pacing issues, just a cool MC, a solid plot, amazing fights and epic animations, maybe its because I had no prior knowledge on Hell’s Paradise, but for me it was easily a 9.5/10.
The pacing was killing this show for me. It's either too fast or too slow, it just feels so weird. I like a lot of stuff about it but the pacing is just so bad that it's sapping my enjoyment. I'm glad that you found enjoyment in it though!
I have to admit as a manga reader, the pacing for the show is absolutely all over the place, I think the animation, voice acting, soundtrack, and overall delivery was wonderful but my god the pacing does hurt the show quite a bit. With any luck now that most of the intros and world building are done with, they can slow the show down a bit cause there are some incredible fights and story moments on the horizon for season 2
@@sulemiofan34sure, but there was an important part of a chapter skipped i forgot which one tho. So maybe start the manga around like where ep 11 left off
Without giving spoilers, I think one of the things that really deserves more compliments is the artistic direction of the show. The island on which the season takes place is absolutely beautiful. It's haunting, strange, foreboding, intriguing, and it weaves together different religious and philosophical concepts in a really fascinating way. It seemed like a truly alien place and really made me want to know more about it.
@@dohpam1ne I do, it was leagues better than how the anime portrays almost everything imo, no need to be so hostile for a rhetorical statement that didn't even need to be answered lol
I don’t care what anybody says, or me the animation was acceptable and for me this was different, I mean sending off criminals to a unknown mythical island, where they have to retrieve a elixir to be not killed for what they’ve done, in which results in goals to what they are living for.
The reason they were able to use the new power system so quickly was that they were already using a lesser version of it in their ninjitsu. They were only missing that final piece of the puzzle, achieving true balance and control of your emotions.
TBF the characters learning the Tao abilities really fast had a written excuse. Ninjas are like 1-5% who survived trianing of their village who obtained superhuman abilities and already use tao subconsciously, so it was easy for them to adapt to using it conciously. As for the blind guy, yeah he's blind and learned it that way, and only Sagari is the odd one out being able to adapt to tao very quickly in terms of feeling it, her sword technique uses tao already without her realizing it.
Charlie hit the nail on the head, people, specifically the new anime watchers, are so spoiled for good animated anime because the level of consistency of good anime has never been higher, people like me got a mediocre animated naruto eps once every few weeks when it would air on toonami and we would praise it like the second coming of Jesus Christ, but now so many new shows have got tier animation and as soon as we get a show that doesn’t have that god tier animation people dunk on it even tho it’s still really good just maybe not the best in the medium
That's hella true, I think a generation of even the early 2010's is more used to worse animation so people tend to be less critical, while alot of the new watchers who are essentially introduced to amazing animation from the start, will jeer at a slightly less amazing production. Look at Black Clover fans, they were happy to be finally called 'carried by animation' after years of what was not the most stellar production from Pierrot, but still appreciated the effort made on some scenes despite bad conditions. I just think it's immaturity of expectations of being introduced to a new medium, like finding out about a band through their best song but finding out you don't like the other songs as much and being disappointed.
To be fair with the power system it’s implied that people like Gabimaru already had tao techniques relating to his ninja training already having experience with this new force just not knowing it existed until now
I really enjoyed Season 1. I havent read the manga at all, so I was always excited every week to see the new episode. Overall I really enjoy most of the characters especially Gabimaru, his motivation to get the immortality juice really resonates with me. I give it an 8.5/10, some flaws but fun overall
I didn't have an issue with the exploration of Tao because the people we saw pick it up quickly were practically superhuman to begin with, so it made sense that they were accidentally tapping into it and most of them were directly told how to get better by a user of it. But I understand people thinking it came too quickly, given power ups in previous anime/manga. That said, I think anime will continue down the road of quick power ups given the attention span of future anime/manga readers.
I still didn't complete the show but i agree people are just spoiled about the animation. I'm planning to complete this , i hope they do the second season well
Not liking animation isn't being spoiled lol. That just sounds like someone who's angry someone didn't like the same thing. It was inconsistent, but good enough (for me) to watch. If they didn't like it, that's fine too. It's their opinion, ppl calling high standards spoiled just seems spoiled/whiny in of itself to me.
@@akira8393 my friend wouldn't shutup on how mappa ruined the anime. He has only seen 3 anime Your name, Ds,JJK. He spends a lot of time in twitter as well so i have to put up with that too
I was looking for a review like this. It articulates what my thoughts have been on this show: straightforward yet a bit mysterious, fast yet a bit slow sometimes, amazing yet lukewarm at some moments.
The reason the power is master quickly is because some of those characters already have a grasp of it, they just don’t know what it was called and they don’t put much thought behind it until they heard about it. Shion, gabimaru, and maybe sagiri are prime examples of it.
The anime community is insanely fickle. It drives me insane at times when people within the community basically label 98% of anime as "garbage." I don't understand why people like that are even fans of anime, if they hate so much of it. Regardless, good review Charlie. I agree with you on a lot of the points brought up. I definitely enjoyed the manga more, at least to the point they've animated so far.
For me it wasn’t so much the animation being trash as the inconsistency in quality. Overall it worked fine but some characters looked really weird and wonky at times. Especially when they drew them in side profiles. I thought I was looking at a badly drawn meme sometimes. Took me out off the story. It didn’t do the art in the manga justice as it does in some anime, nor did it improve upon it as in AoT.
I read hells paradise about 2 to 3 years ago and when it got announced around the time I finished reading it and now that we’ve finally have the anime I just don’t want to watch not because I think it’ll be bad in anyway but it just had such a strong connection and many incredible memories it just scares me to see it “re-enacted” not how I envisioned my own pacing with the series.
The crazy details I love about Tao was the consistent foreshadowing before the genuine reveal. The first reveal of Tao was back when Rokutora shattered Eizen’s blade and turned his skull inside out, but we obviously wouldn’t know that yet. Then there’s Shion who didn’t know the official name for Tao but saw them as “waves” covering every organism. Then there’s Sagiri with her deep breathing slashes and her “Middle Route” solutions, which directly tied to “Tao is weak and strong.” Subtle but appreciated Side note I really love the character designs too. Even the characters you don’t expect to die actually have memorable designs
I think they dropped the ball really hard with how Tao is introduced personally. They set up and foreshadowed it really well, but the actual reveal of how the power system works was just an exposition dump where a couple characters just look at the camera and explain it. They had all the pieces and set up there to organically reveal it and let the protagonists discover it naturally, but then they just explain it in the most boring, uninspired way possible.
@@TheBackwardsLegsMan Yeah that's a fair criticism. Expo dumping was one of my top 2 problems with Hell's Paradise which is why the manga is better. They will explain the rest in S2, but I agree it could've been handled better rather than mostly antagonists explaining.
Reading the manga as for pacing it was pretty good. The manga did drag quite a bit and went way to depth for some things so the anime cut and sped through some of it. The power system was explained kinda poorly but its suppose to be tough bwcause its about understanding yourself. I think it did a good job to set up more. Animation especially the tensen fight is so good.
I do agree pretty much 100% with Charlie minus 1 thing. The way the main characters adapt to the fighting style doesn't feel so rushed to me. They explain that the techniques they use already are lesser forms of the same style they're going up against. And once the realization hits they are able to adapt quite quickly. So it did make sense I'm my eyes. But overall this is a great review of the first season. I also really enjoyed the art style with the flowers and the color.
My biggest critique was they had back to back episodes with HUGE exposition dumps on the lore to pretty much explain everything. And it was literally an information overload because going forward, we had to just digest everything and apply that to all the stuff that was upcoming.
I’m really hoping they nail season 2 cus that’s when we get a huge high-staked battle arc with multiple factors affecting the mission and the main cast all at once
The pacing problem is the exact problem I had with Blue Lock and it was even worsen then. In the anime they had to voice all the inner monologues which take time but in the manga you just rush past it. But no one complained about that.
fr lol i’ve learned to appreciate weirdly styled anime and jus realizing every anime isn’t going to be animated or drawn the same. it grows on u over time or u jus realize ur too old to not wanna try new things
The character death Charlie mentioned is supposed to be felt later on anyway so that was intentional.Also,in the manga the only low in the story is the final fight and 1-2 moments before that so i would definitely not call it overhyped.
Its a little rough in the edges but the animation and story is really nice. Cmon Mappa, Season 2 cam be so much fire and I know you guys can pull it off and Charles I love these 2nd channel moist meters
i thought the last character death was touching regardless of how long it took Yuzuriha is everything that he wasn't and wish he was brave enough to be and i think that resonates with alot of ppl that just live how they are expected to live
you should do lesser moist meters on this channel for stuff thats old and mainly untalked about. stuff that you just stumbled across and want to share your thoughts on. or alternatively, you could use the penguinz0 channel to do your main moist meters and do the usual no spoilers and have this channels moist meters be only on the spoiler stuff you left out of the other because theres a lot of stuff in movies that are major spoilers that i want to hear your thoughts on. much love charlie! i listen to your stuff and now tuv's at work every day as like a podcast and of course the podcast itself!
I don’t care what anybody says, or me the animation was acceptable and for me this was different, I mean sending off criminals to a unknown mythical island, where they have to retrieve a elixir to be not killed for what they’ve done, in which results in goals to what they are living for.
The reason I shit on it for the animation is PRECISELY because it was Mappa that animated the show. As you said, we've seen Mappa absolutely smash it out of the park with amazing animation, and CSM has one of the most cinematically beautiful adaptations I've ever seen, which is why it's THAT much more grating to see them blatantly care less about Hell's Paradise. If one of the random seasonal isekai had animation like Hell's Paradise, I would be praising it to the high heavens for godly animation. But this was HELL'S PARADISE, a manga often compared with the likes of JJK and CSM, even animated by the same studio! There is absolutely no justifiable reason for it to NOT be on the same level as JJK and CSM, apart from Mappa taking on an adaptation they weren't willing or capable of adapting properly. That's why I shit on it, because MAPPA obviously took the job of animating it only as an easy cash grab, and not because they actually wanted to.
Finally, jesus decides to step up for this anime, i personally love the series, im so excited for the series and finished the manga in a mere 3 days, i fall in love with the characters both with their stories and their motivations, and i like how they end it, i do hope they deliver some spinoffs to the anime, since it is a really short series, hells paradise universe itself is a good world to explore, i hope the author can dig deeper to this, yes thats all from me
I actually don’t mind the pacing that much, it makes sense too considering the manga is only around like 130 chapters. For comparison, Demon Slayer is a little over 200 chapters. JJK is currently in the 220s and still ongoing while something like Bleach has around 700 chapters.
I had really fun with this one, the religious themes and the set-up that basically death-row candidates search for something with their executioners is awesome. Its become almost a trend now to bitch about the animation lol I had no problems with it.
I remember recently I saw people complaining about the animation, which confused me a lot. Thought it looked amazing. This really needed to be a two cour season, it didn't really have a satisfying ending point like Chainsaw Man
if anything they are saving budget for all the crazy shit at the end. the end to hells paradise will most likely be top tier animation because of all the shit going on
I think you really hit the nail on its with it being overhated and people being spoiled. It's not a bad show by any means, it's just underwhelming and paled in comparison to action/adventure/shounen shows in recent years. The animation wasn't bad, the action wasn't bad and the story and world building wasn't bad. Put it up against Attack on Titan or JJK and 99.999% of shows will look bad in comparison.
I thought the ending was abrupt as well. Though, I’m unbothered because knowing there’s more makes me think it was always meant to be 24-26 episodes and maybe was a split cour. 2 seasons must’ve been green-lit around the same time. I guess one where someone insists labeling s1 and s2. I’m not sure how these get determined. I don’t mind where it leaves off at the moment. I loved everything about it!
I never go into shows with high expectations, and because of that I can still enjoy “hyped” anime like this one. I really enjoyed this show for what it was. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it wasn’t trash either. A solid 8 out of 10. Heck I didn’t even have issues with the pacing. The show felt fast paced and the speed at which characters were dying definitely added the sense that no one is safe. Except for maybe the main duo. One thing I will say is that I am NEVER going to remember character names in this show! That’s the one issue I have with it’s speed. If they aren’t Gabimaru, their name is not sticking in my brain.
Yeah I disagree with the pacing, unless the argument is that characters that are going to be massively important later down the line shouldn’t get screen time. The two brothers have about 1.5 episodes to them all themselves and add really nothing to the story, but they are obviously going to be massive characters in the upcoming season. They needed to be fully introduced and fleshed out.
I think people wrote the animation off because the other 2 "dark trio shonen" animes which were animated by mappa were stellar in animation and this one was expected to be on that level but clearly wasn't However I still believe the animation is great and doesnt take away from the season
It's not on Demon Slayer level animation but I still loved it and the lack of refinement doesn't detract from it at all. Charlie still needs to Moist Meter Bleach TYBW.
@@rabiddoge833 Well he needs to. It's ba! The series has evolved to a whole nother level. Anyone who liked all the previous Bleach eps will love the improvements they've made in TYBW.
Very Solid Breakdown, I'd say the animation is pretty decent and its just that we've been spoiled, through series like demon slayer, tybw, jujutsu kaisen, chainsaw man etc all such high level animation that when you lower it from the peak of the peak people say its ass. The Pacing is my main problem with the season tho, in the manga it is extremely well paced with good explanations of everything but not too much, it feels way more natural even more than other manga to anime comparisons, the anime was condensing roughly 4 chapters per episode, which is so fast for this type of show which requires a bit more explanation, the manga is probably top 5 shonen oat for me so it is a bit sad seeing the pacing degraded by that much. Really wish they lengthened it to 24 episodes that was they didnt condense literally 64 chapters into 13 episodes Also I forgot to mention that the animation despite being decent will most likely be far better in season 2 and was lowered in quality from normal standard mainly due to producing jjk season 2 at the same time, along with other series, but jjk was the main factor, so if you did hate the animation but like the story season 2 will likely have better animation
In the manga the first character that dies is really powerful but I liked it because that set the stakes the people who last the longest to survive are necessarily more powerful but the craziest ones and what I understood of the power is that some people already had a bit of grasp of it they just didn't know what it was but comprehension is more effective than proficiency in the case of this power system. It still is a little bit shallow but the series is not that long the animation not being on par with other shows can be due to budget since it doesn't have the same popularity as jujutsu Kaisen and Kimetsu
i read the manga, its the exact same, even in master the ''new power'', which also isnt a new power, humans already knew how to use it but they just called it in a different way like ''chakra'' so they just cant use it as well as the tensen. its just a really fast phased manga and anime which in my openion work really well as manga-anime comparison.
I really think the anime did a disservice to the manga, there was something so special about the art that made it so special and captivating when you read Hells Paradise, and the way they choreographed the fights it just isn’t captured in the anime, it takes the manga material from like a nine out of 10 to a seven out of 10, I just really wish they could give it the chainsaw man/jujutsu Kaisen treatment, because in my opinion, it deserves it so much
I agree with you! I mean the animation was fine overall, but it was really inconsistent in its quality. Sometimes the characters looked unbelievable bad, and it saddens me when the original artwork was so good.
Bro dropped the alt account moist meter
Truly a Sound Of Freedom of our time
@@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395thanks man
I’m glad he’s been uploading stuff like this on the alt. The bots haven’t found this account yet so it’s actually not cancer reading comments
The ramped up Charlie content has been awesome. Not sure that he can sustain this long term but it's been amazing.
@@DJReflectgotta love the extra content
If the show was at least 24 episodes and had a higher production budget like jjk or csm it would’ve lived up to everyone’s expectations cause the manga is genuinely incredible.
csm and hell's paradise both suffered due to 12 episodes
@@Narutoislife12couldn’t agree more, however what non manga readers don’t understand about CSM is that the first 12 eps was just a prologue, it doesn’t pop off until season 2
@@Infinite_exhilaration Yeah, I remember all hype about Chainsaw Man when the anime was announced from manga readers talking about how insane it was gonna be. With them obviously assuming it would be 24 episodes like JJK was, but when the 12 ep announcement came out a lot of manga readers went like: "ah shit, hope we didn't overhype it".
Is the pacing better? Like, if the anime is a 75%, what would you give the manga?
Nothing to do with budget lol
As someone who hasn’t read the manga and had no expectations coming in, this was one of the top shows this season for me. I absolutely loved this show from episode 1, I didn’t notice pacing issues, just a cool MC, a solid plot, amazing fights and epic animations, maybe its because I had no prior knowledge on Hell’s Paradise, but for me it was easily a 9.5/10.
I completely agree. I feel the exact same way as never read the manga
Couldn't agree more
The pacing was killing this show for me. It's either too fast or too slow, it just feels so weird. I like a lot of stuff about it but the pacing is just so bad that it's sapping my enjoyment. I'm glad that you found enjoyment in it though!
exactly how i felt about it, just heard it was a great manga so i figured ill give it a watch
same
Tao was learned quickly because all the characters have used it for most of their life, it just wasn't called Tao where they came from
i love this manga so much, a shame the pacing is rough in the anime, but i’m glad it still is doing fairly well
the anime seems pretty standard for mappa
The manga is eh
@@N.I.C21 Mappa most of the time has spot on pacing, even adding anime exclusive moments to expand on existing material like in JJK and Chainsaw Man
@dankerbooper741 this anime was standard Mappa. yall complaining for no reason. AOT JJK AND CSM has the same lvl of quality as this . yall crazy 😂😂😂😂
@@Zharrgrim I agree so much with this. Especially the ending arc was underwhelming.
I have to admit as a manga reader, the pacing for the show is absolutely all over the place, I think the animation, voice acting, soundtrack, and overall delivery was wonderful but my god the pacing does hurt the show quite a bit. With any luck now that most of the intros and world building are done with, they can slow the show down a bit cause there are some incredible fights and story moments on the horizon for season 2
underrated comment. Was about to start this!
Is it a good enough adaptation for me to segway right into the manga where it left off?
@@sulemiofan34sure, but there was an important part of a chapter skipped i forgot which one tho. So maybe start the manga around like where ep 11 left off
Stop comparing to manga!!! This is anime. Not manga
@@gamer4ever838 well i mean its hard not to when its literally the source for whats being animated, so i dont get where ur coming from when u say that
Without giving spoilers, I think one of the things that really deserves more compliments is the artistic direction of the show. The island on which the season takes place is absolutely beautiful. It's haunting, strange, foreboding, intriguing, and it weaves together different religious and philosophical concepts in a really fascinating way. It seemed like a truly alien place and really made me want to know more about it.
it looks significantly better in the manga
@@junoperberry nobody cares that you read the manga
@@dohpam1ne I do, it was leagues better than how the anime portrays almost everything imo, no need to be so hostile for a rhetorical statement that didn't even need to be answered lol
I don’t care what anybody says, or me the animation was acceptable and for me this was different, I mean sending off criminals to a unknown mythical island, where they have to retrieve a elixir to be not killed for what they’ve done, in which results in goals to what they are living for.
This was a blessing for us Moist Clips enjoyers
The reason they were able to use the new power system so quickly was that they were already using a lesser version of it in their ninjitsu. They were only missing that final piece of the puzzle, achieving true balance and control of your emotions.
It was all revealed like why gabi was almost immortal in the first episode which is confusing at first but then it started to make sense
This anime deserves so much better, production issues were plaguing the show from day one and it never got better
I hate anime. Sssniperwolf likes it. Ishowspeed likes it. But it's trash.
@@WilliamLucas-hy8mx bot alert
@@WilliamLucas-hy8mx Imagine letting your opinions be dictated by e-celebs lmao
that was the sacrificial lamb for mappa, shame but predictable
@@user-gw4kl8ft9uHis opinion is not dictated because he said that his opinion is the opposite of the celebrities
TBF the characters learning the Tao abilities really fast had a written excuse. Ninjas are like 1-5% who survived trianing of their village who obtained superhuman abilities and already use tao subconsciously, so it was easy for them to adapt to using it conciously. As for the blind guy, yeah he's blind and learned it that way, and only Sagari is the odd one out being able to adapt to tao very quickly in terms of feeling it, her sword technique uses tao already without her realizing it.
Charlie hit the nail on the head, people, specifically the new anime watchers, are so spoiled for good animated anime because the level of consistency of good anime has never been higher, people like me got a mediocre animated naruto eps once every few weeks when it would air on toonami and we would praise it like the second coming of Jesus Christ, but now so many new shows have got tier animation and as soon as we get a show that doesn’t have that god tier animation people dunk on it even tho it’s still really good just maybe not the best in the medium
I was genuinely confused when people said Attack on Titan had bad CGI.
@@hido...it has bad CGI, they are right
@@hido...You must be stupid then because the cgi was awful.
i meant can you blame them tho? a lot of anime now have some decent animation
That's hella true, I think a generation of even the early 2010's is more used to worse animation so people tend to be less critical, while alot of the new watchers who are essentially introduced to amazing animation from the start, will jeer at a slightly less amazing production. Look at Black Clover fans, they were happy to be finally called 'carried by animation' after years of what was not the most stellar production from Pierrot, but still appreciated the effort made on some scenes despite bad conditions. I just think it's immaturity of expectations of being introduced to a new medium, like finding out about a band through their best song but finding out you don't like the other songs as much and being disappointed.
To be fair with the power system it’s implied that people like Gabimaru already had tao techniques relating to his ninja training already having experience with this new force just not knowing it existed until now
Ufotable has officially runied animation expectations since Tengen vs Gyutaro. Now everyone wants that level of animation for every other anime😂
Always on point 100% hopefully season 2 gets more episodes and funding maybe
I really enjoyed Season 1. I havent read the manga at all, so I was always excited every week to see the new episode. Overall I really enjoy most of the characters especially Gabimaru, his motivation to get the immortality juice really resonates with me. I give it an 8.5/10, some flaws but fun overall
I read the manga and the show is still top of my list this year. Absolutely amazing.
I didn't have an issue with the exploration of Tao because the people we saw pick it up quickly were practically superhuman to begin with, so it made sense that they were accidentally tapping into it and most of them were directly told how to get better by a user of it. But I understand people thinking it came too quickly, given power ups in previous anime/manga. That said, I think anime will continue down the road of quick power ups given the attention span of future anime/manga readers.
I still didn't complete the show but i agree people are just spoiled about the animation. I'm planning to complete this , i hope they do the second season well
or their eyes have rotten so bad
Not liking animation isn't being spoiled lol. That just sounds like someone who's angry someone didn't like the same thing.
It was inconsistent, but good enough (for me) to watch.
If they didn't like it, that's fine too. It's their opinion, ppl calling high standards spoiled just seems spoiled/whiny in of itself to me.
@@akira8393 my friend wouldn't shutup on how mappa ruined the anime. He has only seen 3 anime Your name, Ds,JJK. He spends a lot of time in twitter as well so i have to put up with that too
@@CNORTHJ knowing he's active on twitter is already a sign
@@akira8393 idk if it's his actual opinion or taking everything from twitter but man he just ruins my interest to watch something.
I was looking for a review like this. It articulates what my thoughts have been on this show: straightforward yet a bit mysterious, fast yet a bit slow sometimes, amazing yet lukewarm at some moments.
Actually my favorite anime of this season completely fallen in love with it
My favorite thing was all the design from the monsters/statues & the island itself hauntingly beautiful
The reason the power is master quickly is because some of those characters already have a grasp of it, they just don’t know what it was called and they don’t put much thought behind it until they heard about it. Shion, gabimaru, and maybe sagiri are prime examples of it.
The anime community is insanely fickle. It drives me insane at times when people within the community basically label 98% of anime as "garbage." I don't understand why people like that are even fans of anime, if they hate so much of it. Regardless, good review Charlie. I agree with you on a lot of the points brought up. I definitely enjoyed the manga more, at least to the point they've animated so far.
Moist meter is my religion. I love hearing your takes. When you talked about the unearned training arcs I immediately thought Hunterxhunter
Really great analysis love you Charlie
Completely agree. It has a lot of potential to be really hype with how it sets things up for the future. For me its a solid 8/10.
I love how animation is so good these days that when people see stuff that’s way more than acceptable they just call it trash
For me it wasn’t so much the animation being trash as the inconsistency in quality. Overall it worked fine but some characters looked really weird and wonky at times. Especially when they drew them in side profiles. I thought I was looking at a badly drawn meme sometimes. Took me out off the story. It didn’t do the art in the manga justice as it does in some anime, nor did it improve upon it as in AoT.
Second season is gonna be PEAK. No spoilers but don't get attached to anyone and prepare to question everything
I read hells paradise about 2 to 3 years ago and when it got announced around the time I finished reading it and now that we’ve finally have the anime I just don’t want to watch not because I think it’ll be bad in anyway but it just had such a strong connection and many incredible memories it just scares me to see it “re-enacted” not how I envisioned my own pacing with the series.
You gotta realize all the people are top tier fighters… and Tao is in everyone. How to get Tao isn’t even hard. You just need to learn how todo it.
Perfect timing considering I just binged the whole manga over the weekend
The crazy details I love about Tao was the consistent foreshadowing before the genuine reveal.
The first reveal of Tao was back when Rokutora shattered Eizen’s blade and turned his skull inside out, but we obviously wouldn’t know that yet.
Then there’s Shion who didn’t know the official name for Tao but saw them as “waves” covering every organism.
Then there’s Sagiri with her deep breathing slashes and her “Middle Route” solutions, which directly tied to “Tao is weak and strong.”
Subtle but appreciated
Side note I really love the character designs too. Even the characters you don’t expect to die actually have memorable designs
I didnt even realize Eizen died cause of Tao that’s a really good observation; I thought it was odd but it never struck me until you mentioned
oh yeah and at that time when Gabimaru vaguely uses Tao without even realising it while kicking the tensen he was fighting
I think they dropped the ball really hard with how Tao is introduced personally. They set up and foreshadowed it really well, but the actual reveal of how the power system works was just an exposition dump where a couple characters just look at the camera and explain it. They had all the pieces and set up there to organically reveal it and let the protagonists discover it naturally, but then they just explain it in the most boring, uninspired way possible.
@@TheBackwardsLegsMan Yeah that's a fair criticism. Expo dumping was one of my top 2 problems with Hell's Paradise which is why the manga is better. They will explain the rest in S2, but I agree it could've been handled better rather than mostly antagonists explaining.
I enjoyed it, i hope for a next season.
I might even read it sometime
Reading the manga as for pacing it was pretty good. The manga did drag quite a bit and went way to depth for some things so the anime cut and sped through some of it. The power system was explained kinda poorly but its suppose to be tough bwcause its about understanding yourself. I think it did a good job to set up more. Animation especially the tensen fight is so good.
Nice to know that he still remembers us. Can’t wait for more exclusive content here
This show will definitely age like fine wine mark my word
I do agree pretty much 100% with Charlie minus 1 thing. The way the main characters adapt to the fighting style doesn't feel so rushed to me. They explain that the techniques they use already are lesser forms of the same style they're going up against. And once the realization hits they are able to adapt quite quickly. So it did make sense I'm my eyes. But overall this is a great review of the first season. I also really enjoyed the art style with the flowers and the color.
honestly the manga is one of the most beautiful ones I've ever read so I had such high hope for it
I also very much like heavenly delusion. It's such a unique show that got overlooked
With better time management/budget and maybe a full 24 episode season I could easily see it in the conversation of best anime of the year conversation
After reading manga twice I could say it’s one of the best shonen manga I have ever seen so I hope 2nd season don’t disappoint
Heavenly delusion was my anime gem of last season. I recommend it to everyone. Pure gold.
Waiting for this one. Been holding off watching this.
This amazing show got me to read the manga and mannn underrated is an insult at this point!🔥🔥🔥
honestly one of my favorites
I really enjoyed it. I have never read the manga or seen trailers of it but I still found it fantastic
I remember reading the manga and I enjoyed it, I hope the anime is good
My biggest critique was they had back to back episodes with HUGE exposition dumps on the lore to pretty much explain everything. And it was literally an information overload because going forward, we had to just digest everything and apply that to all the stuff that was upcoming.
Hell's Paradise is one of the few mangas I can remember in recent times that I really liked the ending
I’m really hoping they nail season 2 cus that’s when we get a huge high-staked battle arc with multiple factors affecting the mission and the main cast all at once
This is the greatest alternate channel moisture of all time.
The opening was an absolute banger
The pacing problem is the exact problem I had with Blue Lock and it was even worsen then. In the anime they had to voice all the inner monologues which take time but in the manga you just rush past it. But no one complained about that.
If they just made the show 18 episodes then man they couldve spaced and made the fights and emotional attachment to the characters a lot better
fr lol i’ve learned to appreciate weirdly styled anime and jus realizing every anime isn’t going to be animated or drawn the same. it grows on u over time or u jus realize ur too old to not wanna try new things
I loved the fight between Gabimaru and the Saint, in terms of the fun I had watching this show I would give it a 10.
Definitely recommend the manga, it concluded awhile ago and the story is super engaging
The problem is the manga is on another level with how well drawn it is.
Thanks Charlie for your description of the show and for describing it fairly, you use the right words and 75% is i think also what it fit the most
The character death Charlie mentioned is supposed to be felt later on anyway so that was intentional.Also,in the manga the only low in the story is the final fight and 1-2 moments before that so i would definitely not call it overhyped.
The first significant character death made me watch it through
The lack of nipples in the anime drops it down for me😂
Out of context that comment is absolutely hilarious 😂
But I have to agree, it's just weird lookin'
Its a little rough in the edges but the animation and story is really nice. Cmon Mappa, Season 2 cam be so much fire and I know you guys can pull it off and Charles I love these 2nd channel moist meters
i thought the last character death was touching regardless of how long it took Yuzuriha is everything that he wasn't and wish he was brave enough to be and i think that resonates with alot of ppl that just live how they are expected to live
as a manga reader, if they can fix some of the issues with the production season 2 will be absolutely amazing
you should do lesser moist meters on this channel for stuff thats old and mainly untalked about. stuff that you just stumbled across and want to share your thoughts on. or alternatively, you could use the penguinz0 channel to do your main moist meters and do the usual no spoilers and have this channels moist meters be only on the spoiler stuff you left out of the other because theres a lot of stuff in movies that are major spoilers that i want to hear your thoughts on. much love charlie! i listen to your stuff and now tuv's at work every day as like a podcast and of course the podcast itself!
I don’t care what anybody says, or me the animation was acceptable and for me this was different, I mean sending off criminals to a unknown mythical island, where they have to retrieve a elixir to be not killed for what they’ve done, in which results in goals to what they are living for.
The reason I shit on it for the animation is PRECISELY because it was Mappa that animated the show. As you said, we've seen Mappa absolutely smash it out of the park with amazing animation, and CSM has one of the most cinematically beautiful adaptations I've ever seen, which is why it's THAT much more grating to see them blatantly care less about Hell's Paradise. If one of the random seasonal isekai had animation like Hell's Paradise, I would be praising it to the high heavens for godly animation. But this was HELL'S PARADISE, a manga often compared with the likes of JJK and CSM, even animated by the same studio! There is absolutely no justifiable reason for it to NOT be on the same level as JJK and CSM, apart from Mappa taking on an adaptation they weren't willing or capable of adapting properly.
That's why I shit on it, because MAPPA obviously took the job of animating it only as an easy cash grab, and not because they actually wanted to.
this 100%, i think charlie completely missed the point on why people are shitting on the animation. it’s not up to MAPPA’s usual standards
Bruh cut the animators some slacks.
I hope this anime gets at maximum 3 seasons, it really doesn't need more than 3 seasons, Mob Psycho is the biggest prove of this.
This anime can be summed up with “amazing concept, lackluster execution”.
I wish it had more episodes. and I saw one episode and read the entire manga series. after 4 more episodes. I read it all over again.
honestly after listening to the manga and the anime I thought they nailed it pretty well
I've read the manga and while I love it, there are so many places where it honestly tends to drag.
I loved the anime for how it was paced lol.
Finally, jesus decides to step up for this anime, i personally love the series, im so excited for the series and finished the manga in a mere 3 days, i fall in love with the characters both with their stories and their motivations, and i like how they end it, i do hope they deliver some spinoffs to the anime, since it is a really short series, hells paradise universe itself is a good world to explore, i hope the author can dig deeper to this, yes thats all from me
Didn't know that there was even any hype regarding this show. I just liked it
I actually don’t mind the pacing that much, it makes sense too considering the manga is only around like 130 chapters. For comparison, Demon Slayer is a little over 200 chapters. JJK is currently in the 220s and still ongoing while something like Bleach has around 700 chapters.
I had really fun with this one, the religious themes and the set-up that basically death-row candidates search for something with their executioners is awesome.
Its become almost a trend now to bitch about the animation lol I had no problems with it.
The anime was dope. I can’t wait for season 2
I genuinely couldn't go past episode 5 with how all over the place the anime was
The story is honestly beautiful, it was a tad bit fast, but really well written
I finished ep 3 of HP and went on to finish the manga in 3 days. Good Read.
From what I understand, season 1 is being split into 2 parts.
I remember recently I saw people complaining about the animation, which confused me a lot. Thought it looked amazing.
This really needed to be a two cour season, it didn't really have a satisfying ending point like Chainsaw Man
The manga I feel wasnt planned to be a long one thats why the power gain was very fast.
if anything they are saving budget for all the crazy shit at the end. the end to hells paradise will most likely be top tier animation because of all the shit going on
As someone who didn’t read the manga, I really liked this show lol. Even bought merch.
I think you really hit the nail on its with it being overhated and people being spoiled. It's not a bad show by any means, it's just underwhelming and paled in comparison to action/adventure/shounen shows in recent years. The animation wasn't bad, the action wasn't bad and the story and world building wasn't bad.
Put it up against Attack on Titan or JJK and 99.999% of shows will look bad in comparison.
I thought the ending was abrupt as well. Though, I’m unbothered because knowing there’s more makes me think it was always meant to be 24-26 episodes and maybe was a split cour. 2 seasons must’ve been green-lit around the same time. I guess one where someone insists labeling s1 and s2. I’m not sure how these get determined. I don’t mind where it leaves off at the moment. I loved everything about it!
I never go into shows with high expectations, and because of that I can still enjoy “hyped” anime like this one. I really enjoyed this show for what it was. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but it wasn’t trash either. A solid 8 out of 10. Heck I didn’t even have issues with the pacing. The show felt fast paced and the speed at which characters were dying definitely added the sense that no one is safe. Except for maybe the main duo.
One thing I will say is that I am NEVER going to remember character names in this show! That’s the one issue I have with it’s speed. If they aren’t Gabimaru, their name is not sticking in my brain.
Yeah I disagree with the pacing, unless the argument is that characters that are going to be massively important later down the line shouldn’t get screen time. The two brothers have about 1.5 episodes to them all themselves and add really nothing to the story, but they are obviously going to be massive characters in the upcoming season. They needed to be fully introduced and fleshed out.
I think people wrote the animation off because the other 2 "dark trio shonen" animes which were animated by mappa were stellar in animation and this one was expected to be on that level but clearly wasn't
However I still believe the animation is great and doesnt take away from the season
Let's all admit good animation is all demons layer has to really offer
It's not on Demon Slayer level animation but I still loved it and the lack of refinement doesn't detract from it at all. Charlie still needs to Moist Meter Bleach TYBW.
Ufotable" not Demon Slayer
I don’t think he watched bleach
@@rabiddoge833 Well he needs to. It's ba! The series has evolved to a whole nother level. Anyone who liked all the previous Bleach eps will love the improvements they've made in TYBW.
@@onepunch7632he has previously stated before that he hated Bleach.
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I just finished and adored season 1. Though i havent read the manga so idk really whats different
Very Solid Breakdown, I'd say the animation is pretty decent and its just that we've been spoiled, through series like demon slayer, tybw, jujutsu kaisen, chainsaw man etc all such high level animation that when you lower it from the peak of the peak people say its ass.
The Pacing is my main problem with the season tho, in the manga it is extremely well paced with good explanations of everything but not too much, it feels way more natural even more than other manga to anime comparisons, the anime was condensing roughly 4 chapters per episode, which is so fast for this type of show which requires a bit more explanation, the manga is probably top 5 shonen oat for me so it is a bit sad seeing the pacing degraded by that much. Really wish they lengthened it to 24 episodes that was they didnt condense literally 64 chapters into 13 episodes
Also I forgot to mention that the animation despite being decent will most likely be far better in season 2 and was lowered in quality from normal standard mainly due to producing jjk season 2 at the same time, along with other series, but jjk was the main factor, so if you did hate the animation but like the story season 2 will likely have better animation
In the manga the first character that dies is really powerful but I liked it because that set the stakes the people who last the longest to survive are necessarily more powerful but the craziest ones and what I understood of the power is that some people already had a bit of grasp of it they just didn't know what it was but comprehension is more effective than proficiency in the case of this power system. It still is a little bit shallow but the series is not that long the animation not being on par with other shows can be due to budget since it doesn't have the same popularity as jujutsu Kaisen and Kimetsu
Plz do for Heavenly Delusion too
Watching this show was like watching pokemon where every episode was about a new pokemon
i read the manga, its the exact same, even in master the ''new power'', which also isnt a new power, humans already knew how to use it but they just called it in a different way like ''chakra'' so they just cant use it as well as the tensen. its just a really fast phased manga and anime which in my openion work really well as manga-anime comparison.
I really think the anime did a disservice to the manga, there was something so special about the art that made it so special and captivating when you read Hells Paradise, and the way they choreographed the fights it just isn’t captured in the anime, it takes the manga material from like a nine out of 10 to a seven out of 10, I just really wish they could give it the chainsaw man/jujutsu Kaisen treatment, because in my opinion, it deserves it so much
I agree with you! I mean the animation was fine overall, but it was really inconsistent in its quality. Sometimes the characters looked unbelievable bad, and it saddens me when the original artwork was so good.