Uzumaki on Max. I've never seen the quality of a show plummet so dramatically from ep 1 to ep 2. It's COVID, and the studio blowing the budget out of the gates, and the show changing animation studios aways into production, and if you ask producer Jason De Marco it's actually "one or two people". All very sus.
Episode two looks like a mock-up of what you're shooting for. There are shots where the cross hatching, the furious pencilling that simulates shading, bleeds over lines like bad coloring. Design lines are also just left in instead of being erased or painted over. And this isn't an impressionistic effect that arcs over the aesthetic of the show or some such. I'm talking about lone isolated shots that every now and then betray the sloppiness and overall half-bakeness of the work.
I'm not even getting into how crudely the animation itself plays out. Anime is designed around taking crude shortcuts and playing them off as stylistic choices, sorry not sorry. But in contrast to the preceding 24 minutes, Uzumaki's second episode looks like the dog really ate the homework.
