Review of Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man is a lesson on how to butcher an anime adaptation For starters, how does someone decide, when adapting a manga with such a heavy focus on visual storytelling, to make it with some of the worst animation ever to come out of the studio?? What should've been so visually striking ended up being visually a cringefest But not only that, another very important part of visual storytelling, aside from being appealing to look at, is, to state the obvious, the scenes themselves, what's shown on screen, how is it shown, something the manga does almost to perfection The anime throws all that down the toilet, making scenesthat are fun and/or add subtle character developement moments microseconds short, while streaching out to no end scenes that are completely useless to the point of making them look weird

The only reason this isn't getting a "not recommended" is because the more slice of life moments with Denji, Aki, and Power are such a wholesome joy to watch, and though the battles are CGI eye bleach, i can see there's a really good foundation in terms of fight choreography which would've looked absolutely epic with good animation