I have so many mixed feelings on the anime adaptation of the witch and the beast bc pacing wise theyre decent, the voices fit (imo) they mostly kept the mangas artstyle, the architecture is beautiful, but then sometimes the character animation feels so.. lackluster. And in the more recent eps Guideau looks kinda. Off in general. Fight scenes just dont hit as hard as they do in the manga, probably bc the visual affects for magic tend to not be great, along with the aforementioned lacking character animation making the fight scenes not impressive.
But at the same time Ashgan looks sick as hell, the ice elemental copies are ominous as fuck, and the illustrations during the eps, specifically the fight scenes are beautiful. Overall its still decent, but its a bit sad considering.
Thus is say this: if an anime only started watching the witch and the beast i really do suggest reading the manga 🫶 its better by a large margin imo
This is a silly idea, but the princess and the voices (including the long quiet) just having a party in the cabin (that the narrator totally dosent own-)
You’re on a path in the woods. At the end of that path is a cabin. And in that cabin is a - wait a minute
ok so just generally speaking, I think it's a good first episode! It sucks that because the manga is really illustration based that that doesn't super come through in the animation, at least as of ep 1, but I HAVE LIKE SEMI HIGH HOPES
to me this just means that maybe more people will get into the manga, which would be great!
I think the characterization of Ashaf and Guideau is p spot on so far, and the art style as a generalization is done decent enough, as well as it being almost 1:1 for the first chapter.
ALSO i really like the music they're using for it so far, def adds to the atmosphere, which as a manga reader i don't think they were able to capture the atmosphere that the manga has in full.
Either way, im very excited for whats to come, and if it ends up being hot garbage, people can read the manga, which is not hot garbage LMAO