The Beginning After the End

I think this is only my 2nd review of anything on here, and my 1st was to pillory a terrible anime many years ago, that had higher ratings than this one, it was just terrible.. (no spoilers in this review, this is a vague review, rather than a play by play)

With this one here, it's actually the opposite scenario.

I saw the bad ratings, and I prepared myself for a terrible experience.

But that is not what I got.

Yes, the animation is cheap, low budget, etc.

But as someone who really values the quality of the art in a project... the art itself, is fine. It's not 'bad'.

The Invicible cartoon recently had some low budget, cheap animation in it as well, and it even made jokes in the cartoon about the situation.

With this animation, it is only slightly worse than that, and that was produced by Amazon with I would assume, money behind it.

The reason for this review is because the story and characters are actually pretty solid, and to my tastes, great.

It's not a harem show. Which for these kinds of shows, seems rare, and I do not want harem shows.

I can understand that if someone came into this as a fan of the comic source material - and I can see that the story and characters are worthy of honour, then I can see how some of those fans could be disappointed.

I am a reader of Invincible, and I have found that... a little disappointing.

But truly, I have really enjoyed watching this, and I could watch 100 episodes of these characters and this story.

In terms of it's primary weakness, the animation, for me, it was at it's worst when it (a picture of a setting/ scene) scrolls down the screen and with my large screen, it juddered a bit, and was not good on the eyes.

If watched on a smaller display, that wouldn't be an issue, and those instances are... perhaps 20x in the show overall.

But those aren't action scenes. Not emotional scenes, just when basically going from one scene to another every now and then.

Aside from that, it is cheap, but when compared to experiencing a show with better animation, but an unappealing cast, and weak story - I was keen to watch this all in one go, and I was entertained.

Again, if this was 100 episodes I would watch them all.

And there are many higher rated shows where I do not feel that way.

I understand that the Isekai genre is overplayed, but not all telling's of stories are equal.

To me, the story and characters make this a stand out example of the genre.

Perhaps I am being too kind... but I really dislike harem shows. And most of them are harem shows... and here the story feels organic.

I have tried some shows from recent years where the animation was fine, but the art wasn't as good, and the characters were awful, the set up wasn't there, some just made no sense at all...

This is... fantasy in multiple sense's. It is easy watching fluff.

But IMO it is better than most Isekai's, and I've watched all the good ones.

I love Re:Zero for example. But I enjoyed this much more than Re:Zero's 2nd season.

Perhaps I just hate snow?!

Sorry to say but after reading the manhua 3 months ago the anime was really bad below my expectation,it was a very good manhua but bad in the anime series. I think the author made a mistake in choosing the studio that released the anime itself and am still prefer reading the manhua than watching the anime series, your story such a great and have really high potential if the adaptation from studio can deliver to us great animation like Solo Leveling did it ... i know animation is not everything but i'm talking animation series thats the point right why we watch the anime series to get better views.

The animation for The Beginning After The End is honestly a massive disappointment. It barely qualifies as animation. It looks like they just took a still image from the manhwa, threw in some background movement, and called it a day. There's no real motion, no character fluidity and no emotion-just static scenes trying to pass as animation. It completely fails to capture the energy and emotion of the original story. Fans have been waiting a long time for a proper adaptation, and this half-hearted effort feels like a slap in the face. The source material deserves way better.

I AM JUST UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!

Horrible animations, stolen incipit (not all reincarnation stories copy each other, but here there are literally the exact same scenes from another series), absolutely uninteresting protagonist (usual manhwa character, very powerful for no reason, at the center of the universe, who relies more on this horrible "aura farming" stuff than on writing an interesting character), generic battle shonen narrative, in short at this point just watch leveling, which has the exact same problems but at least it is extremely well animated (personally I don't find it a great added value, but between a banal badly animated thing and a banal well animated thing I would choose the lesser worse).

The storyline and the development are going to be the only things keeping me around for this slideshow of an anime. You cannot and I mean CANNOT animate a manwha of this caliber and simply ruin it like that. Almost all of the action scenes are literally projected like a slideshow. The monsters and other animals are CGI. Animation is a key factor in keeping watchers around and making it look more pleasing to the eye while making the watcher feel more immersed. A-Cat is ruining an anime that could be so great. If only another studio got this it would be portrayed so much better than what they are doing with it.