Thunder 3 Episode 7 Review Calls the Anime a Botched Adaptation
The review reads as a cry for help from a manga fan who thinks the adaptation should never have been made at all.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Anime News Network's review of Thunder 3 episode 7 gives the series a community score of 3.0 and calls it the worst CG anime since EX-ARM and the worst manga adaptation since Ubel Blatt. The reviewer says the production is boring, poorly lit, and static, with character rigs that look cut and pasted into scenes. The episode's alien nasal spray plot device is introduced too late to save the arc.
The review opens with a blunt verdict: the adaptation is so badly botched that the series would be better off never existing, leaving Thunder 3 as a manga only. The reviewer, who loved the source material, describes the weekly viewing as mainlining concentrated disappointment.
Episode 7 keeps the focus on Segami and his unnamed female ally while the comedic characters, Pyontaro and Futaba, are almost entirely absent. The centerpiece of the arc is a punch that is meant to be cool but ends up looking like a PS2 cutscene, a comparison the show itself lampshades when a side character watches battle footage and says it looks worse than one.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network Thunder 3 Episode 7