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Bakuten is good to an almost worrying degree
And like all good anime, it& #39;s actually Liz and the Blue Bird
But back to the somewhat worrying part of Bakuten& #39;s goodness. Toshimasa Kuroyanagi is a director who leans strongly towards realism, especially when it comes to the articulation of character acting, and the show& #39;s AniP is notoriously ambitious too. Which is to say, it moves A LOT
Since the very start of the episode it& #39;s obvious that the animation isn& #39;t just very precise, but also *dense*. More often than not you have something going on in the background, giving more life to the setting. Crowd and otherwise layered animation for days
Given this dedication to depicting every minute gesture, scenes where there are a bunch of characters become a whole lot of work - this may look like downtime, but it absolutely isn& #39;t when it comes to the workload
And Kuroyanagi& #39;s realism isn& #39;t cold and technical, he uses this thorough animation for characterization purposes. So far the show has been pretty by the books, but with direction that highlights the big moments so well and this level of acting, it& #39;s easy to buy into it (cute!)
