Talk:Hajime Nagumo/@comment-38341175-20190808121723/@comment-202.171.79.110-20190916065518

TBH, the anime is enjoyable, even if it slashes off too much of the story.

It's a very different pace, rushing through the story whille only retaining the (very) essential.

I agree you have to not have read the LN first if you don't want to be disappointed, but all in all, it at least gives life to the characters, and this alone is pleasant.

Apart from slaughtering the story and secondary characters / locations, the main complaint I'd express is about the rotten CGI. All the CGI characters feature the same unexplainable metallic reflections (even the dragon's tongue, WTF) and jerky moves repeated in endless loops, for the most pathetic visual effects ever seen (even 1933 King Kong's effects looked better, for God's sake !), making the episodes with the longest scenes (the hydra in the Orcus labyrinth) a real pain to watch.

Apart from this painful failure, all the materials are pleasant to read or watch, thanks to the story and interesting characters.

Interestingly, the few CGI insertions in Shield Hero, amost obvious, were much more discrete and blended much better with the rest (apart from the shitty cathedral spell during the Pope's event, that really looked ridiculous, and the unnecassarily complicated Blood Sacrifice contraption. They really should have stuck to the manga's simpler layout). But it proves at least it can be done much better with some efforts.