hello i have decided to make posts for 30 days on most underrated animes which deserved better. first i would like to make people understand the anime Granbelm
It's a series helmed by a great writer and director. It's completely underwatched and under appreciated.
Seriously though, in terms of reception Granbelm has likely underperformed worse than just about any other show in recent memory. Few shows that are this well done and worked on so passionately end up being ignored like it has. It's not Precure or Symphogear. It doesn't have a massive Japanese fanbase to appreciate it when the series is largely ignored in the west. As of right now it has less than 11k followers on Twitter. The English account has less than 400. Hardly any fan art exists which is a rough way to gauge how popular shows are. Ok let's look at MAL, it has less than 30k members and we're near the end of the season. It has a score of 6.37
please do not take the ratings and fanbase in websites like myanimelist as the main reasons to watch or not watch a show.
𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒔𝒌 "𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒎, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓"
It's written by Hanada Jukki. As in the writer for Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Sora Yori, Hibike Euphonium, Nichijou, NGNL, Bloom into You, as well as uhhh STEINS; GATE. As well as writing the Screenplay for K-ON. Basically the guy is a heavy weight with a stacked portfolio. Not everything he touches is gold but he's definitely a strong writer and it definitely shows in Granbelm.
The director is Watanabe Masaharu. He hasn't directed much aside from some episodes in Naruto and some in the Rock Lee spin off as well as a Wakaba Girl where he worked with Hanada Jukki. Oh he also directed this little series called RE:ZERO. You may also recognize him as the animator for Haruhis first ED yes those cute dancing anime girls that were the Kaguya of the 2000s.
"𝙎𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙮'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩?"
If you've watched Steins;Gate you know just how well Hanada Jukki can write. More importantly if you've seen ReZero, think about episode 15 to have a glimpse of the talent Watanabe has. Ok good got your attention. My point is that this show has MASSIVE talent at the helm. Is Granbelm going to be at Steins; Gate or ReZero or Sora Yori levels? Yeah probably not but it's nonetheless a very solid series.
Well despite the heavy weights I've just mentioned it's probably cause of the lack of recognizable talent. Yeah I know how that sounds. But after spending some months on this forum I've found it very rare to see any mention of either Hanada or Watanabe. Hell Watanabe doesn't even have a picture on MAL. They don't have the star power of Ikuhara or Shinichirou Watanabe or Tatsuki. Just go compare their MAL favorites count I dare you. So they lack recognizable staff. Alright that's one thing but a lot of shows are like that, but not only do they lack the star talent but they also lack the name brand of a studio. If this show had the label of Trigger, A-1, Ufotable it would be doing so much better. Don't believe me? Look at Fairy Gone by P.A. Works over 100k members on MAL.
you may think that "Well ok, but if the show was good it would gain attention on it's own merits wouldn't it?"
THAT'S THE THING. The SHOW IS GOOD. It's imo a top 5 contender this season and for the viewers on it's episode threads it seems to be a common sentiment. A lot of people may have dropped it because it was confusing. But trust me it'll make sense later on. Like Steins;Gate it's a series where you have to trudge on through the confusing first episodes to get to the meat of the story. It starts off slow and starts one upping itself every episode.
Not only does this show have animation that rivals Fireforce and Demon Slayer. In fact this is bold, but I'd say it may even surpass them both in terms of sheer amount of action. There are moments when Fireforce and Demon Slayer both easily look better than Granbelm, but Granbelm hardly has any down time, I think half the episodes are completely jam packed with action. If I'm wrong then well the show does a great job at making it feel like that. It's such a fluid production with amazing visual effects. It's a Mecha show done in all 2D. The battles look gorgeous the characters look amazing. Just beautiful.
please guys please give it a chance iam sure that you will enjoy it
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