Anime Animation Quality Tier List: From Masterpieces to Total Disasters 🎨🔥❌
🔥 Top Notch (Masterpiece-Level Animation)
- Fate/Series (e.g., Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel, Fate/Zero) – Ufotable’s insane fight animation.
- Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) – Ufotable’s smooth animation and vibrant colors.
- Jujutsu Kaisen – MAPPA’s peak animation quality.
- Attack on Titan (Final Season) – High-detail action scenes.
- Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) – Beautiful Makoto Shinkai visuals.
- Violet Evergarden – Kyoto Animation’s masterpiece in character emotions and scenery.
- Akira – Legendary movie with fluid hand-drawn animation.
- Weathering With You – Makoto Shinkai’s god-tier visuals.
- The Garden of Words – One of the most visually stunning anime movies.
- Chainsaw Man – MAPPA’s dynamic action animation.
âś… Good (Solid Animation, Not Peak)
- My Hero Academia (MHA) – Good but inconsistent animation.
- Sword Art Online – Good fight scenes but sometimes dips in quality.
- Tokyo Revengers – Decent but inconsistent animation.
- One Piece (Wano Arc) – Improved greatly, but old episodes had rough animation.
- Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – High-quality comeback.
- Fire Force – Unique fire animation, very fluid.
- Mob Psycho 100 – Experimental but smooth animation.
- Noragami – Clean action sequences.
- Black Clover – Some epic fights but inconsistent overall.
- Re:Zero – Good character animation and lighting effects.
❌ Bad (Choppy, Lazy, or Unfinished Animation)
- Ex-Arm – Worst CGI anime ever.
- Berserk (2016 & 2017) – Horrible CGI ruins the legacy.
- Dragon Ball Super (Early Episodes) – Some meme-worthy bad animation.
- Arifureta (Season 1) – Terrible CGI and lazy animation.
- Hand Shakers – Unwatchable due to its awful shaky CGI.
- Pupa – Horribly animated horror.
- Woke Up as a Beast (Hensuki Anime Adaptation) – Weird art and bad animation.
- The Seven Deadly Sins (Season 3) – Ruined fights with lazy animation.
- King’s Game (Ousama Game) – Low-budget, stiff movements.
- God of High School (Later Episodes) – Started strong, but rushed fights killed it.