I agree and anime was never ment to be movie-like or realistic. It's kinda a form of art. Pain's face deforming like that reminds me of old cartoons and is pretty good to express the anger so visually like that.They use different animation groups for certain episodes and they did the same in the first part of the series. The naruto pain episode is the same group that animated the team 10 vs Hidan/kakuzu rnd 2 episodes and the Jiraiya/pain ep.. I personally like their animating style, yeah the faces look a little jacked, especially some of the faces pain made, buuuut the flow of the animation is SICK, seriously sick, look past the goofy faces and just focus on the action, you'll see what I'm talking about.
For some reason, I feel like waiting for the Gai vs Kisame final might be a downer too :/ So far, all the battles I looked forward to disappointed me badly.yes, i agree aswell...but more than that the last 2 eps are 1/4 new material an 3/4 of dam flash backs...
k-mon if the dam animaters dont want to work...dont do the episode like that...i've hadit with the anime, im gonna wait till gai vs kisame final bout...
I would have to agree. Thats the only time when the animation sucked imo.I don't see anything wrong. The only bad animation for me was during Pain vs 6 tails. and one of the fillers in part 1. Mainly the Pain fight.
Everything else has been awesome.