The Beginning After the End

As a big fan of the original The Beginning After the End novel and webcomic, I went into the anime with sky-high hopes - only to come crashing down faster than Arthur in a bad mana training session.

First off, the pacing is a complete mess. They cram major life events - rebirth, childhood, training - into just a couple of episodes with almost no emotional weight. One moment baby Arthur is being adorable, the next he's somehow a mana prodigy, and you're left wondering if you accidentally skipped three episodes.

The animation quality is painfully average. For a series that's supposed to be filled with intense battles, beautiful magic, and rich worldbuilding, the visuals feel lifeless and rushed. Fight scenes lack the fluidity and impact needed to make them memorable, and sometimes characters look off-model mid-conversation - like they were drawn by two different teams.

Voice acting? Hit or miss. Arthur's voice actor tries, but some emotional scenes fall flat because the dialogue feels stiff or way too melodramatic. Also, the supporting cast sounds like they're reading a fantasy script for the first time in their lives.

Worst of all, they butchered some of the most important moments from the original story. Deep character development and world lore? Almost nonexistent. Instead, they favor tired isekai clichés and shallow action.

Honestly, it feels like a cash grab banking on the popularity of the novel and webcomic without respecting what made the original special.

Unless they turn things around drastically in future episodes, this anime adaptation might be the real "beginning of the end" for the franchise's reputation.

The animation for The Beginning After The End is honestly a massive disappointment. It barely qualifies as animation. It looks like they just took a still image from the manhwa, threw in some background movement, and called it a day. There's no real motion, no character fluidity and no emotion-just static scenes trying to pass as animation. It completely fails to capture the energy and emotion of the original story. Fans have been waiting a long time for a proper adaptation, and this half-hearted effort feels like a slap in the face. The source material deserves way better.

I AM JUST UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!

Horrible animations, stolen incipit (not all reincarnation stories copy each other, but here there are literally the exact same scenes from another series), absolutely uninteresting protagonist (usual manhwa character, very powerful for no reason, at the center of the universe, who relies more on this horrible "aura farming" stuff than on writing an interesting character), generic battle shonen narrative, in short at this point just watch leveling, which has the exact same problems but at least it is extremely well animated (personally I don't find it a great added value, but between a banal badly animated thing and a banal well animated thing I would choose the lesser worse).

We request that anime production episodes be highlighted at 1-A Pictures or Toei Animation. The graphics and animation are unacceptable. I read the manga and I think that the cost of producing and broadcasting the anime is a loss that has no meaning. I was so excited for the excitement I was going to see in the anime as well as in the manga, but what I saw really shocked me. We really want to stop the weekly broadcast and give the novel to a better studio that does a good job on the anime, or end the current season and remake the episodes with better quality and animation than before.😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😟😟

The storyline and the development are going to be the only things keeping me around for this slideshow of an anime. You cannot and I mean CANNOT animate a manwha of this caliber and simply ruin it like that. Almost all of the action scenes are literally projected like a slideshow. The monsters and other animals are CGI. Animation is a key factor in keeping watchers around and making it look more pleasing to the eye while making the watcher feel more immersed. A-Cat is ruining an anime that could be so great. If only another studio got this it would be portrayed so much better than what they are doing with it.