Not going to lie, I'm still elated as shit that Kickheart got 0 points! No show is more deserving of a 0 and arguably a 0 is too much for it.
It's like you have a grudge against the anime, the animation style, and the animator behind it. And it's not because you have strong reasoning, but because you don't like the style and think it's unfinished, which doesn't mean anything. It is finished. It's what the artist wanted it to look like. This drives me crazy.
It's like me and my undying hatred of Brotherhood, but really, really bizarre. Kick-Heart is a tiny little niche thing that will only matter to animation nerds. You are literally bullying a tiny little short maybe 5,000 people have seen or bothered to see.
If I talk about how the rough, scribbly animation has a distinct, signature style to it that is loose and energetic, you will simply say "No, it's just unfinished shit that looks like nothing". I could talk about how it's an artist or two being set loose to animate a short however they want, and you would say that someone should have replaced him or he should have lost his job for making this dreck.
This was a Kickstarter project. The fucking thing had TWO key animators! What do you expect? Are you going to go to an animation school and tell the students how much their animation work sucks as well, because they did it by themselves and didn't have a massive team with CG artists and more? This thing had a 200k budget. That's TINY.
Look here.
This is the main team that made the damn short. Four main people, with several in-betweeners to smooth things out. This is the director, character designer, art director, and two key animators, some filling multiple roles. These four.
Look at some of this rough animation work.
THAT is what this short was about. It's not about story. It's just a simple love story. It's not about voice work or music or action. It's about the handiwork of the four creative minds on display. It's like a showcase. But that doesn't matter. It's just shit. They should have never picked up a pad. Should have never bothered to use a pencil.