The animation looks fine. It's the art I don't like. It's so flat and bland, when the original was so graphic and striking. It's not just a taste thing, either; it was elementary to the tone.
"Tired" is the keyword here, and as their ordeals drag on, the characters get wearier, less human. The art ties into this. In contrast to the slick vectors and soft shading of most of the field, the weight of ink here feels
heavy. It's like every scene has bags under its eyes.
That said, I can see how it would be really fucking hard to animate. Your average studio probably wouldn't want to stump up that kind of cash for a style that would probably scare off half the audience.
Moral of the story is, as ever, read the X before you watch the Y.
EDIT: Skimming an episode. Needs more of this.
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Also that thing I just linked, Sakugabooru? It's a really really good resource if you have any interest in animation at all (And not just Japanese).
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Noted.
That "scene" (it's just one panel in the manga, too) is so hilariously out of tone with the rest of the story that I'm surprised they even included it in the adaptation.
While I'm here, here's an out-of-context page from the manga that I definitely didn't spend the last forty minutes trying to find.
