@Crossword:
It's all the short little lines in the shot of it breathing fire that gives me that impression. Regardless, at least the HD preview comes off looking like one of Deguchi's better episodes.
If you notice how his eye changes, it feels like Deguchi's style.
Yeah,I think this will be one of Deguchi's decent episodes. Because he had more time to work on it compared to #599.
593 was decent because his next work was after 8 episodes. Same thing goes for 584, which was pretty good.
608 is after 8 ep + break.
Also, it's interesting to note that Deguchi was working with a poor director [Ueda] recently, I'm interested to see how he performs under a good direction.
Edit: BTW, I think the animators and animation directors performance varies according to the director. Some directors are strict and some are easy going. I remember reading somwhere that Hayao Miyazaki used to scold the animators for doing sloppy work.
@conan___e:
Masahiro Hosoda he worked as director of a TV series that had best animation between toei's animes
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5894
i want to see one of episode #13 animators in one piece T_T
Keep dreaming buddy. No way we get something near Ep #13 level.
Also, he is just a guest director in One Piece, Like Otsuka.