Title: ''Stop the Empress! Queen's Gambit''
Chapters Covered: 947
Episode Director: Yutaka Nakashima (***1/2)
Animation Director: Yong-ce Tu (debut!)
Time: 8:30PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
946: ''Stop the Empress! Queen's Gambit''
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One Piece Episode 947 Preview
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Some really great Luffy animation. Also seeing Big Mom having grand animated force behind her movement which was nice for a change.
The contrast between Luffy and Hyo's comical impact to the near death of Hyo was quite jarring.
Some great secondary character design as usual.
The build up to those-semi shadowy figures maybe overplayed?
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Wow what a fantastic debut for Tu Yong-ce as an animation supervisor!
His character art is absolutely amazing, packed with interesting linework, great expressions, polish and shading, as expected from such an insanely talented animator like him!
Not only did he do great supervision-wise but his own key animation was fantastic as well, spicing it up furthermore I would say. Tu animated B-Part all by himself on top of that.
God that brachio bomber was insanely well done.
Tu even brought his chinese friends along to help him out on this episode and. Notably Junwen Tan and Timgmu Yang who did an incredible job as well on their ends.
Btw Tu Yong-ce animated the entire 2nd half all by himself like a boss, filled to the brim with great character acting and unbelievable action cuts such as the aforementioned Brachio Bomber and some smaller cuts packed with eye candy effects and impact frames.
Nakashima's direction was both hilarious and great at the same time.
I really cannot wait to see Tu Yong-ce supervise an episode again because he's absolutely pushing the medium forward.
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Yeah, that episode was pretty great.
Aside from maybe the flashback and some of the fake out death stuff, I don't believe the episode really dragged too much. The direction was pretty tight in the first half even if it wasn't as animated as the second.
Animation wise, this episode is insanely good, especially the second half, which is pretty much non-stop movement 95% of the time. Tu Yong Ce knocked out of the park with pretty much every tiny little bit of action in this episode.
Its absolutely insane how well some of the stuff he did was. Its not just impressive because of how much he animated, but how well it was animated. Scenes like the Brachio Bomber by themselves would have been enough to make an episode noteworthy, but the entire second half is just filled with really nice action animation that doesn't stop. It makes for an absolutely fantastic animation director debut.
The animation also did a great job of selling a lot of the comedy through character acting and visuals, which Oda is highly dependent on. The timing of the jokes landed really well thanks in great part to the animation.
Overall, awesome episode, decent direction exalted by fantastic animation.
I have frankly zero expectations for next episode. Literally none. The animation looks like its going to be totally outsourced to a fairly meh studio. I don't expect anything animation wise, and I think the virus looks really ugly with that green. I'm thinking a good director is needed to make that sort of effect work, because right now, its not doing anything for me.
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Didn't Queen ko BM with that attack in the manga??
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@uniaka:
Didn't Queen ko BM with that attack in the manga??
! She does remember Queen and mentions that she remembers him being from Kaido's crew and then immediately after falls asleep. Queen uses this then as an opportunity to sedate her and bring her to Onigashima.
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@uniaka:
Didn't Queen ko BM with that attack in the manga??
Nope, she regains her memories and opens her eyes directly after . Note Queen's momentum, he's still in the process of falling over.
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! Her brain recovering is what causes her to fall asleep in the next episode
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The "Hyo's dead" joke was dragged out a little too long (what else is new?) but aside from that, whew. For his animation director debut Tu didn't just knock it out of the park, he hit a grand slam. Everything outside of that joke and the Sabaody flashback was a nonstop feast for the eyes with plenty of strong and fun art and animation. One Piece is continuing to put most weekly, and many seasonal shows for that matter, to shame lately. Aside from the Brachio Bomber highlight (again we're really lucky One Piece airs on Fuji TV; TV Tokyo probably would've ghosted/dimmed that to hell and back) my favorite moment was Junwen Tan's Big Mom slap. Lots of funny faces from Luffy if you frame step and keeping the heroic music going through the entire thing is a piss-take done right.
Tu alluded to working on this episode back in the start of June so I'm going to be curious to see how frequent his episodes are assuming he becomes a regular in the rotation (which he might as well at this point) given that he tends to do a ton of key animation on the episodes he works on already.
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