@goty:
Some people seem to compare manga and anime panel to panel these days, down to every single microscopic detail. Which gives them the impression that the anime used to be better before the change to widescreen, when it obviously wasn't. They watched to enjoy it, now they watch to compare.
I was actually just thinking about this the other day. When we pay attention to the details of things we tend to become more sensitive to when flaws appear. I don't regret starting this topic because it has pointed out a lot of animation details of the show where we get a lot of information on the animators history and such.
Part of One Piece fanbase likes to think they're superior or whatever, but when it comes to the anime adaptation OP and Naruto have equally annoying and whining fanbases, i swear.
Sometimes i wish OP got a terrible, bloodless, upscaled and badly directed anime version where the voice actors yelled at the fuckin' time (Fairy Tail, i'm looking at you..). Now that would be hilarious.
You can also count Dragonball Kai and Reborn as "Shonen Anime that is really watered down in the anime version. I love the Reborn anime's character designs (because the characters look softer than the more yoai-ish manga artwork) but the violence is pretty muted in the anime. It's actually quite amazing how gradually over time Japanese TV anime has become almost just as censored as American TV anime. No more naked breasts, people getting impaled, real firearms (Reborn has to have a brightly colored "magic" gun). I'm actually surprised that, for it's timeslot, One Piece is still allowed to get away with a great deal of gore. Whitebeard may have not gotten half his faced loped off, swords impaling him but we still got Ace having a gaping hole through his chest and coughing up blood.
Regarding Yokoyama, he did improve a lot. His art still isn't flashy like other better AD's, but it's pretty faithful to Oda's and does its job done these days. At least i don't go "oh shit, Yokoyama" when i see his name anymore.
Now all we need to know is if he learnt to draw Zoro.
Since his improvement seemed to occur right after the Strawhats separated, we probably won't get a gauge of how much he's changed until the timeskip is animated.
@Crossword:
I'm starting to imagine you guys in a dark room at your computers seething, muttering ''Damn you Pretty Cure and your Yoshihiko Umakoshi and Yuki Hayashi and Ken Otsuka, etc.'' through clenched teeth week after week.
Honestly if were gonna compare the same studio doing a different quality job on different shows just look at Naruto and Bleach. Naruto has an excellent budget and many outstanding episodes while Bleach's animation doesn't really excel outside of the occasional key episode and the OP/ED songs. Both are long running Shonen series done by Studio Pierrot but Bleach ultimately has the more subpar team working on it.
@Yuugi's:
Toei knows One Piece will sell no matter what animators they use, hence why they give their best animators to other shows. I do suspect, though, that once we hit #598+ we'll get a new set of animators added to the rotation, though.
Not very likely. We will get new animators over time but I didn't see that transition for Dragonball, Sailor Moon, and Digimon (which had different series and up until Frontier they had the same animators that were there since Adventure) so I don't expect it to happen with One Piece. Especially if the animators they currently have spent years on getting the show to look more a more closer to Oda's designs.
@kaizokuo12:
i still think it's better for Toei to take a long break than a long fill just because i don't see how they can fill anything. Why waste their money trying to do filler that wont give them profits?
Not gonna happen.
Here: We can take breaks!
Japan: Can't lose the timeslot, so no breaks!
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