So I went to Toei Phils. last week (October 29). My friend and I asked the general manager on what One Piece they're at. He went and asked one of the animators (we were at the Key Animation area) and who replied "523". I guess they do make 2 or 3 episodes in advance.
A Study of One Piece Animation
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So I went to Toei Phils. last week (October 29). My friend and I asked the general manager on what One Piece they're at. He went and asked one of the animators (we were at the Key Animation area) and who replied "523". I guess they do make 2 or 3 episodes in advance.
Probably more, there is like 10-11 teams working on the show.
Shigfumi Shingaki confirmed the concert scene, it was indeed Urata's work.
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Full staff
523
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Ueda Yoshihiro
Episode director: Ueda Yoshihiro
Animation director: Yamashita Megumi524
Script: Nakayama Tomohiro
Storyboard: Komaki Aya
Episode director: Komaki Aya
Animation director: Inoue Eisaku525
Script: Nakayama Tomohiro
Storyboard: Tokoro Katsumi
Episode director: Tokoro Katsumi
Animation director: Ishizuka Katsumi526
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Imamura Takahiro
Episode director: Imamura Takahiro
Animation director: Kawamura Atsuko–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Next titles (rough translation)
523: Shocking truth · The guy who protected Sunny Go
524: Struggle in the sea · The demon of the big sea appears
525: Disaster in the deep sea · The strawhat team get lost
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WOW, freaking awesome. That's a really strong start for Fishman Island arc.
Edit:@Archah:
526: Undersea volcanic eruption! · Gyojin island is swept
LOL, what TOEI means by that?
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This translation must be wrong. Gyojin island swept?
May I see the original? I don't know where you guys get these informations.
Nah.
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Wow, as expected. My favorite parts of the arc are getting nice treatment. It's gonna be an awesome month. I hope the Animation Directors are backed up with great animators.
I hope 527 is Nakatani.
Edit: Man, as always the titles seems to be misleading, but it seems they are covering more than 1 chapter in one of the episodes?
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Ah, Ishizuka, good.
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it seems they are covering more than 1 chapter in one of the episodes?
Nonsense! This is TOEI we're talking about!
Joking aside, I AM happy with the pacing. Looking forward to 525. (+1) from me too for Ishizuka.
The era of Whitebeard is over. The time of Brownbeard, has come.
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Ah, looks like my gut feeling that Yamashita was up next was right.
Let's see, Inoue, Ishizuka, and Kawamura back to back to back? This should be a real treat. Maybe now that all the Straw Hats are together I'll actually be able to complete some more animation director strips.
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Maybe now that all the Straw Hats are together I'll actually be able to complete some more animation director strips.
About that, I've forgot to ask you why you didn't include Kazuya Hisada's Luffy after time skip here:
He appears at the beginning of the episode…wasn't his work?
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No, it wasn't. That scene was done by Naotoshi Shintani, I think his name is. The only Hisada-Luffy in that episode was at the end, but it wasn't a good shot at all. And I can't look to the opening either, since it seems that Yuki Hayashi and Masayuki Sato (Movie 10's animation director, in case anyone's forgotten) did most of the work, as they're at the top of the credit list and Hisada's at the very bottom. The only reason I posted that in such an incomplete state was A: to see how the new format I'm using would look, and B: Hisada doesn't do many episodes anymore, so this was probably as good as I was going to get for the time being.
Actually, of Sato, I know I already identified him as the doing the sequence that pans across the Straw Hats' feet, but after looking at the part before that, which shows the Straw Hats next to their names, more carefully I'm starting to think he did that as well.
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Got it. Thanks =D
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No, it wasn't. That scene was done by Naotoshi Shintani, I think his name is. The only Hisada-Luffy in that episode was at the end, but it wasn't a good shot at all. And I can't look to the opening either, since it seems that Yuki Hayashi and Masayuki Sato (Movie 10's animation director, in case anyone's forgotten) did most of the work, as they're at the top of the credit list and Hisada's at the very bottom. The only reason I posted that in such an incomplete state was A: to see how the new format I'm using would look, and B: Hisada doesn't do many episodes anymore, so this was probably as good as I was going to get for the time being.
Actually, of Sato, I know I already identified him as the doing the sequence that pans across the Straw Hats' feet, but after looking at the part before that, which shows the Straw Hats next to their names, more carefully I'm starting to think he did that as well.
I think you mean Naohiro Shintani. Yeah, that was indeed his work, and it looks like it was not corrected by Hisada.
No, the Strawhats with their names is clearly Shida.
Well, here is an incomplete breakdown:
Hisada?: Beginning Roger and the flags
Hayashi?: Luffy holding his hat in 360 degree
Yokoyama: Sunny Flying and Luffy waving his hands at the strawhats, next shot as well.
Shida: Strawhats with their names.
Sato?: pan across the Straw Hats' feet
Hashimoto: Warships shooting and Luffy activating G3
Shida: Strawhats fighting
Hashimoto: Luffy destroying the ship
Takeo Ide: long pan across many characters
Luffy/Shanks: Hayashi?
Hayashi: Luffy running till the end of the opening.I'll contact Hayashi and confirm her scenes. At least it will clear the rest of the scenes.
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Hm, I suppose so. Some of the art quirks during that bit do remind me of Sato, though.
Now, I was looking at the Japanese titles and credits posted in the general discussion thread, and I noticed that for episode 527 there's a set of characters for the animation director credits that I don't recognize (三日月夜空). I assume that that's a name and not some variation of ''info not available''. I wouldn't necessarily mind a new addition to the rotation, but plugging those characters into ANN doesn't give me any results.
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That title was not posted in 2ch 'next episodes info' thread, so it's surely fake.
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I just watched the full opening sequence for Gigant Battle 2, and Shida did a really cool bit of Luffy fighting Hody in it, much more fast-paced and intense than the canon fight. In addition to that, the beginning where Luffy does his ''I'm gonna be the Pirate King'' bit and then runs to the bubble, I think that might've been done by Kuroyanagi, since the art looks pretty similar to when he was talking to Rayleigh in episode 521. And finally, it's hard to tell because the screen's so small and the quality when blown up isn't that great, but the part at the very end (with everyone running towards the camera and Luffy getting stuck between Zoro and Sanji while they're having another grudgematch) looks like Tate's work.
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Oy vey, the lack of in-between makes me a sad panda. It's a shame Toei doesn't prepare a separate version that has more in-between animation for release on DVDs or some other format.
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I just watched the full opening sequence for Gigant Battle 2, and Shida did a really cool bit of Luffy fighting Hody in it, much more fast-paced and intense than the canon fight. In addition to that, the beginning where Luffy does his ''I'm gonna be the Pirate King'' bit and then runs to the bubble, I think that might've been done by Kuroyanagi, since the art looks pretty similar to when he was talking to Rayleigh in episode 521. And finally, it's hard to tell because the screen's so small and the quality when blown up isn't that great, but the part at the very end (with everyone running towards the camera and Luffy getting stuck between Zoro and Sanji while they're having another grudgematch) looks like Tate's work.
Could you share the link? I've found this one, but it's a crappy quality.
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This is a better version:
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Yeah, last part with all of them running definitely looks like Tate.
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Since the episode didn't give me much trouble, I managed to complete my first full screen cap strip. So for your viewing pleasure, I present Toshio Deguchi:
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Brook: Hm, is it just me, or do my glasses not fit right?
Sanji: Forget about your glasses, what about my face!
Franky: That coloring error is totally ruining my super new look! -
That Grand battle Opening is pretty awesome, fantastic work by Shida, and it's good to see Tate animation on the new designs.
@crossword, I thought that part looked more like Sato and not Kuroyanagi, but not sure myself. Would love to see a Key Animation List for the opening like the dragonball one.
and that SH zoom scene before the shida scene seems familiar.
BTW, I'm very glad that someone special did the action part in today's episode, and I have to say, neither I or the Japanese expected Toei to get Nakatsuru to work on One Piece. That's a good move, considering Toriko's episode was the same case today with Shida and Ootsuka working on it.
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Anyone else think that this series needs a little more CG animation? Well, at least for the background artwork…
This last few episodes just doesn't have impressive background art...
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More CGI? Ughh, no. I'm much happier with the background as it is, thank you.
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Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi, oh how I've missed you. I wonder if he's just come off working on Episode of Bardock, because it'd seem a little odd he'd return to doing animation again and not do Dragon Ball!
I can't wait to see an HD version of the Gear Third scene…
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Does someone know, which scene Noriko Ozeki made in 524? I'm sure to read his name in the Animation List. And who did the other Key Animations in this episode? (with scenes please)
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Does someone know, which scene Noriko Ozeki made in 524? I'm sure to read his name in the Animation List. And who did the other Key Animations in this episode? (with scenes please)
I'm not sure, cause his style is not unique, so it's rare to spot his style.
Anyway, I'm almost sure that Urata did the action part at the end starting with Chopper, probably until the end.
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Anyone else think that this series needs a little more CG animation? Well, at least for the background artwork…
This last few episodes just doesn't have impressive background art...well you see the BGs are pretty much painted manually on Adobe Photoshop 7. not to mention the last few episodes were them navigating under the ocean, and there aren't really much awesome bg worthy scenes (not to mention enough light) in the past few episodes.
don't worry, fishman island's bound to be a treat.
lol Toei still at Photoshop 7 =_=;;
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Full staff
527
Script: Uesaka Hirohiko
Storyboard: Nakashima Yutaka
Episode director: Nakashima Yutaka
Animation director: Yokoyama Kenji528
Script: Tanaka Hitoshi
Storyboard: Ito Naoyuki
Episode director: Ito Naoyuki
Animation director: Nakatani Yukiko529
Script: Uesaka Hirohiko
Storyboard: Ueda Yoshihiro
Episode director: Ueda Yoshihiro
Animation director: Shimanuki Masahiro530
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Miyamoto Hiroaki
Episode director: Hiraike Ayako (new)
Animation director: Shingaki ShigefumiNo episode on 1/1
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Next titles (rough translation)
527: Landing in Fishman Island! The lovely mermaids
528: Explosive stimulation! The life's crisis of Sanji!
529: Fishman Island collapses?! Shirley's prediction
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Ah, one dud and three kings for the month. There's not much in the way of fighting so I guess we won't have much need for big name key animators.
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527, well, a talking chapter, I think Yokoyama can handle introductions quite well.
Ah great, Nakatani for 528, I thought she would do 527 but I guess it's better, also there will be some action in Nakatani's ep, hopefully Fujisawa is still with her.
Not much happens in 529, I'm glad it's Shimanuki. He is good with talking chapters.
As expected, Shingaki for 530, and as usual, they use him to introduce new characters, which is good, since he is good. Can't wait.
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OP is keeping a really good line up these days. I mean, Ishizuka, Inoue, Kawamura, Nakatani and Shingaki in less than two months is great.
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@Yuugi's:
Ah, one dud and three kinds for the month. There's not much in the way of fighting so I guess we won't have much need for big name key animators.
I won't really consider Yokoyama to be a dud… His just what TOEI need for a fast, decent looking, non-actiony episode... So, unless TOEI doesn't make stupid decision like putting him on an important episode without giving some great animators like that Whitebeard episode, he's good in my book...
Plus, he does gets better with his art now...
@Hao-sama,
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CGI is expensive and very time-consuming.Does anyone have the lists of key animators for episodes 187, 188, 189, and 199?
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187:
Keiji Fukuhara
Yoshimi Imagawa
Kouhei Kajiwara
Asako Ota
Shigenori Taniguchi188:
Ayako Saito
Maiko Takagi
Noriko Shimazawa
Keiko Ichihashi
Fumiko Urawa
Noe Inagaki
Yuka Aono
Kei Muramatsu189:
Hitoshi Inaba
Shiho Tamai
Tsuguo Sakamoto
Miho Teramae
Kouhei Kajiwara
Mieko Saito
Naoki Suehiro
Shigenori Taniguchi
Takaaki Sonoda199:
Kyoko Izumi
Mieko Saito
Hideaki Maniwa
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Well, since I started my Christmas vacation today (2 week break from BOTH my jobs) I decided to ring in the season with a re-watch of the Drum Island arc followed by Movie 9. Seems appropriately themed Chrismas anime, and plus it's a good comparison/contrast of classic One Piece and present day One Piece.
O-chan
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Does Shimanuki always had such bad animators staff like this current episode?
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Full staff
531
Script: Uesaka Hirohiko
Storyboard: Koga Tsuyoshi
Episode director: Koga Tsuyoshi
Animation director: Takagi Masayuki532
Script: Nakayama Tomohiro
Storyboard: Komaki Aya
Episode director: Komaki Aya
Animation director: Deguchi Toshio533
Script: Uesaka Hirohiko
Storyboard: Endo Tetsuya
Episode director: Sato Hiroyuki
Animation director: Yamashita Megumi534
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Imamura Takahiro
Episode director: Imamura Takahiro
Animation director: Yokoyama Kenji–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Next titles (very rough translation)
531: Dragon's palace! Leading to the helped shark
532: The coward crybaby! Hard tower's mermaid princess
533: Emergency situation! Dragon's palace is occupied
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Takagi is getting great animators yet again judging from the preview, Koga Tsuyoshi is a great director, so I guess that's why.
Even though the list doesn't look promising, but I guess they are saving for the good parts later on.
I'm happy with the handling of the arc so far, can't wait to see who they will bring for the big stuff later.
Thanks Archah.
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Full staff
531
Script: Uesaka Hirohiko
Storyboard: Koga Tsuyoshi
Episode director: Koga Tsuyoshi
Animation director: Takagi Masayuki532
Script: Nakayama Tomohiro
Storyboard: Komaki Aya
Episode director: Komaki Aya
Animation director: Deguchi Toshio533
Script: Uesaka Hirohiko
Storyboard: Endo Tetsuya
Episode director: Sato Hiroyuki
Animation director: Yamashita Megumi534
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Imamura Takahiro
Episode director: Imamura Takahiro
Animation director: Yokoyama Kenji–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Next titles (very rough translation)
531: Dragon's palace! Leading to the helped shark
532: The coward crybaby! Hard tower's mermaid princess
533: Emergency situation! Dragon's palace is occupied
534: Dragon's palace shakes! The white sail and the kidnapping caseExcuse my meticulousness. "Dragon" should be "Ryuuguu", "hard tower" as "hard-shell tower", and a typo in the last title misspells Shirahoshi's name, not "white sail".
Otherwise, thanks for the info.
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That's an awfully fast turnaround time for Yokoyama.
That list tells me that I really need to get off my butt and work on those animation director filmstrips some more.
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I hate how they spam Yokoyama, but if they are keeping him away from action, then I don't mind. The next few chapters are full of talking.
535+ things should start getting interesting.
I hope they do these parts justice:
! Luffy fighting Vander decken while he is tied up. And Luffy Vs. Jinbey, and surely the main figting starting with Luffy's epic entrance then the crew new abilities, I doubt they would screw them. This is the year of One Piece.
Regarding Tate's scene in 530, at first I thought he did the Hody action, but looking closely and re-watching the scene hundreds of times, I think Tate did the Twin Okama part, and Toru Shigeta did the Hody action, the final explosion and Hody throwing the ship mast is the work of Shuichi Ito.
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Yeah, I thought it was rather obvious that Tate was doing the Okama part. The ending would've been a lot more wavey in look had Tate key animated it.
The Yokoyama spamming is nothing, trust me. Uchiyama Masayuki was spammed like no tomorrow on Dragon Ball, which is probably why the other episodes were always so good looking.
! Dragon Ball: 3, 6, 11, 16, 20, 23, 27, 31, 34, 38, 41, 44, 46, 49, 52, 54, 58, 62, 65, 69, 72, 78, 84-85, 87, 91, 93, 96, 101, 105, 109, 111, 115, 118, 120
Dragon Ball Z: 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 18, 22, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38, 42, 45, 49, 53, 55, 59, 62, 67, 72, 74, 79, 83, 85, 88, 92, 96, 100, 102, 105, 108, 113, 118, 123, 128, 132, 136, 141, 145, 149, 151, 156, 161, 165, 169, 172, 178, 181, 186, 190, 194, 197, 203, 208, 212, 218, 223, 228, 233, 238, 243, 248, 254, 259, 265, 269, 273, 278, 283, 288
Dragon Ball GT: 2, 7, 12, 18, 23, 26, 29, 34, 39, 41, 45, 50, 53, 55, 58, 62That is real torture. Espicially after Dragon Ball Z #118.
Hopefully Tate will join Shimanuki's team again, if not take on supervising himself. Those two (with Hisada) worked wonders back in the day.
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@Yuugi's:
Yeah, I thought it was rather obvious that Tate was doing the Okama part. The ending would've been a lot more wavey in look had Tate key animated it.
The Yokoyama spamming is nothing, trust me. Uchiyama Masayuki was spammed like no tomorrow on Dragon Ball, which is probably why the other episodes were always so good looking.
! Dragon Ball: 3, 6, 11, 16, 20, 23, 27, 31, 34, 38, 41, 44, 46, 49, 52, 54, 58, 62, 65, 69, 72, 78, 84-85, 87, 91, 93, 96, 101, 105, 109, 111, 115, 118, 120
Dragon Ball Z: 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 18, 22, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38, 42, 45, 49, 53, 55, 59, 62, 67, 72, 74, 79, 83, 85, 88, 92, 96, 100, 102, 105, 108, 113, 118, 123, 128, 132, 136, 141, 145, 149, 151, 156, 161, 165, 169, 172, 178, 181, 186, 190, 194, 197, 203, 208, 212, 218, 223, 228, 233, 238, 243, 248, 254, 259, 265, 269, 273, 278, 283, 288
Dragon Ball GT: 2, 7, 12, 18, 23, 26, 29, 34, 39, 41, 45, 50, 53, 55, 58, 62That is real torture. Espicially after Dragon Ball Z #118.
Hopefully Tate will join Shimanuki's team again, if not take on supervising himself. Those two (with Hisada) worked wonders back in the day.
Yeah, but EVERY long running anime series has a mediocre animation director who does a good majority of the average episodes. I've seen it in Dragonball/DBZ/DBGT, Sailormoon, Naruto, YYH etc. Even long running comic book series go through this (mainly I think of the Ron Lim days during Archie's StH). It's mainly a supply and demand thing. To maintain the continuous demaind of maintaining a weekly series I've come to the conclusion that anime shows need a go-between animation direction for the "meh" episodes. It makes the episodes with the outstanding animation directors stand out more and it is a good way to utilize the budget. Besides that Yokoyama has improved in his own right and I prefer his post Marineford style compared to his say Water Seven style where his artwork really disrupted the flow of things.
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Well, yeah. That's sort of what I was getting at. Yokoyama's stuff is nowhere near as bad (or frequent) as Uchiyama's stuff, hence why I said using him wasn't the worst things could be.
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Uchiyama was the shit during the freeza arc. Some good animation was used in some of his episodes. He didn't start to turn terrible until the Android arc.
I remember the first terrible episode of his i saw was Goku vs 19. I thought i was watching a hanna barbera cartoon from the 70s.
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I think the Uchiyama episodes started to stand out more - in a bad way - because the art evolved and was getting more detailed, except his episodes, that remained pretty much the same all the way through GT.
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