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    • JulieYBM
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      I figured this belongs here since it's about animation.

      Why is the animation (and art) in the openings… bad now?

      Opening 12, 13, 14, and 15 had fluid movement, and even emulated the art of manga pretty nicely. And good choreography with the song, most importantly.

      But then the art and visual direction got worse with 16, then 18, and 19. They're actually hard to watch compared the openings above. Anybody know why?

      Poor planning and last minute decision making makes it difficult for the production team to assemble both a high number of animators or allocate a lengthier amount of time so that a small group of animators can work on the Opening animation.

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        I mean that could be helped if they went back to 1:30 min openings again lol. Sad cause the Zou arc often looked better than its opening.

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          I wish that Toei had provided animation credits for the openings prior to #13, because watching them all one after the other, the shift in style between Share the World and the previous one is so massive that even back then when we weren't paying much of any attention to the staff we were able to see the difference. Not just the art style, the entire animation style is much more dynamic and modern and the coloring more, well, colorful, especially after the Thriller Bark palette.

          Was Hisada taking over character design duties that much of a breath of fresh air? Had Koizumi become the One Piece equivalent of Yamamuro by 2009 (he had kept a number of Oda's East Blue/early Baroque Works-era design quirks around long past their expiration dates, after all) That was at the time when Shida, Onishi, Tate, and Tomita were gaining their prominence and Nakatani, Shingaki, and Kawamura (and even, sigh, Deguchi) came on board so I wonder if there had been a bigger staff shakeup around that time that allowed the animators more freedom or if Toei had just been in the right place at the right time to snag a wave of fresh new blood.

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            I mean that could be helped if they went back to 1:30 min openings again lol. Sad cause the Zou arc often looked better than its opening.

            Not really. They just have to plan better, no matter what. After all, bringing back Ending would still mean that animators would have to be dug up. Dragon Ball Super keeps struggling with that, too.

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            I wish that Toei had provided animation credits for the openings prior to #13, because watching them all one after the other, the shift in style between Share the World and the previous one is so massive that even back then when we weren't paying much of any attention to the staff we were able to see the difference. Not just the art style, the entire animation style is much more dynamic and modern and the coloring more, well, colorful, especially after the Thriller Bark palette.

            Was Hisada taking over character design duties that much of a breath of fresh air? Had Koizumi become the One Piece equivalent of Yamamuro by 2009 (he had kept a number of Oda's East Blue/early Baroque Works-era design quirks around long past their expiration dates, after all) That was at the time when Shida, Onishi, Tate, and Tomita were gaining their prominence and Nakatani, Shingaki, and Kawamura (and even, sigh, Deguchi) came on board so I wonder if there had been a bigger staff shakeup around that time that allowed the animators more freedom or if Toei had just been in the right place at the right time to snag a wave of fresh new blood.

            It was probably a change in animation supervisors affecting things. Mind you, though, that Koizumi's work post-One Piece has been pretty good, so I don't think he's to blame for prior Openings being bad, there's just been a greater focus on high-quality animation since the later 2000s.

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              So does anyone know if we are getting a mini filler arc yet?

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                So does anyone know if we are getting a mini filler arc yet?

                It's seemed to be hinting at that for the previous episode, stop to early to tell.

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                  So does anyone know if we are getting a mini filler arc yet?

                  We probably won't know until the titles come out in early March, unless an small announcement is made like there was for the Breed filler episodes after Punk Hazard.

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                    Now Kawamura has moved to the Precure team, so there will not be Kawamura's episode at least in the near future.

                    And the director of Film Gold, as well as the 3rd chief director of One Piece anime, Miyamoto, has also moved to the Precure team.

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                      One Piece 4D - Tokyo One Piece Tower

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                        Now Kawamura has moved to the Precure team, so there will not be Kawamura's episode at least in the near future.

                        And the director of Film Gold, as well as the 3rd chief director of One Piece anime, Miyamoto, has also moved to the Precure team.

                        Despite being upset that One Piece will lack those valuable staff members, I would like to note that nobody should say Toei cares less about One Piece because 2 of their best directors are now working on other Toei show (Nagamine to Dragon Ball Super, and Miyamoto to Precure). I actually think both Dragon Ball Super and Precure will have some of their iconic directors missing due to them working on the upcoming Saint Seiya Saintia Sho and Sailor Moon Crystal S4, I'm already almost sure Morio Hatano (the previous series director of Dragon Ball Super) is working on one of them.

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                          Despite being upset that One Piece will lack those valuable staff members, I would like to note that nobody should say Toei cares less about One Piece because 2 of their best directors are now working on other Toei show (Nagamine to Dragon Ball Super, and Miyamoto to Precure). I actually think both Dragon Ball Super and Precure will have some of their iconic directors missing due to them working on the upcoming Saint Seiya Saintia Sho and Sailor Moon Crystal S4, I'm already almost sure Morio Hatano (the previous series director of Dragon Ball Super) is working on one of them.

                          Honestly this makes me think otherwise, considering any lick of talent that manages to pull it together, gets reassigned to another "more important" project.

                          But who knows perhaps it's just a coincidence that just keeps happening. Than again it would get boring staying on a show for such a long time. So I guess it's selfish for me to say otherwise

                          Still…

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                            In exchange One Piece should snag Itaoka and get back Nakatani. I mean, fair's fair, right?

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                              One Piece 4D - Tokyo One Piece Tower

                              That cliffhanger (I have no idea what happens next haha) That's some serious 3D talent. 3D anime characters didn't look nearly as good 10 years ago as they do now. Even some of the more recent 3D animation from Toei (certain shots from Resurrection F) doesn't look great.

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                                In exchange One Piece should snag Itaoka and get back Nakatani. I mean, fair's fair, right?

                                You would think. Bye toei just let's the one piece name do all the work for them.

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                                  In exchange One Piece should snag Itaoka and get back Nakatani. I mean, fair's fair, right?

                                  Nakatani is just done from dream star movie production, good luck bring her back 😛
                                  and regarding Itaoka, are you even imagine itaoka leave precure, No way :3
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                                  That cliffhanger (I have no idea what happens next haha) That's some serious 3D talent. 3D anime characters didn't look nearly as good 10 years ago as they do now. Even some of the more recent 3D animation from Toei (certain shots from Resurrection F) doesn't look great.

                                  Miyamoto Hiroshi(gatyapen) was responsible for this, he is the most known CG figure in Toei Animation

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                                    Nakatani is just done from dream star movie production, good luck bring her back 😛
                                    and regarding Itaoka, are you even imagine itaoka leave precure, No way :3

                                    Hey man, if One Piece can get friggin' Hokuto Sakiyama to do some cuts and completely waste him (lolololol) anything's possible!

                                    But to be serious for a moment, is Nishino currently attached to Tiger Mask W? He's a far more plausible choice to come back when that ends if so. And I cling to my pipe dream of Tate being saved from the black hole that is Dragon Ball Super and returning in a blaze of glory (though admittedly the Buu vs. Basil fight was the first time he was able to really cut loose on that show).

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                                      Hey man, if One Piece can get friggin' Hokuto Sakiyama to do some cuts and completely waste him (lolololol) anything's possible!

                                      But to be serious for a moment, is Nishino currently attached to Tiger Mask W? He's a far more plausible choice to come back when that ends if so. And I cling to my pipe dream of Tate being saved from the black hole that is Dragon Ball Super and returning in a blaze of glory (though admittedly the Buu vs. Basil fight was the first time he was able to really cut loose on that show).

                                      Tiger mask had nishino indeed, also has Onishi(he do hell a lot of work!), also Sachi Suzuki(I think she is a one piece fan because she own some one piece figures) so she maybe will join One Piece after TMW is done, there is also Yamamoto Takumi who is extremely promised talent, there is a treasure box in TMW and we can't wait to see who will get them (also, Sonoda is also there!). In other hand, Shintani is still MIA since popinQ movie is done, wonder if he will back to One Piece or not

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                                        That is some Dead Or Alive levels of jiggle in that 4D video.

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                                          Honestly this makes me think otherwise, considering any lick of talent that manages to pull it together, gets reassigned to another "more important" project.

                                          Don't forget that One Piece recently got the great addition of Keiichi Ichikawa, and imho opinion, Ichikawa > Kawamura.

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                                          Hey man, if One Piece can get friggin' Hokuto Sakiyama to do some cuts and completely waste him (lolololol) anything's possible!

                                          Actually, Itaoka doesn't only work for Precure, recently showed up in Crayon Shin Chan, but I doubt Itaoka would work as a regular in anything except for Precure.
                                          That reminds me of One Piece episodes with surprise key animators like Takashi Kojima and Sushio. (Sushio's was a long time ago though)

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                                          Tiger mask had nishino indeed, also has Onishi(he do hell a lot of work!), also Sachi Suzuki(I think she is a one piece fan because she own some one piece figures) so she maybe will join One Piece after TMW is done, there is also Yamamoto Takumi who is extremely promised talent, there is a treasure box in TMW and we can't wait to see who will get them (also, Sonoda is also there!). In other hand, Shintani is still MIA since popinQ movie is done, wonder if he will back to One Piece or not

                                          Also don't forget Akihiro Ota and Koudai Watanabe, the guys that made the episode where Rebecca gave Luffy the key outstanding.
                                          I really question myself if Shintani left the industry all together, especially considering the fact that PoppinQ was in production for several years, so he might have just animated in the early parts of the project.

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                                            Don't forget that One Piece recently got the great addition of Keiichi Ichikawa, and imho opinion, Ichikawa > Kawamura.

                                            I was thinking the same thing, actually, since he does seem to be sticking around rather than being a one-hit wonder. Of course, in a just world he would be replacing Deguchi instead, but that guy's probably going to stick around to the very end due to being the designated garbage time guy.

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                                              ^
                                              Ichikawa said that he did saint seiya poster but he is not in the production team(which have not been dicided yet at that time) and he will spent some time in one piece, but we dont know how long he will stay.

                                              and regading poppinQ, i am pretty sure that the production was mainly done from late2015 to 1st half of 2016(and they spend very long time in preproduction, the movie looks diffrent from 1st long teaser that aired back in 2014), so it's not that long time enough to presume that they actually left the industry(maybe they left toei tho, like Rie and Narumi who have been Mia for a long time)

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                                                I was thinking the same thing, actually, since he does seem to be sticking around rather than being a one-hit wonder. Of course, in a just world he would be replacing Deguchi instead, but that guy's probably going to stick around to the very end due to being the designated garbage time guy.

                                                Deguchi Toshio has a history of being fast enough to solo key animate episodes by himself, so he'll stick around if only because of his speed. Of course, Dragon Ball Super sure could use him so that both he and Yashima Yoshitaka can get the production ahead of schedule.

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                                                  Looks like one of toei's best animators Naohiro Shintani has returned to One piece this week, his been gone for the last near 3 years due to constantly working on Toei's anime movies.

                                                  Keiichi Ichikawa is great addition to the one piece team.

                                                  Atsuko Kawamura did a fantastic job the last 8 years working on one piece,the man never let us down with his consistent good art but talent comes, goes and some time returns so it's unrealtic to expect them to work on one piece forever.

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                                                    Nagamine and Itou Satoshi will be the series directors joining Fukazawa for this upcoming Supernova arc. I have to wonder if Nagamine's involvement was early on before leaving to join Dragon Ball Super?

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                                                      Nagamine and Itou Satoshi will be the series directors joining Fukazawa for this upcoming Supernova arc. I have to wonder if Nagamine's involvement was early on before leaving to join Dragon Ball Super?

                                                      Well, I guess it depends on the schedule. Source?

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                                                        There's an entry for it on the anime's official site (the podcast's site has a write-up/summary of it here). Ito and Fukazawa are the other two directors attached to this, and given that there are only three screenwriters listed as well, we're most likely looking at another three-part filler arc instead of something longer, unfortunately. On the plus side though, those three directors are the show's better ones and they apparently consulted with Oda on the story, so there's hope yet that the quality won't take a dive like the others. We'll see how things shake out for sure when the upcoming titles and staff listings leak in another day or two.

                                                        More pertinent to this thread, Midori Matsuda teamed up with Hisada for the character design work. She partnered with him on her animation director debut as well.

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                                                          I think these are just the episode directors for the three episodes of the arc rather than the series directors for the arc

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                                                            The summary implies that the new arc starts from April 9th.

                                                            Titles and staff info: http://onepiecepodcast.com/2017/03/09/anime-whole-cake-island-arc-april-9/

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                                                                780: Ito/Yokoyama
                                                                781: Ueda/Matsuda
                                                                782: Ito/Takara
                                                                783: Koyama/Deguchi

                                                                I was hoping that preview article indicated that Fukazawa and Nagamine (posthumously) would be directing the other two episodes, but oh well. A director handling two episodes so close together happened in the Silver Mine arc as well, though thankfully Ito's better than Ueda.

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                                                                  No news yet on the next opening?

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                                                                    No news yet on the next opening?

                                                                    Nupz, not yet. Might be in jump within two weeks.

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                                                                      well, was hoping this filler would last longer than that.

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                                                                        I was really shocked when I saw thay they did credit Fukazawa, Ito and Nagamine together as Series Directors. This never happened before in One Piece anime.

                                                                        According to the interviews, it seems that Fukazawa didn't participate in this Marine Rookies Arc because both Koyama and Ito didn't mention Fukazawa's work in this arc, and the chief director of this arc is Ito indeed with Nagamine's supporting. In the opening there are also spaces between Fukazawa and the other two in the OP staff credits. So I think they credit Fukazawa because he is the current chief director of One Piece anime.

                                                                        And they also credit Matsuda as CD and CAD together with Hisada. She was the CD and CAD of this Marine Rookies Arc, but I'm not sure if she will become the formal character designer in the future.

                                                                        In addition, there was an another interview with Ito and an interview with the current producer Koyama. Ito said that Matsuda was already a huge fan of One Piece before she joined the One Piece staff.

                                                                        Koyama confirmed that it needs the decisions of all stakeholders related to One Piece to make a filler arc, just like what I said before. So people really shouldn't simply blame Toei or the anime staff because of lacking filler episodes.

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                                                                          I saw the video on YT
                                                                          Amazing work, we can see the episode is very not different from the manga

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                                                                              I was wondering, how is this program/site/whatever called?
                                                                              http://prntscr.com/erqf0b
                                                                              Does it even exist anymore?

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                                                                                I was wondering, how is this program/site/whatever called?
                                                                                http://prntscr.com/erqf0b
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                                                                                Yes, try here: [http://animatorscorner.com/

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                                                                                  Keiichi Ichikawa, the Chief Animation Director and Character Designer for Heart of Gold, is now the Chief Animation Director and Character Designer for the series

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                                                                                    Oh shit.

                                                                                    Hisada's been with the anime since literally day one, and I think his tenure as character designer did a lot of good things for the anime's style beyond just the look of the characters. If he's fully leaving the show and not just stepping back into a more minor role it's going to be odd to me to not have him there. But Ichikawa is the best possible replacement we could have right now. (aside from Sato of course, but Toei no doubt has him chained to a desk forcing him to do movie design work)

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                                                                                      Yeah, a rough translation of the interview with the crew for the arc on the One Piece website says that Hisada "divided" the Character Design and Chief Animation Director roles to Ichikawa and seeing as Midori Matsuda did the Character Design and Chief Animation Direction for the recent filler arc, it's obvious that Ichikawa is taking over the roles

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                                                                                        Holy shit that big news, Hisada has been with one piece since day 0.

                                                                                        Explains why Ichikawa has been in ton of episodes lately, his style reminds me of the previous chief animation director kozumi, while midori takes after hisada.

                                                                                        Looks like the vine smokes character designs are still by Hisada

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                                                                                          According to the interview, Hisada will still be the Character Designer, and Ichikawa will be the Chief Animation Director from #783. And now the CAD role has been greatly powered up because that Ichikawa don't need to spend most of his time doing the design jobs.

                                                                                          SD: Fukazawa
                                                                                          CD: Hisada
                                                                                          CAD: Ichikawa

                                                                                          Sometimes translations might really be misleading 😆

                                                                                          This is one of the biggest news in the history of One Piece anime for sure.

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                                                                                            Ah, that explains why there were a few cuts in 781 that looked very Ichikawa even though he wasn't on the key animator list. Still very welcome news regardless, and it looks like he's going to have a decent hand in Deguchi's episode this week.

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                                                                                            @Machineman:

                                                                                            Explains why Ichikawa has been in ton of episodes lately, his style reminds me of the previous chief animation director kozumi, while midori takes after hisada.

                                                                                            Personally I think it's closer to the Sato/Umakoshi stuff we've seen in the recent movies, what with all the lines (Umakoshi was an active contributor to Saint Seiya Omega too, after all).

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                                                                                              Ah, that explains why there were a few cuts in 781 that looked very Ichikawa even though he wasn't on the key animator list. Still very welcome news regardless, and it looks like he's going to have a decent hand in Deguchi's episode this week.

                                                                                              Those scenes were by Ito (or corrected by Ito). Although Ichikawa's role is from #783, but we can easily found that Ito and Takara has already been influenced by Ichikawa's style, such as the way of drawing shadow lines.

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                                                                                              ADs of the previous filler arc:

                                                                                              #780 Yokoyama
                                                                                              #781 Matsuda and Ito
                                                                                              #782 Takara and Hisada

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                                                                                                Still big news because Ichikawa's lovely style will be present all the time

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                                                                                                  One Piece episode 784: 「0と4遭遇!ジェルマ66」
                                                                                                  “0 And 4 - Jerma 66 Encounter ! ”

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                                                                                                    How's the lineup nowadays? who are the good and bad ADs? a lil' list would be really appreciated~

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                                                                                                      Unless I'm forgetting someone, currently the show has ten animation directors going by who's been involved over the past year or so:

                                                                                                      Keiichi Ichikawa (also chief animation director)
                                                                                                      Yusuke Isochi
                                                                                                      Kazuya Hisada (also character designer)
                                                                                                      Isamu Takara
                                                                                                      Shuuichi Ito
                                                                                                      Midori Matsuda
                                                                                                      Kenji Yokoyama
                                                                                                      Shigefumi Shingaki
                                                                                                      Masayuki Takagi
                                                                                                      Toshio Deguchi

                                                                                                      Of those ten, I'd rank Ichikawa, Ito, and Takara as the best overall with Isochi and Hisada coming in right behind them. Most everyone else is solidly "decent" in my eyes except for Deguchi, who is far and away the worst of the group, and Shingaki, who's taken a big dive recently. For some more detailed thoughts:

                                                                                                      ! Keiichi Ichikawa: Before joining the show he served as animation director and character designer for the Episode of Sabo and Heart of Gold specials, and he was also the character designer for Saint Seiya Omega a few years back. I find his One Piece style to be influenced by Masayuki Sato's and Yoshihiko Umakoshi's work on the recent films (Umakoshi also shared the role of character designer on Saint Seiya Omega), which is most apparent to me in the thick, bold lines he uses.
                                                                                                      Kazuya Hisada: As character designer he's responsible for the reference sheets the rest of the production uses and the overall look of the show. During his tenure in that position starting from Sabaody he's modernized the look of the show to be much closer to Oda's current artwork after Noboru Koizumi's kind of lanky, angular look that originated from the East Blue/early Grand Line days. Hisada's been around since the very beginning, and if you know what to look for his art's got kind of a boxy, straight quality to it on the show itself, not so much in the reference material; most noticeable when he draws characters in profile. He's had more "sakuga" bits of key animation in the show lately compared to before.
                                                                                                      Kenji Yokoyama: Yokoyama has also been around from the start - I think episode 3 was his first one. For a long time I thought his art was pretty simplistic and wooden, but he's improved a lot since Hisada became the character designer and now I find his art to generally be very crisp and on-model, plus he seems to be particularly skilled at drawing the more complex, crazy designs. The trade off however, is that his episodes rarely have complex animation unless he gets a lot of help or is paired with a really good director, and utilize a lot of noticeable shortcuts.
                                                                                                      Masayuki Takagi: The last of the "Old Trio" who've been AD-ing since East Blue. Since Katsumi Ishizuka stepped away his style's the closest to Koizumi's, but it's kind of stretched horizontally and otherwise exaggerated. When his episodes look good, they look good. When they're not, they tend to look kind of sloppy.
                                                                                                      Yusuke Isochi: Joined in Fishman Island. His style's essentially "Yukiko Nakatani Lite" since they're actually part of the same studio if I remember right.
                                                                                                      Shuuichi Ito: Ito became an animation director towards the final third of Dressrosa I believe, but he's been providing key animation for a quite a while prior, even as far back as Movie 1. I'm still trying to get a solid handle on the quirks of his art, but recently it seems like he's adopted Ichikawa's method of bold shading lines.
                                                                                                      Isamu Takara: Became an animation director towards the end of Dressrosa, and has been providing key animation since at least Punk Hazard. His animation style is kind of loose and smeary like you see in a lot of anime these days, and that reflects on his art.
                                                                                                      Midori Matsuda: Joined in Zo, but contributed key animation on a fairly regular basis during Dressrosa. Definitely takes after Hisada in her art style.
                                                                                                      Shigefumi Shingaki: Joined in Sabaody. His art kind of had a sharp look to it at first, then gradually became kind of "thick" as well. Unfortunately his episodes had a big drop-off in quality after the timeskip, but he's shown some signs of recovery lately.
                                                                                                      Toshio Deguchi: Joined in Amazon Lily. Every production has a weak link, and he is One Piece's. On the whole his art's pretty boxy and simplistic, and he'll probably be around for a good long while yet due to being the designated "garbage time" animation director of the bunch.

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                                                                                                        Yokoyama Kenji and Deguchi Toshio have histories of doing solo key animation, so it's no surprise that their episodes have 'improved' over the years now that they aren't being asked to solo key animate entire episodes anymore. Of course, that has the added effect of spreading other key animators around too thinly.

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