Title: ''A Deadly Agreement - Luffy and Bege Join Forces!''
Chapters Covered: rest of 858-859
Episode Director: Masahiro Hosoda ()
Animation Director: Masahiro Kitazaki ()
Time: 8:30PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
No quip this week. Instead I'll just post Ryuusei Nakao singing in character:
One Piece Episode 829 Preview
Inoue sitting pretty high on the key animators list tonight, I sense another Inoue supervised episode for the Tea Party
Poor Compote won't be getting an intro, I guess.
This was an okay episode. I think the highlight for me was the underworld brokers arriving. And Caesar is always great. They've been doing a good job hyping this wedding.
Face slideshow the episode.
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Caesar is always the highlight of any episode he shows up in. I took his absence for granted.
Seriously anticlimactic to watch this after Dragon Ball this week. But the content was ok.
Thats literally comparing apples and oranges but ok
Caesar is always the highlight of any episode he shows up in. I took his absence for granted.
That segment was marvelous. I was cracking up when he was wheezing out 100%
The face stills actually worked pretty well this episode given its tone…but there were still a bit too many of them. Liked the Caesar stuff a lot, especially as he was talking about the KX Launchers in a near-orgasmic tone. The episodes continue to be solid but we've had 11 of them since the one where Pudding turned evil, so I'm really anxious to get to the wedding already. There should be some good chances for interesting action-packed filler material there.
Thats literally comparing apples and oranges but ok
I was talking about the animation. And no, that's completely relevant as it's exactly what Japanese viewers did.
I don't think we ever got an One Piece episode that was a comparable sakuga fest from beginning to end, anyway
I was talking about the animation. And no, that's completely relevant as it's exactly what Japanese viewers did.
I don't think we ever got an One Piece episode that was a comparable sakuga fest from beginning to end, anyway
We've also never had an end of series episode, seeing as One Piece hasn't ended yet. You can't really compare a series finale (Even from a weekly show) to the One Piece anime. Not only that, but to make DBS#130 possible they had atleast 3 episodes in the weeks leading up to it composed almost entirely of reused animation from earlier episodes and stillframes. That is far from ideal. As an example, DBS#129 had 18 minutes of footage, 2 minutes of that was reused animation, 2 minutes was new action and 14 minutes was still-frames or CG/Stock explosions.
One Piece is in a much better place than Dragon Ball Super, be happy with what we have.
We've also never had an end of series episode, seeing as One Piece hasn't ended yet. You can't really compare a series finale (Even from a weekly show) to the One Piece anime. Not only that, but to make DBS#130 possible they had atleast 3 episodes in the weeks leading up to it composed almost entirely of reused animation from earlier episodes and stillframes. That is far from ideal. As an example, DBS#129 had 18 minutes of footage, 2 minutes of that was reused animation, 2 minutes was new action and 14 minutes was still-frames or CG/Stock explosions.
One Piece is in a much better place than Dragon Ball Super, be happy with what we have.
Amen to that man
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I was talking about the animation. And no, that's completely relevant as it's exactly what Japanese viewers did.
I don't think we ever got an One Piece episode that was a comparable sakuga fest from beginning to end, anyway
Yes we absolutely have and many many many more than Dragon Ball Super in fact, even as recent as this arc. You may just not remember
Dragon Ball still exists? lol
That the one with the purple sphinx cat now? Or the blue-hair Goku?
i remember one piece #616 had so much sakuga from the beginning to the end , This was one of the episodes that I remembered now, and there is certainly a lot of course
@Miss:
That the one with the purple sphinx cat now? Or the blue-hair Goku?
They are both on it.
So is the good art and direction for the past ten episodes been a fluke or has there been a staff shakeup at Toei?
So is the good art and direction for the past ten episodes been a fluke or has there been a staff shakeup at Toei?
This has been repeated numerous times, but the anime had a new director that took over at the tail-end of Dressrosa and a new Chief Animation Director at the start of Whole Cake Island.
It's no fluke.
As much as I wish Toei would let some of their star animators work on One Piece from time to time more often than they do - nothing against the regulars, they do good work it's just that fresh blood is always good* comparing a talking heads episode to this week's Dragon Ball Super is indeed apples and oranges. Can you imagine what this episode would look like with all the same content but all that super-exaggerated movement and seizure-inducing effects? It would be absolutely ridiculous. Super's animation has been rightfully dunked on enough, so there's nothing wrong with it getting some dignity. …geez I can't believe I'm actually arguing in favor of the anime being less animated. Go figure. That being said, the little preview of the guests did look pretty bad with them blatantly being static images being bobbed up and down, but they should make up for that with their proper introduction with Fukuzawa himself hyping it up.
This was a heavily-corrected episode too. Virtually every shot of Luffy, Nami, Sanji (as usual), and Carrot were drawn/corrected by Ichikawa (Jimbei got completely left out the poor guy, even Brook, Pedro, and Chopper got the Ichikawa treatment every now and then). Like despite Inoue being the second name on the key animator list I only recognized one shot as being distinctly his, and it was one where Luffy and Nami were shown at a distance to boot. Kitazaki even seemed to be mimicking Ichikawa's art style at certain points. Otherwise, Ryuusei Nakao's orgasmic performance stole the show, and I got some good chuckles out of Bege casually tossing the bazooka away and everyone acting like he tossed a grenade, plus how Carrot just looked completely lost throughout the entire episode.
