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Title: ''Counter Move! Marco the Phoenix's Flames''
Chapters Covered: 998
Episode Director: Toshihiro Maeya
Animation Director: Shinichi Suzuki
Time: 7:30PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
One Piece Episode 1013 Preview
Really good episode. I like that the anime expanded on the beginning portion of Jimbei vs. Who Who.
! From the preview for next week episode, it looks like the anime is going to expand on Yamato's flashback with Ace.
Jinbe has CoC!!!
Whoever made the executive decision to have the transformed Zoan-users' mouths hang open like a puppet's when they're speaking needs to have a bucket of ice water dumped over their head or something. It looks awful! Literally no one would care if they remained closed or whatever during dialogue and it would be one less frame that the animators would have to draw!
I'm not really familiar with Shinichi Suzuki as an animation director since he handles episodes very infrequently and had assistants on his most recent episodes (if it's the same guy listed on ANN he's almost 90?! More power to him if he's still working at that age) but he seems to slot in to the same niche that Deguchi fits into: his episodes won't be the most animated and won't be quite as crisp as Yokoyama's but they're functional enough. You can really feel the directorship trying to power through these bridge episodes we've been having lately but things should start looking up next week once we start hitting more TV-friendly material and the action really starts to pop off. I'm already looking forward to Ryota Nakamura's return on 1013.
They do the same thing with Kaido when he's in his full dragon form and it looks weird.
I sincerely don't know what is the difference in workload it takes to have a humanoid character's jaw move up and down with mouth flaps, and a animalistic form character's jaw do the same. It's literally only three or four frames that would be needed.
