This episode was pretty poor overall, and that was mainly due to the very underwhelming direction this episode. Very obviously a sacrificed episode in that sense, with the story boarder for this episode not directing his own episode. Visually, the episode was mostly fine, studio cosmo did decent enough, and Ichikawa's direction made the episode a lot less rough on its own. However, the poor direction and background art not paying attention to lighting made everything feel rather flat.
Overall, not a good episode. Next week looks far more interesting, looking forward to Komaki's direction, and studio Guts return to the show after episode of Skypiea.(wtf is happening with the fonts)