@worstje:
Toei really needs to start stepping it up. Animation was horrible on all counts this episode, nevermind the horrible pacing. If Naruto can afford CGI to show entire armies with fancy swing around shots to make stuff look like a proper sizey battle, then Toei can too given the fact that One Piece is at least as successful. That haki blast deserved the royal CG treatment, no doubts about it.
Besides that, characters were horribly off-model. Luffy looked like a little chibi kid when he was looking at Hody. Nami looked like a little grinch, or sorta like fake Nami, when she was hiding behind the others. Etc etc. Seriously Toei. Step. It. Up. :(
Why is it so hard to get the faces right for some of the least changed characters? Luffy didn't change and yet his face is off-model. Nami only has longer hair, but that too gets off-model. Usopp's expressions, nose and all, even look messed up. In comparison, Franky looks just fine, and he actually changed. Wtf, wtf, wtf.
it indeed seems that the the best animation like CGI and quaility are invested in naruto, if the they animated one piece episodes with the same quality like at least the animation of luffy's kick in the previous epiode or more like strong world the series would have been more succesful but then they should also remove the filler scenes or episodes. the filler scenes in this episodes i didn't like where the scenes when the 100.000 men attacked that chopper, brook,nami ,usopp started to panic in fear like the old days before their training and make them look weak , in the manga they where much more confident in battle . Also in the manga chopper nami and usopp where in the thousand sunny ready to charge with ther new weapons.