Obviously this wasn't a slow episode, or I don't know how to describe #990 and #991.
Pretty good episode by Hosoda, and this was one of his best One Piece episodes for sure. And music placement was on point, which made this episode more enjoyable than it could have been. And Takagi's art was really outstanding.
…I thought his collar was ALSO made of Sea Stone...weird... why doesnt he escape then? Also despite being the anime's biggest champion this side of Skippy my heart sank when I saw Jet Gattling being so boringly animated. And I dont mean in Sakuga way either. I meant that on Enies Lobby we couldnt EVEN SEE JET GATTLING, it was insanely fast and powerful. Here its almost a footnote.
His collar wasn't made by sea stone tho.
And #932 was a low priority episode, and literally almost all the resources went to the next following episodes.
Yukiko Nakatani seems to making a return on the TV series as an animation supervisor since the beginning of the Dressrosa arc. I'm posting this here because I know a lot of people here are very fond of her. If she's gonna become a regular supervisor again or if it's just a one time thing is yet unknown.
She will attend the Precure movie of this year as part AD tho.
You guys get so worked up. It’s a word, and it’s being used to describe the art and animation, not the animators.
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Lazy also isn’t a terrible word for it. Imagine you’ve got two shots from the same director/artist/animator team. One of them is well-composed and the characters are on model. The other is a mess: off-model characters and rough art/composition. The first shot was clearly more considered and worked on. The second one seems slapped together, given less a priority. But because of the first shot, you know what the artist team is capable of if they take more time and considers more thoroughly what they’re animating/drawing. The second shot, by comparison, is lazy in the sense that it had less time and thought put into it. This has a tendency of happening in OP, I don’t think many people would disagree. (Another great example is looking at the most recent Koi fish episode and seeing what the team is capable of but clearly hasn’t been putting out the past few years, for the most part).
That said, we should also be sympathetic. There’s a reason for the lazy art: the animators/artists are overworked (not lazy) and they’re on a time crunch, so they don’t have the time or resources to make every shot considered and gorgeous.
Personally, I blame Toei for this. They could easily hire more artists and animators so that the current ones aren’t so overworked and each person has more time to thoroughly consider and work on their assigned shots. I really think more people working on this show would increase the production quality, and I’m always hopeful with new arcs that they’ve expanded their team a little bit.
Why not? More staff divides the work so that this effort can be put in every episode. This is a staffing problem.
As Tu's friend, what I can say is that many animators in the industry don't want to draw One Piece because of the character being too complicated to draw.
For example, Tu used to ask his friends to help him with the 2nd animation of Kataruki, but his friends rejected him once they saw Katakuri's design. And not only Tu's friends of course.
These years Oda likes to design complicated characters, but this caused the fact that many animators don't want to attend the show. This is the reality.
What's more, lazy is never a good word no matter what the meaning of the word is. Everyday Tu works until 2 a.m. or even later literally from Monday to Sunday, and he also told me that the team has many hard working staff. The word "lazy" is insult to these hard working staff. Seriously.
Thats in the second act, and we're only showing stuff from the first episode, so its a bit of a way away.
It included scenes from more than one episodes tho
From the genga of Key Visual, the new CD will be most likely Matsuda.
Toei has been circle jerking these outfits since the skip. Wouldn’t be surprised if they do this until the end of series.
It isnt because of Toei, but Oda.
I loved this episode soooooo much. Can I say the anime is doing a better job than the manga in the past few episodes?
I couldn't believe that all the butterfly scenes in Whole Cake Island arc were anime filler indeed. Yeah they were filler, but they made all the Sanji, Reiju and Sora plots much more emotional.
Reiju is one of the best characters in One Piece.
So after hearing all the hype surrounding this episode I decided to give it a watch. This is the first time I've watched a One Piece episode in ages…
Yeah this sure was some top-notch animation work here. Pretty much every single part of the fight looked spectacular, and the rest was... passable. The animation quality outside the action shots did not drop to a distracting level. Pacing still felt a bit sluggish for my part, but when it was on, it was absolutely f-ing on.
…Show desperately needs some new music though. Oh sure, the Gigant Thor Axe theme from Strong World is an epic climax song, but it gets used for that purpose way too much. It was in Fishman Island's climax (several times, even). It was in Dress Rosa's climax. Now it's in Whole Cake Island's climax. Is some variety really too much to ask for?
These years the show does have many new pieces of music tho.
