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I'd say that most episodes in Wano have been done pretty well as opposed to being done poorly.
How is that at all comparable? You can't compare viewership rankings of an anime to a manga. Also, One Piece is still doing incredibly well. Its even beating out shows like My Hero Academia in the rankings for viewership(only in the Kanto region).
No, like, objectively, the quality of the animation of the show has significantly improved. One Piece had never previously had so many consistently well animated "special" episodes, or anything comparable to it. Also, the better use of colours and atmosphere has dramatically elevated the visuals of the series.
Wano has far greater animation peaks, and far more of them. There has never been an episode like 957 outside of Wano, and there have been amazingly animated episode like 914 and 915 and lately 961 and 962.
One Piece has never been so consistently well animated, and there are a number of factors that contribute to this. A huge factor being the consistent present of talented foreign freelancers.
Before Wano, we never had guys like Takashi Kojima consistently appearing on the series. Now he appears quite frequently.
Like, even if you talk with animators on the show, the general impression you get is that they are far happier with the quality and production of the output they are producing than previously.
Like, WCI was good, but Wano is a definite step up production wise, both in terms of direction, visual aesthetic, and the level of animation(pretty much all the prominent animators from WCI are working on Wano, and all of them are producing better scenes than they did in WCI).
Again, your evidence for that is superficial at best. The scales your using aren't comparable at all.
I don't have any real problems with them changing stuff if it makes the action flow better. Also, its easy to retroactively change such a thing.
Both of those are contentious examples. For Hunter x Hunter, I know plenty of people who vastly prefer the 99 adaptation for the arcs that it covered(and funnily enough, a big reason for that, is because they prefer 99 aesthetically, as well as animation wise).
They literally did fight in the manga, and again, showing Oden and Whitebeard fighting is a great opener to the episode, and flows more naturally into them calming down and eating with each other. Also, the result aalso made perfect sense, with Oden losing the battle to Whitebeard.
Also, you do know they did clash in the manga right?
No he wasn't? It was a fight that was literally off screened, only being shown in montage in the manga. The Kaido that faced Oden was still monstrously strong, and Kaido was shown to be able to match up to Oden 5 years prior to the event of their fight.
No, the rooftop battle is genuinely the best stuff One Piece has produced in a while. Some of it falls victim to Oda's cluttered panelled, but for the most part, the action is incredibly readable and adequately captures the scale of the action.
Luffy vs Ulti and Page One was messier than the roof top fight. It was fine, but incredibly brief. Marco fighting King and Queen also had some really nice action.
Apoo vs Zoro and Drake is typical Oda rubbish. Only thought that Zoro's finisher on Apoo was particularly well done.
How is that at all comparable? You can't compare viewership rankings of an anime to a manga. Also, One Piece is still doing incredibly well. Its even beating out shows like My Hero Academia in the rankings for viewership(only in the Kanto region).
No, like, objectively, the quality of the animation of the show has significantly improved. One Piece had never previously had so many consistently well animated "special" episodes, or anything comparable to it. Also, the better use of colours and atmosphere has dramatically elevated the visuals of the series.
Wano has far greater animation peaks, and far more of them. There has never been an episode like 957 outside of Wano, and there have been amazingly animated episode like 914 and 915 and lately 961 and 962.
One Piece has never been so consistently well animated, and there are a number of factors that contribute to this. A huge factor being the consistent present of talented foreign freelancers.
Before Wano, we never had guys like Takashi Kojima consistently appearing on the series. Now he appears quite frequently.
Like, even if you talk with animators on the show, the general impression you get is that they are far happier with the quality and production of the output they are producing than previously.
Like, WCI was good, but Wano is a definite step up production wise, both in terms of direction, visual aesthetic, and the level of animation(pretty much all the prominent animators from WCI are working on Wano, and all of them are producing better scenes than they did in WCI).
Again, your evidence for that is superficial at best. The scales your using aren't comparable at all.
I don't have any real problems with them changing stuff if it makes the action flow better. Also, its easy to retroactively change such a thing.
Both of those are contentious examples. For Hunter x Hunter, I know plenty of people who vastly prefer the 99 adaptation for the arcs that it covered(and funnily enough, a big reason for that, is because they prefer 99 aesthetically, as well as animation wise).
They literally did fight in the manga, and again, showing Oden and Whitebeard fighting is a great opener to the episode, and flows more naturally into them calming down and eating with each other. Also, the result aalso made perfect sense, with Oden losing the battle to Whitebeard.
Also, you do know they did clash in the manga right?
No he wasn't? It was a fight that was literally off screened, only being shown in montage in the manga. The Kaido that faced Oden was still monstrously strong, and Kaido was shown to be able to match up to Oden 5 years prior to the event of their fight.
No, the rooftop battle is genuinely the best stuff One Piece has produced in a while. Some of it falls victim to Oda's cluttered panelled, but for the most part, the action is incredibly readable and adequately captures the scale of the action.
Luffy vs Ulti and Page One was messier than the roof top fight. It was fine, but incredibly brief. Marco fighting King and Queen also had some really nice action.
Apoo vs Zoro and Drake is typical Oda rubbish. Only thought that Zoro's finisher on Apoo was particularly well done.
You just admitted you are okay with things don't making sense in future. And tell me how Kaido blitzing Luffy is worse than him waiting Luffy to come with a KKG that never happened and all that bullshit of Luffy hitting the mountain and then coming back because G4 ran out.
Doesn't matter if you know one or 2 that rather the old version of anime that don't follow the manga. The best animation is the one that follow the manga.
Oden and WB clash in manga. Only that. They never fought. Is like saying Shanks and WB fought on their encounter. Very different from Kaido and BM that actually fought. It makes no sense for Oden to fight WB and then ask him to go to the seas. In fact not even the clash make sense but is way worse than an almost all out battle. And it was so terrible in terms of power scale, because WB took much more time to handle Oden than Roger and Oda always portray them as equals in terms of power but WB still has the title of strongest and Roger don't.
Rooftop literally lacks of motion, flow and anything else you need to be a good action scene. It is a fucking top tier battle and the 3 supernovas captains are joking around and getting beat. Kaido is screaming to literally anything that touches him. Oda is basically saying that Law throwing rocks on him made more damage than previous Luffy G4 punches. And the way it turned into a 1v1 makes no sense at all.
Zoro finishing Apoo is way worse than Apoo fighting both him and X-Drake in terms of action. This is exactly how rooftop was going, out of nowhere movements that suppose to do some damage.