One Piece Episode 1018 - Kaido Laughs! Four Emperors vs. New Generation!
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They omitted ryuo bubbles that were in the manga from Luffy's gattling, a bit annoying.
Good they kept from the manga how Enma is the only thing Kaido is focused on with regards to Zoro.
Poor Bepo/Law's crew, not even given a 20s filler scene, just had their panel lifted and paused on, they got done the dirtiest this episode. Those panels could have been used to fill out the run time quite easily but instead they just paused on the static panels to get some runtime stretch without any effort.
Good they kept from the manga how Enma is the only thing Kaido is focused on with regards to Zoro.
Poor Bepo/Law's crew, not even given a 20s filler scene, just had their panel lifted and paused on, they got done the dirtiest this episode. Those panels could have been used to fill out the run time quite easily but instead they just paused on the static panels to get some runtime stretch without any effort.
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Rewatched the episode. It was okay? Definitely felt like something that needed to be more ambitious, if only slightly so.
The opening gattling is long, but its really long in the manga as well, so thats not surprising. I think the issue is more how it was animated. It wasn't necessarily "terribly animated". There is an obvious level of competency to Luffy's attack. Its just that the animator who did that scene isn't really known for being stylistic. His a "quick" animator who has worked on the show for 20 years. The art was solid, but his animations aren't really snappy at all, which makes him a big step down from Katsumi Ishizuka's flourish in the previous episode.
The prevelance of CGI Kaido didn't help. I think that CGI Kaido would almost be tolerable if we didn't see its head, which is by far the most off putting part of him.
The pacing was just sort of "alright" past the initial flurry.
The art didn't melt I don't think. It looked mostly okay.
The second half was a bit stronger. I was happy with Zoro preparing to use the Tatsumaki even though I think his actual execution of the move was a bit lacking. I also really liked some of the worst generation dodging demolition gust.
Funnily enough, I think the non-action piece of the episode was probably the strongest directed. I personally liked the shamisen as ambient music and set an appropriately menacing tone for the scene.
The direction for the episode was fine enough. Storyboard wasn't the worst even if it borrowed a lot from the manga. It just felt like it really needed stronger visuals to elevate it. Out of the rooftop episodes, its definitely the weakest, with me putting it significantly below 1016, which I felt had generally really interesting direction to keep the action interesting.
Next episode, Sasaki vs Franky hype. Holy shit that actually looks really cool lol.
The opening gattling is long, but its really long in the manga as well, so thats not surprising. I think the issue is more how it was animated. It wasn't necessarily "terribly animated". There is an obvious level of competency to Luffy's attack. Its just that the animator who did that scene isn't really known for being stylistic. His a "quick" animator who has worked on the show for 20 years. The art was solid, but his animations aren't really snappy at all, which makes him a big step down from Katsumi Ishizuka's flourish in the previous episode.
The prevelance of CGI Kaido didn't help. I think that CGI Kaido would almost be tolerable if we didn't see its head, which is by far the most off putting part of him.
The pacing was just sort of "alright" past the initial flurry.
The art didn't melt I don't think. It looked mostly okay.
The second half was a bit stronger. I was happy with Zoro preparing to use the Tatsumaki even though I think his actual execution of the move was a bit lacking. I also really liked some of the worst generation dodging demolition gust.
Funnily enough, I think the non-action piece of the episode was probably the strongest directed. I personally liked the shamisen as ambient music and set an appropriately menacing tone for the scene.
The direction for the episode was fine enough. Storyboard wasn't the worst even if it borrowed a lot from the manga. It just felt like it really needed stronger visuals to elevate it. Out of the rooftop episodes, its definitely the weakest, with me putting it significantly below 1016, which I felt had generally really interesting direction to keep the action interesting.
Next episode, Sasaki vs Franky hype. Holy shit that actually looks really cool lol.
Saying it again and again:
Seeing such a great manga (despite all its flaws, especially post-skip) getting dragged down so much by a God awful, outdated weekly anime adaptation is just painful to watch.
Especially when you see all those other great modern anime adaptations that thrive with their seasonal approach (much better pacing, storyboarding and animation quality).
Seeing such a great manga (despite all its flaws, especially post-skip) getting dragged down so much by a God awful, outdated weekly anime adaptation is just painful to watch.
Especially when you see all those other great modern anime adaptations that thrive with their seasonal approach (much better pacing, storyboarding and animation quality).
This wasn't terribly outsourced, its just that the animation director isn't really built for producing "fast paced action". The guy is in his 60's and was never terribly impressive for the quality of his animation output.
There are some "fresh faced" staff, and they probably handled the highlights in the 2nd half. I was incredibly impressed with Henry Thurlow's contribution. He animated 2 cuts, which ended up being 22 seconds, which is a lot considering he animated 2 minutes last episode as well as storyboarded a quarter of last episode. Definitely impressed with his ouput.
The other scenes I suspect done by foreign animators is a bit of Kaido's preparation for his demolition gust in the second half, which had some really nice wind effects, as well as Law, Kidd, Killer and Zoro dodging those wind gust. I really liked how Law's teleportation was animated. There was definitely a bit of style in that small sequence even if it still felt a bit limited.
Otherwise, I'm impressed that the episode didn't melt art wise.
Also, yeah, this was the start of Dragon CGI Kaido world. The truth is, Dragon Kaido is the hardest thing to draw in the series, and no sane animator wants to handle that shit.
There are some "fresh faced" staff, and they probably handled the highlights in the 2nd half. I was incredibly impressed with Henry Thurlow's contribution. He animated 2 cuts, which ended up being 22 seconds, which is a lot considering he animated 2 minutes last episode as well as storyboarded a quarter of last episode. Definitely impressed with his ouput.
The other scenes I suspect done by foreign animators is a bit of Kaido's preparation for his demolition gust in the second half, which had some really nice wind effects, as well as Law, Kidd, Killer and Zoro dodging those wind gust. I really liked how Law's teleportation was animated. There was definitely a bit of style in that small sequence even if it still felt a bit limited.
Otherwise, I'm impressed that the episode didn't melt art wise.
Also, yeah, this was the start of Dragon CGI Kaido world. The truth is, Dragon Kaido is the hardest thing to draw in the series, and no sane animator wants to handle that shit.
