Dressrosa was atrocious it's not something to celebrate.
The problem is toei is putting a lot of effort into the anime now. But are actively choosing to make it worse. That's the worst part about this all, the budget increased and now we have to deal with this lightshow for no reason. Tone it down and you get act 1 Wano which was great for the most part. Heck Oden's flashback scenes were great.
Toei even when they're performing well can't do anything right. This studio is cursed and plagued with idiots.
Not celebrating Dressrosa. I was pointing out that I would take this animation over it any day, hands down. To each their own, but remember this:
Toei usually liters a One Piece episode with
- People running and screaming
- Repeated animations
- Flashbacks of things that literally just happened
- Scenes that are dragged out to the point where they are ruined
- Terrible fight animation where they literally do the same thing over and over to try to make it look like a fight is going on
Now they are putting in a LOT more effort, which is a step in the right direction. Compare this episode to the last episode. Last episode literally had Big Mom falling for half the episode and a recap of her falling on top of that. This episode moved along smoothly. I don’t see how ANYONE could hate on Killer and Kid’s scene with Hawkins. As for Luffy’s punch, he isn’t even flying around DBZ style this time around. They tried to build up his powerup in the anime, whereas in the manga he just figures it out and starts casually using it.