One Piece Episode 1028 - Surpass the Emperor of the Sea - Luffy Strikes Back with an Iron Fist

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Regardless of how people feel about this animation and effects. It’s still a much better place than where One piece Anime was in the 2010-2018 Era. I’ll take this aura/cube shit any day over the fishman island, punk hazzard and dressrosa Animation.
I'll take the old animation
 
Good animation, although the whole episode would be better without so many useless effects, it's like when you make a powerpoint presentation for school and add 1000 effects which really don't add anything to the project except annoyance.
Honestly, i would be barely even able to tell what's happening in some of these scenes if i didn't read the manga first.
 
jazzmazz hating on koyama cinema:josad:
I think one bit where they cut the music leading into Sugita's scene was a bit weird, some of the sound design choices around Chansard's scene, and some of the stuff in relation to the reveal around Luffy kicking Kaido's club(I think that was more of a sound design issue than a directorial one because the scene works better without sound). There was that moment in Shida's scene with Kaido being sent flying back that is really bright but I think brightness in of itself doesn't make something bad, and its not the set piece for any major action aside from Kaido being sent hurtling back, which isn't terribly animation heavy. There was also the lead into Shida's Luffy punching Kaido. However, most of these are incredibly minor nitpicks for the most part. For me, it was still a massive step up from the rather straight forward and sudden reveal from the manga. It does fall into the shonen trap of using a lot of flashbacks, but considering that this is a massive moment where Luffy actually fully comes into his own, as well the themes in the fight from the manga, I think overall it did a much better job making clear what Luffy was actually doing.

I know the metals have copped a lot of complaints, but I think they work pretty well as visual metaphor, and Koyama does seem to be compensating for the glow they give off along with the bloom from the aura by specifically having most of the action in Luffy's portion of the episode occur against black backgrounds(the exception would Chansards scene, and that didn't really have many petals).
 
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I really havent seen anyone complaining about the petals as visual metaphor tbh.
All i see are people hating on the full body aura which they have every right to.
It looks like shit. And them saying "the screen is too yellow and bright" imo is them pointing out how unclear and bad the comp was espcecially during Shida's scenes.
 

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Killer was an absolutely Goat with his speach.

Kid and Killer tanking this extremely impressive attack like nothing... they are the goats of the episode!

Luffys fight with Kaido was just to flashy to be the highlight. It was to much flashing and colouring all over, you could barely see whats happening, while the panels in comparison were godly. The anime should have kept it more simply here. But, exactly like the last chapter, Kid and Killer saved the episode.
 
I really havent seen anyone complaining about the petals as visual metaphor tbh.
Not even as visual metaphor, I don't even think they necessarily look that bad when considering the scene they exist in, which is usually contrasting with a black background.
All i see are people hating on the full body aura which they have every right to.
Don't think that was as bad this episode either, even the comped one. The aura for the most part was mainly just a bit of bloom on Luffy but mainly surrounding him. Outside of Luffy's limbs in a few cuts, it was usually pretty easy to follow along with. Unlike last episode where the aura ruined the shape of the effects, they clearly defined where it existed.

It looks like shit. And them saying "the screen is too yellow and bright" imo is them pointing out how unclear and bad the comp was espcecially during Shida's scenes.
For the most, it wasn't that unclear. There were some scenes which were too bright, namely the scene with Kaido being hurled back, but not a ton of action was going on in that scene anyone and most of the shots of Kaido were long distance.

This shot in particular is probably the worst application of the aura to Luffy's body in the entire scene.

Stuff like this has glow to it, but the clow is surrounding Luffy, and the layer of white and the black lines still provide a full two layers of seperation that make sure Lufy isn't lost in the aura.

Stuff like this for example has glow, but I'd hardly say the aura is destroying the detail here.
Hell, even in this scene, Luffy is pretty visible and stands out pretty well.

This is a bit to yellow on the arm, though that is the point of the scene, and it does bleed across, slightly, but its hardly obscuring the details here. Its not like even the ryuo aura's which are far more involved.

This is probably the one scene where it went a bit too over the top.

I think your also ignoring the fact that people aren't selectively choosing scenes here. Sugita's scene is just as criticized despite the fact that the execution for the compositing of that scene is spot on, and its also, a lot more yellow than Shida's scenes for the most part. You could definitely argue the yellow is a lot better intergrated in Sugita's scene, but do you think anyone else differentiates between the compositing in Shida's scene versus the compositing in Vincent or Sugita's scene?
 
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I don't think they differentiate or have the ability to differentiate that.
But if we rank the biggest complaints to the lowest right now, it would easily be.

1. Pacing
2. Auras
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anything else that comes on top.

Point 1 can hardly be fixed.
Point 2 can easily be fixed.
 
I don't think they differentiate or have the ability to differentiate that.
But if we rank the biggest complaints to the lowest right now, it would easily be.

1. Pacing
2. Auras
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anything else that comes on top.

Point 1 can hardly be fixed.
Point 2 can easily be fixed.
Thing is, the aura's aren't necessarily a bad thing. They aren't necessarily a positive either(though I think we've seen tons of examples where hand animated aura effects look great), but I don't feel its a terribly valid complaint. Its a really pissy thing to say the entire series or one of the best episodes in the series is irredeemably ruined by. If people would rather go back to Dressrosa, or anything before that really, than handle auras, then people are out of their minds.
 
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Thing is, the aura's aren't necessarily a bad thing. They aren't necessarily a positive either(though I think we've seen tons of examples where hand animated aura effects look great), but I don't feel its a terribly valid complaint. Its a really pissy thing to say the entire series or one of the best episodes in the series is irredeemably ruined by. If people would rather go back to Dressrosa, or anything before that really, than handle auras, then people are out of their minds.
People dont want to go back to dreasrosa. They just... dont want auras? Like, the complaining was never as hard as this before epiaode 1025. Its not a big "wano" issue. Its a trend that seems to be establishing itself among EDs for some reason. And especially lately
 
The episode had good animation bar luffy vs kaido whicu is a flower show
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This aura stuff killing OP which was already a dead anime after FI arc
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Highlight of the episode tbh

The best animated scene since wano started
 
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This episode was getting memed to hell so I decided to check it out and to my surprise… I actually liked it?

Yeah, it was totally ott, but still

Kid and Killer I liked here probably way more than I did in the manga, I thought they had really good chemistry

I actually enjoyed Nami and Usopp’s scene for some comic relief

I liked the visualisation of “haki blooming in extreme circumstances” showing all of Luffy’s previous defeats helping build towards him unlocking this.

I felt the hit onto Kaido’s midsection lacked a bit of oomph despite all the flashy effects but the others were okay
 
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