The OP was lit, but I think I'm just going to post stuff from the episode here.
The only really well animated scene came from Tu Yong Ce, who pretty much solo animated the Udon scene in the second half.
He does a fantastic job of giving a sense of speed and weight to the action this episode, with him using smears, effects and impact frames to great effect throughout the neat little action scenes he handled this episode.
I like how the anime has given these gifters some special combo ultimate moves, but they are still trash to Luffy. He freaking jokes around with them the entire episode, and overwhelms their ultimate combo move with a basic haki punch.
Not much happened in terms of plot progression, but each scene was engaging enough on its own merits.
Seeing Luffy beat the crap out of people was fun. There was enough going on direction and storyboard wise not to make Luffy's action profoundly boring or dull, and Tu Yong Ce did a fantastic job handling Luffy's action sequences in the latter half of the episode.
The scene with Zoro, Hiyori and Toko was really well done. It was chill, but also had nice storyboarding and direction, and actually did a good job displaying Hiyori's motivation to tell Zoro her secret, with shots highlighting her contemplation. The character interactions and comedy in that scene was also really nicely executed.
Overall, it was a very chill, fun and generally engaging episode. Nothing spectacular, but competently put together.
The highlight of next episode appears to be Hyogoro's punch. Not sure what else to expect from that episode though.
It is and the last few episodes they didn't do a good job with it.
That whole Luffy vs Gifters scene was way too long. The first minute of the episode was them (Luffy, Hyo, Queen, Gifters) simply staring at each other ffs.
You can make a good episode out of 11 pages, but it's very hard to do so. General rule is that one and a half or two manga chapters should be one anime episode. Then the pacing is usually - not always - much better.
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