I also know cinema myself and there is one thing that is fundamental in art is that the sentence "it shouldn't be used like that" was always pronounced by people who don't understand art for the most part. A producer is not a cinematographer nor a director.
There is nothing wrong with using a fish-eye EVEN if it is used withing the entirerity of a creation (which is not what happened here, since other lenses were used.). Furthermore, the fish-eyes are used with care in One Piece and for good artistic reason which have good impacts on people (aside from a loud minority like yourself).
1. A producer is someone who seek for fundings, it's usually not the one who gives the artistic directions (they can, but it's not systematic)
2. Wether or not the producers have experience or not I don't know (probably they do since they already worked on the first season)
3. The first two episodes are amazing. Not perfect, but amazing. not only that, but it had an amazing reception too. So this argument is pure BS.
And? Who cares ? I enjoyed the moment like many people. Therefore, the choice of direction was not bad.
No. There is something called gravity. Check it out.
Are you a bot?
You didn't watch this video at all.
Anyway, this is an example of a bad scene director:
Look here, Smoker, who is supposed to be a BIG man, with BIG muscles, looks like a regular Marine. All his awesomeness was lost in one bad scene. From a threat, he became a guy from that bar, or from a cosplay event.
In good art direction, this would never happen. You can use wide screens, but because of the wide screens, your characters shouldn't lose aura.
Another scene would be like this:
Because of the choice of director, you can see how Luffy is trying to escape by hitting the ground with his hands, which looks stupid.
Again, this is why 2 episodes look like fan-made cosplay parody. When you lack experience, you lack skills.
And the last scene that I will use as example will be this one:
Don't lie to me, you didn't get a feeling of
impact here, do you? That is another scene that became cheap because SOMEONE don't know how to do HER JOB.
What is more important, such mistakes never happened in episode 3-8. Which again just showes the roots of the problem