Beautiful, simply beatiful!

who did this part?

the animator needs to be known soon, this is incredible

I completely forgot this happened and caught me so off guard. Love the new opening too.

This looks WAY too much like soty, sure it's not him?

This is animated by Forest
Gump

yoooo, the lighting was movie quality

I really appreciate the attention to detail here, Kiku immediately bounces back from the attack and only stops when she realises she can't actually move her arm, the adrenaline numbs her to the pain. Its quick but very effective direction and executed well through sharp movement. Really cool detail.

shoritora said:
I really appreciate the attention to detail here, Kiku immediately bounces back from the attack and only stops when she realises she can't actually move her arm, the adrenaline numbs her to the pain. Its quick but very effective direction and executed well through sharp movement. Really cool detail.

If the episode director actually put in that much thought to the scene, that would amazing, but I doubt it

Can we take a second to appreciate the composite on this animation? The lighting is great. While I find the Seilberg-esque Dutch angle Lense flare to be a bit overdone in this series since Megumi Ishitani's debut, it adds so much here that I don't mind it. Chromatic aberration on the blurs and edges (A constant since wano, actually), color adjustments on the fly, blurs that aren't destructive to the final product, etc. This is a very cinematic era for One Piece and I'm sooooo down.

Back in the early 2010s, I was always in the camp that One Piece couldn't do better production wise. It had a low budget, low drawing count etc, 3D2Y's composite was something I could only dream of, and now here we are just a few years after that and One Piece (Terrible pacing and boring, clunky sound design aside) is feeling like a 1 cour anime movie once every few weeks. Thank you animation staff at Toei... Now if Only Toei Animation could be less scummy with copyright.

the art and blood drops remind me of soty, i would be surprised if this is not his work.

Damn, still no clue who did it? I'm very curious

jasonk said:
the art and blood drops remind me of soty, i would be surprised if this is not his work.

agreed

With the quality of the opening, I did not expect this at all

By God who made this work of art !?

i wanna know who directed this? and who animated it?
cause this is art, i love it so much

starlord12 said:
i wanna know who directed this? and who animated it?
cause this is art, i love it so much

This was the first episode directed by assistant director Sho Inozuka, he did a great job

shoritora said:
I really appreciate the attention to detail here, Kiku immediately bounces back from the attack and only stops when she realises she can't actually move her arm, the adrenaline numbs her to the pain. Its quick but very effective direction and executed well through sharp movement. Really cool detail.

If you go frame-by-frame you can see that Kiku's arm is still attached while she's bouncing back, but it's an incredibly strong scene nonetheless.

Still no confirmation whether or not it's Soty that animated this, are we ever gonna know who animated this scene?

Keep it unknown. That's how it goes with NC work sometimes so be considerate

wow
incredible

SakugaLad said:
If you go frame-by-frame you can see that Kiku's arm is still attached while she's bouncing back, but it's an incredibly strong scene nonetheless.

Oh my bad I missed that somehow, but as you said its still very good regardless.

Soty?

why not soty presumed?