just reminded myself of the One Piece OVA that Production I.G. made a year before Toei's anime started - its very different from the anime we have now but it has its own charm in a way and some pretty good sakuga throughout
The original artist for the One Piece 4Kids Pirate Rap, Shawn "Freshco" Conrad, rapping the song in 2021 is something I never expected to see this year
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present the ONE PIECE EGGHEAD ARC ENGLISH DUB PREMIERE screening of episodes 1090 and 1091 during Anime Expo 2024!
Join us on Friday, July 5th, to catch the Straw Hats' new adventure at the futuristic and mysterious Egghead Island. 🥚🏴☠️
It's the 15th already in Japan so happy 65th birthday to Mayumi Tanaka, the woman who's lent her voice to Luffy for 2 decades now. There's been so many excellent performances from her throughout the years and even at 65 she's still going strong!
Happy Birthday Tanaka-san!
It'll be a year or so before we reach it in the anime, but hearing Mayumi Tanaka scream "Red Rock" early in this PV for One Piece Volume 99 is so awesome
Katsumi Ishizuka (石塚 勝海) once again shows off his innate nature to implement modern animation techniques in his work with the brief new cuts that he did for the current opening. The loose linework and movement for Yamato's hair is incredible, it reminds me a bit of TNK!
This week's One Piece has a bunch of small little bits that stand out, but I think the cheeky reference to Futari wa Pretty Cure's OP as Franky leaps from the smoke is one of it's best, especially since director Yusuke Suzuki got his start as an assistant director on said series!
One Piece 1072 - 1075 Staff
Titles: 1072: The Ridiculous Power! Gear Five in Full Play
1073: No Escape! Onigashima, A Picture of Hell
RECAP ON AUGUST 27TH
1074: Believe in Momo - Luffy's Final Move
1075: Twenty Years of Prayer! Reclaim Wano Country
Another new One Piece live action/animated commercial collaborating with the Japanese delivery service "menu" has dropped and it's once again seemingly animated by Midori Matsuda herself, featuring a wide array of One Piece characters as children
A page from Konosuke Uda's (宇田鋼之介) storyboard for One Piece OP 1 "We Are"
It feels so weird seeing the original guideline for an opening that I've watched countless times over for many years. Uda famously drew up the entire storyboard for this in one night!
A new commercial for a One Piece collaboration with the Japanese food delivery service "menu" combines 2D animation with live action footage, and it's all presumably either corrected or drawn by character designer Midori Matsuda herself!
Do not let this go unnoticed. The internal staff for shows at Toei are some of the nicest people I've had the pleasure of speaking to and they deserve all the praise, but this behavior from the higher ups is absolutely vile and disgusting and harms those people and their union.
It looks as if Dennis Cablao really enjoyed Ishizuka's Roger VS Whitebeard scene, because he recently posted his own take on the scene on his Facebook page with Luffy and Zoro instead (lol). I feel like you can really see how much influence Ishizuka is having on his work.
A friend asked me what the strongest Wano episodes to watch were (as of 1015) and I thought I'd share my list here for any manga readers who don't want to watch it all but want to see the best of the best. Some are more direction over animation, but it's the content that matters.
On this day 20 years ago, the One Piece TV anime premiered on Fuji TV
Happy 20th Anniversary to the One Piece anime and the hardworking staff, including those that have come and gone, who make this series happen every week!
Toei Philippines' ace animator Dennis Cablao presumably turned out to be the one animating Zoro VS Kyoshiro this episode. With so much webgen/Ishizuka inspiration packed into it, it's quite possibly his strongest cut on the series and maybe the strongest of his career by far!
Going back through Opening 23 a couple times over has made me realize just how unparalleled Komaki's attention to detail truly is
(Chapter 940, Page 9)
If we do end up getting a One Piece movie next year, I'd *love* for it to have a Western theme because Oda is slacking in that regard and it's something that I've always wanted to see in the series