The Drastic Rise of One Piece's Animation Quality: Explained

[@jklum7895]

I think there might be some very minor mistakes with some names because i didn't get the chance to review the video when it's not edited by me, it's Tetsuji Akahori. Not Shigeo

[@AjK0099]

Not being an ass, just a sound designer... The voice isn't mixed good in your video... I'll say try De-Essing and a more flatter response for same. (p.s. I love your videos!! Keep it up!!)

[@IanTho1]

wow, I can't believe somebody actually understands that the budget of an anime does not affect the animation quality

[@adityasajeev3282]

i knew this even before i was a animation student. all you need is logic. No matter how much the budget ,ultimately the result will the determined by the amount of hardwork, skill & time taken by the studio and its animators. I fail to understand why people dont understand this. you can have 5 million dollars budget for 1 episode, You are given the best software and tools in the world but only have 2 weeks to complete it, the result wont be Insane.

[@GemayelDaniel]

this is something so logical that it always bothers me when i see people misunderstanding it. the same can be said for video games development. The cost of making a game is directly related to how many developers are working on it and for how long.

[@adrianhebreros]

Well yes and no, usually in production we don't use budget as an equal for money but time

[@sunrisevideosgamingandmuch7791]

@@adityasajeev3282 ye and in the case of anime they draw everything by hands so time becomes even more important

[@friendlyneighborhoodmemer18]

yes the biggest factors are: - Working conditions which are often bad. - Good Animators. - And most important one "TIME!!!".

[@aliyeager51]

Wano has better episodes than continuous animations man, this is unbelievable and on top of that we still get more greatness, thanks for the wonderful video

[@tempoaccla4041]

still has pretty terrible pacing most of the time

[@deejaydee1578]

@@tempoaccla4041 yeah, I realllllly hope to god that once it gets to the end-game arcs they'll do one episode fortnightly instead, so we could have good animation + good pacing. That would be peak

[@raynorcocker6851]

@@tempoaccla4041 They'll remake Onepiece one day to fix pacing and other problems. Long running anime TV show problems.

[@Raijin254]

@@tempoaccla4041debatable

[@Ndkdkskslslso]

Dressrosa animation is better.

[@deezeewhytea]

this is probably my favorite video of yours you've put out. pretty informative with humourous bits every now and then with real good editing. sick job!

[@jklum7895]

Glad you enjoyed bro, i appreciate it

[@HappyFishy699]

I just got to wano the other day and it's so good seeing the series having such a good consistent art and animation

[@youtubesucks1821]

Oh shit, did you get to the part where they kill off Usopp yet?

[@somerandomguyontheinternett]

Can't believe Ussop gets shot in the head...

[@aarushraj2236]

​@@somerandomguyontheinternettyeah mate his death was so painful to watch 😢😢

[@tinpanned]

i miss usopp

[@fish191]

Hey dont spoil the guy 😠

[@AnglesSol]

It’s quite simple logic when you think about it. If you hire a lot of talented people and give them time to show their talent, they’ll give you something of quality. It’s like having a world class chef make a meal. You can’t just give them only 5 minutes, they probably need at least an hour or more.

[@Kamori5596]

And One Piece is a prime example of that

[@jamesbrown4364]

one piece fans are eating good

[@dangangalaxy9759]

From childhood until now I’ve never understood how one episode can take over half a year to make and yet we get episodes every single week.

[@liquidsleepgames3661]

Because they worked on episodes in blocks. Releasing them in seasons and during off screen they are behind the scenes working ever so hard to release the new episodes.

[@monkeyking10192003]

Dude thank you i love this educational/informational content regarding how greatly animated episodes come to be and just the workflow and process behind each episode and the amount of directing involved. I had no idea about this, and really thought that the problem was just not enough budget. seriously thanks for this content, I'm loving it.

[@darklonewolf4519]

Very informative and with amazing editing, one of your best videos so far , great job man !

[@jklum7895]

Always appreciate your words goat

[@sirkingpinmonroe4439]

They got a friggin Disney animator in one episode of the anime. That’s incredible!

[@AnimeOverTheMangaReactionsv1]

Nah, i just started watching the video & this man out here with the random clean transition lmao 1:15 mad aggressive Interesting video, I'll say the edition of it was not my style for the most part, but it's passable. It's funny to see you & Geo on my KZbin timeline now.

[@noddyonlyone3593]

glad to finally put a name to the work behind the character designs for wano. There's a lot more vibrant colors used in general for the characters that really help them feel more alive, ESPECIALLY skin tone. It's really evident comparing the choices made for characters like Zoro during the Fishman Island adaptation (2012) and comparing it to now.

[@pizzapie5356]

I'm so glad I got to watch the show weekly in wano. I don't know if I would have been nearly as invested in coming back every week with how the old animation was

[@zaftnotameni]

I have exactly the opposite experience... can't tolerate how over the top and excessive vfx nonsense wano turned out to be... give me the old east blue style anyday

[@pizzapie5356]

@@zaftnotameni I'd choose the old east blue style too..just not the toei computer style they used from water 7 to whole cake island

[@AdhritRastogi]

​@@zaftnotameniyeah man. Half the time those effects take up like 60% of the screen and I will have no idea what's going on

[@palemeadows]

godddd stop yapping

[@Martronkts]

Been having this question for a long time, thanks for the info

[@tagnenjosephs3124]

2:30 Scene here is from episode 1017

[@alexmeid8111]

I and all the fans of one piece thank all these people who are working on the anime one piece has truly become a legendary anime and one of the most beautiful I have seen

[@bardycopeland6295]

After watching wano and then going back dressrossa the difference is mind blowing

[@OddDude21]

I really hope they go back some day and reanimate through dressarosa.

[@aminebel4145]

great work! need a video about tanaka asap after next week cinema

[@jklum7895]

That one is a must

[@RaphaelAnimation-ph]

Imagine how the whole wano arc will took like today if the animation style did not change and still look like the animation style before wano im sure it will look so so so very different

[@Y0y0Jester]

Well, I've gained some new appreciation for the OP animation. Time to rewatch some of Wano's best moments.

[@mechajay3358]

Glad more people are realizing that an Anime's Budget is not what completely defines a series of quality.

[@spartanAXA]

I'm still catching up to One Piece and I started Wano today. And I was blown away by how beautiful it's looking right now.

[@TimelyTurtle]

I'm in the Middle of Wano, but afraid of Weekly wait after catching up 😅

[@HEREisDINGO]

yeah i am also in the middle of wano but i am progressing very slowly cause the pacing is just the worst i have seen in any series ever since dressrosa. Dragonballs horrible pacing is nothing compared to this shit.

[@palemeadows]

@@HEREisDINGOconstant yapping, yall make shit up. “pacing!!!” WHAT DOES THIS MEAN. DO YOU MEAN THINGS MOVE NORMALLY

[@jeremylodge]

Honesty it is impressive just how much it has changed in the past year, seems to be getting better and better every week

[@alikujo4334]

the animation of this arc is so cleeeaaan especially aftet whole cake island i wished this arc was given the same treatment

[@kamurochokid]

I’m forever immortalized in a Jason Klum-sama video, thank you…

[@christianfrayser5653]

The anime sequences are a spectacle to look at for sure! But what happened to dynamic fight sequences with dodging, fast movements, and quick punches? like Lucci vs luffy. Now I wait for luffy to get a running head start, charge up the punch, fly a bit, add some petals, then watch kaido just stand there and wait for it lol They're fighting like pokemon sometimes, just taking turns hitting each other with their best attack. Not the animators faults, but the directors I guess cuz the pacing of these battles is incredibly slow.

[@Elchinodawn]

To be fair, that fight on manga really starts on manga 1033 (which has not been adapted yet), and trust me, that shit is probably the best fight of one piece, also is the last stage before G5

[@jazzmazz9214]

TBF, thats also sort of Oda as well.

[@Kyonari]

TBF the real Gem of the fight is G5 and that's when the Fight gets to its Peak now we are at the Standard phase where Luffy fights the Enemy more in the Background while the other people end their fights that have been like that from the early One Piece

[@nichescenes]

Yeah, people on average don't care though, they just want the hype and to say peak piece and all the flashy animation and unnecessary frames make them think its better than the old days. I found JJK's fight against the season 1 curse in episode 17 or 18 much more exciting than a lot of the flashy one piece fights as of late. Hand to hand mixed with cool powers and pacing so I don't have to watch the same fight for 20 eps. But somehow I'm told jjk is trash and slow and not living up to the hype and is overrated and one piece is peak all the while a fraction of the fanbase didn't really like wano as much. Personally think it was cool just a bit pissy about people who hype one piece and act like all other shonen are generic trash...guess I make the slice of life and philosophical anime lovers get to me somewhat lol...the type to claim seinin is real story telling and shōnen is for kids. Funny enough the stuff in shonen in America would get a R rating in theaters (see demon slayer movie).

[@ydn2911]

@@nichescenespreferring different a style of fighting shown in animation is one thing… straight up digging on a series just bc some goop told you that jujitsu kaisen isn’t good is another. everyone likes to gas up their favorite anime and downplay others. it’s the bullshit we call culture, this is not uncommon. but if you stop caring about the biased opinions of other people, you will be much more content.

[@animemania1690]

Imagine if this is the quality of the Anime in the Wano Arc, how great it will be during the final saga and other major moments later in the series, can't help but get more and more excited just imagining it!

[@ceptile226]

its only gotten godly better.better than jjk season 2 rn

[@WCE44]

My man ! Always looking forward to watching your videos ! Awesome Job !

[@Sanjixoxo]

I learned quite a bit with this video absolutely made my day.

[@jklum7895]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@feyrune3205]

i already thought that they chosed to hire more animators for the episodes, when i noticed the diffrent artstyles in some scenes. Like the fight where Robin fights the snake lady, the characters bodies and ehhh booba where way more detailed than in some random running scenes from Nami and the others. Also later, one of the "small" german artists i follow announced, that he had the honor to animate the fighting scene of Zorro and a little animation of crying Chopper and i felt soooo happy for him!!

[@chubbypompie553]

the animation jump from whole cake island to wano was insane

[@zoro.lost_again]

I liked the animation style before the wano arc. Now its just a colourfull + bright light animation , but keep animation style in fight scenes ...

[@JustAsh001]

The animation style in wano is much better there are more sakugas, insane effects animation and so on

[@Abeakrizalid]

One of your best videos yet

[@3Rayfire]

Thank you for the insight, even looking at credits knowing how each role affects the finished product isn't readily apparent. They were really going into high art mode and staying there.

[@NetDive]

I love the line filter and lighting they started using

[@HeadHold1]

Unpopular opinion: Anyone besides me whos not a fan of this new animations? I mean it feels like they just want to put as much animation and color changes in a frame as possible until you cant even see whats going on anymore, especially the fight scenes, like the animators don't trust the viewers to recognize the might and power behind those punches if they don't animate the sh*t out of it. I´d love to have whole cake island animations back, or even water 7. those fights against katakuri or lucci are still top tier

[@michaelwalker8870]

they were

[@Nick_shawn4]

It's only you

[@bunran5910]

Besides your good point. It has been over ten years and I still recognized the unlimited cruise Ost in a heart beat :D

[@joe2520]

The editing on this is good shit, nice work

[@jibus3556]

So its not budget that makes the animation quality so high, its that they've been able to get tons of top-of-their-field animators to be working on the anime all the time. I wonder how they afford all those animators though 🤔

[@hithummah]

i stopped watch the anime 4 years ago and now seeing these amazing clips of latest episode

[@my.pfp.say.it.all.5u5]

that's funny😂 because I started watching it 4 years ago when movie stampede got released it's also my first anime finished it in 2 months during c0vid and started rewatching it with other reactions I hope you coughed up with the series because next episodes will break the internet

[@hyperblackhole2105]

Wait from which episode onwards do the anime starts to look better?

[@alphakowaclips]

It's not consistent tho... Wano is filled with the overuse of the blur effect to the point you get dizzy in Act 1 before they toned it down, it did feel like they changed the animation team quite a bit and it's a matter of time. One piece tho will always have the "long running weekly" animation syndrome despite this change

[@davidmedina3031]

Great video Jason!

[@mutantraze3681]

Its cuz Toei abandoned Dragon Ball. We should AT LEAST have the Moro Arc announcement by now but it’ll likely take another few years before beginning production

[@thedude8227]

Still probably was a much higher budget than other arcs. I saw in another youtube vid that Wano was also the 20 year anniversary arc, so they worked extra hard to make it special. Of course the budget also needs to be allocated properly, not just throwing it somewhere and wasting it.

[@adityasajeev3282]

i knew this even before i was a animation student. all you need is logic. No matter how much the budget ,ultimately the result will the determined by the amount of hardwork, skill & time taken by the studio and its animators. I fail to understand why people dont understand this. you can have 5 million dollars budget for 1 episode, You are given the best software and tools in the world but only have 2 weeks to complete it, the result wont be Insane.

[@calijam530]

I tell everyone who hasn't watched OP the same thing. It just keeps getting better!

[@JohnCena-ex6zt]

Wit studio is going to remake one piece

[@calijam530]

@@JohnCena-ex6zt I think they should have let the original finish before remaking any of it. Not sure if they're just doing the romance dawn ark only though.

[@JohnCena-ex6zt]

@@calijam530 The remake is for the new audience from the one piece live action who are not fond of the old animation. Also they're probably planning to do the entire series. And it's not just a remake with better animation but with better pacing too

[@JohnCena-ex6zt]

@@calijam530 lastly i think this is actually a good idea since one piece is nowhere near ending soon and it's at it's peak right now.

[@ClashBluelight]

Wait... So you're telling me that locking my animators in dungeons, understaffing them, giving them over 50 projects to work on at once, and expecting results by Wednesday isn't going to lead to high quality content!? Ok, but what if I just throw a bunch more money at them! That won't work either!? I need to call the rest of the higher ups at Disney.

[@KennyMcGavin]

Now if they could also just fix the absolutely horrible pacing issues, I would once again be able to watch entire One Piece episodes without being mildly annoyed every other minute and have a smile on my face for the entirety of it

[@Geo_AW]

Great video 😊

[@jklum7895]

Your reviews are good as well, keep up the great editing

[@hamserekk]

whos also watching this anime when one piece animation quality rised even more?

[@KVN3K]

What was that song at 1:12 it sounds so familiar

[@blueblackdragon4575]

One piece unlimited sp2 music man that brought memories back

[@skin350]

wano is the biggest fever dream with its animation

[@Vuchatra]

I believed in One Piece and i'll never stop, this is all like a dream come true! Haters can chortle on deez nuts, this is the best story of our era.

[@sanji1259]

the quality dide RISE?? what? besides of the new outro everything looks like 1999

[@007psyren]

It always amazes me the work they put into bring the original work to life in japanese animation 🤩!

[@faizazhar8463]

imagine seeing luffy gear 5 in gear 4 animation, how beautiful it would be

[@BaldorfBreakdowns]

Money can't make animation better on it's own. Hard work and time make great animation. The money just lets the animators pay the bills and focus on work. And of course, money is a great motivator.

[@sarov7658]

But my b-b-budget..🤣

[@lhagun]

for me the water 7 and enies lobby arc anime style was by far the best style any anime could have

[@juangabrielyunen3251]

The simplest art style the faster the animation will be finished. Damn, imagine if MAPPA gets a chance to animate at least one movie from One Piece.

[@AutoSonic495]

Video summary: it's not about the money, it's about who's hired that's helping Make the money

[@Delta1nToo]

so the way the team is managed can have a huge impact on quality essentially.

[@josesosa3337]

Before I watch the video, I just want to say that some people firget that scheduling, experience, and time management is so important. Some times budget doesnt even matter.

[@ChichiNaka]

is it animation quality or just very bright lights and vibrant bold colors

[@tefyrapela2714]

Budget = capacity to give time + ressources to get talent 🤷‍♂️

[@Aksenerotos]

Its true that the animation level has increased, but I still hate it a bit when its "too 3d" and too "computerish" especially on some turn arounds that they did a lot in wano. So even though this is peak, I still miss the old school animation of the Dawn and I hope they can kinda bring it back or tribute it when the show is near the closure.

[@AashishVashisth]

Noobs do/will not understand this simple point. Great video.

[@animationmann]

A Good Managment saves money and time equals more time for Animation

[@marcelreitter531]

Wano surprises me every week with a new style of animation eventhough the episodes themselves may be fillers it's still so much fun to watch!

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

Since the start of Wano there have only been 5 episodes of filler. Your comment makes it sound like many of the episodes were filler which seems wrong?

[@kefkapalazzo1]

@@JKSmith-qs2iithere’s a bit of filler in each episode

[@akhsdenlew1861]

@@kefkapalazzo1 that's not filler, that's just bad pacing , it's happening for the sake of NOT getting filler episodes. Bleach and Naruto have like 50% of their episodes being filler to avoid the pacing problem, while one piece went with the slow pace approach. Both have their pros and cons, but in my opinion, the approach of naruto ( having a million fillers and good pacing) is better than the approach of one piece ( no fillers and terrible pacing) just for the sake of the people who decide to start the anime late.. like right now. If someone wants to start naruto right now, they start it , they skip all fillers and it's a good experience. While for one piece, the experience will be worse for post-time skip arcs cus they are SOOOO slow and dragged out. In dressrosa we got to see rebecca's back story and her mother dying.. 8 times!!! So it's actually very wrong to call it.. a filler becouse it's basically the alternative of it in order to NOT get filler. What you call filler is the reason why we don't get fillers in one piece.. it's just, wrong. It's called "Bad pacing".

[@kefkapalazzo1]

@@akhsdenlew1861 so the extra actions scenes are just bad pacing and not added in? Shut up lmao

[@Narlaw1199]

Now, the only issue left is the purposefully slow pacing...

[@Modelero]

Maybe the increasingly slower pacing with more and more reused animations also helped 🤣

[@sixtypluto5161]

Well now I know something I didn't before, very nice

[@MarioMustWin]

Disagree with the notion that budget has nothing to do with it, time is money, and hiring and training talented individuals is costly. Sure like you said the most important thing is time and talent, but those things don't come cheap.

[@k.r.99]

I hope Dragon Ball gets similar love and effort whenever it continues.

[@Manoj-wg5zp]

Hopefully

[@sageninja7260]

Most likely cuz almost every anime uses this beautiful animation

[@loveonepieceforever8203]

@jabron.destoroyah I agree

[@GoodwillWright]

Super did start to get better later in terms of animation. At least they are finally getting away from gatling punches and having actual fights and choreography which I'm really glad for.

[@faustogiglioli6310]

i see what you did with the background music... :P so much memories

[@unnamedshadow1866]

What makes me wonder, what does the previous director think about all this? One Piece bad animation became a Meme because of how horrible the pacing and animation was.

[@austonsolomon9710]

might have been the longest 6 minutes of my life, but a pleasent 6 minutes

[@ish8003]

Good vid bro

[@Xerothereaper]

If One Piece's animation quality is better now, then why was Gear 5's first apearance so horrible? It was even worse than Naruto's "My pain is greater than yours."

[@yannRL]

Awesome content thanks It's Vincent Chansard tho not Chasgard

[@jklum7895]

thanks, yeah i know ,my editor got the names wrong in this video, although it's not his fault it's mine for not reviewing any mistakes

[@juliusc1381]

I thought the budget thing was just a joke, and people knew the talent behind was more important... Oops. Had too much faith in humanity again.

[@TAJHADproductions]

Animated movies have better animation and waaay bigger budgets so it’s really not that hard to believe that budget makes animation better

[@grizz8217]

@@TAJHADproductions Well the one piece anime has better animation than any of the one piece movies that's for sure

[@angelo0698]

toei recent animation + onepace is the best

[@BossKitty4626]

Hope they won't revert to old animation after wano

[@chrisg5219]

Always annoys tf out of me when people say it's budget. Budget has VERY little to do with quality.

[@faustovii1085]

but the most intriguing part is how and why they decided one morning to change from Zou animation which was very stiff and average for a long-runner, to the Wano animation which is as good as that of a seasonal show

[@E-Doggy-Dog]

sure budget but have yall seen the lineup o people working on it? especially for the kaido fight its basically a whos who of the best top named animators and storyboarders around right now

[@gensischosen251]

The reason toei able to consistently their animations. First they have sacrificed Whole Cake Island arc animations and Toei is literally largest anime studio in Japan meaning they have most animators and contacts through the industry

[@GoodwillWright]

It's also a similar deal to Sunrise. Toei has A LOT of revenue streams that they don't necessarily need to make money off of the anime itself. Like, they get a lot of money from partnerships and sponsorships with electronic brands and car manufacturers not to mention food and produce. Look at Gundam, the reason why Sunrise can afford to make so many high quality animes and still traditionally animate mecha which is very rare nowadays in anime is because they get a lot of money from Gunpla kits. Well, not Sunrise directly but Bandai Namco who then throws money at Sunrise to produce Gundam shows.

[@akhsdenlew1861]

i mean the carrot transformation episode was dope.

[@NICK12621]

Nice Profil Picture 👌

[@silverhairedwanderer9806]

yeah that is true, i feel like budget is very broad. I always assume it is budget becsuse gintama tends to explain its overuse of still frame as the show having budget problem they even explained the final season suffering from budget. But i feel like budget involves time as you give them you give them more money which relates with budget. Also getting good talent would probably involves more budget as theirs skills are more expensive than newcomers. just an assumption i could be wrong i learnt through gintama in some behind the scenes anime production as they seem to know what they are talking about

[@ZeelofTheMarty]

Yes it is not because budget because you know time = free = no cost so the longer something takes = cheaper it gets?????? Also more staff = free? honestly this video has great deal amount of cope in it.

[@ixander274]

wait until bro sees gear 5 💀

[@chrispolo25]

Bro your pfp is 🔥 Where did you get Chad Luffy pic? Lol

[@maindepth8830]

The thing is how long will they be able to maintain this

[@realjayv3n]

until the anime ends

[@GalekC]

with the break - it seems they're bound to commit to this until the very end.

[@Kummiwummis]

I can sum it up in 2 Vincent Chansard

[@maxipingu0054]

Based Music

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

I hope Dragon Ball does not come back until the One Piece anime is finished. The more talented individuals working on One Piece the better. Having another show swipe that talent away would be bad.

[@GoodwillWright]

I'd say the inverse as well. Even if Dragonball comes back, but all the talent is on One Piece, then Dragonball will look disappointing in comparison despite being animated by the same company.

[@laserbeam444maddness7]

Now that wano is nearing its closure. Do you think they’ll revert back to the old one piece style?

[@arceptor]

i hope they do a whole new style