The character designs have been simplified enough that they can easily be animated, much more fully than most anime (including most of the other One Piece animation that I've seen). Compare this shot of the characters as they appear in this movie...
.... To this picture of their designs elsewhere.
I've seen people refer to that usual One Piece art style as "very simple," presumably compared to other anime, but to me it looks just as bogged down in individual hair strands, muscles and fabric wrinkles as almost all anime and manga these days.
Anyway, in this movie they're handled very loosely, and heavily stylized. The exaggerated perspective is probably one of the main things that reminds me of Masaaki Yuasa.
As with lots of anime over the last decade, it does suffer from some incongruous CGI like the giant fish in the above image... Other than this instance, it's mostly just used for moving backgrounds though.
And of course since it's a Mamoru Hosoda film, it's full of wonderful deep compositions and many scenes with nice muted colours.
The original character designs for the movie are also pretty fun:
I have a feeling the story would have had more weight if I were already invested in the characters from having watched the TV series, but even with my limited knowledge and no emotional attachment to them, it was still a pretty fun 100 minutes.
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might check this out
i like it when anime goes simpler
Nice review. I personally don't like the animation in this One Piece movie because it's a bit too loose and unfocused, so the characters end up melting in almost every frame.
The movies are also not a good representation of the manga or the early episodes of the anime, with the characters being flanderized and the stories not up to par to the interesting stories the canon will give you.
I urge you to check out at least the first 50 episodes of the cartoon or first 15 volumes of the manga to get a feel for what the series is. It is the typical Dragon Ball formula but is perfected, has some really great world building involved to keep you reading and is very unpretentious with it's story and characters. But if your not impressed with Arlong the show just won't be for you.
I can see why you wouldn't like the animation here if you were used to the usual look of the series. I know it took me a while to get used to how different the familiar characters looked in Hosoda's Digimon films.
I might watch a bit more of the series, in order, if I have a lot of free time in the future. I'm just too busy at the moment to delve into such a long series that 50 episodes is only the sampler to determine whether you even like it. I can certainly see the appeal of the series-- it seems to be a step above other shonen shows like Naruto and Bleach.
if you like anime with great adventure ever made, you'll see one piece, they are so cool, funny, and powerful
I might watch a bit more of the series of one piece, in order, if I have a lot of free time in the future. I'm just too busy at the moment to delve into such a long series that 50 episodes is only the sampler to determine whether you even like it.one piece is the one of the longest anime ever
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