Sorry i wont accept that. Soul Eater, FMA Brotherhood, Hunter x Hunter both old and new are consistent with animation. Hell, take a look at Gravity Falls, a cartoon on TV and that has some beautiful animation. Toei needs to kick it up a notch and quit being lazy. They've done some things that i'd expect from a 3rd grader. Take a look at these. All from Toei. And there's far worse than these.
Dude western cartoons like Gravity Falls have like x5 to x10 the budget of an anime episode of any series, your not getting that kind of budget from any anime company ever for an episode.
One piece before the budget increase was reported to have a budget of a little over ¥10,000,000 per episode (about $127,760 USD), a cartoon like gravity falls could have budget of up to 500k easily.
I haven't seen the clip in question cause I've only recently started catch up (on episode 603 now),but the episode quality mostly depend on which animation director is on the rota for that week's episode, I notice a lot of one piece fans are very fickle with short term memory you can have 5 great to excellent animated episode in a row but when you have one mediocre one it rewrites everyone's opinions of the last 600 episodes.
Last few episode I've watched like 603,602 and 600 have had excellent art and good animation yet when that occasionally happen it's never mentioned we even had shockingly some posters complain on the week of 600 came out, I've recently only watched episode recently and was like what the hell where those guys watching sure it wasn't this excellent looking episode??
episode 600
when an episode has art and background art like this, yet you still had people complaining about it.
If your really going to complain about quality the you should stop watching funimation 340p low frame rate stream and wait for real HD verison like me and DTL at least.
You have a point. Especially with Toei's horrid habit of off-model. Nico Robin has looked dreadful since the time skip (seriously she can't be that hard to draw).
It feels like Toei's issue is they're focusing too much on other series. They seem to believe that since One Piece is still a ratings smash, they don't have to try anymore. Instead they'll put more focus on the annual Pretty Cure or whatever else they've got.
Not sure why you keep bring up precure when that's toei's lowest budget anime they have running right now, it's the only one with which as a cap on the number of new frames an episode can have for the franchise, that's why they recycle so much animation(stock animation like transformation and attacks).
