i noticed that the more recent card are getting a lot more "fan servicey"..lot's of spine bending poses and so on...
A lot of the fan-service designs are somewhat pulled from Oda's covers and such--the Summer Strawhats, for example. If
One Piece wasn't drawn in such an unconventional, stylized way, the pandering would probably be easier to spot.
Still, you're right, it's been turned up to 11 since this summer. The Special animations for Summer Nami and Robin accentuate the, uh,
assets perhaps a bit more than necessary. The sprites remain pretty tasteful, though. It's not like their idle animations involve self-groping... yet.
Summer Vivi does have a really strange idle animation, though. She looks stoned out of her mind, her head lilting back and forth in this weird way, like she doesn't remotely know where she is. Wish I could find a sprite pull.
So, the current JP ranking involves scoring hits of over 50,000 damage with a single character as many times as possible on the Shandia Fortnight, Elite difficulty. After around 7 failed attempts, I finally scored 41 to get the maximum reward of three gems, and I never want to do it again. It involved G3/G3, Sabo, Gaimon, two penguins, and a bunch of tricky retargeting. Every attack setup had to be executed perfectly. In the worst cases, I had to eat meat with two characters, ramp Perfects through the penguins and Gaimon, retarget to a Treasure Turtle, then land a final perfect. Ugly business. Three gems might not be worth the stress.
