Hence I’m trying to stay away from believing episode previews. There was some interesting dialogue between them, but alas as I had hoped in last episode that the secretary bitch will be taken down. I like the quality that Nami has taken as that bubble afflicted look. Then looking at the battle between Nami and that secretary bitch. Reminds me of that long ago battle of Arlong and Luffy. seeming to be never ending and long winded. The battle between Luffy and Lucci, it is actually quite boring. There are various events happening simultaneously all over the Justice Tower, so scenes kept going in between the different battle grounds. before I get to see the ending of what happens to that monkey faced Spamdon. But I would have to say they’re dragging out the story line bit by agonizing bit. Looking at this episode, it is still attune to the plot, so it’s better than a filler. I think the animation did clean up and the art did as well in the second half and this clip in particuilar actually reminded me of Saint Seiya by being a still, being simple, but being really powerful and good.While getting over my excitement of last episode. One Piece normally looks okay to really good depending on the episode and this unimpactful and poor tween-esque, non flowing movement or awkward art and animation that takes you out of the moment whether you like it or not weirdly enough made me dislike the first half of the episode, especially because not too much happened in it so those elements were things I had to focus on more than I'd like to.

I can love and do love Saint Seiyas animation and Berserk(1997)'s animation which is mostly stills and a lot of tween looking animation, but it is true to that and it works that animation to make it effective and powerful. What this all said to me was that I don't care about pretty colors, but I do care about efficiency and suspension of disbelief which ends up leaning heavily on the consistency of art, and animation. And for the Kokoro clip, it occurred right after the wide-headed Chimney art that lasted seconds. The Lucci fight and this Kokoro cut are again few examples of many and for the Lucci fight it should have been something really meaningful and important to put the effort in and it happens to look like the worst fight of One Piece animation wise to me. Where Kokoro flapped her giant mouth with seemingly not enough frames ending up with an uncanny effect. It made a moment like Luffy attacking behind a crate look silly and dumb and it should have been awesome. They appeared to be stills tweening around at times. Which had no flow of motion, the cuts felt as if they weren't even connected, almost like it was individual nonrelated movements, and the motions had no impact. I noticed the animation was lackluster last episode but I was hoping it would only be for the end of episode introduction to the fight.

And, Khalifa is really likable too! I can't quite get a hold on her personality but her tsundere side when she's ignored is adorable and I love how she extracts the best side of Nami out of her. I guess I'm saying I think the fights handcrafted to bring the best out of Nami in a combat situation for the first time ever. It's a fight that shows off Nami's badass tomboyish side, her strong resolve, quick thinking and sass to a tee even if a lot of the fight is singular moves being separated by talking or evading. It's really cool to see a strong opponent who isn't a master at their devil fruit power, the fact that Khalifa is so new to it and so arrogant is what's giving Nami a chance and I love that. There's a lack of mastery here that you can compare with excellent fighters like Blueno who utilized their devil fruit power in a far less obtuse, and more natural way. She wouldn't have a perfect plan to be efficient using her power as can be seen with how she covers her opponents in strength stealing bubbles but then kicks the bubbles off them as she doesn't know a better way to approach it. She got these powers like today, she wouldn't realize that when soapy her finger pistol would slide off Nami. Further, Khalifa's less than perfect plans and execution of her powers are evident through her fighting. For the variety of the fight alone, I think it stands out. It's a really dynamic fight that started with Sanji. This one is pretty great even though I don't like Khalifa's power too much. The Sotori and Hotori fight being obnoxious. I recall the Paula fight being lackluster.

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