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What is your favourite One Piece Anime Artstyle - Old,New or Wano?

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What is your favourite One Piece Anime Artstyle - Old,New or Wano?

• Old

  Votes: 56 57.7%

• New

  Votes: 3 3.1%

• Wano

  Votes: 38 39.2%

• Total voters 97

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TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684 In terms of the One Piece Artstyle - there have been 3 major changes to the artstyle in the anime. The Artstyle that was mostly used during the Pre-Time Skip Era: The Artstyle mostly used in Post Time Skip The Artstyle Used in Wano:

Chivalry

Chicken Chaser

Banned Nov 22, 2018 3,894 Pre>Wano>Post

Aaron

Dreamcast Political Party

Member Oct 25, 2017 18,564 Minneapolis I find the old stuff very charming but Wano (which admittedly I have not watched yet) is just on another level. OP OP

TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684 I prefer Old's rough around the edges look - Post always felt way to glossey and sadly certain desgins did not help matters

Meia

Member Oct 26, 2017 1,221 Old had the best designs of like every character, so that. Think Zoro and Usopp are the only new ones I liked. OP OP

TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684

Meia said: Old had the best designs of like every character, so that. Think Zoro and Usopp are the only new ones I liked. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

I don't like Zoro's Post Time Skip Design in the anime mostly because of that thick neck

Lord Vatek

Avenger Jan 18, 2018 27,951 Wano is a perfect mix of the strengths of both styles.

Garrod Ran

self-requested ban

Banned Mar 23, 2018 16,203

Lord Vatek said: Wano is a perfect mix of the strengths of both styles. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

bingo

Hogendaz85

Member Dec 6, 2017 3,029 Old, it actually looked unique with the limited shading but very consistent animation.

Jarate

Banned Oct 25, 2017 4,614 Whole Cake Island was also a massive shift in art style that looks really good. I think Wano is my favorite out of that bunch, but my favorite art style for the anime had to the direction they went in water 7. It was fluid and not as sharp which I think aided the looney tunes nature of the series.

Starwing

One Winged Slayer

The Fallen Oct 31, 2018 4,585 Wano by a country mile.

andymcc

Member Oct 25, 2017 28,805 Columbus, OH Wano is the best looking the anime has ever been. Too bad the pacing is shit.

Squarehard

Member Oct 27, 2017 32,562 Pre-time skip, particularly for Robin. She just had such an interesting look. Also, Franky was normal. OP OP

TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684

andymcc said: Wano is the best looking the anime has ever been. Too bad the pacing is shit. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

The Pacing has always been iffy but Dressrossa was much worse

icyflamez96

Member Oct 26, 2017 7,600 I thought more people would be saying post over pre considering how people seem to stan the "softer more "animated"" look when it comes to other anime and their artstyle changes. Though I haven't actually seen the series and don't really know what it's like in motion or anything, just going off of these images.

Blade30

Member Oct 26, 2017 6,165 I like the old style, it had charm and looked unique. Also look at hat Robin change... :sigh:

TheGamingNewsGuy said: The Pacing has always been iffy but Dressrossa was much worse Click to expand... Click to shrink...

That's one of the reasons why I dropped out, iirc the dressrossa arc in the anime is over 100 episodes long which is insane, but if remove all the recaps and stuff then the episode count should much lower.

NHarmonic.

▲ Legend ▲

The Fallen Oct 27, 2017 11,385 Pre. It was so good and had so much charisma.

Jodez99

Member Jan 1, 2018 4,237 I'd bet if you showed a non One Piece fan those pics of Robin they would never guess it's the same character

Rosebud

Two Pieces

Member Apr 16, 2018 56,312 I like every style, but the fanservice after timeskip is awful.

Ravelle

Member Oct 31, 2017 21,888 The original style for sure, before everyone got weird looking and received huge tits.

Chumunga64

Member Jun 22, 2018 19,144 the old style looked so good. I loved old, tan, Robin

Lumination

Member Oct 26, 2017 18,072 Wano > Post > Pre Wano's the first time the execution of the artstyle has looked distinctive and high quality. Post was high quality (when not stills) but a bit too sanitized. Pre just looked like low budget crayon art and the SD resolution didn't help.

Kingpin Rogers

HILF

Banned Oct 27, 2017 7,459 I hate the post time skip art style. It has played a large part in me enjoying One Piece a lot less than I used to. I haven't seen any of Wano yet so pre is easily my favourite art style.

sanstesy

Banned Nov 16, 2017 2,471 Pre by far especially the first 300 episodes. OP looks absolutely horrible past the time skip.

mrmickfran

The Fallen Oct 27, 2017 35,974 Gongaga I lost my shit when I saw Zoro's Dragon Shock in a recent episode God imagine if One Piece looked like that from the get go.

Anth0ny

Member Oct 25, 2017 55,038 easily old. the original stuff was so charming and expressive, big part of why I fell in love with the franchise at all: But Wano looks absolutely incredible at times and is a close runner up. Really happy with the new direction. Too bad a huge chunk of the anime now looks like garbage in comparison. OP OP

TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684

Anth0ny said: easily old. the original stuff was so charming and expressive, big part of why I fell in love with the franchise at all: But Wano looks absolutely incredible at times and is a close runner up. Really happy with the new direction. Too bad a huge chunk of the anime now looks like garbage in comparison. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

I think Nami especially looks the best on the Old Style when compared to New and Wano

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Banned Jan 24, 2019 10,774 havent watch wano yet but those pics slap old>wano>new maybe

Chumunga64 said: the old style looked so good. I loved old, tan, Robin Click to expand... Click to shrink...

i cant believe they said my girl had a fucking tan vivi and crocodile didnt

Hampig

Member Oct 25, 2017 1,759 Old for sure. Haven't seen much of Wano tho.

Big Boy

Member Oct 25, 2017 2,956 Wano is on another level

Htown

Member Oct 25, 2017 12,219 I notice that your pictures all show Luffy's body and just Robin's face is there perhaps a reason for that related to how women are drawn in the series? OP OP

TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684

Htown said: I notice that your pictures all show Luffy's body and just Robin's face is there perhaps a reason for that related to how women are drawn in the series? Click to expand... Click to shrink...

No i just wanted the images to be sorta similar for better comparisons between the artstyle

DPT120

Banned Oct 27, 2017 13,702 Wano artstyle

Sleepingdragon

Member Oct 29, 2017 376 Pre-Timeskip didn't really have just 1 consistent artstyle though so it's kinda dumb to have all of them under one option. OP OP

TheGamingNewsGuy

One Winged Slayer

Member Nov 5, 2017 35,684

Sleepingdragon said: Pre-Timeskip didn't really have just 1 consistent artstyle though so it's kinda dumb to have all of them under one option. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Yeah that's a fair point. I should have really split pre into Early Pre One Piece and Late Pre-One Piece. My bad

Fulminator

Member Oct 25, 2017 14,565

Chivalry said: Pre>Wano>Post Click to expand... Click to shrink...

first post nails it

Anti-Pessimist

Member Dec 21, 2018 310 Wano in my opinion is the best.

sir_crocodile

Member Oct 25, 2017 25,157 around 200ish it was just the best

NZerker12

Member Oct 25, 2017 1,743 Water 7/Enies Lobby had the best artstyle for me

dancingphlower

Member Oct 27, 2017 13,787 Based on those pictures? Wano.

NHarmonic.

▲ Legend ▲

The Fallen Oct 27, 2017 11,385 It's crazy how Robin turns from a really charming, interesting design to a same-y female design during the course of the show.

Tathanen

One Winged Slayer

Member Oct 25, 2017 8,012 I quit the anime forever ago, it's news to me that Wano has a new style. Anyone wanna share some especially representative gifs or videos or anything? I'm curious beyond just the two shots in the OP.

Wood Man

Member Oct 30, 2017 5,449 Old style for me. Before all the fan service. But Wano looks great too.

chrisPjelly

Avenger Oct 29, 2017 11,026 Old style for sure. Just something about the lanky whimsicalness and roughness has so much more charm in that form. Wank looks amazing in places, too, and when it gets its big moments I wouldn't be surprised if it surpasses the original for me. The new world style looked like dogshit for the majority of its run, I'm sorry. And I'm not a fan of the simplified artstyle and more safe art direction (i.e. less warped fisheye perspectives, too on model most of the time, more muscle men and size Infinity cupped women, etc.).

Reym

Member Jul 15, 2019 2,843 Old One Piece episodes feel so cozy. I still love watching them even with the janky animation. It felt more like a pirate adventure. Wano doesn't recapture that magic, but it does something new and I really like it.

WaveBird

Member Oct 29, 2017 2,058

Chivalry said: Pre>Wano>Post Click to expand... Click to shrink...

This is me. I would give up my knowledge of almost any other anime just to go back to that early days of One Piece look. It's what got me into the series and has me staying despite what it's looked like post-ts(esque). Spoiler I also think I enjoy the older stuff a lot because of Oda's focus on the SH Crew versus the world at large now and the ugly time skip designs but that's for another topic.

The Deleter

Member Sep 22, 2019 4,203 Old all the way. Matches the cartoony and storybook-esque feeling of the world to a T, and just gives the series a unique feeling to itself. The backgrounds could sort of be nonexistent at times, but that was part of the charm of the aesthetic at the same time imo Wano is good past that, but honestly I don't think the crisp-clean HD look fits the style of One Piece as well, much less the generic AAA animation focus when it is "amazing". One piece has always excelled at high-impact frames from very specific angles setting the tone for specific fights, selling the "moments" themselves, but the go-to method for any modern high-budged anime or movie fight is to fill in all the "blanks" with buttery smooth movement, flashy effects, and dynamic animation above all else, without much thought being put into if it matches the impact of the source material Like say, we have this amazing low frame intro for a movie, and it emphasizes all the sorts of framing the series typically flaunts in manga form: But then the actual fight scenes everyone fauns over are just typical animator flex without any actual pause on moments of impact, focusing on more generic forms of "amazing final battle" tactics and methods to impress than the series' main strength for conveying the fights. Don't get me wrong, displaying stills in fight scenes is still lazy in terms of animation; this still happens in the anime just to be cheap, and I don't want it to just be like that. But attempting to bring One Piece into the modern animated scene has mostly been about copying how everyone else does a fight scene so far, involving whether the choreography is impressive, the movement is believable, the action is rapid fire and high intensity, or the inbetween frames for the fights are just smooth as all get out and clearly took a lot of time to draw together. But at the very least the old style knew what moments mattered in terms of impact, and drew those wide-angle spreadshots for every one of them that was impressive. If we could emphasize some of that in a new, modern style of animation rather than defaulting to the generic industry standard, I'd appreciate it a lot more than what we have now, but as it stands One Piece's animation and fight scenes just aren't that impressive for what they are. They never have been. It's always been the moves, the panels they're drawn in, and the framing of the shot that have been the highlight strength of the series's action.

Rosebud

Two Pieces

Member Apr 16, 2018 56,312

Tathanen said: I quit the anime forever ago, it's news to me that Wano has a new style. Anyone wanna share some especially representative gifs or videos or anything? I'm curious beyond just the two shots in the OP. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

sir_crocodile said: around 200ish it was just the best Click to expand... Click to shrink...

lmao I love this

Ferrs

Avenger Oct 26, 2017 19,314 Old had it's own charm. New was like every other fucking anime. What they did to Nami is a disgrace.

Sanka

Banned Feb 17, 2019 5,778 Up to Marineford so up to the end of the prison arc the anime looked great after that tho it looked like complete trash. It wasn't only the animation, the direction was horrible too. Wano is different but a major improvement.

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