Since One Piece arc Wano, audiences have noticed a significant change in the anime's animation style. Kenji Yokoyama, One Piece's animation director, revealed that Toei Animation made this change to adapt to the series' new setting.
One Piece – Director reveals the reason for changing the anime's style in Wano
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At Anime Expo 2023, the Anime News Network interviewed Yokoyama about his experience working on One Piece at Toei Animation. One of the questions concerned the aesthetic change the anime underwent in the Wano arc. Yokoyama stated that they chose this new style based on traditional Japanese aesthetics.
“In the Wano Arc, we decided to return to something more traditionally Japanese in its aesthetic. And then there was this collective understanding. When we considered revisiting an older motif, there was also a discussion about the kind of changes we would make to the timeline itself.”
Synopsis:
The story revolves around Monkey D. Luffy, a young man who gained a body made of rubber after eating the magical Gomu Gomu no Mi (Rubber Fruit). Inspired by his childhood idol, the powerful pirate Shanks the Red-Haired, Luffy decided to become a pirate and sail the seas to find the mythical treasure, the One Piece, and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates.
Eiichiro Oda began serializing One Piece in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. Since then, his manga has grown in an astonishing way, becoming the resounding phenomenon it is today. As its story has expanded, the work has reached over 1000 chapters and 100 manga volumes published in 25 years. Even being such an extensive series, One Piece has become the best-selling manga in history.
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Source: ANN
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