A One Piece series animator has come to the defense of J.C. Staff’s anime show One-Punch Man after fans complained that the animation style on the most recent season still isn’t up to scratch since the show jumped studios.
“I think a lot of people blame J.C. Staff, but it’s a bit more complex,” said beloved animator Vincent Chansard during a live stream with KOL: Requiem on YouTube. Chansard is best known for working on anime projects such as One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Castlevania, and more. “Sometimes, it’s not about the animation studio; sometimes it’s about the production committee that is on top of everything.”
JC staff was never particularly good, but it was also never THIS bad though, they were perfectly mediocre, the To aru series and shokugeki no soma have their own sakuga parts on sakugabooru after all.
I’m legit surprised.
When I was reading the manga my takeaway was that the monster association arch was unanimatable due to the complexity of the monster designs. You’d have to go 3D models and those would look and move like ass.