Bortgreen
Captain Pikachu is EPIC
Journeys actually lowered their own standards
I was just watching some early JN battles and there is a clear difference in animation from what we have been getting lately, the only one that felt more like the current ones was Mr. Mime vs Hariyama.
The series improved a lot fanservice/continuity-wise over time, but there were clearly some production issues after that beginning. The first episode that needed to have many animation directors was JN020 that was early March, and we only got two more episodes before the pandemic hiatus happened.
Even now things have gotten better, there are still issues or the staff just got used to make worse animation. They didn't even plan to animate the other Master 8 battles
I do hope we get better battles from now on, we are reaching high levels now with the Ash battles
Not going to talk about questionable decisions like the Greninja retcon because for some reason they like to mess up randomly like that in every series
But honestly, early Journeys feels like a completely different series and not just because of animation
I was just watching some early JN battles and there is a clear difference in animation from what we have been getting lately, the only one that felt more like the current ones was Mr. Mime vs Hariyama.
The series improved a lot fanservice/continuity-wise over time, but there were clearly some production issues after that beginning. The first episode that needed to have many animation directors was JN020 that was early March, and we only got two more episodes before the pandemic hiatus happened.
Even now things have gotten better, there are still issues or the staff just got used to make worse animation. They didn't even plan to animate the other Master 8 battles
I do hope we get better battles from now on, we are reaching high levels now with the Ash battles
Not going to talk about questionable decisions like the Greninja retcon because for some reason they like to mess up randomly like that in every series
But honestly, early Journeys feels like a completely different series and not just because of animation