I spotted this episode by luck will zapping TV, and I was mesmerized.
The drawing is rough, animation is virtuoso. I've never seen an usually poorly animated manga so packed with frame, as each of the 24 images/second see a metamorphosis of corpses and matter. Drawing seems poor but don't get wrong, as a professional drawer I can tell that the free will behind need an off-of-this-world talent, remembering more of American indie animator genius Bill Plympton than Looney Tunes, like I read somewhere. After some research, seems that director Atsushi Wakabayashi was the real genius behind it, as for episodes 30, 71 and 133 of the original Naruto series, that I can't encourage you enough to watch.
Thanks not to this episode 167, it forced me to watch the whole series, who didn't live up to that standard, except for the sparks above. But in the end it worth it, as this episode is also the apex of the story, and the riskiness of in animation deserves all the praises for the Pierrot studio.
The drawing is rough, animation is virtuoso. I've never seen an usually poorly animated manga so packed with frame, as each of the 24 images/second see a metamorphosis of corpses and matter. Drawing seems poor but don't get wrong, as a professional drawer I can tell that the free will behind need an off-of-this-world talent, remembering more of American indie animator genius Bill Plympton than Looney Tunes, like I read somewhere. After some research, seems that director Atsushi Wakabayashi was the real genius behind it, as for episodes 30, 71 and 133 of the original Naruto series, that I can't encourage you enough to watch.
Thanks not to this episode 167, it forced me to watch the whole series, who didn't live up to that standard, except for the sparks above. But in the end it worth it, as this episode is also the apex of the story, and the riskiness of in animation deserves all the praises for the Pierrot studio.