Why did Toei Animation improve so much over the last few years?

tchitchouan said:
The only logical explanation is that they updated the the hardware and software they use for animation and they hired some young and talented animators who are more used to digital animation.

nyugvo6 said:
go princess is considered the last sakuga heavy season

nyugvo6 said:
when your shows got better, precure's quality went to shit. precure has been famous for it's amazing animation, and it happens to be a toei show.
the animators got taken off from one project and put on a different one.
want more proof? go princess is considered the last sakuga heavy season. the following years have kind of fallen off a cliff minus a few decent episodes. even the movies look like average episodes now.


I could hit up sakugabooru and post clips.
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/214357 precure 2015
https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/132726 one piece wano arc
rejoice, shonenshit got saved by toei's new strategy, to forcefully exclude otaku from the precure fandom.
no more sakuga, or appealing designs(subjective), or action figure merchandise. or fistfights (depends on the show, they got removed because of complaints before)

moliv said:
idk where the improvement is, i dropped one piss after 60 episodes and the biggest waste of my time, so i tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and skim the latest episode, to which is a big battle and the animation just isnt there, about a quarter of the entire episode is a still image in 1440p zoomed into 1080p then panned across, and the scenes where some work was put into it looks like a fan animation. ive seen better animation in family guy than one piss, yet its fans are so disillusioned with the gall to call it a masterpiece. one thing i do agree with is oda is a genius, hes managed to milk a mid series for 20 some years and somehow maintain a loyal fanbase to this dumpster fire of a show, hell if i knew i could shit out a volume akin to a third graders english paper on what they did this weekend id milk it to, dude found an irl money glitch by throwing breadcrumbs at the resource room population

BatoKusanagi said:
Not sure who misled you like this, but Toei has been producing quality productions for decades. If they're known for anything, it's for making everyone's childhood anime.

Nirinbo said:
Toei Animation has always proved to be a good studio, but only when it stays away from long running anime. 

StaleNut said:
Pretty sure he's referring to animation quality. Most Toei shows before the 2020's looked awful or painfully mediocre.

BatoKusanagi said:

If so, that would also be wrong and dumb. Toei has made a ton of anime over the years in a wide range of styles. Way too much of a generalization to say most of them are "awful or painfully mediocre". I was just saying that Toei obvviously didn't just discover how to make good animation recently.

Lucifrost said:
I see that you have yet to watch GeGeGe no Kitaro.

Kalley said:
Toei animation used to be infamous for producing some of the worst quality of animation in the industry.

Felt like this started changing around 2015, after Toei animation received extreme amounts of criticism for Dragon Ball Super's early episodes. As Dragon Ball Super went on, the quality began to get better and better.

The same goes for One Piece, whom during 2015 was in the Dressrosa arc (which is widely considered to the worst animated arc in One Piece). The next arc Whole Cake Island seen an improvement in animation. Now One Piece is in Wano arc, and the animation is literally one of the best out there of all anime. 

I just was wondering, what changed around 2015-2019(-ish) internally at the company that improved the quality of the shows?

StaleNut said:

The thing is, Toei has been a mass production studio for most of its history. They made so many damn shows that their most original and well produced anime simply were entirely forgotten. And the amount of badly animated shows they've produced is much greater than the amount of well produced ones...

BatoKusanagi said:

Rather than mass production, it's simply that they've been around for 60 years and have a lot of staff. Being well-established also means that many good animators have worked there, so I'd say the reality is the exact opposite of what Op and you are saying.
If people have forgotten about those anime (or haven't seen them in the first place),that's on them.

Kalley said:
Now One Piece is in Wano arc, and the animation is literally one of the best out there of all anime. 

StaleNut said:
Wdym rather than mass production? Every decade they have produced around 30-60 anime, most of which looked poor and outdated even by the standards of past decades when technology and resources in the industry were extremely limited. What part of that doesn't fit the meaning of "mass production"?

Nailing 1 project out of 20 isn't an achievement.