Another month, another staff list.
The next few episodes are packed with some pretty interesting pairings.
It looks like we're building to the finale of this tournament now, and these are definitely
the types of lists I like to see.
As always, for those looking to avoid spoilers, I won't ever dive deep into the specifics
of the story details, but I will have to at least acknowledge a few match-ups in order
to contextualise the staff.
This is your warning if you're someone who doesn't want to know anything.
Click away!
This is your last chance!
But now, let's dive in.
We only have three episodes worth of staff to cover today.
This is because we already got episode 119 last month, and there's sadly no episode
on the New Year's Eve.
We'll have to suffer the wait for episode 122, which as you'll hear shortly is pretty
damn hype.
It'll be suffering as it finest.
Right, episode 120.
This is where Goku and co.
take on the robot-looking guys from Universe 3.
We've got ourselves a new writer for this episode in the form of Kenichi Yamashita.
He's been a writer at Toei since at least 2004, and is probably most well-known for
his work on the PreCure series, having written for basically every incarnation over the past
10 years.
He's got several series composer credits – essentially a lead writer – so it seems
he's someone who's very experienced and at least well regarded enough to end up in
high positions.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of his work to be able to say whether he's a great
writer or just an experienced one, but from what I've gathered from looking at the reception
to his episodes, it seems like he's got talent.
Hopefully he understands Dragon Ball enough to be able to deliver something interesting
here.
It sounds very much like an episode that'll require a lot of group work, so fingers crossed
we get some nice interactions.
It's being supervised by Miho Tanaka and Masahiro Shimanuki.
Tanaka's a really interesting name, here.
She's from Studio Wanpack, who I'm sure we all know at this point as a regular support
studio since Super began.
Usually we get Yui Kinoshita or CHIHIRO Tanaka as the supervisor, particularly the latter
as of late.
For some reason we have Miho who's probably most well known for being a supervisor of
Sailor Moon Crystal's first few seasons.
Not exactly the greatest of credits, but she also helped supervise episodes 6 and 19 of
Attack on Titan, so… maybe it's not the worst thing ever?
I think their output will depend very heavily on what key animators they have under them.
Part of me wonders whether it's just a typo and put in the wrong Tanaka – they both
have the same kanji, so I guess we'll see.
Masahiro Shimanuki's usually on-point.
His last episode will have only been 7 weeks ago by the time 113 rolls around.
He's been looking a little rough around the edges with the usual 8 weeks lately, so
that's a little concerning, but I have reasonably high hopes.
He's a very weird and stiff animator, with quite robotic movements, so I'm hoping he'll
take it upon himself to do some key animation.
His weirdo stiff style would probably work quite well!
It's being directed by Hideki Hiroshima and storyboarded by Kiyosato Yamamoto.
Unfortunately, directors not directing their own storyboards is a running theme for this
entire batch.
Directors always function better when they have full creative control, but it's not
the end of the world.
I'm not a huge fan of Hiroshima as a director – I don't think he's great at letting
big moments sit in – everything tends to feel like they're going through the motions.
As much as I liked Tate's 103, it's not a great episode in retrospect.
The battles have no real intensity and the 'dramatic' reveal is… not very dramatic.
On the plus side, I do like Yamamoto as a storyboard artist.
Episode 86 was absolutely stunning with some of the best compositions of the arc.
His most recent work was episode 108, which okay, it's was a Yashima episode so not
that well animated, but the storyboard was more than nice.
I think we're in for a pretty middle of the road episode as far as animation goes.
Unless Ken Otsuka shows up for some reason and does some nice mech animation, it'll
be one of those episodes that hinges very heavily on interesting compositions over anything
else.
I hope I'm wrong, but yeah… not expecting much.
Episode 121 is the follow-up and and hopefully the conclusion of the fight.
It's being written by fan favourite writer, Toshio Yoshitaka.
Much like the last episode, it sounds like it'll be one packed with different characters,
so fingers crossed his forte in that area comes to light once again.
He did well with episodes 107 and 112, so I have no doubt in my mind that he'll deliver
here.
Takao Iwai's directing.
He's wonderful – he knows how to direct character interaction, comedy, action… everything.
His most recent episode, 112, was just wonderful in that regard.
The added bonus is that he seems to be someone who's really good at directing and elevating
others' storyboards.
He rarely boards himself – the last time he did so on a regular basis was back in,
like, 2011.
The storyboard for this episode comes from Yoshitaka Yashima.
We all know him as the solo supervisor with the speed of the gods, but as I mention every
single time he storyboards, I've always found his boards to be his strongest asset.
His action isn't necessarily the most well framed thing in the world, but he's good
at emphasising the scale of battles with some pretty damn creative angles.
I definitely have a lot faith there.
The most interesting aspect of this episode are its supervisors.
It marks the return of Yuichi Karasawa, who did do some key animation on episode 114,
but hasn't supervised since all the way back in episode 106, which was pretty much
a disaster.
Tsuji recorrected basically everything.
He's someone with real skill though as we've seen across all of his part episodes.
Great detailed art with complex shading, and a pretty decent skill as far as actual animation
goes, too.
I'm really hoping this episode is a strong one for him.
He doesn't appear to perform too well under intense time pressures, but assuming all goes
well here, we'll get ourselves a strong half.
The next supervisor is Yuuji Hakamada.
For those who may not know, Hakamada was a very regular supervisor back on Dragon Ball
Z and GT, handling some of the major episodes of both series.
He's not a total stranger to Super – he first popped up towards the end of the Universe
6 arc and throughout the Copy Vegeta stuff as an assistant supervisor.
He vanished to do the new Digimon series, but came back to us for episode 113.
At this point, it's not clear what exactly his style looks like these days, so I'm
really damn excited to see how he's evolved.
He's had a pretty intense career at Toei.
Him and Ken Otsuka worked together as mech supervisors once on Gaiking.
It'd be very cool to see them together again for a mech-focused episode like this, especially
if Otsuka isn't on the previous episode.
Either way, this should be one hell of an episode is all goes right, especially for
those of us who love to work out different styles!
Nothing, and I mean nothing can compare to what's coming in episode 122, though.
I already made a video on it thanks to Takahashi revealing this privately in advance, but he
is of course returning to supervise another episode, and it's looking to be Vegeta vs
Jiren.
As someone who's a not-so-secret fanboy of Vegeta, I am absolutely ecstatic.
That single shot he drew of Vegeta in 114 has had me at full mast ever since.
I cannot wait.
He's joined by Hirotaka Nii, who to me, is a weird choice here.
I would personally flip Nii with Karasawa for the sake of visual consistency.
Nii's work is so polar opposite to Takahashi's usually – but I guess we'll see.
Nii's a very strong supervisor and seems to do action well, so as far as keeping up
the quality in that regard, it's a sensible pairing.
I do think we should expect a degree of visual inconsistency, we survived with Takahashi
and TOEI PHILLIIPINES last time, so I'm sure we'll live through this one.
It's being storyboarded by Naotoshi Shida.
I doubted Shida's boarding abilities for the longest time, but after so many amazing
episodes from him in this arc, I don't have a single doubt in my mind.
I'm really hoping to see more of those seamless action transitions that he's been throwing
at us over his past few episodes.
I think the question that myself and a few of my animation buddies instantly had come
to mind was: is this going to be like episode 95 where he also provides key animation along
with his storyboard?
Personally, I think they'll want to keep him for the finale, and because he's quite
a slow animator, having him show up here would seriously limit what he ends up doing for
the final fight.
One of my friends has asked Takahashi whether Shida will animate, so if he comes back to
us with positive news, I'll let you know!
The only major staff downfall with this episode is its director.
I've given Takahiro Imamura the benefit of the doubt before his past couple of episodes,
and he's let me down every single time.
I really hope he proves me wrong this time.
Takahashi's last episode wasn't particularly well directed either.
He deserves better, so I'm crossing all my limbs in hopes that Imamura can actually
elevate the top-tier action like he did most recently in episode 93.
Atsuhiro Tomioka's writing the script – we know he's good.
He's another fan favourite next to Toshio Yoshitaka, so I'm not even remotely worried
here.
I'm curious as to whether he'll be taking the reins on the writing as the arc moves
towards its finale.
He wrote the start of this arc, right through to the end of the exhibition matches, and
also penned the second half of the special.
I've been wondering if he's acting as a sort of unofficial series composer, so we
should get the answer to that next month.
122 might have its director against it, but everything else is so strong that at the very
worst, it'll be a gorgeous if a little underwhelming fight.
Either way, it's easily the strongest staff-wise for this month, and the big one to look forward
to.
But that's it for this month.
A pretty exciting batch of episodes ahead of us as move towards what will presumably
be the finale of the arc, or the tournament at the very least.
With this rotation, it'll leave guys like Naoki Tate and Shuuichiro Manabe to once again
lead the major action of the arc.
The planning has been so strong throughout this tournament, so I'm glad to see it's
not starting to crumble where it counts.
I might not be engaged in this tournament narratively, but I'd be lying if I said
I wasn't excited for the pure spectacle alone.
Thanks so much for listening!
As always with these videos, let me know what your predictions or hopes are in the comment
section below.
Be sure to rate the video, and I will see you next time.
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