Did they explain Ash`s new look (Pokemon anime)?

[SuperNova]

Hiku said:

SuperNova said:

Still frames never do animaton justice. Yes this might look funny as a meme, but the actual part in the anime this is taken from actually has amazing animation quality and a fluidity that you almost never find in shonen anime. Yes, the faces are disorted, but that's clearly a stylistic choice to show the characters emotional turmoil. It might not work to a mainstream viewer, but that does not actually mean it's bad.

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Most of what you said here boils down to: I don't like the art style. That's fine.

But it was clearly a concious choice on the studios part to do it this way and the animation quality itself is actually not bad, wether you personally like it or not.

Saying that it's not inkeeping with the manga or with other episodes are valid complains, still they have nothing to do with the animation quality.

As for your complaint about the frame skipping cloak, look at the rest ot the scene. I'd say that was a concious choice to make the thing look wierd and otherworldly, sort of like horrorfilms ulitilze skipped and sped up frames to give ghosts eery movement patterns. That might not be true, but it's how it looks to me. (Also gifs are not the best way to show of fluid animations, people often drop frames while making them because of file size.)

My best guess is that, since the fight was not in the manga they decided to give the animators a bit more of a free reign to experiment.