“How can someone be so good?”

Megumi Ishitani demonstrates her skills as a director in a new anime intro. (Image: © Kenta Shinohara, Shueisha / Bibury Animation Studios)

Megumi Ishitani is the director of the One Piece anime, who has made a name for herself in the community. After working on some popular anime episodes and “One Piece: Fan Letter”, which was a great success and catapulted at the top of the One Piece director, Ishitani has now released a new hit.

With the opening of Netflix’s new anime series Witch Watch, Ishitani has once again demonstrated her skills and captivated anime fans all over the world.

One Piece fans immediately felt a feeling of familiarity when looking at the intro. (Image: © Kenta Shinohara, Shueisha / Bibury Animation Studios)

A newcomer anime this season was really taken with the community with its opening. The intro to Witch Watch is sung by the popular and famous Japanese pop duo Yoasobi (freezing, my star, beastars, etc.), and the director of openings is none other than megumi Ishitani.

Since working on some visually impressive one Piece episodes such as Episode 1015 and its direction of the One Piece special “Fan Letter”, Ishitani has had a kind of legend status among one piece fans. So it is not surprising that the community immediately recognized its unmistakable storyboard style in Witch Watch’s opening and is enthusiastic.

Megumi Ishitanis style is unmistakable for One Piece fans. (Image: © Kenta Shinohara, Shueisha / Bibury Animation Studios)

Talk to x Several One Piece fans About the impressive visual presentation of the intro and praise Megumi Ishitani for her talent to impress the characters in the picture. Your understanding and use of colors in the sequences of One Piece and Witch Watch have also made a big impression. Some anime viewers Can’t get enough of the visual play of colors and even wonder how someone can be “so good”.

Here you can watch the opening yourself and get your own picture of Ishitanis work in cooperation with Yoasobi:

Link to YouTube content

What is Witch Watch.

Witch Watch is a love comedy with fantasy elements of Kenta Shinohara, which has already celebrated success with his manga Sket Dance in the past.

Witch Watch tells the story of the young witch Nico Wakatsuki and her childhood friend Morihito Otogi, who is an ogre, but what a person looks like. After Nico successfully completed her magical training as a witch, the two move in.

Nico and her magical skills put her friends into some difficulties. (Image: © Kenta Shinohara, Shueisha / Bibury Animation Studios)

Nico is in love with Mirohito from childhood and hopes that they will be a couple of lovers for both. After all, according to the family tradition, Morihito should become her “confidant” and protect her.

However, because Nico is only a freshly baked witch and sometimes still pass some mishaps with their magic, the two childhood friends have to prepare for unpredictable and supernatural events.