ONE PIECE: SCENE STUDY

 I love the economy of how they direct scenes in anime, always cutting corners, but it never confuses the storytelling. In this sequence, the 180 rule gets broken, at the start Nami is SCREEN LEFT and we'll flip late in the scene.

I just love the storytelling details, the paw print design on the door, and the closed door sign say so much without dialogue. The little dog is guarding a petshop, that's now closed because his owner passed away.

So the Mayor character is SCREEN RIGHT, he walks off to feed the dog.

But instead of seeing him prepare the dogfood...which is a lot of animation for something unimportant, we get treated to this nice Dogshop sign while he delivers some more dialogue. 

And then simple just puts the dog bowl in front, still keeping SCREEN RIGHT.

So the shot below is kind of interesting because we see him walk off to the RIGHT

But all of a sudden he's going to the left here. usually that would be a big no. But because it's done it's such a tight framing, they get away with it. Importantly, he came into the shot from SCREEN RIGHT, so he is where we expect him to be. Now we know he's to the LEFT (we changed screen direction in our head).

So in the next shot, they zoom out slowly and he comes in SCREEN LEFT (where we expect him to be).

And now they establish everybody's new position to each other in a. wide.