Did One Piece embarrass the OG Kanada Pers-Kun movement?

I think the Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-kun movements were named for just three guys, Yoshinori Kanada, his cheekier and more internationally relatable friendly rival Masahito Yamashita and Yamashita’s much more surreal friend Shinsaku Kozuma. Unlike Kanada at least until recently, his funky disciple Yamashita still being more influential outside of Japan is perhaps why we get a ton of glitzy, giddy, goofy as hell anime art amongst others. 

It’s pretty clear that the OG Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-kun movement has now become not just irrelevant but now ultimately outcompeted by the Web, Neo and Alt Kanada/Kozuma/Yamashita Pers-kun movements. 

And so, the real reason why the OG Kanada Pers-Kun movement has retired is because of a certain Yasunori Miyazawa, who indeed has more Kazuko Nakamura and Akio Jissoji than anyone else. Thank Toei Animation for spreading the studio break layouts that have spread across Japan, to the point of its very own current Kozuma-Kanada hybrid style format having long become the most parodied in modern Japanese pop culture history. Even by Kanada schooling standards, the Kozuma-Kanada hybrid Toei layout is being so mocked by everyone that it makes even the Neo-Kanada layout of Fooly Cooly look rather relatively tamer overall in comparison. 

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