Not really. Believe it or not what was the first this or that, that one or another of my partners and I did is a favorite topic of discussion for my spouses. They're always trying to 1up each other.
The first anime my wife and I watched together was Inuyasha. The first anime my 1st girlfriend and I watched was Love Hina. The first anime my 2nd girlfriend and I watched I say it was GTO but she says it was .hack. After 23 years my wife is still meh about anime but my other 2 partners love it...
Because unless they are doing a close up on the mouth it's cheaper and easier. Drawing lips requires putting a lot of very fine detail in a very small space. It's the same reason that in most scenes anime and manga characters nose appears as a dot or check mark or not at all.
This might sound out there but I would upgrade the Thousand Sunny. I'd give it more fire power and more armor and a better more sustainable propulsion system to assist with the sails. The eps covering the demise of the Going Merry and the acquisition of the Thousand Sunny show that the ships are...
Some but not as much. Since I don't do realism I can often get away with outlining or just the first knuckle if they are holding things. I use the same trick for toes by using shoes but when a character is bare foot making toes that look like toes and not some kind of squiggle or a blob of...