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That was also nice and fluid. Studio Pierrot has great animation quality, however it's usually shown near the end of whatever they are animating. The final arcs of Shippuden had (for the most part) great and fluid animation, and it's extremely prevalent in the finale of both Bleach and Naruto. Even Akatsuki no Yona (also SP) had relatively good animation.

Shippuden was also riddled with poorly animated filler episodes, dragging SP's name into the mud along with it's public perception of it's animation quality. In my opinion, it should have just been sectioned off into actual seasons with a seasonal release, with realistic pacing (i.e. staring into each others eyes for god knows how long). Then it probably would have a consistent animation quality.

ufotable had a very average budget (yes, really) when animated F/Z and F/SN: UBW, and still had animation and choreography surpassing basically all of Bleach and Naruto. This is also in part due to the fact ufotable uses a lot of CGI in it's scenes (Yes, it's there.)

The Monogatari series also has superb animation quality with comparative budgets.

Yes, it's unfair to compare an always "ongoing" anime to a seasonal one, but they had similar budgets for each episode.