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One Piece Thread (redux)
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Gear2nd_PK
Member
Damn 600? What a milestone. I haven't been keeping myself up to date with the anime now. I'm kinda losing interest in it completely (well, with the exception of the English broadcast on Toonami). The pacing is just terrible for me now.
Meanwhile the manga has kept me super glued since I recently received volumes 34-38, 55-60, and 67 as birthday gifts (thus owning all of the volumes currently released in English!). Now I gotta wait every 3 months for a new book.
Meanwhile the manga has kept me super glued since I recently received volumes 34-38, 55-60, and 67 as birthday gifts (thus owning all of the volumes currently released in English!). Now I gotta wait every 3 months for a new book.
Well your hearing wrong, One piece is still Toei number 1 money maker in merchandising(beating precure a show that exist sole to sell toys) and in Tv ratings(twice over both one piece and it's HD rerun are consistently in the top anime tv ratings each week),It has the same focus put behind it as Toriko but has a much bigger budget then precure which has to recycle a lot of animation due to a lower budget(why do you think magical girl show &mecha anime have repeated transformation animation each week/episode and repeated stock animation attacks, they exist to save money and time).
You just haven't been paying attention to the staff listing on animation directors each week , one piece has had some pretty good animated episode a few weeks ago, it's just that 599 had Deguchi Toshio as animation director the weakest animation director of the lot.
If you go a few episode back 594 had Ishizuka Katsumi a top class animation director behind it(dat thick fluid animated slime animation) and 585,591 &597 part 1(luffy vs CC) had Nakatani Yukiko the animation director for Episode of nami behind it.
I think am going to have to put up staff list to adjust people's expectation(warn people when a deguchi episode is coming), I don't like doing it as it effect people opinions on the episodes before they've even watched it.
600
Script: Yonemura Shoji
Storyboard: Hiraike Ayako
Episode director: Hiraike Ayako
Animation director: Yokoyama Kenji -good
601
Script: Nakayama Tomohiro
Storyboard: Goto Keiji
Episode director: Imamura Takahiro
Animation director: Shingaki Shigefumi -good
602
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Otsuka Takashi
Episode director: Otsuka Takashi
Animation director: Hisada Kazuya - top class
603
Script: Tanaka Hitoshi
Storyboard: Komaki Aya
Episode director: Komaki Aya
Animation director: Isochi Yusuke -never seen this one before
Script: Yonemura Shoji
Storyboard: Hiraike Ayako
Episode director: Hiraike Ayako
Animation director: Yokoyama Kenji -good
601
Script: Nakayama Tomohiro
Storyboard: Goto Keiji
Episode director: Imamura Takahiro
Animation director: Shingaki Shigefumi -good
602
Script: Suga Yoshiyuki
Storyboard: Otsuka Takashi
Episode director: Otsuka Takashi
Animation director: Hisada Kazuya - top class
603
Script: Tanaka Hitoshi
Storyboard: Komaki Aya
Episode director: Komaki Aya
Animation director: Isochi Yusuke -never seen this one before
Jigolo
Member
Nope. Way better pacing then that garbage arc.
Oh thank the gods. I was worried. Fishman was just way too slow.
New One Piece TV Special! This one is about the Going Merry. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-06-17/one-piece-going-merry-ship-gets-its-own-tv-special
Sounds like they'll reanimate parts of the Kuro arc and the Water 7/Enies Lobby arc.
Sounds like they'll reanimate parts of the Kuro arc and the Water 7/Enies Lobby arc.
BassForever
Member
All the reanimated feels
I just re-read the chapter. It still gets me bad.
It sounds more like it's just Water 7/Enies Lobby.
BassForever
Member
I wouldn't be surprised if it starts with them getting merry then montages though various events with the ship all the way up to Water7/Enies Lobby
watervengeance
Member
That's a lot of material to cover. I don't have a good feeling about this one.
Beaniedude
Member
I just watched the One Piece Movie Z and have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I found Z to be a good character even if at the end his actions somewhat went against his whole philosophy.
The costumes were great. The ones Brook bought were amazing though I will have to say when they went full pirate....
It was horrible.
Just... just horrible.
The giant showdown between Luffy and Z... I'm still of two minds about. In fact, I'm not even sure Z let Luffy live for so long. He had many chances to kill him before but kinda just threw him away from his giant devil fruit killing arm... Speaking of, didn't his arm get cut off?
In summary, Brook should have gotten more of that Modo Modo powers.
I found Z to be a good character even if at the end his actions somewhat went against his whole philosophy.
The costumes were great. The ones Brook bought were amazing though I will have to say when they went full pirate....
It was horrible.
Just... just horrible.
I mean, just look at Robin, she should stick to sweaters.
The giant showdown between Luffy and Z... I'm still of two minds about. In fact, I'm not even sure Z let Luffy live for so long. He had many chances to kill him before but kinda just threw him away from his giant devil fruit killing arm... Speaking of, didn't his arm get cut off?
In summary, Brook should have gotten more of that Modo Modo powers.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Not sure how I feel about this...
Survival Of The Fittest
Banned
Man and I thought the kids were terrible in the manga
Even SnK's pacing is better than this right now
Even SnK's pacing is better than this right now
It's better in one go rather than week-by-week.
I just wish they didn't adapt one chapter at a time. It's why we need a One Piece Kai.
That's understandable.
Like Batdan said, it's definitely better in one go. You could even read the manga if you wanted to save time.
Do people in here enjoy the manga or anime more? I'm considering taking Nub's advice to just read the manga of this arc to save time. I imagine the story is exactly the same minus some filler right?
I'm just so used to hearing the characters and seeing them animated. If I end up not liking it I'll just watch of course.
I'm just so used to hearing the characters and seeing them animated. If I end up not liking it I'll just watch of course.
The manga is usually better, but it's definitely worth seeing certain scenes animated.
The seiyu are probably the only reason I keep watching the series at all. It's nice to see the characters in color, not worth wasting 20 minutes on something that took you ten minutes max to read & re-read.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Everyone's going to say the manga. The difference in pacing is just too great. However the anime does have some great moments like "THE PUNCH" and the Sogeking theme realized.
Personally, I read the manga and use the anime as epic fanservice.
http://onepace.comeze.com/
I haven't watched it yet so I can't speak to quality, but there's a group called One Pace recutting episodes to better match manga pacing. They've got quite a bit done (66 eps down to 24!!) so you might want to give that a shot?
I haven't watched it yet so I can't speak to quality, but there's a group called One Pace recutting episodes to better match manga pacing. They've got quite a bit done (66 eps down to 24!!) so you might want to give that a shot?
BassForever
Member
Was there no new episode this week or is the guy who normally posts it just late?
I've been going at it one episode a day since I got to return to Saobody. I'm now a few episodes into Punk Hazard. nice how it doesn't take any time for things to start happening in this arc. Fishman island was slow, but it seems there was a lot of setup there for things down the road. I also noticed that filler arc was one big setup, so I guess we should expect multiple arc filler for a while.
Pretty much this.
I used the anime to catch up, and I regret nothing. But now I read the manga and watch an episode here and there depending on what happens in it.
BassForever
Member
I watch/read both weekly, for one week at a time pacing the manga is certainly superior to the anime, but in a marathon session the anime is better. You might wait for the anime to finish an arc then watch it in one sitting while reading the manga weekly to get the best of both worlds.
Dr. Pangloss
Member
Sorry about that. Had an engagement party that I had to drive to and back. I only took over because CSSer quit over a year ago. Anyway
One Piece 601: New World's Severe Earthquake - Caesar's Nightmare!
One Piece 602 Preview: History's Worst Slaughter Weapon! Shinokuni
flintstryker
Banned
I actually prefer the anime, if I can watch in bulk as the music adds so much to the world for me, also the manga can be very cluttered at times and as of such the anime make things more apparent but all in all I love both but prefer the anime.
Same here far too much material to cover in just 2hrs we could get a mess bigger then the time they tried to do alabasta arc in an 1hr 40min.
BassForever
Member
Yea, Foxy arc was a pretty bad spot, but at least Water 7 follows it. If theyre liking Foxy, theyre going to have their minds blown later on.
Surprisingly the same here. Usually I'm okay with either one and don't have any real preference, but with One Piece, I really rather watch the anime. Drawn black and white pictures just don't convey Luffy's massive feelings like the anime does :V
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
The manga has the best voice-acting.
Some great Usopp moments later in that arc.
And of course Zoro will show you who's the man.
There's a shitload of scenes that would have given 4Kids heart attacks.
Skypiea was bad enough, but we did get a sample of what they would have done thanks to Pirates Carnival and the brief Funimation run in 2007 (they were forced to use 4Kids names and terms for consistency). Eneru was King, the Priests were Vassals/Knights, and Wyper was called Wyler for some reason.
Considering the tone of the series gets progressively darker as it goes along, I would love to see 4Kids try to handle that stuff. It would be a disaster.
Yeah I'm on episode 347 and Zoro is fighting that thing.
Yeah religion was a huge part of the Skypiea arc and the only way for 4kids to change is if the whole king thing, but even than they would of had to change Zoro's (or should I say Zolo) lines a lot since he didn't believe in god.
And the Nami scene, it looked like a rape scene which I was shocked by, 4kids would of completely removed that scene and when Nami was asking Usopp if he saw what she saw they probably would of changed it too...
Nami: "Do you know where we are even going Usopp?"
Usopp: "How would I know!"
Or something close to that.
They'd have just done what Viz did and leave it all as "Kami".
Zolo: "I don't believe in Kami."
UGH
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
trust me most people think kami was a name like goku or ichigo....