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[PeakPointMatrix]

Still making my way through the show in the Marineford/Summit war arc and just

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reached Ace's Death.

Just what in the fuck??

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Ace watches his entire crew and brother fucking kill themselves trying to reach his ass for what feels like 100+ episodes... and he undoes it all by falling into Akainu's obvious taunting equivalent of "your dad is a stupid butt". How could he jeopardize their entire escape by falling for such juvenile trap? You'd think watching everyone closest to him get brutally ravaged for his rescue would be enough reason to swallow his pride and escape so that it wouldn't all be in vain.

I just found it extremely out of character and one of the more disappointing plot turns thus far.

And christ, Akainu is OP as hell!

Spoiler

Taking down Ace and severely crippling White Beard as well? For a guy with almost zero presence up to this point, I didn't expect HIM to be the one to take Ace down. This whole turn of events has me a little unmotivated to continue tbh. Although Black Beard just arrived, that should make things interesting I guess.

 

[Magwik]

Eh, you don't need to spoiler tag Marineford stuff here. We're openly talking about stuff arcs ahead of you, so you should be a tad careful with what you read in this thread.

 

[Squalor]

Would appreciate it if there weren't any manga discussions, though.

But manga readers can never resist bringing that shit into anime threads.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Eh, you don't need to spoiler tag Marineford stuff here. We're openly talking about stuff arcs ahead of you, so you should be a tad careful with what you read in this thread.

I figure why not in case there are ever any newcomers to the series like me that happen to stroll into the thread

Any spoilers I catch here are often with so many new character names without any context that it doesn't really make an impression on me anyway.

 

[Aaronrules380]

So, realistically speaking, not far at all.

Yep. Hence why Toei basically has to do the 1-1 pacing which is dragging out the anime so badly. It's why I wouldn't mind breaks or filler arcs

 

[marmoka]

Still making my way through the show in the Marineford/Summit war arc and just

Spoiler

reached Ace's Death.

Just what in the fuck??

Spoiler

Ace watches his entire crew and brother fucking kill themselves trying to reach his ass for what feels like 100+ episodes... and he undoes it all by falling into Akainu's obvious taunting equivalent of "your dad is a stupid butt". How could he jeopardize their entire escape by falling for such juvenile trap? You'd think watching everyone closest to him get brutally ravaged for his rescue would be enough reason to swallow his pride and escape so that it wouldn't all be in vain.

I just found it extremely out of character and one of the more disappointing plot turns thus far.

And christ, Akainu is OP as hell!

Spoiler

Taking down Ace and severely crippling White Beard as well? For a guy with almost zero presence up to this point, I didn't expect HIM to be the one to take Ace down. This whole turn of events has me a little unmotivated to continue tbh. Although Black Beard just arrived, that should make things interesting I guess.

Avoid this forum until you reach the last broadcasted chapter. You will find many spoilers here that will ruin your experience.

 

[unknownstranger]

I've been watching One Piece on Toonami for about the last year and recently started watching it subbed, having just finished the Thriller Bark arc so I'm really far behind.

Hi.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Avoid this forum until you reach the last broadcasted chapter. You will find many spoilers here that will ruin your experience.

Suppose so. Just needed to vent somewhere

 

[unknownstranger]

Has everyone women in this series been a slave at one point? This is getting stupid.

 

[Error]

Still making my way through the show in the Marineford/Summit war arc and just

Spoiler

reached Ace's Death.

Just what in the fuck??

Spoiler

Ace watches his entire crew and brother fucking kill themselves trying to reach his ass for what feels like 100+ episodes... and he undoes it all by falling into Akainu's obvious taunting equivalent of "your dad is a stupid butt". How could he jeopardize their entire escape by falling for such juvenile trap? You'd think watching everyone closest to him get brutally ravaged for his rescue would be enough reason to swallow his pride and escape so that it wouldn't all be in vain.

I just found it extremely out of character and one of the more disappointing plot turns thus far.

And christ, Akainu is OP as hell!

Spoiler

Taking down Ace and severely crippling White Beard as well? For a guy with almost zero presence up to this point, I didn't expect HIM to be the one to take Ace down. This whole turn of events has me a little unmotivated to continue tbh. Although Black Beard just arrived, that should make things interesting I guess.

Well Whitebeard was on life support pretty much, I'm sure a prime WB would've wrecked Akainu. And Ace powers' natural enemy is basically Akainu, it's like Luffy and Enel. Lava>Fire according to OP. Sure he also beat Aokiji but if Lava>Fire then Lava>Ice too. He has a powerful devil fruit, but I wouldn't put much stock into his display at Marineford. Any of the Yonko will probably beat him.

 

[BatDan]

Has everyone women in this series been a slave at one point? This is getting stupid.

What?

 

[unknownstranger]

What?

Just passed the part where Luffy was on the women only isle and it feels like every time a new female character is introduced they either were captured or get captured.

I'm just tired of all of these depressing back story's.

Edit: Episode 439...........................wat

 

[Dugna]

Just passed the part where Luffy was on the women only isle and it feels like every time a new female character is introduced they either were captured or get captured.

I'm just tired of all of these depressing back story's.

Edit: Episode 439...........................wat

depressing backstories are the thing to this series, they never end. Also in the case of Amazon lily the men are actually slaves there, and only Hancock and her sisters where previous slaves.

 

[Magwik]

Tonight's the night

 

[everyday math]

Tonight's the night

1hr excitement through the roof.

 

[Kaizer]

So I marathoned all the way from episode 660 to the present 725 this past week and man, all I have to say is Dressrosa got gud! This has been a long story arc, but I've been enjoying all the new various pirates that were introduced & their subsequent battles. Although Bellamy bouncing around that room for the equivalent of like 3 months of episodes was amazing lol.

Can't wait for

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Gear Fourth

tonight in about 20 minutes, I couldn't help spoiling myself on its look, but can't wait to see it in action!

 

[Magwik]

Wonder if they'll use new or old music for it
EDIT: Gonna re-watch the Lucci fight for hype

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Hey guys, what time EST tonight?

 

[Magwik]

Hey guys, what time EST tonight?

9pm
so soon!

 

[BatDan]

Episode 726

I think we have a major nominee for Best Anime Punch of 2016.

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Either that or a certain one later on

 

[Kaizer]

Bartolomeo accurately summed up my feelings on this episode, despite that first half padding, that was pretty badass!

 

[Ahnez]

Oda: Oh shit, Zoro 2 OP, better make Luffy even more OP

 

[ffdgh]

Any and all violence directed at Doflamingo is good. Also Bart's fanboy moments never get old.

Weird animation quirk with luffy still wearing his sandals though while using gear fourth.

 

[everyday math]

Any and all violence directed at Doflamingo is good. Also Bart's fanboy moments never get old.

Weird animation quirk with luffy still wearing his sandals though while using gear fourth.

It was like that in the manga too. They somehow magically reappeared from what I remember.

That episode was everything I wanted even the first half wasn't too bad.

 

[GaimeGuy]

I've been watching One Piece on Toonami for about the last year and recently started watching it subbed, having just finished the Thriller Bark arc so I'm really far behind.

Hi.

Hi.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

Yoooooooo! That was epic!

 

[CountBlack]

the bounce

WHEW

 

[HeelPower]

One of the few times I felt so intensely for a shonen character getting a power-up.

Luffy damn well earned his place as a powerful character in this series.

Also,what an oddly creative,goofy and bouncy power up this is!

 

[Cwarrior]

More epic then my wildest dreams.

bravo to oda and toei( ton big names worked on this, too much sakuga to make gifs out of).

 

[Dugna]

I know they have to show the escalation of the birdcage growing smaller and such to show time passing basically. But all of these citizens feeling scared and stuff I feel nothing for....like with Alabasta least we had Vivi giving a shit about these people which in turn would help us care a bit. Like Koza and the royal family....just again not much to care about here.



Though man Gear Fourth looks very good in Anime form.

 

[Dugna]

Liked this part the most out of the Gear Fourth transformation in the anime. At the end it shows his Devil fruit basically.

Also still laughed very hard at this scene lol.

Overall very good job with the ep even with the padding, and next ep looks to be good also.

 

[pelicansurf]

Really good episode. However makes me yearn for a series with the budget that the transformation scene got. Going from that to citizens running for their lives is always jarring.

 

[Cwarrior]

Toei went above and beyond for this episode.

Naotoshi shida

Kazuya Hisada

No clue who this is yet

Yoshikazu Tomita

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Toei went above and beyond for this episode.

Is there a place that tells you who worked on what part?

 

[GaimeGuy]

Still making my way through the show in the Marineford/Summit war arc and just

Spoiler

reached Ace's Death.

Just what in the fuck??

Spoiler

Ace watches his entire crew and brother fucking kill themselves trying to reach his ass for what feels like 100+ episodes... and he undoes it all by falling into Akainu's obvious taunting equivalent of "your dad is a stupid butt". How could he jeopardize their entire escape by falling for such juvenile trap? You'd think watching everyone closest to him get brutally ravaged for his rescue would be enough reason to swallow his pride and escape so that it wouldn't all be in vain.

I just found it extremely out of character and one of the more disappointing plot turns thus far.

And christ, Akainu is OP as hell!

Spoiler

Taking down Ace and severely crippling White Beard as well? For a guy with almost zero presence up to this point, I didn't expect HIM to be the one to take Ace down. This whole turn of events has me a little unmotivated to continue tbh. Although Black Beard just arrived, that should make things interesting I guess.

All the admirals (and Garp) are OP as hell. But you do realize that WB is severely injured (and old and sick), right? And even so, Akainu is basically surviving due to plot armor?

 

[Cwarrior]

Is there a place that tells you who worked on what part?

Once you get use to certain animators styles you can spot them instantly, a lot of them tend to have there own style.

If I need too I check up the episode staff list website/database a twitter user called animatorconer created

http://animatorscorner.com/animation_profile/3#episode-8222

For new animator I've never seen before I tend to ask the guys at Apforums, then remeber there style then it gives me an understanding of what scenes they've worked on in the past.

For example when I learnt katsumi ishizuka style I realize the dude behind all of my fav scenes (gomu gomu storm to crocodile,golden rifile to enel, blueno vs gear second,luffy vs ussop and jet gatling gun to rob lucci).

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Once you get use to certain animators styles you can spot them instantly, a lot of them tend to have there own style.

If I need too I check up the episode staff list website/database a twitter user called animatorconer created

http://animatorscorner.com/animation_profile/3#episode-8222

For new animator I've never seen before I tend to ask the guys at Apforums, then remeber there style then it gives me an understanding of what scenes they've worked on in the past.

For example when I learnt katsumi ishizuka style I realize the dude behind all of my fav scenes (gomu gomu storm to crocodile,golden rifile to enel, blueno vs gear second,luffy vs ussop and jet gatling gun to rob lucci).

Thank you, that's very helpful

 

[Squalor]

FUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK, that was way more incredible than I could have imagined.

Goddamn, One Piece, when you're good, you're fucking fantastic. It has been far too long since the show was this good since it hasn't been this good since part one.

 

[SolidusDave]

I appreciate the similarities between Gear Fourth and Nightmare Luffy

I don't get why he had to remove his sandals (at least at first?) His feet didn't even grow



Really cool how it was established last episode that he is either fast but weak (Gear2nd) or strong but slow (Gear3rd) and he needs to be both if he wants to defeat Doflamingo. Though overall his new form gives me Super Saiyan 3 vibes but we'll see if it has the same drawback.

 

[Magwik]

I assume he had to remove his sandals because he wouldn't be able to bounce off of his feet properly

 

[1upsuper]

Hello. I've got a lot of free time coming up and I was thinking about starting One Piece. Is there any reason to read the manga over the anime? Watching it is definitely my preference but if the anime skips good content then I'd be willing to read instead. I'm sorry if this gets asked all the time. No one I talk to can give me a straight answer.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

Hello. I've got a lot of free time coming up and I was thinking about starting One Piece. Is there any reason to read the manga over the anime? Watching it is definitely my preference but if the anime skips good content then I'd be willing to read instead. I'm sorry if this gets asked all the time. No one I talk to can give me a straight answer.

Generally you would read the manga for a quicker pace, and more consistent art. The anime doesn't skip anything but suffers from an unholy amount of padding since they tend to go at the pace of 1 chapter = 1 episode. Most episodes don't start until like five minutes in since they put a recap there. It has stellar VO and music, but suffers from wonkier art and animation. Also, it has fillers that are generally meh.

 

[smurfx]

Hello. I've got a lot of free time coming up and I was thinking about starting One Piece. Is there any reason to read the manga over the anime? Watching it is definitely my preference but if the anime skips good content then I'd be willing to read instead. I'm sorry if this gets asked all the time. No one I talk to can give me a straight answer.

i would definitely start with the anime. they change the order of some stuff at the beginning but it isn't that important. the anime also has a really good pace up until water 7 when they start doing 1 chapter per episode.

 

[1upsuper]

Thanks, you two. Looks like I'll start the anime soon then.

 

[unknownstranger]

Holy shit the Summit War arc does not end. I have a ton of thoughts about it once I finish it in the next day or two. Main thought about it is they threw way too many characters into it. Not finished with it yet (just finished episode 488) but all of the Warlords have completely disappeared for the last 15+ episodes outside of the female one (I'm awful with names so I'll be pretty vague when talking about characters).

 

[Dugna]

Do any of you know if there is a place where I can buy all the movies in one collection for bluray?

 

[Magwik]

Do any of you know if there is a place where I can buy all the movies in one collection for bluray?

Afaik only Film Z and a Strong World are available on BluRay

 

[Dugna]

Afaik only Film Z and a Strong World are available on BluRay

well that sucks, I saw this on amazon and thought Funimation would have an equivalent already.

 

[Firestorm]

Hello. I've got a lot of free time coming up and I was thinking about starting One Piece. Is there any reason to read the manga over the anime? Watching it is definitely my preference but if the anime skips good content then I'd be willing to read instead. I'm sorry if this gets asked all the time. No one I talk to can give me a straight answer.

Anime first. Once you catch up you'll probably wanna go manga as the pacing of the show is really frustrating in more recent arcs. I think the anime is a great way of getting the characters' voices in your head.

I also recommend giving the manga a read from the beginning a year or two later. The amount of foreshadowing that Oda does... The man has everything planned.

 

[Squalor]

Thanks, you two. Looks like I'll start the anime soon then.

There's a site that shows you which episodes you can skip. There aren't as many as Naruto, but there are enough.

Fillers aren't too bad in this show, though. What gets bad is needlessly extended scenes and poor pacing since there aren't a ton of actual filler episodes.