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One Piece Thread (redux)
- Thread starter grandjedi6
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Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Yea the movie was a huge letdown for a couple reesons:
Shiki went toe to toe with Roger, both Garp and Sengoku at the same time yet luffy fucked him up pretty easily.
What was the point of the Strawhats getting all dressed up?! Its not like they sneaked into Shiki's base.
The fights were pretty boring imo.
Shiki went toe to toe with Roger, both Garp and Sengoku at the same time yet luffy fucked him up pretty easily.
What was the point of the Strawhats getting all dressed up?! Its not like they sneaked into Shiki's base.
The fights were pretty boring imo.
Unknown One
Member
When I was watching the old episode it took me by surprise as well. Fucking Hulu annoying ass commercials.
SolidusDave
Member
for me every episode is blocked, but that has been always the case because I'm from Europe...
btw I watched Movie 6 (Baron Omatsuri) and I think it was kinda strange seeing this dark tone around the crew. Also the fight(s) were kinda shit and inconsistent.
It basically felt like watching that fucked up mansion part in GitS 2.
anyway, I wanted to ask about the story because I seem to have missed some parts..?
btw I watched Movie 6 (Baron Omatsuri) and I think it was kinda strange seeing this dark tone around the crew. Also the fight(s) were kinda shit and inconsistent.
It basically felt like watching that fucked up mansion part in GitS 2.
anyway, I wanted to ask about the story because I seem to have missed some parts..?
So the ex-pirate captain lost all of his crew in a storm. But at which point did he become possessed by this demonic flower?
I guess he arrived on the island after the storm, at least one of the ship wrecks was his and all the graves are for his dead crew? Then he finds the flower on the island?
The flower itself, where did it come from? It seems to have some godlike abilities like creating super arrows, transforming every plant into anything, even people. Even the whole city (including highlevel technology) is probably made by it.
Also, the plant-people do actually have the consciousness of the dead people? They "die" once they realize/remember what happened with them and not only when the plant needs more energy at the end of the movie? (guy drinking with Nami etc.)
I tried google and the op wiki but none actually provides a story analysis. Oh and the op wiki mentioned that Luffy deals a rare fatal blow to the Baron. How can you know he is dead? OP has lots of characters who got fucked up much more and still live.
I guess he arrived on the island after the storm, at least one of the ship wrecks was his and all the graves are for his dead crew? Then he finds the flower on the island?
The flower itself, where did it come from? It seems to have some godlike abilities like creating super arrows, transforming every plant into anything, even people. Even the whole city (including highlevel technology) is probably made by it.
Also, the plant-people do actually have the consciousness of the dead people? They "die" once they realize/remember what happened with them and not only when the plant needs more energy at the end of the movie? (guy drinking with Nami etc.)
I tried google and the op wiki but none actually provides a story analysis. Oh and the op wiki mentioned that Luffy deals a rare fatal blow to the Baron. How can you know he is dead? OP has lots of characters who got fucked up much more and still live.
Dedication Through Light
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Grandjedi didnt do his usual post, but the episode 460 is now out.
Looks like Canada still gets the simulcasted episode. Thank GOD 
A couple of notes:
- I liked the filler for Rouge's part of the flashback. That needed to be extended a little bit in my opinion, as did a lot of stuff in this arc. One of the main reasons why I'm looking forward to Marineford being animated is (well done) implied filler
- The music playing during Buggy's big moment was hilarious. Perfect :lol
- Did anyone else laugh out loud when they played around 8 seconds of opening 12 animation in sequence? Seriously, stop reminding me of that abomination :lol
- Not sure why they didn't end the episode with
. That's how the corresponding chapter ended, and it would have been much more powerful than the ending we received. And it's going to be lame happening right at the beginning of next episode =/
Overall, good episode. Animation was good throughout (there was some crap), pacing was good (just less than one chapter covered, mostly thanks to the Rouge filler.) You're 2 for 2 Toei.
A couple of notes:
- I liked the filler for Rouge's part of the flashback. That needed to be extended a little bit in my opinion, as did a lot of stuff in this arc. One of the main reasons why I'm looking forward to Marineford being animated is (well done) implied filler
- The music playing during Buggy's big moment was hilarious. Perfect :lol
- Did anyone else laugh out loud when they played around 8 seconds of opening 12 animation in sequence? Seriously, stop reminding me of that abomination :lol
- Not sure why they didn't end the episode with
Whitebeard appearing
Overall, good episode. Animation was good throughout (there was some crap), pacing was good (just less than one chapter covered, mostly thanks to the Rouge filler.) You're 2 for 2 Toei.
Dedication Through Light
Member
It was a decent episode...based on my tally it was essentially 16 minutes of backstory, 2 minutes of repeating what we heard last episode, and 3 minutes of "liek ZOH-MY-GAHD pirates!" and yes I was super excited at that part, lol.
Though I guess, better to provide backstory now than in the middle of some action scene.
Though I guess, better to provide backstory now than in the middle of some action scene.
Anth0ny said:
That's not the first time they've re-used all that footage either. They'll probably be very sad once the admirals stand up and they can't use that shot of the three of them anymore.
I agree on the ending, although I enjoyed the episode regardless. I feel like a bunch of characters are going to have different voices for this arc. Coby's friend who I can't remember the name of sounded different, as did Donflamingo, but that might be because I haven't heard either of them talk in, hm, years.
And as silly as Moria is, he's got an awesomely distinct voice, so that was good to hear him again.
Oh, and I really liked the music in the Rouge flashback. Was that new? Seemed new.
SolidusDave
Member
Buggy music was Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ^^
AceBandage
Banned
So, I've been catching up on the series a bit slowly (animated of course).
I'm up to
.
Man, it's a bit depressing how this is turning out.
I'm up to
Franky about to kidnap Ussop during the CP9 raid
Man, it's a bit depressing how this is turning out.
It was all talking, and the drawing, music and pacing was good. What opportunity was there for bad animation?Trickster said:
Though, I don't tend to review the episodes with specifics, it's just that I was really tense during some of the scenes and I laughed during the Buggy scene, so = good episode.
Trickster
Member
upandaway said:
Yeah I know it wasn't an episode that really needed super high quality production values. But for instance,
right when the moby dick out of the water and lands again.
Really looking forward to the next episode though. Hope they don't butcher it, Naruto vs Pain style.
NaughtyPrawn
Member
Man I really thought they'd show whitebeard this ep. They really are trying to build the suspence but I would've liked the cliffhanger to be left like the manga did.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
One Piece - Ep 461 - The Beginning of the War! Ace and Whitebeard's Past! (SUB)
In tonight's episode, we will all be horribly disappointed in Ivankov's new inevitably inferior voice.
That Singer Guy...
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HELLLLLLLLLLLLL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRANDJEDI YOU'RE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R.I.P. DTL
R.I.P. DTL
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
I love that the very second Toei started throwing in their own filler into the episode...
They managed to forget one of the key events of the series. :lol
They managed to forget one of the key events of the series. :lol
watcha doin' there with 2 arms, Shanks?
Father_Mike
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"stream not found"
The ending cliffhanger was pretty dumb, but I liked most of the new stuff (though, did we know if Ace had his Logia before joining Whitebeard? I only remember him using weapons in the manga to try and kill WB).
BB's (literal) backstabbing was awesome. Usually they would go ahead and waste 1 more minute reminding us what he did.
Whitebeard's scars look WAY too rough in that last scene! It's like he has a river in his chest.
BB's (literal) backstabbing was awesome. Usually they would go ahead and waste 1 more minute reminding us what he did.
Whitebeard's scars look WAY too rough in that last scene! It's like he has a river in his chest.
grandjedi6 said:
VGChampion
Member
Maybe that's really just our favorite Mr. 2 out of Impel Down celebrating. :lol
Yes. Ace used his fire in the same way in the manga, creating a barrier between the Spade Pirates and WB. So he definitely had it then.upandaway said:
Episode titles for the next few weeks sound promising. They're basically going 1:1 on the episode to chapter ratio. Even though we covered a little under one chapter in this episode, the next chapter was basically all action, so it should all balance out.
Plus we got the flashback stuff nicely fleshed out. Good stuff, hilarious animation goofs aside.
They are? That's a bit surprising. I thought it was just so far because they had opportunities for new scenes.MetatronM said:
If they keep it up this way instead of drawing it out like before, then this will be really badass. It's way better when they add in more stuff, than if they simply animated the manga and had 2 chapters for every episode (even though that will be really good too).
Unknown One
Member
Each manga chapter is jam packed anyways so it wouldn't matter to me if it was 1:1.
watervengeance
Member
Whitebeard's "Gurararara" sounds really weird. :/
I dunno. They did that with the Impel Down arc and it was terrible; episodes were sometimes less than 1 chapter, episodes began and ended in the middle of chapters, scenes were dragged out, Buggy and Mr 3 adventures. Hopefully they stick to a full 1:1 ratio, add some actually interesting filler, and don't come up with their own start and stop points.upandaway said:
Neodiablo22
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Bebpo said:
He is also partially dark skinned
Unknown One
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:lol :lol :lol Didn't notice that
Neodiablo22
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upandaway said:
Possible but look at the other pirates