Great episode, covered my favourite part of the flashback and I just couldn't help but shed a tear during the Sabo&Dragon scene.
501: ''The Flames are Lit - The Grey Terminal's Crisis''
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Toei is the company that makes the episodes. Funimation only dubs and simulcasts it.
Do you know what will happen if Toei catches up to the manga? We'll get filler. Lots of it.
Toei decided long ago to slow down the episode pacing.If you want a staring contest arc, watch the Marineford arc adaption. It's hilarious.
Ah, my bad. Toei. And yeah i mean i caught up to anime when the War started, and i decided to bare with it but now its getting annoying. It's like, just get to the point! You know what i mean? Pacing is too slow.
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it's better this way than say the naruto way which is a lot of filler or when it's not filler half the show is flashbacks that have been shown 100 times already.
The Naruto filler episodes can be skipped, leaving the well paced, watchable canon material behind (in terms of anime adapting, obviously the story is shit no matter what).
OP's canon material is poorly paced and borderline unwatchable and we get filler episodes on top of that every now and then.
It'd be much better if OP just did a year of fillers or something and then came back with well paced manga arcs.
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The Naruto filler episodes can be skipped, leaving the well paced, watchable canon material behind (in terms of anime adapting, obviously the story is shit no matter what).
OP's canon material is poorly paced and borderline unwatchable and we get filler episodes on top of that every now and then.
It'd be much better if OP just did a year of fillers or something and then came back with well paced manga arcs.
A year of filler? I just threw up a little.
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The Naruto filler episodes can be skipped, leaving the well paced, watchable canon material behind (in terms of anime adapting, obviously the story is shit no matter what).
Hate to tell ya this but when Naruto: Shippuden started most fans were turned off by how slow the 1st story arc was. True, it did managed to get better pacing with each subsequent arc but that very 1st arc really dragged things out and turns off quite a few casual viewer.
Even Marineford's 1 chapter pacing was far better than Naruto Shippuden's first arc because way more happened every few episodes compared to evil filler clones.
O-chan
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I have to agree with the people who say OP needs one year filler break.
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And you guys all know that will never happen, especially with the anime already a year behind the manga, which is pretty good shape compared to other long-running adaptations.
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Theres some potentially interesting stories for a filler, I'd be all for it.
BTW does anyone happen to know the name of the next episode?
EDIT: Got it from the general anime thread
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I would say nah nah we don't need filler, but .5 of a chapter per episode? I think it's pretty undeniable that we need -something-. As long as they just do this for the flashback, and go back to 1 chapter/episode later, I'm fine. Actually I could bear with the .5 if they did it like this: "Is this an important chapter? No? .5 chapter episode then. How about this one? Yes? 1.5~2 chapter episode then," but I wouldn't really trust Toei's judgment on what an important episode is since I thought
! Ace's death was underwhelming in the anime.
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A year of filler? No thank you. Just drag out the Straw Hat whereabout stories to each strawhat having a episode each or something, we don't need a year of filler just for great pacing. Yes, the pacing at the moment isn't the best, but we can live with it.
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They could add some good "filler" before the timeskip. By "filler" I mean cover stories. Toei could also make each SH get 1 episode, like someone said above and show fillers for when it shows the other characters(example: Supernovas, Marines, etc) doing something.
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Sort of give kudos to Toei in making Bluejam a bit more threatening, especially with some genuinely threatening poses.
Didn't like how there were just three people requesting entry in town–such a disaster would have brought a throng of people. I guess I should accept them all being incinerated at that point.
Also, it's a bit interesting that here it seems that not everyone knew about the fire ahead of time and "trusted" the soldiers in rescuing survivors.
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96 Episodes since the SH's were seperated O.o
I wonder how they are going to go with this will they make the 100th episode extra special?
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Spend however long redoing the Marineford Arc instead of fillers and instead of doing the same thing in the form of a film. Then get back on track with consistent pacing AND an ED at the end of every episode again. And hey, why not throw our next 1 hour special soon? It's been a while~
Pertaining to this week's episode, oh man, I was steaming mad while watching those guards abuse Sabo. I was kind of laughing at Sabo tripping so damned much, but I sympathized with his state of mind. And I was wetting my pants when Dragon and Sabo shared that moment.
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The loss of the ending song is a bit mind-boggling. A minute or so at the end of each episode that doesn't need to be re-animated–and that makes sense!--is exactly the kind of time-saving measure that Toei should find appealing.
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The opening's already as long as a standard opening and ending combined were, though. The time spent on the credits per episode haven't changed at all since the beginning.
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Spend however long redoing the Marineford Arc instead of fillers and instead of doing the same thing in the form of a film. Then get back on track with consistent pacing AND an ED at the end of every episode again. And hey, why not throw our next 1 hour special soon? It's been a while~
I'll take a change of directors back to the ones who did the anime up to Water 7 as a side dish, thanks Toei. I'm expecting good things from the 'skip… Close to movie quality episodes. If Toei just continues to just drag their ass on the carpet like some dog and doesn't start walking in full stride for at least those episodes, I'm pretty sure I'm dropping this. Seriously, anyone who wants to do some comparisons... watch... episode 236, or 179. Beautifully choreographed episodes, and that extra mile they used to take is just gone now. If they could just switch directors back to those guys... I would not care about anything else they did.
And I like the 2:30 opening songs. Think about this though. The ending 16, "Dear Friends" (the keyboard with Merry) contributed to episode 312 (the funeral)'s awesomeness. They can have their advantages. But guys, opening songs used to be 1:30, ending songs were 1:00. That's still 2:30. The time hasn't changed. In fact, they used to have that 2:30 AND sometimes 4-7 minute reviews. If anything, they've improved in that department.
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I actually wouldn't mind a 2:30 opening and a 1:00 ending even if it took away from episode content. They're just that standard of compliments that really add to the enjoyment of weekly episodes.
I'm going to agree with the direction change since Water 7 because I just downright idolize that arc and its presentation. Your mindset about the time-skip is the same one I had hoped for Marineford. Even the whole insert song for Merry…I wished that would've happened for Ace too. As someone said earlier, his death was really underwhelming in the anime compared to expectations. -
The opening's already as long as a standard opening and ending combined were, though. The time spent on the credits per episode haven't changed at all since the beginning.
Fair point.
Rescinded.
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ace just died, yup. flash back is over now.
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Wow people thought Aces death was worse in the anime? I thought it was brilliant and incredibly well done. A highlight of the animated marineford. I guess thats just me
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Wow people thought Aces death was worse in the anime? I thought it was brilliant and incredibly well done. A highlight of the animated marineford. I guess thats just me
People will complain about everything when it comes to the anime.
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Wow people thought Aces death was worse in the anime? I thought it was brilliant and incredibly well done. A highlight of the animated marineford. I guess thats just me
The looked half done.
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Wow people thought Aces death was worse in the anime? I thought it was brilliant and incredibly well done. A highlight of the animated marineford. I guess thats just me
The presentation by Toei just didn't seem to meet expectations. It was the highlight of the Marineford Arc (debatable because of Whitebeard's sequential death), sure, because that was the intention of the context by Oda. But something about it being one of less than ten deaths in One Piece, a death of one of the definitely more important characters too. Compare it to Merry's funeral and it just can't even begin to equate presentation-wise. But then I guess for those who see no reason to compare the two, then yeah, but I think Merry's episode was a exclamation of what they were capable of doing at One Piece's finest moments.
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I blame the music.
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Unless you're talking about his actual, physical death, don't mind that. Would want people to react accordingly for longer than 10 minutes.
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Man the anime is picking up and I actually love the filler!
Adds a lot of depth to the story.
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This week's episode was satisfying enough, but I just can't seem to immerse myself in this flashback as well as I normally should; but I guess that should be blamed on the content itself, then, but whatever the case…
Hopefully, the next episode doesn't disappoint.
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So who's seen this episode. This one is a great flashback.
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I really don't like how they've been dragging it on. They are already 40 chapters behind the manga not mentioning the fillers to come, they are taking it one chapter per episode as of now, which I thought was cool until they started doing it from page 5 or so till page 5 or so in the next chapter… I thought they should do the flashback faster, well only 2 more episodes after 502, then we're back to real time.