General Anime Discussion Thread
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They don't want to lose the cushy time slot it has. Which apparently is notoriously hard to get (even if you're the most popular IP apparently[emoji58])
it's not about losing the slot since FujiTV is also funding and producing the show with toei animation and ADK, and they can bring it back there if they want. the problem is that you will cut the weekly routine for Japanese people, which will lead to losing more people, and many of them not deeply into anime so you will need heavy advertisements to et some of them back. because of this, i don't think FujiTV will ever agree on something like this if toei animaton propose it
note: far most of 1-cour/2-cours shows get less audience in their 2nd season after all
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it's not about losing the slot since FujiTV is also funding and producing the show with toei animation and ADK, and they can bring it back there if they want. the problem is that you will cut the weekly routine for Japanese people, which will lead to losing more people, and many of them not deeply into anime so you will need heavy advertisements to et some of them back. because of this, i don't think FujiTV will ever agree on something like this if toei animaton propose it
note: far most of 1-cour/2-cours shows get less audience in their 2nd season after all
Exactly, why risk losing a stable audience now when you can air a condensed version 20 years down the line?
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Would the audience be turned off by reruns?
One or two months of reruns a year advertised as special re-airings of fan favorite moments would help , even just a little. -
Would the audience be turned off by reruns?
One or two months of reruns a year advertised as special re-airings of fan favorite moments would help , even just a little.The real question would be if toei even wants to go through the trouble at all? If 10 years of this anime has taught me anything, the answer would be no. Even if the reruns costs them virtually nothing. If it isn't giving them money, than it isn't worth it.
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Would the audience be turned off by reruns?
One or two months of reruns a year advertised as special re-airings of fan favorite moments would help , even just a little.Is this to air separately from the weekly anime?
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Is this to air separately from the weekly anime?
Of course. Airing a separate anime from the original wouldn't fix the original anime's pacing. Which was the topic of the discussion at hand.
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They actually did air an HD upscale of all the pre-Davy Back Fight episodes with the past few years.
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The real question would be if toei even wants to go through the trouble at all? If 10 years of this anime has taught me anything, the answer would be no. Even if the reruns costs them virtually nothing. If it isn't giving them money, than it isn't worth it.
If it costs them virtually nothing and they make money off of it, I don't seem the harm in at least testing it out.
I don't even want to begin to imagine what goes on in the minds of the CEOs at Toei and Fuji TV.
Is this to air separately from the weekly anime?
It would air on the same channel and timeslot, but wouldn't be counted as a part of the anime. Unlike those damned Enies Lobby recaps.
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It's 2017 now, but sadly many people still like to blame Toei for something that is not Toei's business.
Fuji TV used to cancel Kitaro to broadcast DB Kai all of a sudden, and then cancelled DB Kai to broadcast Toriko, and then cancelled Toriko to broadcast DB Kai AGAIN. The only thing that Fuji TV cares is rating, rating and rating.
Just like what I said before, the profit chain of One Piece is very complicated, and all the stakeholders (Shueisha, Fuji TV , ADK, Toei Animation, Oda and sponsors) can say "Yes" or "No" on any big decisions, such us the planning of a long filler arc.
There was an interview with the current producer Koyama. And in the interview Koyama already confirmed that it needs the decisions of all stakeholders related to One Piece to make a filler arc. Someone even don't want Toei to make a longer filler arc, do people really believe that Fuji would like to let One Piece to have a rest?
By the way, even though Fuji would like to let One Piece to have a rest, audiences wouldn't. That's the reality.
On the other hand, I believe that many people may already notice the changing of One Piece anime. The changing isn't from Zou or from WCI, it's from PH indeed. But Zou can be treated as a new start of the anime in many degrees, and the first two episodes of WCI already showed the determination of the anime staff. However, I couldn't believe that this time they even invite Ichikawa to be the CAD.
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The real question would be if toei even wants to go through the trouble at all? If 10 years of this anime has taught me anything, the answer would be no. Even if the reruns costs them virtually nothing. If it isn't giving them money, than it isn't worth it.
Toei's anwser might be Yes. It's Fuji that would say No without any doubts.
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People in Japan are clearly losing interest in the anime. The ratings for One Piece are the worst they've been in years
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All ratings are down compared what they were 20 years ago.
Dragon Ball, Sazae-san, etc. used to pull in 10+ million viewers a week.
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All ratings are down compared what they were 20 years ago.
Dragon Ball, Sazae-san, etc. used to pull in 10+ million viewers a week.
If you are paying attention to the ratings for the past 8 months, you will see a big decline for One Piece.
I dk what happened to the show that made people lose interest suddenly.
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Both things are true, to an extent. I've been following weekly rankings for 10+ years and it's obvious that anime ratings (or just ratings in general) really seem to be getting lower every year, however, One Piece did suffer from a drop since Dressrosa ended - i don't know if that arc burned out some viewers or what. There were even some weeks where it was almost beaten by its lead-in, Dragon Ball Super, that's not common. I think this drop is the reason WCI got more promotion than usual for an arc, they really wanted people to know a new arc was starting.
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It's 2017 now, but sadly many people still like to blame Toei for something that is not Toei's business.
Fuji TV used to cancel Kitaro to broadcast DB Kai all of a sudden and then canceled DB Kai to broadcast Toriko, and then canceled Toriko to broadcast DB Kai AGAIN. The only thing that Fuji TV cares is rating, rating, and rating.
Just like what I said before, the profit chain of One Piece is very complicated, and all the stakeholders (Shueisha, Fuji TV, ADK, Toei Animation, Oda, and sponsors) can say "Yes" or "No" on any big decisions, such us the planning of a long filler arc.
There was an interview with the current producer Koyama. And in the interview, Koyama already confirmed that it needs the decisions of all stakeholders related to One Piece to make a filler arc. Someone even doesn't want Toei to make a longer filler arc, do people really believe that Fuji would like to let One Piece to have a rest?
By the way, even though Fuji would like to let One Piece to have a rest, audiences wouldn't. That's the reality.
On the other hand, I believe that many people may already notice the changing of One Piece anime. The changing isn't from Zou or from WCI, it's from PH indeed. But Zou can be treated as a new start of the anime in many degrees, and the first two episodes of WCI already showed the determination of the anime staff. However, I couldn't believe that this time they even invite Ichikawa to be the CAD.
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Toei's answer might be Yes. It's Fuji that would say No without any doubts.
I'm surprised they never consider western fans into that equation!
Naruto had longer filler arcs that many people thought would lose ratings but has the opposite effect of making TV Tokyo lots of money instead.
I think it has more to do with multiple people being a Yes or No men faction.
Some people would like a long ass filler arc. (Western fans and Japanese ones.) But some like the higher up in TV and marketing would say no for some reason and ratings can be the detector of this.
I'm not saying there needs to be new blood to replace the old system… But with so many animators not getting paid and one of them died in their sleep while working on Boruto. That says a lot!
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anime generally start losing in audience on TV, other new projects start including more streaming services in their broadcast choices, for example toei did have ton of them for tiger mask w(they are listed in Toei's tiger mask page, but not in Asahi's page), but this probably because Asahi didn't expect really high rating so they didn't try to monopoly the streaming choices(so the ads revenue) just for it's networks.
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Yeah they could just do recaps on an official streaming service for free and tie it in to promote the anime. A recap every arc would barely leave a dent. Anime rating are going down because generally younger audiences don't watch as much television, One Piece will move to streaming service (but also stay on television) in Japan along with most other anime. It's still gonna be air weekly and will be until it ends.
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Yeah they could just do recaps on an official streaming service for free and tie it in to promote the anime. A recap every arc would barely leave a dent. Anime rating are going down because generally younger audiences don't watch as much television, One Piece will move to streaming service (but also stay on television) in Japan along with most other anime. It's still gonna be air weekly and will be until it ends.
So we are talking about boosting ratings correct? Because your solution doesn't fix the pacing problem. Right?
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So we are talking about boosting ratings correct? Because your solution doesn't fix the pacing problem. Right?
Depends if your talking about a larger audience or specific ratings on television. Offering One Piece on streaming services makes it more accessible, it would then receive a bigger audience which means more money from advertising.
In turn from gaining more attention via streaming it may boost interest in the television broadcast. One Piece was at its peak around Marineford, if Oda can get audiences excited again it will help even if the anime remains sluggish.We all know the pacing problem cannot be fixed unless Toei produces more filler to prevent the main arcs from dragging on. (going in circles here) Re-runs are out of the question, they took a similar risk with Dragon Ball Kai and it didn't work out. Most other options have too much risk. Is there anything you would suggest to improve the anime?
They actually did air an HD upscale of all the pre-Davy Back Fight episodes with the past few years.
Did anyone capture or catch that recap? I think it's lost forever…
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I believe many of us may already notice that the anime staff is trying to solve the pacing for years and the pacing of the anime is already much better than Marineford and Fishman Island ages. I know we all suffered a lot from Fishman Island, but it has been more than 4 years and I think it's time for us to get out of the shadow.
There are still some episodes that have a bad pacing, but the situation is much better than what some people think it would be. Nowadays in every 10 episodes we will always get 2 or 3 episodes (20-30% of the episodes) whose pacing are really bad. But besides those episodes the pacing is overall stable.
Let's take the first two episodes of WCI arc for example. #783 covered 12 pages and #784 covered 11 pages, but the pacing of these two episodes were decently controlled. Recently I was re-watching many old episodes (most of which covered 2 chapters or more), and I can say that in general there are no obvious differences between the first two episodes of WCI and those old episodes I re-watched in pacing wise.
By the way, interestingly enough, there were episodes like #245 that just had a really awful pacing while covered 2 or more chapters!
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Did anyone capture or catch that recap? I think it's lost forever…
He probably means the special edition upscale. It's all on Crunchyroll.
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@Galaxy:
He probably means the special edition upscale. It's all on Crunchyroll.
Ah yes, misread that, my bad.
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Depends if your talking about a larger audience or specific ratings on television. Offering One Piece on streaming services makes it more accessible, it would then receive a bigger audience which means more money from advertising.
In turn from gaining more attention via streaming it may boost interest in the television broadcast. One Piece was at its peak around Marineford, if Oda can get audiences excited again it will help even if the anime remains sluggish.We all know the pacing problem cannot be fixed unless Toei produces more filler to prevent the main arcs from dragging on. (going in circles here) Re-runs are out of the question, they took a similar risk with Dragon Ball Kai and it didn't work out. Most other options have too much risk. Is there anything you would suggest to improve the anime?
Did anyone capture or catch that recap? I think it's lost forever…
I've always said just make the episodes half as long. Keep the long recaps and openings. Which lets say hypothetically that takes 5-7 minutes. So 24 minutes drops to 19-17 minutes. Use 14 minutes for the canon episodes at whatever desired pace you want. (Preferably
The unbearable pace we have now. Do less than half a chapter, the anime staff already has proven they have no problem with such things.)Use whatever time is left for one of those straw hat theater bits they had years ago and never did again, and use that to fill in the rest of the time. Or you could even dare say do the cover stories, since we know they will never dedicate entire episodes for this.
Continue doing this until the desired amount of space is achieved from the manga. As the space widens you leave more room for better paced episodes, so than you increase the length of time per episode. You can even throw in recap episodes every 4 weeks or whatever, to account for the breaks that Oda takes.
If they start getting close again, rinse and repeat said method. None of these suggestions are unseasonable, or difficult to do. Just the willingness to do it is the real issue. I'll be the first to say that I don't think the anime is as terrible as many would tell you. And have been caught up since marineford to experience the worst of it. And will admit that it has gotten much better than it ever has been.
But it could always be better. Don't just do your best on the non Canon adventure movies/specials and filler episodes, do it for the actual material that made it what it was and is now, THE CREATORS!!!
Tldr: make the episodes shorter, allocate the rest of the time to some type of filler material until Canon material is built into a desirable length. This way you can make better paced episodes in the future. Rinse and repeat for the time you start catching up.
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I think the pacing has been pretty good across an entire full-length episode, if people didn't know what chapter material it was based on I doubt they would complain as much. People seem to be under the impression that pacing means covering a large chunk of canon material when it actually means covering any amount of canon material in an organic way that isn't repetitive/boring
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@Kaido:
I think the pacing has been pretty good across an entire full-length episode, if people didn't know what chapter material it was based on I doubt they would complain as much. People seem to be under the impression that pacing means covering a large chunk of canon material when it actually means covering any amount of canon material in an organic way that isn't repetitive/boring
That's pretty subjective. While I think the episodes before the current one were fine with the pacing ,the current one throws away Any semblance of balance. With long slow pans of someone who we all know,is obviously NOT sanji,being one example. It's fine to have padding,but can we not make it so obvious?
A good example of filler would be the necomamashi song from brook,and nami cooking the crew some food. All good examples of implied filler.
I understand that's just the nature of "the biz" and that we are going to have bad episodes here and there, but it's just too disproportionate at times. It's stabilizing, but hadn't quite gotten there yet.
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That's pretty subjective. While I think the episodes before the current one were fine with the pacing ,the current one throws away Any semblance of balance. With long slow pans of someone who we all know,is obviously NOT sanji,being one example. It's fine to have padding,but can we not make it so obvious?
A good example of filler would be the necomamashi song from brook,and nami cooking the crew some food. All good examples of implied filler.
I understand that's just the nature of "the biz" and that we are going to have bad episodes here and there, but it's just too disproportionate at times. It's stabilizing, but hadn't quite gotten there yet.
Speaking of #784, I have to say it's because that you have read the manga and knew all the following stories, so you lost interests while the anime was creating atmosphere. The part where Yonji appears, however, had a very common directing technique, and one can see this technique Anywhere including many early One Piece episodes.
Some manga readers always mixed directing techniques and paddings, and say it's padding or dragging out when the anime is just trying to creating atmospheres. But they are not the same thing.
There was some padding in the last minute in #784, but the overall pacing except for it was decent. If they wanted to let the Yonji's appearance be faster, they could have just write more stories like Nami cooking, and it' very easy to write origional stories in this episode.
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I believe many of us may already notice that the anime staff is trying to solve the pacing for years and the pacing of the anime is already much better than Marineford and Fishman Island ages. I know we all suffered a lot from Fishman Island, but it has been more than 4 years and I think it's time for us to get out of the shadow. There are still some episodes that have a bad pacing, but the situation is much better than what some people think it would be. Nowadays in every 10 episodes we will always get 2 or 3 episodes (20-30% of the episodes) whose pacing are really bad. But besides those episodes the pacing is overall stable. Let's take the first two episodes of WCI arc for example. #783 covered 12 pages and #784 covered 11 pages, but the pacing of these two episodes were decently controlled. Recently I was re-watching many old episodes (most of which covered 2 chapters or more), and I can say that in general there are no obvious differences between the first two episodes of WCI and those old episodes I re-watched in pacing wise. By the way, interestingly enough, there were episodes like #245 that just had a really awful pacing while covered 2 or more chapters!
I dont know why you are always defending the horribly bad pacing. If no one defended it they would have to change.
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I dont know why you are always defending the horribly bad pacing. If no one defended it they would have to change.
Thanks for reply, but to be honest I really cannot understand what you mean by defending. Wouldn't it be stupid and ridiculous enough if I say something like "there are still episodes that have a really bad pacing" when I'm trying to defend the pacing?
I take responsibility for all what I say in this forum, and all what I hope is that people can have a more objective attitude towards to the anime.
They are changing, and they have been changed. It's sad enough that some people still cannot notice the changes while these changes are obvious enough.
The overall pacing of the current anime still has room for improvement for sure. For example, in the post that you quoted, I said that "There are still some episodes that have a bad pacing. Nowadays in every 10 episodes we will always get 2 or 3 episodes (20-30% of the episodes) whose pacing are really bad. But besides those episodes the pacing is overall stable." But as a long running series, however, the current pacing is not "horrible".
As an audience for years, I remember exactly what the darkest ages of One Piece anime look like, and know exactly what the pacing of past arcs looks like. Although there are still some problems here and there, the anime has already got out of the dark shadow.
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Shouldn't we be getting a new opening within the next 15 or so episodes? Because at that point, We Can will have been around for 60 episodes and at that point they'll probably be at the part when
! Sanji decides to marry Pudding so that'd be a good place to start a new one
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In a lot of people's minds, there is a general correlation between "amount of manga material covered" and "pacing". This obviously isn't the case, as the pacing is the perceived progression, not the actual progression.
Fishman Island covered 51 Chapters in 51 Episodes, despite this, the pacing was horrible. The plot progression, on the other hand, was faster.
The problem people have with the current format, which is mixing filler with canon material to achieve a greater pacing, is that a lot of the filler added is just fluff, that doesn't help the plot progress any faster.
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There's also a few examples of pacing being "too fast".
The Buggy arc had episodes covering 3-4 chapters, and they had to skip panels to do it.
Leaving out panels still happens to this day though… which makes no sense for the anime to do when every line and panel contributes to their run time for 1 chapter an episode.
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@Galaxy:
There's also a few examples of pacing being "too fast".
The Buggy arc had episodes covering 3-4 chapters, and they had to skip panels to do it.
Leaving out panels still happens to this day though… which makes no sense for the anime to do when every line and panel contributes to their run time for 1 chapter an episode.
Someone should really document all the panels that have been missed in the anime. Maybe someone has already.
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I assume almost all of us who post in this section are caught up in the manga, and thus watch the anime more or less to see how the story looks when it's animated. We don't want to spend 20 minutes watching a couple scenes from the manga when we know the anime can and has covered more content than that per episode. However, thanks to the anime catching up to the manga and the difficulty in producing filler arcs, it's what we're left with. And expecting more actual content covered to suit our wishes won't do much, since the anime staff doesn't cater to that. They cater to the people who are going into the series to see it for the first time. In that regard, perceived progression is far more important than _actual progression_.
Not that the staff has always succeeded in the former. When I started the anime during Dressrosa, there were tons of horribly boring episodes, and it seems like it was as bad or worse right before that. But there were noticeable differences between Dressrosa and the two arcs that have come after it - Zou and Totto Land have done a pretty good job of keeping me engaged. Sure, I want to see more since I know what's gonna happen…but from the perspective of watching only the anime, I'd say the staff have made great strides in keeping the episodes entertaining and consistently full of material regardless of how much content they cover. They've got room to grow for sure, and have dud episodes here and there, but things are looking up in terms of pacing when you don't care about the manga content covered. I think if I only watched the anime, I'd like the episodes that are coming out now, and look forward to them like I would a manga chapter.
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@Kaido:
They cater to the people who are going into the series to see it for the first time.
Pretty ironic considering almost every title, preview and opening contains spoilers from the manga.
I agree with you though, they have become better at producing fillers that don't necessarily drag on, but rather add flavor to the canon material. A brilliant example of that would be the ant fight or Sanji beating up Yonji (Which is being shown in the anime).
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@Galaxy:
There's also a few examples of pacing being "too fast".
The Buggy arc had episodes covering 3-4 chapters, and they had to skip panels to do it.
Leaving out panels still happens to this day though… which makes no sense for the anime to do when every line and panel contributes to their run time for 1 chapter an episode.
That sounds less like the pacing being too fast and more like the series cutting unnecessary stuff. Not everything from the original comic needs to be adapted to make a good television series.
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In a lot of people's minds, there is a general correlation between "amount of manga material covered" and "pacing".
That's because there is, you nutjob apologists @Jakisuaki:
perceived progression
I perceive it to be PAINFULLY slow, actual anger. Which is why i switched to the fan project One Pace
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That's because there is, you nutjob apologists
You're wrong. As I previously stated, pacing is the perceived progression of a story. When you've read the manga and just want to see the content adapted into anime form, yes, it becomes tedious to have only 12-13 pages covered per episode on average, but for an anime only viewer, the pacing problem is negated by the fact that filler is mixed into the episode.
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You're wrong. As I previously stated, pacing is the perceived progression of a story. When you've read the manga and just want to see the content adapted into anime form, yes, it becomes tedious to have only 12-13 pages covered per episode on average, but for an anime only viewer, the pacing problem is negated by the fact that filler is mixed into the episode.
What you just said doesn't make sense filler does not make things seems like they are moving at a nice pace, it does the exact opposite
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What you just said doesn't make sense filler does not make things seems like they are moving at a nice pace, it does the exact opposite
Not if you don't know it's filler. It's not like a giant tag pops up that says "This is filler content!". UNLESS you're a manga reader.
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If done right,you'll never notice that it is there at all. All types of movies have filler inserted into them to help the flow of the source material. This is even as much true in the manga that we are talking about as well. Hell it even had an entire filler arc in it as well (which is still debated about to this day).
Filler is indeed a necessary evil,and it can be done right. But that doesn't even seem to be the discussion at hand. It's on wether or not it is even needed. And the answer i am giving is YES!!
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There are tons of classical moments in the anime were fillers indeed. What's more, One Piece also has some directors that can persent a great episode that is not just simply copying manga panels, and Komaki was the most understanding one. In Komaki's episodes there were always many scenes that weren't in the manga, but these scenes always showed us Komaki's deep understandings of One Piece. Komaki left the anime after Dressrosa Arc, and this is one of the biggest loss of One Piece.
Generally speaking, the evaluation of an episode is based on the episode itself. And episode that has filler part can be directed greatly, while one that only has manga materials can be awfully paced and directed. Some audiences like to judge an episode from the number of pages that it covered, but to be honest I'm afraid it's not a very objective estimating standard. For example, #245 covered two chapters but its pacing control and direction was just incredibly awful, while the pacing of #675 was just too fast to build atomsphere despite of covering 13 pages only. Should we say #245 was better just because it covered more pages? Of course the answer is no.
On the other hand, because of Oda's willing of speeding up the progress of the story, nowadays manga chapters of One Piece tend to have much more dense panels and dialogs, and we may find Oda skipped many details. These also help the anime's general pacing.
By the way, according to some articles on the official website, contacts between the anime staff and Oda is more frequently than we imagine. The current series director used to say that they got the permission from Oda to add more details in Zou Arc, and the art director also mentioned that Oda provided many background settings for WCI. These also indicated that maybe it's not a good idea to split "filler" and "canon" that much. (Except for those filler parts that were badly written, such as bug fighting scenes in Zou.)
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In addition, the audience base of One Piece is so large that sometimes the anime cannot let everyone be satisfied.
Last week's episode is an example. The last episode (even the manga chapter), especially the candy eating scenes, was very controversial. If we use the keyword "アニワン" (One Piece anime) to search on Twitter, we may find that the last episode was welcomed by quite a lot of audiences. However, we all know that there are also audiences who thought the candy eating part was boring. Sadly I think this kind of controversial is really hard to avoid.
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It is definitely a great thing to hear that the anime staff is keeping regular contact with Oda. And yes that bug fighting scene was indeed awful.
For me,for the first time in a long while it seems like the anime has found it's footing when regarding its filler. And yet. You have the one Nasser who says "i wont have it". Well you can't please everyone. The anime actually does feel for me in a way,like it has when it was at its peak (water 7),its very exciting honestly.
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There are tons of classical moments in the anime were fillers indeed. What's more, One Piece also has some directors that can persent a great episode that is not just simply copying manga panels, and Komaki was the most understanding one. In Komaki's episodes there were always many scenes that weren't in the manga, but these scenes always showed us Komaki's deep understandings of One Piece. Komaki left the anime after Dressrosa Arc, and this is one of the biggest loss of One Piece.
Generally speaking, the evaluation of an episode is based on the episode itself. And episode that has filler part can be directed greatly, while one that only has manga materials can be awfully paced and directed. Some audiences like to judge an episode from the number of pages that it covered, but to be honest I'm afraid it's not a very objective estimating standard. For example, #245 covered two chapters but its pacing control and direction was just incredibly awful, while the pacing of #675 was just too fast to build atomsphere despite of covering 13 pages only. Should we say #245 was better just because it covered more pages? Of course the answer is no.
On the other hand, because of Oda's willing of speeding up the progress of the story, nowadays manga chapters of One Piece tend to have much more dense panels and dialogs, and we may find Oda skipped many details. These also help the anime's general pacing.
By the way, according to some articles on the official website, contacts between the anime staff and Oda is more frequently than we imagine. The current series director used to say that they got the permission from Oda to add more details in Zou Arc, and the art director also mentioned that Oda provided many background settings for WCI. These also indicated that maybe it's not a good idea to split "filler" and "canon" that much. (Except for those filler parts that were badly written, such as bug fighting scenes in Zou.)
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In addition, the audience base of One Piece is so large that sometimes the anime cannot let everyone be satisfied.
Last week's episode is an example. The last episode (even the manga chapter), especially the candy eating scenes, was very controversial. If we use the keyword "アニワン" (One Piece anime) to search on Twitter, we may find that the last episode was welcomed by quite a lot of audiences. However, we all know that there are also audiences who thought the candy eating part was boring. Sadly I think this kind of controversial is really hard to avoid.
While filler is indeed nice when done right, an episode that covers two chapters and has excellent pacing control will still have a better overall feel to it, in my opinion. Would it ever be plausible for the anime to "match" Oda's breaks and provide the same amount of episodes as Oda releases (~40 chapters a year currently, which will most likely keep going down).
Water Seven and early Enies Lobby all covered around 1.5 chapters each on average, which was only made possible because the anime released like…. 36 episodes in yearly period.
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It is definitely a great thing to hear that the anime staff is keeping regular contact with Oda. And yes that bug fighting scene was indeed awful.
For me,for the first time in a long while it seems like the anime has found it's footing when regarding its filler. And yet. You have the one Nasser who says "i wont have it". Well you can't please everyone. The anime actually does feel for me in a way,like it has when it was at its peak (water 7),its very exciting honestly.
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Are you talking about the filler zou scene, or the extended centipede scene or the extended ant scene
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@Long:
Are you talking about the filler zou scene, or the extended centipede scene or the extended ant scene
The Zou one with the bees.
That scene really….................. bugs us.
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Pretty sure it's the one where it was at zou. That one felt really out of place. But the rest of the filler felt just fine.
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There were worse filler scenes in the Zou arc.
Like Luffy jumping on the bridge. That's the kind of stuff that doesn't belong.
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There was a level of heart put in the bees scene, and its core purpose was to show the Straw Hats fighting as one (almost) unit for the first time in a while, which was a pretty great objective. The problem was that the bees were weird and uninteresting because they were…well, bees.
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And than their would be great filler moments like the nekomamoshi song.