@Crossword said in 1089: "A New Chapter! Luffy and Sabo's Paths!":
Tons of fight previews, tons of loving homages to what came before, tons of fun Easter eggs, colors, style, and the song itself let Kitadani flex his JAM Project heritage a bit while the power chorus and backup chorus tied it all together. It blows away the other anniversary openings. It's not even a contest. The ending was less crazy and wastes no time reminding you that it's the same singer behind "Memories" but it's a nice enough closer.
The "info corner" ending skit was kinda cute but of course useless for super-fans like us. I imagine it won't be used after every episode but the Egghead arc is pretty dense with callbacks.
Kitadani used to be part of JAM Project?? I honestly didn't know that. But when I heard the new opening for the first time, I immediately got vibes of the JAM Project opening for Transformers Animated:
As for the info corner ending skit...does anyone think this could maybe one day service as an avenue to shoehorn in some cover story info that the anime has yet to receive?
tens minutes later
looks up JAM Project on Wikipedia
...WTF!?!? Hironobu Kageyama is part of JAM Project???!!?!?!
Do I need to listen to more of their work?????