@Zephray said in 1106: ''Trouble Occurs! Search For! Dr. Vegapunk'':
The narrative for this episode felt like a mess. The chronology was all over the place. First the PX3, then a flashback to releasing the PX3s (which wasn’t too clearly a flashback). Then a flashback to Bonny & Stella, then Bonny doing her thing with Kuma’s flashback. Then the main characters skip ahead and are all together with Lucci tied up.
I get that the manga skipping around and ahead all the time is more intuitive, but I like the anime best when it gives the “implied filler” and slows things down by reinserting the connective tissue that Oda cut. Also, would love to have simplified chronology instead of always showing the results before the “how they got here” scenes.
This episode just felt like a mess to me, but so did the last one with the random arc recap mid-episode & and narrator reveal of Vega-Stella going missing without any visuals showing it.
Hoping the script writers and storyboard artists get a little more focused in future episodes.
I could be wrong, but I think the PX3 that attacks the agents was the same one that chased Luffy and co. around earlier, not part of the 50 that whatisface unleashed.
Sadly, I think this is one of those areas where they're never going to please everyone. I appreciate it when they expand on stuff (I loved that they turned a little background bit about Robin stopping Nami from kicking Lucci into a full scene) and add more of that connective tissue, but other fans are going to hate the story being slowed down by all that "padding".