His planet didn't need him yet.
Title: ''Luffy's Shock - The Man Who Inherits Ace's Will''
Chapters Covered: 731
New Characters: None
Episode Director: Tetsuya Endo (***1/2)
Animation Director: Asako Narasaki (***1/2)
Time: 8:30PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
And yes, after tonight you can finally refer to that without using spoiler tags!
Maybe this episode will cover less than one chapter, but who knows.
But if it has a nice direction or a beautiful flashback, I think it's OK.
Streaming Links: https://www.connectcast.tv/cc07214545 or http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tv-opex
Preview:
As announced in the animation thread, this episode will have new scenes in the opening.
Never watched an episode live, does it have subs or will I have to wait the hour+ for that?
I believe you have to wait longer for the subs
Thought so, oh well.
Not too long of a wait!
Japanese commercials are the best since they all but command your attention with their speed and sound levels. They're also entertaining as heck, and who knows? You may see one of your favorite anime characters having to promote something not of their world!
! I'm probably going to miss spoiler-tagging Sabo about as much as the "Everyone _is_ Sabo" discussions…
Japanese commercials are the best since they all but command your attention with their speed and sound levels. They're also entertaining as heck, and who knows? You may see one of your favorite anime characters having to promote something not of their world!
! I'm probably going to miss spoiler-tagging Sabo about as much as the "Everyone _is_ Sabo" discussions…
I like the Chopper with the red eyes to promote eye drops after swimming. He looks stoned.
Also about the runny eggs, it's as if Salmonella doesn't exist in Japan.
Woah woah, new intro bits!!! Glad I paid attention.
so they spoiled pretty much all the powers of the dofla family,well done toei
Chopper's in like… all OP commercials now. Law amuses me the most when he's in them. I think I saw him in some fried chicken commercial maybe? I'm not great at understanding those for their speed, but that's what it at leased looked to be.
... OH MY GOSH, NEW OPENING ANIMATIONS!!
CGI pika was cool.
Edit: Mirror because Youtube is unreliable.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26rq75_one-piece-opening-17-wake-up-v2_animals
Here's the new opening animation, sorry about the quality!
EDIT: Beat me to it 
Here's the CM for the new One Piece game, contains new animation:
The reveal was tastefully done
This was pretty well-done.
I literally can't point anything glaringly bad about this episode.
they could have done better with the reveal IMHO
especially luffy's "ener face" wasn't really that good.
also,dellinger must have hit bellamy in the face pretty hard,because in some shots it looked like bellamy got swapped with his not-so-similar cousin
You guys Toei likes Dellinger. Like, like like. He stepped up his booty game this episode like no other. Stop it, Toei; he's only 16.
Anyway the best part was the new opening bits. It spoils stuff, but at this point you should be used to them spoiling shit in the openings. Great animation for that.
Not so good for the actual episode. The art was all over the place, but at least the content saved it. They can get a limbless water buffalo to draw the episodes at this point, the content will save it. Ending was nice, though. The music was cute.
@superv:
CGI pika was cool.
Doesn't look like CGI to me…
But yeah, the episode was alright. Awkward bits here and there, as usual, but overall this was watchable.
I didn't like that they made Bellamy fight back, but I guess they had to make a decision since Oda kept it vague (and it was certainly more enjoyable than a 2 minute staring contest).
So what did they do with the Dellinger scene? From the preview it looks like they had him fight back.
Please tell me it wasn't that bad.
WHO IS SABO'S VA?
Look, no matter how good a episode is, there will still be people complaining here and there.
I'll not post news about One Piece anime production in AP ANY MORE.
In fact we can see a big change about the staff from this week, but I will shut up.
I think the credits say that the "new guy" is voiced by Tohru Furuya (AKA Amuro Rey, AKA Toshio Furukawa's fellow Mobile Suit Gundam alum).
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Doesn't look like CGI to me…
But yeah, the episode was alright. Awkward bits here and there, as usual, but overall this was watchable.
I didn't like that they made Bellamy fight back, but I guess they had to make a decision since Oda kept it vague (and it was certainly more enjoyable than a 2 minute staring contest).
Yup. They actually added filler to the part that actually needed it.
I think the credits say that the "new guy" is voiced by Tohru Furuya (AKA Amuro Rey, AKA Toshio Furukawa's fellow Mobile Suit Gundam alum).
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Look, no matter how good a episode is, there will still be people complaining here and there.
I'll not post news about One Piece anime production ANY MORE.
In fact we can see a big change about the staff from this week, but I will shut up.
Please don't stop because of a select few. I find your information insightful and important to understanding the way this anime is actually made.
Look, no matter how good a episode is, there will still be people complaining here and there.
I'll not post news about One Piece anime production in AP ANY MORE.
In fact we can see a big change about the staff from this week, but I will shut up.
I never complain about the anime, I just don't know when I'll be able to watch it so I'm curious about what they did with that single scene because I really didn't want any filler there.
What is cool is we have full Dragon Ball Cast. Luffy as Kuririn, Ace as Piccolo, and now Sabo as Yamucha.
@Galaxy:
Please don't stop because of a select few. I find your information insightful and important to understanding the way this anime is actually made.
Now Toshinori Fukazawa has become the Series Director, together with Miyamoto.
To tell the truth I was just a bit upset, my pal. I understand we all love One Piece anime and want it to be better and better, but, well I don't know how to say.:sad:
What is cool is we have full Dragon Ball Cast. Luffy as Kuririn, Ace as Piccolo, and now Sabo as Yamucha.
Just need Goku now, and we're set.
Yup. They actually added filler to the part that actually needed it.
Well, I wouldn't say that the filler was needed. I liked that Oda didn't show their full confrontation, he made it seem like Bellamy was already defeated by the mere message that Dofla, his idol, wants him dead.
But as I said, it wasn't bad and certainly one way to deal with it, but in a perfect world I would have preferred Dellinger simply beating up and already beaten Bellamy.
Look, no matter how good a episode is, there will still be people complaining here and there.
I'll not post news about One Piece anime production in AP ANY MORE.
In fact we can see a big change about the staff from this week, but I will shut up.
I see you took away nothing from our last little conversation on this subject. Which was.. one episode ago.
@Miss:
I see you took away nothing from our last little conversation on this subject. Which was.. one episode ago.
I'm busy and I don't have enough time to reply your post.
My mother language is not English so it will take me a lot of time to write a long post. But I have no time.
Now Toshinori Fukazawa has become the Series Director, together with Miyamoto.
To tell the truth I was just a bit upset, my pal. I understand we all love One Piece anime and want it to be better and better, but, well I don't know how to say.:sad:
That's an interesting change. Did that happen starting with 663?
And I know what you mean. I've stopped complaining in these threads for the most part, unless they do something really bad (such as giving more backstory to Hody, or making certain antagonists stronger than they should be). I changed my view more-so after Greg actually explained that the staff at Toei do care about the anime, and that the bad decisions are from those in charge of the company.
What people seem to want the most though, is consistency with the animation, art, and pacing (a very hard thing to keep up with a series forced by the company to be weekly and ongoing, instead of season by season).
Well, I wouldn't say that the filler was needed. I liked that Oda didn't show their full confrontation, he made it seem like Bellamy was already defeated by the mere message that Dofla, his idol, wants him dead.
But as I said, it wasn't bad and certainly one way to deal with it, but in a perfect world I would have preferred Dellinger simply beating up and already beaten Bellamy.
Well, it made Dellinger more competent, and Bellamy not completely pathetic.
! I mean, poor thing is already gonna get the shit beaten out of him by his idol himself.
I'm busy and I don't have enough time to reply your post.
My mother language is not English so it will take me a lot of time to write a long post. But I have no time.
And I know One Piece production more than you do.
OVER.
Well I commend you on knowing more than I do. I admit, I don't know much about the going-ons behind the scenes; but I do have a pair of functioning eyes which do the trick most of the time. I don't need inside knowledge on who the anime director is to know when something is shit. Same with the other people here, I'm sure.
As for you not having the time to reply to me, that's also understandable. Writing posts takes time.
However, I should hope you at least read them. Right? I know you didn't absorb anything that I said, cause I see you writing the exact same stuff this week that you were the last week. Maybe work on that? That way you'll know more than everybody else AND be able to hold up a good argument.
@Galaxy:
That's an interesting change. Did that happen starting with 663?
And I know what you mean. I've stopped complaining in these threads for the most part, unless they do something really bad (such as giving more backstory to Hody, or making certain antagonists stronger than they should be). I changed my view more-so after Greg actually explained that the staff at Toei do care about the anime, and that the bad decisions are from those in charge of the company.
What people seem to want the most though, is consistency with the animation, art, and pacing (a very hard thing to keep up with a series forced by the company to be weekly and ongoing, instead of season by season).
Yes, from #663. All these changes (including the additional scenes in opening animation, etc.) are a positive signal.
A thread for bad One Piece art would be a good idea, could divert attention from these episode threads. Also it would be great to see a dedicated section for them, the amount of strange shots are endless!
All I want is a gif of Dellinger doing pelvic thrusts. Where is Light Bro?
@Miss:
Well I commend you on knowing more than I do. I admit, I don't know much about the going-ons behind the scenes; but I do have a pair of functioning eyes which do the trick most of the time. I don't need inside knowledge on who the anime director is to know when something is shit. Same with the other people here, I'm sure.
As for you not having the time to reply to me, that's also understandable. Writing posts takes time.
However, I should hope you at least read them. Right? I know you didn't absorb anything that I said, cause I see you writing the exact same stuff this week that you were the last week. Maybe work on that? That way you'll know more than everybody else AND be able to hold up a good argument.
I do have read all your reply. But what I can find is that you have too much prejudice towards the current anime. That's why I tried to write a long post.
And I'm really so sad to see people complaining today's episode. It's too unfair, unfair and unfair.
Sorry for my impoliteness before. And now I have to work so I have to logout, sorry.
All I want is a gif of Dellinger doing pelvic thrusts. Where is Light Bro?
Jabra stop it he's 16!!
! let's get Lao G to pelvic thrust next to him, that way it'll balance out the age gap
Disgusting Japanese food commercials are the best part of watching it live.
About this, I must say I love that dancing, delinquent Onigiri duo.
Doesn't look like CGI to me…
But yeah, the episode was alright. Awkward bits here and there, as usual, but overall this was watchable.
I didn't like that they made Bellamy fight back, but I guess they had to make a decision since Oda kept it vague (and it was certainly more enjoyable than a 2 minute staring contest).
So you don't like he fought back, but it was more enjoyable than a staring contest.
What's with this contradiction ? How else did you want to see this fight handled ?
So you don't like he fought back, but it was more enjoyable than a staring contest.
What's with this contradiction ? How else did you want to see this fight handled ?
Second page !!!
I feel for Dellinger's DenDen Mushi, I mean really…
Great episode in a lot of ways. Many things were happening, and then suddenly it was like time slowed down for a big reveal. Glad they silenced some of the dialogue and had an outside point of view when things suddenly struck Luffy. The face was perfect, and now it'll be... how many episodes until we fully see him? Watch Toei milk it for all its worth as well. XD
The art for Bellamy when he was getting beat up in this episode was extremely well done, like, abnormally well done in contrast to the other characters during the episode.
Also
! SABO!!!!!
1000/10 episode. Been waiting for this and I feeled :sad:
Happy with the episode, got the reveal that I've been waiting for, hopefully it isn't too long before we see him again.
I feel for Dellinger's DenDen Mushi, I mean really…
Great episode in a lot of ways. Many things were happening, and then suddenly it was like time slowed down for a big reveal. Glad they silenced some of the dialogue and had an outside point of view when things suddenly struck Luffy. The face was perfect, and now it'll be... how many episodes until we fully see him? Watch Toei milk it for all its worth as well. XD
From what I looked up, probably episode 677 if it's a chapter per episode.
Liked the episode, though keeping his face hidden like they did is way more jarring in the anime than in the manga for obvious reasons
