scritch scratch… Anyone else feeling a little…furry?
Title: ''The Dangerous Elephant Climb - Big Adventure on the Back of a Giant Elephant!''
Chapters Covered: rest of 803-804
New Characters: Carrot, Wanda
Episode Director: Takashi Otsuka (*****)
Animation Director: Shuuichi Ito (***1/2)
Time: 8:30PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
Oh, the anime still exists?
One Piece Opening We Can! Ver. Film Gold + New Intro: https://www.facebook.com/fansofonepiecereborn/videos/1599986646960539
Change is good, but that intro is literally twice as long as the old one. I really hope it gets truncated starting next episode.
! There are some conspicuous empty spots on that Straw Hat line-up.
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One Piece Episode 754 Preview
One Piece Opening We Can! Ver. Film Gold + New Intro
I do like how both Carrot and Pedro are shadowed in the previews for the past two episodes.
HD Version
Change is good, but that intro is literally twice as long as the old one. I really hope it gets truncated starting next episode.
The difference is only about 15 seconds. I'd rather have that than an extra long recap.
Okay, now the production quality of these episodes is starting to improve after a rather weak stretch during the past 6 episodes. 754 looks especially lavish.
Awesome! What a great episode! The anime has been improving ever since Zou started and this is a prime example of it. Great animation, awesome pacing and adaptation and great use of storyboarding and layouts. I loved seeing the "shaky cam debree" type shot that we haven't seen for a long time. The anime is improving, not that it ever got bad but it suffered during Dressrosa but now it's back and I love it.
Gotta say not bad. This looked considerably better than the past couple of episodes. Let's see how long this holds out. And a new bumper? Not sure what to call it,but the roll call for the straw hats thingy,its nice to see something new there for a change.
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really pretty art episode, but this episode is a prime example why don't like Takashi Otsuka, his the weakest episode director on One piece( the man doesn't know how to do hype), still good episode but any other episode director on One piece could made a better introduction for carrot.
Wish we could trade him for karasawa kazuya (the newbie who made those amazing action episode on world trigger).
well, that was boring :getlost:
showing us one of the lazziest lizard ever trying to climb a giant elephant ass for 20 min, what a show !
i got some lizards in my backyard and i can guarantee you it doesn't take them 60sec to clim the wall of my house or the trees over there.
Proper lazybones Ryu !!
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Great to finally get to see Zou animated (except for the brief look we got from the Curlyhats' perspective). Like Carrot's and Wanda's voices, too.
Waah! What a great episode.
They really adapted the manga panels with accuracy.
I really don't like Carrot's pink nose, on volume 82 and in the manga chapters her nose looks white like her fur so why did they do that?
I really don't like Carrot's pink nose, on volume 82 and in the manga chapters her nose looks white like her fur so why did they do that?
Well Its not first time they do differ colors for no reason overall it was a good ep
The animation was really good and the execution, too. RIP Ryunosuke.
Ryunosuke died for our sins.
Seems like the anime's actually trying again because this episode was beautiful!
pretty decent episode compared to the recent bunch….art was decent to..bar an image of robin that seriously made her look like she's from the longleg tribe
Definitely enjoyed this episode. It was actually pretty to look at!
Despite how silly I still find the Robin and Ryuunoske thing to be, I'm glad they did it wonderful well in the anime. 
What a great episode, I loved the art and especially the reveal of the city with Luffy. Oh, and several fun Robin moments. So cute.:wub:
It was a beautiful episode with great scenery and music, a good start to Zou. The filler scenes with Ryunosuke went a little overboard, but his death scene was great (the music suddenly cutting out during Zoro and Law's bit was hilarious). Carrot's arrival was good too, but Wanda…to quote a certain Eugene Fitzherbert, "They just can't get my nose right!"
That new…Synopsis is really awful to look at. I hope it gets fixed or doesn't appear again lol. I'm glad they finally changed it from the one they've used since the time skip. Also it kinda bugged me that the didn't say Tony Tony Chopper.
The first few minutes were pretty blah but the payoff was nice. Also geeze Robin. Way to be unhelpful. She didn't even attempt to help Ryunosuke when he bent backwards lol. She coulda grabbed his little feets and Franky would have made sure she didn't fall.
Carrot's intro was awesome. Next week looks to be good too.
really pretty art episode, but this episode is a prime example why don't like Takashi Otsuka, his the weakest episode director on One piece( the man doesn't know how to do hype), still good episode but any other episode director on One piece could made a better introduction for carrot.Wish we could trade him for karasawa kazuya (the newbie who made those amazing action episode on world trigger).
This is a joke right
Great episode from start to finish. I think this was the most consistently on-model episode I've seen in quite some time. Lots of dynamic angle shots and smooth storyboarding.
I'm okay with the new plot summary intro because it's NEW. And if it means shorter recaps, I'm all for it.
While the climbing part overstayed its welcome (along with Ryu sliding down the leg and Luffy falling off) , the execution of Ryunosuke's tragic end was so good. RIP muh feels.
Hearing the new OST in the anime makes it even more epic. Plus, Carrot and Wanda's introductions were handled greatly.
It's been so long since I loved and episode, this one was great! I didn't mind them prolonging the climbing part, I hope they keep this up for the whole arc.
The face of a Straw Hat.
This was the first episode that Otsuka's both storyboarded and directed in over two years, and it showed. There was definitely a sense of snappiness to the camerawork and transitions, and once the sun started to rise/set, the episode looked absolutely gorgeous. The line work was crisp and the colors were bright and poppy without being garish and aside from one quick shot of Zoro's face everything was solidly on model. Zo's off to a strong start art-wise given it looks like we'll be seeing quite a bit of Tomita next week; hopefully since this is a low-action arc the art quality will remain consistent and the weaker staff members won't muck things up.
Given that I was on the same wavelength with Zoro and Law regarding Ryuunosuke I found them abruptly cutting off the sappy music absolute hysterical, though I did enjoy the fact that its voice acting was deliberately crappy. And speaking of voice acting, I have to admit that I'm a bit relieved that Carrot's voice isn't high-pitched but more natural-sounding. Megumi Hayashibara's a great seiyuu, but by the end of Dressrosa I had had enough of her reading Rebecca's lines in the most shrill, forced tone she could muster.
I'm okay with the new plot summary intro because it's NEW. And if it means shorter recaps, I'm all for it.
I'd rather have that than an extra long recap.
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What was this episode of the 'One Piece' anime doing in the regularly scheduled 'Stick-Figure Fun-Time-Happy Hour'?
What was this episode of the 'One Piece' anime doing in the regularly scheduled 'Stick-Figure Fun-Time-Happy Hour'?
Damn toei mixed the schedule up, walks away cursing with hands in pockets
This was such a good episode.
Now just wait for the cycle to repeat itself again.
You know, the usual one where it goes from really good at the start to flash animation before it even reaches the middle.
What was this episode of the 'One Piece' anime doing in the regularly scheduled 'Stick-Figure Fun-Time-Happy Hour'?
Hey Greg! I'm also very happy that we had an episode like this one. Here are some facts behind the scenes and some thoughts, and I'd like to share to everyone here.
This episode had a great episode director who directed the famous #616. However, I don't think this was the key point.
This episode had a very good making schedule that this episode finished on Aug. 10 (11 days before airing) while the schedule of many episodes after #717 just got rushed HEAVILY because of the winter SP, Heart of Gold and Film Gold. By the way, the Olympic break on Aug. 14 and the upcoming Kochikame break on Sep. 25 are also helpful for a better schedule.
Not only schedule, but also animators. The specials and the movie just took too many animators away. Maybe many audiences cannot believe that #729 and #753 had the same animation director because that while this episode had a great animation and art (character wise) but #729 was just a failure.
The biggest disappointment was that #733 (the episode in which Luffy finally finished Doffy) and #725 (an action-heavy episode directed by Film Z's director Nagamine that could have been another #616) got rushed heavily.
Besides this episode which was very outstanding, the overall quality of the normal series was already recovered after #734 desipe there being still some episodes that got rushed (for example, the whole filler arc after Dressrosa). But, though I hope there's not a but, it there's another winter SP, the overall quality of the normal TV series will drop again without doubts.
So I have to say, please no more winter specials. Indeed I used to send a complaint letter to Fuji but of course it doesn't help AT ALL ww. On the other hand, however, the director of Film Gold, Miyamoto, suffered quite a lot when he was the SD of the normal TV series, so maybe he would let Oda know something that others wouldn't tell him at all when they were working together during the time when Film Gold was under production.
Sorry for such a long post.
Zou is not bad at all so far in the anime. The animation was good in this episode and it was enjoyable. Hopefully the next episodes will be good aswell.
Great info Sun, thank you.
If you want your voices heard, you should send Oda letters.
He. Reads. Every. Letter.
Even some simple Japanese is fine.
He'll be the first to let the studio know something is up.
It's exactly what I do whenever there's something I need/would like to express.
That was a pretty nice episode, as expected. And I much prefer the new intro over the old one.
@Devil:
That was a pretty nice episode, as expected. And I much prefer the new intro over the old one.
Yeaj I was getting really sick of that fish tbh
Finally ! One Piece is finally being given a nice looking adaptation ! Art and animation became so bad for the past few months/years that I didn't even thought that we could one day go back to a decent adaptation. But this episod proved me that I was wrong and I'm really happy now, even the 2 seconds fight between Zoro and Carrot surpassed the Luffy/Doflamingo fight in term of animation.
Great info Sun, thank you.
If you want your voices heard, you should send Oda letters.
He. Reads. Every. Letter.
Even some simple Japanese is fine.
He'll be the first to let the studio know something is up.
It's exactly what I do whenever there's something I need/would like to express.
My pleasure! And sorry for replying late
Yeah, I'm writing a letter which contains all my thoughts about the anime series and I hope and believe this can be helpful.
And it seems there will be no winter SP this year and I'm really relieved. The overall quality of the anime dropped markedly after three S-level episodes (#715-#717) because of the winter SP last year and it did mad me angry.
I'm really worrying about the next arc though. Some fighting episodes in the next arc will be much more difficult to make, while there will be another summer SP at the same time lol.
