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Title: ''Zeus's Defection?! Nami's in Trouble!''
Chapters Covered: 988
Episode Director: Kenichi Takeshita (***)
Animation Director: Shuuichi Ito (***1/2)
Time: 8:30 PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
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Great episode. I like that the anime did expanded on the Sanji vs. King fight. I'm happy that the anime did my favorite moment of the Wano arc justice with Franky and Brook running over Big Mom with an motorcycle. Franky and Brook singing during that moment made it even more great.
Meh, fake hype King easily blocking the attacks of sanji with his hand was not in the manga, shotting star attack can't just be blocked Like that. Anime guys just don't know how to hype king anymore since …
! since he was such a background character the entire arc
They also ignored the black lightning haki Clash between king and sanji? Wow, anime guys are just doing whatever the f*** they want.
Loved this episode. The BM attack (rofl to the Sasaki add-on, which I don’t remember being in the manga) and the Sanji fight were beautifully animated. If I have one complaint, it’s that I hated the tyedye generic backgrounds during the Big Mom chase scene with Nami and the motorcycle. I get that it’s way easier to drop that in there then actually fill the background, but my big frustration with this back half of the arc is that I never have a sense of space. The characters are always in different spaces and I have no idea what the layout of the area looks like. They don’t do many establishing shots in this show, so that allows them to do whatever they want each scene with the backgrounds; that makes it easier on the storyboard artists but harder on the viewer. We never have a sense of where we are on the stage. Or if we do, it’s just a very general understanding.
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Also, the art and storyboarding wasn’t nearly as good as the manga for that motorcycle vs BM scene. Kind of a bummer.
Sasaki almost got obliterated by the ikoku sovreignty he saw his life flash before his eyes.
The earlier part of the episode was a little bit frustrating with everything moving sooooo slooooow but the ending was epic. Man, I missed Franky.
