Keeping solidarity with Luffy's newfound sense of weabooism, you may call me Kurosu Wada (<-absolutely don't do this).
Title: ''The Treasure Ship's Arrival - Luffytaro Returns the Favor!''
Chapters Covered: rest of 918
Episode Director: Yutaka Nakashima (*1/2)
Animation Director: Toshio Deguchi ()
Time: 8:30PM EST
Watch It: www.crunchyroll.com/one-piece
One Piece Episode 909 Preview
Kyoshiro gets cotton candy blue hair? I kinda dig it.
Next week looks great.
So we have maximum 5-6 episodes until:
! Luffy vs Kaido. Can't wait to see it.
No voice actor announced for my boy Kyoshiro yet? His design screamed Yusa Kouji to me when he first appeared in the manga.
Raid suit Sanji is coming closer and closer
This was a really enjoyable episode!
Despite the low amount of pages adapted, it didn't feel like a drag at all. Maybe some scenes here and there were a tad too long but that didn't bother me at all.
Really flowed well, the atmosphere was great and the overall direction was solid.
I expected them to censor the lady wanting to stab her baby and then hanging herself afterwards.
A good storyboard can make even an episode with not so many pages adapted really fun to watch.
Very happy episode, nice to have an episode like this sometimes, leaves you with a taste of satisfaction.
But yeah I did fear that this episode would suffer from the content it was covering and the low amout of it, but it ended up being quite a solid episode, maybe could've done better without spending most of the run time in Okobore town and more with the next chapter, but that's about it.
Break next week, eh? One of the rare breaks in the anime. Good, I guess. They should take a break every month or two; then they wouldn’t gain on Oda much and they could at least do 1:1 episodes again. It’s so crazy that we miss the days of 1:1.
Raid suit Sanji is coming closer and closer
Really hoping the anime expands upon it given that it is a perfect opportunity to use for filler
Break next week, eh? One of the rare breaks in the anime. Good, I guess. They should take a break every month or two; then they wouldn’t gain on Oda much and they could at least do 1:1 episodes again. It’s so crazy that we miss the days of 1:1.
If this trend continues, we are going to miss these days too 
If this trend continues, we are going to miss these days too
Realistically, how low can it go? 5-7 pages? They’ve done 7 before. This anime must hold all the records for worst page count per episode.
Realistically, how low can it go? 5-7 pages? They’ve done 7 before. This anime must hold all the records for worst page count per episode.
It was somewhat more bad during some of the Z era of Dragon Ball in the anime, especially during later half of the Freeza saga, when there was a episode that only cover like 4 or 5 pages of the fight during the Namek final countdown then switch to filler fight scene, then the episode ends with final fight finally continuing.
Wow. The next episode looks really good. Luffy's facial expressions!
Yeah, I recognized that right away as the work of a new animator by the name of Akiko Sugizono. She did a similar scene in 900 where Zoro was miming for Luffy to shut up, though it wasn't as bouncily-animated. We need more animators like her for the more low-key character moments and such in between the action powerhouses like Ishizuka, Tu, and Kojima.
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No voice actor announced for my boy Kyoshiro yet? His design screamed Yusa Kouji to me when he first appeared in the manga.
Brother-in-arms!
Finally watched and rewatched the episode. Way more enjoyable than the last four or so. Can’t wait for the next episode; looks killer.
Really nice and carthartic episode.
I think something thats become a bit plain, is that the Wano anime has proven so far that it really knows how to make fairly mundane low tension scenes fun, and I've enjoyed pretty much every episode where its just them messing around a bit.
Anyway, really enjoyed how they covered the content this episode, felt really carthartic at points(especially considering the last 6 or so episodes spent building up to this pay off).
I think Nakashima's direction and storyboard deserve all possible credit for making this episode pretty fun.
Was sort of bored today (even though I have many things I need to do) and the one time I feel like watching a One Piece episode on a Sunday, it's on break. Then we have the chapter break next week. The timing.
