Which tracks from the Movie 8 (Alabasta) soundtrack are unique to the movie? Most of the album are rerelease tracks, but a few are new. The best I came up with:

01 - Yuuzora o Pell no Se ni Notte
08 - Nakama no Shirushi
12 - Oretachi no Inochi kurai Kakete Miro!!!
26 - Kuni wa Hito nari
45 - Kuni o Mamoru
46 - Shugoshin Falcon
47 - Ore wa Omae o Koete Iku!!!
48 - Alabasta ni Furu Ame
51 - Vivi no Kokoro Yureru (???)
53 - Vivi no Speech (???)
54 - Nakama no Shirushi da!!!

Any I missed or are in error?

@Ghostprincess:

this episode was really good. I loved it. But i would so love to know how the last soundtrack was called which played as they showed the Fishmen District nearly the end of the episode. Does anyone know how its called?

It's the opening song from the 6th movie. It's a beautiful soundtrack as a whole, imo.

http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=25671

In the Strong World art book, Oda said, "and as far as something that will hold true for both the comic and the anime, this will be Luffy's last adventure as a 17 year-old." That's good enough for me; Oda's effectively saying it's canon.

That being said, it'd have to take place before Sabaody. Also, Sengoku neglecting to mention Luffy fighting Shiki doesn't necessarily or strongly imply that Strong World never happened – just that it didn't come up in conversation for some reason.

This should've been a one-hour special, like they'd do in Enies Lobby. When it ended with Luffy looking at Fake Luffy, it just did not feel complete! :( Otherwise, lovely episode.

Truthfully, I don't think there could've been a better successor than We Go. I loved it. I'll admit, at the very first time, it felt totally alien to me because "We Are" is what I (and everyone else) was used to for the past 12 years. But then on the last "WE GO!!!!!" I was sold, because I realized the song's "charge ahead, no regrets" feeling is supposed to set the stage for Part Two. I think We Are had a "feeling out, exploration, finding your feet" feeling as that's what Part One was very much about: assembling the crew and getting stronger. But now that the Straw Hats are reasonably strong enough, I wouldn't be surprised if Part Two is about charging ahead to One Piece.

So if a new theme song were to become as ubiquitous as We Are, then I think We Go is really the most appropriate song they could have for Part Two. It really respects the crew having grown stonger.

Well, even in very fluid movies, there will always be a smaller "upper tier" of animators who do key frames, and a bunch of "lower" animators who do in-betweens. The difference from less detailed animation is simply the number of frames you can do. So maybe there are a higher number of key frames, or a higher number of in-betweens.

Maybe this image will help:

Consider the bottom images: in each, the left-most, middle (red), and right-most poses would be drawn by higher key animators, and would be called "key frames". Then other lower animators would draw the "in-between" frames that go between the key frames – in this case, the second and fourth poses. In the animation field, they nickname this "tweening".

The in-between frames may be similar quality or poorer to the key frames -- but the more key frames, usually the better the art can be. So a movie can have more key frames. But sometimes, it's just too expensive to do that, so a movie can have a lot of in-betweens, too.

@Sean:

WOW! Just WOW!!! What an amazing episode. I loved the Sanji and Franky part, but Nami's was just SPETACULAR…that song...that song....WOW... which song was that? I think its the first time I'm hearing it.

It's from the ending of Movie 8. Although 80% of that soundtrack was rehashed, the remaining 20% were new just for the movie, that amazing song being one of them.

Nami's part was really, really touching. I love how they're going over the pasts of all the Straw Hats, and I think it makes their intentions perfectly clear for the next two years. Did the manga cover their pasts too?

One way to tell the scenes are definitely new is that they use music from Movies 9 and 10.

@Crossword:

If those scenes you're talking about are the ones I'm thinking about, yes, Tate did animate those.

Wow, then his ability deserves serious props for being able to portray body language like that! The Spandam scene is easily one of the creepiest things I've seen on the show; I can't stop rewatching it and it sends shivers down my spine each time :blink:

I noticed that Hisada and Inoue did 268 together (AD & Storyboards, respectively), and they did such a fantastic job. For one, I thought the shot of the Straw Hats getting on the King Bull was very Mamoru Hosoda-esque – but more importantly, Spandam was so well expressed as a stressed, batshit-crazy man in the last scene. Is that level of motion & expression characteristic of Hisada's work? I didn't expect it; the lineart actually made me think of Tate.

mixed in with other stuff, to refresh your memory.

Does anyone know whether the soundtrack is recorded from a live orchestra, or is it sequenced on computer?