So what you're saying is that Prince Loki is going to fall madly in love with Luffy.
Kitsune Inferno
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RE: Official Egghead Thread
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RE: Chapter 1110: Starfall
Shonen Jump sits on chapters for about three to four weeks before publishing them. With that in mind, it suggests that the break is likely in response to Toriyama's passing, and anything Oda does in commemoration will likely come in 1112.
There's a whole subforum for you to baselessly complain about the live action. Doing it here is just in poor taste.
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RE: Season 1 General Discussion
If they spent three multi year production cycles on Wano I would probably die.
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Interviews with Cast and Crew Discussion
Starting a thread up for discussing cast and crew interviews with publications or content creators, especially now that the WGA strike is over and SAG-AFTRA is hopefully not too far behind.
Coming in hot is this excellent deep dive interview Matt Owens did with Deadline, talking about season 1, season 2, Jamie Lee Curtis, "Help me!", why nobody dies in One Piece, and the way they show has been resonating with fans and newcomers alike.
https://deadline.com/2023/10/one-piece-showrunner-matt-owens-season-2-interview-jamie-lee-curtis-1235563095/Expect more interviews in the coming days, especially if the strike ends and our Straw Hats can start doing press.
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RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)
@Cockycent said in Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers):
Couple other characters I haven't seen announced. Maybe they have, but I missed it
Chess and Kuromarimo
Ipponmatsu
Minatomo
Yorki
Miss MondayIf we get a Laboon flashback, there's no way we're not getting a Brook cameo, though it could just be a stand-in
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RE: Chapter 1115: Pieces of a Continent
At some point, we should ask if Oda's writing the Egghead Arc or the Final Saga. I think he's only ever used one of those terms before.
Egghead's goals don't appear to be telling an isolated story and has never explicitly established itself as such, it's always presented to me as a setup arc putting all of the pieces in place for the rest of the final act. We are literally inching through a broadcast to the entire world as we speak, which should speak to its global ambitions. Could it have been organized in a better way? Sure. But I think we're trying too hard to argue that Egghead is something it's not.
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RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)
@Gizmo one of the things I like about Smoker/Tashigi is the kind of grey area they wind up in when they end Alabasta. While Garp certainly falls into that grey area, I think Garp has always been there. Smoker transitioning from his "all pirates are scum" mentality in Loguetown to the version of him that lets Luffy go at the end of Alabasta would be a fun arc to explore that's sliiiightly different than Garp and Koby's complicated relationships with Luffy.
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RE: Chapter 1115: Pieces of a Continent
@electricmastro said in Chapter 1115: Pieces of a Continent:
@Kitsune-Inferno said in Chapter 1115: Pieces of a Continent:
At some point, we should ask if Oda's writing the Egghead Arc or the Final Saga. I think he's only ever used one of those terms before.
Egghead's goals don't appear to be telling an isolated story and has never explicitly established itself as such, it's always presented to me as a setup arc putting all of the pieces in place for the rest of the final act. We are literally inching through a broadcast to the entire world as we speak, which should speak to its global ambitions. Could it have been organized in a better way? Sure. But I think we're trying too hard to argue that Egghead is something it's not.
I recall him mentioning last year that even though he mentions final saga, the manga isn’t ending quickly, so we can just read it comfortably in the meantime.
Reading it comfortably is what I'm trying to advocate for. Even if we're not ending for a while, the mode of storytelling we're looking at now is unprecedented for this series outside of maybe the Reverie arc, so maybe I'm more willing to be forgiving if it's not written in some perfect sequence.
There's also Oda's schedule and output to consider. We've never had fewer chapters per year, or fewer pages per chapter, and that kind of strikes me as signs of struggle--sure, Oda's getting older, he has more on his plate than ever, he's at the height of his global stardom currently, but he's also trying to kick his story into a new gear that up till now has been fairly localized to the covers or the in-betweens of arcs.
It's easy to forget when we're criticizing every little thing that Oda's been writing this story nonstop for 27 years straight, probably constantly outlining only a few chapters ahead at a time, and with the sheer amount of threads being pulled on by this arc, it's easy to see how they might be overwhelming.
I dunno, I guess what I'm getting at is, it's weird to me that we keep comparing Egghead to past arcs, arcs that only bear a passing resemblance to the scope and scale Egghead is going for, and trying to apply the same rules and standards to it, when Egghead is clearly doing something else entirely, and that something else entirely might not entirely be something Oda's used to.
It's not a perfect arc, but I'm enjoying the ride, so it kinda strikes me as odd how much persistent criticism it's getting.
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Crunchyroll Release Discussion / Grievance Support Group
Starting this thread to specifically talk about One Piece on Crunchyroll, since it's not really releasing to DVD, and I feel bad for cluttering the DVD thread with complaints about Crunchyroll. I'll start a Microsoft Store thread when the next release drops, as well as a secondary streaming release thread (Hulu, in particular) when more episodes drop on those platforms.
Linking to this Reddit post because it's been a great source of up-to-the-minute information regarding the release schedule of new batches of episodes: https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1b3tzyo/one_piece_dub_release_schedule_2024/
Mainly starting this thread because I really do not like the Crunchyroll app experience one bit, but it's the most effective way to be up-to-date on One Piece without shelling out 40 USD every few weeks or resorting to piracy.
I'm mostly a dub watcher, but ever since Wano in particular, the official release has not been translating on-screen text, and it really irritates me how inconsistent with providing subtitle tracks for the dub.
Starting with episode 1001, there is no English subtitle track whatsoever for English-dubbed episodes. Before then, some episodes have had multiple English subtitle tracks with one captioning dialogue and the other translating on-screen text. Good luck if you need both.
It's really frustrating how inconsistent they are with the dub release, especially since the Funimation app largely did right by the series, and is now going away. The lack of any subtitles whatsoever for 1001+ is especially annoying.
Latest posts made by Kitsune Inferno
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RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)
@Cockycent said in Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers):
Couple other characters I haven't seen announced. Maybe they have, but I missed it
Chess and Kuromarimo
Ipponmatsu
Minatomo
Yorki
Miss MondayIf we get a Laboon flashback, there's no way we're not getting a Brook cameo, though it could just be a stand-in
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RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)
"Are ya happy?"
Why yes. Yes I am.
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RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)
@Kitsune-Inferno said in Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers):
Season 2 will end with Little Garden. We're actually getting 1 episode of Loguetown, 1 episode of Reverse Mountain, 4 episodes of Whiskey Peak and 2 episodes of Little Garden.
Chopper will only appear in the post-credits.
If one of you says "Whiskey Peak can be cut/merged" one more time, Oda said he'll make it five episodes of Whiskey Peak, he doesn't give a fuck.
Don't say I didn't warn y'all.
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RE: One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio
@Robby said in One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio:
He had a friend compose the music I believe, so that's actually not a Toei thing.
I could be wrong, its been like 15 years since that was relevant information.
Yeah, my bad. I wasn't sure on that fact.
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RE: One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio
@Marcotty said in One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio:
@Kitsune-Inferno said in One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio:
I'm personally interested in seeing what an adaptation of the original manga that is free of those constraints would feel like. Granted, we know that Toei has a hand in this and it won't be completely free of Toei influence, but I would be fairly disappointed if this was just a retread of the original anime.
I mean, what do you even do with East Blue without ruining things entirely? These are some of the smallest arcs that they already got right in every way. Changes in adaptations are fine, but if they aren't better than the choices made by the original, there's still very little reason to justify it's existence.
As far as I can tell, this isn't being marketed to be doing it's own major thing like the Live Action, so big drastic changes wouldn't really be in my expectations.
East Blue just needs the crew to show off their upgraded animation style, sound direction, voices, music, etc etc and hope they do a good enough job to justify continuing. That's pretty much what all this early promotion material is raising my expectations for. Then they can really start digging into things in the Alabasta saga.
Hell, what we all want is for them to just get to Post Timeskip and fix all of those arcs. But because of the nature of things, we're stuck waiting through everything they're gonna mess with pre-timeskip and hope it makes it to what really needs fixing.
I guess tell it with updated animation, music, art, sound effects, voices and stuff and give it its own audiovisual identity that can be used as a blueprint for later seasons. The manga panels themselves can be set in stone but how you move between them can be interpreted in an infinite number of directions. Sure it will be compared to the former anime, and it will be better in some ways and worse in others.
The episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist vs. Brotherhood that covered the same material are a good comparison.
But ultimately, to me, this first season should be primarily about setting the tone and identity of TOP.
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RE: One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio
@Marcotty said in One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio:
I wonder who'll get to do a new remix/cover of We Are.
I think all the other openings are free game to replace, but you don't go without a new version of We Are to start things off, right?
I feel like this is the kind of thinking that holds the adaptation (whether its this one or the live action) back. The more things held to be sacred, the more limited of an adaptation this becomes, and furthermore, the more difficult it becomes to justify its existence.
Things like We Are, Overtaken, the march on Arlong Park, Bink's Sake, the original voice cast, they're all products of the Toei animation, not the original manga. (Yes, I know Oda wrote Bink's Sake in the manga, I'm talking about the instrumentation and melody, which feels like a Toei creation)
I'm personally interested in seeing what an adaptation of the original manga that is free of those constraints would feel like. Granted, we know that Toei has a hand in this and it won't be completely free of Toei influence, but I would be fairly disappointed if this was just a retread of the original anime.
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RE: One Piece anime remake by Wit Studio
@Cinder It's only been picked up for East Blue thus far. My understanding is if it does numbers, it will get additional seasons, likely on a season by season basis, until it's no longer profitable for Netflix.
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RE: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
The dropped DLC was eventually compiled into a novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XV:_The_Dawn_of_the_Future
I'm not sure how much if anything got covered there, I never finished the DLC already available lol.
I did finally finish 15's main story a year or two ago. I felt like the story was mostly nonsensical and not very inspiring, but I really enjoyed the open sections of the game. It's not the most aesthetically pleasing world, but I appreciated the rustic Americana feel to it. Of course, that feel clashed hard with the aesthetics of the rest of the game. But I have fond memories of just driving the car around taking in the scenery.
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RE: Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ)
Or we make different threads for different subtopics?
How are we gonna have a Funimation Media Discussion subforum and post everything in one thread?
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RE: Season 2 (and Beyond?) Speculation Thread (Spoilers)
Yep, I posted about that over in the Interview thread on Friday.
I'd been saying for a while in the Discord at least that we should have probably managed our expectations on JLC. Even setting aside the recent controversies (which have clearly had no effect on the trajectory of her career), nobody in Hollywood works for free, and wanting to fill a role is a long, long way from being available to fill a role. "We'll talk" is never confirmation.
Even "x has been cast by y" Deadline articles are hardly a confirmation anymore. Recasts happen everywhere all the time for a variety of reasons at all stages of production.