Horrible episode. There were various parts where I was tempted to just stop watching half-way, and I don't get that often. Everything they did in this they could easily have fit in before the eyecatch… the stretching and art just makes it painful. :-(

Who's with me on hoping they animate some new Boss Luffy episode specials? I hated them at the time, but right now, I feel those would be perfect to deal with this... mess. Also, Hody teeth really look weird near the end; they're drawn way differently from earlier in the episode.

After seeing the mess these two manga were these week, I don't think I'll ever complain about One Piece again. Not even about the flashbacks. Who could have thought it could get this bad…

You totally forgot Tyrannosaurus, I think. Or did I miss his glorious entrance?

Great job as always. ^_^

They are afraid of losing the timeslot. As long as they pump out new content, they get to keep the time slot; that's basically what it comes down to, and why they prefer to pump out tons of (shitty) filler episodes over taking the risk of ending up in a shitty timeslot in a future season.

Omg, finally a Lassoo! And the rest of Baroque Works. Tabasco Boshi, you are a monster amongst Toris. Lucci's got nothing on you. xD

@Nia:

So THAT'S how I could have done Lasso …. so simple. So awesome.

You can still do Buzz? xD Although, let me add a request for that nutty pirate owner of his. :D I love that pair.

Bitchy sexy lady that kicks kittens, puppies and other cute animals, or liar that prefers to run away and has a habit of annoying me in as many gags as there are gags that he is awesome in?

Hancock-sama for sure. Sorry Usopp, but I've never been able to forgive you for being such an annoying douche throughout the episodes upto Water 7. After that, you became tolerable. What Hancock lacks in plot development she makes up for in the utter ridicule of being the only lovey-dovey character in One Piece to date. (Sanji and Brook don't count; they're perverts. As is Franky, be it of a different sort.)

This chapter was so awesome I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Words defy description.

The SanjiNami power-up grope.
Three-way Alliance of Awesome.
Pouty Tashigi.
Robin getting recognition.
Luffy's expression at various points, as well as the 'going crazy' comment.

Dangit. I want MORE.

Crappy episode that had some good parts. But what stood out for me was that horrible flashback of less than five minutes earlier, and the fact that they didn't even bother to animate that Van Der Decken threw those knives. It was just a different variety of pan shot. Oh, and Sanji's legs looked really weird during the Gomu de L'Air Shoot, which didn't help either.

The Hody battle scenes were animated decently, but that's pretty much all that was good about it.

I actually enjoyed this episode. There was no facefault that made me facepalm, which is a lot to ask from Toei nowadays. That alone made me satisfied. Throw in the nice animation to the Luffy-Hody fight (even though the 'I'm rubber, so that does not work on me!' is pretty old at this point), and the fact that Decken was bloody marvelous, and I am satisfied. That seiyu especially is totally bonkers; I loved it. Why the hell isn't he the main villain?! :(

That said… I don't get why people complain about Noah; its sluggishness was as much a 'problem' in the manga as it is in the anime. The thing is HUGE, it has a huge mass and thus slow momentum, and thus it can do tons of damage. If I were Shirahoshi I'd just have gently touched down on the thing and have guided it somewhere safe rather than swimming away from it! To me, the fact that the animators showed us that it turned slowly, and generally lives up to somewhat normal physics, means that the eventual wrap-up is that much more impressive.

So I decided I wanted to make a tiny contribution of my own. Since I am not at all artistically inclined, I figured I'd work out one of the things I've been wanting to do in a while.. and Tabasco Boshi provided me with the perfect fodder material, so thanks for that. :wub:

The only problem I ran into is that the filesize is a big pain in the hattori, and as such it was clear pretty quickly this wasn't ever going to be avatar material (as I originally wanted it to be, coo~) that I pretty much decided to go for smoothness of animation and general quality all the way… so instead I present to you, hidden in a spoiler-tag because these images are about as big as 90 separate ones... (Oh, and pngcrush keeps breaking the animation, so I don't even get that benefit... :()

! The Super Hattori Introduction Sequences! (Because all Super Heroes get one of those awesome single scene shots when they first enter the scene in their awesome battle outfit!)
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! I made a few other versions that pause on the relevant hattoris (since the above is way too busy to use as an avatar) but I realized apforums is probably gonna rape my webspace with just the single image… so yeah. The above will have to suffice unless I find a hoster that doesn't discriminate against fat hattoris. Perhaps I'll make another version with a bumper transition between fruity hattoris at some point, but at this point I'm fed up with fighting this silliness. :)