No, no—it was Usopp who beat the ship out of Luffy.

Oof. This episode suffered. Six minutes of recap, including the giant Luffy cut being shown twice within those six minutes. Two minutes or so of fresh G5, and the rest of the episode weaker content that was dragged out a bit. Next week is a recap. Whew. Bit if a roller coaster lately. Expected and reasonable with a weekly show, but still a bummer.

Also, I just realized it’s too late in the arc to do another theme song with Wano images. If they debut one at the end of the arc, it’ll be mostly Egghead. But honestly I’m kind of hoping they just wait a bit and give us the new theme song when Egghesd starts—have it be all Egghead imagery.

Man, One Pace is super necessary for this episode. I loved originally how Shaka reveals that the scholars saved their lives’ work by throwing the books into the lake, which causes Robin to cry. But this shitty episode stuck a flashback scene right in between the reveal and Robin crying, which made it look like she was crying for the flashback scene, not the poignancy of the passionate scholars dying to protect their work.

@G1Ravage:

Already through the Whole Cake episodes. Man, that was fast.

My One Piece rewatch with my fiance just reached post-Marineford. We're at the flashback to Luffy, Ace, and Sabo's childhoods. We're watching on FUNimation's site (well, the TV app), and once the opening changed to "We Fight Together", the video quality seemed to take a nose dive. It's very noticeable when the English text is placed on the screen. The newer episodes seem fine, so I guess it was just something with these particular episodes?

I did this with my then-girlfriend like ten years ago and we still watch the dub together weekly to this day, now married. Have fun! She(?)’s a keeper if she watches all of it with you, lol.

Man, watching episode1015 makes me so excited to hear Kaido in English. The Wano arc is going to be very cool dubbed. I just hope they can slow down the production a little by then to boost back up the quality. I’ve been a little disappointed by the direction lately for the dub, particularly the sound engineering.

Hey! I’ve been doing some research since I’m heading to Japan for a trip soon. Here are things for future travelers looking to do One Piece related events in Japan! These are events and places that aren’t limited events (which usually occur in the summer months).

• Mugiwara Stores. Several of these throughout the country. They’re basically Disney stores, except for One Piece.
• Jump Stores. These have merch from all the Shonen jump properties.
• Kumamoto Statues. In Kumamoto, there are big gold statues of each of the straw hats spread around the city.
• Toei Animation Museum.
• For Figures: Tokyo's Nakano Broadway & Akihabara, particularly Akiba Culture Zone & Radio Kaikan.

There used to be a real life Thousand Sunny, but I think it’s not operational anymore. Same for the One Piece Tower theme park in Tokyo. Do you guys have any other places to add to this list for myself and future travelers?

This clip is so wonderful.

Lord of the coast definitely looks a little animated, but not too bad. I still really like it. Luffy’s fighting needs to be fast, and the arm needs to be elastic, have a really quick and satisfying snap when it moves. Left life-like, more rubber band.

Yeah, I just finished it too. Really distracting that Jimbei sounds weird, and I continually don’t like how none of the character voices have any base. But that last episode was exciting. Awesome that we’re at the halfway point, and it was cool to meet Morgans and Katakuri in the dub.

Crazy how Franky got a six minute fight, but Robin and Brook are getting like two or three episodes for theirs. That Franky fight happened way too fast. A non-manga viewer probably wondered if that was even the end of it.

@MugiMikey said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

@Blake-Bakes-Cakes I remember when I caught up to the anime it was at about episode 240. The dub ever covering anything beyond Skypiea seemed like a pipe dream for the longest time, especially after it was originally taken off Toonami and when the DVD releases just stopped after season 3 with no word from Funimation.

I'm glad we've made it this far.

Don’t remind me of these days. Waiting for Water 7 dub was a nightmare. Two years, I think. Then another two or three years after FI.

Episode 590, the crossover episode with Dragonball & Toriko, is up on Netflix with the dub.

I was really hoping for a FMI Simuldub. :( Guess I can hold out a little hope until we’re three weeks behind. Will be annoying for them to charge on digital for these episodes many months from now instead…

Yeah, I was trying not to spoil for dub-only watchers. There’s a gorgeously animated fight on the next set.

Is it that far? Lordy.

I’m wondering if they’ll slow down even more considering the break and ADR director’s health.

@Nitwit

I was talking about the dub, not the sub.

Man, rough few weeks for OP. Both manga and anime on break, plus it's been a minute since the dub. Any guesses on when a new set will drop? Praying soon; I'm almost caught up with the current episodes that're out. Really looking forward to Luffy's upcoming fight.

They've been dubbing week-to-week for months now. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

The Fishman Island dub would be a great place to start, since all of that content is likely already dubbed and will just need some tweaking. I don't see why they don't do a simuldub for that, at the very least. Even a two week delay would be fine.

@AceLuffy4ever said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

I really wonder if they are just sitting on the completed Egghead dub episodes

They absolutely are. They've strongly implied that they're caught up and dubbing week to week. For whatever reason, they hold off on releasing the episodes.

Yeah, now is the best time to dub the backlog. Really hopeful they’ll do this.

(lol, I think this message board is too small for Tori to know it exists. They’re likely checking social media comments more.)

No OP physical release in January. Still waiting for Dedede & Chainsaw Man, too…