One Piece Episode 976 - Back to the Present Day! 20 Years Later
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- Marco, Yamato and the Tobiroppo.
But another 6+ months of this opening 
- When your mother told you to stop making that face or you're going to get wrinkles, Denjiro kept at it until he ascended to Super Kyoshiro Blue.
- Would be funny if Kyoshiro has bad eye sight without his glasses and his menacing glare is just him squinting.
- Why did these two never contact Kawamatsu? Man almost killed himself in Ringo for his failure.
- I hope that wasn't the last unique Wano eyecatcher.
- That noir flashback with the traitor speaking through word cuts like a silent movie.
- So awkward the traitor is formally introduced here after what just happened in the manga. Oda matching up manga developments with the anime increasing these days.
- Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, and Zou reanimated Wano-style. Wow. One Piece Kai still too far away.
Some thoughts on the flashback as a whole. In general, the anime has exceeded my expectations once again as Act 3 is a clear step above Act 2, which improved upon Act 1, which felt like a different studio from Reverie/WCI. Cinematography. Animation. New and rare OST used. So much good stuff in merely ~16 episodes. Something as small as the eyecatchers shows how much love they poured into Oden's story.
There was a rush out of the gate with the first three Oden episodes adapting a lot of content with excellent direction. Things slow down as Whitebeard and Roger enter the picture and lend themselves to enjoyable filler adventures. The return to Wano portion maintained the slower pace and suffered a bit because of it (except Oden vs Kaido) as there was little potential for drawing things out. But there was a flip side. While the Scabbards did not gain much respective to the manga, Whitebeard/Roger/Toki/Orochi/Kaido and even freaking Gaban benefited being fleshed out more with the additional screen time. When even the weaker episodes, which normally just look to waste time and destroy things like jokes or fights in the process, were doing the dirty job of building up characters, you had a quality flashback overall.
I can't believe the director is promising Onigashima will deliver another boost in quality. Constant action to me screams a lot of budget and hard work with corners getting cut for scenes not in focus. But after delivering on Oden, I don't have any reason to doubt them.:cheers:
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- Marco, Yamato and the Tobiroppo. But another 6+ months of this opening
- When your mother told you to stop making that face or you're going to get wrinkles, Denjiro kept at it until he ascended to Super Kyoshiro Blue.
- Would be funny if Kyoshiro has bad eye sight without his glasses and his menacing glare is just him squinting.
- Why did these two never contact Kawamatsu? Man almost killed himself in Ringo for his failure.
- I hope that wasn't the last unique Wano eyecatcher.
- That noir flashback with the traitor speaking through word cuts like a silent movie.
- So awkward the traitor is formally introduced here after what just happened in the manga. Oda matching up manga developments with the anime increasing these days.
- Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, and Zou reanimated Wano-style. Wow. One Piece Z still too far off.
Some thoughts on the flashback as a whole. In general, the anime has exceeded my expectations once again as Act 3 is a clear step above Act 2, which improved upon Act 1, which felt like a different studio from Reverie/WCI. Cinematography. Animation. New and rare OST used. So much good stuff in merely ~16 episodes. Something as small the eyecatchers shows how much love they poured into Oden's story.
There was a rush out of the gate with the first three Oden episodes adapting a lot of content with excellent direction, things slow as Whitebeard and Roger enter the picture and lend themselves to enjoyable filler adventures, the return to Wano portion maintained the slower pace and suffered a bit because of it (except Oden vs Kaido) as there was little potential for drawing things out. But there was a flip side. While the Scabbards did not gain much respective to the manga, Whitebeard/Roger/Toki/Orochi/Kaido and even freaking Gaban benefited being fleshed out more with the additional screen time. When even the weaker episodes, which normally just look to waste time and destroy things like jokes or fights in the process, were doing the dirty job of building up characters, you had a quality flashback overall.
I can't believe the director is promising Onigashima will deliver another boost in quality. Constant action to me screams a lot of budget and hard work with corners getting cut for scenes not in focus. But after delivering on Oden, I don't have any reason to doubt them.:cheers:
