One Piece Episode 994 - The Scabbards Face-off - Kikunojo vs. Kanjuro

[RobertoTheOharaSurvivor]

One Piece EPISODE 994
"The Scabbards Face-off - Kikunojo vs. Kanjuro"
爆発！？ヤマトの自由を縛る錠！
Akazaya Ikkiuchi - Kikunojō tai Kanjūrō

Opening 23 | DREAMIN' ON - Da-iCE
Chapter(s) : -

Screenplay | 中山智博 - Tomohiro Nakayama
Art | 大西穣 - Minoru Ōnishi
Animation | 島貫正弘 - Masahiro Shimanuki
Direction | 小山保徳 - Yasunori Koyama
Storyboard | 小山保徳 - Yasunori Koyama

Airdate: October 3, 2021

Episode 995 PREVIEW

OP 23 - TV Size

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[Fuckthis3]

Good episode

 

[Ganja userr]

Decent episode

Holy shit i wasn't expecting Kaido to behead Orochi's head what a savage.

Kanjuro actually plays a good villain and he can draw actual pictures lol remember when we thought in Dresrossa he couldn't draw at all lol

The Kaido/Big Mom scene saying they are going after the "one piece" was pretty bad ass.

 

[JazzMazz]

Direction was insanely good this episode.

 

[Blother Fertitta]

Kanjuro is a bum, no one cares

 

[Fuckthis3]

Jinbei experience his first robin dark humor comedy moment "isn't that a bit dramatic?" "no it true"

 

[kenedyfake]

this episode was bad, filthy animation, filthy censorship

 

[QQH]

Koyama best regular director. Great episode.

 

[JazzMazz]

Far out, this episode did a really excellent job elevating the source material with its direction. Animation struggled a bit, but the use of colours, lighting and imagery helped create a far more emotionally resonant experience than the manga.

 

[Electricmastro]

 

[Lampyris]

• Kaido and Big Mom synchronizing their voices to a big thunderbolt
  
  
• I like that Orochi starts out as an innocent white soul and is beaten and tainted into a vengeful black shadow like his perpetrators.
  
  
• Kaido turns his back on Orochi's rant, cracks his neck, slowly walks over to Momo then sees King offer his sword. He thinks about it...then just says screw everything before grabbing the blade and killing Orochi. Some funny character acting.
• Even Luffy wants that Yamato fanservice already.
  
  
• Kanjuro using ink substitutes, ink projectiles, ink soldiers, his hair as a weapon, personal pleas and fake appeareances to emotionally trigger Kiku. The fight Kanjuro and Kiku deserved.
  
  
• Of course a brush can't block a red lightsaber. Dark side demon Kiku too OP.
• It's literally curtains for Kanjuro. The bleeding sakura and the background turning into a theatrical stage was great.
  
  
• The Kin-Izo bro shake and the 9 shadows walking away with that loud jubilating music are making me tear up here.

An enjoyable episode with two focused halves. It's one of those with a lot of interesting visual flair and creative sequences, good OST choices too, but the art and animation is unable to keep up giving the whole thing a low quality vibe. An example is Orochi's physical execution looking too plain and clean to leave much impact by itself, but seeing his tilting POV then everyone's reactions in red before the head drops on the floor made it a nice moment.

Kanjuro Vs Kiku turned an offpanel into a respectable fight of good length, emotional weight with personal stakes and an even back and forth. When you think Kanjuro is already down and its over anticlimactically, it's one of Kanjuro's shenanigans and Kiku was mentally conflicted over a clone. Similarly, when it looks like Kanjuro almost got Kiku, we see Kiku falling on stage before holding firm and having parried the attack. The episode also sells that Kanjuro is dead here, where as a manga offpanel is a red flag that Oda's not done with him yet. Kiku and Kanjuro's VAs this episode, the ham actor going full Joker and complimenting Kiku at the end, were the icing on the cake.
Next episode looks like a big one. Didn't think Marco Vs Peros was worthy of sakuga.

 

[Electricmastro]

I'm starting to see the family resemblance a little more.

 

[Red Dog]

Damn luffy doest give a shit grabbing yamato shirt like that lmao...nice fanservice toei...

 

[Goodman Grey]

That scene at the end with Kinemon and Izo, and the Scabbards walking together was my favorite part of the episode. The soundtrack really made that scene great.

 

[DarkWitch]

Kanjuro is a bum, no one cares

 

[FreezyBreeze]

 

[Indigo]

King's sword is fucking huge in this episode.

That shit looks more like a Giant Curved Greatsword than a Katana.

 

[Wonderful World]

Very good episode.

It's moments like this that make me appreciate the anime. In the manga, Kiku and Kanjuro's clash was very brief, but the added music and direction made this moment even better.

And the Yamato fanservice was great :cheers:

 

[Orojackson Refugee]

Yamato back with her armpit scene

 

[DarkWitch]

I really enjoyed the Kiku vs Kanjuro fight in this episode, the fight itself was pretty good and also Kanjuro was really fun to watch in this episode during his fight with Kiku.