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SandyCat said:
How do you milk an anime for over 1,000 episodes what the fuck
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At some point, Toei started adapting 1 chapter per episode and just stretched scenes out or added filler to meet the run time.
Like, look at this shit.


Almost 3 minutes to adapt a single page of a 19 page manga chapter. 3 minutes of my life I won't get back.
 
SandyCat said:
How do you milk an anime for over 1,000 episodes what the fuck
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Toei pacing. There are certain arcs in post time skip one piece that have more episodes than chapters which I don't think any anime has ever done before (Dressrosa's manga arc is about 100 chapters while the anime is 118 EPISODES). The One Piece anime doesn't respect your time and anybody interested should just read the manga instead and catch the cool moments when you get to them animated. Or watch One Pace whenever that is fully finished for all of One Piece.

The typical post TS episode up until recently where things have improved if you could believe it is:
2:30 intro, 1 minute longer than standard
5 minutes of recap footage
1 new scene
5 more minutes of recap/flashbacks
another new scene
3 minutes of recap
TO BE CONTINUED
 
Trollblade69 said:
Is there a pun behind the word "Selector"?
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It's not specifically a pun so much as it's weird Engrish at worst, since the entire point of the game is to select. Though A: that term shifts between series as the game does and B: [spoilers] the game is rigged anyway.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Toei really didn't want to fuck with the One Piece OPs for some reason (which is fine by me, nearly all of them slap).
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Yeah all of the OPs up until like 16 are bangers and earworms, but you can't deny that they were totally kept that length to pad for time. As soon as their production stopped being completely shit with Egghead (or earlier I don't 100% remember), the OPs went to being the standard 1:30.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Dude better hurry with getting a quasi-ending laid down if he doesn't want to Miura his story. I wonder if they'd puppet One Piece's corpse to keep the gravy train running like they have Berserk's?
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Oda's only 50, he's got a decade left before I would start to get worried. Even Miura made it to 54. I doubt we'll see One Piece make it to the 2030's, and I'm still thinking the ending will drop sometime in 2027 to coincide with the 30th anniversary.

They would absolutely puppet One Piece if Oda died, the difference is Oda has given specific plot points he wants to end on; as opposed to Berserk where we're getting "I think I know where he was going with this..."
 
SandyCat said:
How do you milk an anime for over 1,000 episodes what the fuck
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I find it amusing people shit on One Piece for that so much...but it's not even in the top fifteen anime series by episode count.

General Kalani said:
Am I the only one who hopes one piece doesn't get a sequel when the manga for it ends?
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Not a sequel, no, but it'd be neat to see things in more detail that only got eluded too, like the backstory of certain characters such as Kid and Killer. Their backstory could easily be a small (not even double digits I mean) series as an example.

Gimmick Account said:
Okay everyone has my permission to shit on it now. That ad break interstitial alone was so fucking embarrassing that I'm not sure whether this season is some kinda tax scam.

PS: I'm rewatching S1 and you already know what I'm gonna say but it feels like I should be reporting some sort of crime, anyway.
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Boy do I wish I had been wrong from the star. I'm morbidly curious to see how a proper, full action sequence will be. They can't get around it in the next episode.
 
Lone Star said:
I find it amusing people shit on One Piece for that so much...but it's not even in the top fifteen anime series by episode count.
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That's technically true, but pretty much all those long-running anime are family or kid-aimed comedies or slice-of-life with no continuous plot. They're a sort of background presence in Japanese culture, and have no real cultural presence outside Japan, except maybe Doraemon. A lot of them only have 5 or 10 minutes episode too, rather than full half-hour. Once you discount all of those, Detective Conan and One Piece are the longest-running anime by a large margin that have serialized plotlines and that nerds outside Japan might actually care about.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
What kind of jokes they cut? The series looked great but it felt too forcibly "strange but wholesome" with very little in actual comedy.
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I can't give an accurate guess as I dropped the anime early on, but for the four or so episodes I watched the anime skipped over a lot of the wackier/comedic chapters. The four chapters they skipped over from vol. 1 (chapters 1 & 2, where Nagumo gets her job, and also 4 & 5, introducing the police officer and the landlady) were particularly glaring as they throw out a good chunk of the establishing characterization for Nagumo and the Landlady.
KyoAni also cut a few small jokes from chapters the anime did include, like Niikura reminiscing about Nagumo not including the punchline (at the end of the scene Niikura decides to give some money to Nagumo as a gift, only to find Nagumo had already stolen it), and (this one caused me to drop the anime) the first on-screen game of the soccer team being reduced to a split-second shot during an entirely different scene (the one where Niikura chases the cabbit, iirc).
I was looking forward to seeing everything I pointed out here animated, so seeing KyoAni skip over pretty much all of it really disappointed me. Maybe KyoAni doubled back and covered a lot of these skipped chapters later in the anime, but I doubt it.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I think some spin-offs like the Ace and Law light novels may occur if Oda has enough material that couldn't make it into the story-proper, but I believe he's on record saying he'll be done with manga once One Piece ends.
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One Piece has taken a massive toll on Oda's health thats for sure.
 
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