Forum - View topicNEWS: One Piece Anime Reduced to 26 Episodes a Year Starting Next April, After 3-Month Break
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Nionel
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That's wild. I never thought the last holdout of the long running Shonen would drop to a two cour per year schedule. It's truly the end of an era.
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Flared
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So the last remnant of the weekly shonen anime of old finally buckles.
It was inevitable, but this will only improve the quality of One Piece going forward. |
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WatcherZer
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There's only about 18 minutes of content in each One Piece episode anyway, theyve always relied on long intro and outro and upto six minutes of flashback to pad the running time. I think theres been a couple of extreme examples over the years when only 11 minutes of an episode was new footage.
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The Azure Wolf
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I remember seeing discussion on this very site about the idea of One Piece going to a 2-cour schedule and it being dismissed because One Piece is Toei's golden goose. That was 10 years ago.
The change to prioritize quality over quantity is simply insane to think about. Serious W. |
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Iritscen
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After watching an episode of the Whole Cake Island Arc where nothing happened for the entire 22 minutes except the Straw Hats getting chased by Big Mom while she repeated the words "Wedding cake!" over and over... I'm ready for this change.
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Mavado
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Feels like something that should have happened years ago.
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Tiago97
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Actually a single anime episode does not, in fact, adapt a single manga chapter. The Wano arc for example has 149 chapters and 191 episodes. Whole Cake wasn't so bad, with 95 episodes for 78 chapters. So the average is actually less than a chapter since around 2014.
Anyway I'm very curious if they will continue with the abridged versions of arcs. Dressrosa is probably the arc that needs it the most. |
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Motagij
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Myself, I never had any problems with One Piece anime, and its pacing, fillers, etc., but this decision simply makes so much sense in the current era of anime.
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That Little Rapscallion
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Seems too little, too late to do something like this.
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BaronViolet
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I am hoping this leads to adaptations of the cover stories. Much better than random anime only filler.
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Pokenatic
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Detective Conan is the last holdout unless they’re doing something similar soon. That said, as someone who’s only watched One Piece episodes from well before the “one manga chapter per episode” era (but has seen an episode or two of said era), yeah, this change is definitely LONG overdue. I recall from literally a decade ago that Toei’s entire animation output was pretty much buckling back then from them being overstretched and One Piece was already in this pacing hell. |
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Silver Kirin
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What do you mean by that? I have a friend who is up to date with the One Piece anime and even he admits that the anime drags out several parts of the manga. I'm not so sure if Toei had considered changing One Piece's anime production in the past, but if I'm not mistaken I believe the idea of a seasonal manga to anime adaptation is a quite recent phenomenon, maybe Attack on Titan was one of the first, but I think My Hero Academia was the one that made it popular Speaking about non-stop shonen manga adaptations, does this means Detective Conan is the last of its kind? |
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Sekaro
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This is a welcome but LONG overdue change. I quit watching the anime during the dressrosa arc because it was super dragged out & there were a lot of recycled shots especially during the tourney portion of it. The current arc in the series isnt even anywhere finished so this had to happen at some point.
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Top Gun
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I know a lot of people will be praising this news, and I also know it's probably necessary, but it's still fundamentally sad to me. I've been watching new One Piece episodes on a weekly basis ever since I first caught up back in college...which is approaching 20 years ago at a terrifying pace. It's been a weekly presence for nearly half of my life, no matter what else was going on at the time. It's going to hurt having months straight where that isn't the case.
That being said, the writing was already on the wall for a move like this. Even before that long gap right in the middle of the Egghead arc, the anime has been showing recaps every 5 or 6 episodes since the Wano arc. Between those and natural weeks off, we're probably not that far north of 26 episodes per year as-is. The Toei team has been absolutely killing it for the past couple of years--seriously, if you put some of these action scenes on a big screen and charged admission no one would bat an eye--so if this gives the animators time to rest and continue that amazing work, that's a very good thing. I just hope they don't bother with one of those abridged arcs again, because the Fishman Island one was...not great. |
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Tiago97
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They really had the opportunity to do the definitive version of Fishman Island and instead they cut out stuff from the manga and had some really weird editing choices. It was a wasted opportunity for sure, but I still think there's value in the idea of re-editing those older episodes... There's a reason why the fan edit One Pace is seen by many as the best way to watch the anime (not that I agree). |
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