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Blaze_1013
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This is a very out dated view on the anime. Don't get me wrong, some episodes can still be this way, but we now have standard length OPs and EDs and some episodes don't even have opening recaps. Modern One Piece, since Wano which is well over half a decade now, is a VERY different beast from the anime that had been airing the previous decade. |
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James02
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Not always |
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thekingsdinner
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After the previous 6 month break, I figured something like this would happen. It's really the only way to keep up the quality output and actually improve the pacing. A decade ago, the producers wouldn't give a damn about the actual quality of the anime, as long as it was on air every week. Times sure have changed...
I'm gonna look forward to binging the rest of Egghead when it's done. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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This is nuts. I’ve never heard of something like this happening before.
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dragonquiz
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Not sure which jan date, but if its from jan 1 to march 31 then for egghead to finish by dec 28 (if there's no breaks like at all and baring any special sunday nighttime events on fujitv that take over the 11:15pm timeslot) would be 1.33 chapters per ep (standard 17pg + 5/6 pgs from the next chapter)
ep 1147 adapted ch 1113 and egghead ends on ch 1125 so either there's 12 episodes left (1:1 ratio) giving us to Jan 18 or 9 epsiodes left (five in Nov and four in dec) giving us to dec 28. This is going to be interesting to say the least. Now the question is what will air during the break  
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Covnam
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Probably should have happened a while ago, but still nice to see. Hopefully this will provide better pacing and consistent quality.
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WatcherZer
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The amount of recap actually got longer and episodes length got shorter (down from 25 to 23:30) during Whole Cake and continuing into Wano, an they started doing whole recap episodes every 6-12 episodes. Take last weeks for example 0:00-1:40 Intro 1:40-4:08 recap 8 second episode title screen 4:16-21:30 episode 21:30-23:00 Ed 23:00-23:35 Preview So thats 17:14 out of 23:35 minutes new animated content This weeks 0:00-1:40 intro 1:40-3:28 recap 6 second title screen 3:34-21:30 episode 21:25-23:00 Ed 23:00-23:35 preview So 17:56 out of 23:35 new animated content Its actually a high proportion of content at the moment because of really short intro/ed songs. The early songs were mostly 90 seconds though some like the original We Are were 2:10 and when We Are returned for the Moria arc it was increased to a whopping 2:28. Super Powers during the Whole Cake arc was 2:30, Hope during the Wano arc was 2:31. Last edited by WatcherZer on Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:25 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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EmeraldSaucer
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And this does a good job of illustrating how people talk about the OP anime: because there is now a greater degree of condensed sakuga moments people like to assume that things are so different than how they were from the start of the timeskip to Whole Cake. But when you actually look at the numbers as you have, you see that all the core problems that have plagued the anime in varying degrees since like Enies Lobby are still here |
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LucyFan998
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I have. The effort that Toei has put into, especially since the start of Wano, is truly remarkable, and I do appreciate the hard work that the staff have put their hearts and souls into the anime. And when I said better animation, I meant that I expect the animation for the upcoming Elbaph arc, coming in April 2026, to be as good or better than both the Wano & Egghead arcs.
It's true that certain violent scenes and every middle finger moment originally shown in the manga have been censored in the One Piece anime, as for the additional fanservice moments, however, they even toned down the nudity during the bathing scene from the Whole Cake Island arc (episode 827) as well as the bathhouse scene from the Wano arc (episode 931). Even worse, the production committee never or barely bothered to go back and uncensor several moments that have been drastically censored in the anime, which butchers the faithfulness towards the manga, to the home media/uncut release. And I said barely because they did uncensor some of the violence (from what I recall, in episodes 359, 679, and 680) to the home media/uncut release. Yet, why couldn't other moments be uncensored, à la the manga, in the anime as well? I know certain television stations and companies behind any production committee working on an anime don't often allow full creative freedom and proper uncensorship, but that's their problem; it shouldn't be ours. |
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VelvetThunder
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While I intellectually agree with this being a good thing that betters the final output of content, emotionally, I just don't like it. Watching weekly One Piece has been a constant for me for over two decades. It'll just feel wrong to not have it. When Toei had that hack happen a few years ago and had to go dark for a while, it felt super wrong then too. To have that sort of gap be the new normal, just saddens me.
In the chance The One Piece winds up being super successful, I wonder if Elbaf is now the soft limit to how far it can go now. One of the appeals was a more condensed version, but if Toei starts doing that, and with such great animation, who knows? There's a ton of what ifs, and it's like a decade away from happening on an already shaky premise, but I can't help but wonder. |
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Brack
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Detective Conan has been rerunning episodes since 2003 and running remastered episodes since 2006. There's been 10 so far this year. |
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writerpatrick
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They're really trying to stretch this out. I don't expect the reduced number of episodes will improve the pacing. And given how well anime movies are doing lately I think they may spend some of the downtime producing movies.
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Lord Starfish
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I'm seeing slightly conflicting reports on what they've said about the pace moving forward. Some claim they said each episode will be at least one full chapter, but I saw an image that seemed to indicate instead that they were going for one chapter = one episode exactly, and no more.
That said, honestly with how Oda writes One Piece these days, one chapter per episode is usually enough just because of how dense they are. The pacing has started to feel sluggish again in the past three months or so now that we're firmly in the climax of Egghead where there's pretty much just constant fighting and big moments that feel like they should be happening a lot faster than they are, but really, prior to the break I thought the pacing was outright good. And note that most of Egghead pre-break was actually more like two chapters = three episodes. And even after the break, I thought they pretty much nailed the Kuma backstory, and it's only after we returned to the present day again that the cracks started to show. Similarly I feel like as soon as the crew leaves Egghead, we'll be back to a fairly lengthy stretch of material where single-chapter episodes should actually work quite nicely. |
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Greed1914
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The prior decision to do those rerun specials instead of making a filler arc was already a big deal, so it seemed like perspectives were changing.
I think this is a good thing. There were filler episodes, recaps, and things done to fill individual episodes while having the content be comparatively low. It's not exactly a good thing that there are guides for what is "skippable" in long-running shonen series. We've seen plenty of examples of shonen series coming back a year later, and the audience still shows up. I know it is something that comes from the Japanese TV approach of use or lose your slot, but let's be real, are broadcasters not going to give One Piece preferential treatment and make an exception? Ratings will be fine, the audience has plenty of other stuff to watch, and maybe things will be easier on the people making the show. |
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dragonquiz
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if you've read the corresponding chapters ep 1146 - ch 1112, the recap is 1:40 - 2:55 anything afterwards is canon material. ever heard of a prologue right before the ep title drop? its a great tactic for better flow between the recap and the main content (if there is one and depending on the ep director/storyboard director) |
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