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I think watching the anime is worth it sometimes. It really depends. Sometimes the anime works, sometimes it doesn't but the experience is much better when watched in bulk as opposed to weekly. The Sabaody and Amazon Lily arcs were fantastic, for instance, but Impel Down and Marineford lost most of their tension. That being said, once Ace is freed the anime rendition of the arc picks up a lot and seeing it animated is a complete joy. The anime has been great post-time skip for some reason. I think the anime is worth watching so long as you read the manga alongside it. Otherwise, it will be torture. Watching both in tandem, however, somehow manages to compliment whatever gaps the other is missing, and I think doing this enhances the One Piece experience. I honestly can't understand being anime only, but reading the manga and watching the anime are both some of my highlights of the week. Himuro fucked around with this message at Feb 2, 2012 around 09:49 |
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Mystic Mongol posted:I saw Strong World and I couldn't stand it. I couldn't take it seriously after Luffy and co walked into the evil pirate stronghold with the cannons. Counterpoint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aew1Guqufww
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 10:03 |
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Himuro posted:The anime has been great post-time skip for some reason. I loving this poo poo over here
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Himuro posted:I think watching the anime is worth it sometimes. It really depends. Sometimes the anime works, sometimes it doesn't but the experience is much better when watched in bulk as opposed to weekly. The Sabaody and Amazon Lily arcs were fantastic, for instance, but Impel Down and Marineford lost most of their tension. That being said, once Ace is freed the anime rendition of the arc picks up a lot and seeing it animated is a complete joy. I watch the Anime purely because I started with the Anime and then read the Manga, so, gently caress, I watched 500 episodes, I might as well watch one per week from that point forward. But I really, really don't recommend anyone to do so. There are few moments where the Anime is worth it. You should just probably watch Strong World to see the voice acting and then check the soundtrack on Youtube. If you really must check the Anime out to go along with the Manga, get ready for a lot of torture, especially if you read the Manga before the Anime, which means you will start noticing even more how it drags on for thousands of years.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 11:10 |
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I don't think the anime is that bad. It depends on the arc. Sometimes they drag, but sometimes I like the little details they add. The problem is, I think, that One Piece's manga is what I consider to be one of the top 5 comics of all time. Meanwhile, the anime wouldn't even be in my top 20 favorite animes.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 11:23 |
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Mystic Mongol posted:I saw Strong World and I couldn't stand it. I couldn't take it seriously after Luffy and co walked into the evil pirate stronghold with the cannons. Counterpoint: We're talking about One Piece. Mystic Mongol posted:take it seriously These two things do not necessarily overlap. This is generally not a bad thing.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 11:33 |
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Mystic Mongol posted:I couldn't take it seriously Did you take it seriously when the guy ate a magic banana and turned into a giraffe?
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 12:29 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Counterpoint: Come now, if you're going to do that then it's got to be this version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TylGAEai7iI
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Amorphous Blob posted:Could this be the island where Oars died? His froze to death because he was only wearing a loin cloth, so maybe he wandered from the hot section to the cold one. Oars died like a hundred years ago. The island has seemingly only been condemned for four years, so we can assume it probably wasn't this level of hell a hundred years ago. Plus it'd make no sense that just because Oars died there there'd be another dead Oars there still.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 14:06 |
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SGRaaize posted:But I really, really don't recommend anyone to do so. There are few moments where the Anime is worth it. You should just probably watch Strong World to see the voice acting and then check the soundtrack on Youtube. Wow, I really disagree. The anime doesn't start dragging until Enies Lobby and the adaptations of Arabasta and Water 7 are incredibly well-done. Also, the anime has G8, which is the greatest filler arc and all the scans are terrible until after Skypiea anyway. The only issue with that part of the anime is the rest of the filler, which is pretty putrid.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 16:16 |
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Gyges posted:Come now, if you're going to do that then it's got to be this version. 
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 16:24 |
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Don't know how this wasn't posted yet, but Oda showed in the latest SBS a picture of the major marines when they were kids. loving Garp man.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 17:48 |
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Looks like Akainu is gonna have a tragic childhood flashback at some point.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 17:51 |
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Nice to see Kizaru was always a stoner.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 17:51 |
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Poor Brooke, if he had drawn a lucky straw instead of Ussop her could have finally seen Robin's panties.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 18:07 |
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Mystic Mongol posted:I saw Strong World and I couldn't stand it. I couldn't take it seriously after Luffy and co walked into the evil pirate stronghold with the cannons. Do you hate Beams and adventure too?
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 19:07 |
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Ramble time! I'm pretty down on anime adaptations of ongoing manga in general. You always have issues when the story catches up of the pacing becoming really unbearable, and an incredible amount of filler that is impossible to stand. Which is a shame because seeing stuff animated, especially in an action heavy series like this, is always a treat when it is done well. And the way the anime industry budgeting works means that the animation is really inconsistent at times. The One Piece anime suffers from this of course, but I generally find it pretty good, and it is really strong in a few areas. The anime team and voice actors are REALLY on point with the humour and characterisation as the series goes on, and some of the little jokes and flairs they add are great (the whole Sogeking sequence springs to mind). I think the Funi dub also does a great job, I think all the character voices are great (although I hear a lot of people critising the chick who does Luffy, I think it's perfect) and is really worth watching if you like a dub. Way better than that other dub anyways. Too bad I have to get it imported, stupid international copyright laws. That said, there are problems with the anime, the filler is generally pretty poor (except G8 that rocks) and always seems to involve a weird little girl for some reason. And they, quite frankly, ruined the impel Down arc in the anime, I can barely stand to watch that garbage even though it is, obviously, one of my favourite arcs in the whole comic. Cant speak to the parts after Impel Down because I stopped watching my shounen animes altogether around that time. But yeah, since timeskip, the anime has been pretty loving spot on. The whole sequence where Luffy and co escape from Shabondy is phenomenal. I love Garp as a kid, genetics are a powerful force. Prison Warden fucked around with this message at Feb 2, 2012 around 19:11 |
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Prison Warden posted:
Ha Ha, For a second I was wondering what Luffy was doing on a Tiger.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 19:21 |
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The worst part of the anime in my opinion is the Whitebeard War. It drags and drags, and how many goddamn times do we need to see Ace react to something? I honestly wish when it's all said and done that someone would go back and basically do to the series what someone did for DBZ when they did Kai... Except leave Water 8 in it because honestly it's worthy of being canon.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 19:23 |
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Liar posted:The worst part of the anime in my opinion is the Whitebeard War. It drags and drags, and how many goddamn times do we need to see Ace react to something? I honestly wish when it's all said and done that someone would go back and basically do to the series what someone did for DBZ when they did Kai... Except leave Water 8 in it because honestly it's worthy of being canon. Actually someone on Arlong Park did edit down all of Marineford into about fourteen episodes. I would link it here but I assume that would fall under file sharing. edit: And I just found this, someone asked the English voice actor for Sanji to record a couple lines and made something with it. Pretty neat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sIifHV0ldY Scratchman Apoo fucked around with this message at Feb 2, 2012 around 20:12 |
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appletonoutcast posted:Don't know how this wasn't posted yet, but Oda showed in the latest SBS a picture of the major marines when they were kids. Every SBS should just be characters as kids. These are great!
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 20:17 |
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Liar posted:The worst part of the anime in my opinion is the Whitebeard War. It drags and drags, and how many goddamn times do we need to see Ace react to something? I honestly wish when it's all said and done that someone would go back and basically do to the series what someone did for DBZ when they did Kai... Except leave Water 8 in it because honestly it's worthy of being canon. Ace reacting to every little thing under the sun wasn't nearly as bad as the fact that Marineford is apparently the size of Florida in the Anime. Keeping in mind that Ace is being held in Tampa and Whitebeard's fleet lands in Jacksonville.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 20:21 |
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Honestly, I think the anime used to be far, far superior to the manga, for quite a while. And by "quite a while", I mean I would read the manga, and see stuff like Chopper's Monster Point for the first time, and it was great, but then the anime would come along and put the manga to shame; the combination of music, voices, and animation created a moment that had far more weight, tension and emotion than the manga was capable of creating. That was around episode 300, which is the cutoff point, for me, because after that, the manga hasn't be beaten yet, since they hosed up the climax to Enies Lobby by animating it like poo poo, bungled Merry's farewell by going so over the top with it, (I stopped crying and started laughing when that stupid pop song started up) and then they switched from animating multiply chapters per episode to animating one chapter per episode, which just rapes the pacing. They've gotten better at making the anime fit the manga, mostly cause the manga is so jam packed with stuff that they barely need any filler, but there are still moments like when they meet King Neptune, which was maybe two pages in the manga, but when it was animated it had everyone standing around slack jawed for a solid two minutes, which was pretty loving bad, though far from the worst the anime has done. (the worst being basically the entirety of the Marineford War) Anyway, that's the anime today, but the anime when it started was easily the best way to experience One Piece; the filler was reasonably short and often awesome, (extra time spent in Lougetown, more Davy Back fight, the G8 arc, hanging around with Ace in Arabasta) they changed poo poo around to make more sense or to make for better viewing, (like the first time they meet Aokiji, in the manga, he agrees to freeze the entire ocean for one dude who isn't in trouble or anything, he just wants to see his family, while in the anime, he freezes the ocean for a shipwrecked group of 30 something tourists who are trapped on an island with no way to survive, or how about when Luffy met Coby, in the manga it's on a random island, while in the anime it's during a pirate raid on a civilian ship, which paints a much better picture of this being a pirates world) and they made such excellent use of already great music to make some incredibly memorable moments. (gently caress, do I even need to name examples?) So, yeah, when I recommend One Piece to people, I tell them to check out the anime till episode 300, then fall back on the manga, because after 300, the anime fucks up the climax of the best arc and then starts to change how it's made in all the wrong ways.
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I like the anime's intro a bit better (basically the first couple of arcs), since it feels a bit more refined version of the manga. Luffy himself is a bit more of a mysterious figure, which gave a bit more impact to the eventual Shanks flashback. The filler arcs still sucked, but they were short and the canon stuff was pretty much perfect. The filler really is bad though, which is why I dropped it after Arabasta. I still watch it every now and then for key dramatic moments though.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 21:12 |
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Not only was Marineford incredibly small, you didn't get the feeling there was a battle going on, it didn't give this feeling of colossal battle, because we always only saw about 10 people fighting at once. And it was always incredibly spaced out. Yet another department where the Anime hosed up miserably. But yeah, Impel Down is the worst culprit, I remember defending it by saying "Well, I mean, they're probably just saving space to then go ape-poo poo on the War, that's no big deal", and then they hosed the War almost as badly, gently caress you, Toei.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 21:35 |
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Impel Down had its moments. The problem is that in the manga it had a brisk, fast pace. In the anime it was incredibly drawn out. The manga part was great because of the tension and the fact that the locations went by relatively quick.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 21:37 |
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I don't much care about the anime, but the Bink's Sake episode is mandatory viewing. You'd might as well just skip the manga chapter entirely, that's how vital the episode is.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:And by "quite a while", I mean I would read the manga, and see stuff like Chopper's Monster Point for the first time, and it was great, but then the anime would come along and put the manga to shame; the combination of music, voices, and animation created a moment that had far more weight, tension and emotion than the manga was capable of creating. This I agree with you with. I don't give a poo poo about watching regular running around in the anime, but when it comes to seeing the fights the anime excels. Let's face it, the manga can't compete because the manga can only show you a still image and leave it up to your imagination. So it's a picture of Luffy punching someone in the face vs. Luffy steaming, glowing red, moving at 1000 mph, with awesome music going, while punching someone in the face 1000000 times.
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Liar posted:This I agree with you with. I don't give a poo poo about watching regular running around in the anime, but when it comes to seeing the fights the anime excels. Let's face it, the manga can't compete because the manga can only show you a still image and leave it up to your imagination. So it's a picture of Luffy punching someone in the face vs. Luffy steaming, glowing red, moving at 1000 mph, with awesome music going, while punching someone in the face 1000000 times. Mandatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKQ3x52toc
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 22:58 |
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GoatLord posted:Poor Brooke, if he had drawn a lucky straw instead of Ussop her could have finally seen Robin's panties.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 22:58 |
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I think Sanji's nosebleeding days are over. He's cured!
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 22:59 |
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Now that I think about it, aren't all of Usopp's new attacks plant based? If that's so then he really drew the shot straw on this one since all of his plants might burn up instantly due to the heat and fire everywhere.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 23:08 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ13HaQfxZc This should also be required viewing.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 23:16 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfpr...feature=related Also this. And all of G8. There's a lot of good moments in this show.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 23:41 |
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So I ended up watching about 7 episodes of the post time-skip anime and really enjoyed it. Definitely going to watch the rest of it and see how it goes. I don't think I'm going to come close to watching all of the anime but I do watch to check out a few battles. Enel, any of Kuma, Oars vs Luffy, Alabasta etc I only felt the manga dragged on a few places. I don't know what it was but I did struggle a bit through the Skypia arc. None of the people before Enel interested me in anyway so it was a bit tedious reading that.
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MeinGott posted:So I ended up watching about 7 episodes of the post time-skip anime and really enjoyed it. Definitely going to watch the rest of it and see how it goes. I don't think I'm going to come close to watching all of the anime but I do watch to check out a few battles. Enel, any of Kuma, Oars vs Luffy, Alabasta etc Don't forget this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idwSp0oSEbQ And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsGvbvZY90U
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SgtSteel91 posted:Now that I think about it, aren't all of Usopp's new attacks plant based? If that's so then he really drew the shot straw on this one since all of his plants might burn up instantly due to the heat and fire everywhere. He can always pull some Shaman King bullshit and use plants that just happen to be immune or resistant to heat/cold.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2012 00:35 |
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This is a manga where we just saw a plant the size of an island that grows fully cooked meals as bait. I don't think a super-heat resistant plant is that farfetched.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2012 01:38 |
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SgtSteel91 posted:Now that I think about it, aren't all of Usopp's new attacks plant based? If that's so then he really drew the shot straw on this one since all of his plants might burn up instantly due to the heat and fire everywhere. Usopp always finds a way. Plus he's still a sniper, even if Oda seemingly has no interest in showcasing these. Eventually he has to go hide a mile away and pick off enemies... Most likely while singing.
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Rudoku posted:He can always pull some Shaman King bullshit and use plants that just happen to be immune or resistant to heat/cold. I'd be pretty drat terrified if somebody shot a twenty foot tall flaming plant at me.
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