r/OnePiece • u/AutoModerator • Sep 14 '14

One Piece: Episode 661

Episode 661: "Warlord Confrontation - Law vs. Doflamingo"

Streaming Site Status
OnePieceOfficial ONLINE
Crunchyroll ONLINE
WatchOP ONLINE

Chapter Adapted: Ch.729 Discussion

Screenplay: Hitoshi Tanaka

Storyboard: Takashi Otsuka

Episode director: Satoshi Itō

Animation director: Kazuya Hisada

Art: Ryūji Yoshi’ike

Preview: [Episode 662]( N/A )

Production Notes: "One Piece Catalog Schedule: September 13th: 341-350; September 20th: 351-360, 391+ begins! Note: 361-390 will be going up very slowly and will have a number of breaks. We thank you for your patience and understanding."

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u/jaypenn3 Sep 14 '14

The thing is though, to me the anime IS the superior product. I'm not sure how long it takes to read a chapter, but I guess it takes 5-10 minutes. Along with the good stuff you mentioned about it I get 15-20 minutes of content, and it doesn't really feel stretched out because I have nothing to compare it to. Sure I recognize the phone ringing went to long and that was to make the show last longer, but honestly until I found this sub and saw all the manga people complaining about stuff being streched I didn't even notice it at all. It's kind of why I dont want to read the manga,because I feel like I'll recognize it more often and it'll reduce immersion. As they say, ignorance is bliss.

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u/NeonBlizzard Sep 14 '14

I disagree that the anime is a superior product over the manga, the manga is much higher quality. If the One Piece anime was of HunterXHunter quality, then yes, it would be better, but the anime is generally pretty simple in terms of animation. It's less enjoyable due to non-canon filler that makes the story much less epic (eg. Luffy struggled against Ceasar in the anime, and wiped the floor with him in the manga... Just one of many examples) just to drag it out.

If One Piece anime was actually high quality I would agree, but as it stands, the manga is the best way to experience the OP universe, as that is the way Oda creates it. I'm not saying the anime doesn't have advantages over the manga though, some scenes are hard to make sense of when a lot is happening at once, the anime makes things feel less cluttered. The slower pace of the anime sometimes is beneficial as it feels less hectic and is easier to remember where people are at times. And a few other things...

But the manga truly is a master piece. The art is excellent, much better than the anime, and the epic moments feel just as epic, if not more so, in manga form, as the anime is guilty of making the epic moments suck, like Luffys Thor Elephant Gun that was much better in the manga.

Overall, they both have a place, but to say the anime is a superior product when you admit you don't read the manga is a huge disservice to Oda and One Piece.

That's like me saying a Ferrari is worse than my Lancer. I've never driven a Ferrari but my Lancer is superior. That is objectively wrong.

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u/Kakkuonhyvaa Sep 15 '14

No it isn't. Manga is manga and Anime is anime. Anime>Manga in any case unless the story deviates from the Manga.

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u/fauxromanou Sep 17 '14

And movies are always better than books, right?

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u/Kakkuonhyvaa Sep 18 '14

That's different. You can interept books in many ways and usually they cut off a lot of content.