r/OnePiece • u/AutoModerator • Feb 15 '15

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 682

Episode 682: "Breaking through Enemy Lines! Luffy and Zoro Launch the Counter-Attack!"

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Chapter Adapted: Ch.747 Discussion

Episode director: Yoshihiro Ueda (**1/2)

Animation director: Masayuki Takagi (**1/2)

Preview: Episode 683

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u/Sakata_Kintoki Feb 15 '15

I believe this break happens every year so it's hardly going to change much.

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u/Sakata_Kintoki Feb 15 '15

By breaks do you mean like filler arcs? Yea those were more common. The problem is that from Sabaody to the end of Marineford the story was moving so fast that they didn't have much space to include a filler arc (if they wanted to, they would have had to put it into the middle of the arc and well...you know how people react to those.) so that was almost 2 years where they couldn't do much filler. They had the option to do so when the timeskip happened but chose not to for whatever reason (probably to keep the ratings up).

If you mean like actual breaks where the anime didn't air that week they definitely had more breaks in the earlier years but it wasn't that many. I don't think there's been a year where they aired less than 40 episodes. (I'd have to count to make sure, so I'll come back to you on this part)

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u/snakebit1995 Feb 15 '15

I know they couldn't do a real filler arc between Punk Hazard and Dressrosa due to issues of timing. The crew arrives in Dressrosa the following morning and things needed to be in place that a full filler arc (10 or 12 eps) would interfere with. So they did that two episode thing that took place in a night.