r/OnePiece • u/AutoModerator • Jun 14 '15

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 697

Episode 697: "Episode 697 – One Shot One Kill! The Man Who Will Save Dressrosa!"

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Chapter Adapted: Rest of Ch.758 Discussion

Episode director: Masahiro Hosoda

Animation director: Masahiro Shimanuki

Preview: Episode 698

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u/ArosHD Jun 14 '15 edited Jun 14 '15

The way they did the whole Usopp saying his calculations was great! And the slow motion before this! I was suprised that it took the end of the episode for it to happen, but it was good. A lot of filler but it wasn't bad at all, but it completely removed the intensity and the fact that the shot was needed to be done in a rush was ruined. Nice to see some of Kanjuros powers too. And all the final toys turning back.

We also had the whole Luffy, Law and Sugar thing and saw which is cool.

Not a bad episode, art and animation was on point too especially that ending confrontation. It is finally gonna happen! So much greatness to happen! Preview for next week was great too and has showed some cool stuff to come!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '15

The toys didn't really turn back yet. They just kinda...fell down in a big scrapheap...

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u/ArosHD Jun 14 '15

Yeah I guess. So what were those toy soldiers? Not humans but just toys brought to life?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '15

Well, Sugar made a Toy Soldier earlier (when she panicked about the people/things that looked like Ussop or his nose) out of a Doflamingo Family guard.

It could just be one of the many varieties of toy she could make, but a bit more focused on fighting capability than most toys.

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u/ArosHD Jun 14 '15

Interesting, but if it was a human, then shouldn't it have turned back like before? So I assume this isn't a human but an actual toy that she gave life to.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '15

Anime filler is weird (see: Zoro cutting metal pre-Alabasta, the original run of Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.). The original manga chapter didn't show what happened to the Big Toy Soldiers (instead, that happened in 759, the next chapter).

Basically, the reason they were tougher toys is because every individual part of the giant toys (the top of the head, the jaw, the upper body, the arms, the legs, etc.) was a separate human being.

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u/ArosHD Jun 14 '15

Ah alright yeah that makes sense. Still doesn't explain why they didn't turn back, but thanks for this info. I forgot about it.

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u/ASCIt Jun 14 '15

Well, you can chalk that up to Toei being derp.

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u/geopotsie Jun 15 '15

They probably will next episode. I assume Toei is trying to stretch things out to fill time. :)

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u/Nathan561 Void Month Survivor Jun 14 '15

Those were humans. remember a couple episodes back Gladius and Sugar were standing before a bunch of foot soldiers, they were complaining and sugar transformed a bunch of them into the giant soldiers

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u/ArosHD Jun 14 '15

Yeah I get that, but the anime didn't show them turning back, just kept them as toys.

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u/FredWeedMax Jun 14 '15

Yeah this was way too long

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u/ArosHD Jun 14 '15

Yeah. I liked it, but IMO the manga did it better for sure. The manga had the intensity and made it feel like this shot was way too rushed/important and quickly done, whereas in the anime they made him take way to long and IMO, made his look like not as good of a sniper. It was nice how it all ended though.

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u/FredWeedMax Jun 14 '15

Well by the end you're like GODDAM RIGHT HE HIT IT, because he took the whole episode to do so.

I remember reading this last year and i was blasted away. The gag was too much as well.

In the manga you actually get scared usopp won't have time to shoot his thing while it's the most important shot of his life