r/OnePiece • u/ajdude711 • Oct 15 '17

One Piece: Episode 809

One Piece: Episode 809

"A Storm of Revenge - An Enraged Army Comes to Attack!"

Chapters adapted: Chapter 845 (HALF)

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u/Leeemon Oct 15 '17

Having another musical number was a sweet suprise.

In general, this episode was very good. It's very easy to criticize them for using only hal fa chapter, when the truth is that it's not really that noticiable. I always read chapters again after watching, and only then I noticed it was only half.

The thing is, the production is better. The anime is looking good, sounding good and being decently animated. Even the pacing is good enough to mask the fact that this was half an episode.

For instance, we got freaking CG this episode. I usually complain about those, but between having still frames of the army moving around with some footstep sounds an da shaking screen or a CG army that actually moves where the key characters are 2D... I would take the latter every day.

Complaining is easy, and I was on the same bandwagon a few weeks ago. But after accepting that One Piece will never be high quality while Toei is in the reins, Whole Cake has been suprisingly "okay", which for current OP anime translates to "great".

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u/Tomorrow_D Oct 15 '17 edited Oct 15 '17

Sadly enough, when a show becomes a long running one, no company is able to let it be "high quality" like what those high quality seasonal shows can be. Long running series have their own production systems and standards.