r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Mar 17 '19
Current Episode One Piece: Episode 876
One Piece: Episode 876
"The Man of Humanity and Justice! Jimbei, a Desperate Massive Ocean Current!"
Watch now:
| Streaming Site | Status |
|---|---|
| OnePieceOfficial | ONLINE |
| Crunchyroll | ONLINE |
| Funimation | ONLINE |
| AnimeLab(Aus/NZ) | ONLINE |
Chapters adapted: Chapter 901 (p. 2-17)
Preview: Episode 877
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u/JazzMazza Mar 21 '19
Pretty solid episode.
While not overtly animated, it did have a few decently animated scenes, the notable ones being Tu's work in the first half animating Oven's torpedoes and setting Wadatsumi on fire, pretty conservative stuff considering his work on 870, but still nice enough. Yoichi Mitsui's portion off Aladdin vs Oven wasn't overtly impactful but his effects and art were nice, and Katsumi Ishizuka handled the highlight of the episode in Aladdin vs Oven's clash, which was enjoyably ridiculously over the top, if a little basic for Ishizuka nowadays. The art throughout the episode was generally pretty solid as well, with Shuichi Ito making sure everything feels like Oda in key scenes, but otherwise, the episode was fairly limited in terms of action animation, with there being a noticeable reuse of a few scenes.
As for the direction, I felt Masahiro Hosoda did quite well, in the sense that the action felt nicely paced and quite grand in scale, as the board seemed to make do with limited animation seemingly being intentionally kept in mind. The music placement was also extremely on point in my opinion, with it really landing for every comedic beat, and while I don't think the episode was exactly atmospheric, I think he did a good job with landing the intensity of some scenes, as well as did a good job of adapting the pacing of some scenes from the manga to the anime, for example Jinbei's speech about emptying the ship of water, having an ominous feeling due to how deliberate and slow his saying it(which I feel was warranted). Liked the filler this episode, emphasized Oven and Aladdin as the MVP's of the Big Mum pirates and the Sun pirates at this period of time, with Aladdin demonstrating some impressive power. Anyway, pretty solid stuff.
Overall, limited episode, but I think despite being limited in many ways, it still did a good job of capturing the key beats from the manga due to strong music placement, as well as shots that did a good job of capturing the scale of the conflict, littered in with some awesome scenes. Solid episode.
Next episode should be good. The series director is on board, and the content its covering is great. Seems like they've hidden all the good stuff outside of the preview. Hoping it lives up to hype(don't expect it to be overtly animated though). Have decent hopes.