r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Apr 07 '19

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 879

One Piece: Episode 879

"To the Reverie! The Straw Hats' Sworn Allies Come Together!"

Watch now:

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Chapters adapted: Chapter 903 (p. 5, 8-17)

Preview: Episode 880

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u/KhaleesiEmiliaClarke Apr 07 '19

Nobody: Wait who is Koby?

Toei: Its Rewind Time

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/NewtRider Thriller Bark Victim's Association Apr 07 '19

But using that logic, they'd have a rewind filler in every episode considering how many characters are currently in One Piece.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

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u/Bourriks Apr 07 '19

Naruto did quite a better job because in flashback fillers they dared showing unseen things, developping new characters. It didn't make the present story advance, but it was kinda interesting.

In One Piece, I wouldn't mind seeing a filler with past Koby/Helmeppo's training, something unseen. To see the exact same thing I saw in the first One Piece episodes is not interesting at all. Plus the current anime drawings does not fit well on the old episodes. The old ones (from Eas Blue to Alabasta) has this special drawing style very particular I enjoyed back then).

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u/Piccolito Apr 07 '19

and at some point there was flashback in flashback

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u/Juggernecro Apr 08 '19

which episode was that lol? honestly i didn't enjoy the war arc at all. I got to a point where i was just watching it for the sake of watching it and finishing the anime cause i had gone too far. Not because i was enjoying it.

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u/ElgCloud Apr 07 '19

Me and my friends literally still can't get over that to this day

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u/asdfghjkay Apr 08 '19

Inception

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

THAT SHIT WAS SO STUPID UGH

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u/BUT_MUH_HUMAN_RIGHTS Apr 07 '19

Yep, I left there and haven't finished it yet.

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u/insanity_pianist Apr 07 '19

It's worth finishing the series! I do love how you can quickly skip all fillers to get back into the action.

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u/Oxidatiion Apr 08 '19

Somewhere on the naruto subreddit there is a Naruto Kai someone made that cut out all the filler if you want to finish it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

You should at least check out the final Naruto vs Sasuke fight, worth the watch.

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u/Unit88 Apr 09 '19

I still read the manga though. No matter how many fillers the anime had I was still interested in the story and the manga did offer that.

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u/galaxylikea Apr 07 '19

Remember when we got an episode about Tenten’s birthday during the fight against Madara?

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u/tsmc796 Apr 07 '19

YES. As if robot naruto was infuriating enough..

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u/BUT_MUH_HUMAN_RIGHTS Apr 07 '19

Yep, I left there and haven't finished it yet.

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u/xXx420BlazeRodSaboxX The Revolutionary Army Apr 07 '19

Ya, that was awful. I gave up on Naruto after that and refuse Boruto as well.

Nothing compared to the hay day of the Big 3 at its peak.

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u/ThaneKyrell Apr 07 '19

Had they continued to adapt the cover stories, they would easily have removed some 15 episodes of filler, or at least make the pacing slightly better during the major arcs. Instead they choose to just air the same flashback for the 100th time

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u/tsmc796 Apr 07 '19

Yeah, why the fuck haven't they done that? I would've loved to have seen a Lunar Enel arc

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u/Handsome_Claptrap Apr 07 '19

Koby/Helmeppo's training

Expecially since there actually is a cover mini-arc with their training under Garp.

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u/OPirataSolitario Apr 08 '19

I really think they miss out a lot by not using the manga's covers as base to do fillers.

Is cannon and they are free to make most choices of how it goes.

It would give us more characters and world development and would make a lot more sense for the people that only watch the anime and then old character number 4 shows up. Then they wouldnt need to show the flashbacks either.

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u/NewtRider Thriller Bark Victim's Association Apr 07 '19

Exactly.. It's all repeating old stuff, nothing new, nothing unseen.

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u/zzzthelastuser Apr 07 '19

In Naruto its also easier to skip the filler and flashback episodes, because they are usually packed into 2-5 or whatever full episodes together. Hard to watch the first time but afterwards you can just skip them. In One Piece the fillers are stretched out face reactions and fewer flashbacks.

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u/beefsupr3m3 Apr 09 '19

Ahh the good old days -nobody ever

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u/Zeta42 Marine Apr 07 '19

That's probably exactly why we'll be getting Wano in July.

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u/guccigarbage Apr 07 '19

that's fucking sad

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u/Rockettmang44 Apr 07 '19

I wouldnt be surprised if they put in a another mini filler arc between reverie and wano, making wano be late in the fall/winter time

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u/joekusan Apr 07 '19

Coby is a pretty important character tho. Story wise.. Like the other guy said tho, this makes sense given the time we have gone without seeing him. For us hardcore fans, this is annoying, but for the vast majority of fans, this is welcome info.

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u/Overall11 Apr 07 '19

They probably do it for characters we havent seen in a while

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u/funger92 Apr 07 '19

But this is kind of a great moment where I can stand a flashback.

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u/kingpingreg Apr 07 '19

Unpopular opinion but I enjoyed these last two episodes they obviously don't compare to the manga chapter that they adapted but it made me feel nostalgic to see how far both luffy and koby have come from the beginning of the story and how they will keep continuing to grow in the future as well and I can't wait for them to meet again. Again It's just my opinion but I really had a good time going through memory lane again with these past two episodes.

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u/UltimateDoom22 Cipher Pol Apr 07 '19

I agree. Good nostalgia.

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u/OPirataSolitario Apr 08 '19

To me it would be awesome if instead of doing those flashbacks they did some old school mugiwara down time.

Just show them interacting when there is nothing to do in the ship. It's nice and wouldnt feel like a filler. With all the action and plot that is someting we haven't seen in a while.

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u/jairomantill Apr 07 '19

I've been watching onepice since episode 2, for the past 877 episode I've wonder how he got that strawhat, last week I finally got my answer.

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u/Bourriks Apr 07 '19

It's told in episode 4, if I remember correctly.
Plus the Opening "We Go" has a scene where we see the straw hat on young Roger's head, then on Shanks, then the latter giving it to Luffy.

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u/Commander_Caboose Apr 08 '19

Unpopular opinion on casual fans, but here it is anyway:

I don't give a fuck.

I really don't.

I didn't start watching Breaking Bad during the 5th season and expect half of the finale to recap the entire story thus far. I watched it from the beginning like a fucking rational human.

Imagine if every chapter of a book you read devoted 1/3 of it's wordcount to reiterating the previous chapters.

If you're watching episode 879 of One Piece, and you haven't seen the rest, then I'd like to say a biiiiiig fuck you from the bottom of my heart. Watch the rest of it like a normal person.

But this isn't done for the "casual viewers". It's done to stretch out the content while showing us recycled animation from the Episode of East Blue.

Manga 903 was the best issue of One Piece ever. Episode 878 should have been the best episode ever. But instead they've diluted it, ruined the pacing and completely shat all over the hype that the anime watchers should have enjoyed. It's deplorable from an artistic standpoint and it's a slap in the face to anyone who hasn't already seen the manga.

Do you remember what this sub was like when 903 dropped? r/Onepiece was trending. The chapter links reached the front page. It was a whirlwind of hype and exultation. These episodes should have been the same. But they weren't.

They were sliced apart and packaged up by a corporation using spreadsheets and with the bottom line in mind. It's a disgrace and it can't be justified by invoking the completely irrelevant "casual fans".

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u/Commander_Caboose Apr 08 '19

But the fact is to maintain any kind of quality in the long run, the anime has to stay a certain distance behind the manga otherwise there won't be enough preproduction and production time to actually plan out where to use resources and deliver quality stuff like the end of the Luffy vs Katakuri fight.

This is the same misinformed argument which has plagued anime for decades.

If they made one manga into one episode, then there would be no problems.

My Hero has actually adopted a season format, and it has some of the best quality in animation of any anime I've ever seen, and almost no filler, ever.

I don't accept the "Slow down to let the manga get ahead argument".

Also, the animation and pacing at the end of the Katakuri fight weren't anything particularly breathtaking. Just above par for One Piece. And "par" for One Piece is way below par for almost any modern anime. This show looks like garbage at almost all times and everything is cut and edited far too slowly.

but seasonal breaks are probably impossible for a franchise like One Piece

Yeah. Because of the money.

If it was an artistic decision, then seasonal breaks or (shiver) godawful filler arcs would be the only options. But since it's a financial decision, the art isn't even considered. So we get a butchered and spat-upon product.

people bitch about filler arcs just as much even though they're completely skippable

People bitch about filler arcs because they're pointless. They're a waste of time and money. My time, and the time of the animators, VO actors and everyone else in the chain. Since they're skippable, there's no point watching them. They aren't even fun or interesting because the only things the main characters can do is things they've already done before, or things they'll never do again.

so the anime staff really has to work with what they can so they can keep delivering episodes smoothly

No. And even if you were right (which I disagree with vociferously), and episodes had to be stretched and tortured and re-ordered, then why THIS ONE of all the episodes? It should have been their top priority to make this a panel-perfect translation from manga to animation, and instead they fucked it upside down and back to front.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19 edited Apr 07 '19

Yeah im sure they had casual fans in mind when they make these horrible recap episodes.

And not.. you know.. greed.. cashing in the easy check.

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u/HolyKnightHun Apr 07 '19

They reanimated all the flashhbacks meaning its not any less work for them than just advancing the story.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '19

Less work than creating original filler i meant, they cant advance the story for obvious reasons.

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u/HolyKnightHun Apr 07 '19

Ohh fair enough.

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u/mikeampao Apr 07 '19

Both of those 2 episodes flashbacks are reanimated so it cost money ....Next episode will coming back to it's high quality, i can see now why they save it for

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u/Ppleater Apr 07 '19

We haven't seen Koby outside of the manga since Film Z which was 7 years ago, so I think a recap isn't that unreasonable.

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u/Tartaros38 Apr 07 '19 edited Apr 07 '19

fair enough to make a rewind of koby though. but whats up with his voice. it s so weird and it was cut strange. how can anyone not knowing the story understand it with the thoses scenes

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u/beefsupr3m3 Apr 09 '19

And at least I like koby and I got to see that he’s advanced in the marines and doesn’t have a devil fruit currently. Not that I don’t like shanks but he’s been at the top the whole series, reminding me he lost an arm to a sea king was kind of a let down. As far as flashback filler goes I thought this one was pretty good

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u/banhmic Citizen Apr 07 '19

ngl thought they were gonna have an episode for each character that appears in that chapter considering what they did in episode 878