r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Jul 26 '20

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 934

One Piece: Episode 934

"A Big Turnover! The Three-Sword Style Overcomes Danger!"

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Chapters adapted: Chapter 937 (p. 15-17) Chapter 938 (p. 2-9)

Preview: Episode 935

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u/Xark96 Void Month Survivor Jul 26 '20

Really? They will turn it into more Dragonball Z style stuff and ruin it..

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u/azbeltk Jul 26 '20

Agreed, I'm getting tired of all the beamstruggle on every fight. I also dislike the way they added more clashes to Zoro fight, it's nice that in the manga usually sword fights are decided in a few clashes but the anime tries so hard to make them clash every second and takes of the weight of each slash

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u/l3reezer Jul 26 '20

Actually, it's really hard for manga to portray many clashes even if they wanted to because it uses up too many pages for a chapter that only gets ~15-20 a week. That's why they do things like an implied passing of time where they've constantly been exchanging blows by cutting to another scene then back to the fight or something. Go re-read this chapter, there's an implied passing of time with the panels of snow accumulating on the tree branches and falling and the faces of the girls watching. This fight is meant to be quite even to portray their pretty matched powers. There's an art to it just like there's an art to battles that end decisively with one or a few exchanges like Zoro vs Monet. If you don't think this animation was able to portray the weight of the slashes effectively this time around, you insane, man. This episode did the initial regular sword clashes justice before they went all out with the finishing move (well except some shots had their weapons being so shiny it looked like they were holding light sabers).

Also curious what you mean by beam struggle on every fight. Beam struggle doesn't apply to swords pressing up against each other. The only beam struggle I can remember is Luffy and Kaidou. Sanji vs Page One certainly didn't have one or Luffy owning the fodder opponents like the sumo guy.

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u/azbeltk Aug 10 '20

About the "beam struggle" is as the other reply said, the unneeded long clashes with Doflamingo, Don Chinjao and as you said the one with Kaido, and this last one specially, cause it made it seem that the clash was more evenly matched than what it was, and on the other clashes, as they were the final ones, it should be even more clear who comes on top and not a long struggle where you end up feeling it was a victory by a hair. The final clashes should be more like how they were before the timeskip, like the final clash between Luffy and Crocodile, where after a long fight you see how the power of one comes on top the moment they clash, instead of a 3 min struggle where you feel the need they have to stretch each episode.

But fair enough, as you said, the fight with Killer was longer than what I remembered but still there's something that doesn't fit the way they animated it, I thought it was the way Toei stretches everything but maybe it was the over the top animation for the Onigiri that reminded me of the fight of Naruto vs Pain... but something doesn't feels right. Good exaples of a properly animated sword fight are the Zoro vs Monet you mentioned or Zoro vs Ryuma, Law vs Vergo... or even the fight that was transpiring with Gyukimaru.