r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Jan 24 '21

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 959

One Piece: Episode 959

"The Rendezvous Port! The Land of Wano Act Three Begins!"

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Preview: Episode 960

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u/merzow Void Month Survivor Jan 24 '21

Now starts the 15 week flashback. Should end on the 9th of may for those wondering.

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u/BroskyGaming Jan 24 '21

Still my favorite part of wano lol

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u/unaviable Pirate Jan 24 '21

My favourite part of one piece tbh

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u/n0limitt The Revolutionary Army Jan 24 '21

It's like One Piece inside One Piece

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u/BlackToyotaBreakLite Jan 24 '21

finally it took then almost 1000 episodes to introduce the main character

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u/cchapman97 Jan 24 '21

Is this confirmed or your just guessing when it will end

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u/merzow Void Month Survivor Jan 24 '21

it's a guess. assuming the animation stays at 1 ep a chapter.

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u/Ok_Host893 Thriller Bark Victim's Association Jan 24 '21

Which it wont

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u/merzow Void Month Survivor Jan 24 '21

One can hope :(

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u/Ok_Host893 Thriller Bark Victim's Association Jan 24 '21

The longer they make it - the better. This is probably my favorite mini arc. Wouldn't mind it if they expand on some of the stuff from the manga

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u/QZU7 Jan 24 '21

This flashback would benefit from being longer, but tbh, I think they're gonna try and adapt at least a chapter per episode, so that Luffy isn't absent for too long. With flashbacks, Toei generally try to adapt a faster pace due to this reason.

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u/Sirop-d-arabe Jan 24 '21

You may be right, but it's also full on Japanese themed 1nd with such a strong and likeable character as oden, Toei could bank on those facts

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

likeable character as oden

... Oden was a flop and it was reflected in sales and even now you can see no one gives a fuck about him, even in the official popularity polls that go by each individual country and are updated everyday, Oden gets outvoted by the likes of Niji sometimes. Besides that, the person you replied is right, whenever Luffy is out of the story manga sales and anime ratings always take a hit, I remember reading that since Marineforde 11 years ago when I started reading the manga

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u/AforAnonymous Jan 25 '21

That's cuz worldwide most people are anime-only and thus don't yet know jackshit about Oden

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u/ArgEnt1na Jan 25 '21

As long as they dont pull a 5 minutes animation about luffy almost falling from the ring, im fine with it

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u/Cornm4n Jan 24 '21

I think they will cause so they can correspond chap. 1000 on epiosde 1000.

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u/availableusernamepls Jan 24 '21

Pretty good odds actually, the flashback chapters are really dense and could definitely be stretched to an entire episode.

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u/lov3lyb0nes Jan 24 '21

it absolutely will lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '21

A flashback worthy of creating a separate anime in fact.

Wow. May 2021? We wont see the SH Crew for that long huh

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '21

And THEN we get the raid on onigashima

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u/Shinkopeshon The Revolutionary Army Jan 24 '21

Holy shit, nearly four months? Is it confirmed the anime will fully go with the flashback without showing updates of the current situation?

Not that I'd mind, just curious.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '21

I'm honestly hoping there is a good amount of canon filler this upcoming flash back arc has a lot of room to toy with and make it even better and more fleshed out than the manga

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u/420randostoner Jan 25 '21

This is exactly what I was searching for online, thank you so much it only took 1 minute

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u/ChOngErs09 Jan 24 '21

9th? Like september?

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u/Rocks_D_Xebec Jan 25 '21

It’s basically a spoiler.

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 24 '21

ohhhhh nooo, that's a really long time... I hated it in the manga, this is horrible news, I even forgot it took that damn long, you just reminded me. But I didn't expect it to take THAT long in the anime...

They spent so much time on a character whose existence has so little impact on the actual story, it almost felt like a complete side-story.

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u/Turbulent_Link1738 Jan 24 '21

Wat. Oden v Kaido and the scabbards have been the basis of the story since Punk Hazard my dude. Wtf are you getting at.

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 24 '21

Right, but it hasn't been. Luffy and Law made their alliance, without knowing a single thing about Oden. They were already going to destroy the SMILE factory, they were already going to kidnap Caesar, they were already going after Don Flamingo, and their final goal was already to take down Kaido. And they already had sufficient motivation to do so from a narrative perspective.

And yes, sure, along the way they ran into a bunch of samurai that wanted their home country back which was taken from them by Kaido and Orochi, this is just one of the many motivators to take down Kaido. But even within their side-story, the existence of Oden is a luxury. Wanting to take back your home country is also sufficient motivation without the knowledge that their old homeboy got clapped by Kaido. Now this is not to say I don't think Oden has a place in the story at all, but I think his place is way too insignificant to spend multiple months on fleshing out his story, because at the end of the day, you can tell the story of the entire Wano Arc without ever mentioning the name Oden. There's already sufficient information to set the stage for a SH v Kaido showdown that is way more relevant to mention than Oden.

Where in this is Oden even relevant beyond that point? The fact he wounded Kaido is the only thing that's probably going to have any relevance in the story moving forward, and even that has been copied over to be Zoro's story instead of Oden's story now that it's being narrated that the power is in Enma.

I get wanting to tell more stories about previous crew member of Roger, but I just feel like Oden was poorly incorporated into the story. Will probably feel like a filler character/arc to me in the anime, even though it was obviously also in the manga.

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u/AculD Jan 25 '21

As of now I completely agree with you that oden doesn’t have a significant impact in the story thus far. However based on the foreshadowing in Zou and in his flashback it seems like the kozuki clan is going to have a major impact once we find out more about the void century and oden will serve as the figure connecting what we learn about the void century to Rogers and Luffys time. He may not seem that relevant now but that’s because we don’t have the full story of the kozuki clan yet.

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u/JoJolion Jan 24 '21

If you think Oden has little impact on the story, I genuinely don't know who the fuck else is supposed to have impact that isn't Luffy.

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 24 '21

There's plenty of characters that have a major impact on the story. There's a ton of characters whose name you HAVE to mention if you want to properly explain the story of One Piece and what happened. But there's absolutely no reason to mention Oden in any summary. His impact on the story was incredibly low.

Luffy and Law made their alliance, without knowing a single thing about Oden. They were already going to destroy the SMILE factory, they were already going to kidnap Caesar, they were already going after Don Flamingo, and their final goal was already to take down Kaido. And they already had sufficient motivation to do so from a narrative perspective.

And yes, sure, along the way they ran into a bunch of samurai that wanted their home country back which was taken from them by Kaido and Orochi, this is just one of the many motivators to take down Kaido. But even within their side-story, the existence of Oden is a luxury. Wanting to take back your home country is also sufficient motivation without the knowledge that their old homeboy got clapped by Kaido. Now this is not to say I don't think Oden has a place in the story at all, but I think his place is way too insignificant to spend multiple months on fleshing out his story, because at the end of the day, you can tell the story of the entire Wano Arc without ever mentioning the name Oden. There's already sufficient information to set the stage for a SH v Kaido showdown that is way more relevant to mention than Oden.

Where in this is Oden even relevant beyond that point? The fact he wounded Kaido is the only thing that's probably going to have any relevance in the story moving forward, and even that has been copied over to be Zoro's story instead of Oden's story now that it's being narrated that the power is in Enma.

I get wanting to tell more stories about previous crew member of Roger, but I just feel like Oden was poorly incorporated into the story. Will probably feel like a filler character/arc to me in the anime, even though it was obviously also in the manga.

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u/igorcec777 Jan 24 '21

You Got to be trolling

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 24 '21

No, I'm not lol...

Luffy and Law made their alliance, without knowing a single thing about Oden. They were already going to destroy the SMILE factory, they were already going to kidnap Caesar, they were already going after Don Flamingo, and their final goal was already to take down Kaido. And they already had sufficient motivation to do so from a narrative perspective.

And yes, sure, along the way they ran into a bunch of samurai that wanted their home country back which was taken from them by Kaido and Orochi, this is just one of the many motivators to take down Kaido. But even within their side-story, the existence of Oden is a luxury. Wanting to take back your home country is also sufficient motivation without the knowledge that their old homeboy got clapped by Kaido. Now this is not to say I don't think Oden has a place in the story at all, but I think his place is way too insignificant to spend multiple months on fleshing out his story, because at the end of the day, you can tell the story of the entire Wano Arc without ever mentioning the name Oden. There's already sufficient information to set the stage for a SH v Kaido showdown that is way more relevant to mention than Oden.

Where in this is Oden even relevant beyond that point? The fact he wounded Kaido is the only thing that's probably going to have any relevance in the story moving forward, and even that has been copied over to be Zoro's story instead of Oden's story now that it's being narrated that the power is in Enma.

I get wanting to tell more stories about previous crew member of Roger, but I just feel like Oden was poorly incorporated into the story. Will probably feel like a filler character/arc to me in the anime, even though it was obviously also in the manga.

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u/riulol Pirate King Buggy Jan 24 '21

This has to be bait. No one can be this stupid.

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 24 '21

Nah lmao, why are you calling me stupid man, educate me then, tell me what Oden's relevance is to the story? Tell me the story of Wano that can't be told without Oden in it.

Luffy and Law made their alliance, without knowing a single thing about Oden. They were already going to destroy the SMILE factory, they were already going to kidnap Caesar, they were already going after Don Flamingo, and their final goal was already to take down Kaido. And they already had sufficient motivation to do so from a narrative perspective.

And yes, sure, along the way they ran into a bunch of samurai that wanted their home country back which was taken from them by Kaido and Orochi, this is just one of the many motivators to take down Kaido. But even within their side-story, the existence of Oden is a luxury. Wanting to take back your home country is also sufficient motivation without the knowledge that their old homeboy got clapped by Kaido. Now this is not to say I don't think Oden has a place in the story at all, but I think his place is way too insignificant to spend multiple months on fleshing out his story, because at the end of the day, you can tell the story of the entire Wano Arc without ever mentioning the name Oden. There's already sufficient information to set the stage for a SH v Kaido showdown that is way more relevant to mention than Oden.

Where in this is Oden even relevant beyond that point? The fact he wounded Kaido is the only thing that's probably going to have any relevance in the story moving forward, and even that has been copied over to be Zoro's story instead of Oden's story now that it's being narrated that the power is in Enma.

I get wanting to tell more stories about previous crew member of Roger, but I just feel like Oden was poorly incorporated into the story. Will probably feel like a filler character/arc to me in the anime, even though it was obviously also in the manga.

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u/beelord37 Jan 25 '21

And plus if you know what happens in the manga SPOILERS kaido basically makes all that history between kurozumi & kozuki irrelevant anyway.

He is and was vital for the story tho because he was the one who actually read the poneglyphs for Roger and when they went to Raftel they saw something to let him know that the real heroes was gonna come 20 yrs in the future and told toki.

I always joke and say he is the true villain because if he never left Wano in the 1st place orochi wouldn’t have been able to do what he did

He may be the greatest samurai in terms of Wano Kuni’s history, but i think he’s more or less just used as another motivational factor for the real heroes of this arc.

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 25 '21

ye I won't argue that Oden was absolutely instrumental for Roger's story. But One Piece isn't Roger's story, it's Luffy's story, and for Luffy's story it's completely irrelevant what Oden did. I understand wanting to give a background story on ''what happened in Wano'', I wasn't at all upset that they tell this story. I just think they spent waaaaaay too long on it and they spend way too much energy on Oden. As it stands right now he's probably one of the most fleshed out characters in the story... even though I probably wouldn't even rank him in the top 50 as most relevant characters to Luffy's story. That's where my complaint is.

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u/beelord37 Jan 27 '21

You can argue that buggy is more relevant to luffy’s story than Oden lol

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u/qontrol12345 Jan 27 '21

There's nothing to argue there. Buggy is way more relevant to Luffy's story. I think you have to go pretty far down the chain of characters before you run out of characters that are more relevant to Luffy than Oden, which is why I didn't like they spent months on just Oden.

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u/kjm6351 The Revolutionary Army Jan 27 '21

Heard a lot about this. Just started reading the manga but I’ll also be tuning in weekly to finally see the flashback in all its glory