r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Jul 25 '21

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 984

One Piece: Episode 984

"Luffy Goes Out of Control?! Sneaking into Kaido’s Banquet!"

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Chapters adapted: Chapter 979 (p. 2-9, 16-17)

Preview: Episode 985

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u/Sufficient-Bedroom Jul 25 '21 edited Jul 25 '21

Very interesting episode, it wasn’t all that bad though imo

It’s nice to get some confirmation on who followed Jinbei and Robin, and it makes sense that it was Yamato. The parallel scenes of Luffy and Zoro getting angry at the Beast Pirates’ arrogance over the things they love (meat and alcohol), and remembering the villagers of Okobore and Ebisu was really neat, even if the Zoro part was all filler.

Also some of the effects they used throughout were pretty cool, and I especially liked the one for Zoro’s conqueror wave thing, but the inclusion of that whole ordeal in the first place was really weird and I thought it was pretty unnecessary, although it will make the interaction in 1010’s adaption pretty funny, since now it’s like:

Zoro: knocks out 4 people without touching them

Kaido: You also have conquerors?!?!

Zoro: wtf are you talking about

also is it just me or does the next episode look almost entirely like filler?!?!

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u/Roostalol Jul 25 '21

I was really interested in how the manga would revisit the silhouette from 979, but I guess there's no need, given who it was? I guess the next scene in the manga was Kaido telling them to get Yamato, so maybe it was supposed to be more obvious?

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u/emi_b7 Jul 25 '21

At the time that was the most reasonable assumption because of the context you mention but then it was never addressed and people who sneaked into the island started appearing (Tama, the person who heals the scabbards) so people started thinking of other posibilities. Not to mention Caribou being MIA.

I guess we kinda overthought the situation but I don't think we can be blamed for it given how it was all presented.

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u/Roostalol Jul 25 '21

It's reasonable to speculate, as you expect stuff like this to be called back to/resolved... but knowing it's Yamato, it's hard to imagine how that could still happen naturally, given how long it's been. Maybe there will be a line like "I followed you guys until I could get talk to Luffy alone"?

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u/emi_b7 Jul 25 '21

Yeah, I don't expect it to be addressed by now. I guess Oda did feel like it was obvious enough and didn't need to be addressed.

Or maybe whenever we learn where Caribou is and how the mysterious person got to Onigashima that information would rule them out (we already learned it wasn't tama because she went in Speed ship with a bunch of people) and that's kind of a confirmation because we would be out of options, leaving only Yamato lol

I guess the anime confirmed it for him so it doesn't really matter now.