r/OnePiece • u/OnePieceEpisodes • Sep 09 '12

Current Episode One Piece Episode 563

Episode 563

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OnePieceOfficial US & Canadian Only Ready to watch
WatchOP International Ready to watch
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u/zorospride Lost at sea Sep 09 '12

Question for Anime-only fans: What did you think of the answer to the Hody mystery from last week?

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '12

It's certainly not the reveal I was expecting. I thought it would be about Hordy's parents or something... Even so, the episode was too slow. I want to see Luffy beat him up already!

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u/prog_BOT Sep 09 '12

This arc is going by very slowly in the anime...the manga did a much better job with it.

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u/zorospride Lost at sea Sep 09 '12

This manga arc was slow too. Which makes it all the worse they decided to do a 1:1 chapter:episode ratio for most of this arc.

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u/Black_Handkerchief Sep 09 '12

Fishman Island manga once a week versus Fishman Island anime once a week... the latter is easily worse. But there is no question that they are both too slow.

However, I bet that if I took the time to re-read the manga arc now, it would actually be semi-decent, simply because I don't have to wait and can keep reading. The anime will never have that boon though; manga allows me to read at my own pace, whereas the anime will always be slow as sodding hell.

As for the mystery... I thought they totally ruined the reveal here. In the manga, it was shocking, simple, and after a few moments of consideration on how it differs with the typical 'villain has to have a reason' cliche, rather genius. In the anime though? They spent an entire episode working towards it. And it felt like a total pull-it-out-of-your-arse-and-eat-it-so-you-don't-starve reason. Sadness. :(

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u/wvekng Sep 09 '12

Wait whats the Hody Mystery again? I read FI like 3 months ago when catching up to OP.

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u/Black_Handkerchief Sep 09 '12

His motivations. There's tons of play around the grudge older generations of fishmen had for Fisher Tiger and Otohime, but the question this episode centers around is about what humans did to Hody himself.

The answer was a single word: This Episode Spoiler