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EP. REVIEW: One Piece

Last week we saw Rebecca and the flower field looking especially pretty, with the colors and lighting really being on their A game.

Wow, OP joins the streaming reviews! Maybe next we can see Fairy Tail join the lineup?

Madhouse x Production I.G. is just as good as it sounds

DontmesswithKarma wrote:

Madhouse x Production I.G. is just as good as it sounds

Ace of the Diamond is absolutely great, but animation-wise it is basically a motion comic.

DontmesswithKarma wrote:

Madhouse x Production I.G. is just as good as it sounds

Ace of the Diamond is absolutely great, but animation-wise it is basically a motion comic.

This was a neat episode, in part because it maintained focus on Luffy's group the entire time instead of skipping from subplot to subplot. And I love the cliffhanger, with Sugar coming back. Anyone else think that Sugar's power is the scariest one in the entire series?

That said, I was disappointed with the core of the episode, namely the way Rebecca was written. Suddenly the show forgets that she's an experienced fighter who has won more consecutive matches than any current gladiator, and is so skillful that she did it with a blunt sword, all while refusing to use direct attacks. But in this installment, she just freaks out and runs away from Diamante until Kyros comes to save her. I'm not saying she would crush him, but she should at least be able to hold her own.

I was really hoping for a cool father/daughter team up fight, or maybe for Kyros to get to see the results of all the training he put her through when he was "Soldier-San." Maybe that can still happen later on, but I was let down to see Rebecca diminished like this.

Yes! An unexpected One Piece Daily Streaming Review (DSR). C'mon, ANN, Fairy Tail and Dragon Ball are still up for grabs.

Even if the show's plot is going at a slower rate, Oda's world and the "background noise" still carry enough weight (content-wise) to keep being enjoyable. Yes, there were occasional drops in the animation quality, but nothing low enough to pull me away from the scene.

navycherub wrote:

DontmesswithKarma wrote: Madhouse x Production I.G. is just as good as it sounds Ace of the Diamond is absolutely great, but animation-wise it is basically a motion comic.

Have we been watching the same show? The show does have a few almost-still-frames, but they are used anecdotally, and the rest of the animation frames are mostly smooth.

Wyvern wrote:

This was a neat episode, in part because it maintained focus on Luffy's group the entire time instead of skipping from subplot to subplot. And I love the cliffhanger, with Sugar coming back. Anyone else think that Sugar's power is the scariest one in the entire series? That said, I was disappointed with the core of the episode, namely the way Rebecca was written. Suddenly the show forgets that she's an experienced fighter who has won more consecutive matches than any current gladiator, and is so skillful that she did it with a blunt sword, all while refusing to use direct attacks. But in this installment, she just freaks out and runs away from Diamante until Kyros comes to save her. I'm not saying she would crush him, but she should at least be able to hold her own. I was really hoping for a cool father/daughter team up fight, or maybe for Kyros to get to see the results of all the training he put her through when he was "Soldier-San." Maybe that can still happen later on, but I was let down to see Rebecca diminished like this.

But didn't they already establish during the final battle at the Colosseum that Rebecca really was no match for people like Diamante? She had already come up against him in that setting and others who could hold their own against him and she realized she really stood no chance.