One Piece: Gear Second

[Vaspinne]

Yeah the Xmas schedule is always weird. Either 2 chapters in a row and then a 2 week break, or chapter-break-chapter-break. And then you add in Oda's usual health break too.

Given previous years trends, gonna guess it'll be chapter-chapter-break-break-chapter-break

[detlef]

Well, King is hot.

[BWYuko]

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Register to see the NSFW content jfc this fight lol...

[BWYuko]

Register to see the NSFW content lmao "Zoro please don't die on us!" "Who the hell are you?"

[Lokus]

I wonder if that scene was symbolism or if that was a real dude.

[BWYuko]

Yeah lots of speculation regarding what Zoro is actually experiencing vs what Oda showed us. Favorite theory is he's delirious and Death is just Brook escaping CP0 with Robin, but man would it be awesome if that's actually Death and he completely takes care of it before Franky breaks through that wall like a gd metal koolaid man and no one ever finds out what Zoro just fucking did.

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No break next week!

[BWYuko]

Register to see the NSFW content. Unbelievable chapter. Break next week.

[Petitssk]

I am in the unique position of having started reading One Piece back in 2001 and quitting around the end of the Paramount War, so I only know some tidbits of information about what happens afterwards. Always wanted to continue reading, but don't want to start importing books for an ongoing series. However, I've noticed that OP actually is available on Crunchyroll now, so I'm thinking about going for that option.

Could anyone provide some insight on how good the Anime actually is? I did watch a few episodes covering most of Enies Lobby and did like them a lot, but I also recall reading that the Anime suffered from lots of fillers (which does not seem to be the case, actually) so I guess it was just some awful pacing with episodes being littered with drawn out actions and flashbacks? At least it should be that if it wasn't fillers.

[Lokus]

The last time I saw the anime was at the end of Dressrosa and that was my breaking point. Pacing issues are just so bad. 3-4 minutes of almost every episode retreading what happened the prior episode and then the actual episode just being drawn out. I think at one point an episode was barely covering a chapter.

[Kanriel]

I watched the anime through around Thriller Bark. I think the arc after that it started showing EVERY. SINGLE. REACTION. for far too long to EVERY. SINGLE. THING. and it became a bit much for me. Though there is a thing called "One Pace" which seeks to cut out a lot of that fluff if you want to watch the anime there.

[BWYuko]

Also highly recommend One Pace.

https://onepace.net/

They've made considerable effort to hack off all the excess fat and filler of the anime so its content matches the manga's as closely as possible. There's only a few holes left in the back catalogue now. Some is available with dual audio dubbing, but all of it is subbed otherwise.

As was suggested, in recent years they've done away with filler entirely, and opted to just really stretch out episodes instead (probably because it's cheaper and requires fewer creative resources than developing custom filler). E.g., conventional anime storyboarding might see 2 manga chapters become one 30-min anime episode, whereas One Piece has stretched 1 chapter into 1 full episode in recent years. Given the length of Wano's Act III, pace has become a real slog, but as a result some important action sequences get serious budgetary backing and look real pretty.

[Petitssk]

Yikes, that does sound bad if only because it's basically unskippable, but thanks for the pointers! Think I'm just going to give it a try, just got a new account going for Crunchyroll since it should be worth it anyway. Didn't even know World Trigger had two new seasons.

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Things not looking great for the WG (or Orochi or Zoro)!

No breaks for 2 weeks! We get the next two chapters March 4 & 11.
Then one break and 3 more chapters March 25 through April 8. It's gonna be a feast the upcoming weeks. Hopefully it brings more Rocks/Kaido/Lin Lin backstory than what we saw here.

[Lokus]

While this is probably the best time for some Rocks and crew backstory since Kaido is the last one they could really use to show it, if Oda goes into a flashback arc or mini-arc right now, I'm not sure my balls can handle the amount of blue they'll be.

[Bweigelt]

While this is probably the best time for some Rocks and crew backstory since Kaido is the last one they could really use to show it, if Oda goes into a flashback arc or mini-arc right now, I'm not sure my balls can handle the amount of blue they'll be.

I assume the Rocks backstory is gonna come from Blackbeard, there's some weird connection there.

[detlef]

Oops

[BWYuko]

Breh you posted the final page lol. Here:

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Also, holy shit! Kaido is either going to rampage or try killing himself again.

[detlef]

Ah hell, my bad lol.