For the primary time within the final 20 years of its run, One Piece lately introduced that its anime is formally going seasonal, surprising followers with a brand new manufacturing schedule. It is protected to say that the sequence is at present going by way of an enormous transitional interval, and the brand new launch schedule is barely the primary of many big adjustments to return.
Whereas many of those adjustments look like for the higher, One Piece’s new seasonal format additionally hints that the sequence could possibly be ditching one in all its defining traditions for good, and it could possibly be its best mistake. One Piece’s anime could also be altering its strategy to filler, and followers might must say goodbye to anime-original filler arcs for good.
One Piece Reveals Extra Recap Episodes To Come
Within the newest reside information stream on One Piece’s official YouTube Channel earlier this week, the sequence revealed its plans to modify to a seasonal format. Together with this surprising replace, the sequence’ producers additionally revealed the overall episode rely for the Egghead Arc.
The arc goes to encompass 33 canon episodes and 5 recap episodes, all a part of the “Dr. Chopper’s Journey Checkup” sequence. To date, three of those recap episodes have aired, every being very poorly rated and even changing into a few of One Piece’s most disliked episodes up to now.
There isn’t any doubt the remaining two episodes may also obtain the same reception. Actually, the 2 episodes to return could be particularly irritating as they are going to doubtless interrupt Vegapunk’s broadcast and the massive battle in opposition to the 5 Elders.
One Piece Must Carry Again Full-Fledged Filler
As a lot as followers adore Chopper, One Piece must ditch the recap episodes. Somewhat than these boring, uninspiring recaps, it will be significantly better if the sequence went again to releasing full-blown anime-original filler arcs between main story arcs prefer it used to.
Not like a few of its friends, like Naruto and Bleach, One Piece’s anime has at all times boasted a really low share of filler content material. Many of the sequence’ filler arcs span 5 to 6 episodes, with the longest standing at a most of 11 episodes. As such, even what little filler the sequence does have is definitely skippable with out having to consistently seek advice from a filler information.
Extra importantly, nonetheless, these filler arcs have at all times been brief, well-contained, and well-regarded amongst followers. Some, just like the G-8 Arc, are even extensively thought-about probably the greatest arcs of the sequence. As such, quite than a rehash of previous clips, it will arguably be significantly better if One Piece’s anime merely gave followers one other such self-contained filler arc, even when it is not as properly animated as the primary story arc.
A filler arc wouldn’t solely assist pad out the manufacturing timeline, but additionally deal with followers to one thing recent and authentic. Throughout arcs like Egghead, the place the Straw Hats are all break up up, a filler arc may additionally let followers see extra of the Straw Hats’ timeless antics and discover the dynamics with newer members like Jinbe.
A filler arc wouldn’t solely assist pad out the manufacturing timeline, but additionally deal with followers to one thing recent and authentic.
Total, with One Piece formally going seasonal and planning to launch solely 26 episodes a yr from right here on out, it is unlikely we’ll ever get one other full-fledged filler arc once more, and it is fairly unhappy to see the sequence let go of one in all its oldest, most charming traditions.
- Launch Date
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October 20, 1999
- Community
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Fuji TV
- Administrators
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
- Writers
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Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
