Ishitani might be the best thing to happen for one piece anime. This is the best episode of one piece that I've watched, hell not just one piece this is one of the best episode of all times and I have watched a lot of anime and shows. This is coming from a manga reader so that's a huge accomplishment for the anime staff. Good direction can make the pacing way better with same amount of content adopted and Ishitani proved it for sure. This chapter was really good but the anime made it one of the best things in one piece which is like going on for twenty three years. Chapter thousand was hype because it was monumental for the manga to reach this milestone and still keeping the same essense it had back when it started. If this episode was this good I can only assume some of the future episodes will break the internet.
First thing's first my favourite scene from the chapter 1000 was Luffy walking past two emperors to check on his friend. And oh boy! Ishitani did it justice. I really wanted the scene to be with no soundtrack just a serious luffy walking past two strongest people in the verse. But not only that every scene was done with so much thought put behind it. Roger and luffy side by side with same dream was so amazingly done, I can't even express how happy I was when the anime made it so obvious with sabo and ace beside oden and wb hearing the same exact words from luffy and roger. Yamato and Ace's chemistry was shown in such a good way by anime. In manga I didn't feel much for yamato and a lot of people were annoyed because of this sudden flashback before the face off but in anime they did such a good job with Yamato's character her va is also crazy. The animation for red roc was just insane. And the best thing was Ace's df in the fire created by red roc. FYI Luffy used to have the fire based attack red hawk based on a bird so this is an upgrade as roc is a mythical bird. The transitions were so smooth I've noticed Ishitani is best at lightning and transitions. The hardest thing I thought for the anime would be to show the flashbacks that Luffy sees in the manga before hitting kaido. They were just quick recap panels and I thought the anime would include a whole flashback but the director chose to show Luffy's POV for all those moments and we actually felt Luffy's emotions because of that.
The hype was real and this episode lived up to it. For the first time I think I can say Toei did an episode better than manga. This is such an emotional journey now that luffy says he will be pirate king he has strength to back up those words. Even though I've heard Luffy say the iconic line thousands of times but it still made me tear up. The soundtrack, the animation, the voice acting and specially the direction everything was perfect. This episode deserves a perfect 10 hands down best episode of the one piece yet.
Edit: All the haters can Review bomb all they want it woudn't change the fact that despite being a weekly show one piece anime is producing episodes that can match quality of some of their favourite weekly shows. This childish negative ratings using fake accounts is not going to change anything. I've watched all the goated shows like aot and demon slayer and there is no need for comparison but some of these kids just won't understand this basic fact that your hateful reviews and ratings will only draw more negativity towards your favorite anime. One piece fans rarely do these things most of the reviews using op names are fake. Most of the op fans are adults in thier 20s and 30s they have better things to do. I'd wish imdb ban these fake ratings so we can have genuine ratings for this legendary episode.
First thing's first my favourite scene from the chapter 1000 was Luffy walking past two emperors to check on his friend. And oh boy! Ishitani did it justice. I really wanted the scene to be with no soundtrack just a serious luffy walking past two strongest people in the verse. But not only that every scene was done with so much thought put behind it. Roger and luffy side by side with same dream was so amazingly done, I can't even express how happy I was when the anime made it so obvious with sabo and ace beside oden and wb hearing the same exact words from luffy and roger. Yamato and Ace's chemistry was shown in such a good way by anime. In manga I didn't feel much for yamato and a lot of people were annoyed because of this sudden flashback before the face off but in anime they did such a good job with Yamato's character her va is also crazy. The animation for red roc was just insane. And the best thing was Ace's df in the fire created by red roc. FYI Luffy used to have the fire based attack red hawk based on a bird so this is an upgrade as roc is a mythical bird. The transitions were so smooth I've noticed Ishitani is best at lightning and transitions. The hardest thing I thought for the anime would be to show the flashbacks that Luffy sees in the manga before hitting kaido. They were just quick recap panels and I thought the anime would include a whole flashback but the director chose to show Luffy's POV for all those moments and we actually felt Luffy's emotions because of that.
The hype was real and this episode lived up to it. For the first time I think I can say Toei did an episode better than manga. This is such an emotional journey now that luffy says he will be pirate king he has strength to back up those words. Even though I've heard Luffy say the iconic line thousands of times but it still made me tear up. The soundtrack, the animation, the voice acting and specially the direction everything was perfect. This episode deserves a perfect 10 hands down best episode of the one piece yet.
Edit: All the haters can Review bomb all they want it woudn't change the fact that despite being a weekly show one piece anime is producing episodes that can match quality of some of their favourite weekly shows. This childish negative ratings using fake accounts is not going to change anything. I've watched all the goated shows like aot and demon slayer and there is no need for comparison but some of these kids just won't understand this basic fact that your hateful reviews and ratings will only draw more negativity towards your favorite anime. One piece fans rarely do these things most of the reviews using op names are fake. Most of the op fans are adults in thier 20s and 30s they have better things to do. I'd wish imdb ban these fake ratings so we can have genuine ratings for this legendary episode.