One Piece Film Z (Wrap Canon From the Manga Not Yet in the Anime with Spoiler Tags)

[Roro Chan]

he don't look like a marine at all, he have a jolly roger on top of that!
and his name is Z it's just that japanese prunounce it Zedo.

[Maron]

he don't look like a marine at all, he have a jolly roger on top of that!
and his name is Z it's just that japanese prunounce it Zedo.

People were saying he looked like an ex-Marine, it really doesn't seem to be a coincidence that his JR resembles the Marine mark. And no one said his name was spelled "Zetto".

[dawwe]

First of, I'm not really that impressed with the title and must say that almost all the other movies have had better ones but I suppose it will work. Z really looks like he might have something to do with the marines but I hope they won't pull a Gasparde again. His robotic arm or whatever it will turn out to be kinda make me think of Hellboy but that's just because of the design.

Nice to see Masayuki Sato back as the Animation Director, though I was secretly kinda hoping they would let Noboru Koizumi do this one. And I'm hoping for some nice animation from Naoki Tate aswell. Eisaku Inoue would also have been acceptable. Hmm I wonder if they will "pull a Strong World" with the clothes or let them have their time skip outfits. All in all, I'm really looking forward to this movie.

[keetongu]

His arm reminds me of Emperoro Zurg from Toy Story 2

[jmbjr]

I don't think Z will necessarily have anything to do with the marines. Whitebeard had a very similar coat, as well, and he was never in the marines.

[Maron]

Nice to see Masayuki Sato back as the Animation Director, though I was secretly kinda hoping they would let Noboru Koizumi do this one. And I'm hoping for some nice animation from Naoki Tate aswell. Eisaku Inoue would also have been acceptable. Hmm I wonder if they will "pull a Strong World" with the clothes or let them have their time skip outfits. All in all, I'm really looking forward to this movie.

Koizumi has had nothing to do with One Piece since Episode 295....There was never any chance whatsoever of him being involved with this in any way. And they'll likely have the timeskip outfits, since part of the draw for this is that it's the first post-timeskip film.

I don't think Z will necessarily have anything to do with the marines. Whitebeard had a very similar coat, as well, and he was never in the marines.

It's not just the coat, it's the JR. It's clearly meant to be some sort of callback to the Marine mark.

[Luffyfan]

I don't mind the name, bad guy looks pretty cool too. New teaser, reminds me of the teasers movie 10 had before actual previews, its getting me really excited. I'm really loving the poster, am thinking of replacing my avatar with it.

[dawwe]

Koizumi has had nothing to do with One Piece since Episode 295....There was never any chance whatsoever of him being involved with this in any way. And they'll likely have the timeskip outfits, since part of the draw for this is that it's the first post-timeskip film

That's why I was secretly hoping for an unannounced return to One Piece... And yeah they will hopefully have
the outfits but I suppose they could change into other clothes for whatever reason. I miss Koizumi...

[Roro Chan]

People were saying he looked like an ex-Marine, it really doesn't seem to be a coincidence that his JR resembles the Marine mark. And no one said his name was spelled "Zetto".

he have similarities and i dunno what Oda is plotting :)
about Zetto lana_patrick said it it was ZET http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=34340&page=10&p=2563003&viewfull= 1#post2563003

[Maron]

That's why I was secretly hoping for an unannounced return to One Piece... And yeah they will hopefully have
the outfits but I suppose they could change into other clothes for whatever reason. I miss Koizumi...

If someone's gone from a series for over 8 years they're not coming back. For all we know Toei gave him the boot. It wouldn't make sense to randomly bring him back for a movie. Plus with him not drawing OP in all that time it's very likely he's gotten a lot worse at drawing the characters.

[Dreamer]

So here's Z's jolly roger in comparison to the Marine's one.
Z:

Spoiler:

Marines:

Spoiler:

If you rotate the marines symbol and take the skull with the sword from Z and stub the marine symbol you get:

Spoiler:

Which I think is pretty much Z's jolly roger.

[dawwe]

If someone's gone from a series for over 8 years they're not coming back. For all we know Toei gave him the boot. It wouldn't make sense to randomly bring him back for a movie. Plus with him not drawing OP in all that time it's very likely he's gotten a lot worse at drawing the characters.

Well it's more like a little more then 5 years since his last episode was in early 2007 but yeah I know it would be no chance of him returning, I just think it's a shame that he doesn't do any more One Piece since I think he was one of the better ones.

[Mark D. Manuel]

So here's Z's jolly roger in comparison to the Marine's one.
Z:

Spoiler:

http://i.imgur.com/xBoZI.png

Marines:

Spoiler:

http://i.imgur.com/bxaZo.png

If you rotate the marines symbol and take the skull with the sword from Z and stub the marine symbol you get:

Spoiler:

http://i.imgur.com/Z3Efy.png

Which I think is pretty much Z's jolly roger.

reminds me of mihawk's sword

[Law of the sea]

I hope this movie has a named enemy for each of the straw hats it's a movie not a filler episode so they have time to give them each a fight however they did not do this in strong world which is what i did not like about the movie!

[Maron]

^ I like this post because it implies the movies are something other than long filler episodes.

[Cruithne]

I hope this movie has a named enemy for each of the straw hats it's a movie not a filler episode so they have time to give them each a fight however they did not do this in strong world which is what i did not like about the movie!

It'd be a bad idea for all of the Strawhats to get their own individual fights. If the movie's 90 minutes (like the big ones usually are), and everyone got equal screen time, that'd mean each fight would have to be 10 minutes (and that's if there was nothing but fights).

[Crossword]

Actually the movies are closer to two hours now.

Forget about everyone getting a fight, I hope this one gives all the characters enough to do. That was one of Strong World's failings. Luffy and Nami obviously got the two biggest roles, Usopp and Chopper had an okay amount of screentime, but then Zoro and Sanji felt like they were just kinda there (the former more than the latter), while Robin, Franky, and Brook were barely even in the movie.

[Law of the sea]

Actually the movies are closer to two hours now.

Forget about everyone getting a fight, I hope this one gives all the characters enough to do. That was one of Strong World's failings. Luffy and Nami obviously got the two biggest roles, Usopp and Chopper had an okay amount of screentime, but then Zoro and Sanji felt like they were just kinda there (the former more than the latter), while Robin, Franky, and Brook were barely even in the movie.

Brook got to show off vs the flesh eating ants because he got pissed off they did not go for him lol!

It'd be a bad idea for all of the Strawhats to get their own individual fights. If the movie's 90 minutes (like the big ones usually are), and everyone got equal screen time, that'd mean each fight would have to be 10 minutes (and that's if there was nothing but fights).

They don't need the exact same screen time some of the fighting can be done off screen just to show they get to fight a named person that's all for example we would still see luffy and Zoro fighting longer than the others in their fights because they're fighting stronger people.

This is a movie not a normal episode it goes for more than 4 times longer than a anime episode.

[Cruithne]

Forget about everyone getting a fight, I hope this one gives all the characters enough to do. That was one of Strong World's failings. Luffy and Nami obviously got the two biggest roles, Usopp and Chopper had an okay amount of screentime, but then Zoro and Sanji felt like they were just kinda there (the former more than the latter), while Robin, Franky, and Brook were barely even in the movie.

Indeed. Most of the movies in general leave out certain characters. It's sad.

Though if everyone had to work together to find some ~*secret treasure*~, that'd be even worse.

They don't need the exact same screen time some of the fighting can be done off screen just to show they get to fight a named person that's all for example we would still see luffy and Zoro fighting longer than the others in their fights because they're fighting stronger people.

What's the point of having named villains if most of them are gonna get beaten off-screen?

It's one thing to have a fight like Usopp vs. Chew (which could take 5 minutes easy). But if all the villains get beaten so quickly, it says that they weren't much of a threat in the first place (which contradicts the whole "greatest villain yet" shpeal).

This is a movie not a normal episode it goes for more than 4 times longer than a anime episode.

So in about 4 episodes time, the plot's going to be introduced, everything in the movie happens, and then it's concluded. It's not a good amount of time to get stuff done.

The 9th movie was pretty good about it (as an example directly translated from the anime), but even then people got left out.

[Roro Chan]

the thing with one piece movies is that since there's many main characters, you can't really focus on each of them equally, it's not like bleach or naruto who you know who's gonna appear more !

each one piece movie had a centerfic, there was a special chopper, a special zoro centered, the movie 7 gave to robin a nice time slot too, strong world was centered on luffy,nami,billy, of course even if there was each moment with each character they can't spend hours on them too or the movie will be better a new arc!