536: ''Decisive Battle at Ryuuguu Palace! Zoro vs. Hody''

[Crossword]

The sharks face off.

Title: ''Decisive Battle at Ryuuguu Palace! Zoro vs. Hody''
Chapters Covered: 617
New Characters: None
Animation Director: Atsuko Kawamura (****)
Time: 7:30PM EST
Watch It: www.onepieceofficial.com

[Skadi]

Ok, let´s hope this week the livestream of always actually airs OP (and Toriko, i badly wanna watch the Ozone Herb arc)
http://es-es.justin.tv/atxhd66?#/w/2630805360/2

EDIT: Toriko is airing! The link is allright ^u^

[Rukie]

First time watching the live stream... god those commercials were trippy...

It took Megalo a good minute and a half to spit up Shirahoshi. The whole time I was thinking, "Geze,throw her up already!"
Followed immediatly by "Oh crap, don't turn around Sanji! Don't turn around!"

[Miss Saturday]

They stretched the everlasting shit out of this episode. It should have ended with the Zoro/Hody fight, not sure what they're going for by holding it off for another episode. They're also going way too hard with the Arlong refrences and flashbacks. There's no good reason he (or kiddie NFP) should have been introduced to this arc so early.

Very nice animation, though. There; one positive.

[Skadi]

I loved the flashback

there´s only one screencap of 2ch, of a close up of Hody´s face with some text over it...

I took this one, and i will take a fruckload more when i get the raw

[Chibi JFZ]

op 537's preview: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/GPplayer/e/G...0227a&type=flv

2ch thread: http://dec.2chan.net/18/res/15808041.htm without screenshots

[Darkestsith6]

preview looks awesome.

[King Cannon]

Am I the only one who found it hilarious on how they stretched the scene with Megalo trying to spit Shirahoshi out of his body for an entire minute?

[Drake_Cloud]

Nevermind 16 chars

[Crossword]

Hmph, that eyecatch is still bugging me. What was wrong with the old ones? Why are they stalling on showing new Straw Hat catches?

Zoro's clash with Hody was pretty cool, and I do appreciate the attempts to give more characterization to the New Fishman Pirates. The humans just strolling around with their bubble helmets entirely unimpeded by buoyancy physics was pretty silly, however.

[sanji499]

Zoro going underwater felt so underwhelming and undramatic(Zoro's theme of strong world would have been epic). The manga version is way better.

ok episode but it messed up the part I was excited to see.

This episode is gonna fuel theories about Zoro having haki.

[MasterKingJC]

Good episode.
The beginning with Luffy and Shirahoshi looking at clouds was so dull and random. Almost killed the episode for me.
The only noteworthy parts are the Zoro vs Hody fight and some glimpses of Arlong and the Young NFP.
Zoro blocking the water arrows with the hilt of his sword was so awesome. +5 points to Toei.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the part where Usopp kicked Brook. That was hysterical.

Hmph, that eyecatch is still bugging me. What was wrong with the old ones? Why are they stalling on showing new Straw Hat catches?

Because Toei Animation is slow and cheap.

[alexwolf]

Very bad episode. Zoro's fight wasn't finished, and the fucking shark wanted 1 minute to spit Shirahoshi... I mean really?
Also the part with human pirates with bubbles around their head, walking around fishman district and acting like bosses was straight up idiotic. It's another thing telling that humans dominate the land, and it is another thing to show some random pirates acting like bosses in the Fishman District, were every decent grown up fighter could fuck them 'till kingdom come. The only good thing was the graphics, especially with Zoro, but this chapter was so fucking slow and filled with filler scenes.

[XMURADX]

Good action and animation, meh directing. Next week looks good.

[PirateHunter]

it's sort of annoying how the animators stretch one chapter's content; I was waiting for Hody's swift defeat, but all I got was megalo trying not to throwup along with more of Shirahoshi's annoyingly high voice

[Crossword]

The clash with Hody wasn't resolved until the next chapter, anyway.

[MasterKingJC]

Wait. People were actually expecting Toei to increase the content beyond one chapter = one episode?

Hahahaha! Ain't that a riot!

[Kisoto]

It's nice to see that they're trying to extend things a little more so that we get a clearer picture, but there's just too much stretching somehow. Especially that Megalo part since I was screaming at the screen "JUST SPIT HER UP ALREADY!"

Also...

Spoiler:

The fishkiddies was a filler flashback, wasn't it? Because it kind of ruins something to come a bit when you think about it...

[Galaxy 9000]

Meh, so I guess it's safe to assume this will be the longest anime arc, unless they increase the pacing.

[Drake_Cloud]

Wait. People were actually expecting Toei to increase the content beyond one chapter = one episode?

Hahahaha! Ain't that a riot!

Yeah, and considering Oda takes breaks and the anime doesn't, they have to stretch it out beyond 1 chapter = 1 episode. More like 7 chapters = 8 episodes or something, unless they decide to add filler arcs to cover the gaps.