545: ''Fishman Island Trembles! The Celestial Dragon's Arrival''

[Hiroy]

The preview for the next one looks good, so this would probally be the first episode I'll watch in the long time.

[Mr. Luffy]

Haha, forgot about the mole-man Tenryuubito and his weirdo son going to the island to get his slaves back. The Hannyabal voice was perfect for that adolescent, superior selfishness.

Even though it was less than a full chapter it rarely felt too padded or stretched and paced fairly well. The animation was better than the last episode, though there was some questionable art, mostly involving Vanderdekken in some scenes

[Nolus]

I'm going to have nightmares from those two. Seriously, looking at them for more than 1 second is bad for my health. Ew...

Waldo-decken strikes again.

[Miss Saturday]

i should probably have brought this up when this manga chapter came out, but how can there be sea kings within fishman island's double layer bubble?
are we to believe they were already there? or were we to believe they came from outside fishman island and entered through the bubbles really really fast (without anyone noticing) , the speed of them appearing makes no sense...

- how did said sea kings react so fast to shirahoshi's scream? were they already lying in waiting, thinking "come on girl... start screaming already so we can do our thing and leave again"

Plot holes? If you look at the chapter where they're carrying away Noah, you can see some of the ones that were there when Otohime was in danger are almost half the size of all of Fishman Island. So having multiple of those pass through the bubbles like nothing is contrary to everything he himself set up. No to mention if you look inside Fishman Island, you'll notice the natural "ocean" half is tiny. There seems to be more land in there than water.
This wasn't the most thought-out arc Oda's done.

[Drake_Cloud]

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Remember, this is the anime-only thread, so watch your spoilers.

[Demonicpoodle]

They managed to make Myosgard's father look like Jabba the Hut... Blergh. As usual, too many "mothers!!" and "Otohimes!!" for my taste (it works in the manga because you can't hear them and it's just tiny background noise, panel-wise), but in the anime it always rings in the ears.

But those are just minor complaints, I really enjoyed the episode and got teary-eyed. It's more the chapter that I enjoyed here than the episode itself, with all the converging ideals, but still I liked the direction 'n all that. Vander Decken brightens my day, he has such a classic cartoony vibe about him. So uh... 'bout that Strong World music. Hope we'll be seeing some of that in the coming episodes. There are so many tracks from there I'd like to be introduced regularly.

[Dr. Casey]

Yeah, I thought this was a perfectly good episode. Out of curiosity, has it been stated whether there's a new opening coming up soon? We Go has been around for right at nine months (Around 30 or so episodes), so I'm guessing the series will cycle to a new opening song soon.

[o-chan]

Yeah, I thought this was a perfectly good episode. Out of curiosity, has it been stated whether there's a new opening coming up soon? We Go has been around for right at nine months (Around 30 or so episodes), so I'm guessing the series will cycle to a new opening song soon.

I was under the impression that since "We Go!" is the spiritual successor to "We Are!" the would keep it around for at least the duration of the Fishman Island arc. They didn't replace the original song well until almost the end of East Blue.

[FelRes]

Yeah, I thought this was a perfectly good episode. Out of curiosity, has it been stated whether there's a new opening coming up soon? We Go has been around for right at nine months (Around 30 or so episodes), so I'm guessing the series will cycle to a new opening song soon.

We Go! has been the opening for just under 7 months, actually. Episode 517 aired on October 2. I would hope they keep using We Go! til sometime in autumn or until the next arc comes around. It's way too soon to bring in a new song imo.

[Maromi]

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It's worse than the filler marine and his moobs
why
WHY
WHY

[No Maam]

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It's worse than the filler marine and his moobs
why
WHY
WHY

Oh he's cannon.

[Zoro100]

those tenryubito really are nasty, every time I see one of them, I say to myself "good thing Luffy punched one of them", as has been said, the chapter didn't feel stretched, it had a good pace

[Chopperrules]

- why did they delay shirahoshi's reaction? in the manga it seems that the tenryuubito pulls a gun against otohime's head, jinbe goes "oh no, your majesty" followed by shirahoshi screaming and sea kings appearing...
however, in the episode they had him pull a gun, followed by everyone... including shirahoshi... staring at him for a while before she actually starts to scream...

You have to remember that there's a difference between you reading two panels within the span of three seconds and actually translating that to animation. Yes, I'm not defending Toei here as we all know they've dragged scenes like this into the water and back again in the past, but I felt the scene was handled just fine this episode.

[King Cannon]

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It's worse than the filler marine and his moobs
why
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WHY

Yeah, I blame centuries of inbreeding.

[Hallwacker]

Way to stretch less than a chapter into a full blown episode, Toei.
Awful. Just awful.

.. and "my daddy"? "My son"? What? Racist.

Am I missing something here, or are you a complete retard?

What's racist about that?

[Chopperrules]

Am I missing something here, or are you a complete retard?

What's racist about that?

I was thinking the same, maybe minus the "complete retard" part.

It's just a joke playing on Engrish, and it had to have been in the manga. Although I believe Neptune did not end his sentences with jamon in the manga, so I could be wrong.

[KageKageKing]

Next episode...Luffy's Mermaid!!!

[Miss Saturday]

Am I missing something here, or are you a complete retard?

What's racist about that?

There goes the joke flying right over your head. Don't even bother trying to duck.

[Cyclone_Baroness]

I liked this. Especially the build up to Shirahoshi's scream. Oda really knows how to make some extremely loathesome characters. As much as I like Otohime's perspective, and I do think she's right about not letting the next generation see such violence. But I feel so bad for the ex-slaves that didn't get to slash out against that asshat. I wouldn't have killed him...not right away anyways.

[Ringleader]

finally up to date with the anime again (literraly just watched the last 11 episodes "powerstreaming")
damn this arc has been such an emotional rollercoaster
fisher tiger is a legend