One Piece Episode 1018 Discussion

VolKur said:

Lmao, you will be more disappointed if I told you that this episode covered the whole chapter(15 pages).

@AhriTheS3xyFox lmao
I'll never spoile one piece to anime only watcher.

SideCharacterKal said:
Was this really One Piece? I never imaginez such a massive quality drop, the non-stop gattling, facial expressions and what more. Even Zoro's dragon twister was lacking everything. The first cut on Kaido by Zoro was just underwhelming. Well, it's understandable.. The latest few episodes probably took a huge toll on them but the outcome would have been better if they switched today's episode with the next one.

AhriTheS3xyFox said:


So what did you like the most about this episode? What were your favourite parts?

Bel_Shanks said:

how kaido was intimidating. I felt it

Mattuzmk said:
One of the worst episodes of the last few years.
I would rather have them stop this weekly torture, and change it to 1 ep/month schedule.

Atrocious pacing.

AhriTheS3xyFox said:


The pandemic and the hack should also be taken in consideration. Other seasonal animes, has took a hit in quality as well.

The CGI Kaido pretty much explains that he was rushed. Since 3D models are more faster and easier than 2D. So it's less time consuming. Well I guess I am more optimistic about the next episode, now that you mentioned that.

VolKur said:
@Ayu_01 yeah ofcourse.
And about Zoro's aura, oda literally gave zoro a dragon and aura around enma in manga as well.

Early_Morning said:
After seeing the episode again, I'm actually stumped that it was as slow as it was. Toei adapted a full chapter like they did last week, but in terms of plot it still seemed like not much happened. In the past I used to say that Toei should adapt 1 full chapter per episode more frequently, but this is one instance where they did exactly as I wanted, yet still produced an episode that's a 6/10 at best.

Also Toei needs to stop hyping up Zoro so much. The constant auras are bad enough, but why did they show Zoro engulfed in flames due to Happy Mother's Blaze? In the manga he dodged the attack but the anime portrayed it differently in a way that makes it look like Zoro actually endured the flames, which makes him seem way more durable than he is and also makes Big Mom look like a joke yet again...

RoqueMatus said:

When have you seen zoro at full power as of lately? you said Oda may discrediting Big Mom but maybe you're also discrediting Zoro?

Also I just recently watched the scene where Oda cuts Kaido, its the same auro as the one as zoro before he cuts Kaido which shows a representation of him using Haki.

Nori25 said:
So much hate and exaggeration on this episode just because it came out after 1015 and 1017. That's how One Piece episodes usually are. Watch Marineford episodes and some of Wano's and all of sudden this episode feels amazing.

Juri425 said:
People can complain and bitch about it all they want. The reality is that as a weekly anime, is impossible to have episodes like 1015. And even that the episode wasnt bad, we had some preetty neat sequences like the stuff from zoro and the dragon twister attacks from Kaido. "OH NOOO, CGI KAIDOO!?" yeah whatever. Look maybe I am the 1% not being a bitch and toxic here, but I am just happy of waking up and watch some One Piece early in the morning with some nice coffee. Also, my boy Franky beating the living shit out of Sasaki next week looking krispy, cant wait to see that!

WolfWood37 said:
It was Zoro's time to shine this episode...any damage Kaido takes is a good thing.

Joey-XD19202 said:
Kaido competing with Zoro with his dragon twister was just too funny.

AhriTheS3xyFox said:


But the difference is, Marineford is amazing that we don't notice how things are dragged on.

The issues I have are the CGI, punches being dragged on for 3 minutes, and the reactions from others. Preferably I want more filler dialogues, and any extra content, like we got with Sanji from 1016.

But despite all this I still loved this episode

Nori25 said:


The only new issue is the CGI. As I said everything you mentioned is normal to have in One Piece, and I did notice Marineford's terrible pacing, it's just that a lot of people don't remember how bad it was.

Luffy's Kong Gatling Gun had like 7 frames in the manga, while in comparison Urashima's Tsuppari had only one frame and it was dragged for 2 minutes in the anime (episode 903). And this is just one example, One Piece is packed with terrible paced episodes, and 1018 is definitely not the worst one.

SuitC4s3 said:
There are some good parts in this episode like the Gash wound on Kaido is beautifully drawn. Great use of color palettes in detailing it. I saw no fault with Kaido CGI. All that but still it could not stop me from going to the Dark Side and HATE this episode.

Reasons To HATE / DISLIKE :
1.Luffy magical advantages
From lightning not having effect to now Fire based attack not effective. I would have liked Big Mom's lightning to have an effect magically for a change and balance the BS story. Antagonist not getting the same advantages magically is reason to HATE.
2.Static still NO-LIFE drawings
From Nami and Yamato to Nico Robin and Black Maria. Here there was no movement of any kind on their bodies. Not talking is fine with me but add movements. turn their heads or bounce the breasts. Just do something to avoid the HATE for still images.
3.Zoro Saving Luffy
Once again the magic of Straw Hats never ends. But what gives more HATE is Big Mom's attack not doing any damage to Zoro. On Top of that Zoro Dodging Kaido's Demolition Gust while carrying Luffy. I HATE this.
4.Kaido's Twister Attack like a levitation device
Where is the damage dealing part of this Dragon Twister. Also Kaido putting Luffy in his mouth but leaving Zoro? This is where combat intelligence is missing for Antagonists. Always attack the strong then go for the weak later like for example the medic. Or vice-versa if the medic is strong then take out the medic. I HATE this poor story.

All of Kaido and Big Mom attacks have done nothing to leave them in a state similar to Luffy for example. Protagonists all look fresh and fine but only Luffy is not well. All that and is against 2 Yonko level characters. This WANO story is BS. I HATE this episode.

AhriTheS3xyFox said:


Ahh, I see, interesting, i'm an anime only,so I do not notice these types of things. It's still subjectively one of the worst for me however. Especially having flashbacks added in.

And I would argue that post timeskip arcs are when everything went down hill in terms of animation and pacing. I prefer pre-timeskip a lot better.

Dressrosa is very notorious of that, I was even one of the victims to put it on-hold, even though I didn't understand what the term "pacing" meant back then.

Nori25 said:


What? Flashbacks? Have you completely forgotten about the flashbacks in the Reverie arc that took almost the whole episode? The flashbacks here lasted just for a few seconds, that's an incredibly LOW time for a flashback in One Piece standards.

link9us said:



Right, this is my issue with the industry these days. Since the technology of 3d modeling and CG started to become more common place amongst many forms of media, specifically western animation, Japan has adapted those technologies to use in anime but its more or less a lazy man's way of finishing a production in my opinion. Its faster, it requires less skill and financial investment is very little. Hence the reason studio's now have opted to deliver more CGI in their productions. There has always been an apparent problem with the industries production workflow and staff being over worked to exhaustion. This is there way of taking the easy way out so to speak. Ever since this new gen tech, started to arise in anime production, we have ended up with just disastrous works like the Berserk remake. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of CG works that fantastic, but in my opinion, you have to know how to utilize it effectively and if you look at the most popular CG works in the western world of media, they never intermix 2d animation and 3dCG for animated objects, which results in this kind of a mess of robotic and stiff animation that clash. Yamato the new remake for example did it effectively where they used mainly the 3d CG for background action scenes, but kept characters and foreground objects with 2D animation.

I Know for sure we will never go back to the era of hand man works of art like in the 80's and early to mid 90 with such exemplary masterpiece crafts like Ghost in the shell, Patlabor, Gunbuster, Akira and even Dragonball but I can never get used to this new evolution of 3 dimensional CGI and 2d animation, it just ruins the experience for me. I am kind of old now so I grew up with animaton like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdX6U5OOoag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24


To see how motion animation has taking such a backwards turn is frightening and i understand the need to adapt new technologies especially when things are so much faster and easier to do with computer's. I have come to accept the newer form of digital animation that has existed in the last 2 decades now, using decreased frames and still shots to render scenes for most contemporary works, But 3DCGI should NOT be a part of this trend in Japanese animation especially when they try and make some form of hybrid animation by mixing the two. The end result is always going to have this computerized, robotic fake look to it. Its less organic. Anyways sorry for the rant people.

link9us said:

Yamato the new remake for example did it effectively where they used mainly the 3d CG for background action scenes, but kept characters and foreground objects with 2D animation.