One Piece Episode 1074 Discussion

Ah, a fresh brand new OP after so long,

Yamato encourages Momonosuke to generate flame clouds, but even though Momonosuke is unable to do so, he perseveres in his efforts to halt Onigashima's advance. Meanwhile, Luffy's fierce battle with Kaidou continues unabated on the rooftop. Kaidou asserts that Roger did not possess a Devil Fruit, emphasizing the supremacy of Haki. Amidst the castle's fires, Hyogoro reveals the island's imminent fall due to Kaidou's weakening. He presents a choice: Luffy's victory leading to the island's collapse, or Kaidou's triumph granting a brief respite. The samurai selflessly choose Luffy, willing to sacrifice for the innocent. Orochi, reduced to one head, threatens to take Hiyori with him if he dies. Back on the roof, Luffy summons a FUCKING colossal fist as he prepares to conclude the battle, directing Momo to relocate Onigashima before his forthcoming attack.

The two main focuses of this episode are no doubt the new OP and the second half of the episode, and for the first time ever in One Piece history the opening is of normal length, 1:30. That OP is miles better than the last one, though it ain't hard to beat since it was obviously one of the worst One Piece openings imo. The visuals are episode 1015-esque with the beginning being from the POV of Yamato's book it seems, and seeing as how Megumi Ishitani herself directed this OP it's not a surprise. Now the song, I actually like it, and it's quite the banger. It has that pre-timeskip feel and just has a sense of freedom and joy. This OP resembles Luffy's Gear 5 quite well if I'm being honest. So much to unpack from the opening alone, but holy shit they went off in the the first half of the episode that's on the rooftop. From Luffy's Gum Gum Thunderbolt, to Kaidou's Thunder Bagua Death Destroyer. Shit I think it was Vincent Chansard. Don't even get me started on the colossal fist he used at the end. As well as the festival, chef's kiss. Those flashabcks at the end were powerful man. That's how you do flashabacks Toei.

We're slowly but surely nearing the end of Wano-Kuni.


SHANKS IS IN THE OPENING WOOO

Jesus Christ did they really waste almost 5 whole minutes on yet another damn Momonosuke flashback? The same one we've seen like two dozen times of the burning castle? FFS Toei you could've at least come up with something more original to drag out the episode...

The actual animation was way better than episode 1073 and actually makes me wish 1073 simply didn't exist because of how damn embarrassing it was. The extended fight scene was good even though there was a lot of random flying around by both Luffy and Kaido which made following what was happening really confusing in some parts, but at least it looked all right... until the giant fist scene. That looked like crap; did they run out of budget already?

Jesus Christ did they really waste almost 5 whole minutes on yet another damn Momonosuke flashback? The same one we've seen like two dozen times of the burning castle? FFS Toei you could've at least come up with something more original to drag out the episode...

The actual animation was way better than episode 1073 and actually makes me wish 1073 simply didn't exist because of how damn embarrassing it was. The extended fight scene was good even though there was a lot of random flying around by both Luffy and Kaido which made following what was happening really confusing in some parts, but at least it looked all right... until the giant fist scene. That looked like crap; did they run out of budget already?