Exactly 6 years ago today, the "Episode of" movie series for One Piece started with Nami's past story. Some of these episodes (movies) were totally worth of watching and managed to be partly better than the original tv series. Sorajima (or Skypiea like it's know in English) mainly further shows that Toie is on a slope. Digimon movies and Dragon Ball Super were clearly not enough to stain their nonexistent reputation, so naturally, they are now offering the same with One Piece. Gj.
I imagine this thing was structured by making a list of scenes that should be here, and then they were edited together. Whatever should have been there in-between those scenes to create tension, work as a build-up and make the movie have a solid pacing -- is not there. They did attempt to capture some of that with cheap narration of what occurred, but "eh" is pretty much the word I found myself saying when witnessing that. This thing really don't even seem like a continuous movie but rather an animated memo.
At least some improvement exists. Nami's boobs are way bigger than in the original and Nico Robin's Rack is so enormous I wouldn't even dare to write it without a capital letter. Priorities were clearly in all the right places when this was planned.
One Piece has been criticized for its ridiculously slow tempo/pace, but rushing things in this manner somehow made the thing way worse and so boring that it was mainly a waste of time and only managed to make the arc seem exponentially worse than it originally was.
