Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 511

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First Thoughts
Alright Rayleigh. Alright. You are cool now. You are cool. You used to be some old dude for whom I did not care much. Still, if you are going to shoot bullets at cannonballs and the cannonballs explode in midair, then you have my seal of approval. This little moment made me a believer in Rayleigh.

This episode is proof that the anime production can introduce entertaining filler material. I never really had a problem with filler material. As long as the material is not outlandish or it does not last too long, then it is okay. One Piece seems to avoid extraneous filler material, which is positive for the continued appeal of the series. In this case the material expanded upon the manga’s depicted plot .

Also we got to see Rayleigh do cool things. That is always nice.

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 505

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First Thoughts
Oh my! I don't care what anybody says. I truly believe that the anime is better then the manga. It is episodes like this one that makes me really love the anime. It is times like this where the anime takes what they are give and then improve upon it ten times. The manga is good and all but the anime just knows how to take it and fill in the blanks and shine the good parts even more.

Also I got a lot of screencaps of Makino. That is always good....I don't have a problem!

Also lots of StrawHat crew images. Wow.....

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 503

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First Thoughts
I was so expecting tears when I went into this episode. You had the death of Sabo follow by his last words to his brother. How can a person not expect tears to happen.

This episode wasn't perfect though. There was one moment that made me wish to turn off my volume which I was close to doing. Overall the episode was everything I expected when it came to covering the material at the same time was able to add more to it.

Also Mikey is back to blogging. He shouldn't since he still has a convention report to do.

Manga: Chapter 622 (SPOILERS)

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Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 489

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First Thoughts
Got to do this fast so I can get back to playing Pokemon Black.

So here comes Shanks to end the war. Got to say that it gave me the same feeling that I got when I saw this in the manga a year ago. Well...that isn't completely true since I did found some parts of the episode exciting but overall it felt the same as it was during the manga.

To tell the truth....I don't have much of first thoughts as I really want to get back to playing Pokemon Black right now. haha Hey! Don't judge me....

By the way....Got so many screencaps of this episode that I literally gave up caring towards the end. Glad the Marineford is over because I hope in the future to take less screencaps.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 488

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First Thoughts

First I must do this: AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!~ In awesomeness. Second, I must note that for once (maybe the first time…) I, Sora, am extremely ON TIME. Yes…That is just the thrill I got from watching (and being able to comment on) this fabulous episode. Gods, it is extremely epic. Easily just as epic as last week’s episode. Coby totally OWNED this episode. Good for him, standing up like that. He should do that more often, but then again, he would totally die a lot earlier then...

I now know why this episode was so highly regarded when the chapter came out. Wow. The awesomeness never stops. Not ONCE during the duration of the episode does the action vary. Of course, it does help that there were so many surprising things occurring, like the appearances of so many allies and the sudden actions of a few individuals. As awesome as last week’s episode was (which was easily x10 better than normal), this episode is easily x3 as good as that.

So…I kinda liked it. Haha, I certainly took more pics for this episode than I have in weeks, that is for sure.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 487

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First Thoughts 
In the town where I was born~,
Lived a man, who sailed the seas,
And he told~ us of his life,
In the land of submarine~,

Enough of that. I am sure that many of you know why I am singing that song but incase you don't know the song then take a listen to Yellow Submarine by The Beatles.

This episode did have it low moments but when the show was on a high moment it really was really high! So many great things happen that would make any One Piece fan squeal in excitement. We had Crocodile being awesome and such an great ending to the episode. What more can we ask for? Well beside pacing things that something fans asks for a long time. Still a fun episode.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 483

First Thoughts 
Mikey: So here we are. After so many long years, One Piece has finally seen it's first real time death. Some people may say that we have seen death in real time but really this is the first real time death of a character that we knew. A character where the overall objective was to save him and along the way we saw some development via flashbacks and appearances.

Kind of hard to put what I want to say in words. This was an amazing episode that had an ending that left me speechless. Just like the last few minutes where there was no music playing to create silence, so was everybody else who were watching this episode.

To join me in this post I have Neku and Sora. Say hi guys.

Superneku: Hi everyone.

Sora: 'Sup.

Mikey: Also I guess the opening image for this post is a bit strange but I wanted to use the same scene that was used for the manga post which was done almost a year ago. Still for now sit down as we try to go over the events of this episode.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 481

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First Thoughts 
OH MY GOSH! I was smiling so much in the first half of this episode! Just seeing Luffy and Ace together made me so happy. Everything about the first half of the episode was perfect and I enjoyed every moment of it! This was the best way to end the year for One Piece. I felt tears of happiness after watching last week's episode and that happy feeling continue on from the first moment when I saw Ace and Luffy (with Mr. 3) floating in the air in the tunnel of flames.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 480

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First Thoughts

Sora here, proud and happy to announce that this is the last episode to cover a manga chapter I have previously read! Huzzah!! Now (minus the spoilers I already have regarding major events) I can actually be SURPRISED again upon watching my weekly One Piece episode. HUZZAH! Plus, this episode was amazing all on its own. Really surprising, blew me right out of the water, and had a perfect “One Piece” ending to the episode. Covered a lot of material as well, a lot of huge events occurred that were sure to freak out people who hadn’t already known what to expect. What I especially enjoyed was how quickly they moved the episode along, because they covered a lot of material here and it all went together so well, even with the few flashbacks.

{Oh, and I have non-officially dubbed this episode “The LOVE Episode”. Way too many instances of affection (brotherly, parenthood, friendship) to not have it be mentioned.}

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 479

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First Thoughts 
This was such a great episode! Damn awesome! Everything felt fast pace and the action was intense. Even the filler with Buggy was good. The filler with Buggy was a bit strange but it had some great moments.

My favorite moments were the ones with Crocodile and Boa Hancock. Very awesome moments that I loved very much. Got to love some Crocodile action since that guy does it with class.  Then again we all know that Crocodile is going to dile...Or was it Croc? Not really sure.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 478

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First Thoughts

Again, I may add, I was surprised by the events which were covered in my episode. I mean really, this episode held onto a lot of the humor which last episode (477) had brought, and yet saved a few surprises of its own right at the right moments. It was also almost entirely beautifully drawn as well; excellent face-scenes and shots of people. The overall chapter that the episode covered was a phenomenal one in itself; a lot of Gasp! Moments, and then a stunning finale, revealing a lot of fun stuff to everyone, hehe. Excellent overall, very action-y, and very worrying for certain Whitebeard crew members. Very epic, and I was surprised at the end, I had completely forgotten that That occurred when it did. Very awesome.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 477

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First Thoughts 
Not much on the first thoughts for this episode. This episode had a lot moments that were good like the beginning and the end...I think...I don't have much to say off the top of my head right now.

I do have the feeling that the animators didn't do something to that is kind of important. Then I went to look at my copies of Shonen Jump to find out that what I was thinking was in a different chapter that is later on.

So let get to the meat of the post and hope that Mikey has more to say there.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 476

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First Thoughts
The other title for this episode was going to be "How to be a Douche by Borsalino 'Kizaru'". Damn that Kizaru. He is such a damn troll. How much of a loser must you be to attack a man when he is down and can't attack back. What a damn loser...I go more into it later.

This episode was kind of slow really. The filler parts were bad and the action parts were slow. It felt forever to get though at some parts and clearly you can see where they were padding out the episode with long drawn out scenes. Not as bad as it was with Hancock's daydream from a few episodes back but still a bit painful to watch.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 474

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First Thoughts 
This was an amazing episode. This episode was tense from beginning to end. Then to help with the tone of this episode there was greatly animated scenes that looked good throughout the whole episode. This episode had me on the edge of my seat for most of the time and I was surprise when the eyecatcher came up since it didn't seem to be half way though the episode.

One difference between the manga chapter that this episode was based on was that I thought that the manga chapter was a bit funnier. In the manga I remember seeing a part where Luffy tries to go over the encircling wall by using Gum Gum Rocket but then get shot down as Jimbei and Ivankov were watching. That was funny to watch but it seems like it was cut out during this episode. Then again if that was included in the episode then it would have taken away from the serious tone of the episode.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 472

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Thoughts

So many face shots in this episode! More face shots then you have toes and fingers. Kind of crazy in the amount of face shots and how long they last. Then again they had to find a way to past time in order to fill a twenty three minutes time slot which they did a good job of since every shot looked really nice.

Also I think with this episode we at the blog have created a new tag featuring the popular Marine admiral Akainu. This would be the moment where I mention that we need a tag for Aokiji but it seems like somebody went ahead and created one called 'Aokiji Greatness' which is okay with me. haha

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 471

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First Thoughts

Sora here. I'm taking over this week, and probably switching on-off with Mikey again. Ooh, that gives me the Halloween episode! Sweet.

I really liked how this episode played out, and what they managed to fit in there at the ending surprised me. There was a lot of action, which kinda stalled for Luffy again, but still they zoomed on a lot of really interesting battles. For instance, Vista and Mihawk’s battle was again brought up, although nothing of important consequence occurred.

At the end of the episode though, I think that Ace about near had a fit. Heck, I was shocked, and I already knew what was coming! Yeah, it was rather…interesting, to say.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 467

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First Thoughts
This was a great episode but a part of me feels like I should be a bit upset. The material for this episode was about one chapter from the manga and they really stretch out the part where Luffy was running and battling out random Marines. So basically not much happen when you think about it. Though this episode was handle great with good filler and some well animated parts. Those two things really saved this episode from being bad.
So congrats Toei for making something that could have been boring into something good.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 463

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First Thoughts
It seems like everybody was swinging on parade in this episode! We saw everybody from the Whitebeard Pirates to Marines battling it out. This episode had a bit of everything for everybody from a flaming Marco to a stupidly looking Kizaru. Still the main star of this episode was clearly Akainu as he began this heated brand of justice. Looks like things are heating up fast.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 462

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First Thoughts

This was a great follow-up to last week’s great hoard of insightful information in my opinion. About halfway thru the episode we finally, after ages and ages, get to see the action begin as well! I was so happy and excited when it began finally. I must admit though, as long as they keep the bad animation to a minimum, the animators could really do wonders with this huge scene. Of course, I noticed them using some cheaper animation for a lot of parts, and this is becoming more and more common, but I figure that as long as it is used in moderation, it is alright.

Anyway, they really got through a lot of the plot here. A brief few scenes from Ace’s flashbacks last episode near the beginning, a huge revelation as to Whitebeards extraordinary powers, and one step closer to having Luffy and the escapees arrive at the battle, all in one go! A great episode. I must admit though, I am still very unsure as to when exactly Luffy and them will arrive. The procession has been strange, so I am very in the dark as to a time-episode estimation. The ending to this episode was great, the action between fighters was really exciting. The first big battle we’ve seen since Thriller Bark, and even there is was really just zombies. All-in-all, I was expecting a lot, and I received it.