This article contains spoilers from One Piece's Egghead anime.
Summary
- Toei Animation's recent One Piece episodes upset fans with unnecessary changes, especially in Sanji's storyline.
- Characters are unnecessary altered, storylines don't make sense, and the adaptation strays from the One Piece manga.
- Despite fan backlash, fans should remember the anime is an adaptation and should not harass the staff for choices made.
One Piece’s anime returns with some controversies. After a long wait, One Piece fans aren’t too happy with the choices made by Toei Animation for the One Piece manga, which in many cases, makes no sense, and ruins the story and understanding of One Piece for people who only follow the anime and don’t read the manga.
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One Piece Fans Are Not Happy With The Two Newest Episodes
Toei Makes Unnecessary Changes to Sanji’s Parts of the Story
One Piece fans have not been too happy with the most recent episodes, notably episodes 1123 and 1124 which marked the return of the One Piece anime after a 6 month long break.
These episodes were supposed to hype up the fans after such a long break, but many fans were unhappy with how Toei was handling the anime. Although the animation quality is stunning and deserves praise of its own, the adaptation of the One Piece manga hasn't been faithful. Sometimes, fans have noted Toei adding unnecessary content for no reason, while at other times it impacts the story and doesn’t make any sense.
What upset fans most recently in these episodes is how the character of Sanji, a fan favorite, was handled. Sanji’s fight against S-Shark, where he rushes to save Nami in the manga, was totally flipped and Nami was shown saving him in the end with her bubble gun. Sanji was also made to have hearty eyes for Bonney, a character Oda specifically chose to not make Sanji have any romantic attraction to, when that never happened in the manga.
One Piece Fans Have Also Brought Up Old Mishandling of the Anime From Toei
Previous Events In Egghead, Zoro’s Conqueror’s Haki Reveal, and Much More
Fans are definitely upset at what Toei has done to Sanji in the anime, however, this isn’t the first or the last time that Toei has modified the events of the manga.
The anime previously also made Sanji struggle against S-Shark, prior to these new episodes, which never took place in the manga and was most definitely an upsetting and bizarre choice.
The anime also ruined one of Zoro’s most important scenes, which is the reveal of his Conqueror’s Haki. In the anime, they made Zoro unleash his Conqueror’s Haki against random enemies far before he was supposed to. This unnecessary addition ruined his real Conqueror’s Haki reveal, where it didn't even serve as a surprise anymore.
In the same arc, fans also saw Prometheus diving into the ocean to save Big Mom. For those who don't know, Prometheus is a sun homie, and water is his weakness. He would've died if he fell in the water. At some points, it feels like the scriptwriters don't even know the characters they're dealing with, which is a shame.
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The anime also messed up the cover story which involved the Big Mom Pirates, specifically the character of Cracker, with the Blackbeard Pirates, notably Van Augur and Kuzan. The anime made Van Augur one-shot Cracker's Biscuit Soldiers, which is nonsensical, as those Biscuit soldiers were stronger than Gear 4. Yet, the same Van Augur couldn't even get past Jean Bart on Winner Island.
Recently, in Egghead, the anime also made the odd choice to lighten the skin color of S-Snake, who is noticeably lighter than the other Serpahims, for no real reason. This and the constant sexualization of young characters like Bonney when it never took place in the manga, is rather bizarre.
The One Piece Anime Is Only An Adaptation
Fans Should Not Harass The Staff
While the changes in the adaptation are certainly not the best, fans should remember that the anime and manga are separate entities, and Oda has said he lets the anime team handle it and he does his own thing. These choices made by Toei are definitely controversial, but they should never lead fans to harass artists or anyone who works on the anime as decisions like these are not fueled by agendas. Animators in Japan are already suffering under harsh conditions.
- Release Date
- October 20, 1999
- Network
- Fuji TV
- Directors
- Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
Cast
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Mayumi TanakaMonkey D. Luffy (voice) -
Kazuya NakaiRoronoa Zoro (voice)
WHERE TO WATCH
- Studio
- Toei Animation
- Creator
- Eiichiro Oda
- Streaming Service(s)
- Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, Pluto TV
