ワンピース エルバフ編

which makes absolutely no sense by the way. oda created a plot inconsistency just to bait the readers. why would shemrock the leader of the holy knights need a special permission to talk to the elders and why would he need to go around hiding himself in a coat? especially when we see how he walks around mary geoise openly and being adored by everyone there. he could have asked to talk to the elders and attend there without hiding his identity, there was 0 sense doing that aside from oda trying to make us think it's shanks, which is very blunt considering he chose to hide only half his face, especially for that purpose. a classic example of bad\cheap writing.

Well based on Chapter 1125/Episode 1155, no not even the Commander of the Holy Knights is able to just waltz into the Room of Authority to talk to the elders. Garling, who to the elders is supposed to be the Supreme Commander of the Holy Knights at that point (which is a different, presumably higher rank than Shamrock's btw), casually walks in and one of them is like "What do you think you're doing here Garling?" Ju Peter says "Where is your proper deference, Garling?" and Mars says "Know your place." So if Shamrock, another Holy Knight with a lower rank than his father, wanted to have a discussion about a specific topic with the elders during the very busy time of the Reverie, yeah I would think he would need to ask for permission. In terms of wearing his hood (and I mean specifically the hood not wearing a coat entirely), I will say that is the one element in that entire scene where Oda was pushing it just a teeny bit to keep the ambiguity. He had to or else the ambiguity of the scene would've just fallen apart. However, including everything else like the dialogue of the scene, I think it does a good job of making it go either way; it could be Shanks or not. It's right at the tipping point. Shamrock wearing a hood doesn't take away from everything else that makes sense.

This is BS. Oda released 35 manga chapters last year and will release about the same this year. This year Toei is planning on releasing 26 episodes, and the same for the following seasons. That means they could easily do over a chapter an episode and still be a year behind. They are just buying themselves an even larger buffer. Maybe they will increase the pace for later episodes, but something tells me they are just milking it because they can. Doesn't matter to them I guess that it's making the anime boring af now. But for manga chapters where less happens, they could easily do 1.5 chapters an episode, or even 2 chapters in an episode of the next one is just 1 chapter and still run into no issues with catching up to the manga.

Almost 50 chaprtes is nothing. The anime (except dressrossa disaster) was always 50 or 40 something chapters behind. And with Oda making the manga almost biweekly now, it´s worse. They improved the pace of a lot of prior episodes (Wano, Whole cacke,... have some episodes that adapt 0,75 chapters). It´s not her fault that the content is what it is (a beginning of an arc usually it´s like this). With the 26 episodes a year and being 13-rest-13 I could see a future in which they adapt 1,5 chapters per episode in some episodes but, realistically, this future will be second cour of 2027 at the earliest (it depends of the manga rythm of course).

This. Oda usually makes 30 something chapters a year (and I think the number will go down eventually). If you make 2 chapters per episode, do the math, you adapt 52 chapters of the manga. RIP them. If you do 1,5 chapters it´s 39. Ok, between Oda releasing and the gap you are good. Next year, good (the gap decreased a lot). By the 3rd or 4rd year you don´t have almost anything to adapt in 26 episodes so RIP. Also, as It was said many times everywhere but almost noone wants to understand it, the pacing of an episode it´s not related to the number of chapters adapted but to the rythm of the episode itself (the content obviously makes a huge part here). Hell, episode 1015 adapted 0,7 chapters.

After really looking into it, it seems one piece is simply in a problem of their own creation. It's hard to use modern solutions to fix the issues of one piece, because no other manga is as dragged out. If oda would commit to more tightly written arcs, seeing that one piece is coming closer to its end, I could see a world where the rest of the arcs post elbaf are written more like modern manga arcs while they're dropped like actual anime seasons. This would also give the 'final run' of one piece a bit more grandiosity.

A lot of people don't seem to understand that the reason they can only do 1 chapter per episode is because they are working on multiple cours at a time, work on Cour 3 has already started. There is absolutely no way they could do that if they started doing 2 chapters an episode. I'm not sure why some of the people replying to you can't seem to do basic math, 3 months is barely a buffer and oda releases like 32 chapters a year so they aren't adding enough to their buffer that they can just blow it all by adapting more chapters.

Well I would say my point still stands. Toei is still ass. They have million cover stories they could have used in time but noooo There are cases where they padded up episodes without dragging the pace down but that happens once a year. Thats why I say, you can still make a good episode even if you adapt only 1 chapter, for most cases at least. And even ifff pacing is solved we still have Dragonball Z soundeffects, those overrated impact frames and white washed colour palette

Pretty much everyone in this comment-thread misunderstands the issue. They took on the rule of "1 chapter per episode", which seems pretty much ironclad for this season. I would disagree with that choice but it is what it is. That means it is all about the content of that chapter. The previous chapters both had more stuff, with Oda filling panel after panel with pacing, and for the things to put in between there were more options for Toei to put in fluff. This chapter however was literally just a bunch of guys walking inside a castle and a dude getting beat up by a woman. It was a slow chapter in the manga already, and it got comical in the anime. What were they realistically gonna put in? Subplot about taking a skull as souvenir for Brook? I am more bothered that they actually got lazy, reused shots with different backgrounds (like the same scene of walking right to left repeated like 3 times) etc, instead of trying to at least present it nicely (guess more budget was shifted for the combat and ass shots). But other than that, I already knew how this episode was going to end up weeks ago.