Key Takeaways
- One Piece: Fish-Man Island Re-Edition improves pacing & animation of notorious arc.
- The faster pacing in the remake can feel too fast, leading to abrupt scene changes.
- Potential for the remake to fix pacing issues by fully fleshing out scenes & cutting unnecessary content.
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Manga Chapters |
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TheOne Pieceanimeis now facinga hiatus, leaving the community hungry for new content. Luckily, rather than being devoid ofanynew episodes for half a year,One Pieceis remaking one of the series’ most notorious arcs, Fish-Man Island. With two episodes so far,One Piece:Fish-Man Island Re-Edition has already proven to be a strong adjustment to Fish-Man Island, fixing things like the show’s pacing and animation.
However, despite improving one ofOne Piece’smost controversial arcs, the Fish-Man Island Re-Edition, it suffers from a new problem thatOne Piecefans never thought the show could face.At times, thepacing and editing of thenewepisodes prove to betoo fast, creating a feeling of sprinting through the episode, moving on too quickly from scene to scene.While this is afairlysizable complaint, overall, the faster pacingfeels like it could be one major problem to an otherwise excellent remake.
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One Piece: Fish-Man Island Re-Edition Fixes the Arc
Pacing Problems Be Gone
There is a reason why theOne Piececommunity hates the Fish-Man Island arc. Outside some subpar content moments, like Sanji’s nosebleed gag and Hody Jones as a villain in general, the actual translation to the anime made an already struggling arc even worse. The anime version of Fish-Man Island introduced a new animation style that many found to besloppier than what they saw during Marineford. Additionally, the pacing was far worse than anything shown off pre-time skip, stretchingout51 chapters into 51 episodes. This one-to-one translation wasextremelyoff-putting to fans, ruining any good content the arc could have had.
I can’t believe it. It’s been two years already.
Luckily,One Piece:Fish-Man Island Re-Edition sets to cut down the episode count and improve on various aspects of the animation. Line art is thicker, with more details and better color, allowingelements of character designto pop much better. On top of this, the remake has condensed 51 episodes into a much more manageable 21 episodes through a faster editingstyle,and cut a few unnecessary moments.
Fish-Man Island Pacing May Be Too Fast Now
A Complaint No Fan Thought They Would Have
However, this new editing style isexactlywhere themajorproblem of the One PieceFish-Man Island remake starts. Now, scenes jump far too quickly into one another, cutting themselves off at awkwardtimes,andcreatinga bit ofconfusion. While each specific moment is more or less the same,it seems thata little too much downtime was cut between each scene. However, this feeling may be a consequence of watching well over 1,000 episodes with the slower editing styleand suddenly jumping to a much faster style can be a bit jarring.
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Potentially,if Fish-Man Island Re-Edition could fully flesh out each of its scenes instead of cutting them off at awkward times, it could fix the confusing pacing that the One Piece remake faces. By doing this, tostill save time and keep the new arc condensed, the anime could also completely cut unnecessary scenes that contribute little to the plot. One of the most hated elements of Fish-Man Island, even in the manga form, is the amount of unnecessary scenes that pad the runtime. This problemis something thatpersists well after post-time skipas well. Fixing this issue during the Fish-Man Island remake could set a new precedent for how the show is animated in the future, not just for remakes,but for future new episodesas well.
In the end, althoughthe new Fish-Man Island episodes being released during One Piece’s multi-month hiatus are two steps in the right direction, they reveal some glaring problems that the anime adaptation ofOne Piecehas suffered from since the beginning.Reading a manga and watching a show are two completely different beasts, with the former taking up far less time. An anime requires the viewer to sit through hundreds of hours of theshow,without allowing them to quickly flip through slower parts. Although the Fish-Man Island remake does feel closer to the manga in terms of real-time pacing, it still has a long way to go before it perfectly gets there.
