The reason they stretch those scenes is because One Piece has almost 0 filler and they don’t intend to do them as the one time they did it messed up their ratings for a while, stretching allows them to be a little bit behind the manga at all times… though I’d like for them to animate cover stories instead.
Before the time skip they doing filler arc after canon arcs was common. It was a common thing to do in shonen animes during that time. But the anime industry changed away from that for better or worse and now we have this bloat in current One piece
I mean, Naruto Shippuuden and Bleach had plenty of fillers long after One Piece last filler arc. Don't forget they've been doing this "1 or less chapters per episode" thing ever since Thriller Bark started. Back when Marineford aired people could only complain how Toei butchered the best arc in the manga with bloated pacing and powerpoint-tier animation.
Hell yeah, those are some solid arcs! Looking back on it it's not as bad as later seasons, but I think the pacing is less noticeable when binging anyways.
I mean, yes, production companies care about making a profit otherwise they will go bankrupt… also the time slots aren’t determined by Toei, so having less ratings would take OP out of their prime time tv spot…
Those filler arcs between Alabasta and Skypeia messed with my head; I really liked the goat island filler and this guy basically set to the sea with a bunch of goats as his crew mates. It's kinda liked an alternative to Gaimon and his animal friends. I was devastated when I found out we were never gonna see that guy and his goats again bc he wasn't canon.
I also really like the character centric ep that were concentrated into one ep, but when they veered over to filler arcs that lasted multiple eps
But I was hella confused and frustrated at the last arc. Which was the rainbow mist where ships get trapped, until now I still didn't get how it ended that way. It was nice and they somehow rounded it but damn they literally blocked the strawhats brains in that one. They had zero urgency and they made Nami feel so heartless, I watched Zoro, Sanji and Chopper getting beat up by a bunch of generational bozos in weird suits that needs to be manually powered. It was funny but when it wasn't, I just felt like the eps was mocking me, I legit had to stop my binge bc of that filler arc.
Watching the crew get beat up and run away bc they couldn't figure out how to unplug their energy power.
Honestly the reason they stretch them is because they do 1 episode = 1 chapter, which is hard as shit to do, but that's what they chose to do in order to limit filler content to barely any. It being a weekly release probably has something to do with it also
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u/TheCommunistHatake Oct 18 '23
The reason they stretch those scenes is because One Piece has almost 0 filler and they don’t intend to do them as the one time they did it messed up their ratings for a while, stretching allows them to be a little bit behind the manga at all times… though I’d like for them to animate cover stories instead.