Quote Originally Posted by Sentenal View Post
One Piece anime pacing is something else. They made that entire episode out of a single chapter. And it was a good episode too, IMO.
You can think Oda for this. He managed to compress so much story into single chapters for this entire arc, that there is plenty of content to elaborate on and fill in the gaps for. All those things in this episode were taken bit by bit from manga, with slightly more detailed character interactions here. I think they did a good job filling in the gaps too, and I am sure even manga readers will appreciate the added detail.