Yeah first half was classic example of Shounen Stretching but once we got to White Beards Tsunami of awesome it was on.

Pacing is a tad weird though. As opposed to adapting a full chapter their choosing to stop one or two pages before the end to build cliff hangers as opposed to just using all the content.

Although it's pretty obvious that the scope of the White Beard war taxed oda to the extreme seeing that when it was being published he often would do 17 or even 15 page chapters as opposed to the usual 19. Hell he even took breaks.

But still so happy to see this finally getting animated.