There are several moments when the anime is fairly superior though imo.
There are several moments when the anime is fairly superior though imo.
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I won't deny it, the scene where Luffy stood up against Lucci was bloody magnificentOriginally Posted by UChessmaster
The problem though, is that even with above average fillers the pacing is much worst in the anime
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Last edited by Archangel; Tue, 01-18-2011 at 06:38 PM.
I don't really agree with that at all. I read most of the manga after it's already aired to see the differences, and I find the manga to be paced almost TOO fast. Especially in this arc. The amount of crap that goes on in any given chapter makes the whole thing seem like a frantic clusterfuck.
And, at the end of the day, fights just fucking suck when they aren't animated.
Things like Whitebeard tipping the entire island are about 10x cooler in the anime than they come across in the manga.
Well... The whole thing is supposed to be a frantic clusterfuck. Its a war, and was a race against time to save Ace. It isn't a "hey lets watch 2 people have a duel before we get on with our fight" or "hey lets read entire chapters/watch entire episodes dedicated to minor characters fighting other minor characters".
Didn't stop them from doing it in Alabasta with "Hey, lets pair off and have a bunch of duels when we're supposed to be preventing this war" or in Enies Lobby of "Hey, lets pair off and have a bunch of duels when we're supposed to be breaking Robin out of imprisonment."
Each of those arcs had their own set of circumstances that dictated that they break up into small groups. Additionally, neither one had the Straw Hats actually fighting in the war (at Alabasta, their duels were done separately against Baroque Works, and only actually fought in that war at the very end). In short, pairing off to have a bunch of duels was how they were trying to stop the war. And breaking off into pairs was how they were supposed to be freeing Robin.
But here at Marineford, it is literally a battlefield. Its a war. And Luffy is actually directly fighting in it. Wars aren't fought in duels. The situation is completely different from both of your analogies.
The situation was exactly the same in those other two situations. The only difference is the plot carried the main characters away from the battle so that they could have their duels.
In Alabasta, the strawhats arrived early to have their duels before the Rebels and the Royal guard clashed. In Enies Lobby, the strawhats basically burst through the Marines to fight duels with the main villains while Galley La and Franky House had a huge battle with the marines behind them.
The exact same thing should have realistically happened here as well. The most powerful members of Whitebeards crew should have blown right through the marines to engage the Admirals and Shichubuki behind the marines front line.
Instead, we basically had the entire battlefield have their entire focus on Luffy for the entire attack. Every single powerful enemy would end up standing in Luffy's way one to get intercepted by one of the equally powerful good guys.
That's the point at which a duel SHOULD have happened. But it never does, instead, character end up squaring off, only to separate for no reason seconds later. I lost count of the number of time Jinbei would jump on some admiral, and then, a short time later, jump in against another enemy. It's like the admiral he was fighting and Jinbei just went "Well, Luffy's past us, spotlights not on us anymore, guess we'll just go our separate ways".
So to try and pass that kind of crap as "realistic war" is just ridiculous. Yes, people totally let enemy commanders walk off while you have them engaged in a fight all the time.
And it's not just because the anime is pacing it wrong or whatever. That shit is all there in the manga too.
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