I like the show. I started watching it AFTER I watched the first season of the live-action show, which I loved.
I like the Anime too, but... it is SO slow. Many defend it by saying that it has to be slow, to have time for character development. But that's not what makes it slow. It's the 10 seconds of reaction shots, after every 5 seconds of action... and, well, the characters ARE slow. They talk so much, even when time is pressing. Bystanders do so much exposition and superfluous explanation, ALL THE time.
This episode is the perfect example. Luffy is drowning (which is not a spoiler, that was the cliffhanger at the beginning), and everybody knows that he has only a few minutes. They even say "we have to defeat our enemies in seconds, then we can save him" - but then they pause all the time, to talk and/or to listen... Then, someone else decides to rescue Luffy - but first, he has to explain that to the others. At long last, someone says "please, hurry!". But right after that, of course, someone says "stop!" - just to explain, in detail, why she should go with him...
Again, I like the show. But particularly the fight episodes are ridiculously slow. Five minutes last 20 minutes.
Some criticized the live-action show for driving the story forward to quickly, but I don't know. If they would have expanded the fights like they do in the Anime, I would have stopped watching mid-way through.
I like the Anime too, but... it is SO slow. Many defend it by saying that it has to be slow, to have time for character development. But that's not what makes it slow. It's the 10 seconds of reaction shots, after every 5 seconds of action... and, well, the characters ARE slow. They talk so much, even when time is pressing. Bystanders do so much exposition and superfluous explanation, ALL THE time.
This episode is the perfect example. Luffy is drowning (which is not a spoiler, that was the cliffhanger at the beginning), and everybody knows that he has only a few minutes. They even say "we have to defeat our enemies in seconds, then we can save him" - but then they pause all the time, to talk and/or to listen... Then, someone else decides to rescue Luffy - but first, he has to explain that to the others. At long last, someone says "please, hurry!". But right after that, of course, someone says "stop!" - just to explain, in detail, why she should go with him...
Again, I like the show. But particularly the fight episodes are ridiculously slow. Five minutes last 20 minutes.
Some criticized the live-action show for driving the story forward to quickly, but I don't know. If they would have expanded the fights like they do in the Anime, I would have stopped watching mid-way through.