Re: Latest Episodes Discussion
Mihawk is pretty cool, even the men-hater Hancock recognized it.
Not sure she was talking about Mihawk, seeing as she was thinking "There are rowdy men everywhere and I can't stand it.
He is also a man, but he's an exception." *dramatic look* "I'm praying for you, Luffy!"
I think she was merely disgusted by the other men present and drew a contrast between them and the only man whom she actually likes: Luffy.
Not much to say about this episode. Pretty much everything's been said. To mention something positive, I do think they managed to pull off a decent cliffhanger this time. Naturally, it would've been better had they just ended the episodes in the same way Oda did (his cliffhangers were ten times more suspense), but unlike last week and the one before that, this one did at least leave you wanting to see what happens the moment afterwards (which is really the reason you have cliffhangers in the first place).
Bad recap, bad fillers, bad pacing and thus, since the pace is dragged down, very little is seen of the actually decent animation.
I stick to my opinion that Oda could have handled the war a lot better in the manga as well, but compared to how they're slaughtering this arc in the anime, the manga version of it is really starting to appear as awesomely epic as everyone initially shouted week after week.
HOWEVER... I'm beginning to like Whitebeards laugh. It still sounds hilariously bad, but at least it's hilarious amidst all the stuff that's nothing but bad. Brings for a good chuckle between the facepalms.
And sorry if I'm sounding overly negative. But don't worry; if they keep handling it like this, I'll probably drop the anime anyway.