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From the title of the episode to the placement of it, to the actual content. This is literally a World Govt. propaganda screening to the core lmao.

Let’s forget about the unfortunate timing of the airing, literally sandwiched in-between the hype episodes of Garp’s invasion of Pirate Island.

It recaps all Admiral and important Marine officers (Sorry Smoker) and speeds up through some information and history of such, probably to hype up the stakes of the arc.

A realization that has caught up to me recent year is that, the best One Piece arcs tend to always have Navy heavily involved at a larger scope, probably which is ... why this recap really felt like a meal. It was a good watch and an entertaining one at that.

Holy shit this was hilarious lmaoo!!

This is way too good than this MAL page might entail, short, to the point, and hilariously funny. It’s like if official accounts were allowed to shitpost.

just watch it, a badly out-of-tune We Are remix with doodles of the characters from several moments of the story being memed on, the jokes are clever enough to have to rewatch several times in a row.

The franky meme alone deserves a watch. let alone the Zoro slander, this is something not even the most hateful twitter accounts can come up with when slandering a characters, let alone it being an official collaboration makes ... it infinitely funnier.
Go ahead, it’s on YouTube on the official One Piece channel. A preview for volume 108.

Is this even a recap? I mean, in a sense, it does revisit several points from the story, but on the other hands, non of them are chronologically ordered. More like an informative profile on all new and old emperors.

At least it gets points for being different, with mini Zoro and Brook being narrators.

With Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom, Shanks, Blackbeard, Luffy, and Buggy being all emperors of the past and present, it’s while 7 characters have had that title so far, and only one of them hasn’t been replaced yet. With what it seems like it, it feels that Shanks will be taken out by ... Blackbeard, but so far, all past emperors were taken out by non-emperor characters and got replaced by bystanders, it would be weird to have Shanks be the outlier.

It feels very weird to have a revolutionary arm focused recap episode as if they have done much in the story, it turned out, they did.

Special episode number 15 is yet another Egghead arc recap that starts off by re-introducing Ivankov and ending by whatever befalls Sabo on Lulucia.

I guess it’s fun to have Sabo narrate the episode, someone who’s not much screened in the show, and focus on the side least shown in One Piece, fun to see the story through the lens of the revolutionaries’ shenanigans.

Although I guess the Dressrosa portion took way too much time from the episode, but perhaps it’s a ... telling that Sabo really saved the revolutionary arm plot.

Please Dragon, don’t be a fraud!

It feels like Egghead had just started and we're already having our second recap episode in the midst. However, I understand your angst, however, had you known the amount of peak we had after this episode aired, the animation and direction were immaculate that we could have done with a couple more recap episodes after.

It also helps that the covered material is Eniese Lobby content, an arc so loved and praised by many to be the best in Shounen, period. It was certainly a wild nostalgic lookback, everything looked so different, and not only that it felt so different too. Weirdly enough, the stakes felt ... higher than whatever we're dealing with now even though the enemies weren't as powerful. It really makes you proud of what the crew became after very long.

Most of the recaps tend to be controversial episodes for the sole purpose of being released in the screening schedule of the parent show, they take up the time slot, delay the episodes, and slow down the progress. I get that, But sometimes, when you take time off, go tend to stuff in the real world, and then come back later, the recap can be a real bootstrap for getting back on the show.

In the case of the recap, the timing and release couldn't be more unfortunate, we were all hyped for Law's and Blackbeard's confrontation outside of Wano but then this recap hit us ... like a stray bullet.
In retrospect, it's one of those rare episodes that are really good to watch as a standalone or even by non One Piece fans, it introduces Law and covers his bigger points starting from Sabaody Archipelago all the way through Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, and Wano.

Good watch narrated by Chopper and Bepo.

And end of an era. It feels so wrong to see Wano finally ending, after almost 5 years of serialization, there are people who went from highschool to college graduations during that time, the world has changed massively that it feels so weird to chart the passage of time by Anime release schedules.

In recap episode, the 11-th Wano recap, we pay goodbye to Wano and its resident through the lense of Momonosuke, the once annoying child crybaby to the manly, still, annoying crybaby as he parts ways with the straw hats. Showing scenes of him gathering courage to unit Wano after Kaido and Orochi’s fall, ... to defending Wano from Greenbull’s infiltrating.

At least for me, the content of the recap wasn’t interesting or engaging enough for me to care too much for it, it feels like we’ve gotten dozen recaps of similar mediocre quality over the run.

I don’t know if this is yet another case of the Mandela Effect or I’m just tripping. Weirdly enough I feel like I’ve seen way too many razor One Piece collaboration commercials, I always get the image of Zoro swinging a razor blade on an X pattern for some reason, I’m pretty sure this commercial is not the first to do it. But it’s such a missed opportunity to not have him handle three all at once and give his body a full shave.

Nice Film Gold acknowledgment. It feels like everyone is trying to make you forget about it when it was one of the ... better One Piece movies. If I was to get a razor from the ones shown here it would definitely be the Film Gold edition.

And of course, Chopper is somehow there, canonically it shouldn’t make sense but hey, the mascot must sell the stock.

Always lovely to see Law included. These commercials remind me of the weird period where Law was heavily involved during the Dressrosa Saga, nostalgic times.

I've seen a lot of candy promotional material that collaborates with anime franchises, but this one is the first one that made me not interested in one. Seriously, remember those sad memes about cleaning products that look weirdly appetizing, like if they were candy? These look exactly like cleaning products, instead, they are actual candies, very off-putting, or at least in my eyes.

In fact, the original animations themselves look decent, nothing to complain about there, it's just the lack of creative integration with the show that is very disappointing, for example, there is a commercial where Dofflamingo, Luffy, and Law fight gets interrupted by a ... candy posing as a housewife, cleaning, and opera signing meanwhile her candy kid is on the couch. Probably watched said fight.

The rest of the commercials with the straw hats raising the candy box and screaming in excitement were generic enough not to care, but there you go, a One Piece candy commercial that has nothing to do with the franchise itself. We've seen better than this honestly.

Guys, remember when episode one of season one of Oshi no Ko was all the talk of the fandom? Not even the fandom, it leaked into other fandoms with so many discussions, cosplays, fan art and so much more, but can you really point fingers and question its legitimacy after you give the episode a watch yourself? It was objectively a rare product of talented people and great management that every animation project should strive for. It generated hype, it advertised for the source material, and it built up a massive fandom overnight, but then, the rest of the show aired, and it was … ... let’s just say, the first episode should have remained a standalone.

Following its success, a second season was announced, hype was rejuvenated, and of course, after the series has finished airing, you see a lot of conflicting opinions about the season, and the franchise as a whole, now that a clearer picture of the plot has been painted.

Without going into spoilers, I myself felt that the plot for 80% of the second season deviated greatly from the advertised main plot that was alluded to, it’s like watching a stream of Skyrim, but instead of the main quest, the streamer would grind through hundreds of hours of side quests that amount to nothing, a very high-risk low award situation, sure, we’re doing it for clues to help us unravel the main mystery that drove episode one of the first season but man, does it become old after a couple of episodes.

Not to say that the show fell off completely off its metal, there were many peak moments of immense build-up and perfect delivery, but it surely was a grueling way to get there, and even so, the reward did not justify the journey, at least in my eyes.

The second season keeps up the amazing quality, be it animation, character acting, voice acting, or directing, the entire package feels like a premium screening of a once of a lifetime performance, which really eases out the slower parts of the show. It is pretty to look at and hear at least.

I really praise the character development displayed here, even more than that of the first season, so many characters were introduced and each one of them felt like they had their moment, they were actual people tangled in the plot instead of NPCs that initiate conversations and give monotone responses.

I feel like after watching the last season, this one is the natural move to pursue, although I would give you a side-eye warning, you may be bored to your bones, but surely, the few but great payoff moments we get might just be enough to justify that for you.

Overall: 8.9/10.