Summary
For fans ofOne Piece, it is no surprise that the anime is getting a remake now. Back during Jump Festa, it was officially announced that theOne Pieceanimewas getting a remake, handled by Wit Studio, and fans were absolutely delighted with this announcement. While the anime produced by Toei is, by no means, bad, it is not the perfect product and doesn’t do justice to Eiichiro Oda’s work.
There are many flaws that the One Piece anime has, many of which are things that the staff that works on it cannot control. Regardless, many things need to be fixed when it comes to a One Piece adaptation, and some deserve more attention than others.
5The Sound Design
The One Piece Anime Needs Modern Sounds
Of the most important things thatOne Pieceneeds to update is the sound design. In 2024, One Piece still has the sound design that was used decades ago in Dragon Ball Z. The sound design has not been updated ever since, and it utterly ruins any incredible piece of animation that the studio ends up producing. The final product is always brought down by terrible sound design that feels out of place and should have been lost to time by now.
The One Piece remake will, naturally, have new sound design, and something that fans would deeply appreciate at this point, because for a modern anime with stellar animation to still utilize sound design from over 30 years ago is absolutely unacceptable.
4A Proper Seasonal Structure
The One Piece Needs To Have Seasons
One Pieceis a weekly anime and this has been the case ever since 1999. This weekly structure is incredibly detrimental to its production quality, and is one of the biggest reasons whyOne Pieceis so inconsistent in terms of delivering proper content to the fans. Some episodes are incredibly high in terms of quality, while others are incredibly hard to sit through. At the same time, some arcs inOne Piecehave been so bad that fans consider them disrespectful to the source material, while others are near-perfect adaptations.
This is all down to the fact that the staff that works on One Piece doesn’t get the required time to work on things and often, this causes a lot of production issues. While One Piece’s production schedule has been “healthy” for quite a while now, it is still far from perfect. Switching to a seasonal schedule will give the staff that is working on it ample timeto produce consistently quality episodesand not worry about anything.
3The Incorrect Filler
One Piece Notoriously Adds Incorrect Filler
WhileOne Piecedoesn’t suffer from an incredibly overwhelming number of filler episodes like Naruto does,it does have its own filler issues.Usually,One Piecehas in-canon episode filler, which extends upon things that the manga doesn’t illustrate. Sometimes, this works very well, but at others, the staff working on these episodes take their own liberties and end up creating something that is simply put, atrocious.
Sometimes, these things don’t even make sense, and others, they completely change character writing and the meaning of the scenes that Oda wants to deliver and create needless confusion among the fans. A proper adaptation would not need to do this to anime episodes, and while they can certainly be in-canon episode filler and freedom given to those working on the episodes, it must all be done within the vision that the author has for both characters and the specific event that is being elaborated.
It isn’t a surprise to know that a lot ofOne Pieceis laden with bad animation. Although, right now,One Pieceis one of the best-animated series out there, much of which is down to the incredible work put in by a staff that lovesOne Pieceto bits, it has had its ups and downs.One Piecehas suffered from terrible drops in qualitythroughout its run of over 1100 episodes, and at that point, it is expected.
The series needs a new beginning, and a new anime with modern animation, and a better schedule for the animators to work with, is certainly going to alleviate that.
1Pacing
The Biggest Problem That The Show Suffers From
The biggest issue of theOne Pieceanime is its pacing.One Piecehas terrible pacing and this is, once again, something that the staff working on the anime cannot be blamed for. Given thatOne Piecegoes on for the entire year, there would naturally come a point when it comes too close to the manga and, because of that, the anime will have to pace things accordingly.
One Piece’spacing has been the biggest issue for the story since forever. Some episodes see small manga panels being dragged on for multiple minutes. Other episodes have famously seen 6-minute recaps and still frames being focused on for minutes. The fact is that despiteOne Pieceincreasing its quality by quite a mile as of late, it still suffers from terrible pacing and this is one of the biggest reasons why new fans are not willing to get into the story.One Pieceremake has to fix this pacing issueand create aOne Pieceanime that is the perfect adaptation of around 500 or so episodes, which would then be marketed as seasonal anime and be something that fans would love to invest their time in every single year.
