996 likesOne Piece Anime Smooths Out One of Its Most Notoriously Clunky Lines
This week's One Piece anime finally adapted one of the manga's most notoriously clunky exchanges — and while animating it, staff quietly rewrote the dialogue around it, though not the meme phrase itself. On a Japanese reaction video collecting comments on the episode, the edit itself became the whole conversation before anyone got to the actual story. Across 461 comments, the top comment (996 likes) points out that the anime left the manga's actual meme line untouched and only smoothed out the dialogue immediately around it. Not everyone is as forgiving: another highly liked comment (532 likes) argues that needing the fix at all is something Shueisha's editors should be embarrassed about. From there the thread splits between blaming the source material and crediting the anime staff's editing, and commenters can't stop previewing next week's episode, which apparently crams several more of the manga's most-memed exclamations into just a few pages. By the end, even the skeptics admit they're curious to hear a professional voice actor deliver the next one out loud.