They wake up minutes later in a cell and try to figure out how to get out. Elsewhere, the Straw Hats who were captured by the people in the hazmat suits (Sanji, Nami, Chopper, and Franky) are in a prison cell and were shown to a gaseous figure known as "Master" who is very interested in Franky. Luffy runs after him and gets stuck to the legs after the legs fall on top of him.
However, the legs are alive and they run away trying to look for a Shichibukai. Luffy succeeds by pulling out only the legs, making everyone think that he killed the man. Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Robin are standing near the dead dragon that Zoro killed, with Luffy trying to pull out the man who is stuck in the dragon's nose. Transcription: " Ichimi Sōzen! Shōgeki no Kubi dake Samurai Tōjō!" ( Japanese: 一味騒然! 衝撃の首だけ侍登場!) "The Straw Hats Stunned! Enter: A Samurai's Horrifying Severed Head!" Meanwhile, Nami, Chopper, Franky, Brook, and Sanji are all asleep due to a sleeping gas and are abducted by men in hazmat suits. Zoro takes the opportunity to jump into the air with Usopp's trampoline and decapitates the dragon. Luffy manages to make the dragon chew its own wing, making it fall.
Luffy rockets up to the dragon's back, discovering the presence of a pair of legs. Luffy and Zoro start fighting the dragon, which is shown to be able to speak and breathe fire. Transcription: " Shakunetsu no Tatakai! Rufi tai Kyodai Ryū!" ( Japanese: 灼熱の戦い! ルフィVS巨大竜!) At Raijin Island, Smoker and Tashigi intercept the distress call that Luffy picked up and order the G-5 Marines to set a course for Punk Hazard. Their exploration is suddenly cut short when they encounter a dragon looking hungrily at them. The group wanders the area seeing the whole place on fire and wonders what happened to the island. With the help of Nami's clouds, the scouting group arrives at the main entrance which Zoro cuts down with ease. They then draw sticks on who will go with Luffy, and who will stay on the ship, with Zoro, Robin, and Usopp coming with Luffy. The crew than receives a distress call from someone on the island who is being attacked by a samurai. Luffy in his enthusiasm votes to go to the island, though most of his crew are reluctant to go. The Straw Hats have arrived at a volcanic island that does not show on the New World Log Pose. Transcription: " Jōriku! Moeru Shima Panku Hazādo" ( Japanese: 上陸! 燃える島パンクハザード) "Arriving! A Burning Island - Punk Hazard!" The opening themes are "We Go!" ( ウィーゴー!, Wī Gō!) performed by Hiroshi Kitadani, with the opening narration read by Mahito Ohba/Bill Jenkins with Chikao Ōtsuka/Sean Hennigan as Gold Rogers, used up until episode 590, and "Hands Up!" performed by Kōta Shinzato ( 新里 宏太, Shinzato Kōta) for the rest of the season.Įpisode List "Punk Hazard" No. Two pieces of theme music are used for the season. "Caesar Retrieval" deals with the recently formed Heart-Hat alliance rescuing Caesar from a mysterious person in order to take down Doflamingo and Kaido. Luffy and the prisoners team up to stop Caesar and his henchmen. There they discover Caesar Clown, an ex-Navy scientist, experimenting on children. Having left Fishman Island, the Straw Hats recover a distress signal originating from Punk Hazard. The story arc, called "Punk Hazard" ( パンクハザード, Panku Hazādo), adapts material from the end of the 66th volume to the end of the 70th volume of the manga by Eiichiro Oda. The first of twelve DVD compilations was released on January 8, 2014, with the last being released on June 4, 2014. Like the rest of the series, it follows the adventures of Monkey D. The season began broadcasting in Japan on Fuji Television from Januto January 12, 2014.
I felt distracted from the fiction realm for the reasons outlined, so I cannot give it my full acclaim, but it is not bad by any means.The sixteenth season of the One Piece anime series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto. Maybe it works for that, but I'm reviewing this as a piece of fiction. The show feels like less of a story and more of a public education series, trojan horsed in some story about a son of a sex therapist starting a similar service to his mother at school. In terms of themes, sex is tackled in a way probably never seen before on the small screen. Why did the series' producers feel that it would be better or more successful this way? Perhaps they were right in the latter, but for me, it makes focusing rather difficult. Now an American audience may be able to look past it, but a British audience cannot. Not only do you have the most diverse group of people I have ever seen in a school, but you have it in a pseudo-British school that looks and feels exactly like an American high school.