What One Piece Fans Turning Their Backs on Fishman Island Remastered Means for Future Rereleases

Recently, while on a six-month hiatus, One Piece did something many fans never expected. While taking a break, rather than leaving fans with a drought of content, they decided to rerelease one of the series’ most controversial arcs, Fishman Island. Although this wasn’t the same as new episodes of Egghead Arc, fans were excited for the series to have a second attempt at Fishman Island, and hopefully solve a lot of the issues.

However, while fans were initially excited after the Fishman Island remastered was released, fan opinion quickly changed on the updated content. Rather than praising it for bringing much-needed changes to a subpar arc, fans started calling attention to some decently negative aspects of One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga. Additionally, this new negative opinion from the community may spell doom for any new rereleases of poorly paced One Piece arcs in the future.

The New Fishman Island Cuts Down The Unnecessary Aspects Of The Original

Both The Animation And Pacing Have Improved

One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga is a remaster of the controversial Fishman Island Arc of One Piece that sets out to solve some of the arc’s most troubling issues. Mainly, this arc takes the original content and improves both the art direction, by adding thicker lines and more details, as well as the pacing, by cutting certain scenes and making faster edits. Overall, this arc cuts down a large portion of the episodes from the original Fishman Island, making for a more streamlined viewing experience.

While the new remastered arc looked fairly good with the update, fans quickly realized that the new style of editing may be a bigger issue than it was before. With the quick editing between scenes feeling fairly jarring and the removal of important and beloved scenes completely, the new Fishman Island was lacking in terms of clarity. Although it was a much faster experience, some fans believe that the arc sacrificed too much to achieve this result.

The Editing Style May Be A Bit Too Fast

The New Editing Sacrifices Clarity For Speed

• The New Fishman Island Prioritizes Speed And Cuts Important Scenes
• This Can Lead TO Some Confusing Cuts That Don’t Make Sense

For this reason, when deciding between which version of the Fishman Island Arc is better, many longtime viewers are recommending the original Fishman Island and not the remaster. Overall, between the lack of clarity and the removal of important scenes, the original Fishman Island is simply a better way to comprehend the story of One Piece, especially for a first-time viewer. Although the animation’s art direction is undoubtedly of better quality than the original, this may not be worth the strange editing style.

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Overall, the remaster of Fishman Island felt like a trial run for a trend that the series could continue in the future, with new releases fixing the pacing and art problems of the less-than-beloved arcs. Additionally, although the reception to the new Fishman Island has been fairly lukewarm from online communities, it seems unlikely that it could cause One Piece to abandon the idea of remastering arcs. However, if One Piece does continue with this remastering style, it may prove disastrous for this concept.

This May Discourage Re-Edits Of Future Arcs

Dressrosa And Wano May Remain Incredibly Long Forever

Although many fans were initially hoping for remasters of arcs like the extremely long Dressrosa Arc, when seeing the editing style they used for Fishman Island, many fans believe that there needed to be some improvements before handling a larger arc. With something like One Piece’s Dressrosa Arc or Wano that are extremely important to the series in general, editing in this style may become even more hated than the Fishman Island remaster. However, if the editors were to find a new style, like making the cuts between scenes less jarring, it may have an easier time being accepted by the community.

While the Fishman Island remaster of One Piece was far from awful, for many, it wasn’t nearly strong enough to become a suitable replacement for the already controversial arc. Additionally, with the negative reception of this remaster, many fans are worried about the quality of future remasters, if One Piece decides to continue with this trend. In the end, it’s always possible that Fishman Island is beyond saving in all forms, including the manga.

One Piece

Release Date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

Directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Writers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)