One Piece: Episódio de East Blue

Due to falling in love with the Netflix One Piece live-action, in less than two weeks I have re-watched the live-action several times and restarted the anime from the beginning, currently on episode 100. Still waiting on my Malaysian copy of the complete OP movies and OVAs. Until then, I got far enough in the anime that I could watch this movie.

If you've watched the entire live-action series or seen the anime past the Arlong Park arc, this movie is a quick recap of the origins of our original five Straw Hat Pirates. Produced to celebrate 20 years of the manga, it's nice to see updated animation of the series opening. While it's mostly an upgrade, there are backgrounds that have a bit of a rudimentary style at times that feels lazy or generic. Not a bad thing, but I can also spot moments that the live-action drew upon specifically from this version. (The infamous Nami Straw Hat scene wasn't executed as well here as anime or live-action.)

The dub voice actors sound largely the same to what I'm used to in pre-season 5 anime, albeit a little older. Usopp, may be different as he sounds more African American here.

It was one, but I'm very much looking forward to the more famous OP movies!

It skips over a lot but it gets to the point and it's a great refresher of the original 5 Straw Hats, it's broken into 5 parts each highlighting the Straw Hats in order of appearance and joining.