Anime Episodes 291 and 292 are TV specials and not a continuation of Enies Lobby arc

[deltara]

]291. Boss Luffy Again! Dream or Reality Lottery Riot - On Christmas EVE

292. The Great Race at the Rice Cake Firewood Castle! Red Nose's Conspiracy
Oshiro de Mochimachi Daireesu! Akai Hana no Inbou - On the 7th of January

I don't know if to call it a pity since after the coming weeks episode,
290. Uncontrollable! Chopper's Forbidden Rumble on the 17th of December,

it seems we have to wait after the week of the 7th January for the continuation of the Enies Lobby Arc

[Chuixupu]

Sounds like more Edo era stuff. ^^

[Lord Raiden]

Well, it's completely understandable actually. Since the next two episodes are going to be during the heart of the holidays, they figure that it's better to put filler episodes in there than to bother with possibly low ratings on mainline episodes. Plus if someone misses a couple episodes because of the holidays, they're less likely to gripe about missing filler episodes than they are about regular ones. Especially since we're about to see Chopper go nuts here soon.

[Climhazard]

nooooo i have to wait even longer for UBER CHOPPER!

[marvelB]

I was hoping for more Edo period-OP specials. IMO, the special from last year was the best of the OP TV specials/movies/fillers. Though I find it odd that they're listed in the episode numbers rather than being a stand-alone special....


And I SO hope that Kumadori is one of the villains in the special. He'd fit in PERFECTLY.

[Sazelyt]

Doesn't this kind of special episode happen every year around the same time?

[Chuixupu]

Yes they do.

[chucky]

Sweet. I always like their special one-episode fillers.

Especially the Edo period stuff, which is pretty cool in my book.

[striderm]

Originally Posted by Climhazard

nooooo i have to wait even longer for UBER CHOPPER!

You won't actually have to wait all that long.

[DrFuko]

TV specials beat the living daylights out of flashback episodes. Lets just be thankful for that.

[Climhazard]

Originally Posted by DrFuko

TV specials beat the living daylights out of flashback episodes. Lets just be thankful for that.

Praise the lord (<--Toei)

[Xinil]

Damnit, fillers ftl.

Oh well though, not like we aren't accustomed to them right?

Thanks for the info!

[monir]

Screenshot for episode 291:



I love OP special. They always have beautiful drawing with lots of details in the background which the TV series usually lacks. We can also see some good-to-excellent range of animation that teases the imagination what One Piece could have been if Toei was willing to spend money on animation for the TV series. Since this special is a continuation from the last year's settings of the TV special, I was excited than usual that Nami-chwaan will be wearing a Yukata (traditional Japanese clothing) which in turn, gives rise to my frivolous thoughts.



and the equally ravishing Robin in Yukata....



Compared to last year's special which I think is the best of all the OP special, this one wasn't as polished in character design and was lacking in background detail. Still, there were few screenshot-worthy frames:



This special also features two new characters in addition to the characters that were comprised of in the last year's special. Notably, one of them is that ero-camel from Alabasta that doesn't let any bottoms touch its back unless those bottoms belong to sexy female.



I enjoyed this one, so I'm very much looking forward to the next one as well.

[Climhazard]

Eyelashes!!!

[monir]

Saw episode 292. The screenshot as follows:



This episode special features more funnies. A brief synopsis on the episode:

Spoiler for special episode 292:

Nami, Sanji, and Chopper is dragging a cart. The goods they are carrying, rice cakes, needs to be delivered to Vivi hime-sama's kingdom. The word has it something very valuable is with those cakes. Naturally, Buggy the Clown is after it. Hachi and the guy who talks with his mouth close, but can't make any words because he doesn't realize his mouth is close, then he suddenly does.... well, he and Hachi are trying to steal that cart also. After a lot of interruptions and unsuccessful attempt, Nami delivers the goods to the kingdom. Buggy is way ahead in thinking, amazingly, and waits in the building where the king and his daughter Vivi will give away the rice cakes to the people that are waiting in the ground. He demands for the valuable that was delivered. The highest point of this episode for me is in the following scenes where he grabs Vivi by the throat. "Strangle her man, strangle her! before she tries to speak in that horrible voice of hers" is what I wanted to say as I was watching the episode, but I didn't.

Anyway, the king gives in and point a box to Buggy. A delighted Buggy is soon exasperated in a funny way for the box is empty. He threatens them by lighting his canon. The canon fires, but the only thing the canon spits are those rice cakes. Luffy makes his entrance, punches Buggy to the stratosphere, and that's the end of that.

The king reveals the golden rice cake that he hid under the sleeve of his hand. He throws it as hard as he could in the waiting crowd. It hits Zoro-the-monk to his great annoyance. The annoyance becomes sheer joy as soon as he realized it's a freakin rice cake. Yeee hooo. He bites on to it and it tastes horrible. So he throws it away without even realizing there was a huge diamond hidden inside that race cake. Robing gives the most delicious of laugh only a cool, collective, and a reserve woman can give. Robin is gorgeous!

The end.

Once again, the shining point of this episode lies in the detail of the background. It was a tiny bit better in the animation category than last episode 291. Other than that, last year's special still remains the best special One Piece has featured as of yet.

[onepiecelover]

Did anyone else think that the animation on the special was simply amazong or is it just me O_O

[CrumCon]

the worst filler on One piece to date!!

the worst.. and its just the worst episode!!

[Animas]

After ep 291 id have to say that it's the first time (well maybe second if you put out the man and his sheep filler) that i actually wanted to finish quicker.
I just hope ep 292 is the end (if it will be more im going to think of skiping that episode) and choper madness will begin *_*

[Tommy]

I don't mind the edo op fillers that much, It's just that they come at the worst time to interupt the flow of the main storyline. I basically just like it to see the all the cameos in that time period for op.