The following contains spoilers for One Slice Chapter 1048, "Twenty Years," by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul and Vanessa Satone, bachelor in English from Viz Media.

Affiliate 1048 of I Piece, "Twenty Years," seems to be the showtime of the cease. Luffy and Kaidō have both launched their ultimate attacks; the Gum-Mucilage Bajrang Gun and the Rising Dragon Flame Bagua. With this, the climax of the fight and the Wano Arc has become a power struggle to see who's attack can overcome their opponent's.

This sounds like a pretty standard way to end a large shonen battle, but in the context of One Piece, information technology poses a potential problem. A fight from the manga played out in a similar manner to this i in the anime, and not many fans were happy with it. If Eiichiro Oda isn't careful, he may repeat Toei Animation's mistakes with the climax of the fight between Luffy and Doflamingo.

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To elaborate, here'southward how the Doflamingo fight was supposed to get. In Chapter 790, "Heaven and Earth," Luffy took to the sky above the Warlord, inflated his arm, and launched his so-ultimate attack, the Gum-Gum King Kong Gun. Doflamingo tried to block it with a combination of Spider Web and God Thread, only Luffy smashed through both of them. The impact of the King Kong Gun with Doflamingo sent him falling to the ground then hard that the earth split open, and the surrounding buildings were all leveled. The entire sequence was a showcase for how powerful and how unstoppable Luffy'due south assail was.

The unstoppable attribute of this scene was non translated well into the anime adaption. In Episode 773, "Set on on a Celestial - Luffy'due south Rex Kong Gun of Anger," the climax was significantly drawn out; over a minute and a one-half passed between Luffy'due south fist making contact with the strings and breaking through them to hit Doflamingo. The result was less similar the instantaneous bear on of the manga and more like a axle clash straight out of Dragon Brawl Z.

Fans were upset past the anime'south take on Affiliate 790 for a number of reasons. For one thing, it was all the same another prime number example of Toei needlessly stretching out scenes from the manga. Not only that, but it was coming off an arc that was already needlessly drawn out, fifty-fifty in the manga. Whether this was meant to pad the runtime, unnecessary tension to the scene or both, fans felt similar information technology was all a large waste of fourth dimension.

Making Luffy struggle in the anime also removes the feeling of superiority that was in the original scene. In the manga, Luffy immediately breaking through Doflamingo'due south defense served to illustrate how powerful he was at that moment. Past extending the scene so that Luffy apparently has to try harder to forcefulness his way through to Doflamingo, that sense of overwhelming power is severely reduced. This point won't necessarily apply to the clash between Luffy and Kaidō, merely it matters here.

Stretching out this scene in the anime also takes away the sense of impact felt by the original. If Luffy struggles to break through the strings and reach Doflamingo, so he shouldn't have the force or momentum to knock the Warlord dorsum the aforementioned way he did in the manga. Fifty-fifty Luffy'southward cartoon physics can't justify or account for this.

What makes all of this even worse is that information technology's not the only time the anime has done something similar this. Toei gave a similar treatment to Luffy's final attack against Caesar Clown in episode 617, "Caesar's Defeat! The Strongest Grizzly Magnum;" non only do all the complaints most the Doflamingo fight use here, also, but they're magnified as Caesar had admittedly no right to make Luffy struggle. As much equally fans disliked the end to the Doflamingo fight, it was only part of a larger problem with Toei'due south handling of the anime'south pacing.

The climax of Episode 733 was so poorly received that fans took information technology upon themselves to gear up the scene. In that location are several edits online that shorten the scene to make Luffy'south dial seem more instantaneous like in the manga. These edits are praised as not but exercise they make punch seem more powerful, simply the scene, in general, flows better than the unedited version.

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Unfortunately, it seems Oda is about to make a similar mistake to Toei. The climax of Luffy'south battle with Kaidō bears a striking resemblance to his battle with Doflamingo, specially how the anime portrays it. Such similarities include Luffy hovering over his enemy, throwing his literal biggest dial yet, and struggling to become through said enemy's defenses. Depending on how the fight plays out, more similarities could go along to pile up.

Of particular notation is the fourth dimension it's taking to actually hit Kaidō. The dial started on page 7 of Affiliate 1048. By the final folio 17, it even so hadn't reached the Emperor. It volition exist at least another chapter earlier Kaidō really takes the blow, maybe longer. However long this punch is supposed to concluding, it's apparently going to take a while.

The climax of this fight looks like it will be even more drawn out than the climax of the Doflamingo fight. Unlike that fight, the struggle for Luffy to land his punch is really happening in the manga. However this all ends, the anime will have to make the clash drawn-out because it'due south catechism to the story.

This could get i of ii ways. On one hand, this climax could terminate up precisely like the anime version of the Doflamingo climax. If that happens, and then the time it takes for Luffy'south punch to reach Kaidō will feel like needless fluff that makes the climax drag on.

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It's also possible that the stretched-out climax will somehow work in the context of the Kaidō fight. It makes sense for Luffy to struggle in this fight as he'south up against the world's strongest creature. Hither, the tension and drama might be deserved, so maybe the finale volition be genuinely satisfying one time it eventually happens.

Whatever happens, the Wano Arc is locked in for a long climax. Whether information technology turns out alright or simply like Dressrosa will be up to Oda's writing. Nonetheless this climax turns out, Toei will probably find a way to make it seem even longer.