One Piece Episode 752 Discussion

[Top Gun]

The people who were watching the show weekly on Japan would have known, because those episodes were advertised as such beforehand. Hell, I knew about it when I first watched them. Pretty sure it was reported over here by the likes of ANN. That was also the third time the anime has aired tie-in filler for a movie, and Toonami showed one of those. The filler with the crew meeting the giant girl who could change her size was a teaser for Film Z. Just be thankful you didn't have to suffer through the Strong World episodes...

And regardless of how it was depicted, has One Piece ever been the sort of show that would just randomly incinerate an enemy into nothingness? Like, that's not remotely how this series does things. Oda has historically used character deaths very sparingly, and nearly always as part of some major plot event. While this sometimes stretches credulity (looking at you Pell), it also lets fun characters stick around and do more fun stuff in the future. Having one of Blackbeard's core crew members get one-shot in a meaningless side scene would feel pretty lame.