One Piece Episode 499
Ace, Sabo, and Luffy help Naguri make a pirate ship. The three brothers challenge the tiger they encountered in the previous episodes. They defeat the tiger and say good-bye to Naguri. The episode ends with Bluejam ordering his crew to tell Sabo's father that they have found Sabo.
One Piece Episode 499
Sabo distracts the tiger while Luffy makes a slingshot with his gomu gomu no mi powers. Sabo gets the tiger to run toward the slingshot, and Ace crouches into the slingshot load; Luffy lets go and performs a "Gomu Gomu No Rocket". Ace is able to defeat the tiger. In the end, Ace decides all three of them helped to defeat the tiger, so no one is officially the captain. Naguri then heads out to sea. The episode ends with Bluejam telling his crewmates to tell Sabo's father that they found him.
Get Smart did an episode in 1969 called Age Before Duty, where a KAOS agent used applied special paint to physically age CONTROL agents through their staff photos. The writer of that episode must have seen this, as well as read Dorian Gray (the paint was called Dorian Gray).
Here are all of the filler episodes in One Piece, and the story arcs you can safely sail over without missing anything important. Adapting the long-running manga series by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece takes place in a world where piracy reigns supreme on the seas, and Monkey D. Luffy is just one of hundreds seeking the legendary treasure known as One Piece. When it comes to weekly anime series, however, filler episodes are an unfortunate fact of life. Defined as anything not found within the original manga, filler episodes are usually lighter, inconsequential stories written by the animation company to avoid catching up with the manga.
Compared to the likes of Naruto, Bleach and Dragon Ball Z, the One Piece anime is surprisingly light on filler. Despite clocking up almost 1000 episodes, the TV show doesn't stray into non-canon territory often, and One Piece filler also isn't as bad as you might've seen in other anime series. No Luffy and Zoro learning to drive here. Plenty of One Piece episodes embellish legit manga material with scenes of non-canon filler - an extended fight scene here, some additional dialogue there - and these are definitely worth watching, but others are fabricated entirely, and contain nothing of value.
If viewers are brave enough to embark on One Piece's 1000-episode journey, they probably won't be daunted by the odd filler adventure here and there. On the other hand, the more episodes you can skip, the quicker you catch up, and omitting the unnecessary bits of One Piece shaves a very worthwhile 100 episodes off the overall length. Here are the One Piece episodes comprised completely of filler material, also including the tales some fans consider "anime canon."
Thankfully, One Piece filler arcs generally stop at the 10-episode mark, but these are still large enough to be considered arcs in their own right. Excluding one-off crossovers, anime canon and single-use filler stories, One Piece's anime-original arcs can be collated into sections as follows. These are the batches of episodes it's safe to avoid without detracting from the experience.
One Piece is a mammoth of an anime. With over 1000 episodes, it can be a pretty daunting task to begin viewing the series. Like any long-running anime, however, the story has filler episodes and arcs that pad the overall length. One Piece has over 100 filler episodes, or about 10 percent of the whole series.
A filler is an episode or arc in which nothing happens to affect the overarching story. There is no character development, no returning characters outside the main cast, and it is usually considered non-canon. Fillers occur when the anime's story has come close to or caught up with the manga, so the studio needs to stall time to wait for further chapters to be published. These episodes can't progress the plot because they are not written by the mangaka, and therefore do not know where the story is heading.
With so many episodes, it's hard to tell which One Piece episodes are fillers and which aren't. Some episodes occur inside canon arcs, while other times entire arcs are themselves filler. Here's a list of every filler episode in the One Piece anime, as of March 2023.
Over the 366 episodes that aired in the original run of Bleach, around 164 are fillers -- that's almost 45% of the entire series. Naruto and Naruto: Shippuden on the other hand, had 205 fillers over their 500 episodes, approximately 41% of the show. One Piece has clearly limited its filler count compared to other big shonen series, keeping the main plot moving forward without much deviation.
One Piece Episode 590 is a crossover with Toriko and Dragon Ball Z. There's a massive tournament, a fight between the three protagonists over meat, and a final combo attack to beat the villain. It's like something a kid would dream up with his action figures, just pure fun. This is the second of a two-part event -- the first episode is Toriko Episode 99, titled "Run, Strongest Team! Toriko, Luffy and Goku!"
Unable to decide which gifts would be objectively the best, Kakashi becomes overwhelmed and takes some time to mull over his options. Meanwhile, Iruka still hasn't decided on the right words for his video greeting to Naruto. Unsure what role he occupies in his former student's life, Iruka is unclear on what the tone and content of his message should be. Even though he hasn't been a prominent presence for a long time, Iruka playing an important role in the show's final episodes is fitting. Since he's the first supporting character to truly care about Naruto, having him reflect on the nature of their relationship is an interesting way to bring things full circle.
While Naruto Shippūden is no stranger to padding, a lot of the drama this week felt manufactured. Assuming there's no possible way Kakashi could have put a hold on mission deployment (admittedly, the village would still need guards on duty), it seems like a given that the couple's closest friends would get the day off and have their places on duty taken by shinobi with no personal connection to Naruto or Hinata. It's unclear why giving seven jonin a vacation day was such a big deal. It can't be impossible to arrange; they all had the day off at the same time during this episode. Also, since the bizarre law that served as the setup for the entire arc was put in place by the Fifth, there's no reason Kakashi couldn't have amended it or simply done away with it altogether in his capacity as Sixth, as Tsunade herself points out. I was willing to overlook these things when the tone was purely comedic, but now that this arc wants to take itself seriously, the problems with the narrative bear mentioning.
The season used three pieces of theme music. The first opening theme, titled "Kaze o Sagashite" (風をさがして, lit. "Search for the Wind") and performed by Mari Yaguchi with the Straw Hats, continues to be used for the first two episodes.[2] The second opening theme, from episodes 459 to 492, is "One Day" performed by The Rootless.[3] The third opening theme, from episodes 493 to 516, is "Fight Together" performed by Namie Amuro.[4]
In this episode, you'll learn about what you can do naturally to achieve a long brain span, how to test for brain function and volume, what can cause shrinkage in the brain that may lead to neurodegenerative disease, and how leaky gut can lead to a leaky brain.
With over 1,000 episodes to watch, not to mention the various films, specials, OVAs and shorts that are also available, it can be a pretty daunting task in working out how to watch One Piece in order.
In total, you could stay up for two weeks straight and still not have time to binge through this entire saga of over 100 episodes. And that doesn't even include the upcoming One Piece live-action adaptation. In comparison, watching Dragon Ball in order would be significantly quicker, with just over 600 episodes.
As there are over 1,000 episodes to watch, you might be tempted to jump in at a later starting point, but to really enjoy the full experience properly, we do recommend starting at the very beginning and watching One Piece in chronological order.
Alternatively, you could just skip the following filler episodes, instead. While the arcs mentioned above don't add much to the One Piece storyline and canon, they are still entertaining. However, these episodes are slightly different. Anime often use episodes to recap past adventures and give the animators a chance to breathe, so you're not really missing out if these particular episodes don't make it onto your watchlist. Here's a look at the One Piece filler episodes:
If you really want to whizz through One Piece for a taste of what it's like, you could also focus solely on the 15 films that have been released to date. This isn't ideal, though, as a lot happens in the regular episodes between each movie. Still, if that's all you've got time for, here are all the One Piece movies in order of release, as well as how they relate to the main show.
The episode opens with a shot of a Valentine's Day card and a letter, then pans to a large pile. Bart and Milhouse discuss their valentines; Milhouse got one from Lisa and one from his optometrist, who Bart says merely sent him a bill, with Milhouse saying that it is a valentine due to the heart stamp. The two then watch TV, a valentine "Itchy & Scratchy". Kirk appears at the window to tell Milhouse not to watch, as it gives him night terrors, but is rebutted by Milhouse, who says Kirk had the night terrors last night. The two then switch to Mythcrackers, a parody of Mythbusters. Marge comes in and tells them not to watch TV, telling them to play outside as it is a beautiful day, prompting the boys to switch to watching it on a computer, then a smart phone, being stopped by Marge each time. They finally get to watch it at a gas station, but this causes a long line of drivers to start honking their horns.
The next scene shows Marge and Lisa in a restaurant, where Marge tries to connect with Lisa. Marge sees someone about to dip a ladle from one serving into another, and goes to clean it up. Lisa then looks through a crack, seeing a boy reading a book. She says sorry, but the boy talks to her, saying romantic things to her. They meet at the dessert table, where the boy, Nick, throws a fork into the air, saying he will eat what ever the fork lands on. Lisa tires to tell him her name, but is stopped, saying he wants the first place he hears her name to be special, but Lisa says it anyway, saying the place they were was now the most special place. Marge sees Moe through the crack, who offers her a piece of his ziti, who takes it. Moe then says that she owes him five cents for the food, but that they will talk about it later. 041b061a72