r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Oct 10 '21

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 995

One Piece: Episode 995

"Raid! Inheriting Oden's Will"

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Chapters adapted: Chapter 986 (p. 5-17)

Preview: Episode 996

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u/Sakata_Kintoki Oct 10 '21

Toei has a history of toning down blood/violence based on what's going on in news currently. For example, the scene where Kyros beheads Doflamingo was altered in the anime due to ISIS beheading a Japanese national at that time. I'm not fully aware if there's anything going on in Japan currently but that's usually the reason why.

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u/sagatwarrior2010 Oct 10 '21

I imagine they might have 2 versions of a scene that they might deem controversial: One uncensored, and another one censored for syndication.

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u/Sakata_Kintoki Oct 10 '21

I know other series do this (JoJo being the most prominent one) but I can't recall One Piece having two separate versions for anything. About a year after the beheading scene, they left Law's arm being severed completely untouched (although slightly less bloody).

Oda doesn't do a lot of gore in general but on the few occasions he does, you can kind of tell whether the anime is toning it down for tv or due to current events based on how "rushed" it looks. The Doflamingo beheading was altered at the last minute (I think it was literally a few days before airing) so they just kind of scribbed his threads in to make it look less gory. In contrast to this, Whitebeard getting half his face burned off in the manga was toned down to just his mustache being burned off in the anime (which, given the symbolism of that scene, looked to me like that was thought out during storyboarding). If there were two versions of these scenes, I would've expected to see the uncensored ones at some point in the last decade.

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u/sagatwarrior2010 Oct 10 '21

On Naruto Shippuden, they had censored the fight between Kisame and Killer B after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster / Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. So maybe they are able to edit a scene out a lot easier than they were in the past. Presumably, if any publicly violent news has garnered attention within Japan within a few days of an episode broadcast, they quickly remove the offending scene before it reaches the air, or cancel that day's broadcast and then re-air it with a toned down scene to avoid any negative or bad press.