 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review, your source for everything One Piece. Today we have a review of episode 880, Sabo Goes Into Action. All the captains of the revolutionary army appear. And here we have by far the best episode of the reverie arc thus far. From a pacing perspective, it was quite solid. There were very few parts where I felt like things were being purposely stretched out, and it's because the film material used here more often than not actually contributed to building the world, which I find to be quite rare in the One Piece anime. So for example, all of the piratey stuff in the beginning pillaging the town, look it's all unnecessary to tell the story, but it does help show us a bit more about this random island that we're supposed to care about as well as its people. Especially since these island folk really do become the prime focus of the episode by the end, thanks to the powers of a certain bellow betty, but we'll get to her later. So yeah, spending a bit more time with them and their plight was a fine use of padding. The only exception I'll say is that I wasn't quite sold on the moment where Peach Beard was just so intent on stealing Mota's milk. That whole exchange wasn't in the manga at all, and I think it kind of detracted from Mota's moment of defeating Peach Beard because she's just yelling about milk, instead of, you know, the fact that her entire town was being ravaged and destroyed by pirates. Actually, before we continue, anime-only fans, this milk chick, will probably seem like a completely random addition to the series. But her name is Mota, and she actually has quite a rich history in the manga, having made her first appearance all the way back in chapter 278, or more accurately on the cover of that chapter, and she was heavily involved in Ace's cover story focusing on his hunt for Black Beard. Basically, Mota saves Ace from a river, and then she convinces him to infiltrate a marine base and deliver a letter to their commander, asking if he wanted to buy some of her milk, which he eventually does, and then Mota is reunited with her parents and it's a very cute and quirky story. So yeah, just bear in mind that this girl actually has quite a close connection to Ace. As for the other dude bra, Peach Beard kind of disappointed me mostly in terms of his color scheme. It's just so bland. And the one form of color he does sport is so desaturated that it makes me wonder why he bothers to have it at all. If it weren't for the pastel pink facial hair, this guy would just seem like another background character, which is a shame because I really liked him when I read this part of the manga. To me, he was a bit more comical and had an element of flair about him, which likewise I don't think was quite reflected in his vocal performance here either. A band of characters who I certainly was not disappointed with though are our team of revolutionary captains. I've been looking forward to seeing these guys animated for about a year now, and they were pretty damn cool. All of Morley's gags landed pretty well, Karasu's crow animation was fun to watch, and Bella Betty's voice fits perfectly. The only one I'm a bit meh about is Lindbergh, and to be fair I was meh about him in the chapter as well, because his abilities intrigue me the least. Back to Betty for a second though, you can certainly tell that the animator spent quite a bit of time perfecting any frames involving her, while more accurately perfecting her within more standardly drawn frames, as she definitely pops out in more ways than one. But it was quite nice to see her abilities at work, as ever since this Devil Fruit was introduced I've immediately thought of it as one of the most incredibly dangerous powers in existence. I mean not so much in the hands of Bella Betty, but in the possession of a talented dictator type, it could result in a world war, with a simple wave of a flag. Now something I was much less convinced about in this episode was when we cut to the straw hats on the sunny. Now I'm sure you could all tell this was filler because it contributed very little, pretty much nothing to anything, and it featured a bunch of long lingering shots, like this one of Sanji smoking and leaving his mouth open like a derp for what seems like an eternity. The thing that annoys me most though is when Luffy asked army directly if there's anything about the revolutionary army in the newspaper, and this really is just a little thing but it feels very out of character for Luffy to do something like that, or you know at least ask about the revolutionary army specifically. And yeah I know it appears to make some sort of sense because of Sabo Evenkov and anyone else that Luffy knows, but Luffy isn't the kind of guy to actively seek out that sort of information, he just sort of goes on his own adventures and leaves everyone else to do this. So it was a bit jarring to have him go oh Nami is there anything about the revolutionary army? It was yeah it was just a bit wrong. And I guess what I'm getting at is that if they wanted this section it probably could have been done a bit smoother. I personally don't feel the need for the straw hats to have appeared at all in this episode. This could have just as easily been achieved by having a conversation between two of the townsfolk being invaded by Peachbeard, saying something along the lines of you know who are those guys, what's the revolutionary army? And then you could have gone into that detailed explanatory section which was quite cool actually, I didn't mind that because there was some very nice artwork on display. But of course without the straw hats you have less of an excuse to include all of the philorish Sabo stuff. I say less because once again you could have done it without the pointless scene on the sunny. I mean for example you could just go to the end of the philor bit on Momo Iro Island where we see Sabo lying down and take it from there. In fact it might even have been more effective because it's quite nice to see that shot of him lying on the ground and having his face masked by the newspaper and then revealed. So it would have been cool if that was the first we saw of him and then gone into some flashbacky crap. But instead that shot of him had minimal dramatic value because we'd just come from seeing so much of him already. So there was no point in having him hidden and there was no power in having him revealed. In any case that is a small criticism in the grand scheme of things. By and largest episode was quite satisfying. The bits of philor that were introduced either actively contributed to the scenes or were so short that they didn't have the chance to completely break the pacing. The star quality of the episode was definitely the art though. It's actually incredible comparing this episode to last weeks and I know that's not a high bar at all. But nothing this week really felt off model. Even the background characters were on point. Even with the odd shot of Derpy Sanji and a very very confused looking dragon. Sadly next week looks heavily flashback based with lots of impaled down and marine food stuff coming into it. If I had to guess I'd say that they are going to split chapter 905 up into two episodes the same as what they did with 903. And I say that because the new material I did see in the preview all comes from one particular scene in the chapter and the rest either looks like philor or flashback. It's not very promising at all. And it saddens me greatly because once again chapter 905 is a damn solid piece of storytelling. Every chapter of the reverie arc is so it's painful to see them chopped up like this. But my thoughts on previous weeks and next week are independent of this episode. This week was solid and I'm really glad that at least one of these chapters was adapted decently. But that pretty much does it for episode 880. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. 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