 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece and today we have a review of episode 900 the greatest day of my life Otama and her sweet red bean soup and that title certainly doesn't disappoint very much does what it says on the box but overall I do feel like this week's episode is certainly a bit of a step down for this new one-o-error and to be fair in terms of substance it's not entirely the anime's fault this is a slower more subdued and very tarmacentric portion of the story it's just that I don't think these events should have taken anywhere near a whole episode to tell and there's a lot of trademark to a filler trickery happening here which is very sad to see however there was still enough of substance to provide a decent episode so the first half which focuses almost exclusively on the whole Tama situation is well it's up and down I think there are some really great moments here and the standout one for me was when after everything Tama finally accepted the sweet red bean soup and when she finally eats it and tears up it is genuinely moving it's accompanied by those wonderful tears the great vocal performance and the standard emotional but admittedly very well-fitting music it's great however to counter this there was a lot of just plain filler there's no way around this term this time and what I'm referring to a sequence like the one where Luffy was trying to force Tama to drink the antidote and we linger on a close-up of Tama and the cup for an awfully long time as Luffy slowly moves the cup back and forth like like four times with Tama then responding by slowly moving her face in the other direction this is something where it just did not need to be as long as it was seeing Tama avoid the cup once maybe twice is more than enough to convey the idea to the audience that she's being problematic and it will need to be forced on her by Luffy and the subsequent times go on to add absolutely nothing except time to the episode and this is where people are going to be saying I'm being a bit too picky and overly harsh but to those people I want you to understand I am not saying that this episode is bad because of this scene I'm saying that this scene is a minor minor problem that when combined with other minor problems contributes to an overall problematic product sort of like the death by 1000 cuts idea and another example of this is the portion where after drinking the antidote Tama is asked if she is okay and it takes a whole 22 seconds of watching her going hmm before we actually move on admittedly this portion might be a Japanese joke that I just it doesn't have any effect on me so to me it just seems like stalling for time but the most egregious offender of this episode comes in the most of unlikely forms being Batman well Batman after he'd let himself go so first up I love Batman I think his voice is pretty perfect and appropriately snivelly but what was that joke of a fight the beginning of his conflict with Luffy and Zoro is probably the worst thing I've seen of the 1.0 anime adaptation so far and to understand where the problem lies I'd like to go through it shot by shot so first up we start with Zoro defending a barrage of arrows not bad at all aesthetically pleasing so long as we move quickly to another shot which we do and that happens to be a close-up of Batman sure that works pretty standard for anime with the following shot being a close-up of Zoro once again pretty standard close-up of the attacker close-up of the defender it's a clash cool let's move on oh no all right we cut to another close-up of Batman sure why not but right of course another close-up of Zoro would then be needed afterwards because of balance now the creative decision that was made next will stun you because it's another close-up of Batman followed by another close-up of Zoro in a bold move the director did what I can honestly say is the unexpected and chose to make the next shot the fourth consecutive close-up of Batman followed by a fourth consecutive shot of Zoro but hold on to your seats because this is where things get crazy as we cut back to arrows sorry defending against arrows and because of the eight close-ups in a row we've just had it almost seems fresh to our eyes despite having seen it already but to be perfectly honest that's far too much of an artistic departure as in the next shot the director decides to move back to a tried and tested shot being a close-up of Batman then a close-up of Zoro then Batman then Zoro and to cap it all off we have one final shot of Batman but this time with dialogue and the scene is finally allowed to move on and none of what I've just said is exaggeration I wish it was but in one sequence we were treated to a total of eight of the exact same close-up shots of Batman with seven of the exact same close-up shots of Zoro it is ridiculous and really sad because the rest of the fight sequence isn't that bad at all there's a super cool slow motion piece by Zoro and watching Luffy activate Armourment Haki was cool as well there's a lot of other great stuff in this fight it was just front loaded with crap for which there is no defense for it is filler through and through and look once again none of the things I mentioned would be an issue in isolation if they were the only thing wrong with the episode they would not even be worth bringing up it would be kind of like having a dog shit on your front lawn one time is fine not desirable but easy to clean up but it's a completely different story if there are a whole ton of dog shitting on your lawn because that adds up and impacts the overall experience at least for me thankfully I think that this episode does balance out the bad with a lot of good like I said before the scene with Tama eating was just beautiful but there was also some great comedy in the episode as well much of it also to do with Tama like when she was gradually sliding back whilst declining the food from Suru I found that adorable and hilarious Oh and speaking of Suru was exceptionally well performed during this episode when I was reading this portion in the manga I never really got a feel for Suru as a character and she just sort of faded into the background for me but the anime really brings her to life superbly and I particularly enjoyed when she got angry not to be outdone there's also a great Zoro comedy moment in the portion where they were asked what their names were and Luffy was about to blatantly state Monkey D Luffy and seeing such expression from Zoro my god it's a rarity and watching he and Luffy having this silent conversation of looks was a great character moment for both of them so I did actually have a lot of fun this week but it was a very on and off episode lots of great comedy some decent action but packed with lots of poorly implemented filler I haven't even gone into all of it but I guess if there was a silver lining here it's that this filler was placed in very inconsequential moments but on the other hand I also don't think that it's a great sign of what may be to come in terms of adapting Wano but that pretty much does it for episode 900 wow 900 episodes of one piece is insane if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the ground line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible and if you'd like to see more videos like this but apply to other anime manga series then please do check out my second channel New World Review for all of your wider needs and if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my discord server where a wide array of shenanigans takes place on a daily basis and finally please do comment with your thoughts on the episode this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time