User blog comment:Roranoa Drake II/Episode 739 Review: A Sign of Good Things To Come/@comment-24850639-20160511145313

Don't really know how to express this without sounding like a hater, but I was a little underwhelmed. It was still a pretty epic intro for the simple fact that it was Kaido, I just feel the anime might have ruined a few aspects of it.

The Preview - Kaido's introduction at the end of 795 was one of those internet-breaking moments. A very big reason for that was the surprise factor. Kaido's subordinates called out to him in 793, and we next see Urouge's eyes get big when he notices someone has made it to his Sky Island, but we never actually got to SEE Kaido. Therefore, when we get this intro of this guy in 795 who's hobby is committing suicide (which the anime left out) and drops tens of thousands of meters from the sky and gets up with nothing but a headache, it absolutely blew our minds when we found out it was Kaido. I feel like because the anime actually showed you Kaido 3 episodes prior, and even named ep 739 after him, that sort of ruined that surprise factor that we all had initially.

The Voice - This was the most underwhelming of all to me. I was expecting to hear a voice that sent chills down my spine everytime I heard it, and instead we get the super-generic bad guy voice. For someone that large, I was expecting the voice to be much more imposing than that. The exact same guy voices the 9-tailed fox on Naruto for Christ's sake, so we know he has the vocal range to be much more deep and imposing than that.

The Alliance -  I get that Kaido is an extremely intimidating presence to just all of  a sudden find yourself face to face to, and maybe the manga didn't do the best job of conveying their specific reactions throughout the entirety of Kaido's landing (not just when he stood up), but they took this wayyyy too far. You just had them boldy announce their intentions to go after a Yonko, it doesn't look good that they're ready to shit their pants when they actually see one. Yes Hawkins and Apoo didn't seem a bit scared, but they at least mainted their composure. Kidd doesn't have one panel of looking scared, or intimidated in the least, just angry. I don't mind that they threw in Kidd being a little scared too, but I just feel overall the anime abused their boundaries with this one.

I will add that I binge-watched 724-739 after a VERY long anime hiatus, so maybe these things are a consequence of me not having a break in between.