Are you talking about the original flashback for each character that actually shows their past for the first time, or are you referring to how they often do quick flashes of everyone's past now as like a montage all the time?
I can get it if you mean the latter, but I love it when One Piece just goes "Okay, we're going to spend the next 3 episodes showing you Robin's past that we haven't shown before."
New information flashbacks are awesome. Repeating flashbacks, not so much.
Next up: GREED ISLAND!
Finally!
And lol @ 1.) throwing Sharlnak´s phone with full power, 2.) Hisoka being dumbfounded.
That was... amazing.
I was given enough reason to actually feel sad about Pakunoda dying without a sappy flashback. Excellent.
Peace.
The rule was tied to the action, not the intent.
She had enough time to shoot those 6 bullets while her heart was crushed.
Peace.
Greed Island, here we come. Probably my favorite arc.
And I agree with the sentiments above about how Pakunoda was handled, as well as Hisoka.
No Hisoka pelvic thrust...?
Definitely missing the hipthrust nohomo.
This arc was definitely my favorite in all of shounen anime. Dark and brutal, and devoid of bullshit.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
My body is ready for GUREEDU IRANDO.
As unpopular as this opinion probably is, my favorite arc is actually the one following Greed Island, I wonder if they will actually animate it.
It becomes very graphic, and will require a lot of censorship if its going to be aired for a childrens' broadcast time.
I'll end it at that though in light of Munsu's post.
If the new anime stops after Greed Island, I hope the whole production staff dies of super aids :/
If it does stop, I hope they seriously have plans for OVAs, or as mentioned, maybe a different broadcast time.
That said, the arc that recently finished had its fair share of graphic violence, so don't know if that would be much of an issue.