One Piece

Started by Bentley186 pages

Both would probably become Marines at some point.

Luffy might be the most charismatic character in anything ever.

yeah luffy is one of my favorite characters, zoro is cooler imo.

Shanks is 1 in cool though 😉

hmmm, very true. i love his and lufys story, one piece really is the best of the big 3, EASILY.

Finally finished with that sky-island arc, took me a long time because it sucked.

I did think it dragged a bit once the Enel fight started.

Still, next big one is Water 7, which is one of the best.

Originally posted by menokokoro
hmmm, very true. i love his and lufys story, one piece really is the best of the big 3, EASILY.

Agreed. I like Naruto a lot for one of the same reasons it's not as good- It deviates from the shounen formula more and is willing to spend time on side things, with mixed results but also more variation in the plot. Kishimoto experiments and is willing to subvert things, which I like on the whole.

Bleach often adheres way too tightly to the formula and often spends a lot of time on stuff that really isn't necessary for the plot or characters at all. Tite doesn't plan ahead enough and it shows, when he gets write's block his solution is make more characters.

OP not only follows the formula, but Oda simply owns it, especially when it comes to character moments.

Originally posted by Q99
I did think it dragged a bit once the Enel fight started.

Still, next big one is Water 7, which is one of the best.

oh yeah, my fav fight is....oh man im bad with names, that jaguar guy

Originally posted by Q99
Agreed. I like Naruto a lot for one of the same reasons it's not as good- It deviates from the shounen formula more and is willing to spend time on side things, with mixed results but also more variation in the plot. Kishimoto experiments and is willing to subvert things, which I like on the whole.

Bleach often adheres way too tightly to the formula and often spends a lot of time on stuff that really isn't necessary for the plot or characters at all. Tite doesn't plan ahead enough and it shows, when he gets write's block his solution is make more characters.

OP not only follows the formula, but Oda simply owns it, especially when it comes to character moments.

yeah, naruto is deff second, and i would say that the only reason that bleach is any good anymore is because the fights are pretty cool.

one of the biggest reasons I like op more than others, is the anime never seems to drag, I think thats what you were eluding too. naruto, lately anyway, has been horrible about this, which became apparent after i started reading the manga, and moments that should have been like five seconds end up being like half an episode, whenever there is a heavy dialog episode (which is quite often) they take literally a minute or more just standing there, staring at each other, or what they are talking about, and it just pisses me off. Bleach isn't as bad about this, but they have annoying recaps that take up the entire episode. One does the dragging that naruto does sometimes, but it is usually just something that is supposed to take a long time in the story, like when they are searching for lufy when he is stuck between those buildings.

also, is it just me, or does one piece have better animation more often than the others? does it make more money than the other 2?

Originally posted by menokokoro
oh yeah, my fav fight is....oh man im bad with names, that jaguar guy

Well Amnesia hasn't gotten there yet, so let's not spoil it 🙂

Spoiler:
Since, after all, when you meet him there's no indication he's a bad guy.

one of the biggest reasons I like op more than others, is the anime never seems to drag, I think thats what you were eluding too.

Anime definitely has better pacing. Though Naruto's manga does better than it's anime.


also, is it just me, or does one piece have better animation more often than the others? does it make more money than the other 2?

Possibly, though I haven't really noticed.

I do notice Naruto and Bleach's animation quality goes up and down.

Originally posted by Q99
Well Amnesia hasn't gotten there yet, so let's not spoil it 🙂

Spoiler:
Since, after all, when you meet him there's no indication he's a bad guy.
Spoiler:
thats why i said jaguar guy, since when you find out he is a jaguar guy, you already know he is a bad guy 🙂 EDIT: wait a sec, no it wasn't, it was because i couldn't think of it...oh well, i was lucky lol

Originally posted by Q99
I do notice Naruto and Bleach's animation quality goes up and down.
yeah, they have 3 basic modes, well, this is just what i think of it. level one, filler mode, just complete and utter crap. level 2, travel mode, when they are just doing whatever to get to their objectives. level 2.5 (i know its cheating but whatever), less exciting fights, when a fight happens that it doesn't make much sense to have amazing animation. and level 3 epic fight mode, if you don't know...oh well, your fault 😛.

but op doesn't ever seem to get below 2.5, even on filler, though i tend to skip the filler...well, just so i could get through it, the show is really funny, i think ill go back and watch it all. I first noticed this when they were running over this hill, idk what episode or even where they were, but i just remember thinking that it was really good animation for something so meaningless as that.

Ok, since Oda is still on a break maybe we can rate the

Spoiler:
pre-timeskip
story arcs from best to worse?

1 water 7
2 uhhh, that dessert place, someone fix my memory. OH! alabasta? or ter, idk
3 bubble island? i love that one cuz it shows a bunch of different powers and luffy being all defiant, and lots of new awesome characters.
4 that one...where you first find the numbered people, it was really really funny, and zoro was awesome.
5 thriller bark, just because of zoros main fight
6 uuuuh, the fish people one....lol wow i fail at names.
7 the prison...oh man that was frikin awesome...so you would think it would be higher up the list....oh well, this is where it is
8 buggy, shows how attached luffy is to his hat, and your first REAL show of how awesome zoro is.
i don't really like any of the others besides the normal funny and just random awesomeness.

Edit: oh wait, sky island should be in there somewhere....uuuh, right below bubble island

Bubble island...? Oh, do you mean the Archipelago arc? Yea, that one was good.

Thriller Bark was up there, Water 7 was great...

---6 uuuuh, the fish people one....lol wow i fail at names.---

Arlong's arc? IMO the best of the East Blue stuff. The first villain who felt really threatening.

Water 7, the Shambody Archipielago, the War arc and the Prison Arc are probably the top four.

My favorite is the recent Marineford arc...

as for the anime, I don't mind watching fillers or when the crew has some downtime in between arcs mainly because of the humor and that I enjoy how the crew interacts with one another since they're all so different...

i'm just as excited to learn on how the new nakama will fit in with the rest than say, how powerful and how he/she/it contributes in a battle...

I'm still waiting for Brook to do something before a new nakama comes in.

he was in the tenth movie which Oda said happened after Thriller Bark and before the Sabaody Archipelago arc if that helps...

Originally posted by draxx_tOfU
he was in the tenth movie which Oda said happened after Thriller Bark and before the Sabaody Archipelago arc if that helps...

I'll see that one when I get to thriller bark in the Anime.

i suggest you see it now if you're bored and want an awesome strawhat adventure, and it doesn't contain spoilers for the Thriller Bark...

it pure fun concised in an hour, and it's canon since it's the only OP movie written by Oda himself...

YouTube video

****ing love this ending.