Chapter was too short, I want more damnit! Seeing Haise utilize his Kagune to climb is always great, iirc he did that a few times before right? I think during the auction arc and before as Kaneki near the end of TG.
Wonder where Rose met Hairu before, in the underground perhaps? Nevermind, I just remembered she was there at the original ambush.
Also, was that Noro? Looked a bit different than normal it seems. If it's Kanae, Noro must have also been a victim of Eto, similar mask and such?
I skipped ~half of it or so and thus cannot really form an informed opinion. Basically ended up reading the part since Rayleigh appearance in the auction and Luffy punching the dragon. Skipped the whole of Thriller Bark and Fishmen Arc too.
Edit: Read a end or two chapters of fishman arc too, so I know more or less about the Poseidon weapon and most of Big Mama stuff. Moria and Kuma who apparently showed up in Thriller Bark were about the only things I was a bit confused about but it's nothing major so far.
I skipped ~half of it or so and thus cannot really form an informed opinion. Basically ended up reading the part since Rayleigh appearance in the auction and Luffy punching the dragon. Skipped the whole of Thriller Bark and Fishmen Arc too.
You shouldn't skip anything in One Piece, bro. lol Pretty much everything is important in that series or WILL be important eventually. Some things of note from the arcs you skipped:
Thriller Bark
- Kumatora's fight with the Strawhats
- Brook's backstory
- Brook's song (legitimately one of the saddest moments in the series)
- Perona's introduction
- Geckoh Moria's introduction (likely to be important in upcoming Kaidou centric arcs)
Fishman Island
- If you skipped the introduction to the timeskip at Shaboady you missed out on Rayleigh's one page flashback about Roger showing their first introduction to each other.
- Backstory on Fishman's relationships with Humans
- Luffy being able to hear the voice of all things like Roger
- Ancient Weapon reveals
- Joy Boy reveal
- Big Mom and her crew reveal
- Luffy declaring war against Big Mom
- Jinbe declaring he's going to join the Strawhats...after he does something of course
Fishman Island and Skypeia, the arcs that people find the most boring/worst are probably going to be the two most important when it comes to the end game plot lol. They both have Poneglyphs on them, even.
Fishman Island and Skypeia, the arcs that people find the most boring/worst are probably going to be the two most important when it comes to the end game plot lol
I really like Thriller Bark too. The aesthetic is top notch and I think Oda's art was at its best there. Moria is...not a great villain but Zoro's confrontation with Kuma is one of the GOAT scenes. Top 5.
Of course my favorite arcs are Marineford, Sabaody and Enies Lobby. Marineford is still the best arc I ever followed when it was happening. Every chapter felt massive, you knew that Luffy was looking at the real end game right there at the halfway point. Whitebeard was essentially a Raid Boss but on the heroes side, the WG needed to flex every muscle they had to take him down. Hell, even the three admirals together had trouble holding him back and he almost killed Akainu when he was nearly dead.
Okay, I actually thought about it and these are my top 10 fave OP scenes -
10. Bon Clay's "death" in Impel Down. Would be higher if he actually died.
9. Luffy declaring war on Big Mom at the end of Fishman Island and declaring FI is under his protection now
8. Walk to Arlong Park
7. Luffy punching the Celestial Dragon at Sabaody
6. Luffy's "Do I know how to throw a punch" on Bellamy in Jaya
5. Zoro's confrontation with Kuma in Thriller Bark and "Nothing at all"
4. The end of Sabaody when the crew is utterly defeated
3. Sogeking shooting the WG flag, Strawhats declare war on WG, Robin's "I want to live" in Enies Lobby
2. Blackbeard doing the impossible and stealing the Gura Gura and "THIS IS MY AGE"
1. Whitebeard's death scene, "The One Piece exists!" and his dying standing up
I get why people love Thriller Bark but I also get why people find it frustrating. Its the first arc imo where things start to drag in the middle even if I like a lot of what happens there.
The drawing as you can see is straight josei, a mix of being stylized and simple and being realistic, with lines that are wobbly and shades aren't that important. I wonder who "invented" this style, given how closely tied to this audience is now.
This is the typical josei, you know, deep and mature and realistic and following the life of a normal girl, but behind the 'heavy' themes of the harshness of life, relationships, prostitution, etc, this story is fairly straightforward, narratively speaking:
Young couple where the guy is a good for nothing musician who is too idealistic and isn't working. Then there are two key plot points:
Plot 1: She tries to maintain both of them with her money in retail work, but it isn't enough so she starts working as hostess and
later prostitutes herself. But even if she has money, now she isn't truly happy, as what she did weighs too heavily in her mind, as the fact she would haven't do it if his bf had a job. She is a person that doesn't want to think always in money, to be one that values people with that stick, but the reality of having to pay the bills presents in her life harshly. He learns of it and she stops doing it, and after a rough time they seem to patch up their relation.
The problem is that her jump to prostitution feels forced, she didn't even think about it. And she had already two jobs, one of hostess, isn't that enough to maintain a small apartment and two persons without any luxuries? I know Japan is expensive but it can't be that much or half of Japan would be a post apocalyptic setting already! It feels unrealistic, as if only occurred because the author wanted so, because that's the story she wanted to tell.
Plot 2: her previous bf appears again in her life, and she still has feelings for him. You can imagine what occurs.
Cheating. And it's clear he is a womanizer without no intention of having a stable relationship, and she knows it, but she lies herself. The story starts with him as being the screwup, but in the end it's her the bigger screwup. She switches boyfriends. But by a random lucky chance she "wakes up" and breaks up with him, return to old bf, happy end.
All together a decent realistic tale of the bumpy road of love and life, where the heart and dreams and some idiocy makes people suffer and do crazy stuff, and the reader can suffer with the screwup characters.
Bring everyone to Polar Star! I hope she stays then gets a room near Soma. Either way, the current setting can be used to explore/deepen Erina and Soma's (and Megumi) relationship with each other.
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So Marika's the promised girl? I think she'll die or move away in this arc though.
Somehow this is the first time I've seen someone do a write up on a hentai manga in this thread. In retrospect, it's probably more common than I would think.
You definitively see Hentai posts here and there.
Sometimes the impressions are so well written that you'd never figure out they were writing about hentai.
I thought saddest scene in OP was when they laid the Going Merry to rest. I still consider it the only crew member that the Strawhats have lost to date.
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Oh boy, half a year til the end of mankind!?
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A highschool girl with butt fetish meet a girl who like to be stared at... a match made in heaven.
Skypiea fulfilled the unrestrained imagination of One Piece which is the main draw to me in this series. I love the build up to this arc, where you have Montblanc Noland's descendant trying for umpteen years to fight against his fate and his heritage. In response, towards the end of the Saga, Shandia's Calgara drew his strength to use Reject Dial again for his ancestors too.
Marineford is where I realize Oda is terrible at large scale warfare because the focus and pacing are all over the places. Kingdom ( manga ) is better at this. It was cool to witness WhiteBeard and his division commanders powers though.
My favourite 3 arc is in this order. Enel Lobbies > Alabasta > Skypiea
Marineford is where I realize Oda is terrible at large scale warfare because the focus and pacing are all over the places. Kingdom ( manga ) is better at this. It was cool to witness WhiteBeard and his division commanders powers though.
Hah, Dressrosa is about 10x worse imo. Dressrosa would be if all those captains Whitebeard rallied under them had to get screentime equal to everyone else.
Hah, Dressrosa is about 10x worse imo. Dressrosa would be if all those captains Whitebeard rallied under them had to get screentime equal to everyone else.
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And Marineford War Arc is mostly fine in its pacing. IIRC, it doesn't have any extensive flashback chapters like Dressrosa did which mean the Arc is wholly focus on the event.
Hah, Dressrosa is about 10x worse imo. Dressrosa would be if all those captains Whitebeard rallied under them had to get screentime equal to everyone else.
Well I don't really like One Piece fights to begin with. They always end on a satisfying note (Crocodile, Enel, Lucci, Doflamingo) but the actual fisticuffs are hardly ever to my taste.
I wanted to go buy the Blame! manga in print. Apparently that's impossible to do unless you want to pay exorbitant prices second hand :S
Who owns the publishing rights in the US? Is it Kodansha's discretion or does Tokyopop still own exclusive rights in the US? I went to Tokyopop's website and it's all Avril Lavigne looking garbage.
I thought saddest scene in OP was when they laid the Going Merry to rest. I still consider it the only crew member that the Strawhats have lost to date.
You definitively see Hentai posts here and there.
Sometimes the impressions are so well written that you'd never figure out they were writing about hentai.
