Isn't that basically how the US president lives most of the time?
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
One Piece Manga |OT| ZEHAHAHAHA! The Name of this Age is Blackbeard!
- Thread starter TheGreatDirector
- Start date
- Status
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I strongly expect Dragon's character to be explored around this time, too. Revolutionary Army and its purpose are going to be meaningful as @#@!
Also, the mystery of Kuma is some ominous foreshadowing for later, too. Not sure when that will get resolved, though. Maybe with the Vegapunk reveal.
Pegosaurus
Banned
D. Gray Man is back though!!
We can dream Nibel.
We. Can. DREAM.
it's just so good
sooooo good
Dragon is gonna wreck some fools. I wish we could have seen his reaction to Luffy punching Saint Charlos.
God I can't wait to see Dragon fuck shit up.
I want a Dragon/Luffy tag team fight so bad.
Anyway, I was talking to my roommates last night about how One Piece is the best selling manga of all time and they thought that was the stupidest thing ever. They haven't even read it. Made me so fucking mad that they were shaming GODA's work.
I should just read it again for both of them.
Brah really
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Skypiea was pointless, they said.
Skypiea is the worst arc in the series, they said.
Skypiea naysayers can taste the cold tip of Calgara's spear.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Pegosaurus, you should have just explained to them why you think it's good.
Pegosaurus
Banned
I just read that article, and damn that was a great read. Made me even more hyped for the future of the series, if that's even possible. I just can't wait for all these plot points to start coming together.
The whole thing with Skypiea is crazy interesting. I wonder if the Strawhats will really go into space.
I think I actually will give the series a reread. I need to experience One Piece in all it's glory again.
i tried. they were having none of it. heathens.
The whole thing with Skypiea is crazy interesting. I wonder if the Strawhats will really go into space.
I think I actually will give the series a reread. I need to experience One Piece in all it's glory again.
i tried. they were having none of it. heathens.
Damn, amazing write-up, now I am double sad that there is no new chapter
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I dunno, that was kind of like reading a chapter in and of itself.Damn, amazing write-up, now I am double sad that there is no new chapter
Cloud Strife
Member
I've tried that. A friend of mine said One Piece is too "childish" yet read Naruto and Fairy Tail...
-_-
Pegosaurus
Banned
Haha, yeah, but I want the story to continue. Like right now.
Yeah. I have nothing against people not liking One Piece or anything, but sometimes people offer strange arguments for not liking it.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
The art style is really off putting if you're used to more traditional anime art, and especially if you're not into anime to begin with. It's one of the things you fall in love with after staying with it for a while, but at first makes you go "ehhhhh, what is this?"
The funniest one, to me, is that it's too long.... right after they just told me about the 8 different shows they just binge watched on netflix.
Can't disagree there. That said, early Fairy Tail is really close to oda's art.
Can't disagree there. That said, early Fairy Tail is really close to oda's art.
Gotta say, I don't like the recent look too much, it's a bit crowded. In it's earlier days I lrealyl enjoyed how clean and simple the style was.
Completely agree. It got really sketchy.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
The part that made me break out in a sweat.
For the term One Piece we see the katakana used most often, the transliterated term for One Piece, ワンピース is literally wan pīsu. This is the text we see on the cover of every single One Piece volume in Japan. When Whitebeard said that the One Piece does exist [Volume 59, Page 54], One Piece is expressed in a combination of hiragana and kanji: hito-tsunagi daihiho (ひとつなぎの大秘宝
However, there is another viable reading Oda has not yet used which would include Kanji instead of what Whitebeard said: hito-tsunagi (人繋ぎ
TheGreatDirector
Banned
One Piece is World Peace confirmed.
Pegosaurus
Banned
really? I think Oda's art has been really good lately. The chapter where Luffy beats Mingo is drawn fantastically imo.
yeah, it would be really neat if this is actually Oda's intention
I'd find more in that if Oda had actually used the third spelling.
Cloud Strife
Member
Currently reading Alabasta, and the bit where Luffy tells Vivi "I can hear your voice" after reading that floored me. No one, not the rebels or the royal army can save her but Luffy.
Of course it could be a coincidence, but the imagery was really striking considering the "hearing the voice of all things".
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Sounds like your friend is immature (no offense). Talking crap about things you've never tried for no reason is just silly.
For some people looking cool and appearing mature are more important than actually being those things.
Holy shit.
A-fucking-men.
Blame it on the fact that One Piece's artstyle is fairly cartoon-y, and that it doesn’t really do "dark and angsty" like Sasuke, which is equated with "mature" storytelling in the minds of idiots. Even Law and Robin are mostly stoic, not angsty.
Having implied alternative spellings is standard in Japanese fiction, and the way Oda phrased it leads directly to that homophone.
Cloud Strife
Member
Yup. He only read the first few chapters and thought it was purely a gag series.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Even after Lucky Roux shot that guy in the head in the first chapter?
Time to sever your bonds with this "friend".
Or how Shanks gave up his arm to save Luffy?
Or how Buggy blew up a man for accidentally mocking his nose (he spared him in the anime)
Or Kuro's entire "Imma kill the girl that I spent three years bonding with just for her fortune" plan? And his ultimate attack slices up his crewmates and he doesn't care.
One Piece always had dark elements to it. It just didn't really get noticed until Arlong came along.
Pegosaurus
Banned
I don't think that's a bad thing at all. I just pity them because they won't even try to read it to see how great it is.
often times people will like things they didn't expect they would like before.
Cloud Strife
Member
Haha, that's what I said.
He was an old roommate, and I haven't seen him in a few years.
Meanwhile, I just showed another friend the article you shared and he's flipping his shit.
Dunno I just don't want for once the the "Secret" to be something like aliens or gods again, I kinda just want some of the shit be either based in stuff we already know like hidden around and stuff or not explained at all. But seeing how Naruto *spoilers*
Naruto ends up talking to fucking aliens on the moon.
Where everything is a asspull of "greater force" did this or whatever.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Irrelevant. Something not being your thing and talking bad about/making fun of something you barely even know are two completely different matters.
I'm sure I called it stupid looking at some point in some conversations somewhere. Probably after seeing a glimpse of it on 4kids.
Thing is, I didn't know anyone who actually watched/read it until college. I actually went by someone's dorm, and they were watching an episode (Little Garden, actually), and I thought it was funny and gave it a shot.
Zoro wanting to cut off his legs and die with an awesome pose is still a really good joke. I miss that Zoro.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I sort of miss the earlier, more "solid" style. Don't really care for how loose it's become, and it's so busy sometimes it's hard to follow what's going on.
Pegosaurus
Banned
examples?
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I mean, the characters just sort of lack the same solid lines they had originally which made One Piece unique looking. It had sort of this East meets West aesthetic to it.
I just don't care for how loose the art has become, and it just seems like every panel has to be super-busy now, with very little white space. I don't want Oda to be like Kishimoto, but a little white-space to let my eyes rest when reading the dialogue and processing the scene would be nice.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
I like the current style now, although my favorite art style in the manga was the Skypiea and Water 7 period with all the hatching and cross-hatching.
Art evolution is natural and I think it's healthy for an artist to experiment, try new techniques and find out what works and what doesn't work.
Art evolution is natural and I think it's healthy for an artist to experiment, try new techniques and find out what works and what doesn't work.
More Fun To Compute
Member
If they are really your friends you should tell them that One Piece is bad for the 30 or so years it takes for the series to end then they won't have to wait between chapters.
Pegosaurus
Banned
ftfy. I'm actually a huge fan of how the series looks now. While the panels might be busy, I actually think Oda draws them in a way that I can still understand what's happening unlike some other manga artists.
I mean I get to each they're own, but I think One Piece has looked damn good this past arc.
When I reread the manga I'll have to make note of how the art style has changed over they years. I can definitely tell that early One Piece looks much different than current One Piece, but the middle is all a blur to me, I just remember it looking like it looks now.
I definitely agree with the latter part though, I think artists should experiment to find a style they really like and want to stick with, and a lot of it is progression as well.
More Fun To Compute
Member
A lot of the extra detail in the background is bound to be drawn by assistants not Oda.
This article is amazing and also reminds me that I have not seen most of the cover arts as I switched from the anime to manga mid way in the series. I was wondering if anyone knew a good or easy way to view all the cover stories in one place?
Until I saw this image I couldn't put my finger on what felt different about the art. I always thought it was just busy panels but its seems for the last fews years he increased the thickness of his line work or maybe he's just drawing smaller overall? Everything feels much more gestural and looser which I like but I also loved all his other styles over the years.
Pegosaurus
Banned
Until I saw this image I couldn't put my finger on what felt different about the art. I always thought it was just busy panels but its seems for the last fews years he increased the thickness of his line work. Everything feels much more gestural and looser which I like but I also loved all his other styles.
wow thanks for posting this, really interesting to see how his style has evolved over the years. I'm not sure if I have a favorite era of One Piece art, but I love all of it and am interested to see how much more it will have changed (or not changed) once the series has ended.
Goda can do no wrong imo
shit
shit
NHarmonic.
Member
Until I saw this image I couldn't put my finger on what felt different about the art. I always thought it was just busy panels but its seems for the last fews years he increased the thickness of his line work or maybe he's just drawing smaller overall? Everything feels much more gestural and looser which I like but I also loved all his other styles over the years.
I really like his drawings during Alabasta and Skypiea best. It's like the middle road of earlier simplicity and the busyness of today's style.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Until I saw this image I couldn't put my finger on what felt different about the art. I always thought it was just busy panels but its seems for the last fews years he increased the thickness of his line work or maybe he's just drawing smaller overall? Everything feels much more gestural and looser which I like but I also loved all his other styles over the years.
This chart doesn't really do some of the art of the respective time period justice, because most of the faces are from random panels. For instance, that Zoro in 2009 is Bon Clay.
Is that a problem?
Cloud Strife
Member
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked