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One Piece Thread (redux)
- Thread starter grandjedi6
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Oh man, those feels. Easily one of the best flashbacks in the series. Probably the best up to this point.
Okay fine you were right. Feels
Sir_Crocodile
Member
That was fucking crazy. Also Luffy running up the vine with
A GIGANTIC FUCKING GOLD BALL ATTACHED TO HIS ARM.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Seem this week chapter has some info on the new anime opening .
Finally they going to change it .
Finally they going to change it .
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Apparently it'll be called "Hands Up!" by Shinzato Kouta and will possibly make its entrance 14th April.
KINTAMMMAAAAAAAAAAAA
KINTAMMMAAAAAAAAAAAA
I felt a little bit of a sting here, but you corrected yourself later so it's cool.
OP flashbacks are almost always amazing but the Skypiea one is one of the best.
Gintoki313
Banned
I feel the same way. I'm actually surprised how joyful he is all the time despite what happened to him back then.
I had a massive grin on my face when this happened.
I then felt like an idiot after for not seeing it coming.
Yeah, Skypiea one was the highlight of the arc.
Jigolo
Member
Yup once you finish Skypiea, get ready for the big boy stuff. The best arc is next.
So I'm a few episodes into Water 7. It really is quite exciting!
Impressions (quite a few):
So much happening and so much new stuff!
Impressions (quite a few):
That sea train is awesome! I really like trains in general and a train running on the sea surface between several islands is such a cool idea. Love it in Spirited Away. Wonder if we'll see more of the weird station lady, her weird granddaughter and their not-so-weird cat.
The city itself looks cool. I like the numbers on those huge gates, but I'm still unsure what they are supposed to mean. The city also kinda reminds me of City Escape levels from 3D Sonic.
Gosh, I love how Oda does "facial expressions" of animals. Those sea horses (forgot how they are called) grin like there's no tomorrow and that's hilarious.
What's up with all those masks? And why are all the men act like Sanji? I suppose it could be due to that that most of the women perhaps wear those masks, but I'm still unsure.
What, where did Robin suddenly disappear? She got scared after a masked guy said "CP9". Did she run off or did he take her away somehow? And I guess those badass shipwrights are somehow connected with the CP9. The guy with a deadly serious bird on his shoulder is named Lucci, who you guys often refer to. And there's some goons attacking Zoro on the Merry, but he'll probably deal with them.
So much happening and so much new stuff!
The Grim Heaper
Member
Good lord, are you feeling alright? I've started exactly a year ago and I've hit Water 7 only just now.
BassForever
Member
I agree. NORO NORO BIIIIIIIMUUUUUUU
I was going to make that joke
I don't even like the Foxy Pirate Arc lol amazing how everyone just kind of collectively dismisses it as "that arc that Aokiji is introduced"
Skypiea:
Well, that was pretty good. I'd give it a 6.5 or 7/10. Pretty inconsistent and a little boring at times but pretty fucking grand too. Eneru was a good villain even if he was
. I wasn't crazy about any of the side characters too. Not well realized, some just straight up annoying. Flashback was really the best part.
Well, that was pretty good. I'd give it a 6.5 or 7/10. Pretty inconsistent and a little boring at times but pretty fucking grand too. Eneru was a good villain even if he was
seriously out matched by Luffy. Seriously, if he wasn't such a chump he would have lost BAD in a straight up fight with Luffy
bigDdestruction
Member
You should watch the G8 arc and i think the Davy Back arc is fun. Both enjoyable fillers. I really love chiqicheetah and splithead laugh. Funny enough, i didn't start watching One Piece until i saw the 6th Opening "Brand New World" as well as the 10th OP "We Are". Something about those openings just made me want to watch the series and see how the strawhats get to those points in the openings i saw. I left off with the 4kids dub and yeah, we all know how that went.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Yeah I did watched the Davy Back arc. It was a pretty fun arc filled with lots of silliness. Foxy is quite the character, haha. I may go back and watch the G8 filler since I remember a lot of people saying its the only filler arc worth watching.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Yeah, Water Seven is nice but I'm not sure if I personally would call it the best arc. Alabasta is really good too, as is the Drum Kingdom, Thriller Bark and the great battle that takes place after Impel Down.
So my partner and I took quite a large hiatus on One Piece. She didn't seem to enjoy Luffy's lengthy flashback sequence of events in the late 400s-early 500s. Quite frankly I don't blame her, but I wanted to power through them because I somewhat knew what lay ahead after the craziness that was Marineford.
I said fuck it, so we sat down and watched the last few eps that dealt with Gray Terminal and all. Now we're on to something more substantial after those flashbacks, and Luffy's re-entry in to Marineford.
I'm looking forward to the next 10 episodes or so. It's good to have One Piece back in my life though.
P.S. I got drunk a few weeks ago and re-watched episode 312 while intoxicated. And I cried. Again.
I said fuck it, so we sat down and watched the last few eps that dealt with Gray Terminal and all. Now we're on to something more substantial after those flashbacks, and Luffy's re-entry in to Marineford.
I'm looking forward to the next 10 episodes or so. It's good to have One Piece back in my life though.
P.S. I got drunk a few weeks ago and re-watched episode 312 while intoxicated. And I cried. Again.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Man, the last few chapters have been flat out amazing. I'm guessing it's because oda no longer had to help make the movie.
I seriously hope he never plays a part in any future movie while the manga is still ongoing. When he did Strong World, we got 15 page chapters. When he did Z, we got crap chapters.
I seriously hope he never plays a part in any future movie while the manga is still ongoing. When he did Strong World, we got 15 page chapters. When he did Z, we got crap chapters.
what chapters were crap?
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Late-FI & PH for me.
Fishman Island and the Fire and Ice Island. Keep in mind they weren't terrible terrible just paced like molasses and a complete mess respectively. The newest chapters are refreshing because now we have so much set up out of the way we can blast through some quality stuff.
Huzzah the nightmare is over. I'd say the best/least annoying characters of skypeia were Connis(forgot the spelling) her dad and their fox.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
My favourites were Pagaya(Connis's dad), Nola(the snake), Noland in the flashback and of course Enel.
BassForever
Member
The worst part of Skypeia was
"LIGHT THE FLAME OF SHANDIA" *fodder Shandian gets beaten*
repeat x 50
Ventilaator
Banned
I liked Skypiea more than Impel Down. Apparently I really wasn't supposed to.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
They were both great in the manga, both badly hobbled by poor anime pacing (and too much filler in the case of ID).
Fishmen island was junk to me personally, PH was fine. Hody just wasn't much of a villain and it's past was more interesting but also more stupid(lol BLOOD TRANFUSIONS ARE IMPORTANT GUYS).
Poltergust
Member
Man, am I glad they are changing the opening soon. We Go! has been around for far too long.
Might as well rank my openings here:
1. Fight Together
2. Bon Voyage
3. Brand New World
4. We Are! (Strawhat version)
5. We Are!
6. Share the World!
7. Kokoro no Chizu
8. Hikari e
9. We Are! (Remix)
10. Jungle P
11. Believe
12. Kaze wo Sagashite
13. One Day
14. We Go!
15. Crazy Rainbow
I liked all the openings ranked #13 or lower, so hearing We Go for all this time really irritated me.
EDIT: I hope that this new opening (which is apparently going to be called
) absolutely trumps "We Go!".
Might as well rank my openings here:
1. Fight Together
2. Bon Voyage
3. Brand New World
4. We Are! (Strawhat version)
5. We Are!
6. Share the World!
7. Kokoro no Chizu
8. Hikari e
9. We Are! (Remix)
10. Jungle P
11. Believe
12. Kaze wo Sagashite
13. One Day
14. We Go!
15. Crazy Rainbow
I liked all the openings ranked #13 or lower, so hearing We Go for all this time really irritated me.
Oh, might as well say that "Asu wa Kuru Kara" is my favorite ending, too. I miss One Piece endings... they were all so good! (Except "Watashi ga Iru Yo"... ew)
EDIT: I hope that this new opening (which is apparently going to be called
"Hands up"
Every time I see Foxy all I can think about is this:
Lol the resemblance is uncanny!
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Hmm, how far behind am I? I own all the books that have been released in Sweden, but not sure how far behind the Swedish books are. I'm near the end of Fishman Island. The cover of the next book has Smoker on it.
Personally I think Fishmans Island is pretty good. The villain is a bit over-the-top and the theme of blood transfusions is way overused but I really like the queen. The flashbacks with her are really good. It's the first time since Brook's story that I shed a man-tear.
Personally I think Fishmans Island is pretty good. The villain is a bit over-the-top and the theme of blood transfusions is way overused but I really like the queen. The flashbacks with her are really good. It's the first time since Brook's story that I shed a man-tear.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Japan's at v69 with fourteen unpublished chapters. The english version's at v66.
Jigolo
Member
Not so much water 7 but water 7/Enies lobby is my favorite. To me they are 1 arc because the characters don't change. Villain doesn't change.
Is there something about the April 14th episode or that date in general? How'd you nail that? It seems kind of random.
It was announced in Jump.
In Japan, One Piece airs on Sunday mornings, here in the states we get it Saturday evenings.
It's coming the 14th as that's the next actual episode. This weekend is the One Piece X Toriko X Dragon Ball special.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Its the week after the dragon ball-One Piece-Toriko crossover episode. They did they same thing 2 years ago when Fight Together first premiered. Plus, I've been saying that the opening would begin in April since October, so I always had at least a 25% chance of being right with an exact date