Post timeskip just got super real tho guy
Pat is at G8 from what I remember him telling me. Stopped right when it was gonna get interesting.
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Super Best Friends Thread 8: "You know, we really are the Super Best Friends Play"
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Pat is at G8 from what I remember him telling me. Stopped right when it was gonna get interesting.
They set the premise up in episode 3 (The first episode was a double episode filler special) and then you can more or less skip around, because it's so episodic, you're not going to be that lost unless you jump like 100 episodes in.
Aaron-Lagann
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It's probably the hardest I've laughed at any manga, but it takes awhile to get there and relies a lot on how used to the characters you are.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
I haven't started Dressrosa, but when the anime finishes it I'm gonna marathon it. Fuck Punk Hazard, though.
You're not going to show up one day and be like "IT'S ME, DAVID CAGE! I'VE BEEN DAVID CAGE ALL ALONG!" are you?
Not to mention it parodies everything this thread cares about, from JoJo to TTGL, even EVA.
Glitchesarecool
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Definitely. Marathoning the arcs is the way to watch that series considering they waste 5-10 minutes each episode on the introduction.
Man Punk Hazard was hella boring like 75% of the time. I got bored and stopped reading it for almost a year before I caught up. Annnnd now I'm way behind again, even though I know the current arc is really good.
Really? Because it's all the post-time skip stuff that made me interested in it. I'm ep 208 at the moment. Might read the manga version of the Long Island arc since it seems like a giant distraction.
PfantzyPantz
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You're welcome Spider Man, I do what I can!
I'd say anyone that enjoys a good classic shonen should love the Pre-Grandline stuff, but after that it just starts decreasing in quality imo, with some high points like Water 7. I keep thinking about catching up with the time skip, but I can't see it getting better for me.
Aaron-Lagann
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I'm sure everyone in this thread would like Gintama, but I fully understand why they don't want to read it or would drop it. Nothing you can do.
Friend and I watched all of Fishman Island week by week and went fucking insane with how little happened in each episode.
Punk Hazard had a few really hype moments, that were all near the end and had hours of nothing leading into them, with then next to no payoff at the end. Such a disappointment.
Aaron-Lagann
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The post time-skip stuff just suffers from a shit ton of shonen tropes that earlier stuff subverted a lot of. There's also next to no struggle against any enemies at any point, since the entire crew is super OP at this point.
I'd say the best of the show is from Arlong to Water 7, everything before and after that isn't as good.
Well it doesn't matter either way, their loss.
Yep, but it's fine overall, Oda is very consistent and has clearly gotten back into stride with Dressarosa
We could set up a stream and have a bestgaf let's watch
Aaron-Lagann
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Bad One Piece is better than even the best Naruto and Bleach. Good to hear it's good again, though.
I'd love to do that with an anime, but this is not the one for it.
What about Marineford? I'm not there yet, but from what I've glimpsed from it, it looks incredible.
Ultimate_Trainer
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What about Bible Black? English dub of course.
Aaron-Lagann
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Oh, shit, forgot about that. I'd say that arc has the best moments of the entire series, but at least in the anime a lot of it was drug out. That's definitely there with Water 7, though.
RecursiveFault
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Actually now that a bunch of us are on break soon, we should start watching LPs together or something. synchtube or instasynch could work.
We could also crash those tumblr group watches, but I don't wanna bother those guys if we overpower them.
Or we could just go to the tbfstream, they are nice.
Aaron-Lagann
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You gotta watch Strong World directly after Thriller Bark, since directly after that is when it goes into the events leading into the time-skip.
Z... Eh, nobody needs to watch Z.
I can't really agree with that because the best Bleach arcs are definitely better than Punk Hazard.
Overall OP is a higher quality manga than Bleach or Naruto though, in terms of writing at least.
Aaron-Lagann
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Even good Bleach is filled with such bullshit that I can't even care. The best of the series was Rukia and in retrospect that whole arc was nonsense and bullshit.
RecursiveFault
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Yeah. If they don't mind us crashing their party that'd be sick.
Glitchesarecool
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Yeah, bleach is kind of terrible. And I watched the entire thing.
zedreamcast
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Hey guys what kinds of fighting do you guys like the most that isnt a normal way of fighting.
I ask cause I have a major hard on for dance fighting.
I ask cause I have a major hard on for dance fighting.
I disagree, Z is in the top 3 one piece Movies IMO. up there with Baron Omatsuri , Dead End Adventure and Strong World
Movie 6 Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island.
Ultimate_Trainer
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Aikido and Judo seems pretty cool. I don't think people usually throw people in acutal fighting right?
Glitchesarecool
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Oh wait, Z was the one with the mech arm guy? The fights in that were fucking great. Not sure how i feel about it overall.
Or, y'know, people who just haven't watched it
Aaron-Lagann
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It's the one where this guy does some bullshit and they have a cool fight in a volcano.
I don't even hate Bleach, but it's fucking garbage.
Strong World is the only One Piece movie I feel is worth anything, Z is good for some cool action, but everything else in it is pretty whatever.
PfantzyPantz
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Arlong is my favorite arc, when I rewatched the pre-Grandline stuff, I was really surprised by how much more I was enjoying it. (The pacing issues definitely mar the experience in the later arcs)
And yeah, I prefer when every fight is a struggle, but I hate the "Oh he died! lolnohedidn't" nonsense that really began go to overboard in Crocodile's arc. Even though I love Crocodile, Luffy 'died' like 3 times, and I actually raged when that bird guy came back. Why should I feel any tension when I know no one will actually get hurt in any meaningful way?
I felt so much more with
Going Merry's funeral
Ace's death
It had some cool ideas that made me like it way more than Naruto but yeah it's pretty fucking bad.
Glitchesarecool
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Strong World set the bar for a One Piece movie IMO.
I love the fuck out of the recap OVAs though, like the Merry Go one that was recently sent out.
I love the fuck out of the recap OVAs though, like the Merry Go one that was recently sent out.
That's because you watched it as a movie about the Straw Hats when really it's a movie About Z.
Aaron-Lagann
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Punk Hazard had a lot of important bits, characters and the overall plot moved forward, but the arc itself was pretty boring, that's why people didn't like it.
zedreamcast
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Shouldnt one watch a one piece movie for the straw hats?
RecursiveFault
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Spoiler tags yo
PfantzyPantz
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I'd probably join in, I saw a little bit of one of those tumblr group watches and it seems like a lot of fun.
Dance fighting is so radical
CrackPebbles
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Even Dressrosa is getting painful to watch weekly. But yeah its the best post-timeskip arc so far.
zedreamcast
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I know, let me just style all over you until youre unconscious.
Aaron-Lagann
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Yeah but I didn't know or give a shit about Z and was all of a suddenly supposed to. My familiarity and love of the Straw Hats is a very large part of what I enjoy about One Piece, single characters that were only referenced in tie-in filler episodes a few days before the movie came out are hardly established enough for me to care about an entire movie.
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