*One Piece (Anime)*

[HUNK]

Aye!

Captian Shanks is the best One Piece charecter out there! Plus if you have played the game, he and Hawk Eye are ridiculously powerfull.

I also like Captian Kuro.(The man with cat claws.)

Loved the show but once they switched voice actors and stuff the story started to get wierd...I could not follow so I quit watching. Still though I loved it.


For those who may know Im going to ask, Does Luffy ever meet that one kid from like the first episode again? He said he wanted to join the navy so one day I thought he and Luffy would meet again.

Also Chaser is cool to.(sorry but I had to include him)

[T.G. Oskar]

Lemme see if I can provide some info about this.

First, I like to see every now and then the One Piece series, but strictly subbed. Their dubbed versions aren't as good as the originals, although the change of dubbing company should help (IMO, 4Kids was killing the series, much as it kills anything it touches) The original isn't as bloody or as shocking as the dubbed and edited version (the main point is that it makes Captain Smoker, aka Captain Chaser in the dub, have even more sense; his Devil Fruit ability is smoke manipulation, after all...), but it sorta kills the feeling of the series. One Piece is mostly comedic action, even though battles scale in power pretty quickly. I don't have to mention which: from the Arabasta arc against Crocodile to the most recent, the battles scale in power faster than in Dragon Ball/Z/GT.

One of the things I like is that it shows a hero who, despite being somehow listless and dumb-looking, he actually has interesting quips of brilliance. Luffy definitely counts as one of my favorite characters in most media if only because it's one of the few that can do a whole lot with one single power. Only a genius, a veritable genius can know exactly what he can and what he can't do with having his body made of rubber: from ignoring electricity, to extending his limbs, and then inventing Gear Second and Gear Third just for the need of having more power? Far as I've seen, only Magneto from the X-Men has that degree of "intimacy" with his power and how it works; that Luffy's apparent stupidity hides such a cunning intellect is a wonderful point from the mangaka. After all, it's one of my examples of excellent character development, as you always know Luffy is learning something new and that you never know when he's going to pull something that works.

If anything, my only concern is that it's taking the Straw Hats just too long. Each episode is a cliffhanger, you have a party that can handle pretty much whole Marine armies by themselves, survived so far about two Buster Calls, waves of overpowered entities...and we still don't know what the heck is One Piece, even though we already know it's not a material treasure (and it's probably a moral lesson or something, otherwise it would kill the entire feeling of the series) Not that the stretch is bad, but that it seems like they're stretching the story for its popularity.

[Cain Highwind]

For those who may know Im going to ask, Does Luffy ever meet that one kid from like the first episode again? He said he wanted to join the navy so one day I thought he and Luffy would meet again.

Also Chaser is cool to.(sorry but I had to include him)

I hate spoiling things for people even if they ask. I'll just say, practically every character in the series makes an appearance later on in some way or another.

Oh and the 4Kids days are long gone, boy, no need to call him Chaser anymore.

Speaking of which, it's amazing how Funimation have been able to turn things around. A couple years ago One Piece seemed doomed to obscurity. The kind of anime only hardcore fans would really know about.

But now Funi's catching up with DVD releases and are now even simulcasting episodes straight from Japan with OFFICIAL subs. They've got dub episodes on their site as well starting at Episode 1 (and currently up to episode 4), but they plan on releasing 3 episodes a week (2 old ones, and the latest in the Japan once they catch up)

One Piece: Videos

And yeah I totally love One Piece, I would talk about it more, but I think more people prefer Bleach and Naruto here. The fools.

[T.G. Oskar]

Oh and the 4Kids days are long gone, boy, no need to call him Chaser anymore.

Yeah. And Sanji can light cigarettes all day, and battles are more interesting, and Zoro is probably pronounced the right way (and not that Zolo thing)

And yeah I totally love One Piece, I would talk about it more, but I think more people prefer Bleach and Naruto here. The fools.

Word up on that, brother.

...Hey, how's about no one speaking about the latest arc, and the new nakama?