Category: Manga

  • Ranking the Straw Hats (Time Skip-Chapter 1000)

    Ladies and gentlemen: I’ve done it. I’ve completed the task that’s been daunting me ever since I first became a weeb. At long last, I’m all caught up on One Piece. Which means I’ve got a promise to keep. A few months back, I ranked all of the Straw Hats from my least favorite to…

  • The Great One Piece Journey (Part 2): Orange Town

    I’d say that this is the first proper ‘arc’ of One Piece. Everything before this was mostly setup with throw-away villains. Here? We get actually character growth, a fun and memorable villain that would play a larger part in the story going forward, and it does a great job of introducing one of the series’…

  • Ranking the Straw Hats (Pre-Timeskip)

    Ranking the Straw Hats (Pre-Timeskip)

    Get ready to see a lot more One Piece focused content on here. I’m getting so damn close to catching up and my hype train is flying off the rails at full speed. So… be prepared for a lot of this. There are a lot of reasons to love One Piece. The world is amazing.…

  • The Monstrous World-Building of One Piece

    The Monstrous World-Building of One Piece

    My productivity these last few weeks has taken a serious hit. I can come up with any number of excuses for it. ‘I’ve been depressed’. ‘My jobs been kicking my ass’. ‘I just wanna play that new game I bought’. But all of them would be lies. Because the real reason is quite simple. I’ve…

  • Shigaraki Tomura: When the System Fails

    Shigaraki Tomura: When the System Fails

    Manga spoilers! If you’re not caught up on the My Hero Academia manga, don’t read this article! There are some massive plot spoilers in this thing! Shigaraki was the first big bad introduced in MHA. But honestly, when he was first introduced, he wasn’t all that impressive. The spotlight was pretty thoroughly occupied by the…