Category: Manga

  • The Great One Piece Journey (Part 3): Syrup Village

    This is an odd arc. Of the East Blue arcs, this one is easily the worst. Not to say it’s bad, it just doesn’t compare as well to the others. But it does introduce a fan favorite character and has massive repercussions later on in the story. It somehow doesn’t hold up and holds up…

  • 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…