Category: One Piece
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One Piece Season 2 is Phenomenal (Spoiler-Free Review)
When it was first announced that Netflix would adapt ‘One Piece’ into a live action series, I was a certified nay-sayer. To put it bluntly, their other adaptations of beloved anime ranged from stinky dog shit to raging dumpster fires. Besides, how could such a cartoony and bizarre series as OP work in the real…
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One Piece: Egghead, Island of the Past and Future
Man, I haven’t talked about ‘One Piece‘ since 2023. That’s basically a lifetime ago in internet time. I’ve gotta brush the dust and cobwebs off my straw hat. Following up the Wano arc was one of the tallest orders in the world. That arc set a new standard for the series, both in terms of…
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Luffy VS Kaido: Battle Between Freedom and War
He was looking for a place to die. He challenged the Navy and the Four Emperors single-handedly and was captured eighteen times; sentenced to death forty times. When he was hanged, the chain broke. When he was sent to a guillotine, the blade shattered. When sentenced to impalement, the spear crumbled. Consequently, he sank nine…
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On Shounen and Transformations
*This article contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Z, Naruto: Shippuden, One Piece, and Hunter X Hunter. Got it? Good.* Transformation as a concept is all but synonomous with the shounen genre. Ever since Goku traded his black locks for gold, every series in the genre wanted a piece of that pie. Who could blame them?…
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The Peak: Celebrating One Piece & Wano
The anime landscape has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Once upon a time, all the largest shows ran once a week, every week, for hundreds of weeks before it either a) ends or b) gets cancelled. If they got too close to the manga, or even ahead of it, the showrunners would just…
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