Category: One Piece
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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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Icons of Shounen: Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)
The Big Three. ‘Naruto’. ‘Bleach’. ‘One Piece’. Once upon a time, before anime was the mainstream media juggernaut we know today, these three shows were at the peak. If you were an adolescent anime fan in America before the streaming days, you were probably watching one of these three. Without them, we likely would never…
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I Was Wrong About Live Action One Piece
Most people hate being wrong. Me? I love being wrong about things. Being a pessimist, only good things can come about of me being wrong. Netflix has a downright historic catalogue of failed live action anime adaptations. Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Cowboy Bebop just to name a few. People keep screaming at them to…
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