Category: One Piece
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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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The Problems with Kaido (One Piece)
The mark of any good shounen is its villains. They often present the best dynamics of any given series. Goku and Freeza. Naruto and Pain. Itadori and Sukuna. In order to make the hero shine, they need a villain to cast a shadow. One Piece has had tons of fantastic villains over its extended run.…
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One Piece Film: Z is (Mostly) Awesome
So… do we have to talk about ‘that’ Sanji scene? I’d really rather not. Don’t care what you tell me, Sanji creeping on kid Nami is one billion percent not okay. Let’s just pretend that didn’t happen. Of the One Piece movies I’ve watched so far (which isn’t all that many, being honest), Z is…
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