Category: One Piece

  • 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’…

  • The Great One Piece Journey (Part 1): The Beginnings of the Great Odyssey

    The Great One Piece Journey (Part 1): The Beginnings of the Great Odyssey

    It feels weird to say that I’m nearly caught up on a series when I still have well over one hundred chapters of content left to read. With most other manga, one hundred chapters is the one-third mark. That, or the series would already be nearing its ending. But considering how massive this story is,…

  • Trafalgar D. Water Law: The Surgeon of Death

    Trafalgar D. Water Law: The Surgeon of Death

    One Piece is a series with a lot of characters. Shocking, I know. The 1000+ chapter long story has a huge cast. But among that cast, very few characters are properly fleshed out. Only the most important characters, mostly the Straw Hats themselves, are even given a backstory. Then there’s the best non-Straw Hat character…

  • 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…