Tag: One Piece

  • The Peak: Celebrating One Piece & Wano

    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…

  • Icons of Shounen: Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

    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…

  • I Was Wrong About Live Action One Piece

    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…

  • The Simplistic Beauty of Monkey D. Luffy

    The Simplistic Beauty of Monkey D. Luffy

    Spoilers head for One Piece. Granted, all the things that I’ll be spoiling happened years ago now (god damn is this series long). But given how many people are using their time in quarantine to catch up, I figured I’d give the warning regardless. If you do decide to read, I hope you enjoy. There…