Baaru watches the Funi Dub of One Piece

Kaio wrote:

Baal wrote:

And now that Logue Town is over, I am done with the entire East Blue Saga with exclusion of the Warship Island Arc which I'm debating over whether or not I want to watch because I hate filler and don't want to bother with more than like 2 episodes of it. The dubbing is great and I can not believe how much I liked the Kuro arc when I watched it again, it's so good. The Baratie Arc also seemed a bit darker than I remembered it, probably due to the whole "Dying through hunger is a horrible way to go" message it had. The Zoro and Hawkeye fight is the fight that stands out the most to me still. Arlong Arc is probably tied with Kuro for the best of the East Blue Saga because both have villains that are so despicable but Arlong is more despicable than Kuro so I'd probably put Arlong higher than Kuro in terms of the arc as a whole. Anyways, I can't wait for Baroque Works, I forgot how great this series was.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Kuro arc doesn't even come close to Arlong arc.

The story, villains, the fights, the flashback, the moments, they were all spectacular during the Arlong arc. Kuro only had the villain as its good point. For the rest it wasn't memorable at all.

I loved every moment with Usopp together with his band. They were adorable, yet strangely motivating.

I didn't like the children. But then I never do. They always annoy me.

Yeah, anime kids suck.

I finished Little Garden and am in the middle of Hiruluk's past right now. I forget what a sad character Hiruluk is but he has so much hope that it's hard to dislike him.

The ending of that flashback with Hiruluk's death and Ave Maria playing is one of the anime's best moments.

Also, Julie Mayfield is amazing as Kureha.

Yeah, it's a tough act to follow up on Nozawa, but she nailed it. Also glad they didn't go with the obvious Linda Young casting that everyone was expecting.

Just finished Hiruluk's death and jesus... that was extremely well done. Not just from Oda's writing but from Toei's directing. Whoever came up with the idea to get the rights to Ave Maria for that scene deserves a raise if they are still working at Toei.

Wapol eating himself is about one of the most disgusting things I've seen from this series.

Hahaha, oh man. I'm going to have to do one for Enel's face later too, aren't I?

Just finished Drum Island and now for Alabasta, AWWWW YEAH.

Alabasta is my favorite arc so far.

It's certainly got the best villain.

SimianWonder wrote:

It's certainly got the best villain.

He's not at Skypea yet.

Crocodile and Enel are both the best villains.

Enel can suck it. Croc was a way more interesting villain.

Croc is interesting as a character and Enel is interesting as a figurehead. Both are amazing villains and the best in the series.

J. Michael Tatum is a big reason why Eneru is such a memorable villain.

Tatum was the perfect pick for Eneru. I liked the choice for Crocodile as well.

Kaio wrote:

J. Michael Tatum is a big reason why Eneru is such a memorable villain.

He really is amazing.

And then he went on to make another dub villain memorable by writing most of Freeza's dialogue.

Also most big OP villains play scrubs in DBZ. John Swasey voices Croc and Dodoria, Tatum voices Eneru and Zarbon, Jason Liebrecht plays Lucci and Jheese.

/pointless trivia

And vice versa Chris Ayres voiced Freeza and friggin' Johnny.

I knew Johnny sounded familiar.

I will make this my avatar when I make it to Skypiea.

He's also the new Scar in FMA Brotherhood which isn't as good of a match as Dameon Clarke.