The "I read One Piece, so should you" topic

Yeah, but I can't be bothered to read it.

:/

Don't whore out the anime Kaio, OP fans need to start leaving a good impression.

Read One Piece and Enies Lobby was bad.

I'll never read one piece again. Never.

Ace sucked Ace, get over it.

I am over it. So far over it that I passed this whole series!

See what I did there.

With the break and the timeskip now's the perfect time to read ONE PIECE!

I should probably catch up, the last chapter I read was the one where it caught up with Zoro, Franky and some other people I forgot.

Last time I read OP, Luffy was just coming back to his senses, following the war.

I heard from my friend that Zoro is currently on Mihawk's island or something...?

Yeah, he's in Mihawk's house with Perona.

Chances are he'll be stuck on it for the two year time skip, what with the things that were kicking ass preventing him from leaving.

Ace, at what part in the story are you now?

These fanslations are making me sad.

I can forgive Don Creek. I try to look past all the damn spelling and grammar errors; but come on now..

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The seven gods of pirates? Jinbei, captain of the mermaid pirates?

Fishmen and Mermen are fairly similar words in Japanese and Shichibukai is an incredibly hard to translate word (hence it being untranslated in most fanslations and even Namco Bandai didn't bother to find a good English word for it in Unlimited Cruise).

The translations get worse. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

They get worse? Oh fun.

Jaya is the absolute bottom of the barrel shittiest fucking poop I've ever read. And the translation itself isn't even that bad. But the names are just horrible.

Oh wait, there's also the whole BB stuff.

You will never guess what BB stands for.

Ha, I can't wait. Does it get better after Jaya? Or does it just seem better in comparison?

I don't remember any particularly obvious crap from Skypiea onwards, aside from unneccesary untranslated words.

Alright, I can handle that.

Back into the manga again now, and I'm in the Sabaody Archipelago.

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Another day of hefty readage. Is that a word, readage? It is now.

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I don't care about Ace either, but his death was still sad, because I do care about Luffy. And Luffy's upset, so I'm upset (he's not pissed, his mind is completely broken). Ace was meant to die the moment Oda introduced him, which is likely the reason why Oda never bothered to really make him an interesting character.

Impel Down was pretty decent. The beginning was fun, the middle part dragged on way too long and the ending was incredibly exciting.

The War arc, while flawed, was still exciting, because we see all these top tier characters duking it out in a big brawl. Unlike Enies Lobby it wasn't dragged out at all and kept at a perfectly reasonable 30 chapters. And all the participants were great to watch, unlike CP9. Its biggest problem is the repetitiveness of Luffy getting kicked down, receive help from strong character X and start running again. We already know Luffy makes friends everywhere and that he's a scrub, so it really didn't need the hammering down over the 10+ chapters of him running towards Ace. Also, a lot of characters got a pretty bad rep in the arc, because they appeared to be doing nothing or just take down marine/pirate fodder. Only Whitebeard, Akainu, Luffy and Croc had good showings. However this can mostly be attributed to the fact that Oda doesn't want to blow his load on characters that have upcoming arcs, such as DoFlamingo.

I reread the Impel Down and the war in one go, and it was pretty amazing.

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I don't care about Ace either, but his death was still sad, because I do care about Luffy. And Luffy's upset, so I'm upset (he's not pissed, his mind is completely broken). Ace was meant to die the moment Oda introduced him, which is likely the reason why Oda never bothered to really make him an interesting character.

At the time I wrote that, I had no idea Luffy was going to suddenly lapse in unconsciousness. I really didn't enjoy the Ace / Luffy / Sabo flashbacks too much though. It felt like a last ditch attempt to force us into feeling something for Ace.

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The War arc, while flawed, was still exciting, because we see all these top tier characters duking it out in a big brawl.

Agreed, it was nice to see some of the real heavyweights duke it out.

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Unlike Enies Lobby it wasn't dragged out at all and kept at a perfectly reasonable 30 chapters. And all the participants were great to watch, unlike CP9. Its biggest problem is the repetitiveness of Luffy getting kicked down, receive help from strong character X and start running again. We already know Luffy makes friends everywhere and that he's a scrub, so it really didn't need the hammering down over the 10+ chapters of him running towards Ace. Also, a lot of characters got a pretty bad rep in the arc, because they appeared to be doing nothing or just take down marine/pirate fodder. Only Whitebeard, Akainu, Luffy and Croc had good showings. However this can mostly be attributed to the fact that Oda doesn't want to blow his load on characters that have upcoming arcs, such as DoFlamingo.

I felt it dragged on a bit too long to be honest, and there were too many times were guys were introduced only to show how strong someone else is. It was great to see Crocodile in full swing again though, and Whitebeard himself, while not a character I felt any attachment to, was a monster. I'd also say the Shichibukai had pretty good outings; DoFlamingo is clearly utterly psychotic, watching him effortlessly take down Moria at the end was quite intimidating, and I find something strangely amusing about the way Hancock fawns over Luffy. The Amazon Lily arc itself was pretty "meh", but at least it had a payoff. Oh, and Blackbeard's a total douche. I can't wait to see Luffy stomp him.

Anyway, moving on, I'm past the time skip, I'm glad to see Luffy back to his old self and seeing him OHKO the same pacifista that it took the whole crew to take down pre-time skip, then seeing Zoro and Sanji doing the same thing to another one made me feel all warm inside. It's great to see the crew all back together again.

One more thing; Kai, where do you stand on Nami's hair? Long or short, your preference...?

I'm still at the part where Skypiea just finished in the anime.