Jul 15 2009
~One Piece~
One Piece
Original Creator: Eiichiro Oda
Director: Hiroaki Miyamoto
Kônosuke Uda
Munehisa Sakai
Production: Toei Animation
Episodes: 421+
Summary: Monkey D. Luffy is searching for the One Piece, the greatest treasure that the Greatest Pirate Gold D. Roger has hidden. As he ate the devil fruit he has been abandoned by the sea, he cannot swim and sets sail on a small boat to search for members who will help him search for the One Piece.
One Piece is probably the first anime that got me started in watching anime. I really enjoy the idea of how they made a pirate story(although im a ninja fan XD). Oda Eiichiro is one of the few manga-ka who really impacted the manga world through the origial character designs and epic story lines. The great thing about this series is the vast imagination and the fantasy world that the characters go through. You can all enjoy watching this great series as the characters go through battles after battles. This action filled comedy series can really be a great starter series for many new anime watchers. Like me.
Toei Animation as i mentioned earlier in my blog, has created many many anime, and One Piece is probably one of the more popular series in the studio. The animation is indeed getting better then from when it first came out in 1996. The animation quality is very average, like all other similiar animations out there. The color is simple yet it really fits in with the seriers. Many people has either loved this series or Hate this series. Mostly alot of hate or dislike is from people thinking that this is another version of Dragon ball, and because that its way too long, seeing how that they are still going on with the episodes people are getting annoyed, others like i said still enjoy it.
I myself did get a little bored of the animation (especially the fillers) but i still enjoy reading the manga.
The First Opening theme song “We Are!” Vic Mignogna is a real great song that captures the viewers, an original opening just for the animation One Piece. The introduction of the OP, explains the little jist of what One piece is about then moves onto the actually animation of the opening which is exciting with battle scenes and cut shots of enemy’s that the main characters will face agenst. The first ending “memories” by Maki Otsuki, another original song made for One Piece uses a simple animation of the ocean waves in bright dark gold color, as one character each appear facing towards the ocean. Since with over 400 episodes they definetly change the theme song every 25-30 episodes so they have alot of other great opening and ending songs.
I would definetly recommend this series to those who are new to anime or like Pirates, for those who are new in anime probably will get a good feel of what anime is from this series because of all the comedy, action, adventure and all other things an anime needs.
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Ratings:
Story:B
Animation: B
Art: B
Music: B
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Youtube video of the OP/ED will be posted, so please go and watch them if you are interested.
Thanks again for reading and if there are any suggestion/comments/questions, please feel free to ask.
Jya~ne see ya later
~O-tak-U
