I sat down to read it and finished it three days later (it was 400 chapters then). I got into One Piece quite late because I thought it was too popular to be really good. This review will be rather personal because most of the important things about the story were said above. Where's the fun in skipping ahead? This is a voyage of discovery! You don't want to be spoiled on the list of current crewmembers. Oh, and this will probably come too late, but. If you haven't read it, then for godssakes do. It will keep you on the edge of your seat wanting more while still leaving you with a sense of gleeful satisfaction after every chapter. It will make you laugh like a kid at the circus. Potential members are chosen in pretty much exactly the way the audience would want – for being entertaining, cool, and providing something new to the mix.Īnd at over five hundred chapters and counting at the time of this writing, it's hard to deny that One Piece is epic.
It takes that oh-so-important storytelling element – the central cast, and potential additions thereto – and glorifies it by making the assembling of that cast (the protagonist's pirate crew) a major focus of the story. It has a huge cast of secondary characters, essentially a freakshow of crazy caricatures and archetypes, and yet manages to avoid making any of them seem one-dimensional or uninteresting. It's simple, but at the same time remarkably deep. It's fast-moving, but never too fast-moving. In fact, One Piece somehow manages to both take itself deadly seriously, and refuse to take itself seriously in the slightest, at the same time, and not only make it work, but take all the best aspects of each of these two seemingly-opposing approaches and forget to bother with any of the flaws. And you'd better believe they enjoy the ride. Larger-than-life characters face up to one another, shouting their ambitions and ideologies for the world to hear, in glorious confrontations that are a roller-coaster ride of emotions, fists, blades and bullets. In that way that only shonen manga really can, it brings on the glorious spectacle and then some. Gags, puns and general insanity abound.Īnd yet somehow in the midst of all this patent ridiculosity.
The main character is a pirate who's made of rubber, can't swim, and has about the mental capacity of a preschool child. Special abilities are gained by eating unusual fruits (although the tried-and-tested shonen methods of just Working Really Hard or Being Badass Enough can work wonders as well). Character designs are so stylised, weird and wonderful that it may put first readers off. It's hard to when everything is just so plain odd. One Piece takes all of this and glorifies it. The absolute value of friendship, loyalty, and big, big dreams. The thing about One Piece is that it manages to perfectly capture the essence of shonen manga.
And One Piece had all of these great elements in it. He can create the world dumbest joke that people will die laughing. He can create a great emotional scene that anyone can be proud to cry. ODA is a genius at creating suspense atmosphere that keep the readers tingling. The story line is as unpredictable as any manga can get. And throughout the adventure, we see how they are struggle in their roads to achieve what they want. Each had their own dreams, their own goals, their own pasts. The story show a gradual but emotional advancement of each and every single crew. It is a masterful, epic grand scale adventures of Luffy little crew, including Zoro the Sword Man, Nami the Navigator, Usopp the Comedian (hahaha), Sanji the Cook, Chopper the Medic, Robin the Historian, Franky the Engineer, Brook the Musician, and 1 more soon to be crew to create a 10 crew pirate ship Luffy always dream of. He was inspired by Shanks, a great pirate whom he admired and later goes on his quest to become the Pirate King. One Piece is a story of a young pirate named Luffy.
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