Japan Agrees With Me That It's All Right to Cry at One Piece
Posted at 3:02 PM May 20, 2008
I'm a total sucker for shonen manga and anime series, which for those of you not in the know, means series aimed at young boys, circa 10-14, where the heroes fight and learn about friendship and get beaten and persevere. DBZ is a shonen series, as is Naruto. My favorite, tho', is One Piece, which I find the most elaborately crafted and well-told of all the anime/manga series aimed at boys two decades younger than me. (Eiichiro Oda, One Piece's creator, has been making the series for 10 years and it's only half over; I genuinely stay awake some nights, worrying that he might die before One Piece is finished.)
Anyways, the fact that One Piece can make me sob like a little girl when Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates rescue their team members is no longer quite as embarrassing, as Japan has voted it the most moving manga in Japan, according to this poll. Interestingly, both boys and girls voted it #1, and the poll included a number of guys and gals in their 20s, 30s and 40s. I'd like to point out that neither Naruto nor DBZ have ever made me cry, which stands both as a testament to One Piece's storytelling and the fact that I'm a slightly discriminating if huge femme.
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DBZ always make me cry, though for entirely different reasons.
Posted 05/20/2008 at 12:56:33 PMMay I recommend
Posted 05/20/2008 at 01:41:46 PMhttp://kaizoku-fansubs.com
I agree One Piece is one of the best Shonen manga/anime to date.
Don't worry about Oda dying off, though. barring some freak accident(no!), he's still a very young man; we should continue seeing great things from him for a long time to come!
Not like HunterxHunter's creator, Yoshiro Togashi, who goes on hiatus like once a month and whom I think will definitely kick the bucket before he ever finishes it. *sigh*
Posted 05/20/2008 at 02:32:21 PMOh! And don't forget the One Piece first season box set is being released in seven days. Thank you, Funimation! I honestly never thought I'd see it happen after fucking 4Kids got a hold of it.
Posted 05/20/2008 at 02:35:42 PMNo 'Fullmetal Alchemist' on any of those lists :s? How odd...
Posted 05/20/2008 at 06:41:36 PMI'm hoping CLAMP doesn't get killed before wrapping up all of their stories. Kaoru Tada (most known for not finishing Itazura na Kiss) was moving into a new house, bumped her head, fell into a coma, and died. It's entirely possible.
and I cried when the Going Merry died.
Posted 05/20/2008 at 10:58:01 PMone piece would be more successful in Westerns with proper marketing and improved animation of first few seasons.
i think it only get a decent animation around episode 200.
Posted 05/20/2008 at 11:00:49 PMYou like this horrible manga POS?!?! And you hated Indiana Jones 4?!?! Ok, folks this is obvious evidence that something is wrong in this guys head! I cannot tell you how many times I have turned that stupid show off! Manga Carebears would be better than that!
Posted 05/27/2008 at 03:14:14 PMBut Naruto sucks, you have to admit that. It was good at the beginning, and by beginning I mean the VERY beginning; you know, the story segment that sucked you in the story in the very first place? *cough Zabuza cough* Well it may have been promising back then, but now it has become nothing but a pile of uncreative zombie crap that has become so pointless that it rips off various elements and ideas from other manga that MAY have nothing to do with the series but it's a-ok because Bob the Builder says ''Yes he can!''.
Think about it. With most of the cast (well, what's left of it; many received a ripped-off Takahashi character death) practically stripped of any personality they had (Sakura excluded and we all know why), characters that shouldn't have been killed off are replaced by unbelievably pointless and retarded newcomers, and on top of that it has an amazingly dead storyline that mocks well written manga plot like ''One Piece'' and ''Full Metal Alchemist''. Although it's not that clear through first read, Plot no Jutsu entered into irreversible coma through the second part of the Chunin bit and passed away when Sasuke decided to bitch and moan like a spoilt brat the second he realised that the protagonist had some actual character development instead of him.
It's so dead that every time the title character tries to actually do something, he's degraded so much that when he does two steps forward; he also makes 200,000 steps back, removing the whole point of the tiring two steps. Mostly this detail happens after the times skip, the so called 'Phase Two'. (I refuse to call it Part II- that implies that the story had enough imagination to be split in half. Check again laziness.) It's pretty sad when the characters are forced to be the author’s puppets and that it's PAINFULLY OBVIOUS. And the humour; my god, can you call it that? It's so horrible that even the dirtiest guy on earth would have waited for the humour to pop up after reading badly made 'funnyhaha' scenes.
Seriously, the eleven year old pervert? LOLZ.
The fact that being a ninja is now a full time JOB and that you could quit anytime if you were lucky enough to be born in the right family is just wrong. Also add that you have unlimited non ninja days, complete with the day off.
If plot was actually involved, this knickknack would have been passable. Heck, it's not even a story about ninjas anymore. Even though, plot or not, the Mary Sue Kunai could almost rival Sephiroth.
Posted 10/31/2008 at 10:18:12 PMROCK ON ONE PIECE. You're our last hope for shounen with plot. *cough Naruto cough*
Posted 10/31/2008 at 10:20:17 PMHey Rick, do you like Naruto by any chance? That would explain a lot about you.
Posted 10/31/2008 at 10:22:24 PMOH SHI- didn't realise that this Topic is months old. Guess that it happens when you cannot sleep and that it's well past six in morning here.
VIVA la randomness!
Oh, and One Piece rocks.
Posted 10/31/2008 at 10:27:33 PM