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I'm so excited I can barely stand it, so please bear with me if I'm more incomprehensible than normal. See, my beloved One Piece is taking a break -- a full month break, the only such break creator Eiichiro Oda has had since he began the series 12 years ago. During that break, the story is going to jump ahead two years -- two years where all the characters are training to be bigger badasses, to get ready for the second half of their adventure. This is phenomenal for several reasons:
• Although there have been 59 volumes of One Piece collected in Japan so far, it'll at least get to 60 when it collects everything before the break. AND THE STORY IS ONLY HALF WAY DONE. We theoretically have 12 more years of One Piece on the way.
• The characters -- which have only had mild clothing changes for the last 12 years -- will likely get some potentially big redesigns. At the least, they'll look older -- main character Monkey D. Luffy will now be 19.
• You know all that bullshit where the main characters in other shonen series like Naruto and Bleach and Dragonball Z and such sit around training forever before they get to a fight? Well, One Piece has never done that. And now that the characters are going to sit around and train, the author's going to skip all of that so he can get right back to the good stuff. This is one of the reasons One Piece is so fantastic.
When Dragonball had its major timeskip, the anime was rebranded as Dragonball Z. It's worth pointing out that One Piece is already nearly 50% longer than all of Dragonball and Dragonball Z combined, and it's only now doing its timeskip, so this is far more major than the DB/DBZ switchover.
Japan is already losing its mind; volumes 57 and 59 of the manga have sold 2 million copies... each. Since Japan has a population of 125 million, meaning 1.5% of the entire nation owns copies of each of those books. Just for comparison, the #1 American comic in July was Marvel's X-Men #1, which sold 140,000 copies. In the entirety of America. Don't worry about remembering these details, eventually I'll write my 10 Reasons One Piece Is the Greatest Comic Ever list, and I'll be sure to mention them again. (Via Comics Alliance)
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they all do come back together and with some pretty badass powers too.espescally luffy who masters all 3 of the haki. i cant wait till the second half comes out.
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 2 YEAR ARC WILL BE FREAKING BAD OH GOD I'M SO EXCITED WHEN WHEN WHEN AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS GONNA B FUCKING SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET. oh and ONE PIECE IS THE SHIT.
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lmao, comparing a mystical alien race to magical fruit eating people, youre such a geek. don't forget they also have magic balls in dragonball, not to mention, magic beans too :P.
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i want to now if 2012 comes vill that mean all the ep will come out at once or that will be it like seris whitouth an and
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i've been watchin this sence i Was 5 years old and it's the best anime and manga ever made. i didnt read manga until a week ago cous i couldnt wait to se the next one piec ep but. and it's suuuuperrrr
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Well, Whoever made one piece characters look the way they do, act the way they act, and make the story line flow this brilliant is definitely a freaking genius. Mind your mouth if you don't have the brain to create a masterpiece equal in quality to such or something so wonderful; whether it's One Piece or whatever anime. Obviously some people have the imagination others didn't.
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Just a few points on Dragonball: 1) Dragonball lasted from December 1984 to May 1995. Thats 11 years. One piece has not lasted 50% longer than dragonball. 2)The manga was always dragonball, it never became dragonball z after a time skip. They just made 2 different anime series and decided to name them differently. Yes there was a time jump in dragonball. In fact there were about 10. Ranging from 6 months to 10 years. Doesn't mean anything to what you were saying. Just throwing that out there. 3) I happen to like the bullshit were the characters train. In dragon ball, it was part of the tension, to see if the characters could become strong enough to defeat there enemies. It also showed the heroes earning their power, not just eating magic fruit and gaining the physics of a looney tunes character :) But one piece is cool. I've read some of it. And the artist is very talented. Cross Epoch was my fave :)
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Romance is a key part in stories, even in one piece. Where is this romance? I am not talking about man and woman relationship. Romance isn't limited to that. I can also be friendship, and even better the theme "protect others treasures for they treasure it". As well as saving Nami's island from the pirates and saving Robin from Enies Lobby. That is all romance. What is spectacular is that Oda manages to incorporate this kind of romance through the whole series and it is part of what warms our hearts.
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One piece is freaking awesome i can't wait until the break is over
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One Piece isn't the greatest manga of all...Eichiro Oda failes when it comes to skirmishes. The first skirmish is Skypiea had made me think that. The whole Whitebeard VS Marines was a failure. When reading these chapters i had a feeling that alongside Jinbei holding Luffy, Oda was running with him trying to quickly "run away" from that part of the story...pathetic. I don't believe the news writer that One Piece is going to be 120 volumes...
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They're good people, but they've taken a lot of treasure from a lot of people, they spend the treasure on ships, meat, and booze, broken people out of prison, and they've declared war against the government. Sure, they're not ruining the lives of innocent people like Crocodile, they're not tyrannical like Eneru, and they have moral restraints unlike Blackbeard; but they're criminals. And Oda makes a point that their moral code keeps them from being like Blackbeard. They're lovable rogues, but that doesn't stop them from piracy.
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Oh FFS, do the list already. I mean, you can't possibly cover everything, but everyone will love it. And it will fill at least some of the void we'll have to endure /SOB The break, I think, though freaking stressful and amping up anticipation for everyone, is MUCH needed, not only for Oda, but everyone else... I mean, holy F, when the hell is a good subbed version of the 10th movie gonna come out, as well as Funimation catching up with the episodes and me getting my ass to Kinokunya; I had no idea I was 13 volumes behind in my collection :| CRAP!
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I...I love this. So damn much
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How is it a complex when he/she is actually right about Sasuke? Even with Killer Bee and Raikage handing him his ass, Sasuke's fights before then and extreme author-wanking has pretty much killed most of the positive things the manga had going for it.
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Sigh. I'm so damn far behind in One Piece. I finished Alabasta and have yet to read all those volumes Viz cranked out five a month to catch up. Meanwhile I've had friends cosplay as Soge King and buy Portraits of Pirates figures for Ace, Frankie, and others I haven't even seen. So I know a little bit of what's coming, and how awesome it is, but I haven't actually read it.
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F*ck yeaaah! I was wondering if you were gonna report this since I know your an OP fan too. <3 <3 <3 I am going to love reading that list. Make sure it's out before Part 2 begins! Wooot! (I hope Oda doesn't die before the series ends. I'm already devestated about Kon. *sadness*) Btw, here's a link to the image above without all that... weird photoshop edit: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/File:489.jpg
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Yup, I'm gonna put it out there right now. One Piece > Dragonball Z. High seas over-the-top fighting is good shit.
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F*ck yeaaah! I was wondering if you were gonna report this since I know your an OP fan too. <3 <3 <3 I am going to love reading that list. Make sure it's out before Part 2 begins! Wooot! (I hope Oda doesn't die before the series ends. I'm already devestated about Kon. *sadness*)
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Haha, I love it when you gush about One Piece. It's nice to know I'm not the only fan. Oh, I'll be waiting for your list on why One Piece is the greatest comic ever. :)
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*SPOILERS FOR BATTLE ANGEL ALERT* BA:LO, really? The freaking tournament has taken longer to get through than the entire first series. Honestly, past the point where Ido died, the series has slowly become a very shallow version of what it once was. Where the various characters and villains were once mild commentary and caricatures, now they are just spoofs. He's gone from making a character with a lima bean shaped head seem like a bad ass to making his main character dress and act like a bona fide cat girl. If that is not the clearest example of series decay you have ever seen, I suggest seeing your optometrist.
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Thank you. Thank you for actually liking the art without knowing about the storyline. It makes me so sad when people refuse to read it because they hate the art. You, sir, have made my day.
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what the hell are you talking about, colonel? Zorro ALL. THE. WAY! i'm waiting to see what he can do after the time skip! so many swords, so little worthy foes...XD
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while not a one piece fan, i have to agree: SHAME on you, doc! XD
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One Piece is freaking brilliant! And though I didn't think the manga needed any kind of change, it seems like a very good one. And Rob: please feel free to ramble about One Piece as often as you want!
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Might?! I'd say it's about time! One Piece is the very definition of awesome.
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wan piss huh? EAT A DICK
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Yup. Must be noted too that comic publisher sales through Diamond are not nationwide but to comic shops worldwide, because there's certain regulations you have to adhere to because they do. So that's only 140,000 for the new number one X-book worldwide, not nationwide. The previous eight million selling X-book from the 90's was sales through multiple direct distributors (which was prior to the Heroes World buy-out by Marvel, the exclusive contracts forged by Diamond which shut out and decimated other major distributors like Capital City,etc) Which just goes to show you how weak the comics market is now with only one major comics distributor (yes, there are technically other tiny small-time comics distributors, but the others don't carry Marvel, DC etc)
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I agree about the amazing continuity in One Piece. Looking back, the use of Haki has been hinted since the very start when Shanks sent the Sea King packing after losing his arm through to the use of "mantra" in Skypeia but is only now being explained andcoming to be a major plot point in the story.
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HELL YEAH!!! I'm EXTREMELY excited about this!!! I actually had mixed feelings about this break. First I went bat-shit insane thinking of how they're going to change in the two year period then I got kinda pissed because now I have to wait a whole FRICKIN' month for the new One Piece. Gotta say I'm glad to see some One Piece fans. I've followed it since the beginning and out of everyone I know only three of people are into One Piece.
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Screw it! My vote is for Sanji. I don't think I can live with crappy boat food if he's not on board. Pervy sous-chef all the way!
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Rob, I don't drink, but if I ever show up at a TR meetup, I will buy you drinks and we will discuss One Piece until we are no longer able. Related to the story itself: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP I KNOW RIGHT <33333
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This is most likely the most awesome comic news i've heard this year.
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So wait...they started ANOTHER version of X-Men at #1...again? WTF...
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I'm so excited yet terrified for what will be in store for us at the end of this next month. One Piece is my blood, man. I've spent obscene amounts of money to support it here in the US so it'll get some equal representation among all the Naruto merchandise.
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I'm gonna take a guess, but you're probably talking about the early 90's Jim Lee variant cover X-Men#1. Which sold by the truck load. He said the comic that sold the most in July of this year. There have been a lot of X-Men first issues. This was another. It didn't sell as well.
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Fuck yeah, One Piece. My vote goes to Usopp, by the way. HE'S GONNA BECOME THE REAL SNIPER KING!
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Compare/contrast to Bleach, which is equally as popular and is also one of Jumps big 3. The basic formula for Bleach can be summed up as follows: Training, training, training, training, training-montage-which-retroactively-explains-why-all-the-rest-of-this-arcs-training-was-incorrect, fight, lose, almost die, suddenly-and-with-only-a-fuzzy-reasoning-suddenly-evolve, Flawless victory, mope, repeat. I admit, I am not really that big of a fan of One Piece, but I will say of all the Big Three, it is the only one that I count as being worth reading the entirety of. Naruto has some good bits in the first few arcs, before it gets repetitive and starts to slog along and Bleach has a couple of good moments every 40 or 50 chapters, or so, but neither of them are really worth dedicating oneself to. One Piece, I can actually see the value in.
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now if funimation would hurry up and get the rest of the movies dubbed.
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I've been following One Piece for just over a year now, and love it. And I'm glad to see it getting some TR love since it was Rob saying how great it was in Anime Insider that made me give it a try. And I've never looked back. Thanks man.
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I just started reading One Piece recently. I read through over 100 chapters in a week (about half-way through vol. 12, thought them reaching Whiskey Peak would be a good spot to take a break since nothing major was going on) then took about a month long break (which I'm still on but plan to end soon-ish) I have some complaints, but I do absolutely love it.
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Umm... Just to clarify X-Men #1 hold's the record the the biggest selling comic issue ever, with a number WAY above your quoted 140,000. The official record, according to Guinness it sold almost 8 Million copies. Now, admittedly, that's for a single issue, and not a collected volume, but give credit where it is due.
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It took me a while to realise why I love this comic so much, after following it weekly now for the past four years. Being a massive fan of comics in general both eastern and western style, my favorite comic writers are people like Alan Moore, Grant Morrisson and Frank Miller. The link between all of those people is that they tend to take the basic ideas of comics that we loved as kids (Superheros, Detectives etc..) and apply an adults distance to them. Bringing the weariness of the world to characters like Superman and such, putting them in adult and frightening situations. Why then is One Piece so good? Its the only comic I have read in my adult life that makes me feel like a kid again, I look forward to it each week the same way I used to look forward to X-Men and Spiderman, Echiro Oda has managed to capture something that the greats like Moore and Morrisson could only aspire to. Maybe its the absolute enthusiasm of the work, maybe its the amazingly detailed world he has created and the insane levels of continuity that wrap around everything. Regardless, the first thin I do on a Thursday morning is see if the new One Piece has been put online, and by god does it never let its audience down :)
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I can well believe Japan is losing its mind, the war arc was possible some of the most nonsensical bad arseness ever put to paper.
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See, I thought the time skip was really cliched, but Oda has never once failed me a fan who's only loved One Piece for a little under a year now. I spent a long while ignoring One Piece with the reason that its up there with Naruto and Bleach, so there's no way I could possibly love this series without becoming bored out of my mind. I picked up vol 1 and 53 vols later I have the series on my top shelf in all its glory. I fucking loved it. The story, the characters, they all blow my mind I love it so much. Naruto and Bleach can never be compared to One Piece. I've already gotten into my fair share of arguments on how One Piece is so wonderful... It's a well deserved break for Oda and I'm glad hes able to get a good rest. Its gonna kill me to wait an entire month though... I can't wait to see how much the characters grow.
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<i>(Hmmm, post fail - forgive me if it's a dup.)</i> When the anime sticks to the manga, it's damned good; when it's in filler it's hit or miss. I'd check some episode lists to find out what's filler - http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_Guide or http://www.arlongpark.net/Anime/Episodes both came up a quick google. Funimation streams a good bit of the episodes if you're in the US. I stick to the manga since I read fast ($8-10/volume btw). But in both the manga and the anime the story arcs can to a degree be read/watched independently of each other. I think when I first started on it, I was reading three separate arcs simultaneously due to being told "oh, this is awesome, read this part NOW" a few separate times - and I could still follow along fairly easily.
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my vote goes to tony tony chopper, just because i love that lil' rascal. "no more mr. emergency food-ration!!!"
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Personally, I'm most excited about what Robin is going to be up to in the two years before they get back together.
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+ 1 I LOVE Berserk. It may take forever till a new one is releast but it's all ways worth it. The art and the writing are ridiculously good. And since Hellsing is finished I'm only reading Berserk and Battle Angel: Last Order. I can't get over the look of the Characters in One Piece.
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Eh, I'll stick to Berserk. I got bored with One Piece, but the idea of the 2 year skip is still cool sounding (if pulled off correctly).
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Rob, you can babble incoherently over One Piece anytime! Eiichiro Oda's work is totally worth it. My boyfriend and I are currently trying to decide who's gonna be the very most awesomest...so. hard. to. choose. Current consensus is that whatever upgrades Franky installs in himself is going to be CRAZY (and flagrantly pantsless).
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Is there a show I could watch and if there is, is it as good as the source material because I don't want to watch it if its not. I would rather make the time to read it (with a six day work week not an easy task) if I would miss out. then are the volumes expensive?
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Funimation better get its ass in gear and have its dubbed show catch up with its subtitled version. Though I am aware of some of the major events in the manga. I wanna see it again on a network since they originally ruined such a fantastic show. Damned 4KIDS....
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Well. Said.
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Is that art of One Piece? Because it looks awesome and not what I expected. Might have to stop not caring about manga.
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About time you gushed about One Piece Rob! I just hope that in those 2 years of time the Straw-Hat crew can all get back together. I don't read the manga, but I'm current with the anime airing in Japan thanks to FUNimation's simulcast, and I'm somewhat tired of only seeing Luffy (even though Luffy is quite a badass, and it looks like there's going to be one hell of a war going on). One Piece just isn't the same without the full crew.
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