The Wonderful Worldbuilding of One Piece (Paradise Edition)

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    There's no world in Anime, Manga, or any other medium built quite like that of One Piece. Today I spend 45 minutes discussing just the first half of it. This manga is dangerous. Stay away.
    Chapters:
    0:00 Introduction
    3:27 Tutorial Zone (East Blue)
    8:42 Welcome to the Grand Line
    16:45 Keeps Ad
    18:31 All Marines Are Bad Guys
    25:47 The importance of Nico Robin (also History, I guess)
    34:31 Living in a Cartoon
    41:42 Oda even does worldbuilding in the chapter covers WTF
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  • @dorothygale9648
    @dorothygale9648 Před 3 lety +5769

    There's also the fact that Oda managed to get us to cry for a f***ing boat.

    • @WillieG-jh6jz
      @WillieG-jh6jz Před 3 lety +285

      And how oda manage to be crying while drawing that scene.

    • @saltyjakepauler6551
      @saltyjakepauler6551 Před 3 lety +95

      no, YOU cried at the boat

    • @notsm
      @notsm Před 3 lety +213

      Think about it. The Titanic sinking makes people cry, hundreds of people died during that. Going Mary was *empty* when it sank.

    • @Nitram4392
      @Nitram4392 Před 3 lety +354

      @@notsm It wasn't empty. I was filled with memories! 😭😭😭

    • @alcerdemon9768
      @alcerdemon9768 Před 3 lety +117

      @@notsm
      Goin Merry wasn’t empty, her spirit was full of memories and love ❤️

  • @megarobot4456
    @megarobot4456 Před 3 lety +2252

    The One Piece is just a hat and mug that say “#1 pirate” that’s why Roger just gave up and turned himself in

    • @doctorecho3007
      @doctorecho3007 Před 3 lety +110

      Nobody tell him about the basement.

    • @avelxbl2097
      @avelxbl2097 Před 3 lety +63

      That’s 2 pieces

    • @maxde2535
      @maxde2535 Před 3 lety +59

      Luffy when he finds the hat: 🤩🥳🥰
      Then nami kick the shit out of him.

    • @FrarmerFrank
      @FrarmerFrank Před 3 lety +13

      Ironicaly that One-piece seen of Robin reading Gol D Rogers words about taking what he found here to the end had Robin repeating the would then her eyes came big as she said "Could it be?"
      Um, the One-piece is the Rio Ponyglyphs plus all of Roger's rubbings(by deducing what Roger Said)

    • @megarobot4456
      @megarobot4456 Před 3 lety +1

      @@avelxbl2097 lol

  • @nitroplayz2254
    @nitroplayz2254 Před 3 lety +1875

    I am convinced Oda thinks up random things and jus goes “yeah I can make this a plot point in 6 years” and then he does it the absolute mad lad

    • @latunen5241
      @latunen5241 Před 3 lety +118

      Actually, he's thinks up random things, and is like " yeah I'll make this a plot in the next arc" this is sometimes a fact, not a joke

    • @batriam5921
      @batriam5921 Před 3 lety +99

      @@latunen5241 Next arc? Didn't he come up with the whole worst generation basically between chapters?

    • @latunen5241
      @latunen5241 Před 3 lety +14

      @@batriam5921 actually might be true

    • @Maiykll
      @Maiykll Před 2 lety +25

      @@batriam5921 It's true. He confirmed it

    • @Jon_Fury
      @Jon_Fury Před 2 lety +15

      Yeah the worst generation was made up at the last second except Eustass captain Kidd I think

  • @jaker721
    @jaker721 Před 3 lety +471

    HOW DID I MISS THAT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TIDES OF LONG RING LONG LAND AND THE AQUA LAGUNA THAT HITS WATER 7???

    • @siddhant07wc6
      @siddhant07wc6 Před 3 lety +24

      It all comes together

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 3 lety +35

      I felt like my ICQ grew from 100 to 1000

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 3 lety +85

      Also, weather in the beginning of grand line was so bad even in comparison to the rest of grand line, because at the beginning all seven magnetic fields from seven first islands overlap and try to make its own climactic zone

    • @rytheyan9064
      @rytheyan9064 Před 2 lety +5

      I missed it because long ring long land was my 2nd least favorite arc ive watched so far

    • @AquaticLotus7552
      @AquaticLotus7552 Před 2 lety +1

      DEAR GOD I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THIS WORLD IS HUGE

  • @DraegoMH
    @DraegoMH Před 3 lety +2953

    "We as One Piece fans..." Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

    • @meghanhenderson6682
      @meghanhenderson6682 Před 3 lety +132

      It's a little concerning that he's already hit the time skip...like, dude's going to catch up real quick and be stuck in the waiting for next week limbo soon.

    • @horaciosi
      @horaciosi Před 3 lety +131

      I said it before and I'll say it again. One Piece is like a Krabby Patty:
      The only people who don't like One Piece have never seen it.

    • @Troygdesign
      @Troygdesign Před 3 lety +2

      Victory

    • @zues121510
      @zues121510 Před 3 lety +6

      I got to the time skip in about 2 or 3 weeks I think? This was the anime and not the manga

    • @bogustoast22none25
      @bogustoast22none25 Před 3 lety +2

      zues121510 a full month

  • @JayChampagne
    @JayChampagne Před 3 lety +1727

    The most terrifying thing about the Navy is their ability to throw genuinely good dudes like Smoker against the protagonists, thus depriving them of the "rage against injustice" power-up that shounen heroes tend to rely on for important fights.

    • @TheRedAzuki
      @TheRedAzuki Před 3 lety +333

      The Marine itself isn't bad (Oda tried to make that point many times ) but the people controlling them are.
      That's why Garp never became admiral rank, because he refuses to be their lapdog and abuse "chain of command"

    • @dominicmallano5633
      @dominicmallano5633 Před 3 lety +54

      Luffy only fought against smoker in louguetown and very briefly in Alabasta and punk hazard. In those 2 arcs smoker helps the straw hats.

    • @owloko1349
      @owloko1349 Před 3 lety

      HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

    • @PhilinSaniachen
      @PhilinSaniachen Před 3 lety +10

      @@dominicmallano5633 don’t forget Marineford

    • @RonaKurona
      @RonaKurona Před 3 lety +157

      The marine is usually in the right, even if the world government is rotten
      In OP world, it's extremely rare to meet a pirate group like the Straw Hats, most of them are Don Kriegs who kill and rob without a second thought, the Navy is leagues above these guys, which is perfect when they clash against the usually good Straw Hats who are supposed to be the villains, it's a very grey approach to world building

  • @miriam5047
    @miriam5047 Před 3 lety +592

    I feel like it says a lot about One Piece that when a dude showed up with a talking polar bear in tow, I didn't even blink, just wrote him off as one of those goofy side characters Oda likes to throw in.
    And then like 300 episodes later it turned out that the polar bear came from an *entire island* of furries which was suuuuuuuuper plot relevant. Because of course it was.

    • @lodell501
      @lodell501 Před 2 lety +14

      underrated comment

    • @aviralgupta393
      @aviralgupta393 Před rokem +15

      @@lodell501 someone tell me wtf is the OP talking about bcoz for the life of me, I can't figure it out.
      Edit: okay I think polar bear is Law's crew member and okay now I got the thing (it's Zou, isn't it) OP is talking about. Took me 1 min after starting to write this comment 😂

    • @nerdking1019
      @nerdking1019 Před rokem +3

      @@aviralgupta393 Bepo is a mink

    • @tikikeram850
      @tikikeram850 Před rokem +4

      In sabaody arc , there are "product list" other RACE, including Mink.
      I want to know more about that.

    • @ziglaus
      @ziglaus Před měsícem

      The island was super relevant, you mean? The polar bear is still a irrelevant side character

  • @IntoL1ght
    @IntoL1ght Před 3 lety +885

    Ah, the sweet innocence of not knowing that the One Piece world's newspaper is actually controlled by Big Bird.

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 Před 3 lety +177

      it will be BIG NEWS when he finds out

    • @thatguyinthecorner4648
      @thatguyinthecorner4648 Před 3 lety +8

      Ohtori is located in One Piece???
      (This is a terrible and very niche joke but a slightly less niche reference)

    • @ethansou
      @ethansou Před 3 lety +46

      I never knew he was a zoan type. I just thought he was a mink. Morgan is dope.

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 2 lety +7

      BIG NEWS Bird, if you excuse me

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 2 lety +29

      @@ethansou I like how it is implied that he ate DF, looked at his hybrid form and went "DUDE, that is dope, who needs nose anyway"

  • @visoth7791
    @visoth7791 Před 3 lety +957

    One Piece virgin: One Piece is too long
    One Piece chad: One Piece isn't long enough!

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 Před 3 lety +39

      It's not how long you are, it's how you use it. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @zhanghaotian9510
      @zhanghaotian9510 Před 3 lety +37

      One Piece fans: One Piece anime is a disaster

    • @joiboya
      @joiboya Před 3 lety +2

      Haha yeah,seriously.. ain't long enough,dunno why but the world ain't seem large enough for me yet xD but I guess I am being too needy

    • @Nicopear
      @Nicopear Před 3 lety +11

      Honestly, i do feel like it’s not long enough.

    • @night_hat4948
      @night_hat4948 Před 3 lety

      Its always like that XD

  • @seanv42
    @seanv42 Před 3 lety +1996

    Pre-time skip is fun adventures, post time skip is massive geopolitical clashes that threaten to reshape the world around the participants. Shit got real post time skip.

    • @gabrielarthur9129
      @gabrielarthur9129 Před 3 lety +165

      The sad thing is that the production lacks in quality after the timeskip, and that's when you need to go to the Manga

    • @issh0218
      @issh0218 Před 3 lety +91

      Was Ennies Lobby and Paramount War not real enough for you😭

    • @gabrielarthur9129
      @gabrielarthur9129 Před 3 lety +42

      @@issh0218 For me those where the best arcs, but dressrosa took soooo long, rn I'm at the whole cake arc, and I just gave up, I'll end the mangass I'm reading right now and go read one piece afterwards

    • @Slaydur
      @Slaydur Před 3 lety +63

      If you're looking for a point where it switched, prolly when luffy hit the celestial dragon

    • @bossman4856
      @bossman4856 Před 3 lety +39

      @@gabrielarthur9129 I don't know what you mean by it drops in quality, it's been pretty good all the way through for me. Unless it takes a nosedive right as soon he has to take down the Beast Warlord.

  • @madmanawesome
    @madmanawesome Před 3 lety +335

    The fact that wano was somewhat mentioned as early as chopper’s backstory amaze me

    • @Willimann
      @Willimann Před 2 lety +39

      well oda already knew how wano would work when he was working on thriller bark island so yeaaaaaaaa. He basically knew where his story would go from the start. Best thing about this? He can do foreshadowing as far back as 500 chapters and some of these we dont even realize. This is a thing no other series can do because no one is such a legend as oda who would unironically die for his piece of art.

    • @theinimitablejora522
      @theinimitablejora522 Před 9 měsíci

      There was a one-shot Oda did before One Piece ever started, about a samurai from a land called Wano. It’s clear that, aside from Oda’s propensity for planning, he just was waiting a really long time to pull the trigger on that idea. Heck, Punk Hazard-era SBS even had Oda saying “the Straw Hats will be going to Wano and I’ve been looking forward to that for a long time” so… yeah

    • @lProN00bl
      @lProN00bl Před 7 měsíci

      @@Willimann Thriller Bark also has foreshadowing for Big Mom as well. One Arc managed to give hints for two arcs that wouldn't be out for another decade

    • @zaamea
      @zaamea Před 6 měsíci

      @@lProN00blwhen?

    • @NexusBecauseWhyNot
      @NexusBecauseWhyNot Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@zaameaThriller Bark made Big Mom a plot point by having Lola give Nami a vivre card of Charlotte Linlin, so she could find her when needed.

  • @ElvisHenriqueSC
    @ElvisHenriqueSC Před 3 lety +1298

    One Piece is so good it can impact you even in a moment when "nothing happened".

    • @AL-xq6jt
      @AL-xq6jt Před 3 lety +29

      I sea watchu did there...

    • @michaelmorales1602
      @michaelmorales1602 Před 3 lety +18

      I literally think about that on the daily.

    • @aaronm8143
      @aaronm8143 Před 3 lety +29

      I have the “nothing happened” moment tattooed on my forearm in the manga style. I don’t regret it 😎 I get a lot of compliments from non one piece fans. Of course they ask the “meaning” of the tattoo expecting an emotional story lol. I did tell them it represents honor so they feel satisfied. Which is why I did get it, plus it’s my favorite moment in the series. Well one of, it’s hard to have a favorite moment. I really want gear 4 Luffy.

    • @dontbe3greedy608
      @dontbe3greedy608 Před 2 lety

      That is the only scene in the entire 1000 episode anime that i liked. the rest are garbage

    • @fisty539
      @fisty539 Před 2 lety

      @@dontbe3greedy608 then watch something you like ya weirdo

  • @TheInoyamanaka1
    @TheInoyamanaka1 Před 3 lety +3001

    “Doflamingo runs a slave trade” HOO BOY REMEMBER WHEN SLAVERY WAS THE WORSE THING WE THOUGHT HE COULD DO?

    • @Saltyoven
      @Saltyoven Před 3 lety +314

      Still technically slavery, but in a far FAR worse manner.

    • @TheInoyamanaka1
      @TheInoyamanaka1 Před 3 lety +368

      Saltyoven I mean, I’d say the creation, production and sales of SMILE, along with all the experimenting on children and other vulnerable populations without their knowledge is becoming more horrifying the longer it’s explored and his crimes are just piling up, meanwhile the slavery ring was literally dropped lol

    • @spidavenom4
      @spidavenom4 Před 3 lety +74

      @@TheInoyamanaka1 you know during slavery a lot of the slaves and people who shared their background were also experimented on as science projects until post WW2. He’s not able to do those things without the money he’s making from enslavement. So that falls under his “slavery reign” as well

    • @SeeE2ps
      @SeeE2ps Před 3 lety +11

      @@spidavenom4 Long before WWII buddy. And in many dark circles, looking after

    • @KhaosAdmiral
      @KhaosAdmiral Před 3 lety +22

      @@TheInoyamanaka1 plus not to mention the underhanded means he took to topple Riku Dold III, and then erase the memories of many of the citizens by having them turned into toys.

  • @Al3xtheMeh
    @Al3xtheMeh Před 3 lety +1463

    “Thriller Bark probably contributes the least to the series world building,”
    Oh boy are you gonna think differently in the near future!

    • @lysander9957
      @lysander9957 Před 3 lety +84

      My exact thought

    • @R0kushi
      @R0kushi Před 3 lety +88

      Foxy has just left the chat

    • @trevorgrover5619
      @trevorgrover5619 Před 3 lety +70

      Yeah, how the fuck can he make that claim when the manga isn't even finished?

    • @bogiewoods3037
      @bogiewoods3037 Před 3 lety +89

      @@trevorgrover5619 he always thinks he's right

    • @thedapperdolphin1590
      @thedapperdolphin1590 Před 3 lety +44

      Can’t wait until he gets to Wano and it comes back up again.

  • @LordRae
    @LordRae Před 3 lety +104

    Luffy's reaction to a Zombie coming out of the ground is still my favorite reaction ever.

  • @AlexTenThousand
    @AlexTenThousand Před 3 lety +159

    24:46 Honestly, Magellan seems more like one of the "good guys" that genuinely believes in his job's function - all he wants is to keep the criminals in Impel Down, which might I remind you, used to house Crocodile, Shiryu (who was down in Level 6 due to his constant, cruel abuse on prisoners), Pizarro, Devon and others, people so powerful Blackbeard's whole plan was to get down there and add them to his crew to be powerful enough to kill Whitebeard and take all of his power and territories. He doesn't do it for wealth, power or any other reason beyond keeping the world safe from dangerous criminals.

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 2 lety +3

      I recommend you to reread ID. Magellan killed ALL of the criminals from levels 5-1 while chasing our guys, and the only thing he cared afterwords was how much time he will spend on the toilet because of that.
      And this is the same guy who imprisoned Shiryu because he was "too violent", yeah, sure man

    • @narayasuiryoku1397
      @narayasuiryoku1397 Před 2 lety +19

      @@iamdivan7368 Shiryu was too violent for no reason. And Magellan would rather kill all those prisoners then let them escape.

    • @thecodingninjaisepic3561
      @thecodingninjaisepic3561 Před 2 lety +15

      @@iamdivan7368 shiryu killed them for the hahah funnys, magellan killed them to stop a mass prison break

    • @MiutheMage
      @MiutheMage Před rokem

      Why does no one here take into account that impel down is a giant torture chamber compared in story and out to hell multiple times, Magellan is just doing his service to protect people, at least in the same way the devil does his, that doesn't make either of them good, they are more like evil that is directed at other evil, that is sometimes less evil than them in the first place.

  • @zekiel2533
    @zekiel2533 Před 3 lety +2031

    World building is the number one thing about the series. Without a doubt.

    • @aleherrera797
      @aleherrera797 Před 3 lety +54

      It’s that or character development but it definitely depends on the show cause shows like one piece and sao

    • @mint8648
      @mint8648 Před 3 lety +1

      what’s world building?

    • @ddd09ish1
      @ddd09ish1 Před 3 lety +3

      I agree
      The worldbuildng is super rad

    • @hemkantmhatre3005
      @hemkantmhatre3005 Před 3 lety +8

      The world building is the primary reason for its success

    • @fin8906
      @fin8906 Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah that and the unique characters

  • @samlewis6487
    @samlewis6487 Před 3 lety +2323

    One Piece is the anti-Fairytail. It looks like a Saturday morning cartoon but the tone is very serious, whereas Fairytail looks like a super serious action show but is written like a Saturday morning cartoon

    • @MrMegaSuperDuperMe
      @MrMegaSuperDuperMe Před 3 lety +263

      Even the main bad guys in Fairy Tail are discount versions of One Piece's villains.
      Kaido is what Acnologia could have been if it weren't for the last-minute crappy backstory and getting one-shotted by Friendship Magic.
      And Zeref is a weaker male version of Big Mom, both of them being able to steal life from others and giving life to more villains through their powers. The only difference is that Big Mom isn't a one pump dump, unlike Zeref, who had to rape and impregnate his dead girlfriend's corpse just to conceive a child.

    • @ayresmeirelles1973
      @ayresmeirelles1973 Před 3 lety +74

      The funny thing is, both the authors were pupils of samurai x`s author. what a world of diference.

    • @gpanthony
      @gpanthony Před 3 lety +166

      @@ayresmeirelles1973 Eichiro Oda was an assistant of Nobuhiro Watsuki, but Hiro Mashima apparently never worked as an assistant before going professional. Watsuki's other famous assistant was Hiroyuki Takei,
      the author of Shaman King.

    • @Cantrona
      @Cantrona Před 3 lety +56

      Both have killer soundtracks though!

    • @Jaymizuband
      @Jaymizuband Před 3 lety +45

      @@MrMegaSuperDuperMe Did you just compare Big Mom and Zeref because they both kill people by stealing life and that they had kids?

  • @Kiyosuki
    @Kiyosuki Před 3 lety +307

    I've seen people wonder why One Piece is so much more popular in Japan and has endured for so much longer than Dragon Ball anything ever was even at its height, and honestly I feel like this is the biggest reason. The world of One Piece is so crazy, so rich with near infinite possibilities for set pieces and shenanigans, and even the established lore of it plays a major role in the story. The big fight scenes and showing off power levels aren't what One Piece is ultimately about, even if that element is in there; it's the world and the crazy adventures that it's many, super varied (and not all human-looking) residents get caught up in.
    Not saying that DB is bad or doesn't have its own thing going for it, but ultimately there's reasons why OP has been the king of Shonen Jump for over 20 years and counting and I think this is one of the biggest ones that explains its longevity.
    It also adds story value and gravity to characters like Nico, who might not be the big combat heavy hitters like the big three, Jinbe etc, but they feel like they're valid to the story in other ways related more to the world. Nico with her quest for knowledge and unlocking the mysteries of the world, Chopper who's got one foot in the fighting and another as a doctor who's more concerned with the plight of the suffering, Brook who's a renaissance (bone)man, Franky's interest being more in expanding his knowledge of technology and new ideas than fighting, and Usopp always balancing on his tip toes into a bit of everything etc etc. A story and setting just feels so much bigger and grander when its not just about big fight scenes (Although there's an endless number of awesome and super creative examples of those, but that's a whole other topic.) but rather gives value to talents and interests other than fighting, which again is only possible with great world building.
    It's kinda like playing D&D, and how making a character with quirks, interests, and even strengths that are more lore orientated than stuff that *just* relates to pure combat often times results in more interesting and fun characters than stat cruncher meta breaker combat machines with no personality and nothing put into social or world skills.

    • @cavejohnson9071
      @cavejohnson9071 Před 3 lety +15

      Agreed, I love how every character has an important role or niche they fill for the crew. I always loved how Sanji for example values his cooking skills so much that his entire fighting style revolves around keeping his hands out of danger. I also just think it's extra badass that he's still one of the strongest fighters on the crew in spite of that self imposed handicap.
      Giving every character a unique specialty or gimmick also makes for much better power scaling. In something like DB, a lot of the fighters seem pretty interchangeable, with the winner usually being the one who can punch harder and faster, with a unique ability thrown in here and there to spice things up. But in OP, you have characters like Usopp and Nami, who never become physically stronger than a real life person could be, but manage to remain relevant because they have other skills that make up for the weaknesses of their other crewmates.

    • @RandomGuyyyy
      @RandomGuyyyy Před 3 lety +29

      Agreed. This is why it's a bit sad that so many One Piece fans obsess over power scaling.

    • @ImperatiaOne
      @ImperatiaOne Před 3 lety +11

      It says a lot that Oda off-screens so many fights and it literally does not matter to most of us.

    • @mau345
      @mau345 Před 2 lety

      Characters are also so memorable, their quirks, grey personalities, outfit, mystery and their laughs, even if they only appear a few times, each one youd recall them and their roles. Personally though, its the carefree and strong bonding of the crew that made it number 1,although this has been less and less lately. I think it’s understandable, the story has toove forward

    • @third-ratedude4234
      @third-ratedude4234 Před 2 lety +3

      I don't know why One Piece is much more popular in Japan, but l know why it didn't become popular in NA: 4kids dub

  • @ernestotorelli1209
    @ernestotorelli1209 Před 3 lety +392

    "Thriller Bark contributes the least to the worldbuilding." Lola's relationship with her mother, Ryuma's sword and native land, Oars origin and race, Kuma's actions, the Brook and Rumbar pirates backstory, would like to disagree.

    • @Kladyos
      @Kladyos Před 3 lety +86

      Don't forget Captain John's zombie, the same Captain John who's treasure Buggy is after! The bracelet Nami gives Luffy was John's and is the reason why Buggy helps Luffy in Impel Down.

    • @Willimann
      @Willimann Před 2 lety +3

      @@Kladyos true.

    • @nintendomaster45
      @nintendomaster45 Před 2 lety +35

      @@Kladyos the same captain John who was a member of Rocks Pirates, a crewmate of Kaido, Big Mom and Whitebeard

    • @annakareninacamara6580
      @annakareninacamara6580 Před 2 lety +22

      also full lenght and emphasis on Binks no Sake, that seems like a prophecy all the way to Laugh Tale and the end of One Piece

    • @soraakahymn9443
      @soraakahymn9443 Před 2 lety +7

      @@nintendomaster45 and also shiki, don't forget that guy who face 2 strongest marine at the same time and managed to escape

  • @DetectiveKen
    @DetectiveKen Před 3 lety +1466

    Recently found out theres a meme among non-One Piece fans that "One Piece fans be like 'It gets better after chapter 44235'" and I just snorted. What a gross misinterpretation of the reality that, One Piece starts great... and ONLY gets better.

    • @meghanhenderson6682
      @meghanhenderson6682 Před 3 lety +78

      You also kind of forget how...weird One Piece is. Like...there's so much about it we just accept, and weekly episode limbo lulls us into the "nothing happened this week" vibe, but this series is strange and jam packed and Big Mom's theme makes me shudder every time.

    • @DiscountWhiskey078
      @DiscountWhiskey078 Před 3 lety +51

      Legitimately though, Syrup Village is comparatively less interesting your first time through, and you learn to appreciate it later.
      Because it’s just as long as the rest of the series combined at the time, it can be a bit dragged out, and often turns people away from the show. I got hooked in Baratie

    • @cavejohnson9071
      @cavejohnson9071 Před 3 lety +22

      ​@@DiscountWhiskey078 Yeah, honestly I might recommend that people trying to decide whether or not to keep watching should just skip Syrup village at first to get to Baratie and Arlong Park, and after that they can go back and watch Syrup village for the backstory if they want to keep going with the series

    • @robin586
      @robin586 Před 3 lety +10

      I'm sorry but I'm starting to watch One Piece now, I'm more than 30 episodes in and most of the time things are painfully slow and everything feels weak.
      I'm wishing that things will get better cause I can't really say it starts off "great".

    • @DiscountWhiskey078
      @DiscountWhiskey078 Před 3 lety +11

      @@robin586 I will say that while I do believe it starts good, there are parts that are hard to get through, and you’ll ultimately appreciate the beginning more once you’re farther in. Or you just might be someone who doesn’t like the show.

  • @RonaKurona
    @RonaKurona Před 3 lety +1104

    I think you summarized it right, Oda's greatest skill isn't foreshadowing, but it's ability to come back to themes and ideas of previous arcs while avoiding plotholes. Even if Haki wasn't planned in episode 4/chapter 1, Oda left space for interpretation and later reintroduced it in a very cohesive way, same for Mantra.
    Oda simply never forgets, and he's smart enough to keep his story open enough that he can change it on the go, it's unusually rare for a shounen mangá to not throw around titles like "the strongest man in the world", because Oda knows that will only put a ceiling on the world you're building, so when it's time to actually see the closest man to being the pirate king, it really pays off

    • @nedumnwanze4120
      @nedumnwanze4120 Před 3 lety +5

      I agree

    • @XYZip1
      @XYZip1 Před 3 lety +132

      Having the Mihawk appear so early and making sure the world's greatest swordsman doesn't reveal his full greatness is a great example

    • @madhououinkyoma
      @madhououinkyoma Před 3 lety +17

      You really explained it well. I’ve had issues articulating what he does so well but this are exactly my thoughts!

    • @TheMrSpecialEd
      @TheMrSpecialEd Před 3 lety +31

      Haki in general kinda seems like its just a way to explain all non-devil fruit powers that characters have exhibited. Especially how Conqueror’s Haki has different effects on animals than it does people. Making it seem like Oda loved the idea of Luffy being so powerful that he could make scores of random marines faint, and realized he could retroactively explain Shanks scaring a sea king that way.

    • @pathora44
      @pathora44 Před 3 lety +44

      Well Oda did call someone "The Strongest Man in the World" and that was Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate the infamous captain of the Whitebeard Pirates. We just never saw him in his prime since he was 72 years old at his death during the Summit War and being sickly during that time with his earlier appearance showing him covered in IV lines and being cared for by a team of doctors/nurses. If Whitebeard was in his prime during the war he probably could have taken on the 3 Admirals at once and possibly could have won.

  • @brotherben15-88
    @brotherben15-88 Před 3 lety +209

    As someone who also has dismissed One Piece until just recently, and only watched to the end of Drum Island, allow me to say.............Oh my dear sweet baby is my body is ready for more.

    • @davidcastanheira4361
      @davidcastanheira4361 Před 3 lety

      What did you get up to?

    • @brotherben15-88
      @brotherben15-88 Před 3 lety

      I'm currently 2/3 through Skypiea. Been taking a break from it though because this arc has been rather exhausting to be frank.

    • @davidcastanheira4361
      @davidcastanheira4361 Před 3 lety

      @@brotherben15-88 what are your thoughts on Alabasta

    • @mambaforever9593
      @mambaforever9593 Před 3 lety +6

      @@brotherben15-88 i actually stopped watching at skypiea, and in a two year span i couldn't get through it, and i tried a few times. But i started reading the manga and it was much better, plus almost every arc in the next few hundred episodes is really great.

    • @MaiDay01
      @MaiDay01 Před 3 lety

      @@brotherben15-88 Honeslty watching one piece in a binge watching way is difficult and you get burn out. Watching it on little arcs is much easier with breaks as in days or weeks in between is much more feasible.

  • @ZickaN13
    @ZickaN13 Před 3 lety +45

    The fact that you can say something like "Eneru settling on the moon with an army of robots makes the world feel real" is probably the best summary of how one piece works😂

  • @pbtenchi
    @pbtenchi Před 3 lety +746

    Correction, Enel’s group isn’t called Kami, HE is called Kami, which means god. His group are called the priests.

    • @zombiedempsey135
      @zombiedempsey135 Před 3 lety +21

      Also, the world government does not own the only worldwide newspaper, there’s also the WEJ

    • @alucard347
      @alucard347 Před 3 lety +38

      @@zombiedempsey135 that's the only newspaper.
      The world's economic journals is the only global media group, and while they don't hold direct ownership over it, and sometimes it's crazy owner would flip a middle finger to the gorosei and just write in whatever he wanted, the connections between the two groups are still strong enough so that the government can heavily influence everything in it

    • @zombiedempsey135
      @zombiedempsey135 Před 3 lety +5

      @@alucard347 hm... I always interpreted Morgans as rogue from the start, but that’s an interesting thought...

    • @Charlie-hv3dh
      @Charlie-hv3dh Před 3 lety +7

      @@zombiedempsey135 I feel as morgan just does what ever he wants and he really has way more power when you think of how far his reach is

    • @alucard347
      @alucard347 Před 3 lety +1

      @@zombiedempsey135 considering his connections with the government and the cp0, it is pretty obvious that he dances on the line.
      They don't have full control over him, but the influence is massive, especially since there is nothing more rewarding then giving them what they want, most of the time.
      If the winds go the other way, and he thinks publishing a story against their will is in his best interests, he'll do exactly that, even if it means attacking government agents and being on the run.
      He is too important in the business to let such a thing stand in his way, and I'm more then sure the government is going to overlook and ignore this transgression eventually.

  • @DarthEnderX
    @DarthEnderX Před 3 lety +618

    Geoff: "...when you control the only global newspaper..."
    Big News Morgans: "Oh really?"

    • @LockedOnTargetShow
      @LockedOnTargetShow Před 3 lety +46

      To be fair, he hasn't gotten to that part yet.

    • @DarthEnderX
      @DarthEnderX Před 3 lety +25

      @@LockedOnTargetShow I know, I'm just joshin'

    • @MaJuV
      @MaJuV Před 3 lety +30

      Yes, and no. It is definitely true that if Morgans himself knows the truth about an event, he will publish the truth, regardless of the consequences.
      But he is only one man/creature from an organization that may have more than one mole, and even he can't guarantee 100% that all the news stories that reach him haven't been redacted by the navy/world government at some point in time.
      Case in point: the Alabasta revolution was already heavily redacted by the timeit was published in print. If Morgans was in Alabasta, the whole world would've known Luffy defeated Crocodile. But he wasn't, so the "printed truth" is that Smoker defeated Crocodile.

    • @commonviewer2488
      @commonviewer2488 Před 3 lety +3

      Not when Big News Morgan's found himself a front-page scoop!

    • @meghanhenderson6682
      @meghanhenderson6682 Před 3 lety

      More of a...suggestion.

  • @Xenodyne
    @Xenodyne Před 3 lety +320

    This video inspired me to start causally reading through the series (since a few days after this video was released, actually). I just finished Alabasta. It's amazing how much those little illustrations at the beginning of the chapters do to fill in the story away from the Straw Hat crew. For example Hachi and Camie meeting, and Django and Fullbody's unlikely friendship.

    • @fsb-fk3wl
      @fsb-fk3wl Před 3 lety +22

      ik the cover stories are so good it’s sad that the anime never bothered animating them after the first two

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 3 lety +8

      Or that one time when in anime they showed coby's cover story through the newspaper that crew was reading
      It was awkward when nami read Garp's name out loud and Luffy didn',t care, because anime guys didn't know about Monkey family

    • @jonnjones8263
      @jonnjones8263 Před 2 lety

      Where you at now? What do you think?

    • @royolaniye6643
      @royolaniye6643 Před 2 lety

      @@iamdivan7368 huh? Wait what episode was that?

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 2 lety +1

      @@royolaniye6643 around episode 68-69.
      Nice.

  • @miguelantonioreinacardona7109

    What I love about the sky island arc is the introduction to Blackbeard, at the beginning you think this is another wacky character that we meet , but later we learn that he and his crew are the same group that attacked Drum island forcing the tyrannical king to flee. It’s show also how Blackbeard is a dark reflection of luffy and will become so important to the story and the world building. It shows that even other pirates can evolve and can be considered candidates to become the pirate king

  • @d4peters86
    @d4peters86 Před 3 lety +900

    One Piece is basically the epitome of “life’s a journey, not a destination”. Or “the journey is the reward”.

    • @ajguevara6961
      @ajguevara6961 Před 3 lety +59

      Maybe, the one piece was the friends we made along the way.

    • @jamesfallon1137
      @jamesfallon1137 Před 3 lety +34

      It's more Oda is a GM of a nautical D&D session and he got nine friends drunk and filled with food to play in his playbox with repercussions for their actions

    • @edixonvc5101
      @edixonvc5101 Před 3 lety +33

      @@ajguevara6961 thanks god oda say that would not be the ending, because it would be so bad

    • @burningraven5566
      @burningraven5566 Před 3 lety

      Aint that what hxh did. Its was even ging's manifesto at the end of the anime.

    • @d.khisty880
      @d.khisty880 Před 3 lety +1

      i 100% agree

  • @adamchastan2703
    @adamchastan2703 Před 3 lety +376

    "We One Piece fans."
    One of us. One of us.
    Seriously, it's good to see you're enjoying it. The only defense you need for thriller bark is that it introduced Brook.

    • @sheoth9713
      @sheoth9713 Před 3 lety +17

      Don't omit lola giving nami her mother's vivre card

    • @MOTHblank
      @MOTHblank Před 3 lety +21

      Yes, besides it... nothing happened.

    • @yukikanegawa7470
      @yukikanegawa7470 Před 3 lety +12

      Monster luffy was cool too. I liked the fight at Thriller Bark. I think it was the first time that had like a proper team fight. They had a plan that used all their specialties to beat a stronger opponent. I liked Thriller Bark. Also the joke about Ussop and Perona was nice. Ussop being her ultimate match.

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 Před 3 lety +5

      @@sheoth9713 It also is the arc that gives us our first glimpse at the viciousness Kaido and if the theory that Blackbeard will have Moria raise Ace as a zombie then, well.....

    • @willi2895
      @willi2895 Před 3 lety +4

      introduced kuma

  • @jaurybeltraoengers5986
    @jaurybeltraoengers5986 Před 3 lety +141

    One Piece got me through a really bad depression after a spine surgery that almost left me with no movements on my legs, disc hernia, at 18 yo, i am 25 now, One piece takes you to an amazing and vast world, character are amazing, the manga never gets old and boring.

    • @CelesticCF
      @CelesticCF Před 3 lety +12

      Glad to hear you recovered bud!

  • @genieglasslamp5028
    @genieglasslamp5028 Před 3 lety +92

    Guys One Piece has one of my favorite and honestly most terrifying animated movies ever. One Piece Baron Omatsuri and the secret Island scares me more as a adult than it could ever as a child.

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 Před 3 lety +13

      OH GOD! That damn flower gave me nightmares for months after I saw that movie for the first time! A great movie, of course, and my only issue with it is that the ending is pretty abrupt. I also think it is a shame it was made as soon as it was because the Baron could have been an AMAZING parallel for Brook!

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 3 lety

      So true

    • @rosiepark9607
      @rosiepark9607 Před 2 lety +1

      I loveeee that movie. The animation is also the best of all the movies, in my opinion.

    • @oscarchang486
      @oscarchang486 Před 2 lety +1

      The nightmare fuel that is one piece movie 6... Truly one of the most scary one piece movies, have no idea how I got through it as a young adult in highschool.

  • @Saltyoven
    @Saltyoven Před 3 lety +143

    5:15 Oh geoff, you haven't even gotten to the real battle furries

    • @candiedskull9841
      @candiedskull9841 Před 3 lety +5

      Thinking about it now, I want to see a "real battle furry" with a zoan fruit. What would that hybrid form even look like!?

    • @Nuggiesoftruth
      @Nuggiesoftruth Před 3 lety

      Battle royal anyone

    • @Blaze_1013
      @Blaze_1013 Před 3 lety +3

      God, I still can't believe it been almost 5 years to the day that Oda made the fan base into furries.

    • @yoitsg0016
      @yoitsg0016 Před 3 lety +17

      @@candiedskull9841 didn’t pekoms eat the turtle turtle fruit or something

    • @jiv3o275
      @jiv3o275 Před 3 lety +10

      @@candiedskull9841 Pekoms ate the turtle fruit

  • @holdenmuganda97
    @holdenmuganda97 Před 3 lety +540

    Mothers Basement: Thriller bark doesn’t contribute much to world building
    Onepiece fans who are caught up: 🤫🤫🤫

    • @MonkeyDLuffy-iw2kb
      @MonkeyDLuffy-iw2kb Před 3 lety +79

      Wano, Lola's mom vivre card Big mom whole cake island

    • @pcdruid
      @pcdruid Před 3 lety +73

      The gathering of the Shichibukai, the announcement of the catching of Ace, the first real reminder that the whitebeard war is coming, the introduction of Kuma, and the cyborgs he represents... etc.

    • @Rigter9029
      @Rigter9029 Před 3 lety +62

      @@pcdruid the mention of Kaido, and Moria telling Luffy he's not ready for the New World

    • @Poet482
      @Poet482 Před 3 lety +25

      @@pcdruid
      I think its more a facetious remark. It doesn't do terribly much by One Piece standards, is the point. It's telling that One Piece even at its most tangential story arcs still sheds more light on its world than entire other series do.

    • @starandeath4735
      @starandeath4735 Před 2 lety +4

      Dont forget oars. Foreshadowed a character in marnieford and beast pirate

  • @ruyman90
    @ruyman90 Před 3 lety +38

    In part 2 you HAVE to talk about the SBS. Oda answers small questions there that sometimes enhances the world building even further, and some of those answers comes from fans where they ask something, they give their opinion, and oda says "I like it, it now canon"

  • @yukikanegawa7470
    @yukikanegawa7470 Před 3 lety +100

    I've been watching it in quarantine and I've just made it past the timeskip at episode 575. Time flies it honestly doesn't feel like I've spent hours upon hours watching it. The size was intimidating at first but honestly it's worth it. Every character and even side characters are memorable and you honestly care for them. Oda made me cry for a boat. Even the filler arcs are good except for like the davy back fight. That was painful. I've felt all the spectrum of emotions watching One Piece. I've cried, laughed, gotten angry, etc... Honestly I don't know what I'll do with myself when I catch up.

    • @TCG31456
      @TCG31456 Před 3 lety +11

      ...I hate to break it to you, as once I too believed, but the davy back fight is not filler and is canon, though the anime does add more to it with 3 additional games. G8, as much of a shame as it is, is filler. That being said, eventually you learn to appreciate the fight and Foxy, as Luffy's greatest fear stems from the realization of this fight: there is a very real, possible chance that he will lose crew mates. It does come true, and it nearly breaks him, as you've seen.

    • @benzskyeshxc96
      @benzskyeshxc96 Před 3 lety +6

      Funny how davy back arc is canon , its was better in manga tho

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 3 lety

      Don't worry, you just start to search for new one piece content/reviews/analysis for the rest of your life

    • @Willimann
      @Willimann Před 2 lety +2

      @@iamdivan7368 i do this with every anime after i finished watching it so that i can go on and on about what a specific series does right or wrong and recommend it based on that. Im the Corona-Virus for Anime.

  • @junaidshahzad6803
    @junaidshahzad6803 Před 3 lety +498

    I'm so surprised to see such a resurgence in One Piece interest especially in this year.... Did Quarantine finally give people the time to try it out?

    • @litinupcito2044
      @litinupcito2044 Před 3 lety +34

      Yeah I somehow finished more then half of it I want to catch up and see content about this series

    • @kopasamsu01
      @kopasamsu01 Před 3 lety +31

      Yup. Wife and I finally had the time and patience to catch up.
      We are in the 800s already in just 3 ish months and i can't believe we are JUST at big moms. There is still so much story left. Is it gonna take another thousand episodes to finish lol.

    • @WarpChaos
      @WarpChaos Před 3 lety +5

      Maybe everybody wants to catch up before the live action series comes out.

    • @wreday720
      @wreday720 Před 3 lety +19

      I think its the fact we're also in Wano right now, which has been hyped for goda knows how long

    • @victorarroyo5401
      @victorarroyo5401 Před 3 lety

      Absolutely.

  • @Kujakuseki01
    @Kujakuseki01 Před 3 lety +341

    It’s actually Loguetown, with Logue being part of “prologue”, which is saying that all of east blue is just the prologue of the story.
    It was also the prologue and epilogue of Roger’s story, since he was born there and died there.

    • @mothersbasement
      @mothersbasement  Před 3 lety +187

      Viz should trade the R from that with the L from zolo

    • @cloudystarsatnight
      @cloudystarsatnight Před 3 lety +24

      @@mothersbasement Amen to that

    • @davidpauloo3137
      @davidpauloo3137 Před 3 lety +8

      it may also be the epilogue to luffys story as well because the "legend began" when he got there. Only makes sense that his should end there as well

    • @RandomPerson-cm2wg
      @RandomPerson-cm2wg Před 3 lety +2

      @@davidpauloo3137 That would be called a prologue not an epilogue. Epilogues are at the end.

    • @avataraarow
      @avataraarow Před 3 lety

      @@mothersbasement truer words have never been spoken

  • @Kumo3Koro
    @Kumo3Koro Před 3 lety +32

    "Karoo is my boy and I would both kill AND die for him. Don't fucking test me." Ah yes, a man of culture I see

  • @LightningNinja2
    @LightningNinja2 Před 3 lety +78

    "I can make a video essay about any one of these topics."
    *Looks over at Tekking101, Mr. Morj, Joyboy and the rest of them.*
    Ya, you could.

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 Před 3 lety +8

      you could even build a youtube career on them

    • @HapPawhere
      @HapPawhere Před 3 lety +2

      @@caitlinbrewer4843 Looks over at Tekking101 that literally made a 20-30 minutes ish video about 1 character that only appear 1-2 panel in the manga LOL

    • @iamdivan7368
      @iamdivan7368 Před 3 lety

      Probably should though

    • @hosseinfaridnasr2778
      @hosseinfaridnasr2778 Před 2 lety +1

      @@HapPawhere which character?

    • @vugiakhanh1877
      @vugiakhanh1877 Před 2 lety +1

      Dude Tekking has a 20-30 minute video talking about a damn tree 😂

  • @Animely0
    @Animely0 Před 3 lety +323

    You'll regret saying that Thriller Bark contributes the least on general world building than of any other arc, youtubers all over the globe lose their mind on the regular about all the thing it foreshadows/sets up

    • @david5577
      @david5577 Před 3 lety +56

      Wano wouldn't work as well as it does without Thriller Bark frfr. It also has subtle world-building with the inclusion of Captain John, who is such a ridiculously vital yet underrated figure in the world of One Piece.

    • @BuffDaddySmoove
      @BuffDaddySmoove Před 3 lety

      TNM i can think of who thinks this

    • @justanotherchannelonyoutub126
      @justanotherchannelonyoutub126 Před 3 lety +14

      There’s also some great callbacks too. Laboon is the obvious example, but there’s also Wapol and ,as someone already pointed out, Captain John

    • @yeh7587
      @yeh7587 Před 3 lety +5

      The best thing about Thriller bark was that "NOTHING HAPPENED"

    • @user-bw4xv5vn2e
      @user-bw4xv5vn2e Před 3 lety +2

      Remember the sword of Zoro came from Thriller bark and everything about wano foreshadowed there

  • @bAd12cheZ
    @bAd12cheZ Před 3 lety +172

    Geoff defended Long Ring Long Land better than anyone I've ever heard.
    Props to Geoff, I love it even more now.
    Spooky Zombie Island sets up Samurai Island Arc so well. Just wait and see.

    • @krvys7226
      @krvys7226 Před 3 lety +2

      as a person who does hate Long Ring Long Land, I will say, I would have loved the arc, except for 1 thing that soured it for me. How they ended up in the davy back fight specifically. Had it been a way that didn't (in my opinion) sabotage Luffy's character, I think I would have enjoyed everything after that point.

    • @Saltyoven
      @Saltyoven Před 3 lety +6

      @@krvys7226 the biggest issue is the anime itself, which for some reason, used double the events.

    • @krvys7226
      @krvys7226 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Saltyoven I read the manga, so thankfully got to ignore the davy back filler. my issue is specifically how it started.
      foxy shot the horse. luffy was understandably mad. foxy mentions the davy back fight...
      why didn't luffy just deck Foxy, and ignore what he said.
      luffy tends to use A-B thinking. A is a problem, do B to fix it. its simple, which is why people confuse it for being stupidity. (booster gold is another character who fits this type of thinking)
      while luffy is also naive, i still dont think he wouldnt have just decked foxy there.
      and again, different set up, i feel it would have worked. just this set up i felt damaged luffys character too much

    • @avataraarow
      @avataraarow Před 3 lety +8

      @@krvys7226 I can totally understand that, but I think as much as it has to do with naïveté it also has to do with Luffy being extremely curious, and a total nerd about everything pirate. He heard there was a piratey way of settling differences, and his entire goal is to become the *greatest* pirate, it still makes a lot of sense with his character that he could be baited like that. Sure Luffy is usually a hot head, but there are also a lot of times when he isn’t just a hot head, so I think it’s fine

    • @JoshTheValiant
      @JoshTheValiant Před 3 lety +8

      When he mentioned the tide thing on Long Ring Long Land being tied to the Aqua Laguna I literally slapped my hand down on pause and just sat for a minute grappling with the connection. The timing doesn't actually seem to line up, but BOY there sure is a thematic tie between them that made me mad to realize without being prepared for it.

  • @germanbrandeburgo5925
    @germanbrandeburgo5925 Před 3 lety +21

    14:20 I think this is one of the most underrated aspects of One Piece. Oda has such an amazing amount of ideas ANY of which could be the basis of an entire manga by themselves. I mean, if there was an entire manga on the concept of devil fruits, the powers they give, trying to find the strongest ones, where they come from, how they work.... you could already fill a 400 chapter story on that concept alone.
    But in One Piece that's just a small part of the world.

  • @yawshi822
    @yawshi822 Před 3 lety +96

    “Warning: do not come in here. It is inescapable.” Me: too late

  • @fanusobscurus4309
    @fanusobscurus4309 Před 3 lety +216

    I'll argue with you on Magellan being evil. We KNOW that the Straw Hats and Shank's are more the exception than the rule. And we also know what plenty of the people inside Impel are like. To borrow the idea from the truly excellent This Bites, is he a demon for keeping the devil in his cage?

    • @alejandroleon5466
      @alejandroleon5466 Před 3 lety +28

      They put Magellan in the edit, but I'm pretty sure he said Hannyabal, the vice-warden

    • @fanusobscurus4309
      @fanusobscurus4309 Před 3 lety +5

      @@alejandroleon5466 Didn't catch that until I posted it. Point still kinda stands on Magellan though.

    • @leothewhiteranger
      @leothewhiteranger Před 3 lety +3

      This Bites the fanfiction epic?

    • @fanusobscurus4309
      @fanusobscurus4309 Před 3 lety +1

      @@leothewhiteranger The one and same.

    • @jacoblevenson7934
      @jacoblevenson7934 Před 3 lety +14

      @@alejandroleon5466 Even Hannyabal overall has some moral strength inspite of his ambition. (Refusing to let the criminal of Impel Down Escape because of the terror it would cause in civilians.)

  • @elsanto2401
    @elsanto2401 Před 3 lety +130

    Mark my words, Kaido is going to be beaten when Nico Robin concedes to the ultimate power that is Pirate Docking.

    • @D0VEWORLD
      @D0VEWORLD Před 3 lety +18

      "Don't ever say that again"

    • @redbinas880
      @redbinas880 Před 2 lety +2

      "It's embarassing as a human"

  • @midknightshade330
    @midknightshade330 Před 3 lety +86

    “The main character goes up to heaven to kick god’s ass” is the best description of Skypeia that I’ve ever heard.

  • @khurch7564
    @khurch7564 Před 3 lety +120

    Magellan's wiped Luffy and Blackbeard solo.
    He doesn't deserve to be called Hannyabal.

  • @zanniia7279
    @zanniia7279 Před 3 lety +45

    I'm honestly so happy I sat down and thought "ok... Koby is gone... Buggy is annoying but im basically at the end of this arc... let's see where this goes..." and 8 months later im 4 chapters away from being completely caught up. I can't think of an anime that had got me so invested.

    • @krvys7226
      @krvys7226 Před 3 lety +12

      remember when you thought koby and buggy would never be relevant again?

    • @zanniia7279
      @zanniia7279 Před 3 lety +5

      @@krvys7226 ah the good ol days. Now Buggy is the king of pirates and Koby is probably fucking the snake princess

    • @krvys7226
      @krvys7226 Před 3 lety +6

      @@zanniia7279 dont think they are fucking. But they are both Luffysexual, and probably would if luffy was involved

    • @caiomesquita268
      @caiomesquita268 Před 3 lety +1

      @@krvys7226*T R H E E S O M E*

  • @anthiggs
    @anthiggs Před 3 lety +221

    @9:15
    "Known to sailors around the world as the doldrums, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, (ITCZ, pronounced and sometimes referred to as the “itch”), is a belt around the Earth extending approximately five degrees north and south of the equator. Here, the prevailing trade winds of the northern hemisphere blow to the southwest and collide with the southern hemisphere’s driving northeast trade winds."
    Yes, there is a literal deadzone around the equator. Just our ships today are powered and not reliant on the winds to move around the world. The doldrums were literal skeleton hulks of floating wrecks that had the misfortunate souls that got stuck and died from dehydration or starvation. If you had the misfortune of being stuck in the doldrums, you died. That is the calm zone in the story, but starving to death is not a fun story to tell, whereas mythical creatures that ruin anything in their domain is.

    • @Chris951021
      @Chris951021 Před 3 lety +24

      Sanji and Zeff would like a word.

    • @anthiggs
      @anthiggs Před 3 lety

      @@Chris951021 I'll pretend I know what you are talking about.
      No.

    • @jonnyso1
      @jonnyso1 Před 3 lety

      ​@@Chris951021 Not to mention Brooks entire crew.

    • @emptank
      @emptank Před 3 lety +3

      @@Chris951021 i was going to write a very long comment to you explaining that Sanji has never crossed the calm belt and then realized that your comment was actually taking exception to the original comments statement that starving to death is not as dramatic a form of danger as an ocean filled with giant monsters. Since Sanji and Zeff both nearly starved to death on a desert island and it was quite a dramatic scene in the series.
      That is a valid thing to comment on but I am now frustrated with you for making me write a long comment about the history of Germa66 and then deleting it when I realized you were talking about something else. In the future do try to provide a bit more context to your comments that we may both avoid similar misunderstandings. Thank you.

    • @hexcodeff6624
      @hexcodeff6624 Před 3 lety

      @@emptank it was more of a rock than a desert island but please, proceed. Or don't.

  • @foreverinafantasy
    @foreverinafantasy Před 3 lety +13

    I just gotta say this as a physiology TA, at 36:04 "punch strength being proportional to wind-up length" is probably the most physiologically accurate thing about Luffy lol. Elastic force is proportional to displacement, and elastic force is actually stronger in muscles than active force (the force from muscle cells contracting), so the most force exerted by a muscle is when it's elongating (eccentric contraction vs concentric).

  • @everettcoleman2335
    @everettcoleman2335 Před 3 lety +26

    When he says “ we one piece fans are all trapped in a different world” I felt that. I’ve been watching one piece for 2 years now and I’m in fishman Island, defiant my favorite anime/manga of all time. I’m literally in the world of one piece!

  • @sarahtelles1931
    @sarahtelles1931 Před 3 lety +69

    I find it neat how Impel down is based off the seven levels of hell

  • @themiamiman1393
    @themiamiman1393 Před 3 lety +475

    Its still crazy how we STILL havent even SEEN what elbaf looks like yet

    • @iliash2025
      @iliash2025 Před 3 lety +85

      Spoiler
      Huuum ? Didn't wee see it through BigMom's origin story?

    • @cadequillion5276
      @cadequillion5276 Před 3 lety +10

      Oh we are definitely getting to elbaf and I highly believe that a trio poneglyph is there somewhere

    • @AtelierMcMuttonArt
      @AtelierMcMuttonArt Před 3 lety +24

      Perhaps we never will
      Elbaf *is* Fable backwards, after all

    • @themiamiman1393
      @themiamiman1393 Před 3 lety +3

      @@iliash2025 I was under the impression that was just a island inhabited by giants and not elbaf itself but I could be wrong

    • @josiahbaumgartner7643
      @josiahbaumgartner7643 Před 3 lety +14

      @@themiamiman1393 You are super wrong. Go read it again or something haha

  • @meee7015
    @meee7015 Před rokem +6

    Don’t forget that Oda basically added the Supernovas last minutes because he thought the Sabaody arc was “boring”.
    Like he thought an arc focused on how unfair the world is and how the government basically turns a blind eye into human trafficking and slavery just because the ruling class can’t leave without servants.
    And he thought “that’s kinda boring. Let me add 9 other pirates vying for the same goal as Luffy all with different designs, abilities, and crews”

    • @raven717
      @raven717 Před 9 měsíci

      Which till this day is insane to me considering how big of a role they play now in the story. Especially law

  • @X525Crossfire
    @X525Crossfire Před 2 lety +10

    Geoff: "Elemental Logias being the most powerful..."
    Mythical Zoans: "You little b*tch..."

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. Před 3 lety +3082

    Comparing anything to One Piece is criminal; any world building manga or media should be compared to One Piece. That's how good it is.

    • @kennethmendoza1350
      @kennethmendoza1350 Před 3 lety +129

      Well TBF if it's fleshed out world that's outside of the medium then one I could think that is comparable or debatably better would be Tolkien's world(middle earth)

    • @installtherodent7571
      @installtherodent7571 Před 3 lety +34

      Justin, Why (pun not intended) are you everywhere.

    • @wilson5889
      @wilson5889 Před 3 lety +10

      Ugh. Who put you on the planet

    • @simbast9726
      @simbast9726 Před 3 lety +11

      Wait but thats contr-

    • @geckomoriadaimyoofwano7157
      @geckomoriadaimyoofwano7157 Před 3 lety +25

      Id say star wars might be comparable

  • @theifzelnite1087
    @theifzelnite1087 Před 3 lety +435

    "GEOGRAPHY IS EVERYTHING!!" - Tekking101

    • @setokaiba7995
      @setokaiba7995 Před 3 lety +13

      I love the library of ohara aka tekking

    • @sarahtelles1931
      @sarahtelles1931 Před 3 lety +3

      Yassssss!!

    • @HurricaneDDragon
      @HurricaneDDragon Před 3 lety +8

      Seto Kaiba That’s Artur, not Tekking.

    • @theifzelnite1087
      @theifzelnite1087 Před 3 lety +2

      @@HurricaneDDragon Thanks! Heard it from a friend, I kinda assumed it was from tekking

    • @krvys7226
      @krvys7226 Před 3 lety +10

      @@theifzelnite1087 artur is the library of Ohara, but Tekking is freaking Clover. that man has way to much knowledge of this series

  • @lumif3564
    @lumif3564 Před 3 lety +158

    Oda is literally one of the best writers in the manga industry rn imo.

    • @Oniguma
      @Oniguma Před 3 lety +19

      One of the best writers, period.

    • @fallzero7304
      @fallzero7304 Před 3 lety

      Yup the absolute best
      Every mangakas dream is to become as great as him
      His manga is the most sold and he even influenced many cultures around the world
      ODA paved the way

    • @Paopao621
      @Paopao621 Před 2 lety +4

      The GOAT

    • @thomasffrench3639
      @thomasffrench3639 Před 2 lety

      @@Oniguma Homer tho

  • @joew1237
    @joew1237 Před 3 lety +19

    There's something in common between One Piece, Dragonball, and Jojo: The authors all setup their worlds so they could basically do whatever they want with the story. I guess that's one of the ingredients to making a massive hit.

  • @TheExecutorr
    @TheExecutorr Před 3 lety +210

    Skypia is such a jawdropping arc. I forgot to breathe for like half a minute when it was layed out that half of Gaia was shot into the sky centuries ago, or when Luffy rang the bell while giving Enel his final fisting. Or when Wiper used a reject dial on Enel and literally KILLED him with it, but Enel gave himself an electric heart massage and revived himself.

    • @pinkdaruma8942
      @pinkdaruma8942 Před 3 lety +28

      Enel restarting his heart was so f'n frightening

    • @pinkdaruma8942
      @pinkdaruma8942 Před 3 lety +3

      and i the anime there's that awesome Opening sequence❤

    • @anastasia.00
      @anastasia.00 Před 3 lety +7

      That's what I always say! Skypia is an amazing arc, one of my favorite. It also reveals so much about the past and the future of the world of One Piece. I don't understand why some people dislike it so much

    • @chaosrex1487
      @chaosrex1487 Před 3 lety +17

      Oda straight-up admitted without Luffy by sheer dumb luck being Enel's hard counter, Enel was more powerful than the main villains in the next several arcs after him. It's probably not until the Paramount War or someone like the Admirals or Magellan that we meet someone that is actually stronger than Enel. He's stronger than every arc's main villain until like, Doflamingo.

    • @TheExecutorr
      @TheExecutorr Před 3 lety +10

      @@chaosrex1487 plus, although his devil fruit powers were rendered useless against Luffy directly, Enel still put up one hell of a fight and adapted quickly to the situation. I wonder if Enel would be able to use conqueror's haki. I still hope Enel will return one day.

  • @bushidotestu1997
    @bushidotestu1997 Před 3 lety +93

    should be noted that one reason why the straw hats are so infamous is that they are a strong pirate crew where a majority of the crew is from the east blue, the WEAKEST of all the seas. The only other pirate with a similar background would be the Roger pirates with Gold Roger

    • @buddyb3165
      @buddyb3165 Před 3 lety +12

      When the closest thing to compare you too was the crew Helmed by the man known as The Pirate King, it's understandable why the marines would shit themselves.

    • @FrarmerFrank
      @FrarmerFrank Před 3 lety +6

      Well, even Whiteboard and Roger Crews had members with no bounty
      Akainu looking at the new Bounty posters for the Strawhats said "A crew of all Monsters" (They know Choper can go Monsterpoint,low bounty is just to have the wanted poster for info/Marines eyes

    • @chadanefrancis2099
      @chadanefrancis2099 Před 3 lety

      And shiki

  • @Arkayjiya
    @Arkayjiya Před 3 lety +27

    I love Thriller Bark, it's an arc that didn't resonate as much as others for most fans apparently (except the end) but it's so full of Oda's love for adventure... In fact that love is the reason Skypiea is my favorite arc of One Piece. It's the arc that embodies the best the spirit of freedom and adventure that's at the core of OP.

    • @thomasffrench3639
      @thomasffrench3639 Před 2 lety

      I’m on Skypiea and it’s great. I love how it feels like an adventure, but unfortunately people only want epic battle shonen arcs. Now I wouldn’t say that even those arcs feel like other battle shonen. It’s an adventure series, but people expect anime and manga to be battle shonen

  • @maxmustermann9058
    @maxmustermann9058 Před 3 lety +51

    Paramecias are not "generally the least powerful" that would be zoans. There are many, many extremely powerful Paramecia fruits even relatively weak villains like Foxy, Wapol, Perona, Buggy, Blueno, Robin and so forth still have really busted paramecia abilities and a lot of the strongest characters we see also have strong paramecia abilities like Magellan, Kuma, Moriah, Whitebeard or Hancock.

    • @carlospitteri3146
      @carlospitteri3146 Před 3 lety +33

      paramecias are wildcards, you can get a OP as hell fruit, or ya know you can materialize clothes like kin'emon

    • @DiscountWhiskey078
      @DiscountWhiskey078 Před 3 lety +19

      @@carlospitteri3146 ye, Zoan is Battle Furry, Logia is Elementals, and Paramecia is EVERYTHING ELSE, LIKE LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF that isn’t a Logia or Zoan

    • @ledernierutopiste
      @ledernierutopiste Před 3 lety +12

      Zoan is a 100% win tho, while paramecia can be absolutely useless... As a combattant, you could prefer going for a random zoan than a random paramecia, you don't even need to be creative with a zoan, it just make you multiple times more powerful and resiliant instantly ! Of course Logia are just the best overall, if you had the choice you'd just go for a logia, even tho some very rare paramecia are better than most logias.

    • @carlospitteri3146
      @carlospitteri3146 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ledernierutopiste say that to Kaku dood

    • @yukikanegawa7470
      @yukikanegawa7470 Před 3 lety +5

      They're the most common and you can get very op powers or the most useless powers imaginable. Overall they're still the weakest type of devil fruit. Zoan types are consistently strong for the most part.

  • @candiedskull9841
    @candiedskull9841 Před 3 lety +70

    I have reread/rewatched One Piece more times than I'd like to admit...

    • @downtomars3148
      @downtomars3148 Před 3 lety +13

      Honestly, rereading is like new game +. The content is the same but our outlook is much different and we notice new stuff that we ignore the first time around.
      Rereading One Piece is one of the perks of catching up.
      I did 3/4 times already... Not to mention the COLORED VERSION!

    • @tomasdelcampo2
      @tomasdelcampo2 Před 3 lety +1

      how the fuck do u reread or rewatch something so long lol

    • @candiedskull9841
      @candiedskull9841 Před 3 lety +3

      @@tomasdelcampo2 When I rewatch it, I tend to watch the "One Pace" version, which has a lot of filler cut out. Rereading it is quite a process, but I'm really used to binge reading manga
      I tend to reread or rewatch certain arcs, more so than the whole series start to finish haha, though I have done that too

    • @tomasdelcampo2
      @tomasdelcampo2 Před 3 lety +1

      @@candiedskull9841 damn I mean I kinda never re-read/watch/play anything but with one piece especially I feel like it would be so time consuming

    • @downtomars3148
      @downtomars3148 Před 3 lety +4

      @@tomasdelcampo2 like I said. The content stay the same, but you have this new outlook of things. I don't know if you're a fan or not so I won't be giving examples, but you WILL notice things you didn't the second (or more) times you experience it. You won't notice it the first time simply because you can't. But after catching up, then re-reading it, you'll have more context on the content early on, so much so that it makes the experience different.
      You may be hateful towards something first, then sympathetic the second time and vice versa.
      In my case, I only reread One Piece, not re watch. You can read on your own pace , it doesn't take as long as anime and you can do it in midst of other stuff too. So no, not that time consuming imo. It's not like you have this burning desire to catch up when you reread, so it's more relaxing.
      If you're not a fan, I wholeheartedly encourage you to taste One Piece experience. If you're a fan but haven't reread it even once, then I'd like to reccomend you to try.
      There's a Offical digitally colored version that really adds to the 'different experience' thing.
      Have a good day !

  • @Raph___A
    @Raph___A Před 3 lety +308

    As somene who just finished the Water 7 arc, I can safely say One Piece is one of my favorite anime of all time, and I'm not even halfway done with the series! And don't get me started on the OST!

    • @karlhenderson9360
      @karlhenderson9360 Před 3 lety +27

      Just finished Dressrosa myself, what a wonderful series. Love every chapter I read 😁

    • @cadequillion5276
      @cadequillion5276 Před 3 lety +35

      Oh boy. You are in for quite a ride. I wish I was in your shoes to enjoy the majority of one piece with fresh eyes again.

    • @00ammy00
      @00ammy00 Před 3 lety +4

      Still my most favorite arc in One Piece

    • @anthonyzivalich4962
      @anthonyzivalich4962 Před 3 lety +7

      Wait until katakuri’s OST

    • @danielsemakula1526
      @danielsemakula1526 Před 3 lety +7

      Enies Lobby will blow ur mind

  • @blakedavis2447
    @blakedavis2447 Před 3 lety +16

    I’m starting my kid sister off on the manga which two chapters in and she’s already hooked , keep in mind she’s also seven and hates reading which just makes it that much more impressive

    • @siddhant07wc6
      @siddhant07wc6 Před 3 lety

      You are a Savage but are helping in increasing the crew.
      I also tried my best for my Sister to read One Piece but she ain't interested in.

    • @blakedavis2447
      @blakedavis2447 Před 3 lety

      @@siddhant07wc6 we also watch the show some which helps , she’s got other interests too but patience is key

    • @starandeath4735
      @starandeath4735 Před 2 lety

      Fam. My lil sis was 9 and she finished the whole naruto anime cause she cried on the first episode. and considered it her fave until I made her watch one piece.
      She even surpassed me in the anime at one point

  • @johndavidtibbetts7320
    @johndavidtibbetts7320 Před rokem +5

    Like other one piece fans I was shocked to learn that the sea base arc that comes after skypeia was not in the manga. Unlike all the other one piece fillers, that one screamed Oda from top to bottom

    • @anonymoususer9197
      @anonymoususer9197 Před rokem +1

      I think he oversaw a lot of the filler episodes though tbh

  • @thepanthar
    @thepanthar Před 3 lety +575

    naruto and bleach: get a rushed ending
    One Piece: I WANT TO LIVE!...

    • @GenGaara
      @GenGaara Před 3 lety +35

      I wouldnt call Narutos ending rushed, the bloody war lasted a third of the series

    • @paulkiru2995
      @paulkiru2995 Před 3 lety +67

      @@GenGaara and it was rushed thats why there was so many plot holes

    • @hiimpranav
      @hiimpranav Před 3 lety

      Kino

    • @bmack1708
      @bmack1708 Před 3 lety +35

      @@paulkiru2995 Naruto wasn't rushed. Kishimoto is great at character story, but sucks at world building. That's why after hundreds of chapter the last arc barely makes sense.

    • @chaosrex1487
      @chaosrex1487 Před 3 lety +25

      I mean it might still be rushed. Oda says he wants to end the series in the next 5 years. I find that HIGHLY unlikely given the minimum of what we still have to do left in the story.
      SPOILERS AHEAD
      We need to finish the beast that is Wano, go to Elbaf, have Luffy meet back up with Shanks and probably challenge his crew to a Davy Back Fight(With the stakes being acknowledgment of superiority, not actual crew members), fighting Blackbeard and finding Raftel(That last one is probably a whole mega-arc of its own), meeting back up with Dragon, probably besieging Marie Jois and an all-out world war against the WG...
      And that's just everything I can think of. I'm sure there's more stuff.

  • @CRANTIME
    @CRANTIME Před 3 lety +20

    I've recently fallen prey to it's charms, myself. I honestly think it's the perfect show for me.
    all the characters are quirky and interesting, the art style allows such a crazy array of everything and it's still all just lighthearted and fun enough that I'm never left without a smile.

  • @S_T_fania
    @S_T_fania Před 3 lety +15

    hello i Just wanted to say that the reason why one piece is the most famous manga (IN JAPAN) is because of the words building.
    i saw interview in Japanese where they ask Japanese fan and occasional manga readers why they continue to buy the manga and they said that the world is so big and every story of every character is told so they like it and the fact that some character introduced in a volume can be represented and his story will be told in a much later volume

  • @jaywbell2002
    @jaywbell2002 Před 3 lety +221

    If you aren’t reading the manga then you’re missing out on the greatest page turning epic of all time

    • @ThePPQQ1
      @ThePPQQ1 Před 3 lety +2

      Eh, post time skip leaves a lot to be desired. Too many important events are off paneled.

    • @jaywbell2002
      @jaywbell2002 Před 3 lety +33

      @@ThePPQQ1 One Piece is a breathing world there are too many events constantly going on for everything to be focused on and what you don’t realize is off screening events builds hype there would be no hype if we saw something like Blackbeard vs Dragon due to it being off-screened we still have no clue just how powerful they are which will create an immense amount of payoff during the final war
      if you CANT delay your gratification then go read something like lesser Boruto

    • @DracaAnime
      @DracaAnime Před 3 lety

      which one? there are so many that are so good!!!

    • @christiancasaverdepertica1802
      @christiancasaverdepertica1802 Před 3 lety +16

      @@DracaAnime Post time skip, definitely manga. Dressrossa is a nightmare to watch, everything taking so so long. The manga is much better

    • @gabrielsebastianelhagezote1486
      @gabrielsebastianelhagezote1486 Před 3 lety +11

      @@christiancasaverdepertica1802 but that's talking the anime, and Even as Bad as it is it still finds moments when it gets Even better than the manga, like Merry's Death or Luffy vs Katakuri.
      But have You watched Wano? They are doing an amazing job to make the one piece anime great again

  • @aaronschmit
    @aaronschmit Před 3 lety +211

    This video has plagued me to do the unthinkable, the unfathomable: venture into the wide unknown vistas that is the One Piece manga. Through many years of fear of the unknown, the lingering rumors like low-hanging fog on the hours before sunrise, the many nights staring up at the megalithic wall that was this series, my heart yearned for the day I would finally overcome these doubts, these uncertainties, and set my sails on this bizarre, wild and treacherous journey through hell and back and hell again with each passing chapter.
    It has been many a chapter now, and when I turn back to find the shores I once called home, I only see endless vistas. Endless vistas as far as the eye can see from all around me. Yet this looming sensation that has overcome me is not that of concern for the path that can take me safely home, but rather the many paths ahead of me to explore. So with bated breath, and nearly 1,000 chapters of adventure ahead of me, I feel a song itching in my throat, and I am compelled to sing it:
    YA-YO-YAAAAA-YOOOOOOOO!!!! HERE'S HOW THE STORY GOES WE FIND OUT 'BOUT A TREASURE IN THE GRAND LINE THERE'S NO DOUBT-

  • @pokeperson1000
    @pokeperson1000 Před 3 lety +22

    Fun fact: This video used to be titled "The TERRIFYINGLY MASSIVE World of One Piece (Part 1)"

  • @doctorsam5771
    @doctorsam5771 Před 3 lety +26

    No shounen manga should ever go this hard but One Piece does. Going this hard for 2 dam decades....

    • @razkable
      @razkable Před 2 lety

      its basically the it story for japan so....i like how oda sets up the government marines and nobles as evil and luffy to oppose it obviously and his mission to end it one day but also theres clearly something bigger going on behind the scenes for why the government regulates stuff and feels this way that we fans are not prone to which makes them feel so empowered to act the way they do despite being in the wrong in our eyes..they are not just evil for evil sake..oda is trust worthy where he won't just make everyone that are villains evil because they enjoy it and thats it....and we do not know why they are this way or hate pirates... like for example where devil fruits even come from and why they exist....theres something going on that people like kuzan knows which leads him to kill saul after he helps robin but then keep her alive to see what she becomes but also threaten to keep her on that path and then quit his job for but also snap when akainu goes to far which gets him promoted not demoted and yet also go through with a buster call back then and be ok just riding his bike around...theres backstories for akainu and blackbeard clearly but theres also more going on then just that..theres a reason celestials and sky people exist and eneru wanted to go to the moon and why slaves exist and why the elders and im-sama are at the top and why they control the marines and why greenbull is the way he is same for fujitora...what do they know that we do not..the void century..roger..the hat....garp sengoku...the rogue incident..what is really going on?..shanks?..the revolutionary army..coby needs to figure this out one day...what is it about helping people that the government does not understand?...why is it such a shock when people like saul defect and people break the rules and what are they hiding...its upsurd...there has to be a reason why they regulate stuff and do not get why their own help these pirates and normal people out...maybe its all a virtual reality sim?..

  • @Serutans
    @Serutans Před 3 lety +300

    "Battle Furries"
    You are not supposed to say it out loud.

  • @NerdySatyr
    @NerdySatyr Před 3 lety +530

    May I highly recommend "Totally Not Mark"s recent One Piece videos where he's blindly diving into the series and reviewing it, absolutely fantastic content, check him out!

    • @604eign
      @604eign Před 3 lety +14

      His videos get hundreds of thousands of views... I don’t think TNM needs anyone to recommend him an his content for it to be seen 🤷🏻‍♂️😂😂

    • @NerdySatyr
      @NerdySatyr Před 3 lety +48

      @@604eign What so people who haven't seen it can't go and enjoy it? Brighten their day some? What kind of thinking is that

    • @jasongibson1225
      @jasongibson1225 Před 3 lety +36

      I love Totally Not Mark's review. Every time it is in my notifications I click it immediately.
      One Piece is a monster of a series to watch through again, so seeing him do it I think is a great way to revisit. It is like watching with a friend who you introduced to the series and can't stop watching it, and is fawning over everything about it so you can nerd out with him.
      It is great if you've already watched the anime or read the manga to any significant degree.

    • @maris4137
      @maris4137 Před 3 lety +6

      Thanks for the recommendation.

    • @patrickholzer6415
      @patrickholzer6415 Před 3 lety +4

      true, his videos always paint a smile across my face. It is amazing seeing a new fan experiencing all of this great story for the first time, especially a perceptive and attentive person like not Mark. Can't wait for his introduction to Katakuri next week!

  • @darthvader3969
    @darthvader3969 Před 3 lety +14

    I am so glad TotallyNotMark and you started one piece

  • @dominique7526
    @dominique7526 Před 2 lety +8

    The good thing about one piece is its always getting better and better like "wow this arc is good better than the last one".

  • @Match25
    @Match25 Před 3 lety +425

    Magellan didn't abuse his authority. He actually in imprisoned one of his guards that did

    • @caitlinbrewer4843
      @caitlinbrewer4843 Před 3 lety +104

      Yeah, Magellan is actually a pretty stand up guy. It is just that he is standing in the way of Luffy.

    • @prodICYN
      @prodICYN Před 3 lety +37

      @@caitlinbrewer4843 Well I mean of course he's a world renown criminal who is breaking out of prison world renown criminals 😂😅

    • @fats2010
      @fats2010 Před 3 lety +41

      He used a clip of magellan but he was talking about hannyabal. Even then Hannyabal probably isn't the best example of a particularly evil person in a position of power, but obviously he's depicted as being pretty damn self-interested and unjust

    • @vailingbow1068
      @vailingbow1068 Před 3 lety +7

      He said Hannyabal but showed Magellan.

    • @romusa10
      @romusa10 Před 3 lety +11

      @@fats2010 i wouldnt label him as unjust as his reason of keep back up and fight when luffy trashed him was to prevent criminals to wreck havoc on the outside world and hurt innocent people and also his self interest of being the warden still in line with act of justice.

  • @ninnoofthelastunicorn2693
    @ninnoofthelastunicorn2693 Před 3 lety +178

    Everyone is sleeping on Foxy, but I'd like to remind everyone Foxy was the person who gave Luffy the biggest run for his money before Lucci. Foxy also proved and proposed a bigger threat for Luffy that he started to really stew over: One day he might lose a crew member. Foxy, this loser of a pirate, is the face of what Luffy fears the most. That fear concluded in Marine Ford.

    • @PatrickStar-xxx
      @PatrickStar-xxx Před 3 lety +25

      yeah, imagine if his DF gets awaken. He literally has The World's stand!

    • @llthll
      @llthll Před 3 lety +26

      Don't forget the fact that Foxy's arc was canon and not filler. Which means he was an ACTUAL threat to Luffy at that time.

    • @HapPawhere
      @HapPawhere Před 3 lety +5

      @@llthll His devil fruit is opp if he can touch his enemies

    • @mariama6137
      @mariama6137 Před 3 lety +7

      Plus the origine of the davy back fight is related to captain Rock D Xebec....so it’s canon for a reason....that’s probably how he got big mom, kaido and WB to join him, who knows

    • @harshalgondkar9927
      @harshalgondkar9927 Před 3 lety +1

      @@mariama6137 Wait, how?
      I have caught up to the manga and I have never heard of that. Might I be forgetting something?

  • @davidsiegel8842
    @davidsiegel8842 Před 2 lety +6

    I'm watching this video for about the fifth time more than a year later, and I cannot believe it's sitting at just over 500k views. This deserves 10 times that amount.

  • @theoraexplora
    @theoraexplora Před 3 lety +16

    MB: “Buddha looking Devil Fruit user”
    Eminem: Am I a joke to you?

  • @BacchaeOphanim
    @BacchaeOphanim Před 3 lety +87

    "Elbaph, which will come up later."
    So far later, in fact, that they *still* haven't gotten there.
    I'm thinking it's gonna be the island after Wano, though.

    • @NinjaTyler
      @NinjaTyler Před 3 lety +10

      That's the most popular theory, that or we'll have another smaller Zou arc between Wano and Elbaf but either way definitely not gonna finish the manga by 2025 way too much story still to go with just Wano and Elbaf alone not to mention the next war, Raftel, and more

    • @sleepyboi1964
      @sleepyboi1964 Před 3 lety +11

      NinjaTyler Oda stated that the main story of finding the OP will end in 5 years, and after that, the great war arc will start... One Piece, based on this info, will probably end in around 7-9 years.

    • @anastasia.00
      @anastasia.00 Před 3 lety +8

      @@NinjaTyler The Great War will surely be after they find One Piece. I think we all already realized One Piece is not a real treasure but a truth from the past (or future, who knows) that the government wants to hide.

    • @D0VEWORLD
      @D0VEWORLD Před 3 lety +1

      inb4 Elbaf gets offscreened like the important parts of Reverie did.

    • @NinjaTyler
      @NinjaTyler Před 3 lety +1

      @@sleepyboi1964 that would make the most sense then by timeline since they've found 2 red so far and need kaidos and whoever has the last one if anyone at all does.

  • @bubbasgotback431
    @bubbasgotback431 Před 3 lety +159

    “Thriller Bark probably contributes the least of any One Piece saga to the series’ actual world building” -Geoff
    Lmao

    • @buddyb3165
      @buddyb3165 Před 3 lety +34

      Oda: Hold my Wano arch

    • @RandomGuyyyy
      @RandomGuyyyy Před 3 lety +9

      that will not age well

    • @third-ratedude4234
      @third-ratedude4234 Před 3 lety +26

      Just a reminder that we still don't know what the Florian Monsters are

    • @foreverinafantasy
      @foreverinafantasy Před 3 lety +2

      @@buddyb3165 wait how does thriller bark contribute to wano? Other than the grave robbing, which seems like a pretty weak link. Even sky island contributed more with the introduction on mantra and wrecking the merry

    • @buddyb3165
      @buddyb3165 Před 3 lety +22

      @@foreverinafantasy First Mention of Kaido and Zoro dueling Ryuma and getting his sword.

  • @SuperSupper2
    @SuperSupper2 Před 2 lety +4

    If only you knew how crucial the art style was for what comes at the end. Man it is wild to be a One Piece fan at the 1040's

  • @12Chris6
    @12Chris6 Před 3 lety +9

    "Carue is my boy & I would kill and die for him," truer words have never been spoken.

  • @Solrac-fo2eq
    @Solrac-fo2eq Před 3 lety +247

    IN defense of Thriller Bark:
    Oars
    Ryuma and Shusui
    Kuma
    Kaido
    Lola-Big Mom
    Absalom's fruit and Sanji's dream
    I know youv'e yet to see most of those pay off, but they're there

    • @captainmarvelous7678
      @captainmarvelous7678 Před 3 lety +22

      You forgot Docking and "Nothing happened"

    • @TheSpencermacdougall
      @TheSpencermacdougall Před 3 lety

      @@captainmarvelous7678 I haven't watched triller bark in a while,mind explaining what you mean for those of us who have forgot?

    • @muffinn1337
      @muffinn1337 Před 3 lety +5

      The thing about One Piece is that even the worse arcs are still amazing.
      my least favorit is Fishman island but even that one is great.

    • @justanotherchannelonyoutub126
      @justanotherchannelonyoutub126 Před 3 lety +6

      Also Captain John - Buggy

    • @HaganeNoGijutsushi
      @HaganeNoGijutsushi Před 3 lety +2

      ​@@TheSpencermacdougall Oars: we see Oars Jr. in Marineford.
      Ryuma and Shusui: it's brought back up in Wano, where Zoro is accused of graverobbing for having the sword
      Kuma: well... just Kuma, really, here we start seeing how he's actually on the SH's side
      Kaido: ...not sure, I don't remember really
      Lola: the fact she's Big Mom's daughter is hinted at
      Absalom/Sanji: I think it's a reference to the whole Vinsmoke thing and his new supersuit but I might forget something

  • @aneonfoxtribute
    @aneonfoxtribute Před 3 lety +480

    "Bara-tea"
    Okay, weird pronunciation, but fine
    "Rogue Town"
    Okay now you've crossed a line.
    All seriousness, though, Rogue Town is a poor translation. Its Logue Town. Oda named it that was because its the end of the prologue, and also the place where the story starts with both Roger's birth and his execution. Logue, short for Prologue.

    • @Uhcip
      @Uhcip Před 3 lety +7

      Not as bad as "Captain Kurro". I mean if you run a channel specifically about anime and manga its kinda wack.

    • @wolfjack5802
      @wolfjack5802 Před 3 lety +26

      To be fair, shady town being shady it’s easy to think it’s supposed to be Rogue town in English considering it’s a world full of pirates

    • @RoronoaZoro-ur6hr
      @RoronoaZoro-ur6hr Před 3 lety +6

      @@wolfjack5802 and aneonfoxtribute, it was only ever named Rogue Town in the English 4Kids dub because even in the English Funimation dub it still has the name Logue Town kept the same as the Japanese translation.

    • @iruleharderthanyou12
      @iruleharderthanyou12 Před 3 lety +23

      Its a pun, in Japanese Roguetown and Loguetown both sound the same. Of course its actually Loguetown but it works both ways

    • @SeeE2ps
      @SeeE2ps Před 3 lety +22

      @aneonfoxtribute To complete your explanation . . . It's called Loguetown because it's the town of beginnings and endings. The pirate kings himself was born there and died there. Many pirates, rookie and experienced, attempt to begin their trip to the Grand Line and for many (due in part to Smoker) ends there. The prologue and epilogue of many stories. As planned by Oda-san

  • @blubistheword
    @blubistheword Před 3 lety +7

    There's one chapter that's literally just Sengoku sprouting exposition, and we all went bonkers over it cause it was just so great to get more info on this incredible world

  • @xedocat
    @xedocat Před 3 lety +9

    Sometimes, I wish I started on some worse anime so I could learn to appreciate good anime. Unfortunately, (and fortunately) I happened to start with this piece of art.

  • @DiscountWhiskey078
    @DiscountWhiskey078 Před 3 lety +198

    Hooray! He no longer says “Luhffy”! This is truly a victory!

    • @SUPERNOVA0360
      @SUPERNOVA0360 Před 3 lety +2

      How did he say it?

    • @DiscountWhiskey078
      @DiscountWhiskey078 Před 3 lety +5

      @@SUPERNOVA0360 like fluffy but without the f, so fluffy luffy

    • @Aao1
      @Aao1 Před 3 lety +1

      I'm not the only one who noticed it haha

  • @ilikestuff9250
    @ilikestuff9250 Před 3 lety +72

    Those who skip this are missing out big time
    Easily the top tier Shonen
    It might look childish but both in story and production its actually pretty damn deep

    • @ilikestuff9250
      @ilikestuff9250 Před 3 lety +22

      @Xyon 21 Than I'm sorry to say that a lot of manga if not all always have such inconsistency
      Togashi always draws chibi and serious often on the same page
      Puck and Guts are great examples of this as well
      You'll be hard pressed to find one series that doesn't do that
      Its largely due to One Piece being so cartoony that it can get away with with far more than other asthetic pleasing manga or anime
      Oda's philosophy as a mangaka is to always show what the characters feel regardless of whether people call it ugly or not
      I hope someday you give it another try

    • @yoitsg0016
      @yoitsg0016 Před 3 lety +2

      @Xyon 21 his story is top tier i don’t mind art. I love different art styles and wouldn’t want things to look basic. If I did care I’d ignore it for the story like bon clay he’s a side character yet serves so many purposes and does so much for the story. Serving as a reason for viví to say good bye to her crew mates without getting caught being friends with the straw hats, he saves the straw hats and let’s then scape. He helps luffy in impel down, and so many more examples. He’s just a side character yet has more relevance and importance then all of dbz story to date. Idk man, many people even animak from anime uproar being a smarty pants dude who loves philosophy loves one piece, because it’s much deeper then people give it credit for. The entire arc of fish man island post time skip is literally about racism and tackles it better than any media I’ve ever seen on it. The villain is stale because he’s more of an extreme of racial hate then a villain. He represents the youth being taught to hate based on race on either side black or white. Human or fishman

    • @mambaforever9593
      @mambaforever9593 Před 3 lety +4

      @Xyon 21 nobody gives a shit if you give it another try lol

    • @sindri1447
      @sindri1447 Před 3 lety +1

      @Xyon 21 the art style is beautiful if you just stop for 1 second to not be a shallow dipshit with no taste. Sorry, you probably didn't deserve that but sometimes you just gotta look stupid in the eyes and tell them they need to be better. Be better. Saying no to a series because of the art is some of the dumbest shit you could ever do. Because people get used to goofy art. People don't get used to dumb fucks who can't take their time to smell their roses because it looks a bit different to what their small brains are used to.

    • @pobo-
      @pobo- Před 2 lety

      @Xyon 21 no problem bro
      u are free to decide

  • @vellyvell2558
    @vellyvell2558 Před 3 lety +46

    I started One Piece two months ago and just hit the time skip....this shit is beautiful

    • @Elliementary99
      @Elliementary99 Před 2 lety +2

      how are you enjoying wano😂😂im sure you're there now right?

    • @vellyvell2558
      @vellyvell2558 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Elliementary99 It's even better than I thought it would be.

    • @Elliementary99
      @Elliementary99 Před 2 lety +3

      @@vellyvell2558 these last few episodes have been jaw dropping, to say the least🤯🤯 the animation is off the charts

    • @vellyvell2558
      @vellyvell2558 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Elliementary99Wano has yet to disappoint

  • @magicianwizard4294
    @magicianwizard4294 Před 3 lety +8

    I'd like to remind you, the boat talked. That's why we cried. It talked.

  • @LordVulcanus747
    @LordVulcanus747 Před 3 lety +37

    31:43 that is literally the whole story summed up in one sentence.

    • @sf1822
      @sf1822 Před 3 lety +2

      Pretty accurate yes

  • @geemot7914
    @geemot7914 Před 3 lety +342

    “It’s only legendary until Oda makes it real.”
    I see what you did there.

    • @TKmeh
      @TKmeh Před 3 lety +9

      I laughed hearing that line, then cried because it’s now a novelty of when Vic was the golden child

    • @fumeister0992
      @fumeister0992 Před 3 lety

      @@TKmeh what does this reference?

    • @TKmeh
      @TKmeh Před 3 lety +1

      @@fumeister0992 the English version of opening one done by Vic mignona ages ago, I think it’s still available on CZcams somewhere but it’s a shame what’s happening to said singer/VA

    • @WarpChaos
      @WarpChaos Před 3 lety +4

      @@TKmeh It's still a shame what happened to him.

    • @sirskeleton16
      @sirskeleton16 Před 3 lety

      @@TKmeh pardon my ignorance but what happened to him?

  • @wearevenom81
    @wearevenom81 Před 3 lety +16

    It does genuinely confuse my friends "So you're saying I shouldn't watch one piece?" "Oh god no its awesome, I know you'll love it...but I love you too much to let you go down this route...please for your own well being do not start watching"
    Finally had one friend do it and he got to skypeia and was like "I can't....I just can't go on" and had to take a break lol

    • @yukikanegawa7470
      @yukikanegawa7470 Před 3 lety +4

      I took a break after Ace because of emotional distress but now I'm at Punk Hazard and not stopping again anytime soon.

    • @mostacho8251
      @mostacho8251 Před 3 lety +2

      @@yukikanegawa7470 ohhhh Dont-Stop-Me-Now... cause im having a good time, having a good time, DONT WANNA STOP AT Aaaaall

    • @HapPawhere
      @HapPawhere Před 3 lety

      That's big brain tactic to get your friend watch it lol

  • @SennaHawx
    @SennaHawx Před 3 lety +7

    World Government and The Marines are two different organisations.
    They're connected, but the Marines - besides a few certain individuals - aren't corrupt. Atleast not anymore than necessary in order to prevent the WG from completely taking over.

  • @thepackingpacjack7767
    @thepackingpacjack7767 Před 3 lety +155

    Mother’s basement: I’m finally caught up to One Piece and I hope the fun adventure never ends! now what next?
    One piece fans: we are entering the end game now....

    • @avataraarow
      @avataraarow Před 3 lety +12

      Mother’s Basement: Okay so 5 more years? Cool!

    • @JoshTheValiant
      @JoshTheValiant Před 3 lety +3

      I still can't comprehend how Oda plans to wrap up all the threads in a single arc after this. There's So Much.

    • @CelesticCF
      @CelesticCF Před 3 lety +1

      @@JoshTheValiant Wano feels like it's still got years to come.

    • @SchrollShepard
      @SchrollShepard Před 3 lety +3

      @@JoshTheValiant "I still can't comprehend how Oda plans to wrap up all the threads in a single arc"
      Well, if it is the last arc/saga, then it needs to be more spectacular and fucking mindblowing than anything else before it, right? So it would make sense to just absolutely bombard us non-stop, left and right, with all the unsolved, biggest, mysteries of the series, all at once.
      (Now, I'm not saying that's what will actually happen, just saying it would still make sense if it did)

    • @chadanefrancis2099
      @chadanefrancis2099 Před 3 lety

      @@SchrollShepard i think there r gonna be 2 end arcs.... the huge war arc where everything is revealed. N the end arc where we see characters return home and live.