G8 is the BEST Filler Arc | Watching One Piece for the FIRST Time & Arc Tier List 

❗❗ Hello friends, for those of you who may have missed it - the entire rest of the series is currently taken down as a result of copyright strikes. I've been trying to deal with them for the past few weeks with little to no results - for more updates, check my twitter - I try to post about what's going on with it fairly regularly. Thank you for all the support so far, hopefuly we'll get this sorted.

Con D. Oriano is a major ally to the straw hats. without him, the straw hats would have never escaped g8.

When I first watched the series, I didn’t know G8 was filler. I definitely felt something off about the arc, but enjoyed it all the same. Also, the arc is technically not all filler, as there are cannon bits mixed in, as you noticed, and I really like the Skypeia continuity that you also pointed out. I’d say G8 gets +1 point above every other filler arc.

Can we also just talk about how top tier adorable Jonathan and Jessica’s relationship is?

Usopp using the dial is a gag. The next he uses it in the future comes with a completely different emotion.

G8 + 1. All Condoriano jokes aside, Jonathan is one of the best antagonists imo. Not really a villain and no 1v1 action with Luffy but very uniquely interesting.

G8 is so much fun. In my opinion an aspect of One Piece we don’t see enough outside of important character moments are characters just hanging out.

Ah finally the most powerful Strawhat makes his glorious first appearance. Con D. Oriano!!

The G8 arc is a 10/10 and it's my favourite arc in the entire series. After all THE GREAT CON D. ORIANO-SAMA was introduced in this arc

G8 is one of the if not the best filler in all anime... period. In this filler arc, the continuity is maintained without disrupting the main storyline. The amount of character exploration we we may not get time to explore in the main story otherwise, the amount of foreshadowing yet not revealing anything, the rare character matchups in this arc we seldom get to see in main story, giving opportunity for less prevalent characters to shine, have one of the funniest scenes and parallelelly giving more insight into character's headspace, having a lot of fun by putting characters in different circumstances creating comedy gold, yet not losing the heart of one piece and the characters n giving them depth as well, sometimes revisiting their past experiences and moments through the current task at hand giving a nostalgic feel to it... and one of the most interesting antagonists, Johnathan, who is a genuinely good guy buy in the opposite side with a very poised, calm, meticulous, funny demeanor making him so cooler.... ofc like you said we get Marines point of view in this arc which is very much interesting and fresh to say the least...... AND LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST... the Ultimate chad Mr. CON. D. ORIANO.... Except Sanji's hand thing, this totally feels like a Canon arc... If one wants to know the flavor of one piece, they can watch G8... n get a rough feeling of how fun but interesting one piece can be

Well, Usopp is the dial man, even though the impact dial would better fit Luffy, who doesn't even need that kind of defense anyways. Besides, usage of dials is too technical for Luffy.

i didn't think straw hats landed on a marine base is weird at all, since they basically have 1 out of millions moments all the time in the canon

Luffy is not really immune to impact dial damage. As you may remember in Skypiea, when the straw hats were fighting Satori - the priest with the cloud balls, his palm hits really did hurt luffy which surprised him too. It was later revealed that the priests were using impact dials inside their gloves and it could actually hurt Luffy as the damage from an impact dial hurts from the inside (or something like that) (And no, it was not haki/mantra as only observation haki was hinted at in this arc which they were calling mantra. There was no concept of Armament haki at this point in the story). This point was highlighted in the arc to establish that the fights are not going to be easy for the straw-hats in skypiea where sky combat was practiced using dials. So, it made perfect sense to me why no one wanted to use the impact dial. Although why Sanji used his hand instead of his mighty cannon feet is a mystery to me.

This is the only piece of filler media that i recommended any time someone says they're watching one piece G8 is just plus 1 in every way for me and i rewatch it whenever I have nothing else to watch

Best Filler Arc

I remember skipping g8 as I thought it was "bad" filler and recently came back to it after seeing the Infamous ✌️ Luffy moment and oh boi was I wrong, I can't remember the last time I laughed as maniacally as I did watching one piece before.

The most powerful +1 one piece character of all time appeared in the G8 Arc originally. This was his great introduction. Bravo Vince! Con D. oriano is a force to rival Buggy D. Clown and Down D. stairs as the most powerful in the Series. Also spoiler. Even Go D. Ussop may not be able to face Him but only time will tell who would win that match up. The very man who introduced Con D. Oriano to the Marines and the world at large, may fall victim to his power.

Condioranio is such a legend that a lot of ppl want him to be canon so bad 😭 the current pirate king “Con D. Oriano”

IMO about the conflict of art and artist, if you like a piece of art but you dislike the artist you either dont consume the art or consume it in such a way that doesnt benefit the artist. idc if a cake was baked by hitler himself, if it is a good cake i will eat it anyways and i will find a way to dont give money to that man for it.

Usopp is the one that uses the dials because he's the only one who needs to be resourceful in a crew full of monsters, and Nami doesn't really count bc she already has mastery of a weapon, and can use and manipulate the climate. Compared to everyone else, he lacks physical power the most and is the less combat experienced Pairing that with his clever use of tricks and gadgets, he's the best choice to employ them to their full usefulness

Jonathan being the first Marine to demonstrate Haki by imbuing a meatball with Color of Armament will always be my favorite little coincidence. G8+1 indeed.

12:00 Good observation! No matter how good G-8 arc is it's still only a filler with many inconsistencies.

The issue of consuming art from problematic artists doesn’t make sense to me, and seems destructive. Humanity, as a whole, is extremely nuanced and messy, and people are allowed to think whatever they want. For the sake of argument let’s say one day in the future Oda says or supports a problematic view, does that discredit the work of One Piece? Would you stop supporting the artist to finish his work just because he shares a view of the world that you do not?

To be fair, Only nami has used the impact dial. It's possible that Sanji doesn't realise that the dial can hurt his hand.

"filler" is loose in one piece terms. Important things, facts, locations DO get brought up in the "filler"

Discovered the channel two weeks ago and I binge-watched all the one piece videos. It's been a long time since i found a RU-vid content that I really enjoy keep up the great work.

Luffy cannot safely use the dial; it was explained back in Skypia; the Impact Dial can hit fruit users as if they had no powers. Luffy got bloodied by an impact release to the head.

Only reason I could think they would use Usopp with the impact dial is because he’s the best shot in the crew. I guess where your at his role in the crew hasn’t really been established but he is the sniper

When I got past this arc, I didn't even know that this was filler or the other filler arcs. G 8 +1

Condoriano Helping the crew escape ..; a True Nakama

Really enjoyed your review of the G9 arc! I really hate the copyright strikes though and I wish you the best in dealing with them… if you decide to drop One Piece from your channel due to it, I totally understand though!

2:29 Here’s the thing about “astronomically bad luck” in stories. I think as long as it’s presenting your characters with an obstacle and not resolving a situation through the bad luck of the antagonist, it’s always fine to just hand wave an insanely unlucky situation to be the starting point of a story. Cause life can be random and statistically unlikely things happen more often than you’d think. So I think nitpicking that the chances of dropping into the middle of a Marine base would be astronomically low doesn’t really matter from a story structure standpoint. As long as the solution to a problem has nothing to do with luck, I think luck is a great narrative device to utilize.

Most fillers have some weird devil fruit user that becomes complicated or too similar to another later. This arc has none of that, which is part of what makes it so good. It also has some nice foreshadowing for events to come, like the spirit on the ship or talk of a shipwright joining the crew, both of which happen in Water 7. Usopp getting familiar with those dials is going to be important later for a heartbreaking reason.

You are one of the best youtubers in my opinion.

The next (canon) arc is pretty bloated with filler. The filler episodes labeled as "anime canon" in the filler list because they added it into the middle of the arc and if you skip it, the arc doesn't completely make sense. It makes perfect sense in the manga though and is very short and funny, overall it's a good arc that I enjoy a lot, but it gets dragged out in the anime. The two filler arcs after the next arc (Ocean's Dream and Foxy's Return) are pretty meh. Since I know you'll probably review them, it would be good to do them in one video. Either just those two filler arcs in one video or all three in one video in the interest of getting back to canon material quickly. It's all up to you though. EDIT: I posted this before watching the video, so yeah, if you're too busy to do a 2 or 3 arc video, just take your time haha. Also G8+1

nah i won't say G8+1 just because you asked me to !

It’s back up!! Woohoo!!!

Got a notification for a like on a comment I get on this video, so happy you won man. Copyright claims suck but it is what it is

In the part of diferentiate the Art with the artist I think you misses one point, she dosent like sanji bc she persive him as being bad and problematic, not really if he was a bad person but persived to be one, maybe we persived jk as being problematic but we also should not be quick to judgement of all her views just bc we lack all the info, just like she dosent know that the straw hat pirates are not really bad

Wait, next is Water7? Isn´t Foxy arc next? I mean I know its not important to the story but theres still funny moments there. My only problem is that they made tha arc longer in the anime than in the manga. But anyway Im really excited for u to watch water 7/ennies lobby, everyone favorite arc including me.

So when are you uploading the water 7 review? I'm sorry for asking but I'm just really Hyped

G8 + 1 Condoriano knows where the One Piece is btw

I hope that you appreciated the nostalgic look back more now that you know what happens in the next arc

1:48 until now it is still my favourite Filler Arc! And by now I must've seen every filler I guess (I'm around episode 920 right now)

oh naah wehere did the other one piece vids go :(

The only reason I would avoid consuming the works of a "problematic artist" (problematic is subjective) is because I'm afraid of negative feedback from peers or 'the crowd'. For that reason, publicly stating that one won't consumer these works is a performance Edit: also, the vast majority of people do not consider JK Rowlings comments to be radical or absurd. The effort to cancel Rowling is very much a radical, fringe movement

Gr8 +1 Video!

Con D riano was the best straw hat

The way I guessed exactly where the arc would rank at the beginning of the video

One Piece doesn’t make filler like they used to tbh. A lot of the early filler was fun and didn’t try and do too much. For the most part was genuinely enjoyable. The newer filler arcs are so wonky and just shoved in that it’s nearly painful to watch at times.

Do you have any social media acc besides TT and yt? 🥺

For the blessing of the algorithm!

So I heard you say next stop Water 7, just wanna say for future reference don’t look up what the next arcs are. At some point in the future an arc name spoils what happens in the previous arc. The previous arc I am referring to is what I’m predicting to be your favorite arc so your best off steering clear of that, for now though your fine and your gonna love Water 7(arc not saga) it’s an easy S tier

G8 (+1) is canon in my heart

Love these videos G8+9

oh my god water 7 incoming the starting of real onepiece

Great vid g8+1

Rowling a problematic person? If protecting women's rights is wrong, then what it is? Honestly, she's misunderstood.

😂😂😂 J K isn't wrong

The inspector should be fired to be honest, more like G8 - 1

I don't know these ranking have been pretty on point for me. Granted I'm even layer to one piece than you were. 😂

Nuh uh ima meme on you. You interchange my name Jonathan with Joseph and thats tbe biggest distrspect because this guy I know named Joseph....

Next arc is: G8 + 1 - 2C

We are pirates, not heroes. Usopp had the dial, it was his idea, thus it'll be his pain. Plus he needs to toughen up. Nakama will help you, but won't necessarily do the thing For you. Each man to his own fate, if you will. Im glad you liked G8 tho, its the best of the fillers, n the only one most of the fandom acknowledges as watchable. Its the only 1 I watch, n I do a TON of rewatching ...daily.

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hello

CON D. ORIANO

TLDW: Dude rates it at B tier and it’s an insult to this masterpiece

Maybe a hot take, but if there's something that I really want to check out that would support a problematic creator, like Hogwarts Legacy, I'm going to pirate it. When I pirate something that isn't supporting a problematic creator, I view it as a viable try-before-you-buy experience and I really will buy it if I end up enjoying it. Even One Piece, I started out watching it and reading chapters from pirate websites. Now that it's one of my favorite series, I've bought the first manga box set and will buy the others when I can spare the expense.

repair Merry part is Canon in the manga not a filler

G-7 then

G8+1

I can appreciate Lovecraft's work now because he's dead & his work is now public domain. It's a more difficult topic for artists like J.K. Rowling, Orson Scott Card, or Nobuhiro Nishiwaki.

G8 is the best

G-8+1=G-9?

G8 + 1 = ???

G8+1 = G9

Dude, we get it. You’re a leftist. You do not have to bring politics into everything. Edit: Great review otherwise though. Glad you are enjoying the series so far.

to talk about the whole them not wanting to use the recipe's because he's a pirate. I believe that the main difference is the fact that Sanji isn't going to get anything from them using it. He's not going to get fame or money in any shape and form if they use his recipe's and his recipe's in itself are good things. Compare that to the other examples you mentioned, where the person can be directly benefited by consumption, and that the thing has inherently bad qualities within it. Hogwarts Legacy for example, the money goes to Rowling, and even talking about it gives it exposure. And we also know for a fact that she is using the money she makes from the game to fuel her hateful campaign. Even the game itself has very big problems, with the fact it has anti-semitism and transphobia present within the game. If we were to make Sanji's situation similar it'd be like Sanji's recipe is deceptively good, though making the dish will harm the kitchen staff due to how it's made. Any dish of this served has to pay Sanji a small fee, and the dish has to be stated that it is in fact made by Sanji. All money Sanji gets will be used to creep on women. This dish is very much not needed for anything but enjoyment too! It does beg a question that if you can put something above something else. Such as a form of entertainment/enjoyment over the safety and wellbeing of a group of people. I myself wouldn't support Sanji or JKR in these scenarios, and whether anyone else does is up to them. They can and should be judged on their decision though, because it is a very well make or break decision in my books.

I'm really glad you enjoyed G8. Sadly, One Piece only goes downhill from here.

G8+1