It foreshadows the concept of Luffy losing his crewmates right before Water 7/Enies Lobby and oh boy does it pay off. Also the Davy Back Fight could mean a lot later...
The epitome of 'now fellas, listen...' She ain't a 'hear me out' because she's a traditionally attractive girl/woman, but she's so shitty..shifty... there needs to be a little bit of an explanation
The amazing thing for me about Ace's death is that it's a reverse fake out. Instead of "oh, this character died... just kidding!" it was the opposite. I KNEW because of spoilers that Ace dies in Marineford, and when they uncuff him and he starts setting the world on fire I actually started thinking that maybe the spoilers were fake. It was so well done that it undid the spoiler. That has never happened before or since for me. One Piece is great.
@@brianyaniro5086my friend got spoiled and was like "does ace die?" When we were at impel down, and I told him it was a fandom in joke fake spoiler and he didn't believe me. Then ace got freed and I was like "dude I told you bro" and he was over the moon. Felt a bit mean doing it but I'm not letting him get spoiled lol
I really, really thought he wouldn't die because of Pell and all that stuff. To the last second I was like, no way, Oda wouldn't do that. I didn't even care that much about Ace. So when he died it hit me like a ton of bricks and Ace immediately became one of my favorite characters. Now I'm the person writing fix-it fics where he doesn't die, lol.
yes, truly one of the peaks. Oda really dropped the ball giving kinemon thirty plus death flags in wano and not following through, now whenever a beloved character is near death everyone knows no one is in any real danger. I wonder how there will be any real tension in the later arcs when he did wano like this, two of the strongest pirates in the verse usurped with no real consequences, just fifty false death flags over a hundred chapters, yikes
I hard agree on so much of the ranking but I think Amazon Lily deserves a revisit! the lore drop with how Boa and her sisters were treated is great, and also the part where luffy refuses to let anyone see their back is sooo good
Plus, it's important because it's the first time we see a Warlord actually actively defy the Navy. And, barring Mihawk (who was just kinda given a rival role to Zoro), she's the first Warlord we see actually support Luffy. And seeing her interactions both on the Navy ship and at Impel Down do a nice job of illustrating the tenuous relationship between the World Governments and Warlords.
I fully agree with the opinion that Arlong Park is the best litmus test for if someone would like One Piece or not. If seeing the gang square up to fight Arlong after Nami breaks down doesn't send a shiver of excitement through you, you're not going to fully enjoy the next 1,000 episodes.
I'm curious if you could catch up on most of the good stuff by just watching the top 7 arcs of the show in chronological order, and then throwing in some episodes/ arcs that describe back stories and character development. What do you guys think?
@@carsonrush3352 I feel some things would get lost trying it that way. What would probably be the best alternative would be the One Pace project, which is a fan project where they cut out the filler stuff, shaving off a significant part of the runtime. Alternatively in the future, there's going to be a new anime that's closer in line with the manga called "The One Piece", but no release date for that's been set.
@carsonrush3352 the problem is, everyone has a different top 7 arcs of onepiece. You may love an arc that someone else hated. Also, if you don't want to watch a show in its entirety, I don't think you should be watching that show at all. Ofc you may look back saying "yeah that part I should have skipped because I didn't enjoy it" but you can't know that unless you watch it.
On the night that I reached Water 7 when watching One Piece for the first time, I called in sick for work and watched it non stop until like 11am the next day
Agreed! I was watching it dubbed(yes you can judge me and no I don't care) and ended up switching over to subbed because I had caught up on dubbed and desperately needed to know what happens next. Absolutely my favorite arcs of the show
Finally someone putting some respect on my boy Bege's name. He was such a nothing character until wholecake and I ended up falling in love with his crew. So strangely wholesome
I do have a level of respect for som1 who can turn their useless fodder crew into their strength, now Law if only u could do that, granted i feel like his fodder crew is a cut above the rest, but fodder is still fodder
Sabaody is a top 5 arc for me. The pacing is insane and there's so much cool stuff around every corner. Duval (top 3 jokes in the story for me), Hachi return, Celestial Dragon debut, we meet all 9 supernovas, Rayleigh reveal, Roger lore drop, Kizaru, Pacifista debut, Kuma separating the strawhats, the Celestial Dragon punch, and the first hint of Luffy's real dream
Same here. Everything Sabaody-related I just love. It was the beginning of starting to understand how wide the world was with these other major rookies also experiencing their adventures. Understanding just how twisted the One Piece world is with the slavery and racism. Followed by very very real consequences for them at the end of the arc and Luffy’s hopelessness. Woof.. god, it’s good.
The “I want to live” scene will always make me cry. If I even think about it I tear up. The other scene that breaks me is Luffy realizing he still has his crew as he counts them out on his fingers
Me forgetting that ProZD is a voice actor, and he actually *played* the voice of Cat Viper?! Like, I think I remember seeing his voice acting reel videos, but I hadn't caught up with One Piece at that point, so it didn't sink in for me. Now I have, and I see this and I'm like "you were Cat Viper?!?!" 🤣
@@imac5834 nah, like. I get it, Sanji is my least favorite Straw Hat (because SOMEBODY'S got to hold last place) and I don't necessarily like any of his later shenanigans, but his writing was done particularly heinous by the inclusion of him 'always wanting the Clear-Clear Fruit since he was a child, purely to spy on women'. that's an extremely tasteless gag at best, and outright reprehensible of our so-called Chivalrous Womanizer at worst.
The WAY Oda can still give us such excellent moments that connect all the way back and always feel like "Now this is the peak of hype" is insane to me , starting OP the best decision in my entertainment space.
You're welcome 0:30 Amazon lily arc 0:46 Reverse mountain 1:02 Syrup village 1:41 Cover stories 2:22 Jaya 2:35 Orange town 3:01 Fishman Island 3:20 Romance Dawn 3:34 Whiskey peak 4:02 Punk hazard 4:20 Long ring long land 4:44 Thriller bark 5:31 Reverie 6:07 Skypiea 7:07 Dressrosa 8:04 Zou 8:35 Sabaody archipelago 9:03 Loguetown 9:25 Baratie 9:54 Little garden 10:22 Drum island 11:16 Whole cake island 12:03 Egghead 12:40 Alabasta 13:08 Wano 13:52 Arlong park 14:53 Water 7 +Enies lobby 16:13 Impel down + Marineford comment if i got anything wrong
@@Kishinooit’s great but at least 30% longer than it needed to be. There was so much stalling and repetitive exposition (mostly telling us the same stuff we already heard about oden 80,000 times and only rarely adding new info)
In defense of that Usopp scene from Dressrosa. You have to remember that when Robin is turned into a toy it also erases her memory from anyone that knows her. So when Robin is turned into a toy, Usopp no longer remembers Robin and has NO reason to stick around in that factory.
My top two arcs are WCI and Enies Lobby. They're the peak of Pre and Post timeskip to me. They also have the common thread of rescuing someone who doesn't want to be rescued and that's just a situation that I love seeing the Strawhats in because their characters just hit so hard (Arlong Park also hits for the same reasons)
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Going Merry when you talked about Enies Lobby. That was one of the biggest moments for me realizing how good this series was when I was crying over a ship dying.
You put the picture of Usopp running away from Sugar as something that was painful and while you're right I feel like it should be pointed out that his new confidence was born from Sogeking who only existed because of Robin, so having Robin be turned into a toy and Usopps memories of her erased would defacto make him a coward again
Putting aside how horribly reductive it is to claim Usopp is a pure coward without the Sogeking persona, the erasure of Robin from his memories wouldn't have even erased Sogeking. He just wouldn't remember the original reason why they went to Enis Lobby.
Really dislike how much this theory has been spread. People say it as a defense of his character, but in reality it's insulting to Usopp and the many instances of bravery he had shown both before and after the events of Enies Lobby. Plus the original Sogeking wasn't invented to boost his confidence, it was just his way of justifying helping out the crew without technically rejoining them.
@@NinjaPopeXueAbsolutely, Usopp knew he wanted to help but didn't want to bring up any of the awkward feelings about the disagreement with Luffy. He was definitely brave enough by default.
Never read the manga, but I can vouch that in the anime I couldn’t stand how long Skypeia was. The theme and characters were cool, but I fell in and out of One Piece for about a year while trying to get through it…
I had the same experience. I remember watching about 5 episodes a day but around the time they had to fight the ball guy I struggled to get to the climax.
God, I always feel so vindicated that other people hate Syrup Village as well. That was the first big wall for me when starting One Piece way back when, I think part of it is that Luffy/Zoro/Nami feels like a whole unit, and obviously still does when you add both Usopp and Sanji, but when it's just the 4 of them minus Sanji, it feels like something's missing. That's why I personally would rank Baratie higher. I feel like it's the first really creative setting in the series, in that it isn't just another island, plus introducing Sanji rounds out the main cast that (if you're watching the anime), you've been seeing in the opening for two dozen episodes already. t's also the first time one arc bleeds into the next and makes the story start to feel a bit bigger than it was. Krieg is definitely forgettable and it makes sense that they could skip him in the LA without losing much of substance. Couldn't tell you about the pacing asit's been a while for me, but hey, maybe it does drag.
Yea, Syrup Village is rough. Even in the Netflix show it felt like those were the weakest episodes (though it might be my opinion of the original arc influencing me).
What really hurts Syrup Village is that early Usopp is such a hateable character. Without the growth in his skillset with his tools, his inspiration by the giants, and Chopper being there to round out the weakling trio, he's just an arrogant, lying jackass and remains as such for the next several dozen episodes.
The LA lost a ton of substance by removing Krieg. No Krieg meant no Gin, Sanji felt flat, there were simply no stakes at Baratie. Krieg was the first rough battle Luffy had to go through, Zeff's narration added to the moment (if you know you know), and this is when Sanji realizes what kind of man Luffy is. The punch to the spike shield...
I feel like people don’t bring up the Ussop versus Perona fight enough. That fight is written perfectly and it gives Ussop such a great shinning moment.
Perfect timing! I quite literally just caught up to present (in the manga) after starting the show back in 2020. Had to speed run Dressrosa to present in approximately two months due to a trip I was taking to Tokyo and I was told I was in danger of being severely spoiled. For the last 4 years, outside of 2 close friends of mine, I shielded myself from ALL One Piece web content for fear that the algorithm would feed me unsolicited One Piece videos and ads. So every single one of your One Piece related videos, I've sadly skipped. So I'm so happy to start with this one and then work my way through your past videos and watch those too!
One Piece holds the record for making me cry like a baby in almost every ark. Till this day if I see certain scenes in TikTok like Robin’s “I want to live “ or Bon Clays last goodbye or Going Merry, I mean it’s waterworks instantly. Thank you Oda for making this masterpiece.
Love One Piece! Love ya ProZD! I do find it a little funny that you stopped watching the anime in Whole Cake yet you are the English Dub voice actor for Cat Viper, lol. He has so many awesome moments in Wano!
4:54, I agree with you on most points you made in this video, but this is just wrong. Brook peaked (SPOILER ALRT) against Big Mom, where he not only called her young, he also 1v1, and seeing as he got the Poneglyph, I would say he won, because that was the objective, and a Yonko couldn't stop him in might a repeat, a 1v1. I think personally, that is where Brook peaked so far.
One piece has made me appreciate long running series. Especially the massive revelations from skypiea and fishman island after the reveals from Egghead. Which now makes fishman island very important, and the whole story is what are calling a modern odyssey as a story like one piece will never happen again.
16:30 THANK YOU. as someone who had LITERALLY the same experience where that character and that fight made me just not care anymore and as someone who has been judged by other fans for YEARS as a result, I feel seen and it's nice to hear someone else say it!
Yeah Skipiea is brutal especially because the set up for it is so exciting that when you have to drag through it it just gets more and more depressing the longer it goes without anything interesting happening. Hopefully if the live action makes it there they can make it as exciting as it deserves to be.
Yep, Dressrosa week to week in the manga was painful. Then the anime was a whole new level of painful. I finished it and watched Zou, but man the thought of starting another monster arc with already slow pacing in Whole Cake made me drop the anime.
yes, i stopped watching one piece altogether after i finished watching whole cake, because i was not going to be suffering from week to week for god knew how many years until wano is finished, and so i waited until i've heard that wano had ended in the anime to get back in, and in about 2 months i binged the almost 200 episodes of wano, those were some freking good 2 months, because even with the abysmal pace, when you have ALL the episodes of the arc at the tip of your fingers, you really doesn't feel it that much, best decision i made, unfortunately i failed to do the same after wano and now i'm fully invested in egghead in the anime, suffering week by week, and right now while writing this comment i remembered this week's episode is filler, i hate my life
There are some parts of Dressrosa that I really liked,seeing Bellamy and Luffy become fast friends,seeing Sabo and how he got his memories back,Laws back story and how much Rosinante meant to him and realizing that Laws crew is named after Rosinante and there pirate flag is also inspired by him.
I straight up don't think I'm watching/reading week to week until the very final Arc. Stopped at Dressrosa right when the crew splits because of pacing, went back after several years and it became like, top 5 maybe top 3 arc for me. Corazon and Kyros are two of the best characters in the entire series
I don't know how it felt to watch it on a weekly basis but I loved binge watching it, way too many epic characters, awesome backstories, it just felt a lot better to watch after punk hazard
Even in just this video of you rapid fire ranking all of the arcs, I manage to get emotional, looking back on the journey of it all. There truly will never be another story like One Piece. I sincerely feel bad for the people who aren't experiencing One Piece as its still ongoing, let alone the people who choose not to experience it at all. Its an unforgettable journey. The experience of a lifetime. An unmatched and unparalleled adventure, featuring the greatest story with the most beloved characters in all of fiction. Its just so, unbelievably perfect. I will be devastated when it reaches its conclusion, but will be eternally grateful to have gone on this journey from beginning to end.
I don’t wanna rain on your parade. But the fact is, what people like and dislike is highly subjective, and they won’t gravitate towards One Piece if they simply don’t like what they see or what is brought up. You can say something like Trigun, or Gurren Lagann the greatest or perfect, and people would believe you because their stories are amazing. Same thing can be said about One Piece or Dragon Ball, but not everyone will believe it because it just doesn’t seem interesting to them no matter how long they do watch it or there are certain things in the story or moments or even something about the characters that bug them. Hell, I’ll be honest, I started getting bored of One Piece in between certain arcs, but got a little into it on certain arcs. Guess preference can also shape what a person believes is great or not. I 1st cried in Arlong Park because of Nami’s backstory. Not all of the arcs managed to make me cry, but it they made me feel a certain type of joy. However, I do agree the One Piece deserves its spot as the Big 3 because it is amazing in its own right, but same could be said for other stories too.
Could be a touch of recency bias there as well, Little Garden just became relevant in the manga again. That said, they're both pretty tight arcs that do some fun set up but mostly hit the main conceit behind One Piece which is just landing at a new place and asking "what's going on here?"
I recently reread Whiskey Peak, and coming off of John Wick 4 and Blue Eye Samurai, I LOVED Zoro fight sequence. Hell, I even enjoyed the fight with Luffy.
As a recent manga only reader, Dessrosa being that low kinda hurts me I was a big fan of it! From a marathon reading perspective Doflamingo is my favorite villain.
The anime arc for Dressrosa is soooooo bad. I consider it borderline unwatchable and that coming from a massive OP fan. The weekly manga experience was also poor from a pacing experience but the arc does have tons of awesome moments and characters that are better consumed in a marathon
I was watching 20 episodes a day while I was on Dressrosa and it felt like I was watching 5 episodes at best. The pacing was.. I have no words for it. I understand why some people have a lower opinion of it
It's definitely a "you had to be there" kinda thing. There's a reason why most One Piece clips on RU-vid are from Dressrosa, it's because Dressrosa WAS One Piece for so, so long.
It's impossible to get through in the anime to no fault of the writing. Imagine watching someone run for a minute straight without saying anything with the same animation cycle. Any action taken was so drawn out it you could literally fall asleep within minutes and they would still be doing the exact same thing.
I think for us fans that were there watching OP weekly during the dressrosa arc, the quality of the anime became so bad that it pretty much became unwatchable. It's still difficult for a lot of people to look fondly at the arc since it was so hard to get through. People's low opinion more about how bad of an experience consuming the arc was versus the actually storytelling which isn't entirely fair but I think fans are just collectively traumatised lmao
It’s wild how much a voice actor can influence your enjoyment of a series. I watched the dub for the first few hundred episodes, and I really disliked alabasta when I watched it because of how cartoonishly evil crocodile sounded. He didn’t come off as menacing at all just goofy, and it really broke my immersion. On the total flip side of this, skypia is one of my favorite arcs in the entire series because of how much the dub voice actor for Enel KILLED his role. His presence on screen was so enormous that enels character alone had me looking past every flaw in skypia because of just how much I enjoyed his character
Before using these timestamps, please read what I wrote at the bottom, just in case 🥰 30. Amazon Lily 0:31 29. Reverse Mountain 0:46 28. Syrup Village 1:03 27. Cover Stories 1:42 26. Jaya 2:23 25. Orange Town 2:38 24. Fishman Island 3:04 23. Romance Dawn 3:21 22. Whiskey Peak 3:33 21. Punk Hazard 4:02 20. Long Ring Long Land 4:20 😎💨 19. Thriller Bark 4:44 18. Reverie 5:30 17. Skypiea 6:09 16. Dressrosa 7:07 15. Zou 8:04 14. "Shabonedy" Archipelago 8:36 13. Loguetown 9:03 12. Baratie 9:25 11. Little Garden 9:55 10. Drum Island 10:23 9. Whole Cake Island 11:17 8. Egghead 12:04 (skipped that bitch 😂 this is what made me want to make this list) 7. Alabasta 12:42 6. Wano 13:09 (Me upon hearing Alabasta "😊". Me when I heard Wano " ". P.S, while trying to skip through this, I saw.. a spolier, but luckily, Crunchyroll ads spoiled it for me LONGG before this video lol) 5. Arlong Park 13:55 4. Water 7 14:55 3. Enies Lobby 15:00 2. Impel Down 16:11 and 1. Marineford 16:11 If you've seen all of One Piece, please watch the full video, start to finish. If not, feel free to use this to skip around and not get spoiled. The most spoilery thing he says (unless he's referring to a specific arc you haven't watched/finished, so Wano and Egghead for me) is, "This kind of moment hits harder, when it happens in a later arc, that I'll get to talking about later"
I just finished Dressrosa and it was good but the pacing was so fucking terrible episodes 726-740 were good and the colosseum were really good but other than that it was a little painful
Gear 5 fundamentally ruins the series for me, I was done at that point. But up to that point I mostly agree with SungWon on everything, the exception being liking Foxxy or that entire arc in any way.
All in all a solid list, only thing I would change is syrup village being dead last. Honestly the weakest arc for me. Egghead could honestly end up at top 5, it's been amazing.
I agree with a majority of your points and rankings, especially on the stuff that drags out. Even kind of quit where you did once with Skypeia. What I love about One Piece is that each of the "major" arcs are like separate genres: Thriller Bark is Horror, Wano is Feudal Japan, Egghead is the Future, Whole Cake Island is a Mafia movie, Fishman Island
I watched only until his jaya placement and wanted to comment the same thing. It is one of my favorite arcs (Blackbeard, begining of Nolands Story, Introduction of the 5 Elders, Doffy / Kuma Walk, The Bellamy fuck Up, way to much good stuff)
Idk he was pretty cool in Wano and then in Egghead I feel like there's a reason he's holding back. [SPOILER WARNING] He's had some good moments in Egghead to balance it out and I think (or hope) there will be a payoff to him seeming to not want to fight (maybe in Elbaf?). His eyebrow has switched sides a couple times in the arc and I think he may be fearing he's losing his emotions. Elbaf would be a good place for the Zoro-Sanji death pact promise to come to fruition as their rivalry mirrors that of Dorry and Brogy. That's just a theory though.
Sanji in Wano is peak though. Yes, the bathhouse peeping is shit, but pretty much everything else he does in the arc (most notably the character development vs Queen) is some of his best stuff in the series IMO
Wano was so long and overblown that I needed to pause One Pice for 2 years, something that never happened in the 8 years before (read it weekly since 2012). Sure, Onigashima is great, but the stuff before is just too much and too boring. Top 6: 1. Water 7/Enies Lobby 2. Sabaody Archipelago 3. Egghead 4. Marineford 5. Impel Down 6. Whole Cake Island
If Water 7 and Enies Lobby feel like one giant arc to you, guess what; You can make it one arc! If the Reverie feels like an incomplete arc you’re allowed to make it part of Wano! I don’t understand the hesitation to consider stories which are sliced up by the SJ official guide one singular arc because you understand it’s dumb. Just say the Water 7 arc is the second longest in the series, dude.
I think wano is way too high on the list. Its SUPER dragged out (and im saying it as a manga reader), and gear 5 felt really deus ex machina. It's not a terrible arc, but imo its not a good one
Happy to hear you talking so passionately about One Piece. Have you auditioned for the live action? You'd be a great addition to the cast. A word of warning about the anime, if you want to go to it to watch Whole Cake, the pacing drags quite a bit at certain points. Alternatively, Egghead has been knocking it out of the park in the anime.
Fishman Island is one of my favorites. I know Hody's kinda lame, but the emotions, imagery, and symbolism make me love it. Top 5 for me. -Nobody is WRONG. Unless your favorite is Whiskey Peak. But yeah, I respect the choices here. Most of the tops are generally in my tops too. Mine (in no order) Wano, Water7/Enies Lobby(as 1), Marineford, Fishman Island, Egghead, Whoke Cake, Alabasta, Arlong Park, Impel Down, and Sabaody Archipelago
My top 5 would be: Sabaody [Bro Rayleigh, Luffy punching a celestial dragon, the supernovas etc probably my favorite overall] Enies Lobby [Robin is officially my third favorite Strawhat aswell as my wife💁♀] Whole Cake [Sanji is my favorite one piece character of course i love this arc and Brook for mvp🙏] Wano [Zoro had me hyped the whole time he was on screen lol] Marineford [Do i even need to say anything?] Dressrosa is a honorable mention because of the storytelling and Doflamingo
Jaya is a bangin arc I have to disagree with you saying its just a transition arc. BB's introduction to this day is iconic, and I like how they differentiate Luffy and BB through food (lol) with the cherry pies. All the Bellamy stuff is top tier; we also get Cricket's introduction, the tease of Sky Island with the ship falling from the sky, what a cool moment. Cricket's dialogue is all very interesting and connects to stuff currently in the manga.. it also connects to Dressrosa with Noland. We learn about his goal, and Noland's story and the southbird stuff which is really cute and fun; a break from the craziness of Bellamy. And of course.. the Bellamy punch, iconic to this day. Last but not least is the introduction of the Gorosei and WB I believe IN THE SAME CHAPTER. It really is a fun arc.
If anyone reading this did what ProZD did and had to switch the the manga, I cannot recommend One Pace highly enough. They fix so many problems and cut out so much useless garbage. I can't imagine having made it through Dressrosa in the vanilla anime, but it was great with One Pace
@@zga042since one piece has a lot of padding in each scene and episode, one pace makes a lot of smaller cuts per episode. Scenes that take 2m in Piece may take 30s in Pace. Filler (that is, anything non-cannon) sometimes is kept if it improves the pacing, is semi cannon (Egghead has some of these moments) or the segment is just too different from cannon to cut without impacting the viewing experience. I’ve been watching Pace from start to end and it’s been a great experience. When I had to switch back to Toei for the end of Skypeia and Arabasta it was so painful. Highly recommend.
@@zga042 What Spebby said is pretty spot it. It cuts out a looooot of fluff like reaction shots and flashbacks that were added to slow the pacing down. More stuff is cut out in newer episodes because the pacing gets worse as the series goes on.
14:22 i told my wife the something similar i said “if you don’t love the straw hats as you get these moments don’t bother cause these moments carry sometimes”
HARD disagree on Syrup Village done better in the show. I understand people not liking the arc, due to Luffy just being incapacitated and streching th outcome, but Ussop's story and relationship with Kaya is probably one of the few canon ships I really like! Also, I like weak characters, that's how you know how much they have growth, not an insane pace. The show just butchered all of Ussop's motivation, the trio who accompained him and abandoned Kaya leaving her by herself (Merry died for some reason) just like his father did to his momma. Also, putting Zoro's backstory there? And skipping Kuro's mistery and double face was so lame.
Just started book 15 (started in February) they are only getting better, it’s crazy. I will be coming back to this video when I reach the latest release 💪.
Thank you for recognizing that Perona carried Thriller Bark. Absalom is the absolute WORST. Terrible character and Sanji’s interactions with him sucked. Like Sanji wasn’t as upset about Nami as he was that Absalom had the pervy devil fruit that he wanted. Like HUH?!
Impel down at #2 tells me you know quality. Its undoubtedly one of if not the most underrated arc. You basically had 4 different settings inside one jail . Magellan as a villain was terrifying , especially because haki was unknown at the time. Buggy and Mr. 2 comedic 's synergy is honestly some of the best in the series . Everything played out in such a non predictable way with even black beard making an appearance …i could go on about so many more positive stuff but yeah if anyone is reading this please go reread/rewatch impel down
6:10 Fully agree, Skypiea has probably one if the single best individual payoff endings to an arc, especially in the anime, when the bell rings, the music, the sound design, it was all so perfect 👌 Although it does suffer a bit from having one of the most annoying villains ever in Satori & his god awful laugh.
I never expected to say that to someone, but... Even though you switched to the manga, you have a very anime-ey perspective, don't you? Of course, the talk about almost every arc dragging gives it away, but the most telling thing to me is picking Arlong Park as the "if you don't get it then you won't get it" arc. There are plenty of people who only get it very late, so it's more common to say Enies Lobby, but if you have to have a different pick, a manga reader is more likely to pick another arc (like Baratie or Drum Island). But Arlong Park just slapped so hard in the anime I understand. There's nothing wrong about that, though I wonder whether your perspective on past and recent arcs is different due to switching. I know that my relationship with the train ride before Enies Lobby is very different between the manga (good) and the anime (neverending).
Say what you will, but I will always put Enies Lobby 1st position of One Piece arcs. Last time each straw hat crew really had its part to play on a same storyline. Robin "I want to live"... Luffy vs Lucci fight... can't top that imo. Just sharing opinions, no offense, nice ranking tho !
Also how do you talk about Fishman Island without talking about the topics of racism once? The introduction of Joy Boy and one of the best flashbacks to this day still... It has a lot of drawn out parts (way more in the anime) but the highs are very high and I think Oda nails racism with Hody's answer of "nothing" just pure hatred.
I think it might be because of its context as a transition arc. It really sets the new status quo where the broader world and its characters become the focus, where before it had been so focused the Strawhats. It's a great are, but it's very different than what people had been enjoying up to that point. I think Marineford does a stronger job of getting people really invested in the non-Strawhats, so Impel Down suffers from the contrast.
I really appreciate how positive you were about the series as a whole. There aren't many people who would say there are parts of even the worst arcs they enjoy. If any one else would have done one of these videos it would have been totally negative until the top ten.
Only an absolute CRIMINAL puts Dressrosa in the bottom half of the list. 本当に？ But I do agree, the anime arc is wayyy too long, the manga is 10000% better
I just got to fish man island and I am scared based on how everyone is making it out lol as one of the worst arcs. MARINEFORD was amazing I also really loved the interactions between Hancock and Luffy during it
Man Thriller Bark at #19 is criminal! So many amazing moments. Zoro's fight against the samurai, the straw hats coming together to beat Oars, Brook's backstory, and of course "Nothing happened". Just iconic.
Sabody is sooo damn low yikes lol too each their own, it’s easily top 3 for me. Supernovas, Rayleigh, kizaru going ham, luffy punching charlos, kuma separating everyone
I will never understand the hype behind Impel Down or Marineford. They are bototm tier for me. Cool characters or whatever, but the Strawhats>>>>> Otherwise pretty great list I mostly agree with.
Watching through Impel Down for the first time while aware of manga current events, I thought "Bon Clay better just fucking die in this arc... because that's the only reason I'll accept for why he doesn't spend the rest of the series on the Sunny where he belongs."
