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>> The God
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>> Anonymous
You'll be hard pressed to find a frutier anime. I mean I could even swallow PPGZ, but this shit...
>> Toylet
>>144013

This is why I hate people who don't know anything.
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lulz.

If you've read the manga far enough to know who all of those people are in the OP's wall, you'd know that unlike PPGZ, the guy that does OP has managed to create so many dynamic, believable characters. He exploits the "everyone has a story" concept, but he does it so well. Not only that, but he repeatedly does it with the characters you think you're going to hate. When I first started reading the series, I expected Nami to be the mandatory female with no actual deptyh, Chopper to be reminiscent of Shippou, and Usopp to just be fukken annoying as all hell. Just with those three examples, over time I was proven wrong, especially with Usopp. He didn't grab me at first, but eventually his developments in Arlong Park and Water Seven caught me.
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I started out loving Usopp and grew to love him as a character even more as time went on. I just always loved the original concept of him -- a liar who wishes he could be the person he makes up stories about.
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it's a shame most people never even make it to arlong park because they write off the series as being childish.
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>>144020

This Anonymous speaks truth. Arlong Park is where the series really hits it's stride, and you realize that it's not the same old bullshit.

>>144018

That is one of the most amazing walls I've seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing that.
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>> Anonymous
So is the anime as good as the manga, and if so, which should I get first?
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>>144035

Both are good. It's one of the few series where the anime does a really good job with the source material. Sure, there are some painful fillers, but I think it balances out with the fight scenes. In my opinion, the fights are handles a lot better in the anime. The manga has fights lasting around 30 or 40 chapters, which is ridiculous when you have to wait to read it each week, and the anime covers the same thing in an episode or two.

None of the emotion or characterization is lost in the translation. It's really up to you which you would prefer to get first. The manga is faster (obviously) but I religiously get both, and love it.
>> Anonymous
God bless Eiichiro Oda.
>> Anonymous
One Piece is a superior anime. Easy-to-follow, simple plot that doesn't have a half life of 1 season. And awesome drawings.
>> Anonymous
>>144075
The plot is actually pretty deep. They just present it in an easy flowing way. But really underneath it all a shitload of stuff is going on and has in the history.
>> Anonymous
i enjoyed the anime up until alabasta when they screwed around with ace's introduction. up until that point, they had done a great job being faithful to the manga.
>> Anonymous
>>144025
Sadly enough though, the Series hits the shit with the Skypiea-Arc. I'm glad that the Water Seven/Enies Lobby-stuff is fukken awesome, it's probably the most awesome thing Oda could've done to pull it back up. Especially Usopp's developement is awesome, as it does feel natural and not like "Omg he is teh supar Sogeking now and his skill increezes by 100000%"-DBZ-ish shit.
>> Anonymous
The only anime i bother keeping up with nowadays
>> gundrake
>>144013
>this man watched 4kidstv's onepiece and also only watches dub animes and thinks there amazing.
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>> Anonymous
Anybody who hasn't read or watched up through Arlong Park has no idea what he's talking about when he criticizes One Piece. It's that simple.
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>>144013
Watch some subs. Seriously, 4Kids ruined the series for the US.
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Goal? Dont funk.
>> Anonymous
This anime keeps getting better. I like how the villains are now starting to reflect modern conspiracy theory subjects:

World Government = New World Order
Five Elder Stars (those old guys) = Illuminati
CP9 = MI6, Delta Force
Void Century = Global Conspiracy/Coverup