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You know, a couple years ago, I tried to read One Piece. The pictures were way too cartoonish and exaggerated for me, the main character was a total retard, and the storyline seemed totally stupid.
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maldoror_gw started writing Zoro/Sanji.
Curse her.
So I tried again.
The art style is still horribly exaggerated and cartoonish to the point that it fucks anatomy rules sideways in the ear with astounding regularity. The main character is still a total retard. The storyline is still full of "oh, RIGHT, like this is in any way, shape or form, believable or likely." And on top of that, the quality of the scans I found is so horrendous I can't tell what's going on sometimes, the translations are awkward, and I had to download it chapter after chapter (there's 436 of them) because no one was thoughtful enough to make batches, or if they did I can't find them. And on top of THAT, two of the main cast -- Usopp of the Pointy Nose and Chopper the chibi-reindeer doctor -- have such a ridiculous character design and concept I want to cringe and bitchsap them into oblivion.
I'm on chapter 322.
I can't put it down.
Usopp and Chopper's stories made me cry. Fuckers. Sanji's story made me cry even worsebecause he's prettier. I love Zoro, and Nami, and Robin, and yes, even the main character, even despite his particularly spectacular shounen-hero-retardation. I keep grinning like a loon and cheering every time they manage to somehow save the day when it wasn't saveable. At all. Ever. We think Naruto's got a jesus-complex? HAH. Luffy is a walking Deus ex Machina. And yet it still makes me happy.
I don't even care about pairings and who's with who and what the fuck ever, because they're a crew and they trust and love each other and they all fit even when they're squabbling and I'm lapping it up and they all should have a friendly orgy. (but not Chopper because he's a baby. ;_;)
And the ludicruously ugly is still ugly. But even though the body proportions might be fucked in the ear regularly, the sense of dynamic movement makes it feel good, baby.
I feel dirty.
*goes and reads another chapter*
Then
maldoror_gw started writing Zoro/Sanji.Curse her.
So I tried again.
The art style is still horribly exaggerated and cartoonish to the point that it fucks anatomy rules sideways in the ear with astounding regularity. The main character is still a total retard. The storyline is still full of "oh, RIGHT, like this is in any way, shape or form, believable or likely." And on top of that, the quality of the scans I found is so horrendous I can't tell what's going on sometimes, the translations are awkward, and I had to download it chapter after chapter (there's 436 of them) because no one was thoughtful enough to make batches, or if they did I can't find them. And on top of THAT, two of the main cast -- Usopp of the Pointy Nose and Chopper the chibi-reindeer doctor -- have such a ridiculous character design and concept I want to cringe and bitchsap them into oblivion.
I'm on chapter 322.
I can't put it down.
Usopp and Chopper's stories made me cry. Fuckers. Sanji's story made me cry even worse
I don't even care about pairings and who's with who and what the fuck ever, because they're a crew and they trust and love each other and they all fit even when they're squabbling and I'm lapping it up and they all should have a friendly orgy. (but not Chopper because he's a baby. ;_;)
And the ludicruously ugly is still ugly. But even though the body proportions might be fucked in the ear regularly, the sense of dynamic movement makes it feel good, baby.
I feel dirty.
*goes and reads another chapter*
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Well, I've no problem with it art-wise. A little cartoony, yes (wth Luffy has Homer Simpson eyes) but I always admire the amount of energy and passion he's able to convey. Dynamic fight perspectives pwn me like a pwned thing. And heartstrings. Ow. I never knew I could resonate with characters drawn with snot pouring out their noses. I cried over the goddamn ship too. And the reindeer. And the whale. I EVEN HAD A SOFT SPOT FOR MR 2. wth, I am such a wuss.
What puts me off after a few arcs (and I'm nearing the end of my thether with this arc) is the miniscule crumbs of plot we get after MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS OF RETARDED SHOUNEN ADVENTURE. There's NO CLUE about what/where/who the One Piece is, after all this time. All the adventures are just that: just adventures with little or nearly no tie to the main goal... whatever the main goal may be. The most we get are little tantalizing hints about Shanks/Head of Marines/Blackbeard/Luffy's family which as of now AFTER 300 CHAPTERS still don't correlate into anything. About the only vague connection I'm able to make is that the way to the One Piece is paved by fighting off more and more powerful bad guys. If that's all there is to it, I'm going to be so painfully disappointed. D:
There's also hardly any clue about how the characters evolve. They just spontaneously develop new techniques in the heat of battle (like Luffy in this past arc wth), or its implied that they've evolved but we don't get to see it despite the timeline's steady continuity.
Having said that, ironically enough the things that put me off One Piece draw me back to it after a bit. It's so retardedly simple and lacks intrigue and mind-scratching-- it's the best thing to read when I'm in the mood for nothing but funny hijinks, violence, happy endings and overall straight-forwardness.
end rant! At any rate, I'm still glad that you've gotten into OP. It just shows that there are others out there like me and I'm not such a hopeless freak as I supposed I was. XD
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Well, if it helps any, Oda's said he wants to drag it out to 1000 chapters. :D So at 300 chapters it's not quite even a third of the way through.