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MrDollarBills wrote:Oh yeah, I've heard the same. The world building and level of planning the author put into One Piece is without peer.
j4remi wrote:DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:I'm a big Rogue One guy. I still need to watch Andor.
I wasn't that interested in it at first, but it's really goodMrDollarBills wrote:Naruto is an amazing story, but the final act left a lot to be desired (and I have my theories on that, but I'll save them til you're finished).
I'll probably read One Piece one day in the future whenever it's finished. 1000+ chapters and ongoing is a daunting task
If you're ever interested, the publishers of Naruto/One Piece have an all encompassing app that is like $2 a month and you can read their entire library.
I'm on chapter like 550 of Naruto, so I'm not too far off. It's very good, but I think One Piece is just pretty consistently much better at both the macro story and the individual arcs. Like, it's been said to death at this point, but the worldbuilding in One Piece is really next level compared to Naruto.
After Wano, I put One Piece as the GOAT manga period. I used to have the old Shonen Jump magazines from when those manga first appeared in English. I wish I never lost those. I grew up on a big three of Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach (it's final arc is only just now being animated on Hulu).
If yall like those, the new breed of Shounen manga has a couple of gems worth a look. Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man...those joints are DARK, but really do feel like the next ones up (along with Demon Slayer which I don't rate as highly but is still good).
) DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Oh yeah, I've heard the same. The world building and level of planning the author put into One Piece is without peer.
I think he just has a ridiculous amount of patience, to allow things to progress in the story more naturally so they don't feel rushed while at the same time it doesn't really drag, either
What the anime misses is the cover stories, where what the side characters that are left behind get to do stuff, so we see what's going on in the background.
DOT wrote:j4remi wrote:DOT wrote:I wasn't that interested in it at first, but it's really good
I'm on chapter like 550 of Naruto, so I'm not too far off. It's very good, but I think One Piece is just pretty consistently much better at both the macro story and the individual arcs. Like, it's been said to death at this point, but the worldbuilding in One Piece is really next level compared to Naruto.
After Wano, I put One Piece as the GOAT manga period. I used to have the old Shonen Jump magazines from when those manga first appeared in English. I wish I never lost those. I grew up on a big three of Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach (it's final arc is only just now being animated on Hulu).
If yall like those, the new breed of Shounen manga has a couple of gems worth a look. Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man...those joints are DARK, but really do feel like the next ones up (along with Demon Slayer which I don't rate as highly but is still good).
Bleach is next on my list of manga to read at work. Well, either that or Hunter x Hunter (which I have watched the anime of)
And the rest, I've seen Jujustsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer's anime (and the first episode of Chainsaw Man), but haven't read them. So I can't speak to the manga quality, but I definitely recommend the anime
Frankly, the fact that One Piece is still putting out consistently good stuff after over 20 years is insane. I still think Eneis Lobby is the peak, but Wano is right up there with it, and Egghead's off to a real strong start.
MrDollarBills wrote:Are We Ther Yet wrote:My brother got me into the Clone Wars series and now watching the Bad Batch series. I always liked Star Wars but...this shyt Dave Filoni is doing really opens up the entire universe and gives a lot of detailed back story on everything. It makes the movies so much better. It also makes me mad that they didn't get to do the last three movies because...those were pretty lame in comparison. He turned me into a Star Wars nerd now!
I'm waiting for The Acolyte live action series.
RIP mags
DOT wrote:Bleach is next on my list of manga to read at work. Well, either that or Hunter x Hunter (which I have watched the anime of)
And the rest, I've seen Jujustsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer's anime (and the first episode of Chainsaw Man), but haven't read them. So I can't speak to the manga quality, but I definitely recommend the anime
Frankly, the fact that One Piece is still putting out consistently good stuff after over 20 years is insane. I still think Eneis Lobby is the peak, but Wano is right up there with it, and Egghead's off to a real strong start.
MrDollarBills wrote:j4remi wrote:
After Wano, I put One Piece as the GOAT manga period. I used to have the old Shonen Jump magazines from when those manga first appeared in English. I wish I never lost those. I grew up on a big three of Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach (it's final arc is only just now being animated on Hulu).
If yall like those, the new breed of Shounen manga has a couple of gems worth a look. Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man...those joints are DARK, but really do feel like the next ones up (along with Demon Slayer which I don't rate as highly but is still good).
Chainsaw Man is hands down my favorite manga to come out in the last 5 years. The twists and turns are nuts. The anime is absolutely fire too.
These two clips don't even do the series justice. It's insane and they don't censor anything (except for Himeno vomiting in Denji's mouth
I'm also a big Jujutsu Kaisen fan, it reminds me of a cross between Hunter X Hunter and Bleach. I love Demon Slayer as well, the story is simple and straight forward, but it has a lot of heart and empathy in it.
Speaking of Bleach, the Thousand Year Blood War anime has been amazing, it's literally a weekly movie quality event in terms of animation, direction and the music score.
Like you I grew up with Bleach, so to see it get this kind of treatment makes me really happy
MrDollarBills wrote:Hunter X Hunter is my #1 all time favorite. The way the story shifts from one genre to the next seamlessly is really something that I haven't seen anywhere else.
Hunter Exam: Typical anime adventure stuff that gets dark in a hurry
York New City: Organized crime epic
Greed Island: A Japanese RPG game come to life
The Chimera Ants: A Monster Invasion story that is so gruesome you wonder how it even was cleared for younger viewers/readers. They had to shift the air time in Japan to midnight once the anime hit this part of the story.
Chainman Election: A Political intrigue story
Right now the manga is currently being published again weekly (for now. the author's health is really bad so he can't draw it for long periods of time) and the clever story telling hasn't missed a beat.
MrDollarBills wrote:And Oda's patience is insane...he's been drawing the series since '97!
j4remi wrote: I feel like Enies Lobby and Arlong Park are the two that turn readers into lifetime fans most often.
DOT wrote:j4remi wrote: I feel like Enies Lobby and Arlong Park are the two that turn readers into lifetime fans most often.
Arlong Park got me to give it a real shot
Alabasta is when I made up my mind to read it through
Eneis Lobby is what sealed the deal though
Can’t wait til we see Sogeking again though, I wonder what he’s been up to. Weird how Oda hasn’t shown him since Thriller Bark.
And that's just my second favorite moment...because "Nothing happened" happened. j4remi wrote:DOT wrote:j4remi wrote: I feel like Enies Lobby and Arlong Park are the two that turn readers into lifetime fans most often.
Arlong Park got me to give it a real shot
Alabasta is when I made up my mind to read it through
Eneis Lobby is what sealed the deal though
Can’t wait til we see Sogeking again though, I wonder what he’s been up to. Weird how Oda hasn’t shown him since Thriller Bark.
He will be SogeKing of the Giants when they finally go to Elbaf.
"I want to live" was legit the "I'm never missing a weekly chapter" moment and I'm still here like a decade and a half later
Clyde_Style wrote:
Crazy new stop motion animation movie
It's very dark, but often fascinating for the details of the hellscape the director invented
j4remi wrote:I've jacked up my comic collection recently placing last minute bids on comics i wanted off ebay...new collection includes:
Omega Men 3 - the first appearance of Lobo in DC comics
Prince Namor the Sub Mariner 1-4 - A full run of the 80's Namor comic series
Spawn 1 - first print of the original Spawn comic from McFarlane
Long Shot 1-4 - The first appearances of Longshot, MoJo, Spiral, and the MoJoVerse...some of my favorite slightly more obscure Marvel mutants
Batman Beyond Unlimited 13 - Not a major key, but it's the first time we see Harley Quinn in the future as an old cussing Grandma with her granddaughters
Mighty Avengers 62 - A 1969 comic that features the first appearance of M'baku who I'm spec'ing to take on more roles in the MCU
And a CGC graded 9.4 copy of the Last Ronin issue 1 - A TMNT series set in a future where Shredder has killed all the major characters besides one final Turtle from the crew (part of the fun in the first read is figuring out which turtle was left as remembers how the others passed away).
Clyde_Style wrote:
Crazy new stop motion animation movie
It's very dark, but often fascinating for the details of the hellscape the director invented
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:And Oda's patience is insane...he's been drawing the series since '97!
Every Devil Fruit is titled blank blank No Mi. So the gomu gomu no mi, Yami yami no mi, etc
So a character was revealed a month ago to have the Nomi Nomi no mi. This motherf*cker had that one joke lined up for 25 god damn years.
MrDollarBills wrote:I actually did try to get into One Piece during when the Impel Down Arc was being published but i got overwhelmed. My last memory was one of the big ass pirate dudes dying on their feet.
j4remi wrote:DOT wrote:Bleach is next on my list of manga to read at work. Well, either that or Hunter x Hunter (which I have watched the anime of)
And the rest, I've seen Jujustsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer's anime (and the first episode of Chainsaw Man), but haven't read them. So I can't speak to the manga quality, but I definitely recommend the anime
Frankly, the fact that One Piece is still putting out consistently good stuff after over 20 years is insane. I still think Eneis Lobby is the peak, but Wano is right up there with it, and Egghead's off to a real strong start.
Bleach has the best art of the big three, and I don't think its title-panels get enough credit for how immaculate the artwork is. The story gets a raw deal because it lost momentum in the final two arcs...but it's DEFINITELY worth a read and I think it's become underrated over time.
The cool part about JJK, Demon Slayer, and CSM are that their animes feel like they're elevating the source material. You still get more information from the manga versions, but the anime have taken incredible action sequences and turned them up a notch. That's basically the opposite of anime like Record of Ragnarok and Kengan Asura which Netflix put out...those have better manga action sequences which is too bad.
One Piece is unlike any other piece of literature I've read and I'm a freakin' geek for comics, anime, manga, novels, all of it. There's a real sense that the entire world keeps moving after you leave an island. The way characters reappear, title stories that expand the world, and the payoffs YEARS in the making are legendary. I play with theories all the time because Oda gives us so much to run with. Enies Lobby is one of a handful of arcs that I think can argue for the best in series (Marineford, Wano, Enies Lobby, and Alabasta). I feel like Enies Lobby and Arlong Park are the two that turn readers into lifetime fans most often.
