Tag: One Piece
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One Piece chapter 1155 review
Twenty-eight years. Ain’t that something. Makes you wonder what you could achieve working nonstop on one project for that long. As is traditional, we get a Jump cover and a colour spread. The sense of scale and level of detail in the cityscape for the colour spread is awesome even if there’s not a lot…
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One Piece chapter 1154 review
We’re truly moving into the endgame with this one. This is the first possible end point for volume 113, and while that would make a pretty short volume, it’s a huge reveal to use for the final cliffhanger. Even the cover story is building into something promising with (maybe) the long-awaited reveal of Ryuma’s shrine.…
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One Piece chapter 1153 review
Our flashback is chugging a long at a fairly pleasing pace. Harald’s story plays out fast enough that we didn’t have to wait long for the real key figures of Hajrudin and Loki to turn up. The same can maybe not be said for Yamato’s cover story, which now feels like it’s running down a…
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One Piece chapter 1152 review
Oh damn, flashback’s on! And sooner than I expected. Let’s take a minute to think about why it’s been placed like it is. Oda likes to use flashbacks to build into a moment of catharsis or emotional payoff, and usually that means setting them up at the darkest hour. Right when Bonney’s about to be…
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One Piece chapter 1151 review
Alright, slightly softer week following two big ones. That’s fair. With maybe three or four chapters to go in volume 113, it’s worth taking the time to get everyone aligned and where they need to be for the climax. Yamato’s cover story lingers, but at least it means we get a Kawamatsu cameo. Given Yamato’s…
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One Piece chapter 1150 review
I said I couldn’t wait, but now that I have this chapter, there’s an oddly bittersweet about something as endgame as a prospective final boss’s powers being revealed. Not just because it means the ending is creeping closer, but because how risky this kind of escalation ends up being. There’s an obvious storytelling need to…
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One Piece chapter 1149 review
Wow, hey, I didn’t see that coming. And in fairness, I play it fairly safe as far as theorycrafting goes. The conventions of storytelling – the structure of rising and calling arcs of action and character growth, the long and short term pacing, the way foreshadowing is doled out – all are the way they…
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One Piece chapter 1148 review
Highs and lows this week with a great scene for Robin but the regeneration problem seeming to be solved in the least interesting way. There’s still time to right the ship on that second one, but we’ll get there when we get there. The Holy Knights are moving around pretty quickly between chapters here, Gunko…
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One Piece chapter 1147 review
On my first quick readthrough, I thought this looked like a bit of a bridging chapter, but rereading and taking down notes scene by scene I found a pretty decent amount of meat on its bones. Not much new in the cover story, except in the background, is that a random samurai claiming Who’s Who’s…
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One Piece chapter 1146 review
Whew, I’d really hoped to get through this before the next chapter’s spoilers dropped, but life just gets in the way sometimes. Hoping to be back to a degree of normalcy next week. Good to have One Piece back from its break in this busy time though, and I’m happy to be getting (at least…
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