Tag: Review
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One Piece chapter 1196 review
This is one of those ones that feels very much worth the wait. It’s amazing how Oda can make Sanji swing from being one of my least liked to most liked Strawhats with a single chapter of focus. The perv jokes will always make me roll my eyes, but the stuff at the heart of…
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One Piece chapter 1195 review
This is starting to feel a bit more like it, isn’t it? Seventeen pages, five different scenes, a big lore tease and the actual feeling of a forward step. With five chapters to go to the big chapter 1200 I’m hoping this is the point where we see things properly ramp up. Zoro and Sommers…
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One Piece chapter 1194 review
Even I don’t know how much I can realistically yap about this one. It’s rare for Oda to go this light on content for a chapter, preferring scene changes and clustering in events back to back to back so it feels like the situation is shifting rapidly. Some say that style can be hard to…
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One Piece chapter 1193 review
Oda threw me a little bit by holding the shot on the Imu fight for longer than I expected, letting the heroes have just a bit more time with the upper hand, but we’re finally shifting into the disadvantage state into crew fights cutaway phase of the traditional structure. Loki switching to hybrid mode is…
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One Piece chapter 1192 review
Fifteen pages and it’s mostly action. These kinds of chapters are sometimes necessary to make a bigger fight feel fleshed out (or make sure the right scene arrives on the right milestone), but they can definitely make for thin-feeling weekly discussions. Unfortunately, we open on a loss that should be a win. I actually really…
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One Piece chapter 1191 review
Another Jump cover that doesn’t show Imu? Fine, we’re celebrating Luffy’s WT100 win. Makes sense, but such a foregone conclusion I could have lived without a whole cover dedicated to it. I hope we don’t have to wait for the vol 116 drop (in presumably the ballpark of November) to see Imu’s colours. And speaking…
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The Canon Colours of One Piece ep. 3: Syrup Village
Another break week video on colours! Losing my mind over boots, bags, slingshots and of course the Merry’s figurehead.
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One Piece chapter 1190 review
It’s starting to feel very end-of-volume over here, isn’t it? Especially considering that if we end here, the big chapter 1200 and whatever Oda has planned for it could potentially be the finale of volume 117. There’s not much particularly surprising in this chapter as far as story development goes, but Oda manages to make…
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One Piece chapter 1189 review
It’s really getting grim now, and with the end of volume 116 potentially just a chapter or two away, this one marks an inflection point for the series’ tone. Things are set to get even worse with a wounded mentor figure leaping into the fight; and while it wouldn’t totally be in Oda’s typical style…
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One Piece chapter 1188 review
Holy shit, what a chapter. You can’t even get too analytical about a thing like this, it’s just great action and a huge story beat. I think the Jump cover and colour spread here are very nice bits of art (I’m understating it, the colour spread is gorgeous), but they don’t really scream anniversary to…
