Tag: Review
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The Great Big Egghead Review
Over about a week, I reread the whole Egghead arc, start to end, going about a volume at a time. I’m going to be very curious to see the blind reactions from people who catch up from this point on and experience the whole thing blind, because it is so hard to believe this is…
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One Piece chapter 1130 review
What a place to leave off before a two week break. As expected, we have actually arrived in Elbaph and man, the art is worth the years of build-up. This is also the ninth chapter of volume 111, making it the book’s first possible stopping point. It would be a short volume, with a number…
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One Piece chapter 1129 review
The mini mystery of the last couple of chapters will be a footnote in One Piece’s run – likely to be resolved in a matter of minutes by all future readers as the answer isn’t even going to be broken up between volumes – but it’s a great show of Oda’s willingness to keep arcs…
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One Piece chapter 1128 review
I’m still editing the full Egghead review I pitched after the last chapter. I ended up having a lot of thoughts and real life has been busy, but it’s coming. Meanwhile, we’ve got a packed early arc chapter to play with here. It’s fun to see how everyone was a little right and a little…
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One Piece chapter 1127 review
New arc is a go… but things aren’t feeling quite right here. I’m not usually one to get on board with conspiracy theories – sometimes a weird detail is just something Oda threw in because he thought it would be fun or funny, not the key to unraveling the plot; sometimes an inconsistency is legitimately…
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One Piece chapter 1126 review
After like four more chapters of Egghead loose ends than expected, I think we can finally call the transition to an Elbaf arc complete. But we still spend most of the chapter on things that follow up past arcs. Shanks has been waiting to check Barto off his to-do list since Wano, the Blackbeard sections…
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One Piece chapter 1125 review
One Piece arcs have slow and bloated midsections that can be difficult to sit through week to week. This is nothing new; we’ve been doing this dance since Skypiea. But it’s the endings, the post-arc lore bombs like this, that make it all worthwhile. Now, I don’t want to toot my own horn too much,…
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One Piece chapter 1124 review
Egghead lingers on for one last coda, but it’s worth staying for, closing those last few emotional openings that we’d all been wondering about. But there’s kind of not a lot to say about it. The things that happen pay off the arc’s buildup in ways that make sense, and they all work well in…
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One Piece chapter 1123
The idea of arcs and sagas as a two-tier approach to story structure exists mostly in fan wikis rather than officially released material, but it was an effective way to show how a lot of the overarching pre-timeskip stories came together over multiple islands. Post-timeskip, that model became largely irrelevant as everything started to point…
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One Piece chapter 1122 review
See, all you people who ask why we don’t see more of Smoker, all you have to do to make him appear is write a decade-long bestselling rival manga. If you wanted it that bad you’d be doing it already, so get cracking! In all actual seriousness though, Hero Aca had a strong run and…
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