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The Mike Toole Show - Club Hosoda

and Nadja 26 is such a beautiful episode. when people take screenshots and gifs of that show, they mostly take them from that episode.

Seriously why isn't that 6th film here?

Funimation is in charge in One Piece and has done each of the Hosoda films so far. More than likely going to do the next.

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it.

Really? Film Z was that good? I thought it had boring villains and a rote plot. What did you think was good about Film Z? This is honestly interesting to me, I'm not being sarcastic.

I definitely prefer Hosoda's film, which I thought really captured the humor of One Piece in its first half, while racking up the tension in its second half.

It's amazing because the Baron is the only villain, canon or otherwise, to actually defeat the Straw Hats.*



*spoiler[Kuma didn't defeat them, he saved them.]

I've never seen the American dubs of Digimon's movies but did they really combine 3 separate movies into one? That sounds absolutely horrible and a complete mess. How did they do it? I know the dub itself was terrible and full of jokes but that sounds like they went the extra mile to annoy people.

As far as long shounen goes. I never understood the hate they get here at ANN from the staff. Do they feel intellectual superior and above watching 'generic shounen', whatever that term is supposed to mean? Or is it really just the episode length? Length has never bothered me about a series. I always wish a series got more episodes, never less. I'm also up to date on Detective Conan, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pocket Monsters and shounen are some of my favorite series each week to watch. I never saw how catching up to them is an intimidating task unless someone expects to do it in a single week.

I honestly feel like you've never watched One Piece. Considering that unlike all the other long-running series you listed, OP has always had an ending planned out, and (aside from a surprisingly scant amount of filler) has continually been about moving forward towards that ending. Every arc adds new detail to the world and complexity to a constantly coalescing story, one that just happens to be a long, immersive, and detailed complete story. This is in comparison to DB, Naruto, and especially Bleach, where its so much easier to tell that the authors rarely thought ahead beyond whatever arc they were currently working on. Why you even have Conan and OP in the same sentence here especially confuses me, since Conan is almost a completely episodic show, which is the exact opposite of OP.

I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you sir. The destination and goals of One Piece has been made clear since the beginning of the series. Luffy declares in the very first chapter of the manga that he is going to become the Pirate King, and if you watch enough of the first quarter of the series, One Piece is located on Raftel, which is not really a secret to anyone now.

The problem is though, while they hardly ever do full-on filler episodes... once you get past a certain point, around episode 200 or so, the anime's pacing becomes pretty much 1-1 with the manga-chapters. And when they have to make a 21-minute episode out of 18 pages of manga, (sometimes even less than that... Lately they've been breaking up chapters in the anime and covering it at a roughly, oh... 3/4 of a chapter per episode ratio) naturally there ends up being a lot of padding. Admittedly, it's still far less padded than Dragon Ball Z at its worst, but just because we haven't had a full-fledged filler-arc lasting longer than 5 episodes since 2007, that doesn't mean that the One Piece anime is well-paced... Actually I sort of feel like having full-fledged filler-arcs would lead to the actual canon material being better... but with how long Oda's story-arcs are getting and how closely linked they are, I realize that this wouldn't really be possible without going the route of "Yeah, the main story continues and our heroes are right in the middle of a huge conflict... BUT NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO A PREVIOUS POINT AND FOCUS ON SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNRELATED FOR HALF A YEAR!"

A lot of the best parts were about Z himself since it mostly expects you to already be familiar with the rest of the cast. I think it did a good job of giving Z understandable motives even though he was the villain. spoiler[His death and his crew's reaction to it was especially good]. It did slow down a bit during the middle, but the fight scenes near the end made up for it. It also had really good animation and I like that style way more than Hosoda's film. Also, seeing an attack called "Sexy Fire" is just hilarious.

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A lot of the best parts were about Z himself since it mostly expects you to already be familiar with the rest of the cast. I think it did a good job of giving Z understandable motives even though he was the villain. spoiler[His death and his crew's reaction to it was especially good]. It did slow down a bit during the middle, but the fight scenes near the end made up for it. It also had really good animation and I like that style way more than Hosoda's film. Also, seeing an attack called "Sexy Fire" is just hilarious.

That would make it pretty horrible as an introductory piece.

Some One Piece fans do think it can be a good introduction to the series. I would disagree. I think Strong World would've been better for it, but even that requires you know the history of the world of One Piece, as its opening scene shows Garp and Sengoku getting attacked in the past without any context. It does actually bother to introduce viewers to the Straw Hats though.

Based on my experiences though, fans tend to be terrible at deciding what to show interested newcomers.

I wonder how the folks at Ghibli feel about Hosoda now. As their star is setting his is still rising, and he may well inherit Miyazaki's mantle as Japan's premiere director of big-budget family anime -- even without taking over Studio Ghibli.