Forum - View topic

I'm guessing no one here likes One Piece...?

If we're going to go down the One Piece vs. Naruto route (and I don't feel entirely qualified to do so, since I've seen about a quarter as much of Naruto as I have of One Piece), the reason I'd choose One Piece in an instant is that its main cast doesn't sink into that oft-abused shounen standard of good ol' fashioned teenage angst. Naruto's endlessly prattling on about how he's going to be the next hokage (believe it!) and stroking his inferiority complex to Sasuke. Sasuke himself is continually polishing up on his aloof, superior airs and denigrating Naruto (which doesn't even get into the total asshat he becomes later on). And Sakura can seemingly do nothing but fawn over her unrequited love for Sasuke and completely brush aside Naruto's good-hearted attempts at affection. I found the main cast (besides Kakashi, who's just awesome) to be, by and large, rather insufferable...and I only made it 35 or so episodes into the series. I shudder to think what my opinion of them will be when I finally get around to moving further. I actually did skip ahead and watch the climactic fight of the first series (I'm sure you know which one) when it aired on Cartoon Network, and though the animation was jaw-droppingly gorgeous, the whole mess of build-up flashbacks and in-battle posturing just left me rolling my eyes.

But I'd like to add that while I like One Piece a lot, the art style gets kind of distracting sometimes due to its quirkiness(sp?).

Yeah, that was the scene where I fell in love with One Piece, when he puts his hat on Nami's head? Perfect.

Even though I had already fallen in love with the series beforehand, I have to say it was pretty much the same for me. I don't know if I really, truly knew just how much I was going to love this series until I saw that scene, and the scene after that as well. Great stuff.

Actually for me, it's that very art style that 's one of the reasons I like One Piece as much as I do. I just love how it perfectly captures the overall feeling of the series in the first place, and I also feel like it gives a lot of room for a lot of the imaginativety and creativeness about the series as well.

Sakura can seemingly do nothing but fawn over her unrequited love for Sasuke and completely brush aside Naruto's good-hearted attempts at affection.

as for Onepiece,not because I think the artstyle was unique and cartoonish because it's one of the few original animes to use a storyplot about"Pirates" unless you count Peter Pan no Bouken, and unlike most storyarc animes,the Strawhats don't always stay on the same continent land to fight a different villian,like in for example,DBZ fight scenes always take place in the West city region or some other place thats closed to master roshi's house or Goku's house or whatever,but in onepiece,they travel to places like an ice world,dessert world,skypiea,I mean,it's like Oda took ideas from the Mario franchise or something.lol

as for Onepiece,not because I think the artstyle was unique and cartoonish because it's one of the few original animes to use a storyplot about"Pirates" unless you count Peter Pan no Bouken, and unlike most storyarc animes,the Strawhats don't always stay on the same continent land to fight a different villian,like in for example,DBZ fight scenes always take place in the West city region or some other place thats closed to master roshi's house or Goku's house or whatever,but in onepiece,they travel to places like an ice world,dessert world,skypiea,I mean,it's like Oda took ideas from the Mario franchise or something.lol

Oh there's lots of One Piece fans on here if you look hard enough. And guess what? I'm one of 'em! And I believe we did indeed have a thread that discussed the series as of the Funimation dub. Let me see if I can find it........ Ah, here it is!

Anyways, it's a pretty darn shame that this series got really poor treatment over here, otherwise I really think it'd be at least almost as popular as Naruto anyways. It really is up there as one of the all time shounen greats. Personally, I don't really care about how "childish" a series is. I just base how much I like it off of how good it is overall. Thing is, even though it really is quite childish, it's still got a lot for the older audiences to love as well, or at least the "truly" mature anyways. I think it's a very creative and imaginative series with a lot of really fun adventure and exciting epicness. With probably some of the best comic relief of all time as well! In a way, I can almost say it's the crazy, odd, chidlishness about it that I love so much.

And Luffy as the main hero is just awesome! Definitely one of my all-time favorite lead characters. It can also be quite emotionally powerful at times as well, with some of the things that Luffy does for his friends and all the close bonds between the characters.

Pretty much everything I love about a good shounen series, and then some, even if it doesn't have that "cool factor." But I don't know man, it actually can be pretty cool, just in a different way than your typical coolness. And I'm actually starting to realize as I watch the episodes more that it actually does indeed have a much better storyline than I originally thought, it just doesn't get too deep into it yet.

I agree with you 100%! One Piece really is a good series with a great storyline, and for all you naysayers, One Piece is getting higher ratings in Japan than Naruto Shippuuden. As proof, check ANN daily news. They often have Anime TV Rankings, and One Piece is always on there, above Naruto. One Piece and Detective Conan usually compete for spots 4-7. (The higher spots are taken up buy Shin-Chan, Chibi Maruko chan and Doreamon.) Naruto Shippuuden is almost always in spot ten, lower than Pokemon DP even.

nartuo and one piece are both good series but the reason it gets more ratings is simple the story is moving-one piece they are always moving around adventuring even the anime only stuff is about that. Naruto has the 200+ filler-stories that GO NO WERE.