One Piece Review
Years ago, the fearsome pirate king Gold Roger disappeared, leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous “One Piece” behind. Whoever claims the “One Piece” will be named the new pirate king. Luffy D. Monkey, a boy who consumed the “Devil’s Fruit”, has it in his head that he’ll follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and he’s surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way.
Every Fighting anime has some sort of "special" ability, right? . But what do Pirates have? Absulutely nothing special. However, Oda Eiichiro threw in something called Devil Fruits. The idea is pretty cliche, but well done in OP. These devil fruits are 1-2 syllable repeated (Gomu Gomu, Bara Bara, Baka Baka) treasures which pirates find and eat to gain silly or phsycho powers, at the cost of never being able to swim, ever again.
The dull main character, Luffy, eats a Gomu Gomu (Rubber) Fruit, which makes his body Elastic preceeeding the show. And thus he begins his LONG adventure to find "One Piece", the worlds best treasure, which the owner of will become Kaizoku (pirate) King. No one really knows what one piece is, the only information at the begining is that the Pirate King Gold Roger hid his most valuable treasure at the end of a deadly ocean called the grand line.
As the show progresses, Luffy finding One Piece becomes an unimportant goal to the veiwer, as the story molds into character development and REALLY well done arcs with intruige filled side stories. The Alabasta Arc is a great example of this, it slowly makes One Piece the #1 GREATEST show ever.
Sources: Animeboredom
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