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Wanted: Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece (Pixtagram Repost)

Wanted is a collection of single stories written by Eiichiro Oda before he developed One Piece. These include Wanted!, Kami kara Mirai no Present, Ikki Yakou, Monsters, and Romance Dawn. Monsters is the one I had already read before, including the anime adaptation from Netflix. The others, I had no familiarity with.

Overall, it was fun. From gunslingers to a traveling monk to one of the early precursors to One Piece itself, these stories were a lot of fun and had that Oda flair to them.

Photograph of a white person's hand holding up "Wanted! Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece." The single volume book has a pink background with some faux bullet holes drawn around the title at the top. There are 9 panels with faces of various characters from these short stories including a couple old west gunmen, a samurai, a traditional monk, and at the center is a man whose face looks just like Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece.
#Manga#MangaCollector#MangaReview
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Ja'aran :neocat_flag_gay: :neocat_flag_demiguy:

Alright, I finally made it through the first chunk in One Piece. That's almost 600 chapters!

My verdict right now is that I liked it... but it also depends. I think it's at least fair to say One Piece isn't the best shonen of all time. It's not inconsistent at least in a way that *fucks* like Hunter x Hunter, or weird in a way that *hits* like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

This isn't to say that One Piece is bad, but rather that it's wildly inconsistent. It's often the case where a really good arc will be followed up by a bad arc, and these extreme spikes in quality can even happen within the same arc as well.

Thriller Bark was the main victim of this because it had some of the best comedy in One Piece, it had great character moments for basically everyone, and the art is amazing and perfectly executed the genre blend it's going for... but then the pacing shat itself and it didn't pick up again until the very end.

I'll say for the time being that one of the greatest strengths in One Piece were its main characters and if an arc was really good, it was usually because it was featuring the Straw Hats themselves as one of its main focal points. That's the big thing that I would want it to hone in on moving forward.

One Piece tier list for all the arcs before the time skip. Marineford, Enies Lobby, and Arlong Park made the Top 3.
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Your Cool Uncle Itzy

"Children who have never seen peace and children who have never seen war, have very different ideas of right and wrong... You say justice will prevail? Of course it will. Whoever wins the war becomes justice" is way too hard of a monologue to come from a silly pirate anime. #OnePiece

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rk: could be an enum

13yo is home sick today. He just excitedly texted me to let me know he now sees all these uses of reduplication in #Japanese (ひとびと、なかなか、みずみずしい) and gets why all the fruits in #OnePiece are “something-something fruit”.

(We also figured out together the correlation between ここ/これ and そこ／それ the other day.)

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