I want to emphasize Just how impressive law is. This character has an arc far better than many main protagonists. That’s incredible for a side character. Edit: I really thought Zoro was going to get Aces DEVIL FRUIT. I’m sad he didn’t :/
Hey Daniel, have you read Don Quixote? Because you know Don Quixote and Rocinante. Corazon being the name bearer of DonQuixote Roshinante. Coincidence? I think not! P.S. Law is definitely my top 5 characters of all time.
Daniel Greene Yeah. He’s the highlight of the arc and I’m not that big of a fan of his. But I get why people loved him after the flashback. Still I argue the arc had too many moving parts and would have been better split. It seems like Oda solved this issue with the current arc which I won’t spoil Daniel but makes Dressrosa seem like a warmup in terms of peak fiction.
About the ace not knowing sabo plot hole the only explanation I could think of is that sabo became the number 2 of the revolutionaries and a well known figure in the world during the two year timeskip. Can't think of any other explanation that'd make sense
I had a feeling Merph was gonna like the "Fuck you just say about the future king of pirates?" scene out of Bartolomeo. That scene made me fucking love the character on the spot.
Thats why tobiroppo is dissapointing.. In dressrosa shicibukai level doflamingo we have an interesting clash with a good flashbacks.. but in wano yonkou level kaido, when tobiroppo vs strawhat pirates that doesnt happen.. just a quick clash.
I really hated this flashback because this arc was already so long espacially reading it chapter by chapter each week having one just for some weird dude that dress like a baby and that we never gonna see again was awful
“If you don’t want Justice to be dishonored, keep it close to you at all times! If we lose credibility by admitting fault, then we didn’t have any in the first place!” ~ Fujitora
@@masterofmeow8894 I feel when we're talking about series as good as one piece, vinland saga and vagabond, we can't really compare them as one series can't have everything so it just comes down to preference.But that does not mean others are not as good.
@@masterofmeow8894 Why are you so obsessed with seeking validation for your opinion about Vinland Saga or Vagabond? I put One Piece over both comfortably.
Oda is rightfully praised for his world building and characters, but I feel like his handling of themes is very often overlooked. It most often pops up when talking about Fishman Island as the themes of discrimination and prejudice are so clear. However his handling of ideas like justice, freedom, and anarchy are honestly far more subtle and far more interesting.
@@SkillMaster5000 Tbf, I see Master of Meow on every One Piece review w/o fail flooding the replies with "One Piece bad." In this case, the person calling him out is simply stating his opinion, while Meow clearly had ulterior motives when asking the initial question.
-Daniel talks about how Zoro was done dirty Me: oh cool he's a Zoro fanboy! -Daniel talks about how Zoro should have gotten a devil fruit Me: Oh no, he's a Zoro fanboy
About the Sabo thing. 1) Luffy and Ace are not really types of characters who read newspapers - it's a gag/ absurdist thing, that stayed consistent. 2) World Government only really knows about Revolutionaries (except for Dragon, of course). It's not a public knowledge of who is in command where, like you have with bounty posters of pirates. 3) Sabo is young and we don't know when exactly he rose in the ranks.
Exactly, Luffy didn’t even know about the revolutionary army until Garp told him after Eneis Lobby and they never said when Sabo became second. So Ace probably wasn’t even alive when Sabo became a big name and when Robin probably found out, she likely had zero urgency to tell Luffy since she doesn’t know their connection
But there is still the thing with Robin. There is no logical reason why she did not tell Luffy that she met his other brother while being with the Revolutionaries.
@@furorteutonicus9045 it was over the time skip. I don’t remember this portion too well so idk if Sabo told Robin about his connection to Luffy, and if he didn’t than it makes sense
@@furorteutonicus9045 Sabo told her not to tell him. You know how these brothers are, Sabo like Ace, wanted to pop out and surprise Luffy because he knew he'll meet sooner rather than later (and in-canon time wise, it wasn't that long since Robin reunited and Dressrosa happened).
Remind me, did Sabo have his memories back when he met Robin? Or did his memories return after she left? I know he read the newspaper, but I'm not sure if he read it at the same time the Straw Hats did.
I also just want to state I literally filled a notepad ( a small one but still) for this arc. I should have split it in two but I was having so much fun I didnt want to stop reading lol
I wonder what were your notes for Sugar being as terrifying in concept as she is (given she can literally wipe out the very memory of your existence) which is contrasted with the quote "a man only dies when he's forgotten" from Drum Island. Also, Señor Pink, because goddamn Oda... I actually wanted Franky to either stop fighting or lose. I felt genuinely sad for the diaper gangster.
Let's also not forget Usopp's lie in chapter 24 when he talked to Kaya about the country of dwarves. They hated Usopp because he told them the truth. Smh.
I felt like Oda reached his peak efficiency in flashbacks in this arc as he competely overturned my view of Baby 5 in like 3 pannes (which is how long her flashback took).
Thank you for mentioning this! Her flashback, albeit tiny, is just story writing mastery and sadly is eclipsed by other flashbacks that put whole stories to shame.
To this day, Law walking away in the snow while Corazon makes sure no one can hear him before he is shot by Doffy is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series.
Yup, this was one of the arcs where I basically fell off weekly and then started a reread and caught up once it was on the next big arc. That's my favorite part of this series and being caught up, that at any point I feel it lags I can start a reread and love the series just as much again, if not more-so.
Don't even remind me bro, Punk Hazard into Dressrosa nearly made me want to drop One Piece, LMAO. But honestly, on a reread, Dressrosa is absolutely worth it. Such a good, powerful arc. But I will say, the last one eclipses it.
If you were disappointed with Usopp running about to abandon the Tontatta, when Robin was turned into a toy Usopps character development from enies lobby was erased from his memories so he reverted to his old "I am incapable of anything courageous" mentality.
@@MonkeyDIvan it's not, enies lobby was pivotal to ussops growth but remove the reason he's there he will also forget the build up of courage he received from that arc
I heard Dressrosa was a drag to follow on a weekly basis, but man is it an absolute blast to binge. I’m constantly impressed by Oda’s ability to juggle so many intertwining plot lines and twist it into one satisfying conclusion
Idk if a drag but all the bird cage chapters yeah it was bad.. until a certain hunger for cake came and.. yeah that was surely "oh god kill me please".
Due to page restrictions, composition difficulties etc., there’s a lot of stories that Oda finishes up in his head but isn’t able to put out in the manga according to his editor. He said that if he were to put everything he wants in the story, it’ll never end. Señor Pink’s short 6 page backstory (which I loved) was also one such instance but Oda ended up putting it in the story. A certain fan once asked Oda during an SBS as to why Viola and Doflamingo called each other "Violet” and "Doffy". Oda replied that it was a deep secret, which couldn't be told because it belonged to a really adult part of the story. It’s clear what Oda was trying to imply here but I wonder how different the story would be if Oda could put everything in it that he wanted to.
He wasnt even planing on adding the senior pinks backstory into manga, he did that after editor told him how much he liked it. Also in one of the interviews Oda mentioned that he had 15 notebooks full of notes just for Dressrosa arc. Bonus fact, Dressrosa supposed to be two different islands/arcs (one for the little guys other for toys) but her merged them to "save time" (which he said that by maerging both islands he made that arc twice as long and thus he save nothing lol)
@@Ryuksgelus Guessing it can be difficult to know what kind of gag will land beforehand. When you see senior pink and Bart, there was no guarantee that they would not become annoying and a waste of time. But most people turned out to like them. Yeah, she turned out to not be entertaining. She had a small role and is now mostly forgotten.
This arc's themes are incredible. You have Doffy, who is a heartless monster, "Heavenly demon", who literally misses "hearts" leader in his desk. Not only that, he actually killed his brother, Korazon ("heart" on spanish, very clever, Oda), who previously was in that place (others as Pika, Trebol and Diamante). And we have Law - the younger version of Doffy, who didn't become a monster because of love that Korazon ("heart") gave to him. But being a human means to have a heart, so who then does he want to be? He wants to be king - simply born superior to all others. Doffy is full of hatred, but he is also a manipulator, he knows how to control himself and other people through this feeling. He rules his country through power and violence. On the contrast, Riku rules for the sake of his people and tries to make DR peaceful country. For him being human means more than being king. And Doffy is the opposite- in his mind he is born superior, not human but God, never bowing to anything. Ironically, this is the world of One piece in miniature - celestial dragons (which he is one of, very clever, Oda) on top, with humans below and slaves even below that. When everything seems charming and nice on the surface, but only hides the true cruel nature of this world, when people who know too much get silenced and erased from history. And speaking of slaves, we also have all the toy stuff - they couldn't feel pain, couldn't feel touch of a person, and yet - Kyros still had his heart, his love to his daughter, so in a way he was more human than Doffy ever was. And on top of that we have the strawhats, who fell directly into Doffy's plan, but the only reason they didn't lose was Viola's betrayal. She looked into Sanji's heart (VERY clever, Oda) and saw how good person he was, and wanted to help him - this is the single biggest reason Doffy's plan went to shit - he didn't understand why would someone help others just because of their nature as good person. Basically, he doesn't understand love. This is the reason he asked why Law kept Korazon's logo on his back. This is also a lesson that Law had to learn - Korazon didn't save him for this grand scheme to destroy Doflamingo, but simply out of love. This is also a reason, why Law couldn't defeat Doffy - because he hated Doflamingo, and it made him predictable, made him one of those hateful people who Doffy learned to control, himself first and foremost. There are million other things to notice in this arc, but I just wanted to mention this specific flaw of ideas - how smoothly one theme leads to another and then comes full circle. Man, I love this arc so much
The hearts leader was vergo. He was the new Corazon. Btw corazon is a title not a name. Rosinante (doffy's brother) was the first Corazon and was later replaced by Vergo
@@adityajoshi735 No, Vergo was the first Corazon, then Rosinante took his place because Vergo left for a secret mission, once Rosinante died the heart seat became vacant, and Doflamingo wanted Law to seat on it.
Vague Spoiler for DG do NOT read . . . . . . . I like how this arc themed around the heart, the next one about the soul, and the current about opening the mind.
@@padrenuestre Dude, the last chapter of Sanji and co. in Dressrosa was chapter 730, released December 9, 2013. The last chapter of the Dressrosa Saga is chapter 801, released September 28, 2015. But Nami and co. appear just in chapter 805, released November 9, 2015. Almost 2 entire years. And we had Whole Cake Island, without Zoro, Franky, Usopp and Robin. Another 2 years with half of the crew out.
@@hiravalley2359 And yet Oda still squeezed them there in the Dressrosa plot didn't he? And later delivered double in WCI. Why calling it brave is beyond me, Oda should never pay attention to what the dumb fanboytards want to see in the first place. I like Sanji, but I never missed him in Dressrosa bc the story was that damn good you don't even feel his absence. Just like I never missed Zoro in WCI.
@@padrenuestre Hira said Oda took the main characters out of the story for two years. And he did, Hira even provided the timeline for you. It's a very brave move for the author to remove main characters from an ongoing story, especially for almost two years. It speaks to how much of a master of his craft Oda is that you barely noticed, if you read One Piece during Dressrosa that is. Although from how you're framing your comments, i get the feeling you probably just binge watched/read after Dressrosa was completed. It hasn't been said that Sanji and Nami weren't in Dressrosa. It hasn't been said that Oda moving them out of the focus was a mistake. You just have shit reading comprehension and a terrible attitude.
And what’s crazy is that doflamingo actually cares about his crew cause his crew has his loyal family for many years when his own bloodline betrayed him
For people to provide examples: doffy doesn’t like when pica is made fun off, baby 5 and Buffalo being tied up, and when trebol is damaged by law he swoops in
No he don’t, that’s literally what Law said, as long as he has ppl who simply follow his own dreams he consider them his family. But as soon as those goals don’t allign you ain’t no family to him. He was happy to let Monet die for his own goal. You only knows if someone care about you as family when your own goals don’t allign and they diverge and than person’s true nature come out. Example: Corazon who disregarded his lifelong mission to save Law
@@sohailsadaqat6684 law manipulated that situation same as doffy does. Doffy values loyalty which he found in his executives family. That is his treasure and why he fights to protect it. The small glimmer of light in the dark pit that is doffy the madman who wants to set the world burn
@@stressbean1707 I think, more importantly, this is what sets Luffy and Doffy apart. Both care about their crews on some level, but one of them is willing to let them die to accomplish his goals.
*Fujitora enters the fray* Law: Why do I hear boss music? Doflamingo: We do a bit of trolling. Seriously, this man hurls frickin meteors out of SPACE! Kudos to the goblin for actually finishing Dressrosa in a week and a half.
@@iamdivan7368 It's just a prank phrase triggered my flashbacl for The Time I got reaincarnated as a slime season 2 when Geld asswhopped the guy who can regenrate
@@DanielGreeneReviews In your Sky Island review you said you knew Bellamy was going to come back later - little did you know it would be 12 whole arcs later! But even back on Jaya you see his crew has Doflamingo's mark on their clothes, the foreshadowing is insane. You can also see how Doflamingo's philosophy influenced him back then. Side note, Bellamy desperately fighting Luffy on Dressrosa hit really emotionally hard on me for some reason. Perhaps because he pushed himself so hard to gain the respect of someone who doesn't deserve it.
@@DanielGreeneReviews Daniel, you just said it! "Two sides of the same coin." It is literally a RULE of One Piece and a main philosophy that Oda has been writing One Piece with throughout the entire story. Try to remember this "Two side of the same coin" everytime you read One Piece and especially when you reread. It's the main thing about One Piece.
@@DanielGreeneReviews fun fact, theres a theory that the reason Doffy's flag gas a slash across his its left eye is because, during one of the attacks when he was a kid, he lost his left eye. Hence why he always wears his glasses, even at night, and how law and luffy managed to blindside him that time when they attacked from his left. Also adds nicely to the ol' "eye for an eye" theme of his life.
Yeah the fandom essentially chose the naming convention to base arcs on the island the crew is on, hence why this “arc” is 100+ chapters long. There’s definitely a way to break up these story arcs like Daniel suggested.
@@DanielGreeneReviews you forgot about cliffhangers, because Daniel there will be a time when you will have to wait. But yes, Oda lose all breaks and is speeding so hard that he would be put to the death if dead
I’m so excited for him to read Zou. It has probably one of the most iconic One Piece moments of the whole story. Easily rivals “Nothing happened” and “I want to live.” I won’t say the line because spoilers, but you know what I’m talking about.
Calling the Grand Fleet a "fan club" kinda does the weight of this event dirty. It's not just a fan club, it's a full on fleet that puts thousands behind Luffy. He is getting his own large pirate crew to content with the Emperor's
@@alliew31 Luffy officially told them to do whatever they want and they said ok we are the grand fleet then... and luffy did understand what they did and had to suck it up... he said they would come if they needed him and that they would com if he needed them... pretty official in my book...
Also the Grand Fleet is waaaay more than just a fan club. They exchanged sake cups, they are now loyal to Luffy. Luffy has a fleet of 5600 men ready to die for him
I just love Doflamingo’s history. Exactly like you said, his history does justify the man that was created. Monsterous cruelty born of monsterous suffering.
I wouldn't say it is justified, because just like him there was his brother undergoing the same things but he never became a doflamingo. In the end who you truly are can never be rubbed out and only be amplified through such disturbing experiences.
you can always make some excuse to why your villain suffered and is now bad. but Oda weaved it into the narative so perfectly, is what made Mingo such a compelling villain. it wasn't just "oh some shithead killed my parents, im bad now".
I wouldn't say justified. But you could understand where it came from. His upbringing as a celestial dragon (even though his father was a good guy) really developed him for the worse and when his father resigned his status, the lost wealth and animosity from commoners really amplified the worst in young Doffy to the point, which made him from a borderline sociopathic rich kid into a true sociopathic power-driven scumbag. Having Trebol and the rest of the family around him from this young age forward didn't help either as Trebol used Doffy to amplify his worst even more to gain power. Doffy is probably the best villain to date. But there are some villains, who come close in the coming arcs
I remember when Sabo's first appearance happened and the internet was SCREAMING about how the three sake cups were a retcon... but if you go back to Marineford (where the panel first appeared) ODA INCLUDED THE TINIEST SLIVER OF THE THIRD CUP
About Sabo, he didn't want Robin to tell Luffy about him. That's one. Sabo is definitely a major player in the Revolutionaries, but you also have to remember Luffy didn't even know about it's head Dragon or the fact that he was his father. And no one else knew that they were related in the crew, so that was good
Ace’s part- probably should have know? I’m mean. Revs are kept under the rug but we still never got any info on Dragon or his relationship with the world
@@connor_obrady Ace not knowing about sabo is down to three things. 1. Revolutionary army works undercover and most of the command structure and their bigshots are unknown. 2. How media works in one piece that most of the big things that revolutionary army does gets swept under the rug by the World Government. The whole world economic journal and big news morgan stuff is testament to that fact. Example being Smoker being given credit for defeating Croc instead of Luffy 3. We don't know when Sabo actually climbed up the higher ranks in the revolutionaries.
As Iogic hakari said, that can be SOMEWHAT excused One thing might justify it when we talk about random people: we often assume that every information readily available is well understood and should be known by every person in the OP world. We have always given as granted, for example (in Wano), that everyone should have known about the 4 emperor's bounties, meanwhile we see highly ranked Marines react to them when they were told us That's why I think that most people just dont care about the bounties, especially when they are not really involved in any way, which excludes most of the population, especially those in a sea as peaceful as East Blue, meaning that they could very well just ignore even the idea of Sabo's survival. We also have to consider the consistency in which the bounties are displayed in the newspapers. When talking about a specific person, we don't really have to assume that said bounty would be kept there when said character is not prominent at that specific moment: that would make no journalistic sense especially with someone like Morgan who takes care of it Thus remain in my opinion 4 characters that need to be in world justfied (be they decent or not, this is how it could make sense, not how it would be satisfying) - LUffy not knowing is obvious, for he is oblivious - Robin can be seen as keeping that info away from Luffy because of Sabo's request - Garp can be excused by simply not caring and not remembering Sabo (with that being the reason as to why he didn't tell Luffy), as he might simply have seen him for a pretty short amount of time and that's about it - Ace not knowing. This is more tricky, as we don't know his habbits, however we can assume that he might have been like Luffy + there is the first notion: he could very well just not have known
I would agree with you if it wasn't for Fujitora's existence. His df by no means deminishes his character as swordsman. People said the same thing about Zoro shouldn't get conquerer's haki as well. I think "ruin" is too strong a word for something we just don't know. Plus there's so many ways Oda can spin it. The compass compass no mi where Zoro has a built-in way finder and still manages to get lost. Or like a porcupine Zoan or something. Personally, I just disagree that the crew shouldn't have too many devil fruit users, but Zoro alone as a person, I'm perfectly fine with if it wasn't for the crew dynamics.
@@benniek1050 i do agree with him developing Haki and him developing conquerors haki (and consequently the different ways of using it), and I'm all for crew members getting a devil fruit ( like Nami or ussop) but Zoro i feel like his thing is the swords and being a swordman, so devil fruit of any kind would take too much
Luffy didn’t even know the Revolutionary Army existed. Heck, he didn’t even know he had a DAD until Garp told him. Revolutionaries and their actions are swept under the rug frequently too.
@@radical6905 considering what ace was doing in his 3 years of piracy that we know of that would be spoiler at this point, he doesnt really had the chance to care about the revolutionary army or to take a more in depth look at them
For Luffys case, yea he doesnt care about stuff so he probably never checks newspaper or whatnot. For Robin's, Sabo asked her not to tell on purpose for sure. But for Ace, I dont think he never had to chance to hear, see or know about the revolutionaries and their top dogs. So it is bad writing in Oda's part.
@@kraduskradius8241 It’s ambiguous, remember that we are taking this from the PoV of a normal human being and Ace and Luffy are far from being normal lmao. There is also the fact that the world itself is insanely huge and this is something proven over and over again, them not knowing this can be a realistic possibility, similar to how they missed Ace’s execution because they were trapped in Thriller Bark, the only reasons why Luffy found out is because Ace’s execution is: 1) A win for the Government and thus it was advertised all over the world 2) It was a HUGE thing that changed the world in itself as we can see today. 3) He already knew that Ace was alive and what he was doing as part of Whitebeard’s crew.
@@kraduskradius8241 "But for Ace, I dont think he never had to chance to hear, see or know about the revolutionaries and their top dogs" That's the thing, he never had the chance, right after he set sails he fought one battle after another and established himself enough to get recommended a warlord position, met shanks on the new world, stromed through wano, fought jinbe, and joins the whitebeard pirates, then thach get killed and ace proceeds to hunt Blackbeard for a few months and promptly defeated and executed, and as far as we know about the whitebeard pirates, they dont care enough about the revolutionary army to investigate their top brass as long as the revolutionary army does not hurt their intrest and as far as we know about the revolutionary army, they dont hurt the whitebeard pirates interest, and even if ace did investigate and found out about Sabo, what could he do? search for the Revolutionary army base to meet him? sends a letter to Sabo through a messenger? or just raging around the world in search of Sabo without a single clue?
@@masterofmeow8894 I love how this guy is obsessed with trying to downplay One Piece. This just shows how insecure he actually is when it comes to his own taste and opinions. What an absolute sad display and he never ever can let go because he is too butthurt to accept that One Piece is seen as a masterpiece by such a huge amount of people while almost nobody cares about Vinland Saga, Monster or Vagabond. :)
The thing is Daniel - Post-Time Skip Zoro was kinda OP, to the point where he needed to face an Admiral that controls Gravity to face opposition. Really loved the gravity guy bit - was my thoughts exactly when i first read it.🤣
@@chinuaalibatya7345 Not OP in the sense stronger than everyone - I meant in the sense where the usual second in commands or in this case all the fights Zoro has had Post time skip were all onesided until he met Fujitora
Grand line review adress the Sabo problem in one of his last videos. What Trigger his memories is reading Ace Luffy and Sakazuki together. Been Sakazuki the name of the Akainu and also meaning the ceremory of becoming brothers by making a toast with sake.
The thing about Zoro is that after the time skip he simply becomes too powerful. It will still be a while before you actually see him struggling against someone.
Yeah the impression I get from post time skip Zoro is that he can pretty much defeat anyone that base Luffy can defeat... so its hard to add in 2 opponents stronger than base Luffy on these early arcs to challenge Zoro... Heck, even Sanji had a handicap against Vergo and then only had to fight Mingo...
@@adoniscreed4031 Not just base Luffy but Gear 4 Luffy as well. Zoro's first true fight is happening right now against someone that is far above in power compared to Doffy or Cracker. Luffy had the luxury of fighting opponents that will push him to the next level while Zoro didn't. I say this: Zoro was stronger than Luffy after TS and Luffy needed to fight Doffy, Cracker and Katakurri to catch up. Now he is stronger than Zoro but he wasnt before. Fujitora's intervention was far too convinient in front of the Colosseum when Zoro tried to attack Doffy. If he were to fight him there he would have whooped Doffy and the arc would have went to shit. Oda does that often.
@@balazstoth7061 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Zoro literally said he wouldn't be able to beat doflamingo. What are you zorotards doing here?? Enma is basically the upgrade of zoro. Do you actually think zoro without emma will beat katakuri.. I need the weed you zoro fans are smoking
Best argument I've heard about Sabo is that he probably only became popular recently because the Revolutionaries work undercover. Also, I'm pretty sure Sabo told Robin to not mention him to Luffy at Sabaody according to an SBS, but I'm not 100% confident about this
Do you remember during the Skypiea flashback Noland told that he had visited a natio of tiny people and here we learn that that Tontatta tribe was visited by Noland. I think it's a pretty neat detail.
It’s details like that which make it enriching to not rush through a story or read weekly just because reading in bulk makes it understandably easy to overlook these things. On a slightly bigger scale, it’s interesting to see what people think are relevant or not once everything is read through in it’s entirety. I noticed the Kingdom’s struggle itself wasn’t brought up in the review, more just the gladiator aspect of the story. Bellamy and his plot wasn’t brought up either. In an arc where despite half the crew leaving early in the arc, the story in stuffed full of characters and storylines, it’s cool to see what people think is worthwhile or not.
I caught up to the manga just as this arc was beginning. Learning how to wait week-to-week for individual chapters of One Piece was... difficult. Especially with an arc this large. I made it through about half of the arc before I started putting it down for a year at a time so I had large chunks to binge. The current arc has had me reading every week though.
Wano has been very enjoyable week to week. Every week, I read the early spoilers, the full spoiler summary, the fan scans, and finally the official. It's crazy!
@@yugfus Oda definitely learned some lessons from Dressrosa for how to do these super long arcs. Think he realized that Dressrosa's static visuals were not gonna cut it, so now he makes sure to have places look and feel different throughout an arc even without leaving the island.
A lot of people just see a rubber boy going on a wacky pirate adventure and write it off as a children's cartoon that can't possibly be as good as everyone says it is.
I never got why this is a problem for some people. All the things that happened during the arc impact the overall story all the same no matter if it lasted 1 day or 2 weeks.
Onigasima raid is going to last the same(about two years) and it's one night, is it a problem to you too? I guess as long as you like the characters present it doesn't matter how much canon days it lasted one or twenty. You probably weren't invested with the characters much.
It's funny. Dressrosa becomes an arc I love and appreciate more every year. Back in 2014 - 2016 when I was reading it weekly, I felt like it dragged on and overstayed it's welcome (it being 100 chapters and all). But the more I go back and read/watch it, it proves to be one of the most densely packed and cleverly crafted arcs in the series. Honestly it's in my top 5.
It's my favorite arc in one piece for now. This arc is nearly perfect. However to many short flashbacks.... Honestly. Kyros deverse a longer flashback.
Daniel , Merphy & Mr morj's post ts arc reviews actually give justice to the unfair playing field post ts arcs were put on coz fans had caught up by then & read it week to week. I am so glad that we are getting Post Time skip arc reviews from people who did not read it week to week. That actually makes a fair comparison between pre ts & post ts arcs . Daniel i hope once you reach the current ongoing arc in the manga, do start reading it only after that arc ends & so on till the end of the story(5 more years) . Stay unspoiled till then :)
I'm personally hoping he does 1 video for each individual act. Wano might end up being 200 chapters when all is said and done, and it seems a waste not to make use of the very convenient break points Oda laid out for us.
I honestly think the post-time skip slander is simply because Fishman Island and Punk Hazard back-to-back weren’t the best (though far better than people make them out to be). Since then, Oda’s continually put out bangers. Dressrosa, Zou and Whole Cake Island were all excellent and it’s kinda impossible to judge Wano until it finishes but so far I’ve loved it. It really captures the feel of a samurai epic.
Zoro has haki, I think he's strong enough without a devil fruit. and if you remember Rayleigh also didn't have one, and Zoro kinda plays the same role for Luffy that Rayleigh did for Roger
Fun fact in case you missed it ( I kno I did at first) .... but the hero Usopp lies about being related to is Noland from the Skypeia flashback. And in that flashback Noland mentions visiting and helping an island of little people. Which is why the Tontattas have a statue of Noland on Green Bit.
Looks like I need to really get into the One Piece manga again. I'm currently stuck at the Dressrosa arc in the anime and the pacing is THE WORST. It's so bad that I repeatedly dropped it after trying to get into it again and again. Hearing such a positive review from you might finally get me to continue with the manga as well. So thanks!!
@@istrakyuketsuki2342 The only praise I can give to the current anime is the Wano arc adaptation is fantastic. And one of the few times I find better than the manga. Other wise stick to the manga is my book.
Ik what you mean but honestly skypea was worse in the anime in terms of pacing and dressrosa isnt even that bad most of the stuff in it is worth having patience for stuff like law and his development and a whole lot of other good stuff and the next 3 arcs are actually some of the best one being godly the other being insanely good and the other being very good but this is just my opinion.
@@Avarn388 most people consider the anime a better rendition of wano then the manga because it solves alot of the vague details which can lead to alot of confusion and misunderstandings but the only thing thats kinda annoying is that its pacing is like half a chapter each episode but it gets balanced out with the god tier animation and scenes
why do people even divide their favorite OP characters on SH and non-SHs ones. It's lame. If you like a character it doesn't matter that the isn't a crewmember lol. Why there is the need to specify where he belongs is beyond me.
@@padrenuestre I mean, if that's your opinion then all the power to you. To me it feels like you need to make that distinction, because the straw hats are almost always on-screen, they get an unfair advantage. And for me at least, it's just overall fun to categorise favourites. Like even with the crew, I like Zoro as a fighter the most, but Usopp for his utility more, favourite villain, favourite devil fruit user etc.
@@benniek1050 what the straw hats being more prominent has to do with the fact that you still like a side character more? xd It's not a competition within the leagues lol. But fair enough.
@@padrenuestre it's definitely a competition. The word "favourite" made it explicitly a competition. But here's my logic why screen time matters. I'm confident that if you asked 1000 people who their favourite One Piece characters were, there would be an extremely high correlation between screen times and favourites. I'm confident that most of the straw hats will be taking the top 10 spots, with Luffy right on top. Another thing is recency bias. Your favourite mightve been Dr. Hiriluk, but the drum island arc happened like ages ago whereas the straw hats are always present in the storyline. It's basically the same reason why you have to distinguish between Luffy, the main character and the rest of the straw hats. Maybe I'm being too reductive for basing it on a single element like watch time, which is definitely not the case, but it does matters a significant chunk.
One thing I really loved was how at the end of the story Fujitora does the whole "let the dice decide" thing about not going after Luffy and the crew. Except that he controls gravity so he almost certainly means he was making the dice come up the way he wanted to until his fellow marines forced his hand.
I just read thru all of One Piece. Took about 2 months. What I truly appreciate about One Piece is it's commitment to being creative. In it's designs, in it's combat, in it's characters, and it's world. I mean top to bottom I don't think you'll ever find a more creative piece of fiction.
After hearing that you aren’t sold on Brook I’m excited for your review of an upcoming arc where Brook has an absolutely amazing moment to see if that changes your opinion on him at all
Oof, the strawhat grand fleet- It's like when whitebeard showed up with several other pirate crews to marineford. They are all "under" luffy, not just a fan club. Luffy has an army now.
Also for Sabo, the anime did a special episode called "episode of sabo" that explains what exactly happened for Sabo to get to this point, which I appreciate since I didn't think I got enough from dressrosa to reestablish him as a character personally
About the Ace and Sabo thing, the way I justify it is that Sabo hadn't gained infamy before 2 years ago, so Ace wouldn't have known about him when he was alive. Anyway, I'm so so happy you loved this arc. It's definitely one of my favourites too! Btw, what did you think of Kaido's introduction?
@@topramen5344 They aren't covert. Lots of people in this arc react like "OMG IS THAT THE NUMBER 2 OF THE REVULITONARY ARMY" when they see him so he clearly is famous.
It kinda of makes sense he might have forgotten his reason for living with his amnisia and once he regained his memory's his ambition returned too so he managed to become chief of staff during the time skip
11:09 Luffy has never knew/cared about world figures so in my opinion it's not a huge problem ( he didn't know who his father , the warlords , the yonko or the admirals were until recently , all who are super important and well known world figures + during the he was stuck in the Calm Belt , the isolated part of the world ) . Sabo probably asked Robin not to tell Luffy about him , just like he asked the StrawHats at Kiros's house . And so far we haven't gotten any indication in the manga or SBS's that Ace knew Sabo was in the Revolutionary Army ( though I haven't the light novels about Ace's journey )
Doffy killing Corazon and Law seeking revenge for it is such the perfect example of FOUND FAMILY. I don't think I've ever seen an 'evil found family' like Mingo's crew before. They genuinely love and care for each other...
@@ihuh1000 Do they care for each other though? I remember the big guy going after Kurapika for revenge because he cared but the rest of them? I more had the vibe that they were more colleagues than a family...Still a cool and scary group though.
I am interested to see him read Wano. It seems to be the capstone of everything since the time skip. I also am looking forward to his take on Whole Cake Island because I love Luffy’s fight but I under why people don’t. Also it is kind of crazy
yep, it will definitely be interesting. The first time I read it week by week, I didn't like it that much. But since than I've reread it and liked it much more. Especially the part after the party is way better, if you don't have to wait and can binge through it.
@@imbaroxxorable I personally prefer the first half as a whole package, but damn Luffy's fight in the second half is probably the best in the entire series.
The divide between people who love the WCI fight and those who don't is very cleanly down the line between manga readers and anime watchers x) Manga readers loved it, anime watchers disliked it. And for good reason!
@@sleepysera I thought is w2s the opposite? I heard from a manga reader the manga fight was nothing to right home about then he watched the anime version and was blown away.
I was really nervous whether you'd like this arc or not. Since it's pretty long and the anime adaptation of this arc is garbage I've seen a lot of people get burnt out during this arc Really glad you enjoyed it Daniel! Also, I'm SO glad you love law. He's my second favourite character in all of one piece!
@@DanielGreeneReviews If you want to see some cool moments it’s fine but overall stick to the manga. It’s a lot easier to get through pacing wise. The problem is the anime is ongoing alongside the manga. It isn’t seasonal like Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia etc. so a lot of content is purposefully stretched out to create a buffer of manga content.
@@DanielGreeneReviews I'm glad you did. Dressrosa was the lowest point in the one piece anime both in terms of pacing and animation. It was a nightmare
@@DanielGreeneReviews You know how the arc in the manga had 102 chapters? Well in the anime it was 118 episodes... it didn't even have a lot of filler, just insanely stretched out scenes. I think the best part of the anime in Dressrosa was finally convincing a ton of people to switch to the manga.
Usopp is more heroic than a hero because he's always terrified of what's going on but always ends up stepping up to help save the day regardless of his fear :)
I love donflamingo because his character is him thinking how much better he is than everyone while falling for the same stuff. Like he constantly talks about how he is not gonna underestimate the straw hats while doing it constantly
I love the Japanese voice actor for Doflamingo, particularly the laugh, which is this menacing chuckle through a closed mouth. It underscores the veneer of civility over his psychopathy
@@masterofmeow8894 overhyped and underhyped has lost all meaning these days. Elaborate why you don't like One Piece recently, because your criticism is invalid tbh.
Agreed, Zoro is obviously one of Oda’s favs. Other Straw Hats are definitely getting “done dirty” though (Brook and Usopp). Usopp especially has me worried for the future. Oda has dropped/skipped over A LOT of planned content for him, like how he left out the Daddy Masterson part in the manga to make chapter 100 about getting to the grand line, Usopp’s talk with Garp getting cut for page limits/time. Now it’s starting to look like Elbaf is gonna get cut too (especially since it’s foreshadowed that a Straw Hat might die in Wano and with the recent parallels with Enies Lobby... it’s not looking good for Usopp :(
@@Rika24 brook, usopp, nami and chopper.. All done dirty.. People say "they are not fighters" but this is the freaking pirate king crew. There has to be standards. How do you sail with the man who became the pirate king and the powerful people still wouldn't be scared to send their subordinates after you?? Nami and usopp and chopper need to increase in power
Since Oda has soooo many ideas for his story and can't get all of them to the pages, in recent years he started giving bites to the animation team so they can flesh things out in the anime he didn't have time to do. The anime arc for Dressrosa was painfully stretched out, adapting less than a chapter an episode, but they did a special episode for Sabo outlining what he was up to and why he wasn't in the story till now. It's on Crunchyroll and very much worth watching to fill in a few missing pieces there.
You’re kinda right about it being “2 arcs”. Green bit was actually supposed be it’s own arc, but Oda needed to combine both due to some restrictions. This is one arc where Oda wanted to do so much and he accomplished most of it! Almost every villain had a backstory and the themes are incredibly strong. Luffy and Law are forever goated 🔥 Amazing arc
I actually kinda miss the sagas that were filled with multiple smaller arcs before a big arc like East Blue, Alabasta, or Marineford. While Dressrosa is famtastic, it would've been nice to see what it would've been like to have Green Bit or the Colosseum be their own arcs.
@@leakypeach6250 yeah I do too! I can imagine the final saga being like Summit War Saga. People forget that everything from Saboady Archipelago to Post-War happened in around 100 chapters. I am see Oda doing something like this for the next 150-200 chapters
@@123rikin Honestly, when Oda says that there's like 5 more years of story left, I hesitate to believe that. There's just way too many loose ends to tie up in that time. And given Oda's tendency to lengthen his post-TS arcs to around 100 chapters, I can't see this series ending for a while.
If you want to see Oda's commitment to comedy check the: "oda usopp booger meme" apparently when he drew it he was laughing uncontrolably and fans did not notice until years later!
Also, i recommend you re-read Alabasta and see the parallels between the two arcs! Especially the ending with Doffy being punched by luffy through the bedrock from the sky and crocodile being punched by luffy through thr bedrock from the ground :) it shows how Oda proved in his storytelling! ♥️
Right down to Punk Hazard having a lot in common with the pre-Alabasta Baroque Works arcs. Appearance by island whale (Laboon arc). Gaining a temporary crewmate connected to a warlord (Whiskey Peak). An island inhabited by giant reptiles and ... actual giants (Little Garden). Villain that can combine his subordinates together, a winter setting, and a doctor that experiments with devil fruits (Drum Island). Even some of the villains' powers are basically the same. Mr. 5 and Gladius both have fruits that let them explode. Miss Valentine and Machvise both changing their weight. Miss Merry Christmas and Senor Pink both can travel through the earth at high speeds.
Seeing controversies after controversies of Dressrossa, it's really a fresh experience to see a new perspective from someone who reads the arc in bulk as their first time
Concerning Sabo: 1. Sabo did not remember Luffy and Ace until after Ace’s death. Reading about it triggered his memories. 2. Robin did not know Sabo was Luffy’s brother. And even if Sabo told her, she likely would keep quiet about it until Sabo and Luffy met. 3. Luffy does not care about others except for his crew. He doesn’t check out other’s bounty. 4. For Ace, my best guess is that Sabo was not that big 2 years ago?
@@zoulzopan What point do you mean? For 1, you can watch the scene where Sabo remembers Ace. It’s on UA-cam. For 2, even when Ace was introduced, the other straw hats did not about him. Luffy just does not talk about these things. And Robin would not mention it if Sabo told her since that would not be in line with her character. I don’t remember if she even told Luffy she met his father. For 3, the fact that Luffy does generally not know big pirates such as the other supernovas.
10:55 There is a One piece novel call "One Piece Novel Heroines" talk about 5 characters during timeskip Nami, Robin, Vivi, Perona & Hancock. It explain why Robin doesn't tell Luffy about Sabo. Sabo is the one who brought Robin to Sabaody, but decided not to meet luffy and ask robin to hide the matter. Here the summary of Robin Novel : Robin has a meal with the Revolutionary Army before her arrival at the Sabaody Archipelago. The meal is a recipe from the Yukali Kingdom. The kingdom had existed during the World Government's establishment and was under its rule, but after being destroyed by another great country, the only surviving record of it was the recipe. It takes the group 2 weeks to sail from Baltigo to the Sabaody Archipelago. After arriving to Sabaody, Robin thinks that Sabo will ask her about Luffy. However, he decides to leave and not to meet his brother yet, asking her to take care of Luffy for him.
That Sabo reveal meant so much back then and caused quite a stir in the OP community because it literally took us years of speculation whether he was alive or not.
Clearly Robin wanted to have Sabo reveal himself to Luffy rather than just going "Sabo is alive". They probably discussed it. As far Ace not knowing. Revolutionaries tend to do their own thing and operate in different seas and often covertly, so not that surprising. Especially if he never considered looking for him.
The issue with this is that the reader has to come up with the reasoning of why he should suspend disbelief. Certain aspect of story telling like this one should be explain explicitly and not have the reader make the excuses for him.
@@zoulzopan Sabo got famous during the timeskip. Theres nothing telling you he was famous before. Luffy got 500mill bounty in less than a year, why sabo couldnt in 2 years while being part of one of the biggest organizations? Its the reader the one whos making up stuff saying why Ace didnt know him.
@@mcrbelieve3923 I am not understanding you. Are you supporting my point? it seems like my point still stands, that Oda should've made it more explicit. Sabo as a whole should've been introduced much earlier too, it would've made for a much better transition. Merphy Napier is right in her critic of the character, he seems like just a stand in for Ace after he is gone rather than a brother that they had from the beginning.
@@zoulzopan You are the one making up theories of pre timeskip when we only have information post ts. After assuming we have no information pre timeskip, then you may ask yourself whether Sabo was famous or not pretimeskip. And theres only one logic question to that. He was not.
The "you become a hammer" debuff on a devil fruit is actually crazy and you need at LEAST a 50% spread of users/non users in case of a capsize. Zoro and Sanji are like the go-to hammer snatchers on the crew and I wouldn't be surprised if zoro turned down a fruit because he sees this as a duty of his. That plus the fact that he has vowed to become the "greatest swordsman in the world", not "strongest person" but "greatest swordsman". Getting a mystical power to give him an advantage is antithetical to his goal in life.
Never have I clicked faster on a video. What I love about Doffy and Rosinante's backstory is that: yes, Doffy's childhood was beyond messed up, but it doesn't excuse his behavior since you have the contrast of his brother, someone that went through the same misery and torture, who went on to becoming a good person.
Their upbring afterwards definitely helped who they became. Rosinante taken in by Sengoku, who treated him like a son, while Doffy was taken in by gangsters, who allowed his hate to flourish.
The best thing about corazon's inclusion in the story is that he went through all the same bullshit as doffy, but didn't end up evil like his brother. Part of this might be that Doffy has always been crazy, but I like to think it has more to do with who they were surrounded by after the fact. In their vulnerable states, broken down by the world, corazon was built up again by sengoku (not a perfect man, but a good one) and Doffy was built up by Trebol (🤢). Ultimately, someone showing him love and being a guidepost in his time of despair is what helped corazon heal after his tradjety, and is exactly what he knew law needed during his time of despair. Hope you liked the arc, looking forward to next week!
13:42-13:52 I agree so much with you on that but I also take special note that his brother went through the exact same formative experiences in childhood but ended up as a loving caring person with a beautiful heart.
Oh damn, ive never really thought how Sabos infamy would make Ace not knowing he’s still alive unlikely Tbf tho its still not as bad as certain characters not knowing what haki is ….Buggy
Well only WG really knew Revolutionaries other than Dragon who was more widely known. Luffy and Ace don't read Newspaper and I don't think they ever shared with others, that they had a long "dead" third brother.
An interesting point is the one panel in which we see Doffy reading about the incident that occurred in Law's home town. Their backgrounds are pretty similar, and likely Doffy related to Law. He wanted to raise Law to be his right-hand man, but I wonder if that dynamic would have been as strong had Law not gotten the op-op no mi.
This was also a time when Oda was recovering from Tonsillitis and had to also take multiple breaks for his health. Also, Welcome to the Don Quixote Family! I have Doffy’s Jolly Roger tattooed on my chest xD
At the time this was my favorite arc of all of one piece. I loved Usopp getting a taste of observation haki. I loved Usopp playing such a pivotal role. I loved Laws back story. I loved Pica and his high voice. I loved how so many factions came together to work towards a common goal. I loved Bellamy’s redemption. I loved Sabo coming back. And at the time I was anime only and completely caught up at the beginning of this arc so the week by week was difficult at times. But at the time I loved it so much that it was my favorite arc. I think you will love what’s coming up next. This next arc is the best set up arc in OP and then the arcs following are *chefs kiss*
Daniel you're 100% right. Reading Dressrosa week-to-week was tough at times, but I think the arc benefits A LOT from a single readthrough. Can't wait for you to continue through the next few arcs! SO EXCITED!
This arc is over hated by large chunks of the fanbase and potential hot take but the only legitimate argument for hating this arc is if you were reading it weekly while it was coming out cause if you binge through its not bad at all and one of the best arcs in the series IMO.
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I want to emphasize Just how impressive law is. This character has an arc far better than many main protagonists. That’s incredible for a side character.
Edit: I really thought Zoro was going to get Aces DEVIL FRUIT. I’m sad he didn’t :/
Hey Daniel, have you read Don Quixote? Because you know Don Quixote and Rocinante. Corazon being the name bearer of DonQuixote Roshinante. Coincidence? I think not!
P.S. Law is definitely my top 5 characters of all time.
Daniel Greene Yeah. He’s the highlight of the arc and I’m not that big of a fan of his. But I get why people loved him after the flashback. Still I argue the arc had too many moving parts and would have been better split. It seems like Oda solved this issue with the current arc which I won’t spoil Daniel but makes Dressrosa seem like a warmup in terms of peak fiction.
Non-straw hat character tier list in the future?? 🥺🙏
Thoughts on the jacket jacket fruit?
About the ace not knowing sabo plot hole the only explanation I could think of is that sabo became the number 2 of the revolutionaries and a well known figure in the world during the two year timeskip. Can't think of any other explanation that'd make sense
Daniel: “Fugitora was a stand in for the reader”
Merphy: “We are all Bartolomeo.”
They're both goddamn right 😂😂😂
Theyre both absolutely right tho hahahahaha
I had a feeling Merph was gonna like the "Fuck you just say about the future king of pirates?" scene out of Bartolomeo. That scene made me fucking love the character on the spot.
I mean, they not wrong
@@kevinb5417 I freaked the first time I saw Barto grab that guy’s tongue and heard him say “Luffy Senpai”
Not gonna lie, Franky vs Mr Pink has the best flashback for a random one off villain of all time.
Honestly speaking this arc had so so so many strong flashbacks, Rebecca, Baby 5 (short but messed up), Senor Pink, and of course, Corazon.
It's actually the 2nd best for me with the first being another character from Tower of God, my 2nd favourite series after OP.
Thats why tobiroppo is dissapointing..
In dressrosa shicibukai level doflamingo we have an interesting clash with a good flashbacks.. but in wano yonkou level kaido, when tobiroppo vs strawhat pirates that doesnt happen.. just a quick clash.
Senor pink 😈😼🤝
I really hated this flashback because this arc was already so long espacially reading it chapter by chapter each week having one just for some weird dude that dress like a baby and that we never gonna see again was awful
“If you don’t want Justice to be dishonored, keep it close to you at all times! If we lose credibility by admitting fault, then we didn’t have any in the first place!” ~ Fujitora
@@masterofmeow8894 I feel when we're talking about series as good as one piece, vinland saga and vagabond, we can't really compare them as one series can't have everything so it just comes down to preference.But that does not mean others are not as good.
@@masterofmeow8894 Why are you so obsessed with seeking validation for your opinion about Vinland Saga or Vagabond? I put One Piece over both comfortably.
Oda is rightfully praised for his world building and characters, but I feel like his handling of themes is very often overlooked. It most often pops up when talking about Fishman Island as the themes of discrimination and prejudice are so clear. However his handling of ideas like justice, freedom, and anarchy are honestly far more subtle and far more interesting.
This moment Fujitora said this to Akainu was so satisfying
@@SkillMaster5000 Tbf, I see Master of Meow on every One Piece review w/o fail flooding the replies with "One Piece bad." In this case, the person calling him out is simply stating his opinion, while Meow clearly had ulterior motives when asking the initial question.
-Daniel talks about how Zoro was done dirty
Me: oh cool he's a Zoro fanboy!
-Daniel talks about how Zoro should have gotten a devil fruit
Me: Oh no, he's a Zoro fanboy
I don't know why this made me laugh so much maybe cuz I am an Zoro fanboy
-Least favourite character is Sanji
Me: oh no, he's a Zoro fanboy
I was like.. ohhh no.. he is becoming one of those zoro fanboys.. despite me being one lol
@@idiatico okay but who didnt hate sanji during this arc like fr
@@demdem7946 Honestly from Thriller Bark to Dressrosa I kinda hated Sanji, but luckily from Zoa (Zoe?) onwards that changed for me
Daniel : Law is my favorite non straw hat crewmember of One Piece
OP community : Of course he is
"non straw hat *crewmember*" xdddd nice one. He is tho xd
Chad Oden is the only one that even comes close to matching Law in that category for me.
Oden
Law isn't even in my top20 characters but he is ok lol
@@Akranejames Oden is like if Luffy was put in the worst situation imaginable to exercise his Luffyness
Law is the only character to beat Zoro out for 2nd in a popularity poll and in the latest poll he was the highest ranked non-straw hat at 5th
And that poll wasn't just from the Japanese fanbase like the others , that was a worldwide poll !!
Lol pls avoid use of certain descriptions. Non hat
@@Nastyn1nja808 but… he isn’t a straw hat
@@Nastyn1nja808 non hat, lmao
Zoro: 'and I took that personally'
About the Sabo thing. 1) Luffy and Ace are not really types of characters who read newspapers - it's a gag/ absurdist thing, that stayed consistent. 2) World Government only really knows about Revolutionaries (except for Dragon, of course). It's not a public knowledge of who is in command where, like you have with bounty posters of pirates. 3) Sabo is young and we don't know when exactly he rose in the ranks.
Exactly, Luffy didn’t even know about the revolutionary army until Garp told him after Eneis Lobby and they never said when Sabo became second. So Ace probably wasn’t even alive when Sabo became a big name and when Robin probably found out, she likely had zero urgency to tell Luffy since she doesn’t know their connection
But there is still the thing with Robin. There is no logical reason why she did not tell Luffy that she met his other brother while being with the Revolutionaries.
@@furorteutonicus9045 it was over the time skip. I don’t remember this portion too well so idk if Sabo told Robin about his connection to Luffy, and if he didn’t than it makes sense
@@furorteutonicus9045 Sabo told her not to tell him. You know how these brothers are, Sabo like Ace, wanted to pop out and surprise Luffy because he knew he'll meet sooner rather than later (and in-canon time wise, it wasn't that long since Robin reunited and Dressrosa happened).
Remind me, did Sabo have his memories back when he met Robin? Or did his memories return after she left? I know he read the newspaper, but I'm not sure if he read it at the same time the Straw Hats did.
I also just want to state I literally filled a notepad ( a small one but still) for this arc. I should have split it in two but I was having so much fun I didnt want to stop reading lol
I can only imagine what your notes were for Sr. Pink the diaper man lol
I wonder what were your notes for Sugar being as terrifying in concept as she is (given she can literally wipe out the very memory of your existence) which is contrasted with the quote "a man only dies when he's forgotten" from Drum Island. Also, Señor Pink, because goddamn Oda... I actually wanted Franky to either stop fighting or lose. I felt genuinely sad for the diaper gangster.
Never feel bad for splitting up reviews on these later arcs they are just so long plus it will let you go into more detail on your review
*two (:
When you read hunter x hunter you will fill notepad for a single chapter, that's how dense hunter x hunter is.
Let's also not forget Usopp's lie in chapter 24 when he talked to Kaya about the country of dwarves. They hated Usopp because he told them the truth. Smh.
Usopp is truly a man ahead of his time. A nostradamus of his own life.
And th atmy of 10 000 mn, and the swordswoman bringing mat being rebecca.
@@zoulzopan NOSEtradamus
I felt like Oda reached his peak efficiency in flashbacks in this arc as he competely overturned my view of Baby 5 in like 3 pannes (which is how long her flashback took).
Thank you for mentioning this! Her flashback, albeit tiny, is just story writing mastery and sadly is eclipsed by other flashbacks that put whole stories to shame.
@UCgyqOl0uUq1vNPQjnUe1WXQ ... What do you think it means? Because what Martin described seems consistent with the definition of what efficiency is.
Wasn't her flashback a complete plot hole tho?
@@sburbtube6766 how?
Baby 5 is so underated.
To this day, Law walking away in the snow while Corazon makes sure no one can hear him before he is shot by Doffy is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series.
This arc has the potential of turning Daniel from a Usopp simp into the one with the Cult 😂😂
All praise go d. Ussop
All of the lies coming true is one of my favorite small things about usopp
Excuse me we are not a cult, we are a legitimate religion.
The week-to-week for this arc was BRUTAL!
Blitz Comet It made me want to drop reading it weekly. Fortunately everything after it was good.
@@Avarn388 Zou is such a master piece
Yup, this was one of the arcs where I basically fell off weekly and then started a reread and caught up once it was on the next big arc. That's my favorite part of this series and being caught up, that at any point I feel it lags I can start a reread and love the series just as much again, if not more-so.
Don't even remind me bro, Punk Hazard into Dressrosa nearly made me want to drop One Piece, LMAO. But honestly, on a reread, Dressrosa is absolutely worth it. Such a good, powerful arc. But I will say, the last one eclipses it.
Yea I didn't read this arc week to week
If you were disappointed with Usopp running about to abandon the Tontatta, when Robin was turned into a toy Usopps character development from enies lobby was erased from his memories so he reverted to his old "I am incapable of anything courageous" mentality.
I didn't realize this until totally not mark pointed it out
That bit of insight really did change how I looked at Usopp during this arc when someone pointed it out
Honestly, that sounds somewhat farfetched.
@@MonkeyDIvan it's not, enies lobby was pivotal to ussops growth but remove the reason he's there he will also forget the build up of courage he received from that arc
@@MonkeyDIvan It's not. He lost all memory of Robin like she didn't exist at all.
I heard Dressrosa was a drag to follow on a weekly basis, but man is it an absolute blast to binge.
I’m constantly impressed by Oda’s ability to juggle so many intertwining plot lines and twist it into one satisfying conclusion
It was a drag during weekly. So much so that I stopped reading it weekly and just waited for the arc to finish so I could blast through it.
That honestly sounds like a good amount of manga arcs, especially long ones.
Idk if a drag but all the bird cage chapters yeah it was bad.. until a certain hunger for cake came and.. yeah that was surely "oh god kill me please".
@@s3studios597 this is why I think Wano is such an incredible arc. I've never once gotten tired of reading it weekly
I personally never felt it dragged and was interested and entertained by the arc from start to finish when i read it weekly.
Due to page restrictions, composition difficulties etc., there’s a lot of stories that Oda finishes up in his head but isn’t able to put out in the manga according to his editor. He said that if he were to put everything he wants in the story, it’ll never end. Señor Pink’s short 6 page backstory (which I loved) was also one such instance but Oda ended up putting it in the story.
A certain fan once asked Oda during an SBS as to why Viola and Doflamingo called each other "Violet” and "Doffy". Oda replied that it was a deep secret, which couldn't be told because it belonged to a really adult part of the story. It’s clear what Oda was trying to imply here but I wonder how different the story would be if Oda could put everything in it that he wanted to.
Then why does he waste time with stuff like the Vacuum Chick?
He wasnt even planing on adding the senior pinks backstory into manga, he did that after editor told him how much he liked it.
Also in one of the interviews Oda mentioned that he had 15 notebooks full of notes just for Dressrosa arc.
Bonus fact, Dressrosa supposed to be two different islands/arcs (one for the little guys other for toys) but her merged them to "save time" (which he said that by maerging both islands he made that arc twice as long and thus he save nothing lol)
@@Ryuksgelus Guessing it can be difficult to know what kind of gag will land beforehand. When you see senior pink and Bart, there was no guarantee that they would not become annoying and a waste of time. But most people turned out to like them.
Yeah, she turned out to not be entertaining. She had a small role and is now mostly forgotten.
Ain’t no way Doffy hit that…. It should’ve been me!!
@@Ryuksgelus who???
This arc's themes are incredible.
You have Doffy, who is a heartless monster, "Heavenly demon", who literally misses "hearts" leader in his desk. Not only that, he actually killed his brother, Korazon ("heart" on spanish, very clever, Oda), who previously was in that place (others as Pika, Trebol and Diamante). And we have Law - the younger version of Doffy, who didn't become a monster because of love that Korazon ("heart") gave to him. But being a human means to have a heart, so who then does he want to be? He wants to be king - simply born superior to all others. Doffy is full of hatred, but he is also a manipulator, he knows how to control himself and other people through this feeling. He rules his country through power and violence. On the contrast, Riku rules for the sake of his people and tries to make DR peaceful country. For him being human means more than being king. And Doffy is the opposite- in his mind he is born superior, not human but God, never bowing to anything. Ironically, this is the world of One piece in miniature - celestial dragons (which he is one of, very clever, Oda) on top, with humans below and slaves even below that. When everything seems charming and nice on the surface, but only hides the true cruel nature of this world, when people who know too much get silenced and erased from history.
And speaking of slaves, we also have all the toy stuff - they couldn't feel pain, couldn't feel touch of a person, and yet - Kyros still had his heart, his love to his daughter, so in a way he was more human than Doffy ever was.
And on top of that we have the strawhats, who fell directly into Doffy's plan, but the only reason they didn't lose was Viola's betrayal. She looked into Sanji's heart (VERY clever, Oda) and saw how good person he was, and wanted to help him - this is the single biggest reason Doffy's plan went to shit - he didn't understand why would someone help others just because of their nature as good person. Basically, he doesn't understand love. This is the reason he asked why Law kept Korazon's logo on his back. This is also a lesson that Law had to learn - Korazon didn't save him for this grand scheme to destroy Doflamingo, but simply out of love. This is also a reason, why Law couldn't defeat Doffy - because he hated Doflamingo, and it made him predictable, made him one of those hateful people who Doffy learned to control, himself first and foremost.
There are million other things to notice in this arc, but I just wanted to mention this specific flaw of ideas - how smoothly one theme leads to another and then comes full circle.
Man, I love this arc so much
Oda: I don't write Romance and love
Meanwhile Oda: have Dressrosa
There's also the theme of brothers throughout the arc and used for writing quite an emotional arc.
The hearts leader was vergo. He was the new Corazon. Btw corazon is a title not a name. Rosinante (doffy's brother) was the first Corazon and was later replaced by Vergo
@@adityajoshi735 No, Vergo was the first Corazon, then Rosinante took his place because Vergo left for a secret mission, once Rosinante died the heart seat became vacant, and Doflamingo wanted Law to seat on it.
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I like how this arc themed around the heart, the next one about the soul, and the current about opening the mind.
Oda is brave. He took out some of the main characters for whole 2 years. 2 years without seeing Nami and Sanji. Few writers have that balls.
Sanji was present quite a while in Dressrosa, Nami too, don't overdramatize lol
@@padrenuestre Dude, the last chapter of Sanji and co. in Dressrosa was chapter 730, released December 9, 2013. The last chapter of the Dressrosa Saga is chapter 801, released September 28, 2015. But Nami and co. appear just in chapter 805, released November 9, 2015. Almost 2 entire years.
And we had Whole Cake Island, without Zoro, Franky, Usopp and Robin. Another 2 years with half of the crew out.
@@hiravalley2359 And yet Oda still squeezed them there in the Dressrosa plot didn't he? And later delivered double in WCI. Why calling it brave is beyond me, Oda should never pay attention to what the dumb fanboytards want to see in the first place. I like Sanji, but I never missed him in Dressrosa bc the story was that damn good you don't even feel his absence. Just like I never missed Zoro in WCI.
@@padrenuestre Hira said Oda took the main characters out of the story for two years. And he did, Hira even provided the timeline for you. It's a very brave move for the author to remove main characters from an ongoing story, especially for almost two years. It speaks to how much of a master of his craft Oda is that you barely noticed, if you read One Piece during Dressrosa that is. Although from how you're framing your comments, i get the feeling you probably just binge watched/read after Dressrosa was completed.
It hasn't been said that Sanji and Nami weren't in Dressrosa. It hasn't been said that Oda moving them out of the focus was a mistake. You just have shit reading comprehension and a terrible attitude.
@@MuscialTraditionz hey don't assume things about me, talking about the attitude here
Gotta love how in an arc with three different princesses Law was still the biggest damsel in distress
Law is the Vivi of dressrosa
@@weadon44 Definetly!
And what’s crazy is that doflamingo actually cares about his crew cause his crew has his loyal family for many years when his own bloodline betrayed him
For people to provide examples: doffy doesn’t like when pica is made fun off, baby 5 and Buffalo being tied up, and when trebol is damaged by law he swoops in
No he don’t, that’s literally what Law said, as long as he has ppl who simply follow his own dreams he consider them his family. But as soon as those goals don’t allign you ain’t no family to him. He was happy to let Monet die for his own goal. You only knows if someone care about you as family when your own goals don’t allign and they diverge and than person’s true nature come out.
Example: Corazon who disregarded his lifelong mission to save Law
@@sohailsadaqat6684 you’re acting as if he had a smile on his face or called monet useless when she died
@@sohailsadaqat6684 law manipulated that situation same as doffy does. Doffy values loyalty which he found in his executives family. That is his treasure and why he fights to protect it. The small glimmer of light in the dark pit that is doffy the madman who wants to set the world burn
@@stressbean1707 I think, more importantly, this is what sets Luffy and Doffy apart. Both care about their crews on some level, but one of them is willing to let them die to accomplish his goals.
*Fujitora enters the fray*
Law: Why do I hear boss music?
Doflamingo: We do a bit of trolling.
Seriously, this man hurls frickin meteors out of SPACE! Kudos to the goblin for actually finishing Dressrosa in a week and a half.
Everybody is gangsta until flamingo man and blind old man pull "it's just a prank, bro"
@@iamdivan7368 lmao. Troo. How does one use a string to walk? Flamingo man.
@@iamdivan7368 It's just a prank phrase triggered my flashbacl for The Time I got reaincarnated as a slime season 2 when Geld asswhopped the guy who can regenrate
The speedrunning goblin
How did you feel about Bellamy showing up again and him feeling he has no choice but to fight Luffy despite admiring him?
The contrast with gravity man was brilliant. I found them to be two sides of the same coin.
@@DanielGreeneReviews In your Sky Island review you said you knew Bellamy was going to come back later - little did you know it would be 12 whole arcs later! But even back on Jaya you see his crew has Doflamingo's mark on their clothes, the foreshadowing is insane. You can also see how Doflamingo's philosophy influenced him back then.
Side note, Bellamy desperately fighting Luffy on Dressrosa hit really emotionally hard on me for some reason. Perhaps because he pushed himself so hard to gain the respect of someone who doesn't deserve it.
@@DanielGreeneReviews Daniel, you just said it! "Two sides of the same coin." It is literally a RULE of One Piece and a main philosophy that Oda has been writing One Piece with throughout the entire story. Try to remember this "Two side of the same coin" everytime you read One Piece and especially when you reread. It's the main thing about One Piece.
@@DanielGreeneReviews fun fact, theres a theory that the reason Doffy's flag gas a slash across his its left eye is because, during one of the attacks when he was a kid, he lost his left eye. Hence why he always wears his glasses, even at night, and how law and luffy managed to blindside him that time when they attacked from his left. Also adds nicely to the ol' "eye for an eye" theme of his life.
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Have we ever seen Doflamingo’s face without his glasses?
I'm gonna defend Viola's honor to my dying breath, she's low-key the MVP of the arc, without her support throughout the story everyone would be lost.
Agree 🤝
1000%
actually, it's the publishing company and the fans who "creates?names?" the arcs/sagas.
Oda just writes and draws for a week to week release.
Interesting! I didn’t know that.
Wait what Oda doesn't create name for his characters
@@neutonpack1682 He does, just not for the arcs.
I mean the volume books clearly state the name of arcs, so it seems like the someone on the production side names the arcs 🤷♂️
Yeah the fandom essentially chose the naming convention to base arcs on the island the crew is on, hence why this “arc” is 100+ chapters long. There’s definitely a way to break up these story arcs like Daniel suggested.
Hope you enjoyed the slow start on the second half cause it ain’t gonna stop now until you catch up
Good!
@@DanielGreeneReviews you forgot about cliffhangers, because Daniel there will be a time when you will have to wait. But yes, Oda lose all breaks and is speeding so hard that he would be put to the death if dead
I’m so excited for him to read Zou. It has probably one of the most iconic One Piece moments of the whole story. Easily rivals “Nothing happened” and “I want to live.” I won’t say the line because spoilers, but you know what I’m talking about.
Calling the Grand Fleet a "fan club" kinda does the weight of this event dirty. It's not just a fan club, it's a full on fleet that puts thousands behind Luffy. He is getting his own large pirate crew to content with the Emperor's
On the other hand, the Barto Club is literally just a Luffy fanclub
@@EpicThe2nd The Pirate King is just the ultimate influencer
But, Luffy doesn't want to be incharge so they aren't official
@@alliew31 No he said do what you want, and they wanted, he gave his ok there that they follow him if they want to. Which they do.
@@alliew31 Luffy officially told them to do whatever they want and they said ok we are the grand fleet then... and luffy did understand what they did and had to suck it up... he said they would come if they needed him and that they would com if he needed them... pretty official in my book...
Also the Grand Fleet is waaaay more than just a fan club. They exchanged sake cups, they are now loyal to Luffy. Luffy has a fleet of 5600 men ready to die for him
*Loyal to Zoro
Luffy didn't drink the sake
I just love Doflamingo’s history. Exactly like you said, his history does justify the man that was created.
Monsterous cruelty born of monsterous suffering.
I wouldn’t say that it justified, but more made it more understandable
I wouldn't say it is justified, because just like him there was his brother undergoing the same things but he never became a doflamingo. In the end who you truly are can never be rubbed out and only be amplified through such disturbing experiences.
you can always make some excuse to why your villain suffered and is now bad. but Oda weaved it into the narative so perfectly, is what made Mingo such a compelling villain. it wasn't just "oh some shithead killed my parents, im bad now".
Not justified, corazon sufered too and granted he had a better mentor to look up, but it made him one ogf the nicest people on this world.
I wouldn't say justified. But you could understand where it came from. His upbringing as a celestial dragon (even though his father was a good guy) really developed him for the worse and when his father resigned his status, the lost wealth and animosity from commoners really amplified the worst in young Doffy to the point, which made him from a borderline sociopathic rich kid into a true sociopathic power-driven scumbag. Having Trebol and the rest of the family around him from this young age forward didn't help either as Trebol used Doffy to amplify his worst even more to gain power.
Doffy is probably the best villain to date. But there are some villains, who come close in the coming arcs
I remember when Sabo's first appearance happened and the internet was SCREAMING about how the three sake cups were a retcon... but if you go back to Marineford (where the panel first appeared) ODA INCLUDED THE TINIEST SLIVER OF THE THIRD CUP
This
Sabo was there in Logue Town (when Luffy was on the scaffold u see him in the crowd twice)
Ace’s tattoo in Alabasta is foreshadowing for Sabo anyways kek
(Really wanted Oda to add more foreshadowing, but it is what it is XD)
About Sabo, he didn't want Robin to tell Luffy about him. That's one. Sabo is definitely a major player in the Revolutionaries, but you also have to remember Luffy didn't even know about it's head Dragon or the fact that he was his father. And no one else knew that they were related in the crew, so that was good
Ace’s part- probably should have know? I’m mean. Revs are kept under the rug but we still never got any info on Dragon or his relationship with the world
@@connor_obrady Ace not knowing about sabo is down to three things.
1. Revolutionary army works undercover and most of the command structure and their bigshots are unknown.
2. How media works in one piece that most of the big things that revolutionary army does gets swept under the rug by the World Government. The whole world economic journal and big news morgan stuff is testament to that fact. Example being Smoker being given credit for defeating Croc instead of Luffy
3. We don't know when Sabo actually climbed up the higher ranks in the revolutionaries.
@@logichikari3471 4. The world of OP is insanely huge.
@@ei9601 yes, that is true as well.
As Iogic hakari said, that can be SOMEWHAT excused
One thing might justify it when we talk about random people: we often assume that every information readily available is well understood and should be known by every person in the OP world.
We have always given as granted, for example (in Wano), that everyone should have known about the 4 emperor's bounties, meanwhile we see highly ranked Marines react to them when they were told us
That's why I think that most people just dont care about the bounties, especially when they are not really involved in any way, which excludes most of the population, especially those in a sea as peaceful as East Blue, meaning that they could very well just ignore even the idea of Sabo's survival.
We also have to consider the consistency in which the bounties are displayed in the newspapers. When talking about a specific person, we don't really have to assume that said bounty would be kept there when said character is not prominent at that specific moment: that would make no journalistic sense especially with someone like Morgan who takes care of it
Thus remain in my opinion 4 characters that need to be in world justfied (be they decent or not, this is how it could make sense, not how it would be satisfying)
- LUffy not knowing is obvious, for he is oblivious
- Robin can be seen as keeping that info away from Luffy because of Sabo's request
- Garp can be excused by simply not caring and not remembering Sabo (with that being the reason as to why he didn't tell Luffy), as he might simply have seen him for a pretty short amount of time and that's about it
- Ace not knowing. This is more tricky, as we don't know his habbits, however we can assume that he might have been like Luffy + there is the first notion: he could very well just not have known
Zoro getting a devil fruit would ruin his character, he is literally this guy fighting at the level of titans with just his training
I would agree with you if it wasn't for Fujitora's existence. His df by no means deminishes his character as swordsman. People said the same thing about Zoro shouldn't get conquerer's haki as well. I think "ruin" is too strong a word for something we just don't know. Plus there's so many ways Oda can spin it. The compass compass no mi where Zoro has a built-in way finder and still manages to get lost. Or like a porcupine Zoan or something.
Personally, I just disagree that the crew shouldn't have too many devil fruit users, but Zoro alone as a person, I'm perfectly fine with if it wasn't for the crew dynamics.
@@benniek1050 i do agree with him developing Haki and him developing conquerors haki (and consequently the different ways of using it), and I'm all for crew members getting a devil fruit ( like Nami or ussop) but Zoro i feel like his thing is the swords and being a swordman, so devil fruit of any kind would take too much
Luffy didn’t even know the Revolutionary Army existed. Heck, he didn’t even know he had a DAD until Garp told him.
Revolutionaries and their actions are swept under the rug frequently too.
The bigger issue is definitely Ace, who you think would have known at least who Dragon and what the Revolutionary army was
@@radical6905 considering what ace was doing in his 3 years of piracy that we know of that would be spoiler at this point, he doesnt really had the chance to care about the revolutionary army or to take a more in depth look at them
For Luffys case, yea he doesnt care about stuff so he probably never checks newspaper or whatnot. For Robin's, Sabo asked her not to tell on purpose for sure. But for Ace, I dont think he never had to chance to hear, see or know about the revolutionaries and their top dogs. So it is bad writing in Oda's part.
@@kraduskradius8241 It’s ambiguous, remember that we are taking this from the PoV of a normal human being and Ace and Luffy are far from being normal lmao.
There is also the fact that the world itself is insanely huge and this is something proven over and over again, them not knowing this can be a realistic possibility, similar to how they missed Ace’s execution because they were trapped in Thriller Bark, the only reasons why Luffy found out is because Ace’s execution is:
1) A win for the Government and thus it was advertised all over the world
2) It was a HUGE thing that changed the world in itself as we can see today.
3) He already knew that Ace was alive and what he was doing as part of Whitebeard’s crew.
@@kraduskradius8241 "But for Ace, I dont think he never had to chance to hear, see or know about the revolutionaries and their top dogs" That's the thing, he never had the chance, right after he set sails he fought one battle after another and established himself enough to get recommended a warlord position, met shanks on the new world, stromed through wano, fought jinbe, and joins the whitebeard pirates, then thach get killed and ace proceeds to hunt Blackbeard for a few months and promptly defeated and executed, and as far as we know about the whitebeard pirates, they dont care enough about the revolutionary army to investigate their top brass as long as the revolutionary army does not hurt their intrest and as far as we know about the revolutionary army, they dont hurt the whitebeard pirates interest, and even if ace did investigate and found out about Sabo, what could he do? search for the Revolutionary army base to meet him? sends a letter to Sabo through a messenger? or just raging around the world in search of Sabo without a single clue?
Dressrosa fav arc, law best side character, mingo best villan. Yep, daniel got everything right.
Hey! We don't forget about Barto!
@@masterofmeow8894 OK
Crocoboy disagrees.
Even the "problems" were pretty much spot on with the consensus
@@masterofmeow8894 I love how this guy is obsessed with trying to downplay One Piece. This just shows how insecure he actually is when it comes to his own taste and opinions. What an absolute sad display and he never ever can let go because he is too butthurt to accept that One Piece is seen as a masterpiece by such a huge amount of people while almost nobody cares about Vinland Saga, Monster or Vagabond. :)
The thing is Daniel - Post-Time Skip Zoro was kinda OP, to the point where he needed to face an Admiral that controls Gravity to face opposition. Really loved the gravity guy bit - was my thoughts exactly when i first read it.🤣
He wasnt op. Pretty sure Zoro implies in the arc that hes can't beat Doflamingo
@@chinuaalibatya7345 Not OP in the sense stronger than everyone - I meant in the sense where the usual second in commands or in this case all the fights Zoro has had Post time skip were all onesided until he met Fujitora
@@arkeshjayakumar5746. Ahh I see. That makes sense
Now we're in wano and zoro still needed to be nerfed for his fight hahaha
@@herowesley1804 not really, but ok
Ah, the arc with the most unstoppably overpowered fruit: the Jacket Jacket fruit.
Ah yes, an alternate universe where Kaido wearing Shanks who just ate the fruit.
Grand line review adress the Sabo problem in one of his last videos. What Trigger his memories is reading Ace Luffy and Sakazuki together. Been Sakazuki the name of the Akainu and also meaning the ceremory of becoming brothers by making a toast with sake.
The thing about Zoro is that after the time skip he simply becomes too powerful. It will still be a while before you actually see him struggling against someone.
Yeah the impression I get from post time skip Zoro is that he can pretty much defeat anyone that base Luffy can defeat... so its hard to add in 2 opponents stronger than base Luffy on these early arcs to challenge Zoro...
Heck, even Sanji had a handicap against Vergo and then only had to fight Mingo...
way to shape his expectations lol
@@adoniscreed4031 Not just base Luffy but Gear 4 Luffy as well. Zoro's first true fight is happening right now against someone that is far above in power compared to Doffy or Cracker. Luffy had the luxury of fighting opponents that will push him to the next level while Zoro didn't. I say this: Zoro was stronger than Luffy after TS and Luffy needed to fight Doffy, Cracker and Katakurri to catch up. Now he is stronger than Zoro but he wasnt before. Fujitora's intervention was far too convinient in front of the Colosseum when Zoro tried to attack Doffy. If he were to fight him there he would have whooped Doffy and the arc would have went to shit. Oda does that often.
@@balazstoth7061 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Zoro literally said he wouldn't be able to beat doflamingo. What are you zorotards doing here?? Enma is basically the upgrade of zoro. Do you actually think zoro without emma will beat katakuri.. I need the weed you zoro fans are smoking
BAHAHAHA STRUGGLED AGAINST BASE LUCCI 😂😂😂
Best argument I've heard about Sabo is that he probably only became popular recently because the Revolutionaries work undercover. Also, I'm pretty sure Sabo told Robin to not mention him to Luffy at Sabaody according to an SBS, but I'm not 100% confident about this
Its confirmed by a canon novel that Sabo told Robin not to say anything.
Sabo was the one who brought Robin to Sabaody.
@@mcrbelieve3923 thanks. I knew I'd read that somewhere but didn't know the source
Do you remember during the Skypiea flashback Noland told that he had visited a natio of tiny people and here we learn that that Tontatta tribe was visited by Noland. I think it's a pretty neat detail.
It’s details like that which make it enriching to not rush through a story or read weekly just because reading in bulk makes it understandably easy to overlook these things.
On a slightly bigger scale, it’s interesting to see what people think are relevant or not once everything is read through in it’s entirety. I noticed the Kingdom’s struggle itself wasn’t brought up in the review, more just the gladiator aspect of the story. Bellamy and his plot wasn’t brought up either. In an arc where despite half the crew leaving early in the arc, the story in stuffed full of characters and storylines, it’s cool to see what people think is worthwhile or not.
I caught up to the manga just as this arc was beginning. Learning how to wait week-to-week for individual chapters of One Piece was... difficult. Especially with an arc this large. I made it through about half of the arc before I started putting it down for a year at a time so I had large chunks to binge. The current arc has had me reading every week though.
Wano has been very enjoyable week to week. Every week, I read the early spoilers, the full spoiler summary, the fan scans, and finally the official. It's crazy!
@@yugfus Oda definitely learned some lessons from Dressrosa for how to do these super long arcs. Think he realized that Dressrosa's static visuals were not gonna cut it, so now he makes sure to have places look and feel different throughout an arc even without leaving the island.
@@MDoorpsy I agree, it feels like dressrosa was a testrun on how wano should be written
Never expected someone to like one piece this much. Kind of makes me wanna read it myself before I get back into watching
A lot of people just see a rubber boy going on a wacky pirate adventure and write it off as a children's cartoon that can't possibly be as good as everyone says it is.
It's a big commitment to read a story this long, but if you stick with it the story will hook you and never let go.
If you watch, watch the one pace cut to not have the filler.
Daniel likes One Piece just about as much as the majority of the fanbase 😂 Honestly it is one of the most beloved series out there by its fans hahaha
@@termy_3926 it really isn’t that big of commitment tbh l, if you like it you will read it
Daniel going from hating Usopp to completely honestly saying he’s a lovable goof is peak character growth
The worst part about reading Dressrosa weekly was that it all took place in a single day.
One day. For 2 years. Every week.
I never got why this is a problem for some people. All the things that happened during the arc impact the overall story all the same no matter if it lasted 1 day or 2 weeks.
@@furorteutonicus9045 i disagree, but sure! Glad you didnt mind
Onigasima raid is going to last the same(about two years) and it's one night, is it a problem to you too? I guess as long as you like the characters present it doesn't matter how much canon days it lasted one or twenty. You probably weren't invested with the characters much.
@@padrenuestre Which one of the 85 characters introduced in this arc are you referring to lol
It's funny. Dressrosa becomes an arc I love and appreciate more every year. Back in 2014 - 2016 when I was reading it weekly, I felt like it dragged on and overstayed it's welcome (it being 100 chapters and all). But the more I go back and read/watch it, it proves to be one of the most densely packed and cleverly crafted arcs in the series. Honestly it's in my top 5.
This comment made me remember that it is the first half of Dressrosa that I strongly disliked, the second half I enjoyed more.
It's my favorite arc in one piece for now. This arc is nearly perfect. However to many short flashbacks.... Honestly. Kyros deverse a longer flashback.
Daniel , Merphy & Mr morj's post ts arc reviews actually give justice to the unfair playing field post ts arcs were put on coz fans had caught up by then & read it week to week.
I am so glad that we are getting Post Time skip arc reviews from people who did not read it week to week. That actually makes a fair comparison between pre ts & post ts arcs .
Daniel i hope once you reach the current ongoing arc in the manga, do start reading it only after that arc ends & so on till the end of the story(5 more years) . Stay unspoiled till then :)
I'm personally hoping he does 1 video for each individual act. Wano might end up being 200 chapters when all is said and done, and it seems a waste not to make use of the very convenient break points Oda laid out for us.
I honestly think the post-time skip slander is simply because Fishman Island and Punk Hazard back-to-back weren’t the best (though far better than people make them out to be).
Since then, Oda’s continually put out bangers. Dressrosa, Zou and Whole Cake Island were all excellent and it’s kinda impossible to judge Wano until it finishes but so far I’ve loved it. It really captures the feel of a samurai epic.
"Five more years"
One Piece has only had 5 years left to finish off all of it's story since before I was born lmao
Mr. Morj did read it week to week though. But I agree. Personally the one arc that aged well for me was Thrillar Bark.
Whole cake definitely turned into a top One Piece arc for me when reading it straight
Zoro has haki, I think he's strong enough without a devil fruit. and if you remember Rayleigh also didn't have one, and Zoro kinda plays the same role for Luffy that Rayleigh did for Roger
Fun fact in case you missed it ( I kno I did at first) .... but the hero Usopp lies about being related to is Noland from the Skypeia flashback. And in that flashback Noland mentions visiting and helping an island of little people. Which is why the Tontattas have a statue of Noland on Green Bit.
Looks like I need to really get into the One Piece manga again. I'm currently stuck at the Dressrosa arc in the anime and the pacing is THE WORST. It's so bad that I repeatedly dropped it after trying to get into it again and again. Hearing such a positive review from you might finally get me to continue with the manga as well. So thanks!!
Switching to the manga is really à good way to go back to it at this point in the show.
The pace in the anime is just nightmarish for this arc
@@istrakyuketsuki2342 The only praise I can give to the current anime is the Wano arc adaptation is fantastic. And one of the few times I find better than the manga. Other wise stick to the manga is my book.
Ik what you mean but honestly skypea was worse in the anime in terms of pacing and dressrosa isnt even that bad most of the stuff in it is worth having patience for stuff like law and his development and a whole lot of other good stuff and the next 3 arcs are actually some of the best one being godly the other being insanely good and the other being very good but this is just my opinion.
@@Avarn388 most people consider the anime a better rendition of wano then the manga because it solves alot of the vague details which can lead to alot of confusion and misunderstandings but the only thing thats kinda annoying is that its pacing is like half a chapter each episode but it gets balanced out with the god tier animation and scenes
Toei really started using pointless reaction shots and repeatedly showing the same flashbacks to pad out the anime at this point
My favourite non-Straw Hat character gets introduced in this arc too and it's not Law. Rosinante Donquixote is a real one.
Corazon, is the best. Hands down. That flashback was just art.
why do people even divide their favorite OP characters on SH and non-SHs ones. It's lame. If you like a character it doesn't matter that the isn't a crewmember lol. Why there is the need to specify where he belongs is beyond me.
@@padrenuestre I mean, if that's your opinion then all the power to you. To me it feels like you need to make that distinction, because the straw hats are almost always on-screen, they get an unfair advantage. And for me at least, it's just overall fun to categorise favourites. Like even with the crew, I like Zoro as a fighter the most, but Usopp for his utility more, favourite villain, favourite devil fruit user etc.
@@benniek1050 what the straw hats being more prominent has to do with the fact that you still like a side character more? xd It's not a competition within the leagues lol. But fair enough.
@@padrenuestre it's definitely a competition. The word "favourite" made it explicitly a competition. But here's my logic why screen time matters. I'm confident that if you asked 1000 people who their favourite One Piece characters were, there would be an extremely high correlation between screen times and favourites. I'm confident that most of the straw hats will be taking the top 10 spots, with Luffy right on top. Another thing is recency bias. Your favourite mightve been Dr. Hiriluk, but the drum island arc happened like ages ago whereas the straw hats are always present in the storyline. It's basically the same reason why you have to distinguish between Luffy, the main character and the rest of the straw hats.
Maybe I'm being too reductive for basing it on a single element like watch time, which is definitely not the case, but it does matters a significant chunk.
One thing I really loved was how at the end of the story Fujitora does the whole "let the dice decide" thing about not going after Luffy and the crew. Except that he controls gravity so he almost certainly means he was making the dice come up the way he wanted to until his fellow marines forced his hand.
i never nticd that detail
Uhhhh the Straw Hat Grand Fleet is not a fan club but the literal proof that Luffy is becoming a powerhouse and a very important pirate of the era.
Yup, like how Whitebeard's allies showed up at Marineford, Luffy now has his own fleet of allies. Even though he doesn't wanna be a boss lol.
@@bfc10200 The perfect irony
I'm still calling them a fan club and nobody can stop me
I just read thru all of One Piece. Took about 2 months. What I truly appreciate about One Piece is it's commitment to being creative. In it's designs, in it's combat, in it's characters, and it's world. I mean top to bottom I don't think you'll ever find a more creative piece of fiction.
After hearing that you aren’t sold on Brook I’m excited for your review of an upcoming arc where Brook has an absolutely amazing moment to see if that changes your opinion on him at all
I know the arc you're speaking of and Brook is clutch! I can't wait!
I think many people think this listening to the review. I am glad you phrased your sentiment in a non spoilery way.
"Young Lady" will forever be one of the most badass lines in One Piece
Oof, the strawhat grand fleet-
It's like when whitebeard showed up with several other pirate crews to marineford. They are all "under" luffy, not just a fan club. Luffy has an army now.
Also for Sabo, the anime did a special episode called "episode of sabo" that explains what exactly happened for Sabo to get to this point, which I appreciate since I didn't think I got enough from dressrosa to reestablish him as a character personally
True, I hope Merphy and Daniel watch the Episode.
As an anime watcher, I forgot that he wouldn't have that context and I was kinda confused by the complaint
About the Ace and Sabo thing, the way I justify it is that Sabo hadn't gained infamy before 2 years ago, so Ace wouldn't have known about him when he was alive.
Anyway, I'm so so happy you loved this arc. It's definitely one of my favourites too!
Btw, what did you think of Kaido's introduction?
I didn’t get the sabo thing, he was presumed dead and the revolutionaries are covert
Goddamn! that is actually a really good argument. Damn... after so many years it actually makes senses XD thx
@@topramen5344 They aren't covert. Lots of people in this arc react like "OMG IS THAT THE NUMBER 2 OF THE REVULITONARY ARMY" when they see him so he clearly is famous.
@@GoldenMechaTiger I’ll have to reread it then it’s been awhile
It kinda of makes sense he might have forgotten his reason for living with his amnisia and once he regained his memory's his ambition returned too so he managed to become chief of staff during the time skip
11:09 Luffy has never knew/cared about world figures so in my opinion it's not a huge problem ( he didn't know who his father , the warlords , the yonko or the admirals were until recently , all who are super important and well known world figures + during the he was stuck in the Calm Belt , the isolated part of the world ) . Sabo probably asked Robin not to tell Luffy about him , just like he asked the StrawHats at Kiros's house . And so far we haven't gotten any indication in the manga or SBS's that Ace knew Sabo was in the Revolutionary Army ( though I haven't the light novels about Ace's journey )
Doffy killing Corazon and Law seeking revenge for it is such the perfect example of FOUND FAMILY. I don't think I've ever seen an 'evil found family' like Mingo's crew before. They genuinely love and care for each other...
Phantom troupe
@@ihuh1000 Do they care for each other though? I remember the big guy going after Kurapika for revenge because he cared but the rest of them? I more had the vibe that they were more colleagues than a family...Still a cool and scary group though.
I am interested to see him read Wano. It seems to be the capstone of everything since the time skip. I also am looking forward to his take on Whole Cake Island because I love Luffy’s fight but I under why people don’t. Also it is kind of crazy
yep, it will definitely be interesting. The first time I read it week by week, I didn't like it that much. But since than I've reread it and liked it much more. Especially the part after the party is way better, if you don't have to wait and can binge through it.
@@imbaroxxorable I personally prefer the first half as a whole package, but damn Luffy's fight in the second half is probably the best in the entire series.
The divide between people who love the WCI fight and those who don't is very cleanly down the line between manga readers and anime watchers x)
Manga readers loved it, anime watchers disliked it. And for good reason!
@@sleepysera I thought is w2s the opposite? I heard from a manga reader the manga fight was nothing to right home about then he watched the anime version and was blown away.
@@sleepysera totalynotmark said the same thing
I was really nervous whether you'd like this arc or not. Since it's pretty long and the anime adaptation of this arc is garbage I've seen a lot of people get burnt out during this arc
Really glad you enjoyed it Daniel!
Also, I'm SO glad you love law. He's my second favourite character in all of one piece!
Never touched the anime outside of a quit bit here and there due to y’all’s warnings.
@@DanielGreeneReviews If you want to see some cool moments it’s fine but overall stick to the manga. It’s a lot easier to get through pacing wise. The problem is the anime is ongoing alongside the manga. It isn’t seasonal like Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia etc. so a lot of content is purposefully stretched out to create a buffer of manga content.
@@DanielGreeneReviews I'm glad you did. Dressrosa was the lowest point in the one piece anime both in terms of pacing and animation. It was a nightmare
Zoro vs Pica was great, and Doffy's awakening was wild, but the phrase "Rebecca's flashback" will trigger any anime-watchers ptsd, guaranteed
@@DanielGreeneReviews You know how the arc in the manga had 102 chapters? Well in the anime it was 118 episodes... it didn't even have a lot of filler, just insanely stretched out scenes. I think the best part of the anime in Dressrosa was finally convincing a ton of people to switch to the manga.
welcome to the exclusive "I didn't read anything else for a week" club. This arc was indeed an insanely fun binge.
Daniel in the reread of this arc later on do notice how the names of doffys attack against luffy are actually related to his past .
Usopp is more heroic than a hero because he's always terrified of what's going on but always ends up stepping up to help save the day regardless of his fear :)
I love donflamingo because his character is him thinking how much better he is than everyone while falling for the same stuff. Like he constantly talks about how he is not gonna underestimate the straw hats while doing it constantly
So true and this goes over people heads so easily
Fun fact all of doflamingo's final attack are named from his own flashback.
interesting, could you go more in detail?
@@Ricardonsg all the attack names are mentioned in the flash back(just the awaking ones) for example his holy 16 bullets is mentioned
This arc also introduced one of my favorite side villains, the manly man, Senor Pink
I love the Japanese voice actor for Doflamingo, particularly the laugh, which is this menacing chuckle through a closed mouth. It underscores the veneer of civility over his psychopathy
One of the few redeeming qualities of Toei's butchering of Dressrosa in the anime tbh.
Man this arc was really... hardboiled :')
I actually cant wait til you’ve caught up
Current arc is getting wild
He’s not going to be impressed
@@abhJOKA he will
@@masterofmeow8894
Let’s see
Imo they are about even, but pretineskip has the golden stage of arcs from Sabaody to Marineford that gives it edge
Wano is long, but it also feels like 2 arcs. Everything pre-Onigashima is a different tone.
@@masterofmeow8894 overhyped and underhyped has lost all meaning these days. Elaborate why you don't like One Piece recently, because your criticism is invalid tbh.
This is the first time in 10 years as a part of the OP community that i ever hear someone saying that Zoro is being done dirty by Oda LMAO
Agreed, Zoro is obviously one of Oda’s favs. Other Straw Hats are definitely getting “done dirty” though (Brook and Usopp). Usopp especially has me worried for the future. Oda has dropped/skipped over A LOT of planned content for him, like how he left out the Daddy Masterson part in the manga to make chapter 100 about getting to the grand line, Usopp’s talk with Garp getting cut for page limits/time. Now it’s starting to look like Elbaf is gonna get cut too (especially since it’s foreshadowed that a Straw Hat might die in Wano and with the recent parallels with Enies Lobby... it’s not looking good for Usopp :(
@@Rika24 brook, usopp, nami and chopper.. All done dirty.. People say "they are not fighters" but this is the freaking pirate king crew. There has to be standards. How do you sail with the man who became the pirate king and the powerful people still wouldn't be scared to send their subordinates after you?? Nami and usopp and chopper need to increase in power
Since Oda has soooo many ideas for his story and can't get all of them to the pages, in recent years he started giving bites to the animation team so they can flesh things out in the anime he didn't have time to do. The anime arc for Dressrosa was painfully stretched out, adapting less than a chapter an episode, but they did a special episode for Sabo outlining what he was up to and why he wasn't in the story till now. It's on Crunchyroll and very much worth watching to fill in a few missing pieces there.
You’re kinda right about it being “2 arcs”. Green bit was actually supposed be it’s own arc, but Oda needed to combine both due to some restrictions. This is one arc where Oda wanted to do so much and he accomplished most of it! Almost every villain had a backstory and the themes are incredibly strong. Luffy and Law are forever goated 🔥
Amazing arc
I actually kinda miss the sagas that were filled with multiple smaller arcs before a big arc like East Blue, Alabasta, or Marineford. While Dressrosa is famtastic, it would've been nice to see what it would've been like to have Green Bit or the Colosseum be their own arcs.
@@leakypeach6250 yeah I do too! I can imagine the final saga being like Summit War Saga. People forget that everything from Saboady Archipelago to Post-War happened in around 100 chapters. I am see Oda doing something like this for the next 150-200 chapters
@@123rikin Honestly, when Oda says that there's like 5 more years of story left, I hesitate to believe that. There's just way too many loose ends to tie up in that time. And given Oda's tendency to lengthen his post-TS arcs to around 100 chapters, I can't see this series ending for a while.
If you want to see Oda's commitment to comedy check the: "oda usopp booger meme" apparently when he drew it he was laughing uncontrolably and fans did not notice until years later!
*until they were told, no one noticed it until he told us
@@nuredingeziqi679 damn, didn't know that part. Thought someone figured it out. Thanks!
Also, i recommend you re-read Alabasta and see the parallels between the two arcs! Especially the ending with Doffy being punched by luffy through the bedrock from the sky and crocodile being punched by luffy through thr bedrock from the ground :) it shows how Oda proved in his storytelling! ♥️
Right down to Punk Hazard having a lot in common with the pre-Alabasta Baroque Works arcs. Appearance by island whale (Laboon arc). Gaining a temporary crewmate connected to a warlord (Whiskey Peak). An island inhabited by giant reptiles and ... actual giants (Little Garden). Villain that can combine his subordinates together, a winter setting, and a doctor that experiments with devil fruits (Drum Island).
Even some of the villains' powers are basically the same. Mr. 5 and Gladius both have fruits that let them explode. Miss Valentine and Machvise both changing their weight. Miss Merry Christmas and Senor Pink both can travel through the earth at high speeds.
Seeing controversies after controversies of Dressrossa, it's really a fresh experience to see a new perspective from someone who reads the arc in bulk as their first time
Concerning Sabo:
1. Sabo did not remember Luffy and Ace until after Ace’s death. Reading about it triggered his memories.
2. Robin did not know Sabo was Luffy’s brother. And even if Sabo told her, she likely would keep quiet about it until Sabo and Luffy met.
3. Luffy does not care about others except for his crew. He doesn’t check out other’s bounty.
4. For Ace, my best guess is that Sabo was not that big 2 years ago?
where in the manga did it say this?
@@zoulzopan What point do you mean?
For 1, you can watch the scene where Sabo remembers Ace. It’s on UA-cam.
For 2, even when Ace was introduced, the other straw hats did not about him. Luffy just does not talk about these things. And Robin would not mention it if Sabo told her since that would not be in line with her character. I don’t remember if she even told Luffy she met his father.
For 3, the fact that Luffy does generally not know big pirates such as the other supernovas.
@@Rififi50 Yeah thanks I looked up point 1 and it's at ch 794. Sabo gave a brief recount to luffy of his past after he was saved by dragon.
10:55 There is a One piece novel call "One Piece Novel Heroines" talk about 5 characters during timeskip Nami, Robin, Vivi, Perona & Hancock. It explain why Robin doesn't tell Luffy about Sabo. Sabo is the one who brought Robin to Sabaody, but decided not to meet luffy and ask robin to hide the matter. Here the summary of Robin Novel :
Robin has a meal with the Revolutionary Army before her arrival at the Sabaody Archipelago. The meal is a recipe from the Yukali Kingdom. The kingdom had existed during the World Government's establishment and was under its rule, but after being destroyed by another great country, the only surviving record of it was the recipe. It takes the group 2 weeks to sail from Baltigo to the Sabaody Archipelago. After arriving to Sabaody, Robin thinks that Sabo will ask her about Luffy. However, he decides to leave and not to meet his brother yet, asking her to take care of Luffy for him.
That Sabo reveal meant so much back then and caused quite a stir in the OP community because it literally took us years of speculation whether he was alive or not.
Of course Dressrosa is peak One Piece. This was the arc who elevated Usopp's position from a Man to a God.
Clearly Robin wanted to have Sabo reveal himself to Luffy rather than just going "Sabo is alive". They probably discussed it.
As far Ace not knowing. Revolutionaries tend to do their own thing and operate in different seas and often covertly, so not that surprising. Especially if he never considered looking for him.
The issue with this is that the reader has to come up with the reasoning of why he should suspend disbelief. Certain aspect of story telling like this one should be explain explicitly and not have the reader make the excuses for him.
@@zoulzopan sure thing. But the series or at least this arc is already so bloated that some things have to be cut out.
@@zoulzopan Sabo got famous during the timeskip. Theres nothing telling you he was famous before.
Luffy got 500mill bounty in less than a year, why sabo couldnt in 2 years while being part of one of the biggest organizations? Its the reader the one whos making up stuff saying why Ace didnt know him.
@@mcrbelieve3923 I am not understanding you. Are you supporting my point? it seems like my point still stands, that Oda should've made it more explicit. Sabo as a whole should've been introduced much earlier too, it would've made for a much better transition. Merphy Napier is right in her critic of the character, he seems like just a stand in for Ace after he is gone rather than a brother that they had from the beginning.
@@zoulzopan You are the one making up theories of pre timeskip when we only have information post ts.
After assuming we have no information pre timeskip, then you may ask yourself whether Sabo was famous or not pretimeskip. And theres only one logic question to that.
He was not.
The "you become a hammer" debuff on a devil fruit is actually crazy and you need at LEAST a 50% spread of users/non users in case of a capsize. Zoro and Sanji are like the go-to hammer snatchers on the crew and I wouldn't be surprised if zoro turned down a fruit because he sees this as a duty of his. That plus the fact that he has vowed to become the "greatest swordsman in the world", not "strongest person" but "greatest swordsman". Getting a mystical power to give him an advantage is antithetical to his goal in life.
I think watching Daniel Greene slowly transform into a fellow Odamaniac is probably my favorite type of content.
Remember back in the thriller bark arc. The reason why Luffy, Sanji and zoro woke up. The Beautiful master swordswoman carrying meat.
We finally made it! We can finally sing the praises of God Usopp!!
Never have I clicked faster on a video.
What I love about Doffy and Rosinante's backstory is that: yes, Doffy's childhood was beyond messed up, but it doesn't excuse his behavior since you have the contrast of his brother, someone that went through the same misery and torture, who went on to becoming a good person.
Their upbring afterwards definitely helped who they became. Rosinante taken in by Sengoku, who treated him like a son, while Doffy was taken in by gangsters, who allowed his hate to flourish.
The best thing about corazon's inclusion in the story is that he went through all the same bullshit as doffy, but didn't end up evil like his brother. Part of this might be that Doffy has always been crazy, but I like to think it has more to do with who they were surrounded by after the fact. In their vulnerable states, broken down by the world, corazon was built up again by sengoku (not a perfect man, but a good one) and Doffy was built up by Trebol (🤢). Ultimately, someone showing him love and being a guidepost in his time of despair is what helped corazon heal after his tradjety, and is exactly what he knew law needed during his time of despair.
Hope you liked the arc, looking forward to next week!
13:42-13:52 I agree so much with you on that but I also take special note that his brother went through the exact same formative experiences in childhood but ended up as a loving caring person with a beautiful heart.
Oh damn, ive never really thought how Sabos infamy would make Ace not knowing he’s still alive unlikely
Tbf tho its still not as bad as certain characters not knowing what haki is ….Buggy
To be fair buggy d. Clown might be a rival to go d. Ussop he still isnt the sharpest tool in the shed
To be fair, we do not know when Sabo rose in the ranks and got to be 2nd in command. That could have happend when Ace was no longer alive.
@@furorteutonicus9045 that's the logic I use, maybe he didn't rise to being 2nd in command until after/during the timeskip
Well only WG really knew Revolutionaries other than Dragon who was more widely known.
Luffy and Ace don't read Newspaper and I don't think they ever shared with others, that they had a long "dead" third brother.
Ace was literally only a pirate for 3 years and his personality is luffy like, it’s not too surprising to think he would not know about sabo
Loved your interview with Brian on his podcast. Hopefully you can have him on for his new book next year!
Daniel you are a madman for doing all of Dressrosa in one video!
An interesting point is the one panel in which we see Doffy reading about the incident that occurred in Law's home town. Their backgrounds are pretty similar, and likely Doffy related to Law. He wanted to raise Law to be his right-hand man, but I wonder if that dynamic would have been as strong had Law not gotten the op-op no mi.
This was also a time when Oda was recovering from Tonsillitis and had to also take multiple breaks for his health.
Also, Welcome to the Don Quixote Family! I have Doffy’s Jolly Roger tattooed on my chest xD
At the time this was my favorite arc of all of one piece.
I loved Usopp getting a taste of observation haki.
I loved Usopp playing such a pivotal role.
I loved Laws back story.
I loved Pica and his high voice.
I loved how so many factions came together to work towards a common goal.
I loved Bellamy’s redemption.
I loved Sabo coming back.
And at the time I was anime only and completely caught up at the beginning of this arc so the week by week was difficult at times.
But at the time I loved it so much that it was my favorite arc.
I think you will love what’s coming up next. This next arc is the best set up arc in OP and then the arcs following are *chefs kiss*
Daniel you're 100% right. Reading Dressrosa week-to-week was tough at times, but I think the arc benefits A LOT from a single readthrough. Can't wait for you to continue through the next few arcs! SO EXCITED!
nothing better than listening to a guy talk about something he loves.
This arc is over hated by large chunks of the fanbase and potential hot take but the only legitimate argument for hating this arc is if you were reading it weekly while it was coming out cause if you binge through its not bad at all and one of the best arcs in the series IMO.
Gladiator combat, Record of Ragnarok has literal gods vs historical people for the fate of humanity
Too bad the anime is dogwater.
Manga is pretty good though.
Dresrossa: I'm 101 chapters long.
Wano: That's cute.
Law is by far my favorite non crew member but Bartolomeo is just so funny I makes to second in my mind