It foreshadows the concept of Luffy losing his crewmates right before Water 7/Enies Lobby and oh boy does it pay off. Also the Davy Back Fight could mean a lot later...
The epitome of 'now fellas, listen...' She ain't a 'hear me out' because she's a traditionally attractive girl/woman, but she's so shitty..shifty... there needs to be a little bit of an explanation
The amazing thing for me about Ace's death is that it's a reverse fake out. Instead of "oh, this character died... just kidding!" it was the opposite. I KNEW because of spoilers that Ace dies in Marineford, and when they uncuff him and he starts setting the world on fire I actually started thinking that maybe the spoilers were fake. It was so well done that it undid the spoiler. That has never happened before or since for me. One Piece is great.
@@brianyaniro5086my friend got spoiled and was like "does ace die?" When we were at impel down, and I told him it was a fandom in joke fake spoiler and he didn't believe me. Then ace got freed and I was like "dude I told you bro" and he was over the moon. Felt a bit mean doing it but I'm not letting him get spoiled lol
I really, really thought he wouldn't die because of Pell and all that stuff. To the last second I was like, no way, Oda wouldn't do that. I didn't even care that much about Ace. So when he died it hit me like a ton of bricks and Ace immediately became one of my favorite characters. Now I'm the person writing fix-it fics where he doesn't die, lol.
yes, truly one of the peaks. Oda really dropped the ball giving kinemon thirty plus death flags in wano and not following through, now whenever a beloved character is near death everyone knows no one is in any real danger. I wonder how there will be any real tension in the later arcs when he did wano like this, two of the strongest pirates in the verse usurped with no real consequences, just fifty false death flags over a hundred chapters, yikes
I hard agree on so much of the ranking but I think Amazon Lily deserves a revisit! the lore drop with how Boa and her sisters were treated is great, and also the part where luffy refuses to let anyone see their back is sooo good
I fully agree with the opinion that Arlong Park is the best litmus test for if someone would like One Piece or not. If seeing the gang square up to fight Arlong after Nami breaks down doesn't send a shiver of excitement through you, you're not going to fully enjoy the next 1,000 episodes.
I'm curious if you could catch up on most of the good stuff by just watching the top 7 arcs of the show in chronological order, and then throwing in some episodes/ arcs that describe back stories and character development. What do you guys think?
@@carsonrush3352 I feel some things would get lost trying it that way. What would probably be the best alternative would be the One Pace project, which is a fan project where they cut out the filler stuff, shaving off a significant part of the runtime. Alternatively in the future, there's going to be a new anime that's closer in line with the manga called "The One Piece", but no release date for that's been set.
@carsonrush3352 the problem is, everyone has a different top 7 arcs of onepiece. You may love an arc that someone else hated. Also, if you don't want to watch a show in its entirety, I don't think you should be watching that show at all. Ofc you may look back saying "yeah that part I should have skipped because I didn't enjoy it" but you can't know that unless you watch it.
On the night that I reached Water 7 when watching One Piece for the first time, I called in sick for work and watched it non stop until like 11am the next day
Agreed! I was watching it dubbed(yes you can judge me and no I don't care) and ended up switching over to subbed because I had caught up on dubbed and desperately needed to know what happens next. Absolutely my favorite arcs of the show
The “I want to live” scene will always make me cry. If I even think about it I tear up. The other scene that breaks me is Luffy realizing he still has his crew as he counts them out on his fingers
Sabaody is a top 5 arc for me. The pacing is insane and there's so much cool stuff around every corner. Duval (top 3 jokes in the story for me), Hachi return, Celestial Dragon debut, we meet all 9 supernovas, Rayleigh reveal, Roger lore drop, Kizaru, Pacifista debut, Kuma separating the strawhats, the Celestial Dragon punch, and the first hint of Luffy's real dream
Same here. Everything Sabaody-related I just love. It was the beginning of starting to understand how wide the world was with these other major rookies also experiencing their adventures. Understanding just how twisted the One Piece world is with the slavery and racism. Followed by very very real consequences for them at the end of the arc and Luffy’s hopelessness. Woof.. god, it’s good.
Finally someone putting some respect on my boy Bege's name. He was such a nothing character until wholecake and I ended up falling in love with his crew. So strangely wholesome
I do have a level of respect for som1 who can turn their useless fodder crew into their strength, now Law if only u could do that, granted i feel like his fodder crew is a cut above the rest, but fodder is still fodder
Me forgetting that ProZD is a voice actor, and he actually *played* the voice of Cat Viper?! Like, I think I remember seeing his voice acting reel videos, but I hadn't caught up with One Piece at that point, so it didn't sink in for me. Now I have, and I see this and I'm like "you were Cat Viper?!?!" 🤣
You're welcome 0:30 Amazon lily arc 0:46 Reverse mountain 1:02 Syrup village 1:41 Cover stories 2:22 Jaya 2:35 Orange town 3:01 Fishman Island 3:20 Romance Dawn 3:34 Whiskey peak 4:02 Punk hazard 4:20 Long ring long land 4:44 Thriller bark 5:31 Reverie 6:07 Skypiea 7:07 Dressrosa 8:04 Zou 8:35 Sabaody archipelago 9:03 Loguetown 9:25 Baratie 9:54 Little garden 10:22 Drum island 11:16 Whole cake island 12:03 Egghead 12:40 Alabasta 13:08 Wano 13:52 Arlong park 14:53 Water 7 +Enies lobby 16:13 Impel down + Marineford comment if i got anything wrong
The WAY Oda can still give us such excellent moments that connect all the way back and always feel like "Now this is the peak of hype" is insane to me , starting OP the best decision in my entertainment space.
@@imac5834 nah, like. I get it, Sanji is my least favorite Straw Hat (because SOMEBODY'S got to hold last place) and I don't necessarily like any of his later shenanigans, but his writing was done particularly heinous by the inclusion of him 'always wanting the Clear-Clear Fruit since he was a child, purely to spy on women'. that's an extremely tasteless gag at best, and outright reprehensible of our so-called Chivalrous Womanizer at worst.
In defense of that Usopp scene from Dressrosa. You have to remember that when Robin is turned into a toy it also erases her memory from anyone that knows her. So when Robin is turned into a toy, Usopp no longer remembers Robin and has NO reason to stick around in that factory.
Perfect timing! I quite literally just caught up to present (in the manga) after starting the show back in 2020. Had to speed run Dressrosa to present in approximately two months due to a trip I was taking to Tokyo and I was told I was in danger of being severely spoiled. For the last 4 years, outside of 2 close friends of mine, I shielded myself from ALL One Piece web content for fear that the algorithm would feed me unsolicited One Piece videos and ads. So every single one of your One Piece related videos, I've sadly skipped. So I'm so happy to start with this one and then work my way through your past videos and watch those too!
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Going Merry when you talked about Enies Lobby. That was one of the biggest moments for me realizing how good this series was when I was crying over a ship dying.
My top two arcs are WCI and Enies Lobby. They're the peak of Pre and Post timeskip to me. They also have the common thread of rescuing someone who doesn't want to be rescued and that's just a situation that I love seeing the Strawhats in because their characters just hit so hard (Arlong Park also hits for the same reasons)
Love One Piece! Love ya ProZD! I do find it a little funny that you stopped watching the anime in Whole Cake yet you are the English Dub voice actor for Cat Viper, lol. He has so many awesome moments in Wano!
16:30 THANK YOU. as someone who had LITERALLY the same experience where that character and that fight made me just not care anymore and as someone who has been judged by other fans for YEARS as a result, I feel seen and it's nice to hear someone else say it!
Yeah Skipiea is brutal especially because the set up for it is so exciting that when you have to drag through it it just gets more and more depressing the longer it goes without anything interesting happening. Hopefully if the live action makes it there they can make it as exciting as it deserves to be.
@@Kishinooit’s great but at least 30% longer than it needed to be. There was so much stalling and repetitive exposition (mostly telling us the same stuff we already heard about oden 80,000 times and only rarely adding new info)
I feel like people don’t bring up the Ussop versus Perona fight enough. That fight is written perfectly and it gives Ussop such a great shinning moment.
Even in just this video of you rapid fire ranking all of the arcs, I manage to get emotional, looking back on the journey of it all. There truly will never be another story like One Piece. I sincerely feel bad for the people who aren't experiencing One Piece as its still ongoing, let alone the people who choose not to experience it at all. Its an unforgettable journey. The experience of a lifetime. An unmatched and unparalleled adventure, featuring the greatest story with the most beloved characters in all of fiction. Its just so, unbelievably perfect. I will be devastated when it reaches its conclusion, but will be eternally grateful to have gone on this journey from beginning to end.
I don’t wanna rain on your parade. But the fact is, what people like and dislike is highly subjective, and they won’t gravitate towards One Piece if they simply don’t like what they see or what is brought up. You can say something like Trigun, or Gurren Lagann the greatest or perfect, and people would believe you because their stories are amazing. Same thing can be said about One Piece or Dragon Ball, but not everyone will believe it because it just doesn’t seem interesting to them no matter how long they do watch it or there are certain things in the story or moments or even something about the characters that bug them. Hell, I’ll be honest, I started getting bored of One Piece in between certain arcs, but got a little into it on certain arcs. Guess preference can also shape what a person believes is great or not. I 1st cried in Arlong Park because of Nami’s backstory. Not all of the arcs managed to make me cry, but it they made me feel a certain type of joy. However, I do agree the One Piece deserves its spot as the Big 3 because it is amazing in its own right, but same could be said for other stories too.
One Piece holds the record for making me cry like a baby in almost every ark. Till this day if I see certain scenes in TikTok like Robin’s “I want to live “ or Bon Clays last goodbye or Going Merry, I mean it’s waterworks instantly. Thank you Oda for making this masterpiece.
Having never watched any of the show, nor read any of the Manga, it was still great hearing you talk about something you obviously love and enjoy. Great video. Great channel.
4:54, I agree with you on most points you made in this video, but this is just wrong. Brook peaked (SPOILER ALRT) against Big Mom, where he not only called her young, he also 1v1, and seeing as he got the Poneglyph, I would say he won, because that was the objective, and a Yonko couldn't stop him in might a repeat, a 1v1. I think personally, that is where Brook peaked so far.
God, I always feel so vindicated that other people hate Syrup Village as well. That was the first big wall for me when starting One Piece way back when, I think part of it is that Luffy/Zoro/Nami feels like a whole unit, and obviously still does when you add both Usopp and Sanji, but when it's just the 4 of them minus Sanji, it feels like something's missing. That's why I personally would rank Baratie higher. I feel like it's the first really creative setting in the series, in that it isn't just another island, plus introducing Sanji rounds out the main cast that (if you're watching the anime), you've been seeing in the opening for two dozen episodes already. t's also the first time one arc bleeds into the next and makes the story start to feel a bit bigger than it was. Krieg is definitely forgettable and it makes sense that they could skip him in the LA without losing much of substance. Couldn't tell you about the pacing asit's been a while for me, but hey, maybe it does drag.
Yea, Syrup Village is rough. Even in the Netflix show it felt like those were the weakest episodes (though it might be my opinion of the original arc influencing me).
What really hurts Syrup Village is that early Usopp is such a hateable character. Without the growth in his skillset with his tools, his inspiration by the giants, and Chopper being there to round out the weakling trio, he's just an arrogant, lying jackass and remains as such for the next several dozen episodes.
The LA lost a ton of substance by removing Krieg. No Krieg meant no Gin, Sanji felt flat, there were simply no stakes at Baratie. Krieg was the first rough battle Luffy had to go through, Zeff's narration added to the moment (if you know you know), and this is when Sanji realizes what kind of man Luffy is. The punch to the spike shield...
One piece has made me appreciate long running series. Especially the massive revelations from skypiea and fishman island after the reveals from Egghead. Which now makes fishman island very important, and the whole story is what are calling a modern odyssey as a story like one piece will never happen again.
I wouldn’t call them ‘Revelations’ I would call them convenient plot devices. Oda can always just go back to old manga chapters and rehash old theories but One Piece fans truly believe that Oda has planned every single cameo from the beginning of One Piece.
I’m relatively new to the One Piece series, though I grew up watching bits of it on TV. Over the past year, I’ve been diving deeper into it, and now I’m at the Whole Cake Island arc. Your comment about Arlong Park really resonated with me. Initially, I wasn’t sure if I was enjoying the series, but when Luffy placed his straw hat on Nami, I realized I could watch the entirety of One Piece.
You put the picture of Usopp running away from Sugar as something that was painful and while you're right I feel like it should be pointed out that his new confidence was born from Sogeking who only existed because of Robin, so having Robin be turned into a toy and Usopps memories of her erased would defacto make him a coward again
Putting aside how horribly reductive it is to claim Usopp is a pure coward without the Sogeking persona, the erasure of Robin from his memories wouldn't have even erased Sogeking. He just wouldn't remember the original reason why they went to Enis Lobby.
Really dislike how much this theory has been spread. People say it as a defense of his character, but in reality it's insulting to Usopp and the many instances of bravery he had shown both before and after the events of Enies Lobby. Plus the original Sogeking wasn't invented to boost his confidence, it was just his way of justifying helping out the crew without technically rejoining them.
@@NinjaPopeXueAbsolutely, Usopp knew he wanted to help but didn't want to bring up any of the awkward feelings about the disagreement with Luffy. He was definitely brave enough by default.
I agree with a majority of your points and rankings, especially on the stuff that drags out. Even kind of quit where you did once with Skypeia. What I love about One Piece is that each of the "major" arcs are like separate genres: Thriller Bark is Horror, Wano is Feudal Japan, Egghead is the Future, Whole Cake Island is a Mafia movie, Fishman Island
you talking about how Arlong Park is basically the litmus test for tentative fans is so true. The "Luffy help me" scene is the one that made me go from "oh man these characters are fun" to "I would die for them"
Just started book 15 (started in February) they are only getting better, it’s crazy. I will be coming back to this video when I reach the latest release 💪.
Never read the manga, but I can vouch that in the anime I couldn’t stand how long Skypeia was. The theme and characters were cool, but I fell in and out of One Piece for about a year while trying to get through it…
I had the same experience. I remember watching about 5 episodes a day but around the time they had to fight the ball guy I struggled to get to the climax.
Impel Down being your #2 is crazy to me, I get it sets up Marineford and theres the moments like Luffy meeting Blackbeard again, fighting Magellan, Bon Clay's sacrifice and meeting Jimbei for the first time, and those are all cool but man, 90% of that arc is just Luffy, Buggy and Mr. 3 running around like Scooby Doo characters getting chased by big animals in a prison, I'd give it a 5/10 because there are good moments but it just drags on far too long.
I love how similar we are in that we both seemed kind of checked out for one piece. As I also picked it up and dropped it many times but, like you, also sort of kept up to date with the most recent events through various media or what I'd heard. Then I eventually learned bits of information here and there pertaining to enis lobby, impel down, the marineford war arc and some apparent iconic moments. Stuff like big characters returning alongside awesome new ones and big one piece world level events going down. I knew I had to catch up so I could see what all the buzz was about and to this day I'm so glad I did.
Happy to hear you talking so passionately about One Piece. Have you auditioned for the live action? You'd be a great addition to the cast. A word of warning about the anime, if you want to go to it to watch Whole Cake, the pacing drags quite a bit at certain points. Alternatively, Egghead has been knocking it out of the park in the anime.
I love hearing about what got people to start watching/reading One Piece, and their misconceptions beforehand. For me as a kid i saw the show as very happy-go-lucky, with a protagonist who has no real depth and serves only to be a funny fella. Then i stumbled upon the scene of Luffy losing his crew to Kuma and his resulting despair. Absolutely shattered my preconceptions and from then on i was in.
I watched only until his jaya placement and wanted to comment the same thing. It is one of my favorite arcs (Blackbeard, begining of Nolands Story, Introduction of the 5 Elders, Doffy / Kuma Walk, The Bellamy fuck Up, way to much good stuff)
this video is so wonderfully timed. I finally finished one piece after spreading it over 4 years and now engaging with the community has made it so worth it. Incredible list.
I really appreciate how positive you were about the series as a whole. There aren't many people who would say there are parts of even the worst arcs they enjoy. If any one else would have done one of these videos it would have been totally negative until the top ten.
As a recent manga only reader, Dessrosa being that low kinda hurts me I was a big fan of it! From a marathon reading perspective Doflamingo is my favorite villain.
The anime arc for Dressrosa is soooooo bad. I consider it borderline unwatchable and that coming from a massive OP fan. The weekly manga experience was also poor from a pacing experience but the arc does have tons of awesome moments and characters that are better consumed in a marathon
I was watching 20 episodes a day while I was on Dressrosa and it felt like I was watching 5 episodes at best. The pacing was.. I have no words for it. I understand why some people have a lower opinion of it
It's definitely a "you had to be there" kinda thing. There's a reason why most One Piece clips on UA-cam are from Dressrosa, it's because Dressrosa WAS One Piece for so, so long.
It's impossible to get through in the anime to no fault of the writing. Imagine watching someone run for a minute straight without saying anything with the same animation cycle. Any action taken was so drawn out it you could literally fall asleep within minutes and they would still be doing the exact same thing.
I think for us fans that were there watching OP weekly during the dressrosa arc, the quality of the anime became so bad that it pretty much became unwatchable. It's still difficult for a lot of people to look fondly at the arc since it was so hard to get through. People's low opinion more about how bad of an experience consuming the arc was versus the actually storytelling which isn't entirely fair but I think fans are just collectively traumatised lmao
Yep, Dressrosa week to week in the manga was painful. Then the anime was a whole new level of painful. I finished it and watched Zou, but man the thought of starting another monster arc with already slow pacing in Whole Cake made me drop the anime.
yes, i stopped watching one piece altogether after i finished watching whole cake, because i was not going to be suffering from week to week for god knew how many years until wano is finished, and so i waited until i've heard that wano had ended in the anime to get back in, and in about 2 months i binged the almost 200 episodes of wano, those were some freking good 2 months, because even with the abysmal pace, when you have ALL the episodes of the arc at the tip of your fingers, you really doesn't feel it that much, best decision i made, unfortunately i failed to do the same after wano and now i'm fully invested in egghead in the anime, suffering week by week, and right now while writing this comment i remembered this week's episode is filler, i hate my life
There are some parts of Dressrosa that I really liked,seeing Bellamy and Luffy become fast friends,seeing Sabo and how he got his memories back,Laws back story and how much Rosinante meant to him and realizing that Laws crew is named after Rosinante and there pirate flag is also inspired by him.
I straight up don't think I'm watching/reading week to week until the very final Arc. Stopped at Dressrosa right when the crew splits because of pacing, went back after several years and it became like, top 5 maybe top 3 arc for me. Corazon and Kyros are two of the best characters in the entire series
I don't know how it felt to watch it on a weekly basis but I loved binge watching it, way too many epic characters, awesome backstories, it just felt a lot better to watch after punk hazard
I'm delighted that SungWon loves Impel Down, which for me is my top favorite even though I do have a hard time choosing but bringing back all these former antagonists and having them all fight alongside Luffy is like my FAVORITE thing and combining that with the introduction of Iva and Bon Clay's bond with Luffy it's just so, so good. I'm reading Marineford/Paramount War rn in the manga (I'm up to date on the anime and working my way through the manga now) and it's got me tearing up already and I haven't even gotten to That Part yet. As he said, there are so many good emotional beats that will ALWAYS make me tear up no matter how many times I see them, and that's just how well done it is.
i know im late to this but any time sungwon discusses an arc, i get flashbacks to me crying at particular scenes. like i would legit cry at the back stories and wind up with a terrible headache. honestly have never cried this hard for any manga i’ve ever read in my life, the power that oda sensei has is unmatched honestly. also as much as dressrosa is draggy, MY GOD THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I CRIED WHEN I THINK ABOUT SABO MEETING LUFFY AGAIN 😭😭😭😭 ALSO TOY SOLDIER’S PAST AHHHHHHHHH. edit again: crying over chopper, going merry, ace, sabo and literally the entire wano arc 😭
Before using these timestamps, please read what I wrote at the bottom, just in case 🥰 30. Amazon Lily 0:31 29. Reverse Mountain 0:46 28. Syrup Village 1:03 27. Cover Stories 1:42 26. Jaya 2:23 25. Orange Town 2:38 24. Fishman Island 3:04 23. Romance Dawn 3:21 22. Whiskey Peak 3:33 21. Punk Hazard 4:02 20. Long Ring Long Land 4:20 😎💨 19. Thriller Bark 4:44 18. Reverie 5:30 17. Skypiea 6:09 16. Dressrosa 7:07 15. Zou 8:04 14. "Shabonedy" Archipelago 8:36 13. Loguetown 9:03 12. Baratie 9:25 11. Little Garden 9:55 10. Drum Island 10:23 9. Whole Cake Island 11:17 8. Egghead 12:04 (skipped that bitch 😂 this is what made me want to make this list) 7. Alabasta 12:42 6. Wano 13:09 (Me upon hearing Alabasta "😊". Me when I heard Wano " ". P.S, while trying to skip through this, I saw.. a spolier, but luckily, Crunchyroll ads spoiled it for me LONGG before this video lol) 5. Arlong Park 13:55 4. Water 7 14:55 3. Enies Lobby 15:00 2. Impel Down 16:11 and 1. Marineford 16:11 If you've seen all of One Piece, please watch the full video, start to finish. If not, feel free to use this to skip around and not get spoiled. The most spoilery thing he says (unless he's referring to a specific arc you haven't watched/finished, so Wano and Egghead for me) is, "This kind of moment hits harder, when it happens in a later arc, that I'll get to talking about later"
Your list is so interesting, because my 5-10 would be WILDLY different. I'm also a fan who didn't care much for Arlong Park though, which you might find baffling. For me, One Piece "clicked" around Baroque Works / Drum Island. That was where I got emotionally hooked!
Could be a touch of recency bias there as well, Little Garden just became relevant in the manga again. That said, they're both pretty tight arcs that do some fun set up but mostly hit the main conceit behind One Piece which is just landing at a new place and asking "what's going on here?"
I recently reread Whiskey Peak, and coming off of John Wick 4 and Blue Eye Samurai, I LOVED Zoro fight sequence. Hell, I even enjoyed the fight with Luffy.
14:22 i told my wife the something similar i said “if you don’t love the straw hats as you get these moments don’t bother cause these moments carry sometimes”
Impel down at #2 tells me you know quality. Its undoubtedly one of if not the most underrated arc. You basically had 4 different settings inside one jail . Magellan as a villain was terrifying , especially because haki was unknown at the time. Buggy and Mr. 2 comedic 's synergy is honestly some of the best in the series . Everything played out in such a non predictable way with even black beard making an appearance …i could go on about so many more positive stuff but yeah if anyone is reading this please go reread/rewatch impel down
Oh man, I’m glad to run into someone else who loves impel down as much as I do, it’s such a fun, constantly moving, constantly exciting part of the story which actually genuinely feels appropriate for its length
Man Thriller Bark at #19 is criminal! So many amazing moments. Zoro's fight against the samurai, the straw hats coming together to beat Oars, Brook's backstory, and of course "Nothing happened". Just iconic.
If anyone reading this did what ProZD did and had to switch the the manga, I cannot recommend One Pace highly enough. They fix so many problems and cut out so much useless garbage. I can't imagine having made it through Dressrosa in the vanilla anime, but it was great with One Pace
@@zga042since one piece has a lot of padding in each scene and episode, one pace makes a lot of smaller cuts per episode. Scenes that take 2m in Piece may take 30s in Pace. Filler (that is, anything non-cannon) sometimes is kept if it improves the pacing, is semi cannon (Egghead has some of these moments) or the segment is just too different from cannon to cut without impacting the viewing experience. I’ve been watching Pace from start to end and it’s been a great experience. When I had to switch back to Toei for the end of Skypeia and Arabasta it was so painful. Highly recommend.
@@zga042 What Spebby said is pretty spot it. It cuts out a looooot of fluff like reaction shots and flashbacks that were added to slow the pacing down. More stuff is cut out in newer episodes because the pacing gets worse as the series goes on.
I think it might be because of its context as a transition arc. It really sets the new status quo where the broader world and its characters become the focus, where before it had been so focused the Strawhats. It's a great are, but it's very different than what people had been enjoying up to that point. I think Marineford does a stronger job of getting people really invested in the non-Strawhats, so Impel Down suffers from the contrast.
Water 7 and Ennies Lobby are at the top of the list for me. The way the conflict developed, the high points and the pay off was so natural and just an amazing experience for me. Oddly enough, Fishman Island and Amazon are also in my top 5. Having revisited them at a more mature stage in my life, those arcs really made me appreciate Oda's writing. He's an author who doesn't force ideals down your throat, he simply observes different themes from multiple views. There's so many subtle things he does that just makes characters breathe naturally and story beats flow.
The exact same thing happened to me. Abandoned one piece during skypeiea and randomly found my way back during impel down. Fishman island made me leave again but I've seen it all now. One of the best stories ever
Idk he was pretty cool in Wano and then in Egghead I feel like there's a reason he's holding back. [SPOILER WARNING] He's had some good moments in Egghead to balance it out and I think (or hope) there will be a payoff to him seeming to not want to fight (maybe in Elbaf?). His eyebrow has switched sides a couple times in the arc and I think he may be fearing he's losing his emotions. Elbaf would be a good place for the Zoro-Sanji death pact promise to come to fruition as their rivalry mirrors that of Dorry and Brogy. That's just a theory though.
Sanji in Wano is peak though. Yes, the bathhouse peeping is shit, but pretty much everything else he does in the arc (most notably the character development vs Queen) is some of his best stuff in the series IMO
9:26 glad you’ve come around. I know people say Arlong Park decides if you like OP or not but I think Baratie is the ultimate test. Good worldbuilding, sanjis intro/heartbreaking backstory, and the villains. Don Krieg works as another villain for the Strawhats to defeat, but it’s Mihawk’s early introduction that shows just how weak the Strawhats are in the grand scale of the world. Good moments all around + a great setup for Arlong Park.
All in all a solid list, only thing I would change is syrup village being dead last. Honestly the weakest arc for me. Egghead could honestly end up at top 5, it's been amazing.
Watching through Impel Down for the first time while aware of manga current events, I thought "Bon Clay better just fucking die in this arc... because that's the only reason I'll accept for why he doesn't spend the rest of the series on the Sunny where he belongs."
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Transitioning from "It feels almost... filler-y to me" *immediately* to "Next up is Long Ring Long Land" is so funny to me
I do think long ring island is lore heavy for nika/joyboy
Yup, it’s definitely gonna come back in a major way
Bro does not know what filler is. Punk Hazard has many important things that are essential for the future arcs. Caesar for example!
It foreshadows the concept of Luffy losing his crewmates right before Water 7/Enies Lobby and oh boy does it pay off. Also the Davy Back Fight could mean a lot later...
@Austrian_Painters_TopGuy the anime put filler and doubled the length of the arc
"Perona is making me reconsider."
You and everyone who goes into Thriller Bark.
*haruharuharuharuharu*
The epitome of 'now fellas, listen...'
She ain't a 'hear me out' because she's a traditionally attractive girl/woman, but she's so shitty..shifty... there needs to be a little bit of an explanation
I never understood why she has this kind of a fan club. She was annoying af with that stupid laugh and high pitched voice
Best girl fr❤ got her Jimei Palace figure. 015/299
Perona my beloved
The amazing thing for me about Ace's death is that it's a reverse fake out. Instead of "oh, this character died... just kidding!" it was the opposite. I KNEW because of spoilers that Ace dies in Marineford, and when they uncuff him and he starts setting the world on fire I actually started thinking that maybe the spoilers were fake. It was so well done that it undid the spoiler. That has never happened before or since for me. One Piece is great.
@@brianyaniro5086my friend got spoiled and was like "does ace die?" When we were at impel down, and I told him it was a fandom in joke fake spoiler and he didn't believe me. Then ace got freed and I was like "dude I told you bro" and he was over the moon. Felt a bit mean doing it but I'm not letting him get spoiled lol
I really, really thought he wouldn't die because of Pell and all that stuff. To the last second I was like, no way, Oda wouldn't do that. I didn't even care that much about Ace. So when he died it hit me like a ton of bricks and Ace immediately became one of my favorite characters. Now I'm the person writing fix-it fics where he doesn't die, lol.
yes, truly one of the peaks. Oda really dropped the ball giving kinemon thirty plus death flags in wano and not following through, now whenever a beloved character is near death everyone knows no one is in any real danger. I wonder how there will be any real tension in the later arcs when he did wano like this, two of the strongest pirates in the verse usurped with no real consequences, just fifty false death flags over a hundred chapters, yikes
@@SuryaGupta-te7fq Or when a character is suddenly dead when they were shown to barely take any damage in their fight at all.
Oh my gosh, you worded it the perfect way.. it really made you feel like he was gonna save ace.😢to
I hard agree on so much of the ranking but I think Amazon Lily deserves a revisit! the lore drop with how Boa and her sisters were treated is great, and also the part where luffy refuses to let anyone see their back is sooo good
Also fisher tiger name drop and slave revolt
God I love Amazon Lily! It gets overshadowed by the other amazing arcs on the Marineford saga but it's still such a good arc
Not to mention Boa looking down at you so hard, she's looking up 😂 that's always been so funny to me lolll
@@mlmn3080 Lovely point, but I'm reading a lack of appreciation for her looking down us 🤔 Fake fan? 🧐
*Hancock. Her name is Hancock.
I fully agree with the opinion that Arlong Park is the best litmus test for if someone would like One Piece or not. If seeing the gang square up to fight Arlong after Nami breaks down doesn't send a shiver of excitement through you, you're not going to fully enjoy the next 1,000 episodes.
If you watch it up to the walk to arlong park and you aren’t pumped then ya the story isn’t for you
I'm curious if you could catch up on most of the good stuff by just watching the top 7 arcs of the show in chronological order, and then throwing in some episodes/ arcs that describe back stories and character development. What do you guys think?
@@carsonrush3352 I feel some things would get lost trying it that way. What would probably be the best alternative would be the One Pace project, which is a fan project where they cut out the filler stuff, shaving off a significant part of the runtime. Alternatively in the future, there's going to be a new anime that's closer in line with the manga called "The One Piece", but no release date for that's been set.
@carsonrush3352 the problem is, everyone has a different top 7 arcs of onepiece. You may love an arc that someone else hated. Also, if you don't want to watch a show in its entirety, I don't think you should be watching that show at all. Ofc you may look back saying "yeah that part I should have skipped because I didn't enjoy it" but you can't know that unless you watch it.
@@carsonrush3352That's bullshit
I've never been more captivated with a show than when I was watching Water 7 and Enies Lobby
Some of the best media I've ever consumed.
Cutty flam ftw🎉
On the night that I reached Water 7 when watching One Piece for the first time, I called in sick for work and watched it non stop until like 11am the next day
only negative is the bizarro filler arcs in the anime
Agreed! I was watching it dubbed(yes you can judge me and no I don't care) and ended up switching over to subbed because I had caught up on dubbed and desperately needed to know what happens next. Absolutely my favorite arcs of the show
The “I want to live” scene will always make me cry. If I even think about it I tear up.
The other scene that breaks me is Luffy realizing he still has his crew as he counts them out on his fingers
For me that almost made me cry but then later when the going merry died I actually cried
Not joking: the "I want to live" scene made me want to live
Sabaody is a top 5 arc for me. The pacing is insane and there's so much cool stuff around every corner. Duval (top 3 jokes in the story for me), Hachi return, Celestial Dragon debut, we meet all 9 supernovas, Rayleigh reveal, Roger lore drop, Kizaru, Pacifista debut, Kuma separating the strawhats, the Celestial Dragon punch, and the first hint of Luffy's real dream
Yep, I don’t know why this arc is continually underrated, the pacing and character intros alone put it as a top arc
Same here. Everything Sabaody-related I just love. It was the beginning of starting to understand how wide the world was with these other major rookies also experiencing their adventures. Understanding just how twisted the One Piece world is with the slavery and racism.
Followed by very very real consequences for them at the end of the arc and Luffy’s hopelessness. Woof.. god, it’s good.
Sabaody is my favorite arc lol it rules
Sabaody is one of my favorite arcs as well so enjoyable and the ending is just insane
Sabody was the first time I saw the Straw Hats get their asses kicked and it sucked watching. Loved Sabody, shyt gets real after this Arc
Finally someone putting some respect on my boy Bege's name. He was such a nothing character until wholecake and I ended up falling in love with his crew. So strangely wholesome
True
I do have a level of respect for som1 who can turn their useless fodder crew into their strength, now Law if only u could do that, granted i feel like his fodder crew is a cut above the rest, but fodder is still fodder
He was a nothing character because he was only in a handful of episodes.
He had the most silly Devil Fruit until he popped off helping saving the Straw Hats from Big Mom.
@@StarpunkPrime I dont think alot of characters in OP are nothing characters. Everyone contributes to the lore and world in some way
Ranking every one piece arc in 19 minutes. A world record.
Ranking one piece in one comment
1º : long ring long land
2º - 30º : the rest
Me forgetting that ProZD is a voice actor, and he actually *played* the voice of Cat Viper?! Like, I think I remember seeing his voice acting reel videos, but I hadn't caught up with One Piece at that point, so it didn't sink in for me. Now I have, and I see this and I'm like "you were Cat Viper?!?!" 🤣
Bettina likes One Piece?? Awesome :3
I'm like fully caught up and just finished the most recent dub batch but STILL was unaware ProZD was Cat-Viper
OH! Hello funny seeing you here Miss Tumblr ✌️✌️
Hm, I have a feeling ProZD might be a One Piece fan. Just a hunch.
People and their crazy theories
Huh? What a wild thought. And next you're going to tell me the One Piece is real?
Next thing you'll say is that he collects figures or something crazy
Lol, could you imagine? What next? He voiced Cat Viper in the English Dub? C'mon.
He legit voices a character in the dub lol
You're welcome
0:30 Amazon lily arc
0:46 Reverse mountain
1:02 Syrup village
1:41 Cover stories
2:22 Jaya
2:35 Orange town
3:01 Fishman Island
3:20 Romance Dawn
3:34 Whiskey peak
4:02 Punk hazard
4:20 Long ring long land
4:44 Thriller bark
5:31 Reverie
6:07 Skypiea
7:07 Dressrosa
8:04 Zou
8:35 Sabaody archipelago
9:03 Loguetown
9:25 Baratie
9:54 Little garden
10:22 Drum island
11:16 Whole cake island
12:03 Egghead
12:40 Alabasta
13:08 Wano
13:52 Arlong park
14:53 Water 7 +Enies lobby
16:13 Impel down + Marineford
comment if i got anything wrong
Nothing wrong king, thanks for your service
Thriller bark is fine, idk why people hate on it so much. I haven’t seen the anime version though.
I respect his placement of the Zou arc around the middle of the list. One of my favourites.
The WAY Oda can still give us such excellent moments that connect all the way back and always feel like "Now this is the peak of hype" is insane to me , starting OP the best decision in my entertainment space.
It’s such an indicator of quality when the series is decades old and the kuma flashback still hit my emotions like a cement truck.
Talking about Sabaody without mentioning THE PUNCH is crazy
it was such a great moment but brought down immensely by how shit the animation was lol
@@adhirgAre you kidding?
Also not knowing what haki was at that time, Rayleigh kicking Kizaru was insane.
I’d be more of a Thriller Bark defender but I’m still salty about Sanji getting fully flanderized into a sex pest. Whole Cake slaps tho
that was horrid
If you get rid of Sanji's character assassination, thriller bark shoots up like a dozen spots for me
agreed, Absalom truly is a black hole that drags the whole arc down around him, with Sanji as collateral
@@KumoKumikoacting like he got any better in the following arcs (fishman island...)
@@imac5834 nah, like. I get it, Sanji is my least favorite Straw Hat (because SOMEBODY'S got to hold last place) and I don't necessarily like any of his later shenanigans, but his writing was done particularly heinous by the inclusion of him 'always wanting the Clear-Clear Fruit since he was a child, purely to spy on women'.
that's an extremely tasteless gag at best, and outright reprehensible of our so-called Chivalrous Womanizer at worst.
In defense of that Usopp scene from Dressrosa. You have to remember that when Robin is turned into a toy it also erases her memory from anyone that knows her. So when Robin is turned into a toy, Usopp no longer remembers Robin and has NO reason to stick around in that factory.
Oh, just wait til you get to Soda Pop Frequency!
“Hey, spoilers man!”
Dude. Dog 5.
Jump Rope Canyon??? I mean come on
If Egghead keeps the quality up, it will be my favorite arc in the whole show. The payoffs, pacing, action, reveals, it’s incredible.
I love this comment because all i usually see is complaints about egghead's pacing. I love egghead and how Oda is managing such big reveals
Perfect timing! I quite literally just caught up to present (in the manga) after starting the show back in 2020. Had to speed run Dressrosa to present in approximately two months due to a trip I was taking to Tokyo and I was told I was in danger of being severely spoiled. For the last 4 years, outside of 2 close friends of mine, I shielded myself from ALL One Piece web content for fear that the algorithm would feed me unsolicited One Piece videos and ads. So every single one of your One Piece related videos, I've sadly skipped. So I'm so happy to start with this one and then work my way through your past videos and watch those too!
Welcome to the Peak
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Going Merry when you talked about Enies Lobby. That was one of the biggest moments for me realizing how good this series was when I was crying over a ship dying.
Same 😭🔥🏴☠️⛵🔥
Anyone else cried like a mad man when the "Merry" sank? .. Watched all One Piece episodes now twice and it hit me everytime right in the feels
I did and I also cried the second time around when I already knew it was coming.
My top two arcs are WCI and Enies Lobby. They're the peak of Pre and Post timeskip to me. They also have the common thread of rescuing someone who doesn't want to be rescued and that's just a situation that I love seeing the Strawhats in because their characters just hit so hard (Arlong Park also hits for the same reasons)
I thoroughly enjoy watching you rank something you so clearly love.
Love One Piece! Love ya ProZD! I do find it a little funny that you stopped watching the anime in Whole Cake yet you are the English Dub voice actor for Cat Viper, lol. He has so many awesome moments in Wano!
16:30 THANK YOU. as someone who had LITERALLY the same experience where that character and that fight made me just not care anymore and as someone who has been judged by other fans for YEARS as a result, I feel seen and it's nice to hear someone else say it!
Yeah Skipiea is brutal especially because the set up for it is so exciting that when you have to drag through it it just gets more and more depressing the longer it goes without anything interesting happening. Hopefully if the live action makes it there they can make it as exciting as it deserves to be.
Master Cat Viper himself rating One Piece, huh? Never thought I'd see the day!
I would’ve divided Wano into two arcs (mainland + onigashima raid) because it’s so long
Isn't Wano explicitly divided into three acts?
Wano sucks bad
@@karoltv4390 most popular arc for a reason
made OP popular worldwide
@@Kishinooit’s great but at least 30% longer than it needed to be. There was so much stalling and repetitive exposition (mostly telling us the same stuff we already heard about oden 80,000 times and only rarely adding new info)
Wano is divisive among fans, but it's S tier for me. I loved it even if it does drag at times
I feel like people don’t bring up the Ussop versus Perona fight enough. That fight is written perfectly and it gives Ussop such a great shinning moment.
that was like the #1 downloaded tv episode in the world at the time i think
Love your ranking & totally agree with most of your points of each arc, but you should also rank the cover stories
Even in just this video of you rapid fire ranking all of the arcs, I manage to get emotional, looking back on the journey of it all. There truly will never be another story like One Piece. I sincerely feel bad for the people who aren't experiencing One Piece as its still ongoing, let alone the people who choose not to experience it at all. Its an unforgettable journey. The experience of a lifetime. An unmatched and unparalleled adventure, featuring the greatest story with the most beloved characters in all of fiction. Its just so, unbelievably perfect. I will be devastated when it reaches its conclusion, but will be eternally grateful to have gone on this journey from beginning to end.
I don’t wanna rain on your parade. But the fact is, what people like and dislike is highly subjective, and they won’t gravitate towards One Piece if they simply don’t like what they see or what is brought up. You can say something like Trigun, or Gurren Lagann the greatest or perfect, and people would believe you because their stories are amazing. Same thing can be said about One Piece or Dragon Ball, but not everyone will believe it because it just doesn’t seem interesting to them no matter how long they do watch it or there are certain things in the story or moments or even something about the characters that bug them.
Hell, I’ll be honest, I started getting bored of One Piece in between certain arcs, but got a little into it on certain arcs. Guess preference can also shape what a person believes is great or not. I 1st cried in Arlong Park because of Nami’s backstory. Not all of the arcs managed to make me cry, but it they made me feel a certain type of joy. However, I do agree the One Piece deserves its spot as the Big 3 because it is amazing in its own right, but same could be said for other stories too.
One Piece holds the record for making me cry like a baby in almost every ark. Till this day if I see certain scenes in TikTok like Robin’s “I want to live “ or Bon Clays last goodbye or Going Merry, I mean it’s waterworks instantly. Thank you Oda for making this masterpiece.
Bon Clay is the GOAT
do you actually cry. like physically cry
I finally caught up last week and was pleasantly surprised to see this video pop up right after :) Happy timing!
Having never watched any of the show, nor read any of the Manga, it was still great hearing you talk about something you obviously love and enjoy. Great video. Great channel.
Well, now you have a ton of spoilers... But you should still read it!!!
4:54, I agree with you on most points you made in this video, but this is just wrong. Brook peaked (SPOILER ALRT) against Big Mom, where he not only called her young, he also 1v1, and seeing as he got the Poneglyph, I would say he won, because that was the objective, and a Yonko couldn't stop him in might a repeat, a 1v1. I think personally, that is where Brook peaked so far.
I could watch you talk about one piece for hours and hours (I go back and re-watch your older videos on it)
God, I always feel so vindicated that other people hate Syrup Village as well. That was the first big wall for me when starting One Piece way back when, I think part of it is that Luffy/Zoro/Nami feels like a whole unit, and obviously still does when you add both Usopp and Sanji, but when it's just the 4 of them minus Sanji, it feels like something's missing.
That's why I personally would rank Baratie higher. I feel like it's the first really creative setting in the series, in that it isn't just another island, plus introducing Sanji rounds out the main cast that (if you're watching the anime), you've been seeing in the opening for two dozen episodes already. t's also the first time one arc bleeds into the next and makes the story start to feel a bit bigger than it was. Krieg is definitely forgettable and it makes sense that they could skip him in the LA without losing much of substance. Couldn't tell you about the pacing asit's been a while for me, but hey, maybe it does drag.
Yea, Syrup Village is rough. Even in the Netflix show it felt like those were the weakest episodes (though it might be my opinion of the original arc influencing me).
What really hurts Syrup Village is that early Usopp is such a hateable character. Without the growth in his skillset with his tools, his inspiration by the giants, and Chopper being there to round out the weakling trio, he's just an arrogant, lying jackass and remains as such for the next several dozen episodes.
The LA lost a ton of substance by removing Krieg. No Krieg meant no Gin, Sanji felt flat, there were simply no stakes at Baratie.
Krieg was the first rough battle Luffy had to go through, Zeff's narration added to the moment (if you know you know), and this is when Sanji realizes what kind of man Luffy is. The punch to the spike shield...
@@EmporerDragon the anime kinda made usopp out to be more pathetic than he actually is. wait for the remake anime
lets goooo. This is one I've been waiting on!
One piece has made me appreciate long running series. Especially the massive revelations from skypiea and fishman island after the reveals from Egghead. Which now makes fishman island very important, and the whole story is what are calling a modern odyssey as a story like one piece will never happen again.
I wouldn’t call them ‘Revelations’ I would call them convenient plot devices. Oda can always just go back to old manga chapters and rehash old theories but One Piece fans truly believe that Oda has planned every single cameo from the beginning of One Piece.
@cosmicXreptile that's true but he does has a general idea of how each arc will go.
Top of the list at Number 0: G8 arc. It's canon in my heart
I’m relatively new to the One Piece series, though I grew up watching bits of it on TV. Over the past year, I’ve been diving deeper into it, and now I’m at the Whole Cake Island arc. Your comment about Arlong Park really resonated with me. Initially, I wasn’t sure if I was enjoying the series, but when Luffy placed his straw hat on Nami, I realized I could watch the entirety of One Piece.
You put the picture of Usopp running away from Sugar as something that was painful and while you're right I feel like it should be pointed out that his new confidence was born from Sogeking who only existed because of Robin, so having Robin be turned into a toy and Usopps memories of her erased would defacto make him a coward again
Putting aside how horribly reductive it is to claim Usopp is a pure coward without the Sogeking persona, the erasure of Robin from his memories wouldn't have even erased Sogeking. He just wouldn't remember the original reason why they went to Enis Lobby.
Really dislike how much this theory has been spread. People say it as a defense of his character, but in reality it's insulting to Usopp and the many instances of bravery he had shown both before and after the events of Enies Lobby. Plus the original Sogeking wasn't invented to boost his confidence, it was just his way of justifying helping out the crew without technically rejoining them.
Uh, Usopp is not Sogeking. Obviously. Sogeking is from Sniper Island and Usopp is not.
@@NinjaPopeXueI think it makes his character arc better. Usopp becomes braver as he becomes closer to his friends. He draws on them to gain strength.
@@NinjaPopeXueAbsolutely, Usopp knew he wanted to help but didn't want to bring up any of the awkward feelings about the disagreement with Luffy. He was definitely brave enough by default.
im in the middle of marineford and i havent watched op in months bc i dont wanna see *** die but you're convincing me to keep going..
It’s so good! Very worth it as sad as it is.
I agree with a majority of your points and rankings, especially on the stuff that drags out. Even kind of quit where you did once with Skypeia.
What I love about One Piece is that each of the "major" arcs are like separate genres: Thriller Bark is Horror, Wano is Feudal Japan, Egghead is the Future, Whole Cake Island is a Mafia movie, Fishman Island
you talking about how Arlong Park is basically the litmus test for tentative fans is so true. The "Luffy help me" scene is the one that made me go from "oh man these characters are fun" to "I would die for them"
Just started book 15 (started in February) they are only getting better, it’s crazy. I will be coming back to this video when I reach the latest release 💪.
Long time ProZD fan, newer time OP fan, but it's always fun when you talk about One Piece.
Never read the manga, but I can vouch that in the anime I couldn’t stand how long Skypeia was. The theme and characters were cool, but I fell in and out of One Piece for about a year while trying to get through it…
I had the same experience. I remember watching about 5 episodes a day but around the time they had to fight the ball guy I struggled to get to the climax.
I think Skypiea could be cut in half if Luffy wasn't swallowed by the snake.
@@273hammer I think they fought the ball guy like 6 episodes into Skypiea lmao
You can read it all in 2 weeks. You're really missing out and doing yourself a disservice by being a toei watcher.
It still drags in the manga but at least its easy to skim through some of that middle stuff.
Impel Down being your #2 is crazy to me, I get it sets up Marineford and theres the moments like Luffy meeting Blackbeard again, fighting Magellan, Bon Clay's sacrifice and meeting Jimbei for the first time, and those are all cool but man, 90% of that arc is just Luffy, Buggy and Mr. 3 running around like Scooby Doo characters getting chased by big animals in a prison, I'd give it a 5/10 because there are good moments but it just drags on far too long.
Listen, I know its not in the manga, but we need a ranking for G-8.
100% of one the best fillers made, so fun to watch
I love how similar we are in that we both seemed kind of checked out for one piece. As I also picked it up and dropped it many times but, like you, also sort of kept up to date with the most recent events through various media or what I'd heard. Then I eventually learned bits of information here and there pertaining to enis lobby, impel down, the marineford war arc and some apparent iconic moments. Stuff like big characters returning alongside awesome new ones and big one piece world level events going down. I knew I had to catch up so I could see what all the buzz was about and to this day I'm so glad I did.
Happy to hear you talking so passionately about One Piece.
Have you auditioned for the live action? You'd be a great addition to the cast.
A word of warning about the anime, if you want to go to it to watch Whole Cake, the pacing drags quite a bit at certain points. Alternatively, Egghead has been knocking it out of the park in the anime.
I love hearing about what got people to start watching/reading One Piece, and their misconceptions beforehand.
For me as a kid i saw the show as very happy-go-lucky, with a protagonist who has no real depth and serves only to be a funny fella.
Then i stumbled upon the scene of Luffy losing his crew to Kuma and his resulting despair. Absolutely shattered my preconceptions and from then on i was in.
Jaya being that low makes me think you’ve forgotten a lot because that’s wild
I watched only until his jaya placement and wanted to comment the same thing. It is one of my favorite arcs (Blackbeard, begining of Nolands Story, Introduction of the 5 Elders, Doffy / Kuma Walk, The Bellamy fuck Up, way to much good stuff)
Jaya’s so good imo, especially once we meet Cricket
this video is so wonderfully timed. I finally finished one piece after spreading it over 4 years and now engaging with the community has made it so worth it. Incredible list.
literally cried at just the still image of luffy putting the hat on nami
I really appreciate how positive you were about the series as a whole. There aren't many people who would say there are parts of even the worst arcs they enjoy. If any one else would have done one of these videos it would have been totally negative until the top ten.
As a recent manga only reader, Dessrosa being that low kinda hurts me I was a big fan of it! From a marathon reading perspective Doflamingo is my favorite villain.
The anime arc for Dressrosa is soooooo bad. I consider it borderline unwatchable and that coming from a massive OP fan. The weekly manga experience was also poor from a pacing experience but the arc does have tons of awesome moments and characters that are better consumed in a marathon
I was watching 20 episodes a day while I was on Dressrosa and it felt like I was watching 5 episodes at best. The pacing was.. I have no words for it. I understand why some people have a lower opinion of it
It's definitely a "you had to be there" kinda thing.
There's a reason why most One Piece clips on UA-cam are from Dressrosa, it's because Dressrosa WAS One Piece for so, so long.
It's impossible to get through in the anime to no fault of the writing. Imagine watching someone run for a minute straight without saying anything with the same animation cycle. Any action taken was so drawn out it you could literally fall asleep within minutes and they would still be doing the exact same thing.
I think for us fans that were there watching OP weekly during the dressrosa arc, the quality of the anime became so bad that it pretty much became unwatchable. It's still difficult for a lot of people to look fondly at the arc since it was so hard to get through. People's low opinion more about how bad of an experience consuming the arc was versus the actually storytelling which isn't entirely fair but I think fans are just collectively traumatised lmao
Toei Animation did Dressrosa dirty.... It's such a great arc, with such a strong villain ; - ;
You always remember where you were when you first watched Arlong Park. Especially the walk!
I could listen to you talk about One Piece for ages ngl
Yep, Dressrosa week to week in the manga was painful. Then the anime was a whole new level of painful. I finished it and watched Zou, but man the thought of starting another monster arc with already slow pacing in Whole Cake made me drop the anime.
yes, i stopped watching one piece altogether after i finished watching whole cake, because i was not going to be suffering from week to week for god knew how many years until wano is finished, and so i waited until i've heard that wano had ended in the anime to get back in, and in about 2 months i binged the almost 200 episodes of wano, those were some freking good 2 months, because even with the abysmal pace, when you have ALL the episodes of the arc at the tip of your fingers, you really doesn't feel it that much, best decision i made, unfortunately i failed to do the same after wano and now i'm fully invested in egghead in the anime, suffering week by week, and right now while writing this comment i remembered this week's episode is filler, i hate my life
There are some parts of Dressrosa that I really liked,seeing Bellamy and Luffy become fast friends,seeing Sabo and how he got his memories back,Laws back story and how much Rosinante meant to him and realizing that Laws crew is named after Rosinante and there pirate flag is also inspired by him.
I literally wrote (a much longer comment) on how Big Mom made me drop it too just a minute ago LOL
I straight up don't think I'm watching/reading week to week until the very final Arc. Stopped at Dressrosa right when the crew splits because of pacing, went back after several years and it became like, top 5 maybe top 3 arc for me. Corazon and Kyros are two of the best characters in the entire series
I don't know how it felt to watch it on a weekly basis but I loved binge watching it, way too many epic characters, awesome backstories, it just felt a lot better to watch after punk hazard
I'm delighted that SungWon loves Impel Down, which for me is my top favorite even though I do have a hard time choosing but bringing back all these former antagonists and having them all fight alongside Luffy is like my FAVORITE thing and combining that with the introduction of Iva and Bon Clay's bond with Luffy it's just so, so good. I'm reading Marineford/Paramount War rn in the manga (I'm up to date on the anime and working my way through the manga now) and it's got me tearing up already and I haven't even gotten to That Part yet. As he said, there are so many good emotional beats that will ALWAYS make me tear up no matter how many times I see them, and that's just how well done it is.
As someone who's not into One Piece, this felt like you were doing a bit, like as a sequel to your anime story arc titles video.
i know im late to this but any time sungwon discusses an arc, i get flashbacks to me crying at particular scenes. like i would legit cry at the back stories and wind up with a terrible headache. honestly have never cried this hard for any manga i’ve ever read in my life, the power that oda sensei has is unmatched honestly.
also as much as dressrosa is draggy, MY GOD THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I CRIED WHEN I THINK ABOUT SABO MEETING LUFFY AGAIN 😭😭😭😭 ALSO TOY SOLDIER’S PAST AHHHHHHHHH.
edit again: crying over chopper, going merry, ace, sabo and literally the entire wano arc 😭
Before using these timestamps, please read what I wrote at the bottom, just in case 🥰
30. Amazon Lily 0:31
29. Reverse Mountain 0:46
28. Syrup Village 1:03
27. Cover Stories 1:42
26. Jaya 2:23
25. Orange Town 2:38
24. Fishman Island 3:04
23. Romance Dawn 3:21
22. Whiskey Peak 3:33
21. Punk Hazard 4:02
20. Long Ring Long Land 4:20 😎💨
19. Thriller Bark 4:44
18. Reverie 5:30
17. Skypiea 6:09
16. Dressrosa 7:07
15. Zou 8:04
14. "Shabonedy" Archipelago 8:36
13. Loguetown 9:03
12. Baratie 9:25
11. Little Garden 9:55
10. Drum Island 10:23
9. Whole Cake Island 11:17
8. Egghead 12:04 (skipped that bitch 😂 this is what made me want to make this list)
7. Alabasta 12:42
6. Wano 13:09 (Me upon hearing Alabasta "😊". Me when I heard Wano " ". P.S, while trying to skip through this, I saw.. a spolier, but luckily, Crunchyroll ads spoiled it for me LONGG before this video lol)
5. Arlong Park 13:55
4. Water 7 14:55
3. Enies Lobby 15:00
2. Impel Down 16:11 and
1. Marineford 16:11
If you've seen all of One Piece, please watch the full video, start to finish. If not, feel free to use this to skip around and not get spoiled. The most spoilery thing he says (unless he's referring to a specific arc you haven't watched/finished, so Wano and Egghead for me) is, "This kind of moment hits harder, when it happens in a later arc, that I'll get to talking about later"
What timing, I just started watching OnePace. Its great to speed through all the filler and nonsense 1 week in, and on Whiskey Peak
30 WHOLE ARCS
ONE PIECE WHAT ARE YOU
The One Piece is: ... !!
To Be Continued
lots of pieces apparently
And we've got at least 2 more in Elbaph and Laughtale probably along with another great war and a crazy flashback like God Valley.
After starting it and almost catching up this year.. trust me 30 arcs feels so short 😭
@@TheVivi13same
I've read all of one piece and never watched the anime at all, so a lot of these thoughts about pacing were surprising to hear!
@prozd Consider watching One Pace, which cuts A LOT of the filler and makes long arcs bearable!
I can't believe it took me this long to realize you played Catviper. I cannot unhear it now
Thank you for this goat
1:10 hurt my soul LOL Kuro was def one of my fav villains early on before the introduction of Crocodile and Doflamingo.
Holy crap you’re Cat Viper?!?!? That’s so cool!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Your list is so interesting, because my 5-10 would be WILDLY different. I'm also a fan who didn't care much for Arlong Park though, which you might find baffling. For me, One Piece "clicked" around Baroque Works / Drum Island. That was where I got emotionally hooked!
I am surprised little garden and wisky peak are so high up
Could be a touch of recency bias there as well, Little Garden just became relevant in the manga again. That said, they're both pretty tight arcs that do some fun set up but mostly hit the main conceit behind One Piece which is just landing at a new place and asking "what's going on here?"
I recently reread Whiskey Peak, and coming off of John Wick 4 and Blue Eye Samurai, I LOVED Zoro fight sequence. Hell, I even enjoyed the fight with Luffy.
I had a very similar journey with one piece, I dropped it after skypiea as a kid and picked right back up 2 years ago and it's had me hooked since.
I think we're actually getting out of Egghead in a couple of chapters so this is a good time for this video.
14:22 i told my wife the something similar i said “if you don’t love the straw hats as you get these moments don’t bother cause these moments carry sometimes”
Impel down at #2 tells me you know quality. Its undoubtedly one of if not the most underrated arc. You basically had 4 different settings inside one jail . Magellan as a villain was terrifying , especially because haki was unknown at the time. Buggy and Mr. 2 comedic 's synergy is honestly some of the best in the series . Everything played out in such a non predictable way with even black beard making an appearance …i could go on about so many more positive stuff but yeah if anyone is reading this please go reread/rewatch impel down
Oh man, I’m glad to run into someone else who loves impel down as much as I do, it’s such a fun, constantly moving, constantly exciting part of the story which actually genuinely feels appropriate for its length
I just started Wano! I average about 10 episodes a day so I’ll catch up in no time lolol.
I didn't realize One Piece has that many arcs. It makes sense of course being a long running series. I just didn't realize it.
Man Thriller Bark at #19 is criminal! So many amazing moments. Zoro's fight against the samurai, the straw hats coming together to beat Oars, Brook's backstory, and of course "Nothing happened". Just iconic.
I'm glad I stopped myself from typing out a thesis for ranking every arc but it was a real struggle.
If anyone reading this did what ProZD did and had to switch the the manga, I cannot recommend One Pace highly enough. They fix so many problems and cut out so much useless garbage. I can't imagine having made it through Dressrosa in the vanilla anime, but it was great with One Pace
how does the one pace edit compare to just following a filler list and skipping openings+endings? currently on Fishman
@@zga042since one piece has a lot of padding in each scene and episode, one pace makes a lot of smaller cuts per episode. Scenes that take 2m in Piece may take 30s in Pace. Filler (that is, anything non-cannon) sometimes is kept if it improves the pacing, is semi cannon (Egghead has some of these moments) or the segment is just too different from cannon to cut without impacting the viewing experience.
I’ve been watching Pace from start to end and it’s been a great experience. When I had to switch back to Toei for the end of Skypeia and Arabasta it was so painful. Highly recommend.
@@zga042 What Spebby said is pretty spot it. It cuts out a looooot of fluff like reaction shots and flashbacks that were added to slow the pacing down. More stuff is cut out in newer episodes because the pacing gets worse as the series goes on.
Finally found a video that’s more than 30 seconds on this channel sheeeesh
Impel Down deserves its spot in the ranking its so under rated in the fandom and I'll never understand why
I think it might be because of its context as a transition arc. It really sets the new status quo where the broader world and its characters become the focus, where before it had been so focused the Strawhats. It's a great are, but it's very different than what people had been enjoying up to that point. I think Marineford does a stronger job of getting people really invested in the non-Strawhats, so Impel Down suffers from the contrast.
Water 7 and Ennies Lobby are at the top of the list for me. The way the conflict developed, the high points and the pay off was so natural and just an amazing experience for me.
Oddly enough, Fishman Island and Amazon are also in my top 5. Having revisited them at a more mature stage in my life, those arcs really made me appreciate Oda's writing. He's an author who doesn't force ideals down your throat, he simply observes different themes from multiple views. There's so many subtle things he does that just makes characters breathe naturally and story beats flow.
I wish I could like Wano. I just felt it dragged out way too long. But I also loved Thriller Bark, so I guess I'm just weird.
The exact same thing happened to me. Abandoned one piece during skypeiea and randomly found my way back during impel down. Fishman island made me leave again but I've seen it all now. One of the best stories ever
"Sanji gets to be cool again"
Unfortunately, he will once again stop being cool
Idk he was pretty cool in Wano and then in Egghead I feel like there's a reason he's holding back. [SPOILER WARNING] He's had some good moments in Egghead to balance it out and I think (or hope) there will be a payoff to him seeming to not want to fight (maybe in Elbaf?). His eyebrow has switched sides a couple times in the arc and I think he may be fearing he's losing his emotions. Elbaf would be a good place for the Zoro-Sanji death pact promise to come to fruition as their rivalry mirrors that of Dorry and Brogy. That's just a theory though.
Sanji in Wano is peak though. Yes, the bathhouse peeping is shit, but pretty much everything else he does in the arc (most notably the character development vs Queen) is some of his best stuff in the series IMO
@@KoroftheSonwe can at least take solace in knowing Sanji peeped in a *mixed-bath* …
@@Monobrobeye
Nah he cool
9:26 glad you’ve come around. I know people say Arlong Park decides if you like OP or not but I think Baratie is the ultimate test.
Good worldbuilding, sanjis intro/heartbreaking backstory, and the villains. Don Krieg works as another villain for the Strawhats to defeat, but it’s Mihawk’s early introduction that shows just how weak the Strawhats are in the grand scale of the world. Good moments all around + a great setup for Arlong Park.
All in all a solid list, only thing I would change is syrup village being dead last. Honestly the weakest arc for me. Egghead could honestly end up at top 5, it's been amazing.
I just want to thank you so much for putting the idea for watching One Piece 4 years ago
Watching through Impel Down for the first time while aware of manga current events, I thought "Bon Clay better just fucking die in this arc... because that's the only reason I'll accept for why he doesn't spend the rest of the series on the Sunny where he belongs."
Let’s GO!!!! I caught up this year after starting two years ago. Watching the anime with my wife now and we’re currently on Zou.
hell yeah
Impel down pulled me back into One Piece hard. After that I was hooked.