One Piece Review

Overall Rating - 4.5 out of 10

I would not recommend watching. Unless you are very morally conservative Christian zealot kind of person. Then this show is for you.

This one was called one of the big three back in the days.

It has occasional epic moments, even entire good arks, few good characters and interesting stories here and there. Some arks standalone I can rate s high as 8.

However they are but a tiny minority in the sea of stuff that goes squarely against my values. On summary it is bad.

The good arks game me sense of false hope that this show then kept betraying forever and ever. For so long it seemed that this show will finally improve, we will graduate from all this silliness and get to some major story ark with a big battle for the future of the world. By Big Mom ark I finally gave up on that and dropped it.

I guess I have to tell a similarly long story of how I got into it and then got out.

I started watching it from a flashback ark, just after the War at Marinenford. Ace died and Luffy was reminiscent about his past: back then he, Ace and Sabo were little and only dreamed of being pirates.

I could particularly relate to Sabo, the way his parents treated him reminded me of my own parents. The way he reacted to it made a lot of sense to me. Sabo as he was in that ark is my favorite character in the show.

That ark alone I can rate 8

If only the rest of the show could live up to this high mark.

Right now I can say that this ark is the uniquely best in the entire show. Back then it gave me false hope that the rest of OP will live u to this standard.

After finishing this ark I started to watch from the beginning. That was not like the flashback ark at all. At first I thought that may be early arks are just warm up, it will get better later.

Occasional cool characters like Mihawk, Corocodile's revolution and uprising, Water 7, Black Beard's crew and Doflamingo kept my interest and made me keep watching.

I was pleasantly surprised when instead of Vivi they made Robin join the crew.

Finally, Marienford and the flashback ark, the highlight of the show. Then 2-year gap. Ant then it was supposed to get better. But it did not. OP just kept failing and failing.

They brought Sabo back to life, but he was not the same anymore. You would think he would be the most inclined to stay independent, but instead he works under Dragon. Worst of all he also has, typical for OP unappealing female with him who keeps torturing him.

Also, about Dragon and his Revolutionary Army, I do wonder what kind of revolution they are planning if any at all. As I begun, I thought about something along the lines of Lelouch and Black Knights, but closer to the end I started to doubt it will turn out that way.

Well, since we are talking about women, I guess I have to explain this 'typical for One Piece unappealing female' term They are selfish, confident, do what they want, hurt men whenever they please. Some sort of feminist mad dream, or more of a nightmare if you ask me.

I wonder if it were editors who made Oda replace Vivi with Robin to somehow counterbalance this problem. Robin is one of the few women in the show who do not fit the above description. Robin saved the show somewhat but far not enough. Because most other women there do fit it.

Men for the most part are also dubious. Always respect women. Always so die-hard loyal to some leader. Would rather suffer and die then break promise. If it were just few characters here and there, it would be aright I guess, but here they are absolute majority. Majority that become way too overwhelming for me to tolerate by the middle of the Big Mom ark, where I dropped it.

I mentioned there are exceptions to these rules, but they are too few to justify continued watching.

Overall, I will not recommend it to anyone.

If not for Flashback ark, Nico Robin, Mihawk, Crocodile, Doflamingo, Black Beard, Water 7 ark, Eustas Kidd, Hawkins, Harpy girl and may be someone else I forgot it would be 3. But because of these characters this 5.