-> Favorite = Wow it's so broad hang on Whitebeards. Yes. Least favorite: "blah blah Oda is sexist" stfu take your gender politics and shove it up your-- Hope = WHITEBEARDS D:< oh and Smoker. yes.
I feel like Skypiea is actually underdeveloped in comparison to the rest of the world which Mags will probably kill me over, but it was really self-contained and while it had the obvious Mexican / Incan/Peruvian -> Spaniards ties it still lacked some of the feverish / spontaneous inspiration that you see in the rest of the series imo. + Esp. wrt
Enel. There was an attempt for a message about god/emperors/might =/= right but it didn't play out as well as with Doflamingo because the lightning vs. rubber thing is cool but it did have a sort of feel like Oda had to pull back his own punches, wasn't really cutting loose on what he truly wanted
I mean even at the end, the whole reason Luffy doesn't kill is because he stops people's dreams (or helps them) but Enel still got to go to the moon and didn't really suffer repercussions
I liked Skypiea as this mostly-unknown legendary thing, so I was disappointed when it turned out that sound dials are actually well-known on the Grand Line and mass-produced, which means there's lots of regular trade with other Sky Islands at least, if not perhaps so much Skypiea itself. But that's a different aspect of it
Yeah I NEVER understood why they were like "YOU CAN'T GO TO THE SKY STUPID PIRATE" except for as a showcase of bullies -> but like they straight up said there's two ways to go to the White Sea
I do feel that the sense of joyous exploration and wonder of entirely new things along with a strong undercurrent of tension and danger was particularly strong in the early Skypiea chapters. but the more it got into the regular action thing, the more it lost that
yeah, but I don't mind that, it made sense that inexperienced people in East Blue wouldn't know better. But for Skypiea I really liked the feeling that the Strawhats had accomplished something rare and that the small haul of dials that Usopp brought back was a minor treasure, instead of turning out to be ho-hum and commonplace.
They can't keep up with the monsters on pure physical strength, so they have to be super clever and trick people with their literal weakness so they get underestimated
4 seems to have a lot of fans though, I did wonder if it was only because Usopp didn't seem to get much to do that it couldn't click with me. I can be pretty biased that way!
but the first movie you should consider. It has a lot of Usopp because it's before Sanji even showed up so Usopp gets to do... OH SO MUCH + it has Zoro chained up to Luffy fighting a swordfight with just his mouth :| AS YOU DO :||||||
Least favorite: Moffat fanboys >>; sorry not sorry
HOPE = CHIBNALL
Least Favorite: Beth \:|/
Hope = I'mma write s2 because I can ?
Least favorite:
Hope = WHITEBEARDS D:< oh and Smoker.
along with a strong undercurrent of tension and dangerwas particularly strong in the early Skypiea chapters. but the more it got into the regular action thing, the more it lost that