One Piece review

Mystic_Dreamer13
Apr 16, 2021
One Piece is not a very good manga, and I highly suggest not reading it if you haven't started already. I also think Eichiro Oda is a mediocre writer. It's nothing but a waste of time and energy.

The story is very generic. The story is about a group of pirates that want to get treasure, and the main character wants to become "Pirate King". The story isn't interesting in the slightest, but that's not the only bad part. The plot in One Piece is formulaic, and can get boring really fast. Every single arc is essentially the same thing repeated over and over again ad nauseam. It got boring real fast.

The characters aren't very good either. Almost all of the characters are one dimensional and have absolutely no redeeming qualities. Luffy is the most basic shounen protagonist I've seen in any anime/manga. There is no character development to be found in One Piece. None whatsoever. Usopp is still a coward even though the manga is more than 900 chapters. Luffy is still being a bad captain as always. Infact, there's more character regression than development. Anytime Usopp does something brave, it wouldn't matter because next second he goes back to being a coward. Anytime Luffy acts like a captain, it doesn't matter because he'll be acting like an idiot soon. The characters and their relationships never change at all. They behave the same way they did back in chapter 1, therefore I don't find any of them interesting.

The characters become even worse after the time skip. Almost all of the characters are extremely underwhelming after the timeskip. Characters like Robin, Chopper, Zoro, etc. All of these characters are always in the background for the majority of post time skip. There's even an arc in which half the straw hats aren't even on the island for over 100 chapters. That's absolutely ridiculous.

Speaking about arcs, One Piece doesn't have any good arcs. Well I'd say Water 7 is a decent arc, but anything besides that is typical shounen garbage. As I said before, every arc feels the exact same. The crew goes to an island, befriends pepople, find out that bad guys are there, beat bad guys, and then go to another island. This is pretty much the entirety of One Piece. Now of course there are some arcs that are different, but most of the arcs follow that structure. Arcs like Alabasta, Skypiea, Thriller Bark, Fishman, Arlong Park, etc. There's just too many to name!

I'm sure everyone already knows this, but One Piece has awful pacing. Every single arc is dragged out to the point where it just becomes boring to read. Even the shorter arcs like the Baratie have awful pacing. That's just oe of the many reasons why I consider Eichiro Oda to be a mediocre writer. He's just not capable of making an arc with good pacing! I can't think of one One Piece arc with good pacing.

The fights in One Piece are very bad. They're just the typical shounen fights with two people punching each other around. The only good fight in One Piece was Luffy vs Usopp, because it wasn't just two people smacking each other around. That was the only One Piece fight that I actually enjoyed watching. The rest are absolutely awful. Almost every single fight involves the use of plot armor and asspulls. Well, at least the fights in the manga aren't nearly as bad as the anime. Either way, One Piece has poorly choreographed fights in genral. They're also dragged out for like 20 chapters.

One Piece has one of the worst art styles I've ever seen. The art just looks extremely childish and silly. The characters are drawn to be so hideous, and I have no idea why. Drawing hideous characters doesn't make your art style interesting Oda.

I just didn't enjoy reading One Piece at all. The characters are all underdeveloped and generic, the story is very childish and basic, and the art style is bad. One Piece literally has every cliche in the book. I'll still be reading it though, just to see if it gets better.


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