Conan or Pokemon? I'm way behind on Conan. Last one I remember was based Murder on the Orient Express. The project itself was C&D'ed but they had the majority subbed and organised. I just remembered the majority were on megaupload.
Conan. Though I wonder if that wackass continuation with a non-Satoshi is going on.
This is such a sour grapes argument, a refuge in opinion because you don’t need to justify any part beyond “well I don’t like it.” You bounced off the series because it’s art and writing aren’t generic shonen slop, and you are compelled to justify this (bad) opinion by contriving a Stockholm Syndrome scenario around its audience in clear defiance of reality wherein the series has continuously gained new readers its entire run.
And One Piece never got off the ground because it's bland and meanders all over the goddamned place doing nothing for 80% of its runtime with characters that I couldn't give a shit about if I tried.
This is how I know you're a real fan. There was a massive split after the time skip when haki became the rage and Sanji was dying from a fucking nosebleed. Marine Ford was good, yeah, but a lot of it felt far more unrelated to the actual story than the subsequent princess-saving. One Piece feels like an entirely different manga for a bit as Luffy becomes the sole focus. It's main purpose is just to lead into the timeskip, which drags down an otherwise great arc.
Literally has a driven narrative from "go." The "big words" (not that big, not expressing complex ideas) are there to actually express an argument, as opposed to you who follows the 4chan line of thought of "if I type enough bullshit he'll eventually relent." It's fine to not like something, but to use not liking it in and of itself as the core to put down others liking it is a literal juvenile response.
I'll concede that haki consolidated what was a way to introduce varied and fun character conflicts down to "just punch harder." I think Oda felt he was writing himself into a corner because he couldn't keep contriving Logia DF matchups that Luffy could just overcome like Crocodile's or Enel's.
The primary problem with the timeskip was Oda basically used it as a jumping-in point for new readers, which meant he had to really exaggerate older characters in order to get the point across, since the new readers wouldn't have had the fourteen years of rapport that longtime readers did. This was also after having the series only have Luffy for two years prior. As a marketing move it was brilliant, but as a narrative one it was definitely a step back. The secondary problem was most people running into this issue were reading weekly at the time, with artificially dragged out this step back; reading the series as a continuous narrative really irons out this issue, which is something I hold Oda has more of a focus on than optimizing the story as a serialized affair.
Yes it is. In fact it just finished it's big finale but it is moving on for another season before Winds and Waves comes out.
I'll maintain that the Hueco Mundo arc and the stuff leading up to it is actually still good and it really only gets a bad rap because the Soul Society arc is genuinely peak shonen and is some of the best that's ever been. It's not as good, so it feels worse in comparison. Now, once you get to Fake Karakura and all the real Aizen stuff and his keikaku it's definitely a sharper downward trend.
I'll agree with that it's just that for me even with some of the later arcs being good the Soul Society arc is too good for how early it is in the series. The other series are post shark jump for me.
I know that ever since that teaser came out people were finding him weird and making jokes about him being a hellspawn. If it is in fact intentional, it's hilarious.
