One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

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Chilson said:
They like the popular thing because, like all perpetually online lonely "nerds", they are desperate to be included in anything that they think is popular.

Very few of them have actually bothered to read Berserk or genuinely like the genre.
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I wonder if the only interaction they've had with Berserk was to join Berserk fans in bashing Sword Art Online for Kirito having the nickname "The Black Swordsman".
 
The western fanbase hates Gear 5 for not being a powered-by-anger Super form.
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Anyone who hates Gear 5 after thinking about it for more than a Month is a retard.

I will give people the benefit of the doubt of thinking it was goofy when it first happened but Luffy having the ability to be "Free" of the rules of reality itself is a genius final step in his power progression.

Don't they like Berserk?
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Berserk is slowly becoming The "Edgy" Normies' favorite anime.

I haven't read it myself, the art looks great but I haven't seen anything from it that indicates it is the masterpiece of writing people claim it is.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Berserk is slowly becoming The "Edgy" Normies' favorite anime.

I haven't read it myself, the art looks great but I haven't seen anything from it that indicates it is the masterpiece of writing people claim it is.
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Don't deprive yourself of something as good as Berserk, just because some normies like the "Edgy" themes in it. Berserk has a lot more to offer than edge.

Something as well regarded as Berserk will inevitably have some retards in its fanbase. Just look at One Piece and all the gender freaks.
 
Talmanes said:
Don't deprive yourself of something as good as Berserk, just because some normies like the "Edgy" themes in it. Berserk has a lot more to offer than edge.

Something as well regarded as Berserk will inevitably have some retards in its fanbase. Just look at One Piece and all the gender freaks.
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*Crosses arms* Now Many people I would just assume like Berserk and want me to give it a try...but someone named Talmanes would screw with me and try to get me to read it just to troll me.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
*Crosses arms* Now Many people I would just assume like Berserk and want me to give it a try...but someone named Talmanes would screw with me and try to get me to read it just to troll me.
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Wouldn't it be hilarious if you checked out Berserk and ended up actually liking it. Maybe I'm the only one who would finde something like that funny.
 
What are your guys thoughts on this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEY4CbCAjk https://thelibraryofohara.com/the-one-piece-timeline/
I have always had an interest in what the different eras in one piece are, especially sicne I was into the Zeldo timeline as well back then.
I am seeing quite a few people point out that this documentationdhows the fact that the main events of the series happen way to quickly to the point it feels unrealisic.
I also would like to see him do the rest of the Vivre card dataset summaries.
 
retartedconspiratard said:
What are your guys thoughts on this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEY4CbCAjk https://thelibraryofohara.com/the-one-piece-timeline/
I have always had an interest in what the different eras in one piece are, especially sicne I was into the Zeldo timeline as well back then.
I am seeing quite a few people point out that this documentationdhows the fact that the main events of the series happen way to quickly to the point it feels unrealisic.
I also would like to see him do the rest of the Vivre card dataset summaries.
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Only thing I think I’ve ever heard about the timeline is the argument that the time skip should have been longer than two years.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
*Crosses arms* Now Many people I would just assume like Berserk and want me to give it a try...but someone named Talmanes would screw with me and try to get me to read it just to troll me.
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Really dude, give it a go. At it's best it's one of the best out there. Though if you don't like starting a series that is very likely to have a botched ending, I can accept that as a reason to not go into it.
 
This is what happens when we don't get spoilers.

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One Piece is absolutely political and how so many of the fandom fail to recognize this is beyond concerning.​


Like, how are y’all even approaching Oda’s works, then? How do you look at arcs like Fishman Island, persons like Saturn, background stories like Doflamingo’s, and the existence of the Celestial Dragons (to name just a FEW) and fail to see just how overtly political One Piece really is? I get that to two-dimensionally analogize real world events to their seeming counterparts in the One Piece universe is irresponsible and often comes at the expense of nuance, but how do you go about outrightly denying it?
The overarching theme of One Piece is and always has been one of freedom and liberation. Regardless of the fact that those two terms receive variegated meanings and are laden with clashing philosophical nuance depending on the theoretical lens with which you are working, the general sentiment those terms deliver are undeniably omnipresent throughout the series from beginning to end.
To fail to see this suggests to me deeply that there are many of you who consume One Piece for the sake of themes of pUnChY-PuNChY, kiCkY-KicKY, and BOoBiEs. To fail to see just how leftist Oda’s politics are is beyond mind-boggling.

Edit: can’t respond to yall so I’m just gonna address a couple of recurring themes in your replies/comments.
  1. Yes, one can simply turn one’s brain off and enjoy One Piece as a work of pure entertainment and nothing much more. But respectful art appreciation, meaning when one really pays attention to the schematism of artwork’s internal and external dynamics, will always be undertaken with the employment of certain theoretical lenses with which we are familiar. Like it or not, the stories being told resonate with us for reasons beyond the fighting scenes and caricatures of female sexuality. If you can honestly tell yourself that you enjoy One Piece only for the fighting and only through the male gaze, then you should be ashamed of yourself and you should absolutely be asking yourself if the norms that govern your interactions with works of art are the same (affective and epistemic) norms that govern your actual lives. I suspect affirmation of the latter is something that you’re absolutely going to want to fix.
  2. If themes of liberation and freedom, if topics of resistance to demands of conformity and absolute obsequiousness to the status quo hierarchy are going to make you charge others with antisemitism, you should take a long, hard look at yourself and ask yourself if what you’re attempting to defend is something worth defending. Furthermore, attacks on the fascistic values of the right-wing likud party is not tantamount to an attack on all jews everywhere and your attempts to liken the two are immoral and deceitful.
  3. Many of you are right that there are diferences to be had between governments of disparate nations/regions. However, a quick look into MacArthur’s and the Truman administration’s roles in the rebuilding of the Japanese political/economic landscape after the second world war will quickly teach you that there aren’t too many differences to be had at the end of it all. Furthermore, the standards by which we call a democracy are democracy, an autocracy an autocracy (and so on and so on) are pretty universal. The philosophies by which certain practices are defined, the philosophies by which certain standards are set, could be said to be universally held between developed nations at this point (yes, I understand that the term “developed” nations here could be controversial. Let it stand only as a term to denote those countries with governments who hold to democratic practices in one way or another). Most importantly, yes, it is a hotly debated topic whether the cultural norms and standards of one country should carry over to another country in their criticisms/critiques of their practices. However, you will note that these topic matters at hand is of political norms, not cultural ones.
  4. Many of you seem to be very confused about what the left-right divide really means. Just because I have proclaimed One Piece to have leftist tendencies does not mean that I am proclaiming it as a piece of Marxist or Feminist literature. As I have said, and please pay attention to this part, is that it traverses the left side of the political spectrum far more often than it does the opposite. Are there conservative elements to One Piece? Absolutely. Caricaturizations of femininity; caricaturizations of queer/trans persons; (unfortunate but unavoidable considering) adherence to right-wing “might-makes-right” mentality at points; these can all be considered culturally and politically right wing. I make no apologies for them and they’re things to be worked out by readers and Oda alike given time. However, the point still absolutely remains that the overarching theme of liberation and freedom carry over to so much more beyond the mere political facade. Freedom and liberation entail freedom in expression and existence and liberation entails liberation from the conservative calls for conformity in ways that go beyond mere political figures demanding that people vote or work in certain ways.
  5. People talking about how Luffy topples monarchies only to reinstate older orders: I think you’re mistakenly thinking that my post somehow necessitates Luffy himself being political rather than the work as a whole espousing political elements. Furthermore, observe some of the motivations behind why Luffy stood in opposition to so many of the hierarchies he’s toppled or opposed so far. Crocodile, Doflamingo, Celestial Dragons, Fishman Island…in each and every instance Luffy stood opposed to them on the principle of freedom and liberation, on the principle of standing by those he deemed his friends. Nation-building was never the point for him. Naturally, post-conflict, nation-building was not the point, still. The point always and forever for him was to topple systems and hierarchies that get in the way of persons within those systems and hierarchies from flourishing of their own powers and capabilities. At this point, some of you might try and claim from such that these are then libertarian values. But far from the linear laissez-faire policies of libertarianism in its purer form, the regimes he inadvertently “reinstates” are those that are closely aligned, if not identical to, with those that are to be their subjects. As with Cobra and Riku, it could easily be said that there is no divide between people and the rulers in terms of interests for they are rulers whose modus operandi are the welfare of their subjects through and through.
  6. I apologize in having been abrasive and, at times, condescending. But I’m going to close out and stop making edits/replying with one last point: take all art seriously. Nobody needs to go around hyperanalyzing everything to the point of art itself being unenjoyable all the time, but one should also take guards against the hollywood brain-rot from taking over how we interact with works of art. Firstly, artists and artworks simply deserve better. If you created something worthwhile enough to you to present to the world, you would want your readers/fans to pay closer attention to the hard work you’ve put in. Yes, that does not entail you constantly hyperanalyzing things through the eyes of feminism or psychoanalysis or whatever. But ask yourself why certain things resonate with you and why theyre important to you and others. Secondly, and without exaggeration, we as a consumer class absolutely do have agency on the whole in terms of upholding artistic standards and practices. Much in the same way BDS movements operate, reader-bases absolutely do have untapped sources of agency that they can exert to influence change and uphold norms. Too much negligence and laziness in our interactions with works of art will do away with such, and there is pressure on us after all to, at least from time to time, take our interactions with works of art seriously.
 
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