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NEWS: One Piece Anime's 2-Hour Nami Special to Air in August

This sounds cool. I agree that each character should get their own special!

Honestly, people who hate on One Piece, the best selling manga of all time, according to the very site you're reading this on, are probably ten year old trolls who still run around with Naruto headbands on.

Funny. This arc was the one that seal the deal for me about loving One Piece. And as I've read at Arlong Park Forums... most of the fanbase over there believe the same.

Oh well.

vashthekaizoku wrote:

This sounds cool. I agree that each character should get their own special! Honestly, people who hate on One Piece, the best selling manga of all time, according to the very site you're reading this on, are probably ten year old trolls who still run around with Naruto headbands on.

Or perhaps... they just don't like it. Perfectly reasonable. Few things have universal appeal, and One Piece certainly isn't one of them. It could be they don't really like shonen action in general. Or they're a fan of action sequences with a half-way reasonable pace. Maybe they used to like it but they've gone off it a bit thanks to the mostly fairly dull New World arcs. Or maybe they're just put off by the hatefully arrogant fanbase.

lol where u getting ur info bro there has only first arc of new world and it still on going and so far its been [expletive] epic so don't know what u talking about

Since the person who I was replying to referred to One Piece as 'the best-selling manga of all time', I was talking about the manga, in which Fishman Island, which was dull as hell and revolved around the lamest antagonist Oda had ever offered up and has moved on to a new arc, which so far looks like it might be going one worse.

Bob from Accounting wrote:

Since the person who I was replying to referred to One Piece as 'the best-selling manga of all time', I was talking about the manga, in which Fishman Island, which was dull as hell and revolved around the lamest antagonist Oda had ever offered up and has moved on to a new arc, which so far looks like it might be going one worse.

Not so fast - while it true that Fisherman Island arc was boring, one cannot tell the same about current arc. Its actually very good so far. It has Smoker in it as well as few other good characters. It happens on Vegapunks old laboratory(and Vegapunk will probably play one of most important role ending of manga). Only minus point so far was the samurai who probably gonne be new member of the team. I don't really like him yet.

Funny. This arc was the one that seal the deal for me about loving One Piece. And as I've read at Arlong Park Forums... most of the fanbase over there believe the same.

Oh well.

ZoRo99 wrote:

lol where u getting ur info bro there has only first arc of new world and it still on going and so far its been [expletive] epic so don't know what u talking about

Since the person who I was replying to referred to One Piece as 'the best-selling manga of all time', I was talking about the manga, in which Fishman Island, which was dull as hell and revolved around the lamest antagonist Oda had ever offered up and has moved on to a new arc, which so far looks like it might be going one worse.

A Nami special, huh? Sounds interesting.
Since I liked Nami's backstory and the Arlong arc, I'll be sure to check this out.

Bob from Accounting wrote:

ZoRo99 wrote: lol where u getting ur info bro there has only first arc of new world and it still on going and so far its been [expletive] epic so don't know what u talking about Since the person who I was replying to referred to One Piece as 'the best-selling manga of all time', I was talking about the manga, in which Fishman Island, which was dull as hell and revolved around the lamest antagonist Oda had ever offered up and has moved on to a new arc, which so far looks like it might be going one worse.

While I will say that I personally don't like Hody Jones, I can't say he was a lame villian. When Fukaboshi asked Hody "what did humans ever do to you" and he replied with "nothing", he instantly became a good villian in my eyes, because he was completely different than past villains.

He had no motivation, he wasn't out for revenge, he didn't suffer any emotional trauma, or sad past. That's just how he was raised. He was fed racial hatred since he was a child. And given the fact that there are so many people in the real world who think and act just like Hody (racial supremacy, anti-immigration, KKK, etc.) makes me think that Oda was intentionally trying to convey a message about raising children in harsh, prejudice environments.

dude that was the main reason of fish men island arc ,fishman island explored themes like the evils of racism, prejudice, politics, change versus tradition. but there are people who simply ignored the themes and call this arc boring i personally like it because the issue needed to be pushed in this arc and evils of racism is rare them in shonen genre but there are people who are gonna overlook the themes of it so don't waste on ur time on those retards by explaining the themes to them

So you guys don't want a Nami special because it's not fanservice? So Nami is just boobs to you? Why not look at her for the character she really is: A strong, likeable female character who breaks the mold of other Shounen heroines. Of course, her boobs make some of her appearance, but that's not all she is.

The episodes that did actually tell her history were among the most boring ones(as most scenes in mangas and anime that show what happened earlier, for some reason). She had better roles earlier and later on.