One Piece: Mezase! Kaizoku Yakyuu Ou

This is basically one of those movie specials you get to see before the actual movie. Kinda like Pokemon vacation before the Pokemon Movie started in the 90's.

In this short special. The Strawhat Pirates are on another island this time playing baseball against Arlong and some other Characters from the show Like Hachi.

The game as you can imagine is crazy and to extreme for normal baseball. But its still enjoyable to watch. As the crew uses their special techniques to score homeruns and get strike outs.

During this time Mr 2 Bon Clay and Buggy are commentating. And during this whole time you only hear these ... two speak. They even read out the dialogue for Luffy as he calls out his special home run Gom Gom attack.

Overall its really enjoyable to watch how the animators and artist got this special to work.

One Piece: Mezase! Kaizoku Yakyuu Ou Review


Story (7/10) Good

There's really nothing to be said he's it's just a little what if clip of the Straw Hat Crew if they played Baseball against certain villains of their past. It's not bad


Art and Animation (8/10) Very Good

... For a 5 minute clip the art style and animation was very good and it better be! It's only 5 minutes! If toei made this look bad then you would have to give up the little little hope you still have left for them.


Sound (7/10)

The Sound was good but the fact that they had none of the voice actors playing their characters just the voice was Buggy and Mr. 1 (I think) commentating in the background AND also doing the voices of the actually other characters felt odd. But since it's only 5 minutes it's not to the point where it's something to complain about because by the time you realized this is happening it's basically over lol


Characters (10/10)

The only reason I gave this section a 10 is because it's just show casing all of the straw hat crew's personality through a baseball game is it did it well. It reminded me of that one Sonic X baseball episode where they did the exacted same thing it was entertaining and short.


Enjoyment (7/10) Good

Like I said entertaining and short the only thing that may bother you is that the voice of Buggy the clown and Mr.1 is voice everything but the fact that it's only 5 minutes doesn't make it an issue it took me longer to write the review than to watch it honestly lol


Overall (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.80/10) Good+

Short and sweet to and extent it's so short you can't really hate on it. You have a higher chance of enjoying yourself and wanting more than not liking this. Nothing more to be said you might as well watch it since it's only 5 minutes like I said you might like what you see.

I gave this an 8 overall because I felt that it didn't live up to it's expectations. I enjoyed it, it was funny but I felt like it wouldn't matter if this special was not made. Now OP fans don't start hating me because I am a big OP fan myself but it was like tehy made this on their free time.

Story
2 teams battle it out for the cup. Team Luffy vs team Fisherman. Both teams battle for the cup using their abilities to get the upper hand and the fisherman using underhanded moves. We have mr 2 and buggy as the announcers who ... play their part in making you laugh and the special end with biggy nicely.

I would compare this to the foxy arc because of the game theme and what followed. Anyway hope I didn't discourage you and enjoy the special.