probably the most special One Piece special. it is so different from everything else One Piece while at the same time still being One Piece, it's a delight to watch.
this ova was released before the original One Piece began airing, so it serves as a sort of a pilot episode, gently introducing the concept of One Piece, and does it really well and holds up really well 26 years later. it's just Luffy, Zoro and Nami which creates a novel dynamic, and one interesting new character, all packaged with some high quality, slightly different animation.
in general, I watch One Piece casually, I'm rarely 100%
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Dec 1, 2024
One Piece: Gyojin Tou-hen
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it feels off, and I'm entirely sure why, but I have a hunch... is it too fast now?
I guess the animation is not entirely new, it's the same one from the original, just cut and stitched together differently. and so, its panels that were created with a much much slower pace in mind, when sped up 2-3x, it ends up feeling odd. I would have loved to see a complete new animation, but maybe some other time at least for the first three episodes—"Return to Sabaody", One Pace feels much better. it is slightly slower, 32-33 minutes per episode instead of 23 but covers the same ... 
Mar 29, 2015
First of all, I am not a PRO review writer, and this is also my first review, but I just had to share my thoughts about this anime.
Since it's a horror anime, and it's supposed to give you the creeps, and that's probably the reason you want to watch it, you wonder about how disturbing it is. Actually, it does involve some scary stuff, but it didn't quite reach the level a 'pure' horror anime should. There are other anime you'll find more disturbing (Tokyo Ghoul is one of them). For a horror anime, the story is kind-of standard and doesn't really stand out with anything ... |
