One Piece is an exceptional manga by possibly the very best mangaka in Japan right at this point, Eiichiro Oda.
When I first looked at this thing out, the tale appeared premature as well as badly done, not to mention far too silly. Nevertheless I was quickly corrected; it is none of the above. Luffy desires to become pirate king, however his primary objective is not that at all: It is to have as many journeys as a man potentially can.
As for art I have to say that it's top notch. Can't say that it has always been, since in the earlier years it was very much simplified regarding the backgrounds, but after 2010'sthe art quality has been magnificent compared to anything else but some of the mangas which have the highest quality of art ie. Berserk or Vinland Saga.
Characters are top notch when considering the enjoyability, they've all got great qualities that I like in one way or another. Oda has managed to put together several kinds of personalities that work extremely well together while forming great relationships between each of them. The only thing that has been somewhat missing from One Piece's character development is the actual development of their personalities, but this also I consider more as a strength than a weakness: why fix something that isn't broken?
But the main characters in my opinion are only half of the characters that truly matter. What matter sometimes even more is the villains and how they are designed and this is where Oda really shines in my opinion. The villains have been interesting, well designed and very likeable almost always. The more important thing than showing good villains is the art of not showing them: by this I mean the subtle hyping of the possible future villains has proved to be excellent tactic for keeping the interest for One Piece piqued.
Story is absolutely the best part of One Piece. Eiichiro Odas skills lie in the incredible story telling, the most successful hyping of future events and long term commitment which shows as "foreshadowing" that every One Piece fan knows of. The hyping that I talk of is the art of readers getting seriously pissed for not getting enough of One Piece, Oda knows exactly how stimulate the balance between subtle hyping ie. future characters like Kaido and revealing us some important part of the story line at hand.
What One Piece's story also excells at is it's multidimensionality: it has seriously so much characters that are at the same time memorable, interesting and they constantly do things at the same time that we are following our main characters stories. In this way the story could be said that it's a multi layered one and at some point the layers intersect and we have a lot of interesting plot developments at our hands. This is a trait of One Piece that I have not really heard much about, but it's one of the most important things regarding the storys enjoyability and utter uniqueness.
This may be the easiest five stars decision ever.
When I first looked at this thing out, the tale appeared premature as well as badly done, not to mention far too silly. Nevertheless I was quickly corrected; it is none of the above. Luffy desires to become pirate king, however his primary objective is not that at all: It is to have as many journeys as a man potentially can.
As for art I have to say that it's top notch. Can't say that it has always been, since in the earlier years it was very much simplified regarding the backgrounds, but after 2010'sthe art quality has been magnificent compared to anything else but some of the mangas which have the highest quality of art ie. Berserk or Vinland Saga.
Characters are top notch when considering the enjoyability, they've all got great qualities that I like in one way or another. Oda has managed to put together several kinds of personalities that work extremely well together while forming great relationships between each of them. The only thing that has been somewhat missing from One Piece's character development is the actual development of their personalities, but this also I consider more as a strength than a weakness: why fix something that isn't broken?
But the main characters in my opinion are only half of the characters that truly matter. What matter sometimes even more is the villains and how they are designed and this is where Oda really shines in my opinion. The villains have been interesting, well designed and very likeable almost always. The more important thing than showing good villains is the art of not showing them: by this I mean the subtle hyping of the possible future villains has proved to be excellent tactic for keeping the interest for One Piece piqued.
Story is absolutely the best part of One Piece. Eiichiro Odas skills lie in the incredible story telling, the most successful hyping of future events and long term commitment which shows as "foreshadowing" that every One Piece fan knows of. The hyping that I talk of is the art of readers getting seriously pissed for not getting enough of One Piece, Oda knows exactly how stimulate the balance between subtle hyping ie. future characters like Kaido and revealing us some important part of the story line at hand.
This may be the easiest five stars decision ever.
