Sunday, June 26, 2011

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 502


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First Thoughts
What can I say? Wow. Yes, this episode pretty much Blew My Mind with amazing-ness. So much epic rolled into a canon-y mixture of excitement and evil…wow. Although I posted this late, I have to say it is Way better than not at all. I consider this a high honor to have worked on this episode in particular. So many glorious things revealed, and the suspense still just continued to rise and rise! Fantastic. What else is there to do? Go. Watch. This. Episode. And all of the ones following this one. It is an episode worthy of getting people hooked on the entire series, or one that totally renews one’s own faith in the series. Trust me: you will never regret this.

Friday, June 24, 2011

One Piece More: Watch Durarara!!!


Summer...the time for beach.....sun.....anime inside a cool house.

Come on? I know majority of us are using summer time to catch up on animes that we fell behind on (that isn't One Piece). Since there is no school it is pretty easy to play catch up right now. No school work to keep you distracted from taking in the entertainment that you want. Sure makes marathoning anime pretty easy.

Or you can do normal summer things that involves getting out of the house such as volleyball, swimming, and vacationing.

Nah....anime is good.

-Mikey

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 503

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First Thoughts
I was so expecting tears when I went into this episode. You had the death of Sabo follow by his last words to his brother. How can a person not expect tears to happen.

This episode wasn't perfect though. There was one moment that made me wish to turn off my volume which I was close to doing. Overall the episode was everything I expected when it came to covering the material at the same time was able to add more to it.

Also Mikey is back to blogging. He shouldn't since he still has a convention report to do.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 501


This pretty much sums up the whole episode, in all of it's desperate glory. Only at OnePieceOfficial.com.
First Thoughts
This is an absolutely thrilling episode. The betrayal, the evil, the true muck of this kingdom…it is horrible beyond belief. The whole episode kept me on the edge of my seat, screaming, crying, wailing, exclaiming…it was all just too much for one school night, haha! The suspense, the horror, the corruption of the ruling nobles…all disgusting, and disgraceful. Not to even mention the surprise guest, who is indeed Amazing and astounding beyond words. I have not been this excited for a flashback episode in…well, a long time, haha! Exhilarating, and yet so horrifying, that such people can exist in the world, and what is worse, be in charge of a portion of it. It makes me literally sick to my stomach to think about how this was all going on. The sadness…the horror…it was just so much…especially Sabo’s final realization and admittance. That was the most impressive thing so far this whole flashback arc. Amazing.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Question Corner: How to Kill Brook?

There are many unique and interesting Devil Fruit abilities in the One Piece world. You have one that can make a person into rubber while others can grant a person to become lava and there is even one that allows the user to become a giraffe. Still one of the strangest powers seems to be Brook's Yomi Yomi ability.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 499 *Late*

“Luffy could have been eaten…by Lions, or Tigers, or Bears, oh my!” Oh wait, there were no Lions here. Silly Sabo.  OnePieceOfficial.com: Be there.
First Thoughts
Well, I have to start off by saying that I was really unsure how this episode would turn out. After all, I do not know yet how long this Arc is going to be, so I don’t know when to expect the end of it. I Do, however, know the basis of how it ends (which is unfortunate), so I figured this was not the end. I liked the teamwork developing more between the boys, but also think it is really interesting to watch how much skill Luffy is going to have learned at this age. The overall premise of the episode was cool and all, but I am looking forward to next week’s episode and getting back to the main focus, although this episode certainly had its foreshadowing moments which worry me considerably for the boys’ fate…
And for the sake of time and all purposes today, I will ignore the issue that this post is Almost 3 weeks late due to a need to just get this up and done with...

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Manga: State of the series - Worth the wait?

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Regardless, please buy the US edition of the manga before it gets all messy. 

PS - This article was written by PirateBeck and does not fully represent the feelings of Mikey-san but since he approved this, that would suggest he agrees somewhat.
   

Thursday, June 2, 2011

One Piece More: Long Over Due

Dance my little puppets dance! Dance!

Well this More piece is long over due. When was the last time we had one? Like March? Heck I didn't even do that one! Who the heck is in charge of this blog? They been doing a horrible job in keeping things together these last three months! It not like they been busy trying to get interviews planned and graduating from college and junk....Wait? They have? Wait! That person is me! Umm...To the meat of the post!

-Mikey

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Manga: Chapter 627 (SPOILERS!)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
More tears shall flow this week. Grab yourself a Kleenex tissue and buy Viz's One Piece

Anime: Post Marineford Arc- Episode 500

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Thoughts
Well here we are. At big episode 500. Nothing super special but except that we finally return canon. Kind of strange to say that we are back to canon after having a few filler episodes. Then again this has been an amazing well done flashback so far. The anime has once again taken the material that Oda has provided and animated it nicely.

Along with coming back to canon we also see many creepy and disgusting people that came from within the mind of Oda. It is episodes like these where I wonder if Oda is trying to make a statement about society in his 'simple' boys manga.