Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 484

This is the face of your enemy when you vainly rush at him in anger, only to fall after you land a few choice blows. “You are still too weak.” See the intense emotions skyrocket only on OnePieceOfficial.com, and try and understand what the Heck is going on…

First Thoughts

Ah, this is so late…(as usual), so Sora apologizes profusely. Sora also promises to stop speaking in freakin’ THIRD TERM anymore now.

This episode had me hanging at the edge of my seat, screaming at the computer in awe, horror, fear, and most of all, anger. Not knowing what was going to really occur since details are a bit sketchy for me from between Ace’s death to around ch. 600, I had no warning for Whitebeard’s reaction, nor Luffy’s. It was shocking, really, seeing what occurred in this episode, especially with the surprise ending. Everyone’s reactions were wonderfully fitting, and overall it was an excellently depicted episode. This episode is dedicated to the idea of Overcoming Failure, as so many people are saddened that they failed at accomplishing something right now…then how they cope with the loss by lashing out at something/someone in terrible bursts. Quite exciting, no?

Manga: Chapter 612 (SPOILERS!)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Watch out for sharks! While you're at it, watch out for Viz's One Piece!

Question Corner: Does Funimation have the right to seek legal action against consumers?

Recently Funimation has filed a lawsuit against US BitTorrent users for possession and distribution of One Piece Episode 481. This comes right after the incident involving the anime Fractale where the Japanese production company had temporary denied Funimation the right to stream it after concerns of illegal distribution of the show. Take a read at the news report after the break.

One Piece More: Better to have More then Nothing at All

Sometimes More is better then nothing at all. haha (BAD JOKE!)

Well originally the debut of Art Piece was going to happen this weekend but in reality I got a lazy and didn't get around to doing it. Can you blame me? This past week a lot has been happening. The Anime post  that included everybody on the blog and friends from twitter, a Manga post and then this week I went back to school. So busy busy here for everybody on the blog.

-Mikey

Manga: Chapter 611 (SPOILERS)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! 

Know what else is good? One Piece manga from Viz!

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 483

First Thoughts 
Mikey: So here we are. After so many long years, One Piece has finally seen it's first real time death. Some people may say that we have seen death in real time but really this is the first real time death of a character that we knew. A character where the overall objective was to save him and along the way we saw some development via flashbacks and appearances.

Kind of hard to put what I want to say in words. This was an amazing episode that had an ending that left me speechless. Just like the last few minutes where there was no music playing to create silence, so was everybody else who were watching this episode.

To join me in this post I have Neku and Sora. Say hi guys.

Superneku: Hi everyone.

Sora: 'Sup.

Mikey: Also I guess the opening image for this post is a bit strange but I wanted to use the same scene that was used for the manga post which was done almost a year ago. Still for now sit down as we try to go over the events of this episode.

Interview Piece: J. Micheal Tatum (Part 2)

Continuing from our first part, we now have our second and final part of our discussion with God! This time we are a bit more One Piece and anime focus as Tatum talks about his experiences as 'god', a demon and the french (and why he may not be allow into France anytime soon). There is a lot of One Piece love in this interview and for a minute we sounded like One Piece fanatics talking about One Piece on a sunny afternoon.

Things to know before reading this interview. Before this interview was conducted, Tatum was on a panel and shared some of his experiences as a stage actor. One of them included getting beaten with a vase and bleed. Also we had to move the location of our interview due to some Hetalia fangirls (saying that in a good way) that were loud.

Also at the end of this interview, I gave Tatum a HUGE Eneru keychain. Yes....That figure that you see Tatum holding in the picture above is actually a keychain.

Anime: Marineford Arc- Episode 482

The HATE episode. Akainu is the new most-hated Marine. Why? Find out at OnePieceOfficial.com. Go there. Now. 

First Thoughts

Sora’s back, and more freaked out than ever. I finally get to the point where I am seeing raw footage (stopped reading at ch. 572) and THIS comes out of nowhere. This episode blew me away. Honestly, if I hadn’t had my trusty pack of spoilers (from my 'wonderful' friend…curse you…) I don’t think I could have watched this without screaming in agony and/or fear...even though I still did. Of course, the entire episode is extremely exciting, and it really does keep you waiting until the very end, then BAM- springs the surprise on you like a crazed fangirl at a convention. Except, more serious.

{And, in accordance to Episode 480, the LOVE episode, this is dubbed the HATE episode. If you watched the episode, you should know why.}

Manga: Chapter 610 (SPOILERS)

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! 

Do mermaids poop? Maybe. Catch up by buying Viz's past One Piece volumes!

Interview Piece: J. Micheal Tatum (Part 1)

Back during OniCon, I was blessed to be in the presence of the voice of God. We had a marvelous time and had such an engaging conversation. The only way to describe our time together was....godly.

haha So here is the interview that I had with J. Micheal Tatum (Voice of Eneru, Dalton, and Pearl.) that was done while at OniCon 2010. We had such a long conversations talking about how dubbing works, our obsession with One Piece and so much more! Unfortunately this interview is so long that it is going to be cut up into two pieces so I hope you will enjoy the first piece of our conversations with the godly J. Micheal Tatum.

No New Anime Episode and Manga Chapter

Want to watch One Piece? OnePieceOfficial.com Want manga? Viz is the place.

If you can't tell by now, there was no new One Piece episode this past weekend. So for those that checked OnePieceOfficial.com and were disappointed that there was no new episode then please know it was because no new One Piece episode happen in Japan. Nothing to do with Funimation losing the rights or something like that.

Likewise, there will be no new One Piece chapter coming up sometime this week in Japan since Weekly Shonen is on break until after January 19th (or whatever date that it will get leaked or something).