One Piece, anime wackiness meets Pirates of the Caribbean

While I enjoy my serious anime, there's one in particular I've taken to when i need to take a break from seriousness and drama, that being the pirate anime One Piece.

For me, I guess it was the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that got me into liking pirates for the first time since I was nine. and seeing Anime that's not set in some futuristic paradise or some woodsy type scene just caught on to me, and i think it's a bit underrated.

for those of you who don't know the story of it, it is as follows:

Fame...fortune...power...

The one man who had it all in this world was the great Pirate King, Gold Roger...whose fateful last words drove men to the sea.

"My treasure? If you want it, I will give it. All the riches in the world await the person who can but find it."

And so, brave souls set sail for the Grand Line in search of their dreams. The Great Age of Pirates had begun.

It's a pirate adventure like no other you've over seen.

Now, Monkey D. Luffy has set out on his own grand adventure. His goal, to fulfil a promise he made to his idol, the pirate Shanks, to seek out the Grand Line and find the Pirate King's treasure: One Piece. He is both blessed and cursed by having eaten of the Gum Gum fruit, known throughout the seas as the "Devil's Fruit". Though now unable to swim, his body is now able to stretch like rubber. With his newfound powers and the crew of the Going Merry at his side (famed pirate hunter Zolo, crafty pirate thief Nami, compulsive liar Usopp, and suave but kicking cook Sanji), Monkey sets out to follow in the wakes of the great pirates and write his own name in the pages of history. (trademark Absolute Anime)

well, you've got a lot of aspects of traditional anime in there. First, Luffy, Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, wacky, adventerous and tough, kinda like Lupin the 3rd to me, with the unusual power of rubber body.

Zolo, the classic samurai wielding 3 sword style (with pretty deft grace and strength)

nami, the pretty but tough navigator

Usopp, the cunning, and cowardly, Liar (if he only had a brain)

and Sanji, the loverboy cook.

what do you all think of One Piece?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

ok, thanks for the tip. I think I'll find the uncensored episodes. the issue is though that I've been reading the manga and only seen a few episodesof the watered down version on TV. so you're right, I will find the uncensored stuff first. thanks for the link

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the manga is definetely better, more graphic and serious at most points. although around here, they don't play One Piece that much, but I wouldn't doubt the 4Kids stuff is too tame for the rest of us

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

it was the manga that started me off, and I'm enjoying it thoroughly. still collecting them all today

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

which character do you think is best. for me, it's still Luffy, corny but powerful

I was speaking idiomatically.

yeah, it's hard to bewlieve wiki is not always accurate hm?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

well, book 13 of the manga comes out soon, I believe January 7

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