I watched the show legitimately until three fourths into the fisman island arc. I gave up and watched OnePace the rest of the way (fan edited manga recreation of the story) I just finished DressRosa, oh my goooooooooood. My future prediction now is Luffy will "Awaken" his devilfruit to create an area he can bounce off as gear fourth and be an unstoppable cannonball of strength. He's GOING TO BE THE PIRATE KING!!!
Hamster boy TV they reached punk hazard the same day they the strawhats regrouped on sabaody. Then they go to dressrosa which takes them 2-3 days and arrive in the afternoon, luffy defeats doffy and they stay overnight. The next day they leave and they arrive at zou in one week. They haven’t even been in the new world for a month lol
God Usopp, the backstory of both Doflamingo and Law and partially Fujitora... those are the only saving graces of this horrendous arc. I don't think the Kaido introduction belong to this arc, but... you can take that as a positive aspect as well. But everything else is just so bad, a literal coliseum of randoms. I don't understand why Oda wastes so much time with secondary characters, he always did that (is anyone remember Wyper?), but after the time-skip he is wasting even more time with these fucking randoms
I stopped watching one piece back in 2014. Now I started again. I feel so lucky about my choice. I can't even imagine going through dressrosa one week at a time.
the best part of this arc: "Plus, there's this man who pissed me off the most today! It's all his fault. i hate him so much, the one who kills him will get 500 milion $b. God Usopp"
@@Nocturne22 So? Not mentioning one of the Yonkos introduction in an arc review is a big sin. And he thinks Viola is forgettable but Mansherry is not? I mean what?
Unpopular opinion: I thought that intro (while a spectacle) was over the top for a character who is 100% going to lose to plot armour. Why hype someone up like that? When it's all said and done, will he even be stronger than Shanks?
I feel like the reintroduction of sabo is like a trophy to Luffy for continuing his journey after Ace died. If he had stopped there, he never could've met again with his other brother. Besides he's a completely different character than Ace so I really don't see a problem with bringing him back into the story... besides that one plot hole you mentioned.
oldman swagga aka Scooba Steve Of course the amnesia will always seem valid. You’re writing it in for convenience so of course it’ll always “make sense”. That doesn’t make it good writing it’s lazy and cheap. Just because you like the idea of Sabo as a character or think he’s cool doesn’t make his existence meaningful or make any sense. Sabo is sick no doubt but his character wasn’t needed and took away from Aces death and impact.
Nanashi there’s four years in between marine ford and dressrosa. aces impact had four years to be felt. if it was really ruined after four years i don’t think that’s as much of the series issue as it is yours
Nanashi Just because a writing technique is usually used as a cheap way to do something doesn’t the technique itself is bad. Why can’t amnesia work as good writing? Is it because it has been misused by others or is it just a fundamentally flawed writing technique? I also don’t believe that Sabo being alive in anyway took away from Ace’s death, i mean ace had more character than just being dead. If a character lost his mother, i wouldn’t then say introducing his father later on still alive takes away the impact of the mothers death.
I think Matt Cohen of he One Piece Podcast said it the best "The first half of the arc was awesome, and the second half was awesome, when you put them together they become a very daunting arc" I couldn't agree more, however I think read as a whole makes things so much better. Honestly it's one of my favorites and I think people that still hate it from the weekly grind should really give it another chance.
its fine but since the post war arc was slow and sad after aces death and our cree being separated and luffy knocked out then going insane the fishman island arc sucked and the fact punk hazard was set up for dressrosa means until wano currently we really didn't have a non dressrosa related arc since the early part of the decade..lol...the punk hazard and dreasoraa arcs lasted like 4 years in real time even in the manga and over 5 almost 6 in the anime
and thats the problem, there's a reason the saying "too much of a good thing" exists. and this arc is proof of that. its filled with amazing things, but put together, it becomes too tiresome to keep track of. 100 weeks, its just too long for its own good. it would've worked much better if they just cut it in half and divided it into 2 separate arcs instead.
@@marcosdheleno It's not really different than the other arcs though, even if it is hella longer. OP has been going on for so long that a lot of readers probably started off being able to read entire past arcs, so that colors their perception of these newer arcs that they're forced to get in weekly installments.
I always looked at it as Sabo wasnt the 2nd of rev army before the time skip. He was just a normal warrior in the army. But when he saw ace die in the news and his memories returned he spent the next two years rising the ranks. As well as that's around the time that Kuma disappeared. So I could see there being a big spot for him to fill.
Doflamingo is my favorite one piece villian, he's a puppetmaster both figuratively and literally. He had Dressrosa under his foot even more so than Crocodile had Alabasta, and while most villian back stories are there to make you feel sympathy, his kind just shows where his elitist attitude and thirst for power and respect come from. Lastly, he was one of the hardest paramecia fruit user to put down since Luffy :)
I lost my shit at the Sabo reveal. I know a good deal of people don't like him, but I really like Sabo for what he represents for the Revolutionary Army; you have someone who was born into a position of wealth and privilege but suffered despite that and ended up fighting against the system that put him there in the first place. I also like that he was present for the majority of the arc and helped Luffy, as opposed to Ace who left to go and search for Blackbeard after meeting up with him in Alabasta. NOT SAYING DRESSROSA IS AN ALABASTA CLONE!
@@Saphire1993 i wouldn't exactly say wano is a mirror of skypiea. there are some similarities however i think Wano has way more factors that can effect the arc, and play into the story
The drip for Dressrosa is top tier. Zoro in his suit, Law in his revenge fit coat, Robin in her dress, Luffy in his flower shirt, Doflamingo in his pink pants.
@@onionknight984 that depends on if you’re talking about the Dressrosa Saga or the Dressrosa Arc. The saga includes the entire time on Dressrosa, all of Punk Hazard, and the end of FishMan and the start of Zou. But the arc is just the island of Dressrosa and by extension, Punk Hazard. Alabasta Saga starts when they find Laboon and ends when they leave Alabasta, but the actual “Alabasta arc” is just the time spent on the island.
I loved the Dressrosa Arc, risks were taken and most of them paid off. Yes, it was long, but it was such a compelling story that it kept me going. My biggest annoyance with the arc was how Rebecca was handled, when she was first introduced I thought that she would go on to do great things, and I was sorely disappointed. But she was a small part of a much larger story that overall went extremely well.
She got hit with a massive dose of one piece women syndrome. She was basically not allowed to be a badass and resolve her own fight because she is pretty. Instead they gave any fights she may've had to her father. I get Oda was going for a sad tragic backstory. But it's like he only wanted Kyros to reclaim the glory and Rebecca wasn't allowed to do it herself. Honestly, I would argue that Kyros should've just been killed at some point whether it be in the present or sometime after she learnt to fight from him. Then, she could feel empowered to settle her own fights herself.
What i find interesting about this arc is it feels like a "what if Crocodile succeeded arc" Cause it has a ton of similarities to the alabasta arc and Crocodile and Donflamingo had close to the same goals but Donflamingo actually succeeded. Both were trying to over the country, frame the king and cause a rebellion but only Don succeeded of course. Plus both are or were obviously warlords doing this. So this does feel like a alternate version of alabasta where no one got there in time to save it.
I like to think that's how Crocodile got the whole idea, right down to looking like a hero to the kingdom's citizens. Also like to think that's why Crocodile turns down Donflamingo's partnership at Marineford, he resents Don for his success.
fun fact I started reading the manga weekly at the literal beginning of dressarosa. Dressrosa is the example of a arc really out staying it's welcome. I consider dressrosa better then alabasta and skypiea. but 101 chapters !!! cut the arc to 70-80 chapter at the max and this arc would be on par-with marineford and better then WCI. all that being said. dressrosa is a very good arc. it's strength's by far out weigh's it's flaws.. the arc highlight's is Fujitora introduction, law & doflamingo back stories, law vs fujitora and doflamingo. gear 4. luffy vs don chinjoa. zoro vs pica. senor pink back story. sabo re-introduction, DF awakenings. big mom's flag ship queen mama appearances. lol I think I made my point... dressarosa is a very ambitious arc. and I love it for that...
Hamze Ahmed dressrosa really doesnt copy alabasta at all... only similarities dreasrosa has with alabasta is crocodile is a warlord same with doffy and sabo re-introduction and others. Mostly these arc’s are very different.. doflamingo isn’t trying to take over dressrosa like crocodile in alabasta doflamingo has already took over dressrosa. True the straw hat are delivering Cesar like vivi but that just a decoy. The real plan was to destroy the smile factory to anger kaido in turn he would kill doflamingo for failing to deliver on the smile. Challenging Doflamingo and his crew was never part of the plan until doflamingo put up the bird cage then it became mandatory. Little similarities mostly different..
one thing i miss about pre timeskip one piece is the crew actually being together and the fact 2 back to back arcs really had little to do with each other leaving me shocked every time at what came next ..like how barate really has nothing to do with syrup village the way syrup and orangetown don't mesh or how we go from loguetown to laboon to reverse mountain to alabasta to little garden to drum back to alabasta to then jaya and skypeia then water 7 then thriller bark to sabaody to amazon lilly impel down ...it didn't feel as planned like now in the yonko arc...all arcs that don't really mesh are exciting...thriller bark was such a big wtf as was amazon lilly...i just like not knowing...but like since fishman we know the next stop
The straw hat fleet representatives/gladiators vs the doflamingo family was amazing! My favorites being, kyros vs diamante, giant guy (his name is hard too spell D:
Redha Delf She might've made the connection when Sabo went berserk after getting his memory back and reading about Ace. However I'm not sure if she knew Ace and Luffy were brothers.
Redha Delf It could have be a anime only thing but in episode 737 (I just look it up) Sabo meets the Straw Hats and Robin was the one to tell them that Sabo and Luffy are brothers. She didn't say anything because Sabo has the rights to not her.
So I've been waiting to share this data I personally collected! On re-read, I counted up every page of flashbacks for these totals (this is based on perspective; some flashbacks switch back and forth like with Law & Corazon) Kyros: 50 pages Law: 46 pages Corazon: 33 pages Doflamingo: 18 pages Rebecca: 13 pages Sabo: 7 pages Chin Jao: 7 pages Baby5: 7 pages Señor Pink: 6 pages Trebol: 4 pages Sengoku: 3 pages Violet: 2 pages Momonosuke: 2 pages Tsuru: 2 pages Chief Gancho: 1 page Leo: 1 page Buffalo: 1 page Bellamy: 1 page King Riku: 1 page Luffy: 1 page TOTAL FLASHBACKS: 206 pages, or over 10 chapters, or more than 1 full volume's worth, or, back when chapters were releasing every other week, about 5 months in real time
50 pages of Kyros smh Entire volumes of flashbacks is not something new, I am reading the whole thing again (but this time colored, very cool experience) and in Skypea there's also an entire volume of flashbacks lol I was legitimately surprised, didn't remember the norland flashback was so damn long. Then you had another volume of flashbacks featuring fisher tiger and the random fishman queen, etc.. I don't mind when Oda writes huge flashbacks for protagonists or major characters (like Law or Doflamingo), but these secondary characters getting so much screen time is just ludicrous. And yes, I do consider Oden a secondary character and a retcon, so there's another infuriating 50 pages or so of random secondary characters in the Wano arc
My personal favorite arc. Soooooo many amazing charakters,and fights,and storys and so much more.This video was perfect.I know the arc has it's flaws,but I don't care. It was fantastic. The only thing that I didn't like was the fact that Robin didn't got a fight. I think the Arc Reviews and Movie Reviews are your best videos. I hope you'll do the OVA and Episode of... Reviews after this.
well, let's be honest... Robin doesn't really fight, she "does stuff". I think there's only so many ways robin's devil fruit can be used in a fight and maybe that's why her fights are never highlights.
My sister has it #2, Ive got it #8 only below Enies Lobby+Water 7 Skypiea Sabaody Alabasta Marineford Whole Cake Island Arlong Park Also She did capture cavendish and that was a pretty nice feat
Can't robin just grow 6 BIG ASS arms with mille-fleures on a giant mountain wall behind an enemy (like the one where she fought gladius) and just MUDA MUDA MUDA them like bayonetta does to bosses?
Personally, I feel like robin is fine the way she is. Some people want everyone in the crew to fight and I respect that, but logically speaking, it's not her job. Her job is to read poneglyths and decipher any ancient facts for the crew. Same ges with everyoen else apart from luffy and zoro which is why they are both broken they are fighters
As characterization goes, post-timeskip Robin had many issues. Her personality kinda remains the same, a diva as always and that's good... But her training with Dragon was kinda pointless, she didn't even developed haki. Of all the strawhats "masters", Dragon and his army were easily the third best. Only Rayleigh and Mihawk could have been more effective as teachers. In Dressrosa she had more screen time, but as always... the secondary characters took over. That's the major issue of Oda as a writer, he wastes time with every secondary character. And there's no arc with more randoms than dressrosa, an entire coliseum of boring and uncharismastic characters. Kyrus alone had 50 pages of flashbacks, he literally stole a fight from Robin (facing an even lamer antagonist). These pacing issues plagues One Piece since the very beginning smh it can be frustrating
I just realised something 50 weeks in a year 1 episode a week 100 episodes equals 100 weeks This arc was {in one piece world} 1day They spent 2 years on 1 arc wow
Sadly, the most dragged-on Arc in One Piece as of yet. (But my favorite part of this arc is the foreshadowing of when Luffy talking to Blackbeard through the snail phone)
I'm gonna high key disagree with you about Sabo he's not pointless he fullfills the theme of carryin on a person's will with Ace and controversial opinion but I think Sabo is a better character than Ace and I don't think Sabo has any true potholes the amnesia makes sense Ace would not have concerned himself with the revolutionaries AND it makes sense that Sabo would want it to be him to reveal himself to Luffy not Robin so yeah I love Sabo
StrawHatDango Agreed. GL reasoning for Sabo's inclusion I find is pretty hollow. I can see his point on the amnesia being used as a lazy plotpoint, but the fact that Sabo's name was foreshadowed back in Alabasta, alongside Marineford, and we'd gotten various hints of his survival during the pre/post-timeskip. Also, I find Sabo so much better than Ace. Ace is so overlionized by the OP community. Yeah, his backstory is fine, but he barely did anything. And for most of Marineford he was a damesel in distress. Also, it was his recklessness that got himself killed. Understandable, but at least Sabo when angry, is able to keep himself cool. Also, I prefer Sabo's look but that is me loving how he was inspired by Artful Dodger.
Neil Agreed plus Sabo bein alive does not take anythin away from Aces death Luffy still watched his brother die helplessly and powerlessly that will affect and guide him for the rest of the story regardless of havin Sabo back
most of my relationships haven't even lasted as long as the Dressrosa arc. to all of those who faithfully tuned in every week for it while it was coming out, y'all have the patience of saints
This was the arc that made me stop religiously reading One Piece for so many years. One Piece was my personal obsession, and I never really stopped obsessing over it, but I legit couldn't bring myself to read Dressrosa. I dropped the manga around 20 chapters in. There were just so many characters and so many new plot points that it got way too overwhelming, even for a hardcore OP fan like me. I still followed most of the major events thanks to the Wiki and friends and stuff, but for a long time I just didn't read it. Until finally, during the Wano Arc, I said "screw it" and binged everything starting from the beginning of Dressrosa. And I gotta say...it was still rough. Until near the end of Dressrosa, it was still so slow for me. I had a hard time compelling myself to continue. I feel really bad about missing some things like the Law/Corazion flashback, which was excellent, but most of the early-mid arc I just read slowly. As soon as it was all over though and I got to Zou, it was like the pacing just instantly skyrocketed. I was so invested and didn't slow down from there (except for the Luffy vs. Katakuri fight which I felt lasted too long). Needless to say Dressrosa might be my least favorite arc. It had really great worldbuilding, but no other arc has ever made me drop One Piece. I vow that I will never drop One Piece again!! That alright, King of the Pirates?!
@@marcelokynderman897 Maybe I'm a slow reader, or maybe I just wasn't motivated. I know a few people who either took forever to get through it or blazed through it, so it's all subjective.
@uknownada same with me. I literally skipped episodes and chapters which is something I almost never did, to me even having the whole arc completed and binging it, it was still way to slow for me. It felt like it kept just dragging and dragging on and honestly just like you it made me stop reading and watching one piece consistently. I stopped reading and watching it for a little bit then started it again.
Forgot to mention this earlier, but it was also great to see the Straw Hats get significant raises on their bounties(sans Chopper lol) after this arc. Still believe Robin's is criminally low for her given her reputation.
This arc was so much fun for me. I like to listen to the arc review before I watch it so I can go back and compare my opinion with grandline. The two things I mainly disagree with are Rebecca and Law. I think you really have to take both of there situations into consideration in regards to the arc. I loved both of there stories and it is easy to forget that Rebecca is a 15yo girl who had her family ripped away and Law was going up against his mentors who knew so much about him. My favorite part of the arc was when Luffy turned to Bellamy and said, you've changed Bellamy. Great story telling, Oda is extremely gifted.
I Actually Binge Watched this arc from start to finish while I was stuck in the hospital for a whole week, which is pretty much kept my sanity in check. Great Video as always GLR! Also, C P 0 YESSS!
I think Dressrosa is a bit of a necessary evil. I think it will help Oda shape future arcs like Wano and Elbaf. Oda tested certain limits with Dressrosa, and I think proof of that is how much concise Whole Cake Island is compared to Dressrosa even though it was our first direct confrontation with a Yonko.
I hated this arc. Two years to tell the story of an event happened in one day and tons of flashbacks that doesn’t substantially contribute to the hints to find the One Piece and reveal the Void Century.
I agree we did not learn anything, for example, Mariejoie have a treasure, but we don't know what this treasure or why is it a treasure to begin with... Just like, the one piece, what is it ? Why is it a treasure ? What consequences finding it will have on the grand scheme of thing ? We did not learn anything, there was nothing new (it was Alabasta 2.0), more questions than answers. Oda went too far he do not know when to stop, so that's why he is not a good writer.
@@rogue8533 common idt just stfu . You are the one who is stpd here. You dont even understand a great story mystery. If you are such a rush then dont watch it .no one want you stpd opinion here. Just get lst .
Sabo is freaking awesome I’m so glad we got him. Rebecca was a cool character your really under selling her she went undefeated in the coliseum without ever getting hurt and without ever hurting anyone that’s crazy to think about she was actually strong af but of course not quite on executive level which makes sense for a 16 year old girl. Senor pinks back story was important it was the whole reason why he was dressed like that and made us all respect him. Why you hating on the tontotta? Lol Leo was a beast. Other than that agree with ya. Cool vid
Dressrosa was such an amazing arc. So many fight scenes, flashbacks and funny scenes including Nico Robin receiving a face fault expression 😱 (like this at 0:29). When I first saw Robin’s jaw dropping face, I was like “That’s so NOT Robin!”; I thought it was an out-of-character moment but I could be wrong. Maybe it was a little seed of increased character development. 😄 Robin’s face fault expression was seen like three times. Robin’s usually the silently relaxed and friendly woman. But she is still by far the most stoic and silent member of the Straw Hat crew. She still has her moments of coldness, mostly for comedy purposes, but she now fits the silent and intelligent character archetype more than stoic and closed loner archetype that she had before (Robin’s faith and feelings changed after the Enies Lobby arc) which is currently ocuppied by Trafalgar Law.
Despite being so quiet, Robin definitely fits in with the rest of the Straw Hats in terms of goofy comedy, which I'm very glad about. Prior to the timeskip, I don't think she really had a lot of opportunity to build up a light hearted side, so it's nice to see that coming through in the New World. I just wish Oda would unleash her and let her fight >_>;
The thing with One Piece that Dress Rosa is a prime example of is that even if you don't enjoy/care for a specific arc (this one due to length), it still remains as a key piece in the chain of events to come. Just about every island has something "integral" to the story. Hell, if they didn't go to Skypea, a place cut off from the rest of the world and has no relation, they wouldn't have had the money for Franky to steal that got them the Thousand Sunny. As one example, that is.
I think this review gives the Dressrosa arc too much praise. This arc was painstakingly long, especially the anime adaptation, which dampened the impact of more pivotal moments of the arc. So much could have been cut from this arc and I think this is an example in the One Piece story when less could have been more. Which looks like that's gonna be most of post-time skip. To name a few: -we don't need Pink's flashback -We don't need Viola's flashback -we don't need the Sabo's flashback or Sabo at all -We don't need as much of Rebecca's flashback -And we definitely don't need Bellamy at all. He could've stayed dead.
There were parts of the arc I liked such as actually the colosseum I thought was decent. Zoros new move, fujitora, sabo, and of course the final fight with Luffy vs Doffy as well as some other things, however it was way to long and for me boring. Parts were honestly almost unwatchable to me, I actually had to skip some episodes. And for anyone who will say, o y r u watching the anime and not reading the manga, I did read the manga, but I do watch anime fillers and just about always can at least tolerate them. Ive watched watched all 720 episodes of Naruto, and there weren’t many if any that I completely hated and just skipped. There were maybe a few but not that many. Bleach, I’ve watched all of it and the only filler I skip when I do a rewatch really is the ones with cone, ichigo’s sisters, the kids at Kisukes place, and done Konagi playing superhero’s. Those ones r the only fillers I skip in bleach, however there aren’t that many of them, less than 10 for sure and there not all in a row at max there may be 2 in a row. Dragon ball and Dbz I’ve seen all of it, honestly don’t remember if I skip stuff when I rewatch. In one piece pre time skip, it saying I like all the fillers, but to me they were watchable. I didn’t skip any my 1st time watching one piece and I don’t think even now when I do a rewatch of one piece I skip many fillers, I believe I watch most if not all of them. So fillers normally aren’t a issue for me, but during the Dressrosa arc, honestly I did skip stuff my 1st time watching which I never do my 1st time watching a series. To me the episodes were incredibly boring. Like I don’t give a flying fadoodle about the tontattas. And not just the fillers, I thought the whole arc just kept dragging and dragging on, I personally didn’t like Dressrosa. The only thing that saves me from hating Dressrosa is the Luffy and Doffy fight. Enies Lobby/ Water 7 I thought was an amazing amazing arc and was not bored at all the whole way through. Impel down I thought was decent. Impel down didn’t have a moment or fight to me that was incredible but to me it was solid and good the whole way through keeping me entertained pretty much the entire time. Saboady arc was great and kept me entertained the whole time and Marineford too. Dressrosa was to long and for me despite some good parts was pretty boring. Maybe I’m just weird but that my opinion. I will be doing an entire rewatch of all of one piece again very soon and will try to give Dressrosa a full fair watch but I might be skipping episodes. We will see. Edit: one other thing I forgot to mention is I didn’t like how the crew was split up, I would have liked to see Sanji get a fight in Dressrosa. I know he had a small skirmish on the ship with Doffy, but I mean a full on fight
King Riku looks like Heihachi from the fighting game series Tekken, maybe he inspired the character! Anyway nice arc but I'm glad I watched it recently without need to wait!
My favorite thing by far about Dressrosa that definitely does not need a mention is the most hard boiled clash between Franky and Senior Pink. Taking turns being attacked without defending till a victor is met was truly astonishing
Aman Kumar i could of but i was reading black clover so i stopped watching for like a week rn in on gear fourth boundman and i started dressrose earlier this month
While i never considered Dresrossa an Alabasta clone, it's is clearly an updated and more action packed version of Alabasta, with the major question of "What if Crocodile actually won on taking the throne, but not Pluton?". There's also the overall aspect of Marines doing their own Justice (Fujitora did the same that Smoker did by not being involved with the major fight), and the main villain being part of a much bigger organization, except that instead of just being an organization done by Doffy, it's an organization linked to the biggest names in One Piece. I stated in a comment from last week's review that the whole New World narrative has a lot of vibes of using similar stuff from the "first half" of the story, and while Dressrosa clearly follows stuff from Alabasta, and other arcs share similarities in narrative, i would never see them as clones.
I truly do not get the venom directed at this arc. I still love and adore it. The pacing issues are frankly anime problems so just go for One Pace and chill out. Imo, I love this arc even more after wading through Wano. Everything bad levelled at Dressrosa more appropriately applies to Wano. Comparing the two is like a cae study in writing imo.Both have lots of characters, but one does a MUCH better job investing us in them and utilizing them appropriately. I care about law. I care about Kyros. I care about King Riku. I care about Rebecca. And I love to hate on Doffy and his versatile goon squad. Meanwhile...whenever an episode preview told me I was going to get a 9 samurai heavy episode I had to force myself to keep going. the 9 red scabbards vs Kaido made me question if I even liked One Piece anymore because I was so bored by it. And Kaido, no word of a lie, is a less entertaining villain than Foxy. At least Foxy had a personality beyond being a diet Saiyan
This is one of the BEST reviews I've ever seen! Your rewiews keep getting better and better! You sound and know EXACTLY what you are talking about! Keep up the great work!
The executives were all garbage. Yeah. I kind of get why they weren't that strong. They were all kind psychotic old men. Diamonte and Trebol especially if the flashbacks were anything to go by. And their power didn't just underwhelm me. They were all kind of cowards. Trebol has only guard duty and failed at that but was made out to be stupid powerful when someone like Usopp could fight him evenly. I think that would have been an interesting fight too but Part II of One Piece is the "Only Luffy Gets to Fight" anime now. Trebol is literally only there the troll. Diamonte is a dirty coward who doesn't place himself at a key position to be more useful to his side. Instead insisting on fighting a 1 legged man and torture his daughter. A guy who likely....if Robin wasn't on "Protect Rebecca" duty would have easily beaten And Pica is the worst. People have praised his Guerilla tactics. In a fight retreating against a stronger opponent is smart. With his powers he did infact go where he was needed for sure. But with Zoro he didn't use tactical brilliance. He ran. It would be one thing if he laid in wait but he ran. And if Pica got away in that exchange with his his final attack he'd have done so again. Pica only had the balls to face Zoro when he didn't have a choice and he thought he COULD when push came to shove. So you can't say he 'retreated'. Nope. He just couldn't deal with ya boy Zoro and bounce. I don't blame him but you'd think Pica, the group with the most combat oriented folks would be a lot stronger
I am NOT a fan of Kyros, and how he dealt with Diamante is a big reason why. He tells Rebecca not to fight, not to make herself a murderer... except he does not murder Diamante at all. I think the worst he got is a Million Dollar Baby-esque injury, which I hope he has in the eventuality he comes back. It'd give him great development. But even if he simply didn't want her to fight at all... what authority does Kyros have on ROBIN? She is not his child, she is older and more skilled. She could have great at assisting the fight. She has broken many necks before. I am a big fan of Viola personally, she is the type of non-warrior character I love. And I really love the Top Executives, although I wish they had been the ones to get the sympathetic flashbacks rather than Senor Fucking Pink. They get flashbacks, but... they are already rotten when they show up. I wish we saw more sympathetic sides of them, especially Pica. The moment when he realizes his voice isn't gonna change would have been gutwrenching, to me. Plus, Baby 5's resolution is awful to my eyes.
8:51 Chapter 794 Franky tells Sabo that regaining his memory must have taken some time to come back. Sabo replies "It was Ace that told me everything... at least I believe so. He said to me -You are Sabo! A brother of mine and Luffy's!!!-" I tought they met before Ace death. Am I interpreting this incorrectly?
Dressrosa is a clone and a clown version of Alabasta Doflamingo=Crocodile, Fujitora = Smoker, Ace = Sabo, Ace vs Smoker = Sabo vs Fujitora, 2 Kingdoms in distress, Pica is stone = Mr1 is steel(both cut by zoro), Vivi = Violet,
The fact that this whole arc was supposed to take place over a single day is beyond stupid. With all that happened, it would be impossible for it all to be done in a 24 hour period. Now, time might work differently in the world of OP (though thats never been established to my knowledge), but i dont see the point of arbitrarily having this much happen in a day. Nothing of significance changes if you say it took a week to all go down, or something like that. I love this series, but it seems death and time are 2 concepts Oda just doesnt handle consistently well.
I’m about 30 episodes into this ark but it’s probably my least favorite arc so far. The animation is stale outside major fights, the flow of time is messy, and honestly we only get 13min of new animation and the rest is “what happened last episode” or the opening. Idk I’m really losing interest in this anime and the manga is 100% better. I’ve heard it gets better during wano but idk much more I can handle
For me the whole colassium mini arc was a draaaaag!!! Even now I would skip all those fights... and initially I thought Zoro vs pica is a mismatch and oda is purposefully dragging it...but the end was Soo Soo satisfying.... But overall I love this arc after water 7 arc...
The coliseum was awful. I am reading the colored manga again and it's almost impossible to read all those random fights. Skipped all of them, just had a glimpse on Bartolomeo and then Luffy vs angry old dude. Later when that obnoxious cage starts to do it's thing, I will surely skip all those fights as well. Robin supporting secondaries to fight a lame copy of Steven Tyler, lol Oda was completely out of his mind
Fujitoras actions are messy to me even to this day. If he had acted earlier/more. Much of the dmg wouldve been avoidet. Its nice that he took blame of the incident on wg part but still
The sabo plot hole thing is both true and false cause how long was ace apart of the whitebeard pirates before luffy set out to see and unless I'm wrong and correct me if I'm wrong I think ace was apart of the whitebeard pirates for about a year and a half. Plus we don't know if ace would be able to find sabo cause unlike with blackbeard the revolutionary Army can be anywhere in the world and ace only thinks Sabos alive he wouldn't say that to Luffy as for Garp he knew sabo for what a week and I don't think he had any personal connection to sabo like with Luffy and Ace. Now the robin one I can't explain but yeah
Great video. I will be very candid; Dressrosa was the arc nearly made me drop OP, at least reading it weekly. To start off with the positives, I love Donflamingo; he is my favorite OP antagonists and he kept this arc together. I also enjoyed Bartolomeo, Cavendish. I STRONGLY disagree with you about Sabo as I actually find him more compelling and better written than Ace. However, that said; this arc was too ambitious. In my view, all of these elements would have been better served as apart of smaller arcs. Because, stuff, like the Tontatas felt very shoehorned in. I also felt like Luffy never had a good reason to fight Doffy. Yeah, he was an enemy of Law, but I never felt like the friendship between Luffy and Law was solidified. Overall, while I appreciate this arc a lot more in retrospective and rereading it, this to me is one of the most flawed arcs in OP. 6.8/10
GrandLineReview Yeah, and that felt super tacked on. It would have been better if we'd gotten more time between Luffy and Rebecca in my view. All of Dressrosa, I argue could have been cut down into smaller arcs that would have achieved the same result. Also, Luffy wanting to save Law; it would have been nice had the Colessem arc been a separate entity and Luffy/ Law were in it. That way, their friendship could have been better developed. >_>;
For me, the problem was that this felt like Alabasta 2.0, which is *not* a compliment. Donflamingo went from a villain that intrigued me to one that bored and/or annoyed me. I actually had to watch the flashback where he conquers Dressrosa in bits and pieces because I alternated between being bored, cringing, and being angry at the story for trying to shamelessly manipulate in such a similar way. *Again.* I think I mostly got through it because, after a bit, I think I started rooting for Doffy because I was kind of hating the Dressrosa royal family (sans Viola). Granted, I've been only watching the anime for years now for "reasons", though I started out reading the manga in the North American version of Shonen Jump. I too enjoyed Sabo quite a bit, in part because of the bittersweet nature of his existence: "Yay, Ace is back!" "Well... not really." So yeah... for the most part I'm actually agreeing with you, Neil, even if it doesn't sound like it. XP
Otaku I enjoyed Donflamingo and his backstory and I was fine with it. Dressrosa I argue just had too many moving parts and sacrificed arc consistency for the greater world building. And that sucks. I believe why people say Dressrosa is Alabasta 2.0, outside the similarities, is because Alabasta had fantastic buildup. Baroque Works, Vivi, Crocodile's name. That was a prevalent across Whisky Peak, Little Garden. And Alabasta. I felt like Oda tired to have one hand off the wheel. You can tell he wanted to pay homage to Alabasta, but also wanting to do some different things. And I think it was this, alongside his health at the time, that hindered this arc. If I could rewrite Dressrosa, or advise Oda as an editor; I would have split a lot of Dressrosa. The Colosseum would have been a separate arc, a short one. Have the underworld elements foreshadowed and then move into Dressrosa. That would have been a lot better IMO.
Yeah, I gathered you liked it; I was just stating my own opinion... and I'll also add that it *should* be something I liked; the pacing just killed it. Remember the scene from _The Incredibles_ when Bob is still overweight and gets stuck in the launch tube? How the henchman working the launch button presses it a few times, eventually turning it and somehow getting it to work? Label that "The Feels Button" and it describes this arc for me. Stuff I *should* have liked just didn't work for me. *Fortunately* a lot of stuff did. Like Rosinante. :) As for your suggestion... it may worry you to know I agree. XD
I hated Dressrosa. Besides Law's flashback, Rebecca (yes I like Rebecca), Baby 5, Bartholomew, that one time the fish kid bit someone, Sabo & Gear 4, I hated everything in this arc.
@Lionard Kirsch Why? It's not like I didn't understand anything about the arc. I understood it all. I just hated what I understood & hearing another dudes interpretation on things that piss me off won't piss me off any less. I hate that Usopp is called a god for essentially doing nothing. I hate that Rebecca was written to be a crybaby which made her a pariah in the one piece community. I hate that Baby 5 married that nobody guy & we won't see her again until the omniwar. I hate how long it took to get to the good stuff like Gear 4 and the Law flashback. I hated senior fatass. He is among a handful of characters that goes past my "tolerance threshold" of Odas art style. Other characters are Zombie Pig Lola, Wanze & Timeskip Franky. & I know, I know, fatass has a sad backstory with his dead kid & vegetable wife, but this is One Piece. Every one has a sad backstory, I would just like to actually care about a character that isn't an ugly 45 year old fat man in a diaper. Another person's perspective isn't going to change the fact that I had to endure so much crap.
@Lionard Kirsch Ok, I'll watch that guys video. I don't know what you expect me to get out of it, but I'll bite the bullet & go through Vietnam flashbacks mode. I wanted another female to join the strawhats & I saw so much potential for Rebecca. Now I'm putting all my hope into Carrot. Hopefully, despite Luffys crew limit quota being filled with Jinbe, Oda will make an exception for Carrot. I mean, she already feels like she's part of the crew at this very moment anyway! I'm not gonna lie, even I shed a tear to fatasses backstory. I still hate him. What I mean by Usopp didn't do shit, is that he didn't actually knock out Sugar, but he got the credit for doing it anyway. This was his chance to actually do something brave and awesome, & instead he acted like a bitch, ran off, then only came back to do stuff only for the thought of being famous or whatever. What happened to the confidence badass in Fish-Man island? I miss that Usopp, not the shit we got in shitrosa. Yeah, I figured you wouldn't care about Baby 5. She isn't that popular. All I know is that I saw a LOT of potential for her character. I either wanted her to join up with Law or get capture by the Marines. & If she would get married, as it being to her quirk, couldn't it have been with a character that is a bit more memorable? That fucker she married is so lame I literally keep forgetting he exists. Hell, his grandfather is more memorable than him! She should have married Cavendish. Not that I ship them or anything, but if she should have a husband the guy has to be as cool & memorable as she is. I wouldn't say Cavendish is the best character, but he's a hell of a lot better than...what's his face Baby 5 actually married. What the hell has that guy even done besides almost get Baby 5 to kill herself?
@Lionard Kirsch Oh yeah, ironically, I don't hate Flamingo. I also don't like him either. I'm neutral with Doffy. The only thing I don't like about him is his perspective on the 4 way backstory. It's basically "A child Osama bin Laden is pissed off that he wasn't allowed to grow up to be Hitler." The whole thing makes me say "why do I give a fuck?" You're going to be an evil jackass no matter what path you took in life, so why should I care if you were tortured?
This arc was good. I was definitely tired of it by the end though. It definitely had the best character development of any other arcs. It's villains were amazing too. It also had some of the best battles to go with the character development. However, I hope that Oda never does an arc this long again. One of my biggest fears is Oda not being able to finish the series. Edit: I am in love with how much time and development my baby Law had. :P Edit: Also, it annoys me that Robin hasn't gotten battles either. That's more of a whole series issue though. For being one of the most powerful Straw Hats she doesn't see a lot of battles outside of being support. However, Robin tanks a lot of damage. She seems to be getting hurt a lot in the post-timeskip arcs. What with that gruesome shoulder wound from Monet and the damage the spiked balls did to her back.
Ya know not gonna lie. The Donquixote Pirates are the most forgettable villains ever. And that makes me sad as for the crew of my favorite villain in One Piece i expected them to be fearsome, vicious, and memorable. But instead they were all lame kiss-asses that ALL got oneshotted. Literally if you go back and watch the fights everyone of them got OHKOed except for maybe Diamante. Such a diapointtment. Edit: Forgot about Senor Pink, his fight against Franky was pretty cool.
Dressrosa is 100% a Alabasta clone it even copies the warlord stealling the country idea yes Dressrossa had way more characters and villians and a tournament but at the main point Luffy tries to save a country from a evil warlord who tricks the people into hating the king. Except Alabasta actually felt more dangerous and real seeing as Crocodile could train people into bones and Luffy actually was defeated horribly and Iets not forget the rebel army it was the only arc in One Piece it actually felt Luffy and the straw hats were actually going to fail.
Dressrossa Coming from an Anime only watcher perspective here was a complete drag. The fact that it was soooo long gave me an existential crisis. The plotholes of how Sugar’s fruit works she makes a contract ok but everyone who knew them just forgets? The amount of evidence like Photos and Belongings and no one questions where these things come from because a person was turned into a toy really? This concept is done much better with Moria taking shadows or Big Mom taking souls and putting them in inanimate objects. Doflamingo’s powers dont make any sense either like Birdcage. The range of his powers with being miles away still controlling them. Almost like he controls them in Auto Pilot. Plus he can make a Sentient Clone? WHAT!? Why couldnt he control any of the Strawhats it wouldve been way more interesting seeing a controlled Strawhat vs Strawhat. Hell Law or Zoro vs Luffy woulda been better than the final battle we got. Doflamingo wasnt quite the puppet master I was hoping for. Also the grand fleet eating so much time and fights really bogged down the story. Most people dont care about them. Shoulda been the Strawhats. Why the Fuck did Doflamingo leave King Riku alive. Zero damn reason to keep him alive. Rebecca woulda made sense as a secret heir. It would’ve been great that her journey wouldve been taking back the throne and reclaiming the Honor of her Family. Viola is pointless. Overall Oda tried to make something Grand but some of it Backfired. Some of the hate the arc gets is justifiable and understandable.
i agree, i still dont understand why nobody just cutted his birdcage... i mean, how many haki users there is in that island? zoro alone could've cutted it in a single slice. but nop, it needed to be up for... no reason, also, luffy's 10 minutes wait was a really drag, and the fight itself was TERRIBLE. belamy added NOTHING except being an excuse for why luffy wasnt in the fight alongside Law. and to make matters worse, you keep asking yourself WHY IS THAT GUY DOING NOTHING to the "melted" whatever he was. seriously, and it also didnt help how it was basically "luffy does an absurdly powerfull attack, that does nothing because plot says it doesnt".
Lionard Kirsch I meant why didn’t he kill Riku while he still had control over him the first time. Shoulda killed him immediately after he did the massacre. Hell even when he got him again in present day he just took him hostage instead of immediately killing him. The Birdcage is overpowered when even an Admiral cant break it. Ive seen that Morj video before fully understand the themes and story of Dressrossa doesnt mean I automatically have to like all of it. It still bothers me that Doffy has ridiculous powers with his strings like Making a Clone yet Luffy can break out of his strings by Gear 4 with no real explanation. Sugars toy making leaves plotholes. The Arc is overly long and has many charcters i dont care about Yes gladiators become the Grand Fleet but I ddnt care for them at that moment. Overall i love some parts but other parts feel like wasted potential or convoluted.
Lionard Kirsch Yeah nobody likes the fact that Pell survived that blast. I have no problem with Doflamingo being strong or having strong haki. My problem is his powers make no sense. Why can u cut Luffy because he is rubber but you cant cut Doflamingo cuz hes String!? They even used haki on birdcage to try and cut it and it didnt work. It just doesnt make sense. Gear 4 was great. Just disappointing Oda didnt find a clever way to break control from Doffy. I just didnt like the designs of the Grand Fleet other than Hajrudin Barto and Cavendish the rest seem forgettable. Didnt want them to go in depth on each one just opinion. Kinda disappointing his Doffys Royal guard werent as interesting as Senor Pink or Baby 5
Doflamingo's backstory is awesome because it doesn't set you up to make you feel sorry for him. And his arrogance and twisted nature DOES make you think. Doflamingo is a bad man but regardless of his status as a tenryuubito he was always destined for greatness. I kind of wonder if his family weren't thrown out would he still be this powerful guy. With the unlimited power of a celestial dragon this guy would just be too terrifying.
Do flamingo is awesome a little bit over praised but defiantly takes my second favorite villain katakuri being my first and favourite character as well
My favorite scene in Dressrosa is when Fujitora wishes he hadn’t blinded himself so he could see Luffy
No the end, when Op 18 played
Yeesss🤐🤩
My favorite scene was rebecca's and toy soldiers flashbacks.
That scene made me smile from ear to ear, in a way only One Piece can do.
don’t you mean Zoro?
I have an idea.
Let's show the same flashback of king Riku cutting down his people, but then when we make the anime, let's show it 78 times.
Gotta keep in the tradition, like when they showed Robin's flashback with Saul 42 times in between Enies Lobby's fights.
"...nakama?"
I became desensitized to King Riku flashback thanks to the anime
Brilliant!
I watched the show legitimately until three fourths into the fisman island arc. I gave up and watched OnePace the rest of the way (fan edited manga recreation of the story) I just finished DressRosa, oh my goooooooooood. My future prediction now is Luffy will "Awaken" his devilfruit to create an area he can bounce off as gear fourth and be an unstoppable cannonball of strength. He's GOING TO BE THE PIRATE KING!!!
I thought Only I thought that
Dressrosa Arc
1 day= 2.5 yrs aired
Not a day, 1 afternoon
@@KakashiH318 holly shit.
Torogikamlon and the anime is still really close to the manga
It’s actually around 2-3 days
Hamster boy TV they reached punk hazard the same day they the strawhats regrouped on sabaody. Then they go to dressrosa which takes them 2-3 days and arrive in the afternoon, luffy defeats doffy and they stay overnight. The next day they leave and they arrive at zou in one week. They haven’t even been in the new world for a month lol
4 series of JoJo: 116 episodes
1 arc of One Piece: 118 episodes
Well I guess i can die now, I've seen everything.
Necruo Wait what really? I never noticed that.
Marko Marinkovic na i think that was 116
Yup David Productions be spoiling us unlike toei...
@@markomarinkovic5543 Well, it's the final arc so there's a reason for that
@@markomarinkovic5543 but if you include filler it is literally 250 episodes
Also the arrival of God Usopp and him acquiring Observation Haki while taking down Sugar twice haha
We ok ipo
Let this not blind you to fact that Usopp has now one of the highest bounty of the straw hats at 200 000 000 berries
Go D. Usopp
God Usopp, the backstory of both Doflamingo and Law and partially Fujitora... those are the only saving graces of this horrendous arc. I don't think the Kaido introduction belong to this arc, but... you can take that as a positive aspect as well. But everything else is just so bad, a literal coliseum of randoms. I don't understand why Oda wastes so much time with secondary characters, he always did that (is anyone remember Wyper?), but after the time-skip he is wasting even more time with these fucking randoms
I stopped watching one piece back in 2014. Now I started again. I feel so lucky about my choice. I can't even imagine going through dressrosa one week at a time.
118 weeks
God Usopp also unlock his haki that arc.
Ya,observation haki at its best.
Go D. Usopp.
I did
Can wait for soge king too unlock it aswell
Grandpa Garp Sogeking probably has
How was your year?
Well I watched the Dressrosa arc every week in one piece.
How was it?
Idk it’s still not over
That’s literally half of dressrosa
the best part of this arc:
"Plus, there's this man who pissed me off the most today!
It's all his fault. i hate him so much,
the one who kills him will get 500 milion $b.
God Usopp"
You missed Kaido's introduction in this arc.
It's the single greatest character intro of One Piece, and you missed it.
Sadness.
I agree. His fall from a sky island was so epic
It's not a recap, it's a review
@@Nocturne22 So? Not mentioning one of the Yonkos introduction in an arc review is a big sin. And he thinks Viola is forgettable but Mansherry is not? I mean what?
Unpopular opinion: I thought that intro (while a spectacle) was over the top for a character who is 100% going to lose to plot armour. Why hype someone up like that? When it's all said and done, will he even be stronger than Shanks?
That was in punk hazard
I feel like the reintroduction of sabo is like a trophy to Luffy for continuing his journey after Ace died. If he had stopped there, he never could've met again with his other brother. Besides he's a completely different character than Ace so I really don't see a problem with bringing him back into the story... besides that one plot hole you mentioned.
Sabo was shot down by a celestial as a kid. At least his amnesia was valid
oldman swagga aka Scooba Steve Of course the amnesia will always seem valid. You’re writing it in for convenience so of course it’ll always “make sense”. That doesn’t make it good writing it’s lazy and cheap. Just because you like the idea of Sabo as a character or think he’s cool doesn’t make his existence meaningful or make any sense. Sabo is sick no doubt but his character wasn’t needed and took away from Aces death and impact.
Nanashi there’s four years in between marine ford and dressrosa. aces impact had four years to be felt. if it was really ruined after four years i don’t think that’s as much of the series issue as it is yours
KemoMind im talking about fans? real time
Nanashi Just because a writing technique is usually used as a cheap way to do something doesn’t the technique itself is bad. Why can’t amnesia work as good writing? Is it because it has been misused by others or is it just a fundamentally flawed writing technique? I also don’t believe that Sabo being alive in anyway took away from Ace’s death, i mean ace had more character than just being dead. If a character lost his mother, i wouldn’t then say introducing his father later on still alive takes away the impact of the mothers death.
Grand line review. THERES THE “G”
Can I call Lao G sexy?
Stev Da Great
Sexy dried fig
He kinda thick
dressrosa arc... can become its own anime .It has more episodes than so many anime series ffs lol
No love for the epic duel between franky and senior pink????
No
I think Matt Cohen of he One Piece Podcast said it the best
"The first half of the arc was awesome, and the second half was awesome, when you put them together they become a very daunting arc"
I couldn't agree more, however I think read as a whole makes things so much better. Honestly it's one of my favorites and I think people that still hate it from the weekly grind should really give it another chance.
its fine but since the post war arc was slow and sad after aces death and our cree being separated and luffy knocked out then going insane the fishman island arc sucked and the fact punk hazard was set up for dressrosa means until wano currently we really didn't have a non dressrosa related arc since the early part of the decade..lol...the punk hazard and dreasoraa arcs lasted like 4 years in real time even in the manga and over 5 almost 6 in the anime
and thats the problem, there's a reason the saying "too much of a good thing" exists. and this arc is proof of that. its filled with amazing things, but put together, it becomes too tiresome to keep track of.
100 weeks, its just too long for its own good. it would've worked much better if they just cut it in half and divided it into 2 separate arcs instead.
@@marcosdheleno It's not really different than the other arcs though, even if it is hella longer. OP has been going on for so long that a lot of readers probably started off being able to read entire past arcs, so that colors their perception of these newer arcs that they're forced to get in weekly installments.
T Bone-Troy way to fucking long 112 episodes for a arc is ridiculous
I always looked at it as Sabo wasnt the 2nd of rev army before the time skip. He was just a normal warrior in the army. But when he saw ace die in the news and his memories returned he spent the next two years rising the ranks. As well as that's around the time that Kuma disappeared. So I could see there being a big spot for him to fill.
Also Robin didn't even know Luffy had a second brother much less know that Sabo was the brother.
I would think that Sabo wanted to see Luffy in person instead of Robin to telling him. Makes for good heart feelz.
@@zenderas1434 Robin knew but didn't tell Luffy he was alive
Doflamingo is my favorite one piece villian, he's a puppetmaster both figuratively and literally. He had Dressrosa under his foot even more so than Crocodile had Alabasta, and while most villian back stories are there to make you feel sympathy, his kind just shows where his elitist attitude and thirst for power and respect come from. Lastly, he was one of the hardest paramecia fruit user to put down since Luffy :)
Law a sad presence?
He hold his own in a 1v2 against Doflamingo and Fujitora. A warlord and an admiral.
What are you talking about about? XD
I lost my shit at the Sabo reveal. I know a good deal of people don't like him, but I really like Sabo for what he represents for the Revolutionary Army; you have someone who was born into a position of wealth and privilege but suffered despite that and ended up fighting against the system that put him there in the first place. I also like that he was present for the majority of the arc and helped Luffy, as opposed to Ace who left to go and search for Blackbeard after meeting up with him in Alabasta. NOT SAYING DRESSROSA IS AN ALABASTA CLONE!
John Hallman had ace stayed the arc would’ve ended the first time Luffy met crocodile
I say Dressrosa is Alabasta done better and really each of the major arcs so far mirrors a pre time skip arc with Wano for right now being Skypiea
@@Saphire1993 i wouldn't exactly say wano is a mirror of skypiea. there are some similarities however i think Wano has way more factors that can effect the arc, and play into the story
I think if Sabo got a new name & face nobody would complain
#1 thing to take away from this arc.....Zoro looks damn good in a suit
The drip for Dressrosa is top tier. Zoro in his suit, Law in his revenge fit coat, Robin in her dress, Luffy in his flower shirt, Doflamingo in his pink pants.
Dressrossa = Alabasta s Thicc Little brother
PaulEaxe Alabasta is thicker
As a saga Alabasta starts from Laboon's arc.
@@onionknight984 that depends on if you’re talking about the Dressrosa Saga or the Dressrosa Arc. The saga includes the entire time on Dressrosa, all of Punk Hazard, and the end of FishMan and the start of Zou. But the arc is just the island of Dressrosa and by extension, Punk Hazard.
Alabasta Saga starts when they find Laboon and ends when they leave Alabasta, but the actual “Alabasta arc” is just the time spent on the island.
what about the development for my guy usopp
God Usopp whos usopp? You mean god?
I loved the Dressrosa Arc, risks were taken and most of them paid off. Yes, it was long, but it was such a compelling story that it kept me going. My biggest annoyance with the arc was how Rebecca was handled, when she was first introduced I thought that she would go on to do great things, and I was sorely disappointed. But she was a small part of a much larger story that overall went extremely well.
She got hit with a massive dose of one piece women syndrome. She was basically not allowed to be a badass and resolve her own fight because she is pretty.
Instead they gave any fights she may've had to her father.
I get Oda was going for a sad tragic backstory. But it's like he only wanted Kyros to reclaim the glory and Rebecca wasn't allowed to do it herself.
Honestly, I would argue that Kyros should've just been killed at some point whether it be in the present or sometime after she learnt to fight from him. Then, she could feel empowered to settle her own fights herself.
Bartolomeo is one of my favorites in this Arc 💯
What i find interesting about this arc is it feels like a "what if Crocodile succeeded arc" Cause it has a ton of similarities to the alabasta arc and Crocodile and Donflamingo had close to the same goals but Donflamingo actually succeeded. Both were trying to over the country, frame the king and cause a rebellion but only Don succeeded of course. Plus both are or were obviously warlords doing this. So this does feel like a alternate version of alabasta where no one got there in time to save it.
I like to think that's how Crocodile got the whole idea, right down to looking like a hero to the kingdom's citizens. Also like to think that's why Crocodile turns down Donflamingo's partnership at Marineford, he resents Don for his success.
“His string of arrogant mistakes”
Ha I see what you did there
Only thing is bothers me how Luffy could cut Doffy's parasitic skill when even the Diamond guy couldn't from Whitebeard's pirates?
fun fact I started reading the manga weekly at the literal beginning of dressarosa. Dressrosa is the example of a arc really out staying it's welcome. I consider dressrosa better then alabasta and skypiea. but 101 chapters !!! cut the arc to 70-80 chapter at the max and this arc would be on par-with marineford and better then WCI. all that being said. dressrosa is a very good arc. it's strength's by far out weigh's it's flaws.. the arc highlight's is Fujitora introduction, law & doflamingo back stories, law vs fujitora and doflamingo. gear 4. luffy vs don chinjoa. zoro vs pica. senor pink back story. sabo re-introduction, DF awakenings. big mom's flag ship queen mama appearances. lol I think I made my point... dressarosa is a very ambitious arc. and I love it for that...
Dressorosa basically copies a lot of Alabasta even the whole idea Crocodile had to take over a country
same can be said for WCI and enies lobby
Hamze Ahmed dressrosa really doesnt copy alabasta at all... only similarities dreasrosa has with alabasta is crocodile is a warlord same with doffy and sabo re-introduction and others. Mostly these arc’s are very different.. doflamingo isn’t trying to take over dressrosa like crocodile in alabasta doflamingo has already took over dressrosa. True the straw hat are delivering Cesar like vivi but that just a decoy. The real plan was to destroy the smile factory to anger kaido in turn he would kill doflamingo for failing to deliver on the smile. Challenging Doflamingo and his crew was never part of the plan until doflamingo put up the bird cage then it became mandatory. Little similarities mostly different..
one thing i miss about pre timeskip one piece is the crew actually being together and the fact 2 back to back arcs really had little to do with each other leaving me shocked every time at what came next
..like how barate really has nothing to do with syrup village the way syrup and orangetown don't mesh or how we go from loguetown to laboon to reverse mountain to alabasta to little garden to drum back to alabasta to then jaya and skypeia then water 7 then thriller bark to sabaody to amazon lilly impel down ...it didn't feel as planned like now in the yonko arc...all arcs that don't really mesh are exciting...thriller bark was such a big wtf as was amazon lilly...i just like not knowing...but like since fishman we know the next stop
The straw hat fleet representatives/gladiators vs the doflamingo family was amazing! My favorites being, kyros vs diamante, giant guy (his name is hard too spell D:
Robin didn’t even know that they were brothers so why would she tell Luffy about a brother she doesn’t know is related to him.
Redha Delf
She might've made the connection when Sabo went berserk after getting his memory back and reading about Ace. However I'm not sure if she knew Ace and Luffy were brothers.
Didn't the guy regain his memories when Ace died.
Wouldn't he have told her who he was to Luffy?
Aya ya
Maybe. Why would he know Robin knew Luffy?
Because she's on his fking crew.
Redha Delf It could have be a anime only thing but in episode 737 (I just look it up) Sabo meets the Straw Hats and Robin was the one to tell them that Sabo and Luffy are brothers. She didn't say anything because Sabo has the rights to not her.
Am I a fool if I called Doffy "Don Flamingo"
Simpleton S. Man daddy donxi
Yes.
Punch out
In the german dub they call him De Flamingo...and instead of doffy it´s deffy...that sounds incredibly awful
Jagger Django d e f f y
I was there from begning to start
For a long time I thought we Won't see Another arc beside Dressrosa
But Overall I enjoyed the arc it's top 8 imo
GENERALYOUSIF for me it’s
1. Enies lobby
2. Alabasta
3. Marine ford
For me Dressrosa is fourth following your list as it is same for me
1 Marine Ford
2 Dressrosa
3 Enies Lobby
4 Whole Cake Island
5 Impel Down
0 *FOXY PIRATE ARC FTW*
I would prefer it over alabasta though given how much grandier things are in this arc..and so many satisfying moments...
So I've been waiting to share this data I personally collected! On re-read, I counted up every page of flashbacks for these totals (this is based on perspective; some flashbacks switch back and forth like with Law & Corazon)
Kyros: 50 pages
Law: 46 pages
Corazon: 33 pages
Doflamingo: 18 pages
Rebecca: 13 pages
Sabo: 7 pages
Chin Jao: 7 pages
Baby5: 7 pages
Señor Pink: 6 pages
Trebol: 4 pages
Sengoku: 3 pages
Violet: 2 pages
Momonosuke: 2 pages
Tsuru: 2 pages
Chief Gancho: 1 page
Leo: 1 page
Buffalo: 1 page
Bellamy: 1 page
King Riku: 1 page
Luffy: 1 page
TOTAL FLASHBACKS: 206 pages, or over 10 chapters, or more than 1 full volume's worth, or, back when chapters were releasing every other week, about 5 months in real time
50 pages of Kyros smh Entire volumes of flashbacks is not something new, I am reading the whole thing again (but this time colored, very cool experience) and in Skypea there's also an entire volume of flashbacks lol I was legitimately surprised, didn't remember the norland flashback was so damn long. Then you had another volume of flashbacks featuring fisher tiger and the random fishman queen, etc.. I don't mind when Oda writes huge flashbacks for protagonists or major characters (like Law or Doflamingo), but these secondary characters getting so much screen time is just ludicrous. And yes, I do consider Oden a secondary character and a retcon, so there's another infuriating 50 pages or so of random secondary characters in the Wano arc
Meeting Sabo, Rosinante, fujitora, Bartolomeo and many more actually for me worth it...
My personal favorite arc. Soooooo many amazing charakters,and fights,and storys and so much more.This video was perfect.I know the arc has it's flaws,but I don't care. It was fantastic.
The only thing that I didn't like was the fact that Robin didn't got a fight.
I think the Arc Reviews and Movie Reviews are your best videos.
I hope you'll do the OVA and Episode of... Reviews after this.
well, let's be honest... Robin doesn't really fight, she "does stuff".
I think there's only so many ways robin's devil fruit can be used in a fight and maybe that's why her fights are never highlights.
My sister has it #2, Ive got it #8 only below
Enies Lobby+Water 7
Skypiea
Sabaody
Alabasta
Marineford
Whole Cake Island
Arlong Park
Also She did capture cavendish and that was a pretty nice feat
Can't robin just grow 6 BIG ASS arms with mille-fleures on a giant mountain wall behind an enemy (like the one where she fought gladius) and just MUDA MUDA MUDA them like bayonetta does to bosses?
Jaxon Moreno yes, but any damage the limbs take, robin also takes.
So a competent enemy might just cut her arm off
Once again thanks for this video
Just what I was waiting for
I love Robin, but post-timeskip, all she does is giggle at the Straw Hats' antics.
I really wish they would give her more fight scenes
Personally, I feel like robin is fine the way she is. Some people want everyone in the crew to fight and I respect that, but logically speaking, it's not her job.
Her job is to read poneglyths and decipher any ancient facts for the crew. Same ges with everyoen else apart from luffy and zoro which is why they are both broken they are fighters
As characterization goes, post-timeskip Robin had many issues. Her personality kinda remains the same, a diva as always and that's good... But her training with Dragon was kinda pointless, she didn't even developed haki. Of all the strawhats "masters", Dragon and his army were easily the third best. Only Rayleigh and Mihawk could have been more effective as teachers. In Dressrosa she had more screen time, but as always... the secondary characters took over. That's the major issue of Oda as a writer, he wastes time with every secondary character. And there's no arc with more randoms than dressrosa, an entire coliseum of boring and uncharismastic characters. Kyrus alone had 50 pages of flashbacks, he literally stole a fight from Robin (facing an even lamer antagonist). These pacing issues plagues One Piece since the very beginning smh it can be frustrating
I just realised something
50 weeks in a year
1 episode a week
100 episodes equals 100 weeks
This arc was {in one piece world} 1day
They spent 2 years on 1 arc wow
eshan hanif loll
He literally says that at the start of the video, also its 52 weeks.
Sadly, the most dragged-on Arc in One Piece as of yet. (But my favorite part of this arc is the foreshadowing of when Luffy talking to Blackbeard through the snail phone)
Oh, THIS freaking arc... Being an anime only watcher, I nearly dropped the series.
No one cares
One piece is best and dressrosa is best arc
@@animedog1475 tell that to the 12 people who upvoted my comment.
@@michaelyochim6016 they are just some random stpd
Yay, one of my favorite arcs! I’ve been waiting for this
I'm gonna high key disagree with you about Sabo he's not pointless he fullfills the theme of carryin on a person's will with Ace and controversial opinion but I think Sabo is a better character than Ace and I don't think Sabo has any true potholes the amnesia makes sense Ace would not have concerned himself with the revolutionaries AND it makes sense that Sabo would want it to be him to reveal himself to Luffy not Robin so yeah I love Sabo
StrawHatDango Agreed. GL reasoning for Sabo's inclusion I find is pretty hollow. I can see his point on the amnesia being used as a lazy plotpoint, but the fact that Sabo's name was foreshadowed back in Alabasta, alongside Marineford, and we'd gotten various hints of his survival during the pre/post-timeskip. Also, I find Sabo so much better than Ace. Ace is so overlionized by the OP community. Yeah, his backstory is fine, but he barely did anything. And for most of Marineford he was a damesel in distress.
Also, it was his recklessness that got himself killed. Understandable, but at least Sabo when angry, is able to keep himself cool. Also, I prefer Sabo's look but that is me loving how he was inspired by Artful Dodger.
Neil Agreed plus Sabo bein alive does not take anythin away from Aces death Luffy still watched his brother die helplessly and powerlessly that will affect and guide him for the rest of the story regardless of havin Sabo back
How did he remember his name was Sabo?
I thought that was the point of Luffy using Fire Attacks?
Aya ya they're simply a tribute but Sabo inherited his will itself like Whitebeard said
most of my relationships haven't even lasted as long as the Dressrosa arc. to all of those who faithfully tuned in every week for it while it was coming out, y'all have the patience of saints
This was the arc that made me stop religiously reading One Piece for so many years. One Piece was my personal obsession, and I never really stopped obsessing over it, but I legit couldn't bring myself to read Dressrosa. I dropped the manga around 20 chapters in. There were just so many characters and so many new plot points that it got way too overwhelming, even for a hardcore OP fan like me. I still followed most of the major events thanks to the Wiki and friends and stuff, but for a long time I just didn't read it.
Until finally, during the Wano Arc, I said "screw it" and binged everything starting from the beginning of Dressrosa. And I gotta say...it was still rough. Until near the end of Dressrosa, it was still so slow for me. I had a hard time compelling myself to continue. I feel really bad about missing some things like the Law/Corazion flashback, which was excellent, but most of the early-mid arc I just read slowly. As soon as it was all over though and I got to Zou, it was like the pacing just instantly skyrocketed. I was so invested and didn't slow down from there (except for the Luffy vs. Katakuri fight which I felt lasted too long). Needless to say Dressrosa might be my least favorite arc. It had really great worldbuilding, but no other arc has ever made me drop One Piece.
I vow that I will never drop One Piece again!! That alright, King of the Pirates?!
Lmao. I read that in about 4 days. I didn't find it slow or something like that.
@@marcelokynderman897 Maybe I'm a slow reader, or maybe I just wasn't motivated. I know a few people who either took forever to get through it or blazed through it, so it's all subjective.
@uknownada same with me. I literally skipped episodes and chapters which is something I almost never did, to me even having the whole arc completed and binging it, it was still way to slow for me. It felt like it kept just dragging and dragging on and honestly just like you it made me stop reading and watching one piece consistently. I stopped reading and watching it for a little bit then started it again.
5:12: Lookin good Cavendish! As always!
Loo
Forgot to mention this earlier, but it was also great to see the Straw Hats get significant raises on their bounties(sans Chopper lol) after this arc. Still believe Robin's is criminally low for her given her reputation.
This arc was so much fun for me. I like to listen to the arc review before I watch it so I can go back and compare my opinion with grandline. The two things I mainly disagree with are Rebecca and Law. I think you really have to take both of there situations into consideration in regards to the arc. I loved both of there stories and it is easy to forget that Rebecca is a 15yo girl who had her family ripped away and Law was going up against his mentors who knew so much about him. My favorite part of the arc was when Luffy turned to Bellamy and said, you've changed Bellamy. Great story telling, Oda is extremely gifted.
I Actually Binge Watched this arc from start to finish while I was stuck in the hospital for a whole week, which is pretty much kept my sanity in check.
Great Video as always GLR!
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I think Dressrosa is a bit of a necessary evil. I think it will help Oda shape future arcs like Wano and Elbaf. Oda tested certain limits with Dressrosa, and I think proof of that is how much concise Whole Cake Island is compared to Dressrosa even though it was our first direct confrontation with a Yonko.
Not gonna lie I think the anime did make me hate dressrosa a lot more than it would if I had read the manga.
I hated this arc. Two years to tell the story of an event happened in one day and tons of flashbacks that doesn’t substantially contribute to the hints to find the One Piece and reveal the Void Century.
I agree we did not learn anything, for example, Mariejoie have a treasure, but we don't know what this treasure or why is it a treasure to begin with...
Just like, the one piece, what is it ? Why is it a treasure ? What consequences finding it will have on the grand scheme of thing ? We did not learn anything, there was nothing new (it was Alabasta 2.0), more questions than answers.
Oda went too far he do not know when to stop, so that's why he is not a good writer.
Dressroza is my favorite arc.
@@rogue8533 common idt just stfu . You are the one who is stpd here. You dont even understand a great story mystery. If you are such a rush then dont watch it .no one want you stpd opinion here. Just get lst .
@Lionard Kirsch right
Dressrosa WAS the darkest time for the anime
That title now goes to The Reverie
I completely skipped kyros background. I understood it without even watching.
"Luffy went to the pound and got a new older brother"! XD
That shouldn't make me laugh, I love Sabo, how dare you! :P
"string of arrogant mistakes"
Sabo is freaking awesome I’m so glad we got him. Rebecca was a cool character your really under selling her she went undefeated in the coliseum without ever getting hurt and without ever hurting anyone that’s crazy to think about she was actually strong af but of course not quite on executive level which makes sense for a 16 year old girl. Senor pinks back story was important it was the whole reason why he was dressed like that and made us all respect him. Why you hating on the tontotta? Lol Leo was a beast. Other than that agree with ya. Cool vid
Dressrosa was such an amazing arc. So many fight scenes, flashbacks and funny scenes including Nico Robin receiving a face fault expression 😱 (like this at 0:29). When I first saw Robin’s jaw dropping face, I was like “That’s so NOT Robin!”; I thought it was an out-of-character moment but I could be wrong. Maybe it was a little seed of increased character development. 😄 Robin’s face fault expression was seen like three times. Robin’s usually the silently relaxed and friendly woman. But she is still by far the most stoic and silent member of the Straw Hat crew. She still has her moments of coldness, mostly for comedy purposes, but she now fits the silent and intelligent character archetype more than stoic and closed loner archetype that she had before (Robin’s faith and feelings changed after the Enies Lobby arc) which is currently ocuppied by Trafalgar Law.
Despite being so quiet, Robin definitely fits in with the rest of the Straw Hats in terms of goofy comedy, which I'm very glad about. Prior to the timeskip, I don't think she really had a lot of opportunity to build up a light hearted side, so it's nice to see that coming through in the New World. I just wish Oda would unleash her and let her fight >_>;
I love this arc, Fijitora was such a cool presence through the whole thing he is by far my favorite (not main)character
The thing with One Piece that Dress Rosa is a prime example of is that even if you don't enjoy/care for a specific arc (this one due to length), it still remains as a key piece in the chain of events to come. Just about every island has something "integral" to the story. Hell, if they didn't go to Skypea, a place cut off from the rest of the world and has no relation, they wouldn't have had the money for Franky to steal that got them the Thousand Sunny. As one example, that is.
am i the only one who didnt notice dressrossas length because i binged it ?
I think this review gives the Dressrosa arc too much praise. This arc was painstakingly long, especially the anime adaptation, which dampened the impact of more pivotal moments of the arc. So much could have been cut from this arc and I think this is an example in the One Piece story when less could have been more. Which looks like that's gonna be most of post-time skip.
To name a few:
-we don't need Pink's flashback
-We don't need Viola's flashback
-we don't need the Sabo's flashback or Sabo at all
-We don't need as much of Rebecca's flashback
-And we definitely don't need Bellamy at all. He could've stayed dead.
Almost all of your criticisms we're said in this video
There were parts of the arc I liked such as actually the colosseum I thought was decent. Zoros new move, fujitora, sabo, and of course the final fight with Luffy vs Doffy as well as some other things, however it was way to long and for me boring. Parts were honestly almost unwatchable to me, I actually had to skip some episodes. And for anyone who will say, o y r u watching the anime and not reading the manga, I did read the manga, but I do watch anime fillers and just about always can at least tolerate them. Ive watched watched all 720 episodes of Naruto, and there weren’t many if any that I completely hated and just skipped. There were maybe a few but not that many. Bleach, I’ve watched all of it and the only filler I skip when I do a rewatch really is the ones with cone, ichigo’s sisters, the kids at Kisukes place, and done Konagi playing superhero’s. Those ones r the only fillers I skip in bleach, however there aren’t that many of them, less than 10 for sure and there not all in a row at max there may be 2 in a row. Dragon ball and Dbz I’ve seen all of it, honestly don’t remember if I skip stuff when I rewatch. In one piece pre time skip, it saying I like all the fillers, but to me they were watchable. I didn’t skip any my 1st time watching one piece and I don’t think even now when I do a rewatch of one piece I skip many fillers, I believe I watch most if not all of them. So fillers normally aren’t a issue for me, but during the Dressrosa arc, honestly I did skip stuff my 1st time watching which I never do my 1st time watching a series. To me the episodes were incredibly boring. Like I don’t give a flying fadoodle about the tontattas. And not just the fillers, I thought the whole arc just kept dragging and dragging on, I personally didn’t like Dressrosa. The only thing that saves me from hating Dressrosa is the Luffy and Doffy fight. Enies Lobby/ Water 7 I thought was an amazing amazing arc and was not bored at all the whole way through. Impel down I thought was decent. Impel down didn’t have a moment or fight to me that was incredible but to me it was solid and good the whole way through keeping me entertained pretty much the entire time. Saboady arc was great and kept me entertained the whole time and Marineford too. Dressrosa was to long and for me despite some good parts was pretty boring. Maybe I’m just weird but that my opinion. I will be doing an entire rewatch of all of one piece again very soon and will try to give Dressrosa a full fair watch but I might be skipping episodes. We will see. Edit: one other thing I forgot to mention is I didn’t like how the crew was split up, I would have liked to see Sanji get a fight in Dressrosa. I know he had a small skirmish on the ship with Doffy, but I mean a full on fight
King Riku looks like Heihachi from the fighting game series Tekken, maybe he inspired the character! Anyway nice arc but I'm glad I watched it recently without need to wait!
My favorite thing by far about Dressrosa that definitely does not need a mention is the most hard boiled clash between Franky and Senior Pink. Taking turns being attacked without defending till a victor is met was truly astonishing
Well....... I ran through it in 10 days😂😂
Aman Kumar i could of but i was reading black clover so i stopped watching for like a week rn in on gear fourth boundman and i started dressrose earlier this month
@@hizaora3590 gud
Well robin wasn’t told about sabo being luffy’s brother she probably knew of sabo just not his relation
While i never considered Dresrossa an Alabasta clone, it's is clearly an updated and more action packed version of Alabasta, with the major question of "What if Crocodile actually won on taking the throne, but not Pluton?".
There's also the overall aspect of Marines doing their own Justice (Fujitora did the same that Smoker did by not being involved with the major fight), and the main villain being part of a much bigger organization, except that instead of just being an organization done by Doffy, it's an organization linked to the biggest names in One Piece.
I stated in a comment from last week's review that the whole New World narrative has a lot of vibes of using similar stuff from the "first half" of the story, and while Dressrosa clearly follows stuff from Alabasta, and other arcs share similarities in narrative, i would never see them as clones.
I truly do not get the venom directed at this arc. I still love and adore it. The pacing issues are frankly anime problems so just go for One Pace and chill out. Imo, I love this arc even more after wading through Wano. Everything bad levelled at Dressrosa more appropriately applies to Wano. Comparing the two is like a cae study in writing imo.Both have lots of characters, but one does a MUCH better job investing us in them and utilizing them appropriately. I care about law. I care about Kyros. I care about King Riku. I care about Rebecca. And I love to hate on Doffy and his versatile goon squad.
Meanwhile...whenever an episode preview told me I was going to get a 9 samurai heavy episode I had to force myself to keep going. the 9 red scabbards vs Kaido made me question if I even liked One Piece anymore because I was so bored by it. And Kaido, no word of a lie, is a less entertaining villain than Foxy. At least Foxy had a personality beyond being a diet Saiyan
This is one of the BEST reviews I've ever seen! Your rewiews keep getting better and better! You sound and know EXACTLY what you are talking about! Keep up the great work!
Thanks :D
The executives were all garbage. Yeah. I kind of get why they weren't that strong. They were all kind psychotic old men. Diamonte and Trebol especially if the flashbacks were anything to go by. And their power didn't just underwhelm me. They were all kind of cowards. Trebol has only guard duty and failed at that but was made out to be stupid powerful when someone like Usopp could fight him evenly. I think that would have been an interesting fight too but Part II of One Piece is the "Only Luffy Gets to Fight" anime now. Trebol is literally only there the troll.
Diamonte is a dirty coward who doesn't place himself at a key position to be more useful to his side. Instead insisting on fighting a 1 legged man and torture his daughter. A guy who likely....if Robin wasn't on "Protect Rebecca" duty would have easily beaten
And Pica is the worst. People have praised his Guerilla tactics. In a fight retreating against a stronger opponent is smart. With his powers he did infact go where he was needed for sure. But with Zoro he didn't use tactical brilliance. He ran. It would be one thing if he laid in wait but he ran. And if Pica got away in that exchange with his his final attack he'd have done so again. Pica only had the balls to face Zoro when he didn't have a choice and he thought he COULD when push came to shove. So you can't say he 'retreated'. Nope. He just couldn't deal with ya boy Zoro and bounce. I don't blame him but you'd think Pica, the group with the most combat oriented folks would be a lot stronger
I am NOT a fan of Kyros, and how he dealt with Diamante is a big reason why.
He tells Rebecca not to fight, not to make herself a murderer... except he does not murder Diamante at all. I think the worst he got is a Million Dollar Baby-esque injury, which I hope he has in the eventuality he comes back. It'd give him great development.
But even if he simply didn't want her to fight at all... what authority does Kyros have on ROBIN? She is not his child, she is older and more skilled. She could have great at assisting the fight. She has broken many necks before.
I am a big fan of Viola personally, she is the type of non-warrior character I love. And I really love the Top Executives, although I wish they had been the ones to get the sympathetic flashbacks rather than Senor Fucking Pink. They get flashbacks, but... they are already rotten when they show up. I wish we saw more sympathetic sides of them, especially Pica. The moment when he realizes his voice isn't gonna change would have been gutwrenching, to me.
Plus, Baby 5's resolution is awful to my eyes.
8:51 Chapter 794 Franky tells Sabo that regaining his memory must have taken some time to come back. Sabo replies "It was Ace that told me everything... at least I believe so. He said to me -You are Sabo! A brother of mine and Luffy's!!!-"
I tought they met before Ace death. Am I interpreting this incorrectly?
If they had just given sabo a different name to coincide the memory loss it would’ve plugged a lot of the “how did they not know” questions
Dressrosa is a clone and a clown version of Alabasta
Doflamingo=Crocodile,
Fujitora = Smoker,
Ace = Sabo,
Ace vs Smoker = Sabo vs Fujitora,
2 Kingdoms in distress,
Pica is stone = Mr1 is steel(both cut by zoro),
Vivi = Violet,
I started watching one piece again just for doflamingo
The fact that this whole arc was supposed to take place over a single day is beyond stupid. With all that happened, it would be impossible for it all to be done in a 24 hour period. Now, time might work differently in the world of OP (though thats never been established to my knowledge), but i dont see the point of arbitrarily having this much happen in a day. Nothing of significance changes if you say it took a week to all go down, or something like that. I love this series, but it seems death and time are 2 concepts Oda just doesnt handle consistently well.
I’m about 30 episodes into this ark but it’s probably my least favorite arc so far. The animation is stale outside major fights, the flow of time is messy, and honestly we only get 13min of new animation and the rest is “what happened last episode” or the opening. Idk I’m really losing interest in this anime and the manga is 100% better. I’ve heard it gets better during wano but idk much more I can handle
For me the whole colassium mini arc was a draaaaag!!! Even now I would skip all those fights... and initially I thought Zoro vs pica is a mismatch and oda is purposefully dragging it...but the end was Soo Soo satisfying.... But overall I love this arc after water 7 arc...
The coliseum was awful. I am reading the colored manga again and it's almost impossible to read all those random fights. Skipped all of them, just had a glimpse on Bartolomeo and then Luffy vs angry old dude. Later when that obnoxious cage starts to do it's thing, I will surely skip all those fights as well. Robin supporting secondaries to fight a lame copy of Steven Tyler, lol Oda was completely out of his mind
Fujitoras actions are messy to me even to this day. If he had acted earlier/more. Much of the dmg wouldve been avoidet. Its nice that he took blame of the incident on wg part but still
The sabo plot hole thing is both true and false cause how long was ace apart of the whitebeard pirates before luffy set out to see and unless I'm wrong and correct me if I'm wrong I think ace was apart of the whitebeard pirates for about a year and a half. Plus we don't know if ace would be able to find sabo cause unlike with blackbeard the revolutionary Army can be anywhere in the world and ace only thinks Sabos alive he wouldn't say that to Luffy as for Garp he knew sabo for what a week and I don't think he had any personal connection to sabo like with Luffy and Ace. Now the robin one I can't explain but yeah
I think señor pink will be important in the future
Well Rebecca and king riku were both kind of useless but if it wasn't for viola being able to find mansherry the whole battle could have failed.
Gear 4th not aesthetically pleasing? I thought it looked pretty fucking cool the first time I saw it.
One of the best fight in the series Franky vs Senor Pink one words hardboiled.
Rebecca was the worst princess so far in the series fight me
Great review! I'm new to the channel and love one piece so this is amazing. Especially for things I've missed or different points of view.
Great video. I will be very candid; Dressrosa was the arc nearly made me drop OP, at least reading it weekly. To start off with the positives, I love Donflamingo; he is my favorite OP antagonists and he kept this arc together. I also enjoyed Bartolomeo, Cavendish. I STRONGLY disagree with you about Sabo as I actually find him more compelling and better written than Ace. However, that said; this arc was too ambitious. In my view, all of these elements would have been better served as apart of smaller arcs. Because, stuff, like the Tontatas felt very shoehorned in. I also felt like Luffy never had a good reason to fight Doffy. Yeah, he was an enemy of Law, but I never felt like the friendship between Luffy and Law was solidified. Overall, while I appreciate this arc a lot more in retrospective and rereading it, this to me is one of the most flawed arcs in OP. 6.8/10
Luffy's "reason" to fight Doffy ended up being that Rebecca gave him lunch >_>;
GrandLineReview Yeah, and that felt super tacked on. It would have been better if we'd gotten more time between Luffy and Rebecca in my view. All of Dressrosa, I argue could have been cut down into smaller arcs that would have achieved the same result. Also, Luffy wanting to save Law; it would have been nice had the Colessem arc been a separate entity and Luffy/ Law were in it. That way, their friendship could have been better developed. >_>;
For me, the problem was that this felt like Alabasta 2.0, which is *not* a compliment. Donflamingo went from a villain that intrigued me to one that bored and/or annoyed me. I actually had to watch the flashback where he conquers Dressrosa in bits and pieces because I alternated between being bored, cringing, and being angry at the story for trying to shamelessly manipulate in such a similar way. *Again.* I think I mostly got through it because, after a bit, I think I started rooting for Doffy because I was kind of hating the Dressrosa royal family (sans Viola).
Granted, I've been only watching the anime for years now for "reasons", though I started out reading the manga in the North American version of Shonen Jump. I too enjoyed Sabo quite a bit, in part because of the bittersweet nature of his existence:
"Yay, Ace is back!" "Well... not really."
So yeah... for the most part I'm actually agreeing with you, Neil, even if it doesn't sound like it. XP
Otaku I enjoyed Donflamingo and his backstory and I was fine with it. Dressrosa I argue just had too many moving parts and sacrificed arc consistency for the greater world building. And that sucks. I believe why people say Dressrosa is Alabasta 2.0, outside the similarities, is because Alabasta had fantastic buildup. Baroque Works, Vivi, Crocodile's name. That was a prevalent across Whisky Peak, Little Garden. And Alabasta. I felt like Oda tired to have one hand off the wheel. You can tell he wanted to pay homage to Alabasta, but also wanting to do some different things.
And I think it was this, alongside his health at the time, that hindered this arc. If I could rewrite Dressrosa, or advise Oda as an editor; I would have split a lot of Dressrosa. The Colosseum would have been a separate arc, a short one. Have the underworld elements foreshadowed and then move into Dressrosa.
That would have been a lot better IMO.
Yeah, I gathered you liked it; I was just stating my own opinion... and I'll also add that it *should* be something I liked; the pacing just killed it. Remember the scene from _The Incredibles_ when Bob is still overweight and gets stuck in the launch tube? How the henchman working the launch button presses it a few times, eventually turning it and somehow getting it to work?
Label that "The Feels Button" and it describes this arc for me. Stuff I *should* have liked just didn't work for me. *Fortunately* a lot of stuff did. Like Rosinante. :) As for your suggestion... it may worry you to know I agree. XD
So this was the point where i dropped the anime.
Thanks Toei.
Ps: also not a fan of the reintroduction of Sabo.
I hated Dressrosa.
Besides Law's flashback, Rebecca (yes I like Rebecca), Baby 5, Bartholomew, that one time the fish kid bit someone, Sabo & Gear 4, I hated everything in this arc.
@Lionard Kirsch :)
@Lionard Kirsch Why? It's not like I didn't understand anything about the arc. I understood it all. I just hated what I understood & hearing another dudes interpretation on things that piss me off won't piss me off any less.
I hate that Usopp is called a god for essentially doing nothing.
I hate that Rebecca was written to be a crybaby which made her a pariah in the one piece community.
I hate that Baby 5 married that nobody guy & we won't see her again until the omniwar.
I hate how long it took to get to the good stuff like Gear 4 and the Law flashback.
I hated senior fatass. He is among a handful of characters that goes past my "tolerance threshold" of Odas art style. Other characters are Zombie Pig Lola, Wanze & Timeskip Franky. & I know, I know, fatass has a sad backstory with his dead kid & vegetable wife, but this is One Piece. Every one has a sad backstory, I would just like to actually care about a character that isn't an ugly 45 year old fat man in a diaper.
Another person's perspective isn't going to change the fact that I had to endure so much crap.
@Lionard Kirsch Ok, I'll watch that guys video. I don't know what you expect me to get out of it, but I'll bite the bullet & go through Vietnam flashbacks mode.
I wanted another female to join the strawhats & I saw so much potential for Rebecca. Now I'm putting all my hope into Carrot. Hopefully, despite Luffys crew limit quota being filled with Jinbe, Oda will make an exception for Carrot. I mean, she already feels like she's part of the crew at this very moment anyway!
I'm not gonna lie, even I shed a tear to fatasses backstory. I still hate him.
What I mean by Usopp didn't do shit, is that he didn't actually knock out Sugar, but he got the credit for doing it anyway. This was his chance to actually do something brave and awesome, & instead he acted like a bitch, ran off, then only came back to do stuff only for the thought of being famous or whatever. What happened to the confidence badass in Fish-Man island? I miss that Usopp, not the shit we got in shitrosa.
Yeah, I figured you wouldn't care about Baby 5. She isn't that popular. All I know is that I saw a LOT of potential for her character. I either wanted her to join up with Law or get capture by the Marines. & If she would get married, as it being to her quirk, couldn't it have been with a character that is a bit more memorable? That fucker she married is so lame I literally keep forgetting he exists. Hell, his grandfather is more memorable than him! She should have married Cavendish. Not that I ship them or anything, but if she should have a husband the guy has to be as cool & memorable as she is. I wouldn't say Cavendish is the best character, but he's a hell of a lot better than...what's his face Baby 5 actually married. What the hell has that guy even done besides almost get Baby 5 to kill herself?
@Lionard Kirsch Oh yeah, ironically, I don't hate Flamingo. I also don't like him either. I'm neutral with Doffy. The only thing I don't like about him is his perspective on the 4 way backstory. It's basically "A child Osama bin Laden is pissed off that he wasn't allowed to grow up to be Hitler." The whole thing makes me say "why do I give a fuck?" You're going to be an evil jackass no matter what path you took in life, so why should I care if you were tortured?
This arc was good. I was definitely tired of it by the end though. It definitely had the best character development of any other arcs. It's villains were amazing too. It also had some of the best battles to go with the character development. However, I hope that Oda never does an arc this long again. One of my biggest fears is Oda not being able to finish the series.
Edit: I am in love with how much time and development my baby Law had. :P
Edit: Also, it annoys me that Robin hasn't gotten battles either. That's more of a whole series issue though. For being one of the most powerful Straw Hats she doesn't see a lot of battles outside of being support. However, Robin tanks a lot of damage. She seems to be getting hurt a lot in the post-timeskip arcs. What with that gruesome shoulder wound from Monet and the damage the spiked balls did to her back.
Two years for one arc. What the hell
I don't conplain about the arc taking 2 years of real time because well...
I didnt wait those 2 years😊😊
Rebecca was the worst part for me. She wasted sooo much time with her story, was super annoying and did nothing at all other than get in the way.
man i love dressrosa in the manga. such a shame they completely fucked it in the anime
Ya know not gonna lie. The Donquixote Pirates are the most forgettable villains ever. And that makes me sad as for the crew of my favorite villain in One Piece i expected them to be fearsome, vicious, and memorable. But instead they were all lame kiss-asses that ALL got oneshotted. Literally if you go back and watch the fights everyone of them got OHKOed except for maybe Diamante. Such a diapointtment.
Edit: Forgot about Senor Pink, his fight against Franky was pretty cool.
Malice *cough* Captain Kuro *cough*
Moizz Ilyas dude i love Kuro. Who else uses 10 sword style. Dude is hype
Dressrosa is 100% a Alabasta clone it even copies the warlord stealling the country idea yes Dressrossa had way more characters and villians and a tournament but at the main point Luffy tries to save a country from a evil warlord who tricks the people into hating the king. Except Alabasta actually felt more dangerous and real seeing as Crocodile could train people into bones and Luffy actually was defeated horribly and Iets not forget the rebel army it was the only arc in One Piece it actually felt Luffy and the straw hats were actually going to fail.
dressrisa was one of the best if not the best arc so far. but wano will probably be better
This arc made me stop watching one piece for a long time due to burn out
Dressrossa Coming from an Anime only watcher perspective here was a complete drag. The fact that it was soooo long gave me an existential crisis. The plotholes of how Sugar’s fruit works she makes a contract ok but everyone who knew them just forgets? The amount of evidence like Photos and Belongings and no one questions where these things come from because a person was turned into a toy really? This concept is done much better with Moria taking shadows or Big Mom taking souls and putting them in inanimate objects.
Doflamingo’s powers dont make any sense either like Birdcage. The range of his powers with being miles away still controlling them. Almost like he controls them in Auto Pilot. Plus he can make a Sentient Clone? WHAT!? Why couldnt he control any of the Strawhats it wouldve been way more interesting seeing a controlled Strawhat vs Strawhat. Hell Law or Zoro vs Luffy woulda been better than the final battle we got. Doflamingo wasnt quite the puppet master I was hoping for.
Also the grand fleet eating so much time and fights really bogged down the story. Most people dont care about them. Shoulda been the Strawhats.
Why the Fuck did Doflamingo leave King Riku alive. Zero damn reason to keep him alive. Rebecca woulda made sense as a secret heir. It would’ve been great that her journey wouldve been taking back the throne and reclaiming the Honor of her Family. Viola is pointless.
Overall Oda tried to make something Grand but some of it Backfired. Some of the hate the arc gets is justifiable and understandable.
i agree, i still dont understand why nobody just cutted his birdcage... i mean, how many haki users there is in that island? zoro alone could've cutted it in a single slice. but nop, it needed to be up for... no reason, also, luffy's 10 minutes wait was a really drag, and the fight itself was TERRIBLE. belamy added NOTHING except being an excuse for why luffy wasnt in the fight alongside Law. and to make matters worse, you keep asking yourself WHY IS THAT GUY DOING NOTHING to the "melted" whatever he was.
seriously, and it also didnt help how it was basically "luffy does an absurdly powerfull attack, that does nothing because plot says it doesnt".
Lionard Kirsch I meant why didn’t he kill Riku while he still had control over him the first time. Shoulda killed him immediately after he did the massacre. Hell even when he got him again in present day he just took him hostage instead of immediately killing him. The Birdcage is overpowered when even an Admiral cant break it. Ive seen that Morj video before fully understand the themes and story of Dressrossa doesnt mean I automatically have to like all of it. It still bothers me that Doffy has ridiculous powers with his strings like Making a Clone yet Luffy can break out of his strings by Gear 4 with no real explanation. Sugars toy making leaves plotholes. The Arc is overly long and has many charcters i dont care about Yes gladiators become the Grand Fleet but I ddnt care for them at that moment. Overall i love some parts but other parts feel like wasted potential or convoluted.
Lionard Kirsch Yeah nobody likes the fact that Pell survived that blast.
I have no problem with Doflamingo being strong or having strong haki. My problem is his powers make no sense. Why can u cut Luffy because he is rubber but you cant cut Doflamingo cuz hes String!? They even used haki on birdcage to try and cut it and it didnt work. It just doesnt make sense.
Gear 4 was great. Just disappointing Oda didnt find a clever way to break control from Doffy.
I just didnt like the designs of the Grand Fleet other than Hajrudin Barto and Cavendish the rest seem forgettable. Didnt want them to go in depth on each one just opinion. Kinda disappointing his Doffys Royal guard werent as interesting as Senor Pink or Baby 5
Doflamingo's backstory is awesome because it doesn't set you up to make you feel sorry for him. And his arrogance and twisted nature DOES make you think. Doflamingo is a bad man but regardless of his status as a tenryuubito he was always destined for greatness. I kind of wonder if his family weren't thrown out would he still be this powerful guy. With the unlimited power of a celestial dragon this guy would just be too terrifying.
This Arc is so massive that you finally caught back up to me. And I've been pulling like 3-7 episodes a day!
Ha, you never had a chance of staying ahead of me with Dressrosa and Whole Cake Island ;D
When we thought dressrosa was long we hadn't met wano yet lol
Do flamingo is awesome a little bit over praised but defiantly takes my second favorite villain katakuri being my first and favourite character as well