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Did we read the same manga ? Swear to God Rebecca's flash back was shown once in the manga in it's entirety. I can't say the same for the anime obviously
Funny thing is, most people like this arc when they binge read or watch it. Most of the people in this video speak from week to week read/watch experience.
I binge read it and yeah my experience was probably much better than those who read weekly, but it was still a slog in a lot of ways. I think anyone who actually WATCHED it weekly should get a goddamn medal for their service
@@boonsaplenty3924 I disagree. I never felt that it was a slog. The arc has so much going on and without any artifical stretched out content its one of the best in the series.
@@furorteutonicus9045 I mean I wasn't really arguing that it is "objectively" a slog, just my own personal experience was (I probably could have been clearer in my word choice). A lot of things about the super arc structure that Oda was developing was rubbing me the wrong way: I didn't like all the henchman that ended up being pretty irrelevant/unmemorable in their personality gimmicks (Machvise, Dellinger, Gladius), or the constant cutting away that made really quick fights feel like a slog bc of how long it took to get back to them. But these are things that Oda's only gotten better about since then, making all the chaos feel structured (admittedly, there were a bunch of henchman and cutaways before, but not on the scale that Dressrosa forward has had). But I'm glad you had a good experience, and I will totally grant you that all of the main story beats did not feel arbitrary or superfluous.
It's funny because I started watching one piece again after the dressrosa arc ended. I had seen the marineford war and I got hooked to one piece again that I rewatched the whole anime again. And I really enjoyed the dressrosa arc hahah
The first major arc I read when it was being released weekly, I remember loving it and being told I was “wrong” for liking it. The same thing has unironically happened with Wano.
I love Dressrosa too, and I watched it. I don’t understand all the hate. It was fun, set up many major plot points (revolutionary army), and also set up major arcs (zou/whole cake).
i can't speak for others but my main issues with the dressrosa arc and why i also initially stopped reading one piece weekly is due to the fact that they introduced soo many characters that at a certain point it just became frustrating seeing oda trying to juggle 5 storylines / fights at once instead of really exploring and making an enjoyable / relatable character / story i couldn't enjoy the flow of the anime, everything feels so artificially slow and as soon as you started noticing the ammount of flashback / "filler" that were being used you just couldn't unnotice it -> let's be clear i don't dislike flashbacks since they are vital to storytelling (law / corazon / doffy) but the rule of thump tends to be that you should make your "reminiscing / recapping" flasbacks as short as possible, short enough so that it will still "conjure" the emotion that you want you want your viewers to feel there were just too many moments where it feels like the story was elongated just to fill in time - seeing luffy get punched by bellamy's bouncing attack 4 episodes in a row while i'm wondering how many times he actually got punched and how many times it was a recap - flashbacks to already seen flashbacks where they showed the large part of the flashback again instead of limiting it to a couple of seconds - the constant "recapping" by viola while also constantly cutting towards everyone AND their mother's reaction to something that's happening - doffy being a complete moron when it comes to "going for the jugular" -> the ammount of times that doffy was pissed out of his mind by the fact that nothing went as planned and that luffy kept foiling everything -> we're supposed to believe this guy is completely ruthless when he's allowing luffy who's completely incapitated to recover so that he can get beat by him. we're supposed to believe that doffy took luffy's invade serious after seeing what happened with crocodile and when he actively started following luffy's battles doffy was in his room with a dozen of his executives basically doing nothing while he knew sugar was getting attacked and the only protection sugar had was trebol, it's like what the actual fuck what's the point of having a dozen strong executives when you are terrible to the point of utter incompetence at using them effeciently which is completely unbelievable considering how he was portrayed as "joker" the constant contradictions in people's values and the sheer incompetence of how the marines are displayed as - doffy killing his father and brother without mercy, being portrayed as this complete ruthless person -> luffy foiled literally everything, pissed doffy off so incredibly hard only for him to "get distracted" and go torture viola / rebecca to "lure out" a completely incapacitated luffy he could have just disposed off if he just hunted him down - seeing fujitora having this heartfelt moment of giving a speech of prioritise the people of dressrosa, do whatever you can to help them, they are the priority - > only for us to then later on see the following scene "the scene being there for sake of shock and for the sake of seeing people be in COMPLETE despair, building up doffy's ruthlessnes" the scene being the hospital scene where the personel is taking out the beds with sick people on them after the bird cage started accelerating, the personel pleading for help to the people who are passing by only to be completely ignored it's like HELLO??? there's gotta be some protocol on "what to do as the marines when a country goes to shit" and the fact that there was an ACTIVE admiral present wo just recently declared that his values were to prioritise the people at all cost only for the marines to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to tone down the chaos and guide / reassure the people to the best of their ability is straight up poor storytelling when a country goes to shit (people were manipulated into hurting other people) wouldn't the first thing the marines should do is make sure the hospital is supported and potentionally expanded, isn't the second thing the marines should do is to make sure that people injured and people who are in complete chaos get guided to said hospital / or any other field hospital while reassuring them to minimize panic i swear i was gonna keep this short but since i recently completely rewatched dressrosa everything is just very fresh in my memories and the final complaint is Doffy's powers man is there any reason why doflamingo can use and maintain the bird cage for an incredibly extended period of time, while using and maintaining a string clone of himself and while also fighting at full power against Law, Luffy and others again for a very extended period of time there seemed to be no effort / stamina used to maintain the bird cage and he doesn't seem to lose ANY focus / power for maintaining it all while fighting at his full power against others so why is thestring of the birdcage so incredibly indestructible, it's literally strings, you would think he ate another devil fruit that gave his string insane unbreakable durability WHY are the strings of said birdcage strong enough that even a combined effort of an entire country which includes an admiral, Multiple high level pirates and multiple haki experts can't even stop it let alone destroy it ALL while doflamingo is barely conscious after luffy hit him like what?? the more i think about it the more i feel like there are "objectively" better ways to tell this story so that the story doesn't undermine the set "values" of it's characters - establishing what the navy is doing so that it's believable when there is absolute panic / despair - when doffy is actually losing it by how pissed he is -> GIVE HIM THE MOMENT -> make him actively hunt an incapacitated luffy -> or atleast let him have a "law gets his arm cut" moment on someone who isn't important to the future story, make us believe that he's pissed beyond belief (i'd also personally would change "the birdcage", there is no great reason why string is strong enough to contain an entire country of elite fighters aside from the fact that IT HAD TO BE THAT STRONG to create urgency and the opportunity to unite the country in the story) - change some story pacing issues -> don't insult your audience by constantly recapping or showing the same things, also stick to "show, don't tell" i genuinely believe that if dressrosa did these 3 things that it would have been an incredible arc with an amazing villain if not one of the best villains But seriously i swear i was gonna keep this short but I didn't think i'd feel this strong about how this arc went, it just feels like a "setup" arc for the future war arc more than it feels like it's own consistent arc -> as in alot can be redeemed later on potentionally
The amount of people on Twitter who were disappointed about Kaido’s performance after he took on the samurai, the Worst Generation, Yamato and pre + post Gear 5 Luffy, while also holding up an entire island, was completely ridiculous
Yeah wano deffo has been crafted better. Was good that he had acts and gave us short breaks to the outside world before going right back into arc. Felt fresh..
@@TheRealWoopSlap im on whole cake, i dont think dressrosa was that bad, i actually really liked it, but just not the still animations and waiting 3 episodes for a fight
Thats the problem. Its a fantastic story, and it has GREAT content per chapter. But the anime ruins that. It's still enjoyable because the story is so good.
I was a bit skeptical that this documentary would focus too much on the anime side and completely ignore the manga but Im pleasantly surprised to see Liam divide his video neatly in 2 covering both aspects on their own. People dont say GLR is the best one piece channel for nothing.
Dressrosa honestly represents One Piece's biggest strength, as well as it's weakness, which is Oda's ambition. You can tell Oda was incredibly ambitious with regards to the vision for this arc. It had the best antagonist and it had alot of great reveals. However it was clear he bit off more than he could chew (which is unfortunately a problem that is common in the post-timeskip arcs) and covered alot of characters and events that people just didn't care about.
I read and watched it weekly and didn’t have major issues with the length of it. There was always something interesting going on in it. Yeah the anime had more issues like the constant Rebecca flashbacks but that was pretty minor for me.
2.5 years. made me drop the anime and shortly after the manga, too. I paused for like 7 years. Zero interest. Only catched up now, because I have time. Whole Cake and Wano Kuni are delivering af.
The problem with Dressrosa (manga wise) was that it didn't adhere well to weekly releases because of how complex it was. The anime made the problem worse with the worse pacing in the entire series happening during this arc. If you binge read it its pretty good and the One Pace cut of the anime is pretty good as well. It cuts down to 43 episodes I think.
52 to be precise, but many are >25 mins long, so that number is kind of misleading. It would probably be around 60-65 eps, but I'm also kind of making this up
I remember when I first started reading One Piece, this arc was already finished, so when I got to it I was able to binge the whole thing in 2 days. It’s weird, because as a result it became my favourite arc in the series. I guess the issue really is the time it took to finish, over 2 1/2 years, which I admit is a bit extreme.
Ive started with desrossa and its like 10 minutes of Fujitora playing poker im just warming up i think knowing how bad one piece anime pacing is. Some of the episodes I almost fell asleep but thankfully is the beatuiful world building and bright colours that make it more intreging to watcj
@@ajmma499 Read it my guy, and all of the pacing issues will just disappear before your eyes. They artificially stretch out episodes so that they can stay at the same episode length as the issues of the manga (to an extent). I’m not one of those manga purists who thinks the anime is terrible and that the manga is the only way to consume the story, but if your biggest problem with the story is the pacing specifically, than the manga is exactly what you need.
It's funny because the experience I had was totally different. I bought and read all of One Piece until the beginning of Wano last summer and I found on Dressrosa my favourite arc. I guess the fact of being able to read it in less than a week is crucial, as I was able to fully enjoy it and remember almost all of the characters through the whole arc (not now, unfortunately)
@@DiePoente facts! Watching is same. I am reading ev few weeks and hv quit entirely watching so I can binge when Wano is done. I got to like Hyogoro and Luffy in prison and couldn't take it and quit watching so I can binge later.
One piece always was dragged out, I remember reading the manga after finishing the other big fish and I loved it but the flashbacks and pace was dragged out, by the time I reached the CP9 I could have finished bleach best arcs.
reading one piece weekly is completely different then reading it all together. The arcs are so big that its more so an experience. As opposed to just a story. You will have to go back an re-read major arcs. I have been reading weekly since thriller bark, and sometimes i just drop one piece till the full arc is out. Its a legitimate way to read it. However i would also say some arcs are absolutely amazing week to week. The assault on Onigashima, was very close to being peek weekly one piece, but I feel it has gotten a little rushed and chopped up, as Oda is already preping and organising for what is coming next. Which is a shame the Four emperors sagas climax being possibly not as epic as it could of been, but it does hype up the final saga Majorly.
why are people complaining about the tournament characters being too many in numbers?? these are the characters that form the straw hat fleet! this is important stuff imo
I disagree for 3 reasons. 1. Quite a few gladiators didn't join the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, The Kelly Funk Brothers, Ascilla, Rolling Logan, Damask, Meadows, Mummy, Cactus Guy, and more I probably don't remember because there were so many. 2. Many of the gladiators were completely useless and had no presence, some were so bad that they literally had no shown personality or fighting style, like the aforementioned Meadows and Mummy. 3. At the time of writing this, The Straw Hat Grand Fleet itself has done absolutely nothing outside of cover stories, and a few chaperoning world nobles at the Reverie for like one chapter. Don't get me wrong, they probably will have importance in the future, and when they do, I'll reevaluate my opinion, but right now, The Straw Hat Grand Fleet seems like a completely useless addition to the story.
@@talkinghoorse6936 Would it make sense for every named gladiator to join afterwards? Makes the world feel big to have so many characters with actual names that aren't necessarily important.
@@talkinghoorse6936 of course some of the gladiators didn’t join the fleet. it would be unrealistic if everyone had. i feel as if this is a huge development for the straw hat crew and it’s important to show the influence they have on others. it shows that Luffy is still only focused on becoming pirate king and doesn’t want a fleet, yet also depicts the influence he has on other/ and how people want to follow him into battle and help him.
as a whole it is a good arc the main problem was its weekly construction with multiple breaks and how many plot threads it introduced just to resolve, the anime version amplifies every problem the weekly manga run had
"Ne, Doffy, someone's calling our kingdom a disaster, behehehe" Dear god I hope Trebol and comes into this discussion at some point and I hope he gets utterly blasted by everyone
As someone who caught up in Zou, I have never understood the hate that dressrossa gets. I can see the few parts where it dragged but it tied together perfectly in the end. Rebecca was the only weak link in the arc for me.
Luffy fights Bellamy for 13 episodes while Law is bleeding out on the roof. In the manga Luffy fights Bellamy for 1 and a half chapters. I don't know why they decided to pad/reuse animation of Bellamy springing around for 13 episodes but it was completely nuts.
@@Buccii yeah One Piece and Conan are probably the last dying embers of the infinite weekly release formula. Like seasonal anime is more profitable by this point. But those two series are relics from before DVDs were a thing. You can see the deathknell of infinite series where World Trigger season 1 has 73 episodes and season 2 has 12 switching format. Even Dragonball the og infinite series switched it's game up. Toei doesn't know what to do with Future releases of the IP. Boruto might have actualy killed the business model. So thank you Boruto.
The funny thing is after he got done fighting Bellamy he just left belly me there and I don't know how Bellamy didn't die from blood loss or collateral damageXD
Seeing this, I'm really happy that I started OP near the end of Wano and only caught up right at the end of Wano. Didn't have to go through the weekly grind.
But what was truly more ambitious: the Dressrosa arc in the manga, the Dressrosa arc in the anime or the Dressrosa Disaster Documentary on the GLR channel...
I liked sabo reveal, doffy flashback & gear 4th reveal. Still remember when luffy first announced it and then the chapter ended.. I was freaking out. I remember it so clearly cuz it was a week before my birthday and weirdly enough I was doing my practical test, so I was always thinking about "gears"
One thing I always found super annoying about this arc was how durable the bird cage was. Like, a clone made of string was able to be cut in half by Kyros, however none of the individual pieces of string of the birdcage were able to be cut by Zoro, who just got done cutting several hundred square meters of stone apart, or a goddamn Marine admiral. I don’t think there was ever an explanation for why it was so unbreakable, it just was.
I just assumed the strings were imbued by insanely durable, godlike Haki tbh. Idek if that's a good justification for it with how even an admiral cannot stop the cage.
I feel I missed the Dressrosa fatigue by waiting for Dressrosa to finish before I watched the anime. I honestly enjoyed it even though there were a few pitfalls but they weren't so deep that it ruined my experience. Fujitora is a great character and personally my favorite of the new characters that appeared in this arc.
Aside from those 10 or so chapters during the finale with the birdcage, I can honestly say that Dressrosa is peak One Piece along with water7, alabasta, Ennies Lobby, marinefors, sabaody. Honestly such an amazing arc, especially if you binge read it ! If you watched Dressrosa, I highly recommend reading it. And if you read it weekly during the time it was airing, I still recommend you RE read it. Completely different experience !
Seems like all the dressrosa hate comes from the weekly read manga wise. Everything else is literally just nitpicking because a lot of that stuff can be said about Wano. I started and finished one piece last year so I didn’t read dressrosa weekly or even knew about the disdain for it I finished the arc in like 2 weeks. Dressrosa is my number 1 arc in the story followed by marineford 🤷🏾♂️
I think it's because almost the whole event of Dressrosa takes place in one day, so there's never really tike for anyone to catch their breath, another being that unlike Wano, almost every character was introduced at the same time, Wano giving time for each new person, and like I said earlier, Dressrosa takes place in one day whilst Wano takes place in months from what we've seen
I have been weekly since 03. More people hated Thriller Bark on a weekly basis than Dressrosa. This entire documentary can be summed up by weekly fatigue of new readers being weekly for the first time
Same here it’s my number 1 arc in the series. I binged the manga. I guess other’s problems were with watching the anime or reading weekly. I think it’s an absolute masterpiece of an arc. I debated with somebody about dressrosa a while ago and they said the arc sucked because the strawhats didn’t get a lot of shine lol
5 min zooming into building and the background 5 min for the opening +the recap 3 minutes for the ending leaving you with a mere 11min of new actually interesting content well... The manga was also tiring to read honestly at that moment a lot of people stopped one piece or took a long break
@@hfon3317 as usual you manga readers overreacting Here's a little trick to shut them up, ask them when, tell me when once has the opening been 5 minutes long
I personally quite liked the massive cast and scale of dressrosa when i was reading it, but i can understand how hellish reading and watching it weekly must've been.
As of the start of the Foxy arc, if you're watching the regular anime and not one of the fan cuts that removes a lot of the filler, unnecessary flashbacks and reactions shots and other non-manga aspects, you're watching it wrong.
Goes to show how high a bar Oda sets with his settings. Dressrosa is an incredibly stylish and fleshed-out location and yet it's mediocre at best compared to others in the series.
Having cool things shove into a island doesn't make that island better. We know much about Naruto's village history, different clans and political conflict than dressrosa.
I just read the Dressrosa arc in a week. In my opinion, best arc of the series so far. It took everything and turned it up to 11. I loved all of the new characters, the world building, the stakes of the world. Too many perfect scenes to put into one comment.
I definitely agree with the manga dressrosa being one of if not the best arc of one piece. The anime pacing was definitely annoying though especially if you watched it weekly
Rebecca is cooler than people say. She's a strong willed survivor whose compassion and pacifistic lead her to developing a nonlethal fighting style. Her costume never bothered me as Red Sonja is an iconic character I grew up with and I loved Oda's homage to this legendary badass female warrior. The only disappointment I have regarding the character is that she was not fighting alongside her father while he was facing off against the man who killed her mother. I really wish that Diamante had brought just one or two flunkies with him so that Robin and Rebecca could have something to do if Kyros was going to face-off against Diamante alone. Maybe Diamante could have tucked a couple of folded up henchmen up his sleeves and released them just as the fight got started. Rebecca really was denied an opportunity to prove herself in the narrative and I find that to be a shame. But aside from that one blemish, I really love the character, her story & everything else -- I'm even 100% behind her shipping with Koby. I give Rebecca a B+ rating and I look forward to seeing her again in the future. (Hopefully as the Swordsman of The Princess Pirates captained by Renegade-Princess Vivi)
The only people who dislike Dressrosa are literal manchildren that want One Piece to be like a Saturday Morning cartoon where they visit colorful sky castles and dinosaur islands until they finally find buried treasure. Yes, those arcs already exist we don't need MORE of the same it's unbearable that so many fans want every arc to be like the East Blue or Fishman island arc. One Piece is already very formulaic in its storytelling it doesn't need to be even more generic to appease the lowest common denominator of audience members.
I honestly loved this arc. I think that all the characters plots and stories introduced here were absolutely magical. The introduction of Gearfour was completely mind-boggling and the buildup to the defeat of doflamingo was truly worth the wait. I think punk hazard was a disaster arc. I hated every moment of that arc except for some comedy
Yanno I recently rewatched dressrosa. And on a 4-5 episode chunk watch through I LOVED it. I really do think the pacing issues (mostly) disappear when consumed that way. I'd still like certain individual scenes not to drag on (looking at you, King Kong Gun)
I'm so excited to hear the toy soldier "song" 57 times, any time that Rebecca or Kyros is on screen it needs to play because if it isn't then you really can't call this dressrosa
The Dressrosa Arc was good. It was better than fishman island & punk hazard imo. Granted it wasn't perfect but I loved it! Especially the moment between luffy and sabo
The most impressive facet of the Dressrosa Arc for me wasn’t Doffy, but the fact that Oda was able to keep the plot so tightly knit and actually pace it well in spite of 100-plus characters and chapters. Unfortunately, it did not come across this way when serialized volumes were coming out every week, keeping readers in the same setting and impatient for the inevitable clash to happen. Shame it will be remembered as mediocre-at-best, but I don’t see how Oda could have expected an arc this long and redundant to be a success, especially with all of the hype leading up to it and mystery surrounding Doffy. Crazy how a mangaka could follow the same formula for two different tales - Alabasta - that virtually parallel each other and they could be received so differently.
I read the manga and this was the same for me. It took me over a month to get through Fishman Island and Punk Hazard, and I planned to just charge in and read Dressrosa over the course of a week. I was basically forcing myself to read for a little bit, and then I ended up getting super invested and read the entire arc in three days. Its much more enjoyable when you can read it in one sitting
Why is too many characters a bad thing like we’re reading a long as story about a pirate traveling the world meeting people on his journey you just remember the important one and forget the others there really can never be too many charecters
Too many at once, or rather too many characters in focus. It makes it so either some characters don't get the time they need to be fleshed out or the pacing gets really bad to accommodate them all.
I don’t know, I really liked that about this arc. Sure, the chapter they’re ALL introduced, I’m thinking “alright, most of them will be fodder, but Oda is introducing them surely because at least SOME will be important”. Turns out I was right, and I liked how it played out. Obviously the creation of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet is extremely important, and I loved it.
This was truly an amazing video, I really loved how you included the grand line fleet members and especially the way it was edited! I really hope you do another one of these in the future
Reading this arc on a week to week basis was an ordeal. I remember my heart sunk when the air went out of Luffy and said he needed 10 minutes to recover...
Dressrosa was actually the first arc I read weekly, and it was...an interesting experience. I do agree that it's definitely a better story when binged than when read weekly, but it's honestly in my top 5 arcs in the series. At the very bottom of my top 5, but 5th place out of 31 (I think?) isn't bad.
@Tenyasha That's actually not a question I'd considered too much. Obviously I'm coming at this as someone who has only had the weekly reading experience with Dressrosa, Zou, Whole Cake Island, Reverie, and Wano. Whole Cake Island I also enjoyed more when I reread it after it was completed, but honestly, with Reverie, the Wano intermissions, and now Wano act 3, I've been really enjoying having the time to let the new big information stew for a while and watching the community theorize and speculate each week as we wait for the chapters. So I guess from my perspective, I prefer binging the slower-paced sections but I prefer reading the big info-dumps week-by-week. I guess that might just be a case of me subconsciously adjusting the pacing to fit my own taste.
As someone who does not watch one piece weekly, for me dressrosa introduced the materialization of one piece fans in Bartolomeo and forever grabbed a spot as a truly great arc
I hated Rebecca’s design to the point I had to lie to myself saying, “She’s dressed like that because she’s a gladiator and that’s the best she’s supplied with.” Knowing damn well that other characters had superior armor, just to tolerate it without pausing every five seconds to rant
Dressrosa I feel is like skypiea. In when it finally gets to the end of the series it will be much more appreciated. I personally think it's top 4 material, any spot depending on when you ask
Yup... Dressarosa was awesome ....man people always think they could write a better story..... instead of enjoying what the author is trying to do.... They say they like one piece for world building then when oda literally builds the entire world for the story going forward by having all the major factors involved now they complain if we didn't get fishman and punk hazard instead went straight to Yonkou then they would have said ho there is continuing Power scaling is not good how can luffy fight a Yonkou so easily.....and they complain too many characters and too many story lines then say they watch one piece because it has great world building,,,, what horseshit is that Dressarosa set up so many plotlines and expanded so much of the world..... people say oda shouldn't have done this or done that like they could write a story
I mean, binging it was fine. But I get why week to week readers weren‘t into it. Also Skypiea wasn‘t nearly as exhaustingly stuffed with new supporting characters and death fake-outs for the villain.
because you binged - watch/reading it weekly was quite a hassle to say the least; but in retrospective, the arc was really good for all the story was building towards
Idk man, you give me a guy who: - Doesn't see a "no pissing in the fish water" sign and acts accordingly - Trolls the audience with a fake bomb - Camps on the side of the storm circle the whole game then gets the chicken dinner with just one kill Imma pick that guy, that guy got the right idea.
I'm so glad I could binge this arc, because I definitely wouldn't have liked it if I had read it week to week. It's definitely slow in some parts but overall imo one of the best arcs in the series. The Big Mom threat, the Mera Mera and Sabo reunion, the Doflamingo family in general, Usopp's observation Haki, Law's backstory and Corazon tying to Sengoku, Doffy straight up shooting Law and Luffy stopping him, God Usopp, the tontattas and the link back to Noland, the hard boiled backstory, Bartolomeo and Cavendish, Gear 4th, FUJITORA holy shit.
Hmm, I was expecting more positive comments but maybe I was being too optimistic. Overall, very impressive documentary on what was apparently one of the most divisive arcs in OP. I'm sad my thoughts weren't included in the video but se la vie. I still think that the overall impression from volume readers was a very positive one. Leading up to this video I've seen a ton of comments saying this arc is one of their favorite arcs in the series. My thoughts are pretty positive as well, I went back watched the arc again and liked it even more then on first viewing. Some of the criticisms in the video I don't agree with at all but hey, diversity of opinion is very valuable.
Dressrosa is designed to be such a mundane looking destination with respect to the other arcs because it's tranquility and mundane aura is supposed to be a foil, an extreme opposite to what is going on "underground".
Going through dressrosa while it was already done I loved all of it. I think it’s one of the best arcs, but I can imagine how it would’ve been going through it week by week
As a person who started One Piece as anime only, then got to dressrosa in the anime. Truly the worst experience I've ever had behind DBS. Great documentary GLR.
I loved the arc's story. The smartly shown similarities and nods to the real world are examples of absolutely brilliant writing. BUT. THE. PACING. OMFG.
I actually was really loving its length. I was stressed out with beginning the arc and planned to read it over the course of a week just to get through it. Ended up reading it in 3 days because I was so excited and invested
How did I miss the full release... TH-cam, please. Absolutely amazing. Not only was this an amazing documentary on the community and one of the most prominent arcs of the series, but we got an hour of your comedy. The license plate joke caught me off guard.
Hi Liam, I'm a big fan. Just a quick introduction. I've been watching your videos longer then I've been watching One Piece, but i love spoilers and they motivate me. I just finished Punk Hazard (don't bully me guys). But your videos and community is the reason I started it after watching series like Tokyo Ghoul, Naruto, etc. It has expanded my anime horizons and I love it. I will probably come back and reply to this comment when I finish Dressrosa (might be a while) but just to leave my opinions lol. Thank you Liam for all the great community stuff and the communication it's given me a lot of smiles and laughs on bad days
Dressrosa all in all was a good arc, Doflamingo is one of the best OP villains, and it also set up many important plot points and characters that either are or will be integral for the future of One Piece.
In the defense Of Dressrosa. I started watching one piece about a year ago. I remember being told it was so long and filled with filler, so I was a little nervous when I made it to Dressrosa but I loved it. It’s actually my 3rd favorite arc right now right behind Enies lobby as number one and Water 7 in second place.(side note I just started Wano). Doflamingo is actually my favorite villain and Rebecca was one of favorite characters of the Dressrosa arc, i didn’t think she was annoying at all but I do have to admit I was getting a little tired of her flashbacks after a while. I also enjoyed the Colosseum part especially meeting Sai. I also loved Baby 5 and Sai love story. Then getting to see Sabo and get his backstory and being in the revolutionary army.Then Law backstory hit me like a brick. From Law’s white lead disease to meeting corazon and getting his and Doffys backstory, getting to meet more celestial dragons, to corazon sacrifice for Law. And personally I loved the aesthetic of Dressrosa. And God fucking Doffy! Getting to have a actual real psycho, manipulator villain. Thank you for who ever read this all the way through, I’m very passionate about this arc.❤
I'm a newer subscriber but I have watched a lot of your older videos before clicking this one and I have to say excellent job 🔥🔥🔥 this video was awesome!
This video was expertly done! I loved it. From the editing to the varied opinions from so many different types of one piece fans. You should be super proud of this video!!! (Doflamingo is the best one piece villan btw)
because of the pacing i thought whole cake island (where big mom chased them in the woods) was even worse and same for the beginning of wano arc, but maybe its just because i've forgotten how slow dressrosa was... i hope he does something similar for the wano arc later aswell. this was really fun to watch!
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And what if I don’t? hmm… what are you gonna do about it tough guy?
I have commented one word for each video from 'One Piece Characters based on Real People' to 'Chapter 1017 Review' and now while awaiting for the premiere it's time for a hunt to uncover the hidden sentence. Goodluck.
Oh man it’s finally here. I just hope my entry made it.
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@@ameanguy1995 Australians am I right?
Everyone talks about how annoying Rebecca is but no one talks about how Oda made us feel things for a grown man in a diaper.
Hahaha
For real you think the man was a past therapist incorporating client stories into manga some of his characters and stories are a little too spot on.
Ong his backstory was amazing
He is the face of how one piece works
Honestly he was the best character of the doflamingo pirates besides doflamingo
I read the manga and thought that Rebecca's flashback was beautiful
Blows my mind that it was shown 48 times, Jesus
Did we read the same manga ?
Swear to God Rebecca's flash back was shown once in the manga in it's entirety. I can't say the same for the anime obviously
@@KingOfEden12 that's what I meant. It blows my mind that it was shown 48 times in the anime
@@juannaym8488 IT WAS SHOW HOW MANY TIMES IN THE ANIME?
@@NicholasSpadafora
If you ask the viewers: "too many times!"
If you ask Toei: "Not enough!"
I watched the anime and have no recollection of it. It boggles my mind I saw it 48 times
Funny thing is, most people like this arc when they binge read or watch it. Most of the people in this video speak from week to week read/watch experience.
True
I binge read it and yeah my experience was probably much better than those who read weekly, but it was still a slog in a lot of ways. I think anyone who actually WATCHED it weekly should get a goddamn medal for their service
@@boonsaplenty3924 I disagree. I never felt that it was a slog. The arc has so much going on and without any artifical stretched out content its one of the best in the series.
@@furorteutonicus9045
I mean I wasn't really arguing that it is "objectively" a slog, just my own personal experience was (I probably could have been clearer in my word choice).
A lot of things about the super arc structure that Oda was developing was rubbing me the wrong way: I didn't like all the henchman that ended up being pretty irrelevant/unmemorable in their personality gimmicks (Machvise, Dellinger, Gladius), or the constant cutting away that made really quick fights feel like a slog bc of how long it took to get back to them. But these are things that Oda's only gotten better about since then, making all the chaos feel structured (admittedly, there were a bunch of henchman and cutaways before, but not on the scale that Dressrosa forward has had).
But I'm glad you had a good experience, and I will totally grant you that all of the main story beats did not feel arbitrary or superfluous.
It's funny because I started watching one piece again after the dressrosa arc ended. I had seen the marineford war and I got hooked to one piece again that I rewatched the whole anime again. And I really enjoyed the dressrosa arc hahah
The first major arc I read when it was being released weekly, I remember loving it and being told I was “wrong” for liking it. The same thing has unironically happened with Wano.
I sincerely, sincerely, don't understand some of the Wano hate. It's easily one of the best sagas of One Piece.
@@luiirod arc fatigue and burnout, most people will love the Raid on Onigashima now that they can control the pace of how they read it.
I love Dressrosa too, and I watched it. I don’t understand all the hate. It was fun, set up many major plot points (revolutionary army), and also set up major arcs (zou/whole cake).
i can't speak for others but my main issues with the dressrosa arc and why i also initially stopped reading one piece weekly is due to the fact that they introduced soo many characters that at a certain point it just became frustrating seeing oda trying to juggle 5 storylines / fights at once instead of really exploring and making an enjoyable / relatable character / story
i couldn't enjoy the flow of the anime, everything feels so artificially slow and as soon as you started noticing the ammount of flashback / "filler" that were being used you just couldn't unnotice it
-> let's be clear i don't dislike flashbacks since they are vital to storytelling (law / corazon / doffy) but the rule of thump tends to be that you should make your "reminiscing / recapping" flasbacks as short as possible, short enough so that it will still "conjure" the emotion that you want you want your viewers to feel
there were just too many moments where it feels like the story was elongated just to fill in time
- seeing luffy get punched by bellamy's bouncing attack 4 episodes in a row while i'm wondering how many times he actually got punched and how many times it was a recap
- flashbacks to already seen flashbacks where they showed the large part of the flashback again instead of limiting it to a couple of seconds
- the constant "recapping" by viola while also constantly cutting towards everyone AND their mother's reaction to something that's happening
- doffy being a complete moron when it comes to "going for the jugular" -> the ammount of times that doffy was pissed out of his mind by the fact that nothing went as planned and that luffy kept foiling everything -> we're supposed to believe this guy is completely ruthless when he's allowing luffy who's completely incapitated to recover so that he can get beat by him.
we're supposed to believe that doffy took luffy's invade serious after seeing what happened with crocodile and when he actively started following luffy's battles
doffy was in his room with a dozen of his executives basically doing nothing while he knew sugar was getting attacked and the only protection sugar had was trebol, it's like what the actual fuck what's the point of having a dozen strong executives when you are terrible to the point of utter incompetence at using them effeciently which is completely unbelievable considering how he was portrayed as "joker"
the constant contradictions in people's values and the sheer incompetence of how the marines are displayed as
- doffy killing his father and brother without mercy, being portrayed as this complete ruthless person -> luffy foiled literally everything, pissed doffy off so incredibly hard only for him to "get distracted" and go torture viola / rebecca to "lure out" a completely incapacitated luffy he could have just disposed off if he just hunted him down
- seeing fujitora having this heartfelt moment of giving a speech of prioritise the people of dressrosa, do whatever you can to help them, they are the priority
- > only for us to then later on see the following scene "the scene being there for sake of shock and for the sake of seeing people be in COMPLETE despair, building up doffy's ruthlessnes" the scene being the hospital scene where the personel is taking out the beds with sick people on them after the bird cage started accelerating, the personel pleading for help to the people who are passing by only to be completely ignored
it's like HELLO??? there's gotta be some protocol on "what to do as the marines when a country goes to shit" and the fact that there was an ACTIVE admiral present wo just recently declared that his values were to prioritise the people at all cost only for the marines to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to tone down the chaos and guide / reassure the people to the best of their ability is straight up poor storytelling
when a country goes to shit (people were manipulated into hurting other people) wouldn't the first thing the marines should do is make sure the hospital is supported and potentionally expanded, isn't the second thing the marines should do is to make sure that people injured and people who are in complete chaos get guided to said hospital / or any other field hospital while reassuring them to minimize panic
i swear i was gonna keep this short but since i recently completely rewatched dressrosa everything is just very fresh in my memories
and the final complaint is Doffy's powers man
is there any reason why doflamingo can use and maintain the bird cage for an incredibly extended period of time, while using and maintaining a string clone of himself and while also fighting at full power against Law, Luffy and others again for a very extended period of time
there seemed to be no effort / stamina used to maintain the bird cage and he doesn't seem to lose ANY focus / power for maintaining it all while fighting at his full power against others so why is thestring of the birdcage so incredibly indestructible, it's literally strings, you would think he ate another devil fruit that gave his string insane unbreakable durability
WHY are the strings of said birdcage strong enough that even a combined effort of an entire country which includes an admiral, Multiple high level pirates and multiple haki experts can't even stop it let alone destroy it ALL while doflamingo is barely conscious after luffy hit him like what??
the more i think about it the more i feel like there are "objectively" better ways to tell this story so that the story doesn't undermine the set "values" of it's characters
- establishing what the navy is doing so that it's believable when there is absolute panic / despair
- when doffy is actually losing it by how pissed he is -> GIVE HIM THE MOMENT -> make him actively hunt an incapacitated luffy -> or atleast let him have a "law gets his arm cut" moment on someone who isn't important to the future story, make us believe that he's pissed beyond belief (i'd also personally would change "the birdcage", there is no great reason why string is strong enough to contain an entire country of elite fighters aside from the fact that IT HAD TO BE THAT STRONG to create urgency and the opportunity to unite the country in the story)
- change some story pacing issues -> don't insult your audience by constantly recapping or showing the same things, also stick to "show, don't tell"
i genuinely believe that if dressrosa did these 3 things that it would have been an incredible arc with an amazing villain if not one of the best villains
But seriously i swear i was gonna keep this short but I didn't think i'd feel this strong about how this arc went, it just feels like a "setup" arc for the future war arc more than it feels like it's own consistent arc -> as in alot can be redeemed later on potentionally
The amount of people on Twitter who were disappointed about Kaido’s performance after he took on the samurai, the Worst Generation, Yamato and pre + post Gear 5 Luffy, while also holding up an entire island, was completely ridiculous
"The geography of Dressrosa was-"
Tekking101: "DID SOMEONE SAY GEOGRAPHY?!?!?!"
I heard his voice in my ears as I read his quote
Di
he said geographic not geography
at least i think thats what he was meant to say
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LOL I LOVE TEKKING101 🖤
Dressrosa: I'm the longest one piece arc
Wano: Hold my Sake
Wano is much better
Yeah wano deffo has been crafted better. Was good that he had acts and gave us short breaks to the outside world before going right back into arc. Felt fresh..
@@TheGoatLad tbh I like both arcs but if I had to pick with arc was better it would be wano
hold my oden*
@@TheRealWoopSlap im on whole cake, i dont think dressrosa was that bad, i actually really liked it, but just not the still animations and waiting 3 episodes for a fight
Props to the person that said that he still gets flashbacks to the Rebecca flashback to this day. Made my day lol
Oh geez that was me
@@illbatti cap
Haha alright buddy. Anyway im Emil and my insta is @ opticember
Should I feel bad that I really enjoyed all the dressrosa layers?😬
No I did too
Im with most of these other guys taking 2 years to tell a day of a story is insane
Never feel bad for enjoying one piece and f*** anybody who would make you feel bad for that and if they're a woman I mean that literally
Thats the problem. Its a fantastic story, and it has GREAT content per chapter. But the anime ruins that. It's still enjoyable because the story is so good.
It was one of the best arcs in my opinion, and at the start of the video I think that they just watched the anime instead of the manga
Looking forward to it. This will be fun. Unless every 5 minutes we get a Rebecca flashback.
No it will be about every 2 or 3 seconds
Bruh, it's the hour long special Rebecca flashbacks *only* vid, we all know it.
I'm so excited! I hope Liam does more of these
It must be realistic fool
I felt the flashbacks were repeated too often, but imo it wasn’t that bad. This is nothing compared to Narutos flashbacks.
I was a bit skeptical that this documentary would focus too much on the anime side and completely ignore the manga but Im pleasantly surprised to see Liam divide his video neatly in 2 covering both aspects on their own. People dont say GLR is the best one piece channel for nothing.
A Grandlinedebut of a Grandlinereview. If this documentary is to be legit i hope at least 40 minutes of this is flashbacks of soldier and Rebbeca
Way too low..If it's an hour long documentary then almost 59:59 minutes should be Rebecca's flashback
@@sandals2797 what about that extra second
@@pancakecommanderandbowser2279 Trebol.
Dressrosa honestly represents One Piece's biggest strength, as well as it's weakness, which is Oda's ambition. You can tell Oda was incredibly ambitious with regards to the vision for this arc. It had the best antagonist and it had alot of great reveals. However it was clear he bit off more than he could chew (which is unfortunately a problem that is common in the post-timeskip arcs) and covered alot of characters and events that people just didn't care about.
Even as someone that largely loves dressrosa...yeah the length for each arc started to be a bit much here.
Thank god for Zou
I actually quite enjoyed dressrosa because I binge watched it but i understand the frustration of having to have to wait for chapters and episodes
I enjoyed reading it weekly but uh not so much the anime for the most part.
I read and watched it weekly and didn’t have major issues with the length of it. There was always something interesting going on in it. Yeah the anime had more issues like the constant Rebecca flashbacks but that was pretty minor for me.
I just started watching the arc over again idu why so many people hate it but thats my favorite arc 😔
same i binge watch it too
but towards the end, felt that it was long, still one of my favorite arcs
2.5 years. made me drop the anime and shortly after the manga, too. I paused for like 7 years. Zero interest. Only catched up now, because I have time. Whole Cake and Wano Kuni are delivering af.
The problem with Dressrosa (manga wise) was that it didn't adhere well to weekly releases because of how complex it was. The anime made the problem worse with the worse pacing in the entire series happening during this arc. If you binge read it its pretty good and the One Pace cut of the anime is pretty good as well. It cuts down to 43 episodes I think.
52 to be precise, but many are >25 mins long, so that number is kind of misleading. It would probably be around 60-65 eps, but I'm also kind of making this up
I binge watched it while doing other things and skipping stuff.
Dressrosa>marineford
I remember when I first started reading One Piece, this arc was already finished, so when I got to it I was able to binge the whole thing in 2 days. It’s weird, because as a result it became my favourite arc in the series. I guess the issue really is the time it took to finish, over 2 1/2 years, which I admit is a bit extreme.
It has been my favourite arc, too until Wano :) Also watched the anime after the arc was done already and only read the manga at the time of Dressrosa
Same, although i watched it, but with one pace. It was still long, but i got really immersed
I loved the Arc as well
Ive started with desrossa and its like 10 minutes of Fujitora playing poker im just warming up i think knowing how bad one piece anime pacing is. Some of the episodes I almost fell asleep but thankfully is the beatuiful world building and bright colours that make it more intreging to watcj
@@ajmma499 Read it my guy, and all of the pacing issues will just disappear before your eyes. They artificially stretch out episodes so that they can stay at the same episode length as the issues of the manga (to an extent).
I’m not one of those manga purists who thinks the anime is terrible and that the manga is the only way to consume the story, but if your biggest problem with the story is the pacing specifically, than the manga is exactly what you need.
It's funny because the experience I had was totally different. I bought and read all of One Piece until the beginning of Wano last summer and I found on Dressrosa my favourite arc. I guess the fact of being able to read it in less than a week is crucial, as I was able to fully enjoy it and remember almost all of the characters through the whole arc (not now, unfortunately)
It's become the norm of One Piece manga that its later arcs are way better on re-read/binge opposed to weekly reading.
@@DiePoente facts! Watching is same. I am reading ev few weeks and hv quit entirely watching so I can binge when Wano is done. I got to like Hyogoro and Luffy in prison and couldn't take it and quit watching so I can binge later.
One piece always was dragged out, I remember reading the manga after finishing the other big fish and I loved it but the flashbacks and pace was dragged out, by the time I reached the CP9 I could have finished bleach best arcs.
@@BrunofanofK too bad Tite Kubo didn't know how to finish bleach's best arcs, zing
reading one piece weekly is completely different then reading it all together. The arcs are so big that its more so an experience. As opposed to just a story. You will have to go back an re-read major arcs.
I have been reading weekly since thriller bark, and sometimes i just drop one piece till the full arc is out. Its a legitimate way to read it. However i would also say some arcs are absolutely amazing week to week. The assault on Onigashima, was very close to being peek weekly one piece, but I feel it has gotten a little rushed and chopped up, as Oda is already preping and organising for what is coming next. Which is a shame the Four emperors sagas climax being possibly not as epic as it could of been, but it does hype up the final saga Majorly.
why are people complaining about the tournament characters being too many in numbers?? these are the characters that form the straw hat fleet! this is important stuff imo
I disagree for 3 reasons.
1. Quite a few gladiators didn't join the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, The Kelly Funk Brothers, Ascilla, Rolling Logan, Damask, Meadows, Mummy, Cactus Guy, and more I probably don't remember because there were so many.
2. Many of the gladiators were completely useless and had no presence, some were so bad that they literally had no shown personality or fighting style, like the aforementioned Meadows and Mummy.
3. At the time of writing this, The Straw Hat Grand Fleet itself has done absolutely nothing outside of cover stories, and a few chaperoning world nobles at the Reverie for like one chapter. Don't get me wrong, they probably will have importance in the future, and when they do, I'll reevaluate my opinion, but right now, The Straw Hat Grand Fleet seems like a completely useless addition to the story.
@@talkinghoorse6936 Would it make sense for every named gladiator to join afterwards? Makes the world feel big to have so many characters with actual names that aren't necessarily important.
@@talkinghoorse6936 of course some of the gladiators didn’t join the fleet. it would be unrealistic if everyone had.
i feel as if this is a huge development for the straw hat crew and it’s important to show the influence they have on others. it shows that Luffy is still only focused on becoming pirate king and doesn’t want a fleet, yet also depicts the influence he has on other/ and how people want to follow him into battle and help him.
Because they were boring Eric , DUH
@@talkinghoorse6936 Why do you call it a useless addition to the story when you already know it is not an useless addition to the story? lol
I didn't realize Dressroas was so controversial I thought it was fine.
Me too
as a whole it is a good arc the main problem was its weekly construction with multiple breaks and how many plot threads it introduced just to resolve, the anime version amplifies every problem the weekly manga run had
Ohh, thanks for the clarification didn't watch or read it weekly so I didn't know it had these problems.
@@S-_-KING no biggie I caught up during the seatrain around when Nero was introduced
@@S-_-KING same
I love dressrosa. And the completely chaotic clusterfuckery of the whole thing is probably one of my favorite things about it
God is goos
Liam's Dolflamingo cosplay had me laughing so hard
Ikr😂
Did it better than Kinemon.
I mean it wasn't that funny...a giggle at best...
@@UGOkilleth ok?😭
"Ne, Doffy, someone's calling our kingdom a disaster, behehehe"
Dear god I hope Trebol and comes into this discussion at some point and I hope he gets utterly blasted by everyone
I wouldn't want a retaliatory snot blast lol
It’s the way I actually read that in trebols voice 😭
“Punk Hazard is half fire half ice. How did that even happen?”
... Took a bite of gum-gum!
ya-yo-ya-yaooo~
Still the best OP OP
For all it's lows, Dressrosa really had some of my favourite highs in Doflamingo, and Law and Rosinante
Facts
Dont forget senior pink
I watched from one pace and it's my second favorite after eneis Lobby.
As someone who caught up in Zou, I have never understood the hate that dressrossa gets. I can see the few parts where it dragged but it tied together perfectly in the end. Rebecca was the only weak link in the arc for me.
People give hate to dressrosa never heard of it '-' I heard dressrosa is one of the best arcs besides from wano and marineford
Luffy fights Bellamy for 13 episodes while Law is bleeding out on the roof.
In the manga Luffy fights Bellamy for 1 and a half chapters. I don't know why they decided to pad/reuse animation of Bellamy springing around for 13 episodes but it was completely nuts.
@@charlesacker9174 why that’s why most people tend to hate the anime, mainly because of the horrible pacing
@@Buccii yeah One Piece and Conan are probably the last dying embers of the infinite weekly release formula. Like seasonal anime is more profitable by this point. But those two series are relics from before DVDs were a thing.
You can see the deathknell of infinite series where World Trigger season 1 has 73 episodes and season 2 has 12 switching format. Even Dragonball the og infinite series switched it's game up. Toei doesn't know what to do with Future releases of the IP. Boruto might have actualy killed the business model. So thank you Boruto.
The funny thing is after he got done fighting Bellamy he just left belly me there and I don't know how Bellamy didn't die from blood loss or collateral damageXD
... has it really been 8 years since the start of the Dressrosa Arc? Dressrosa, Zou, Wholecake, and now Wano; it really doesn't feel *that* long
The older you get, the quicker years seem to pass by...
Reviere - am I joke to you?
Seeing this, I'm really happy that I started OP near the end of Wano and only caught up right at the end of Wano. Didn't have to go through the weekly grind.
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i started in august 2022 and made it to wano in december 2022 only to realize we have plennty to go before it ends... now were on the weekly grind
@@WYYYE Ahh, I started in July and caught up in early October. Yeah, it feels nice to be all caught up, but that weekly grind can really be a pain...
It was a journey :l
@@WYYYE Same for me, I finally made it to the end
From a storytelling perspective dressrosa is one of the best arcs in the series
Thank you, I was just coming here to say that!
I know! The Tontattas were amazing! Totally necessary
Everyday I become more grateful that I discovered One Piece during Wano and being able to binge Dressrosa cause wow this was painful
But what was truly more ambitious: the Dressrosa arc in the manga, the Dressrosa arc in the anime or the Dressrosa Disaster Documentary on the GLR channel...
I chose the third one
@@Human_traain I concur.
Nvr thought I'd sit through a 1hr documentary this was really well put together good work man
The best thing about the arc for me was the law flashback
Lol that's the only part I skipped
I liked sabo reveal, doffy flashback & gear 4th reveal. Still remember when luffy first announced it and then the chapter ended.. I was freaking out. I remember it so clearly cuz it was a week before my birthday and weirdly enough I was doing my practical test, so I was always thinking about "gears"
@@RikXtreme4 same I lost my shit when I seen gear 4 last year
@@RikXtreme4 sabo is kind of cringe
@@elodin857 I aint asking bout your thoughts in sabo, my guy.. its more on the discussion of the stuff you liked in the arc.
One thing I always found super annoying about this arc was how durable the bird cage was. Like, a clone made of string was able to be cut in half by Kyros, however none of the individual pieces of string of the birdcage were able to be cut by Zoro, who just got done cutting several hundred square meters of stone apart, or a goddamn Marine admiral. I don’t think there was ever an explanation for why it was so unbreakable, it just was.
I just assumed the strings were imbued by insanely durable, godlike Haki tbh. Idek if that's a good justification for it with how even an admiral cannot stop the cage.
I think a better question is why couldn't Bartolomeo simply create a large enough barrier horizontally to stop the birdcage from contracting?
If this does not warrant subscribing to the GLR, then i dont know what will
Hey whats up profile pic brother :D
@@pituecano8024 *insert spiderman pointing meme
Consistent feeds of One Piece content injected straight into your TH-cam feed
@@jonathand.phoenix Now lets play a game of "Ace Space" So in this game you are going to have to find who is going to save Ace, is it.....
I feel I missed the Dressrosa fatigue by waiting for Dressrosa to finish before I watched the anime.
I honestly enjoyed it even though there were a few pitfalls but they weren't so deep that it ruined my experience.
Fujitora is a great character and personally my favorite of the new characters that appeared in this arc.
It took me weeks to watch.
I had the luxury to read and watch dressrosa arc after it was wrapped and done with it, I find it to be one of my most favorite arcs
Hopefully by the end of this we might know what happened during Rebecca's childhood
Aside from those 10 or so chapters during the finale with the birdcage, I can honestly say that Dressrosa is peak One Piece along with water7, alabasta, Ennies Lobby, marinefors, sabaody.
Honestly such an amazing arc, especially if you binge read it !
If you watched Dressrosa, I highly recommend reading it. And if you read it weekly during the time it was airing, I still recommend you RE read it. Completely different experience !
So in other words the whole series?
@@lemonchicken507 no he means re read dressrosa particularly
I watched it and still loved it
I would include impel down in that list, it's one of my favorite arcs
The dress Rosa arc in a nutshell: *BIG FIST HITS STRING*
I love how we humans have come to the point where reviewing a arc for a anime is structured like a detective crime show
It's great how people can make money off of content of any kind
TH-cam premieres, just like the Dressrosa arc, are underrated
Frieza: "Are they STILL on Dressrosa?! How much time has passed?"
Seems like all the dressrosa hate comes from the weekly read manga wise. Everything else is literally just nitpicking because a lot of that stuff can be said about Wano. I started and finished one piece last year so I didn’t read dressrosa weekly or even knew about the disdain for it I finished the arc in like 2 weeks. Dressrosa is my number 1 arc in the story followed by marineford 🤷🏾♂️
And I just finished it in the anime and it was great. Don’t know what these people are getting angry about
I think it's because almost the whole event of Dressrosa takes place in one day, so there's never really tike for anyone to catch their breath, another being that unlike Wano, almost every character was introduced at the same time, Wano giving time for each new person, and like I said earlier, Dressrosa takes place in one day whilst Wano takes place in months from what we've seen
@@royolaniye6643 Wano takes place over the course of 2 weeks
@@blazingblue3588 exaclty....?
@@blazingblue3588 Yeah I just realized that, thought it was 2 months
I don't know what the issues are. I absolutely loved every part of Dressrosa.
Well good thing the whole point of this documentary is pointing out the many issues of it XD
Did you read it weekly?
@@mtandazomoyo7840 yup but still I didn't found any issue
I have been weekly since 03. More people hated Thriller Bark on a weekly basis than Dressrosa. This entire documentary can be summed up by weekly fatigue of new readers being weekly for the first time
Same here it’s my number 1 arc in the series. I binged the manga. I guess other’s problems were with watching the anime or reading weekly. I think it’s an absolute masterpiece of an arc. I debated with somebody about dressrosa a while ago and they said the arc sucked because the strawhats didn’t get a lot of shine lol
Dressrosa Anime in a nutshell:
SHOUNEN RECAP SYNDROME ARC
5 min zooming into building and the background 5 min for the opening +the recap 3 minutes for the ending leaving you with a mere 11min of new actually interesting content well... The manga was also tiring to read honestly at that moment a lot of people stopped one piece or took a long break
@@hfon3317 as usual you manga readers overreacting
Here's a little trick to shut them up, ask them when, tell me when once has the opening been 5 minutes long
DUDE I was like “that was negative why would I continue watching” and then you said, “that was a rather negative way to start a video” LOL
I personally quite liked the massive cast and scale of dressrosa when i was reading it, but i can understand how hellish reading and watching it weekly must've been.
As of the start of the Foxy arc, if you're watching the regular anime and not one of the fan cuts that removes a lot of the filler, unnecessary flashbacks and reactions shots and other non-manga aspects, you're watching it wrong.
Every time Rebecca's flashback popped up, I felt like Obito and a huge rock falling on one side of my face.
*Dressrosa :* * _is an island nearly more detailed than Konoha_ *
*One Piece Fans :* "It's actually pretty bad."
Goes to show how high a bar Oda sets with his settings. Dressrosa is an incredibly stylish and fleshed-out location and yet it's mediocre at best compared to others in the series.
Having cool things shove into a island doesn't make that island better. We know much about Naruto's village history, different clans and political conflict than dressrosa.
*some One Piece Fans
@@GameSanthila because it’s the main village lol
I just read the Dressrosa arc in a week. In my opinion, best arc of the series so far. It took everything and turned it up to 11. I loved all of the new characters, the world building, the stakes of the world. Too many perfect scenes to put into one comment.
Agreed. I just finished watching dressrosa, was easily my favorite arc of the series so far.
Same
I definitely agree with the manga dressrosa being one of if not the best arc of one piece. The anime pacing was definitely annoying though especially if you watched it weekly
i wouldnt say its the best for me but its defenitly up there at number 3 or 4 for me
Rebecca is cooler than people say. She's a strong willed survivor whose compassion and pacifistic lead her to developing a nonlethal fighting style. Her costume never bothered me as Red Sonja is an iconic character I grew up with and I loved Oda's homage to this legendary badass female warrior. The only disappointment I have regarding the character is that she was not fighting alongside her father while he was facing off against the man who killed her mother. I really wish that Diamante had brought just one or two flunkies with him so that Robin and Rebecca could have something to do if Kyros was going to face-off against Diamante alone. Maybe Diamante could have tucked a couple of folded up henchmen up his sleeves and released them just as the fight got started. Rebecca really was denied an opportunity to prove herself in the narrative and I find that to be a shame. But aside from that one blemish, I really love the character, her story & everything else -- I'm even 100% behind her shipping with Koby. I give Rebecca a B+ rating and I look forward to seeing her again in the future. (Hopefully as the Swordsman of The Princess Pirates captained by Renegade-Princess Vivi)
The only people who dislike Dressrosa are literal manchildren that want One Piece to be like a Saturday Morning cartoon where they visit colorful sky castles and dinosaur islands until they finally find buried treasure. Yes, those arcs already exist we don't need MORE of the same it's unbearable that so many fans want every arc to be like the East Blue or Fishman island arc. One Piece is already very formulaic in its storytelling it doesn't need to be even more generic to appease the lowest common denominator of audience members.
I honestly loved this arc. I think that all the characters plots and stories introduced here were absolutely magical. The introduction of Gearfour was completely mind-boggling and the buildup to the defeat of doflamingo was truly worth the wait. I think punk hazard was a disaster arc. I hated every moment of that arc except for some comedy
Yanno I recently rewatched dressrosa. And on a 4-5 episode chunk watch through I LOVED it. I really do think the pacing issues (mostly) disappear when consumed that way. I'd still like certain individual scenes not to drag on (looking at you, King Kong Gun)
I'm so excited to hear the toy soldier "song" 57 times, any time that Rebecca or Kyros is on screen it needs to play because if it isn't then you really can't call this dressrosa
It’s insane that dressrosa in the anime had more episodes than the manga arc had chapters
That's what happens when you are catching up with the manga and the anime qon't take breaks or long ass filler arcs
I guess they tried to pull a naruto.
@@forrestdorman4870 Nah that's a one piece exlusive thing. They strech the material instead of making filler
The Dressrosa Arc was good. It was better than fishman island & punk hazard imo. Granted it wasn't perfect but I loved it! Especially the moment between luffy and sabo
Thats cuz fishman island and punk hazard were setup arcs not supposed to be too good
The most impressive facet of the Dressrosa Arc for me wasn’t Doffy, but the fact that Oda was able to keep the plot so tightly knit and actually pace it well in spite of 100-plus characters and chapters. Unfortunately, it did not come across this way when serialized volumes were coming out every week, keeping readers in the same setting and impatient for the inevitable clash to happen. Shame it will be remembered as mediocre-at-best, but I don’t see how Oda could have expected an arc this long and redundant to be a success, especially with all of the hype leading up to it and mystery surrounding Doffy. Crazy how a mangaka could follow the same formula for two different tales - Alabasta - that virtually parallel each other and they could be received so differently.
As a person that started watching OP recently, I actually liked watching dressrosa since I didn’t have to wait a week for each episode/chapter.
I read the manga and this was the same for me. It took me over a month to get through Fishman Island and Punk Hazard, and I planned to just charge in and read Dressrosa over the course of a week. I was basically forcing myself to read for a little bit, and then I ended up getting super invested and read the entire arc in three days. Its much more enjoyable when you can read it in one sitting
Why is too many characters a bad thing like we’re reading a long as story about a pirate traveling the world meeting people on his journey you just remember the important one and forget the others there really can never be too many charecters
Too many at once, or rather too many characters in focus. It makes it so either some characters don't get the time they need to be fleshed out or the pacing gets really bad to accommodate them all.
I liked it because it had a looottt of characters. . Man it was a rampage...sooo much fun
I don’t know, I really liked that about this arc. Sure, the chapter they’re ALL introduced, I’m thinking “alright, most of them will be fodder, but Oda is introducing them surely because at least SOME will be important”. Turns out I was right, and I liked how it played out. Obviously the creation of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet is extremely important, and I loved it.
This was truly an amazing video, I really loved how you included the grand line fleet members and especially the way it was edited! I really hope you do another one of these in the future
Thank you very much! And I'd really like to do it again! :D
Barto’s “rain of terror” was one of the best OP moments for me so fckin funny
Reading this arc on a week to week basis was an ordeal. I remember my heart sunk when the air went out of Luffy and said he needed 10 minutes to recover...
Dressrosa was actually the first arc I read weekly, and it was...an interesting experience. I do agree that it's definitely a better story when binged than when read weekly, but it's honestly in my top 5 arcs in the series. At the very bottom of my top 5, but 5th place out of 31 (I think?) isn't bad.
@Tenyasha That's actually not a question I'd considered too much. Obviously I'm coming at this as someone who has only had the weekly reading experience with Dressrosa, Zou, Whole Cake Island, Reverie, and Wano. Whole Cake Island I also enjoyed more when I reread it after it was completed, but honestly, with Reverie, the Wano intermissions, and now Wano act 3, I've been really enjoying having the time to let the new big information stew for a while and watching the community theorize and speculate each week as we wait for the chapters. So I guess from my perspective, I prefer binging the slower-paced sections but I prefer reading the big info-dumps week-by-week. I guess that might just be a case of me subconsciously adjusting the pacing to fit my own taste.
As someone who does not watch one piece weekly, for me dressrosa introduced the materialization of one piece fans in Bartolomeo and forever grabbed a spot as a truly great arc
I'm actually curious of what people from Spain thought of this arc.
Check SBS of the Dressrosa Volumes. Some people from Spain had sent Oda a letter, dunno which volume though.
I thought the gauid architecture was nice and thats about it, the rest is like most of the fanbase
I think dressrosa's story was good, it just took too long.
It didn't. What does too long even mean lol. Same can be said for chimera ant and golden age then
Too long means: 'longer than it *should* be'
@@atomicambition4800 means it was dragged out
yea doflamingo is the only reason why i kept watching that arc lol
@@moreroidsmoreboys It was not dragged out though. It just had a ton of things going on that made it long.
Rebecca got a nice set of hefty story arcs 🤤
I hated Rebecca’s design to the point I had to lie to myself saying, “She’s dressed like that because she’s a gladiator and that’s the best she’s supplied with.” Knowing damn well that other characters had superior armor, just to tolerate it without pausing every five seconds to rant
I was having trouble understanding as if she would fight or seduce
@@zaryabK-vi8fh Why not both
@@thirdplanet4471 I guess that what oda thought
Dressrosa I feel is like skypiea. In when it finally gets to the end of the series it will be much more appreciated. I personally think it's top 4 material, any spot depending on when you ask
Yup... Dressarosa was awesome ....man people always think they could write a better story..... instead of enjoying what the author is trying to do.... They say they like one piece for world building then when oda literally builds the entire world for the story going forward by having all the major factors involved now they complain if we didn't get fishman and punk hazard instead went straight to Yonkou then they would have said ho there is continuing Power scaling is not good how can luffy fight a Yonkou so easily.....and they complain too many characters and too many story lines then say they watch one piece because it has great world building,,,, what horseshit is that Dressarosa set up so many plotlines and expanded so much of the world..... people say oda shouldn't have done this or done that like they could write a story
Skypia is my favourite arc. The more i think about it, the story is just the best.
I mean, binging it was fine. But I get why week to week readers weren‘t into it. Also Skypiea wasn‘t nearly as exhaustingly stuffed with new supporting characters and death fake-outs for the villain.
I’ts crazy to me because I binge watched dressrossa and I thought it was a good arc
because you binged - watch/reading it weekly was quite a hassle to say the least; but in retrospective, the arc was really good for all the story was building towards
Most people today love this arc because they had not to wait years for it to finish.
@@furorteutonicus9045 I think is more of the people who was watching dressorsa weekly IT WAS PAIN
Idk man, you give me a guy who:
- Doesn't see a "no pissing in the fish water" sign and acts accordingly
- Trolls the audience with a fake bomb
- Camps on the side of the storm circle the whole game then gets the chicken dinner with just one kill
Imma pick that guy, that guy got the right idea.
As some one who would actually put this arc in their top 5, this will be very interesting.
Damn we have so many people here so many opinions liam really went all out on this
I'm so glad I could binge this arc, because I definitely wouldn't have liked it if I had read it week to week. It's definitely slow in some parts but overall imo one of the best arcs in the series.
The Big Mom threat, the Mera Mera and Sabo reunion, the Doflamingo family in general, Usopp's observation Haki, Law's backstory and Corazon tying to Sengoku, Doffy straight up shooting Law and Luffy stopping him, God Usopp, the tontattas and the link back to Noland, the hard boiled backstory, Bartolomeo and Cavendish, Gear 4th, FUJITORA holy shit.
25:35 THATS ME!!! One Piece needs more pretty men like Cavendish.
Hmm, I was expecting more positive comments but maybe I was being too optimistic. Overall, very impressive documentary on what was apparently one of the most divisive arcs in OP. I'm sad my thoughts weren't included in the video but se la vie. I still think that the overall impression from volume readers was a very positive one. Leading up to this video I've seen a ton of comments saying this arc is one of their favorite arcs in the series. My thoughts are pretty positive as well, I went back watched the arc again and liked it even more then on first viewing. Some of the criticisms in the video I don't agree with at all but hey, diversity of opinion is very valuable.
Man this must be the best premiere in the history of TH-cam premiere. Please don't ever delete this liam
Dressrosa was when I stopped watching the anime a few years ago because it dragged too much. But I finally binged through it in my winter break.
About to start Dressrosa with my GF who's never seen it before. Very excited to see her view on the arc as shes going in blind and at her own pace.
29:49 My roommate made fun of me for putting so much effort into my submission.
Best use of my afternoon lol
Your submission was great fun! :D
Dressrosa is designed to be such a mundane looking destination with respect to the other arcs because it's tranquility and mundane aura is supposed to be a foil, an extreme opposite to what is going on "underground".
“Dressrosa is too long”
Wano: hold my sake
I thought Rebecca’s flashback was the best in the series, but I watched one pace so
Going through dressrosa while it was already done I loved all of it. I think it’s one of the best arcs, but I can imagine how it would’ve been going through it week by week
As a person who started One Piece as anime only, then got to dressrosa in the anime. Truly the worst experience I've ever had behind DBS. Great documentary GLR.
I loved the arc's story. The smartly shown similarities and nods to the real world are examples of absolutely brilliant writing.
BUT. THE. PACING. OMFG.
To everyone saying it’s too long… That’s what she SAID
Boooo🍅
Woooo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 my guy 😎
I actually was really loving its length. I was stressed out with beginning the arc and planned to read it over the course of a week just to get through it. Ended up reading it in 3 days because I was so excited and invested
@@scottiecurrie7927 thats what she said
How did I miss the full release... TH-cam, please.
Absolutely amazing. Not only was this an amazing documentary on the community and one of the most prominent arcs of the series, but we got an hour of your comedy. The license plate joke caught me off guard.
Hi Liam, I'm a big fan. Just a quick introduction. I've been watching your videos longer then I've been watching One Piece, but i love spoilers and they motivate me. I just finished Punk Hazard (don't bully me guys). But your videos and community is the reason I started it after watching series like Tokyo Ghoul, Naruto, etc. It has expanded my anime horizons and I love it. I will probably come back and reply to this comment when I finish Dressrosa (might be a while) but just to leave my opinions lol. Thank you Liam for all the great community stuff and the communication it's given me a lot of smiles and laughs on bad days
this project is a real step up from the usual Liam (in scale, not quality). good job putting in the work
This was 10/10 content. Would love to see more long form One Piece documentaries.
Dressrosa all in all was a good arc, Doflamingo is one of the best OP villains, and it also set up many important plot points and characters that either are or will be integral for the future of One Piece.
In the defense Of Dressrosa.
I started watching one piece about a year ago. I remember being told it was so long and filled with filler, so I was a little nervous when I made it to Dressrosa but I loved it. It’s actually my 3rd favorite arc right now right behind Enies lobby as number one and Water 7 in second place.(side note I just started Wano). Doflamingo is actually my favorite villain and Rebecca was one of favorite characters of the Dressrosa arc, i didn’t think she was annoying at all but I do have to admit I was getting a little tired of her flashbacks after a while. I also enjoyed the Colosseum part especially meeting Sai. I also loved Baby 5 and Sai love story. Then getting to see Sabo and get his backstory and being in the revolutionary army.Then Law backstory hit me like a brick. From Law’s white lead disease to meeting corazon and getting his and Doffys backstory, getting to meet more celestial dragons, to corazon sacrifice for Law. And personally I loved the aesthetic of Dressrosa. And God fucking Doffy! Getting to have a actual real psycho, manipulator villain.
Thank you for who ever read this all the way through, I’m very passionate about this arc.❤
49:20 lmaoo “I have flashbacks about the Rebecca flashbacks”
I'm a newer subscriber but I have watched a lot of your older videos before clicking this one and I have to say excellent job 🔥🔥🔥 this video was awesome!
Welcome aboard! I'm glad that you enjoyed the video! :D
@@GrandLineReview Thank you! I'm happy to be apart of the grand line army! 😁🔥
This video was expertly done! I loved it. From the editing to the varied opinions from so many different types of one piece fans. You should be super proud of this video!!! (Doflamingo is the best one piece villan btw)
Rebecca only did one thing sucessfully- she bought Luffy lunch. She failed at literally every other single thing she resolved to do in the arc.
because of the pacing i thought whole cake island (where big mom chased them in the woods) was even worse and same for the beginning of wano arc, but maybe its just because i've forgotten how slow dressrosa was...
i hope he does something similar for the wano arc later aswell. this was really fun to watch!
Dude yeah! Her chase in WCI was like she was walking. Now her pursuing the brachio tank feels like Usain Bolt is behind you
I'm a relatively recent member of the fleet, but you have my flag! Love the comedic timing and camera work in your videos
Thank you very much and welcome aboard! :D