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Summary: The best manga I've read in a LONG time!!
Review: "One Piece" is truly one of the funniest things I've read in a very long time. The art is great, and the expressions are insane...very very good stuff.If you call yourself a fan of Japanese art/anime/manga, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. You won't be dissapointed!
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Summary: Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates Life for Me!
Review: "One-Piece" is currently the most popular manga series in Japan, and it well-deserves the fame and praise. It is a well-done, funny adventure and a rollicking good time. Full of strange, non sequitur characters and bizarre physical humor, One-Piece is a genre unto itself. "Romance Dawn" is the first volume of the English-translated series, and has the stretchable would-be Pirate Captain Monkey D. Lufty in search of the fabled treasure, the One-Piece. He who finds the One-Piece will have the right to call himself the Pirate King, which is Monkey's dream. "Romance" does not mean girls in this title, but the dawn of the romance of high adventure and the roaring seas. Of course, no adventure is great without the gathering of the crew, and that is what you find here. It is hard to see anyone not liking One-Piece. Definitely the best comic coming from Japan today! Yo Ho!
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Summary: Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates Life for Me!
Review: "One-Piece" is currently the most popular manga series in Japan, and it well-deserves the fame and praise. It is a well-done, funny adventure and a rollicking good time. Full of strange, non sequitur characters and bizarre physical humor, One-Piece is a genre unto itself. "Romance Dawn" is the first volume of the English-translated series, and has the stretchable would-be Pirate Captain Monkey D. Lufty in search of the fabled treasure, the One-Piece. He who finds the One-Piece will have the right to call himself the Pirate King, which is Monkey's dream. "Romance" does not mean girls in this title, but the dawn of the romance of high adventure and the roaring seas. Of course, no adventure is great without the gathering of the crew, and that is what you find here. It is hard to see anyone not liking One-Piece. Definitely the best comic coming from Japan today! Yo Ho!
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Summary: Great swashbuckling fun!
Review: Before Pirates Of The Carribean, there was One Piece. This uber-popular manga which spawned of a hit anime TV series and several movies is done by the great creator Eiichiro Oda. In it, young Monkey D. Luff wants more than anything to be a pirate. But his idol, Red-Haired Shanks, won't let him in his crew. After taking the devil's fruit of the Gum-Gum Tree, Monkey is cursed with the ability to stretch his body like Plastic Man, but at the price of never being able to swim again. Later on, he sets off from his home town with one purpose, to be the King of Pirates. He wants to go after the legendary treasure known as the One Piece left behind by the original Pirate King, Gold Roger. Not knowing what the One Piece itself is actually, Monkey goes to find his own crew. He runs into the orphened Koby who is the cabin boy for the large female pirate Alvida(picture Rosanne Barr as a pirate lass!). He gets him to leave her, and the two then seek to get the pirate hunter Zora to join then. After an altercation with a corrupt naval captain, Monkey and Zora leave Koby behind and off to get the rest of their crew. One Piece is a very long series though(forget Dragonball!), and one that you really need to commit to wanting to get into. It's got high seas adventure for any manga fan!
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Summary: Good Fun
Review: I didnt think I'd like this series at first. Someone said it was like Dragonball Z, which I detest with a passion akin to boiling oil.
Whoever said that doesnt know what they're talking about.
One Piece is nothing short of hilarious and a wonderful action comedy for all. The main characters are delightfully original and I like every single one of them (excluding Usopp). My personal favourite is Tony Tony Chopper the little reindeer, but he doesnt appear until book 16.
Dont let the freakish artwork turn you off. In time you'll come to love it. I did, and Eichirou Oda-sensei is now one of my most respected mangakas alongside the glorious CLAMP.
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Summary: One Piece Is The Greatest!!!!
Review: I LOVE THIS MANGA!!!!! Im a Shonen Jump Subscriber who loves One Piece and when I found out Shonen Jump was coming out with One Piece Graphic Novels I bought it at once! I read the whole book in one day and loved every minute of it! My favorite characters are pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy, and his first mate Roronoa Zoro. I think anyone who loves DragonballZ or Yu-Gi-Oh will love One Piece too.
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Summary: Finally, we're on the cruise!
Review: I'm surprised at how long its taken for One Piece to finally make a debut in the United States, especially considering its got over 140 anime episodes, 27 volumes of manga, video games, plushies, and just about every sort of tie-in the Japanese can come up with. Plus, the concept is a lot more original than the "catch em all" anime trash that has flooded North America over the past few years. If the reason for this delay is because One Piece can occasionally get violent to the point where characters bleed (sometimes ridiculously so, but only for effect), then one only has to realize that in Japan this series is aimed at the Pokemon demographic to see how far behind we in America are with censorship. Get over it already, and bring on the anime! But anyways, for those who've never heard of One Piece, the best comparison I can make is to the LucasArts Monkey Island computer game series. Both take liberties with the pirate age, mixing it with modern trappings and sensabilities for great comedy and adventure. Long ago, a great pirate named Gold Roger was executed, but not before leaving behind a cryptic message for people to find his treasure. Whoever finds his "one piece" will become the next king of pirates. Enter Monkey D. Luffy, a young boy who has eaten the gum-gum fruit, and has gained the ability to stretch his limbs and become the ultimate rubber man. Because of a promise made to his childhood hero, the Red-Haired pirate Shanks, Luffy sets out to become the king of pirates. In this volume, he runs into a bounty hunter named Roronoa Zoro, a pirate thief named Nami, rescues a town from a corrupt Marine Captain with an axe-hand, and prepares for a fight with a clown pirate (to be continued in volume 2). Having seen the chinese version of the manga and some fansubbed episodes, the story always follows a strict formula, like every long-running series. Luffy and company come upon a town that needs help, fight the local tyrant/pirate until they eventually win, and move on. However, something new is added each time, and the series, if a little dragged out, never becomes boring. The art is simple but effective, and the character designs get wackier and wackier as the series progresses. Plus there's a lot of great character development, with some genuinely touching backgrounds for Luffy and his crew. If you've got the money and are in the mood to read a long-running manga title, you can't go wrong with One Piece.
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Summary: LUFFY, THE PIRATE KING
Review: Luffy is a pirate who has the devil fruit ability.he is always hungry, so when he was a little kid, he ate guma guma(rubber)fruit, then he become a rubber man. He managed to have nakama(followers): zoro the swordman (want to be the best swordman, nami (want to draw world map), ussop (long nose coward who want to be bravest man on sea), sanji (who want to see blue sea-place where all fishes from diff. ocean meet), tony tony chopper (a reindeer who eat devil fruit that makes him a human), vivi (alabasta princess), carue (Vivi's spot blind bird). To be a pirate king, Luffy cs need to enter grand line and claim one piece (the pirate king-Gold Roger's treasure).
Luffy, who looks stupid but actually is dependable, is now on the death verge fighting one of the most famous pirate in grand line. I can not wait to see the continuation. Luffy cs never fail to give suspense, homour ( a lot of laugh), and drama (not too sad). There is no much romance on these series, although it is not that important. One piece is one of the best manga series nowadays
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Summary: Pirates and Manga and Clowns, Oh My!
Review: One Piece has got to be the best manga series being published right now. It's got action, great characters, a interesting plot, but most importantly... it's actually funny! Some other manga artists try to be funny, but aren't really good at it. But, Eiichiro Oda isn't one of them! These books have good humor in them. What I really wanted to say is this is the perfect manga series for people who don't like manga. One of my friends didn't like anime and liked to poke fun at the huge eyes and spikey blonde hair that suddenly appeared on people. One day, I brought One Piece Vol. 1 to school and he asked if he could read it. Now he's hooked just like me! He finished Vol. 1 in one school day and actually began reading his textbooks the wrong way by accident. I personally like that this series is more like a cartoon than a manga. For example, Luffy, the main character, ate a specail fruit when he was 7 and got the ability to stretch like rubber. Then, he and some allies team up to defeat an evil circus crew! This is my favorite manga series currently (followed closely behind by Hikaru No Go, Naruto, and the newly released Tsubasa). Now, enter the world of ONE PIECE!
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Summary: Rubber Pirate!
Review: One piece is about the pirate Munkey D. Luffy as he searches for the fabled treasure One Piece. Luffy ate the devil fruit and is now made of rubber. This results in ensuing hilarity and random face acrobatics. It has been released through the magazine Shonen Jump so if you are only into the kooshie romance stuff One Piece isn't for you. Now for most people it is either they love it or they hate it, no in between. For that matter I happen to love it. So much so that I felt the need to draw fan art, and start my own pirate crew... Don't have a ship yet. Let's just say I'm in the market. Well I don't know if you will like it but it's certainly different. I think it is good.
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