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Summary: I want some of whatever Eiichiro Oda is on!
Review: What happens when you take Brad Pit (Sanji) and team him up with the likes of Pinochio (Usope), the Legendary Zorro (Zoro), A mysterious Cowgirl (Mrs. Robin), A princess in disguise (Bibi), an expert cat theif (Nami), and one of Santa's Reindeer (Chopper)? Then you finalize the group by puting them under the command of Reed Richards love child gone wrong, a Hero with what appears to be down syndrome (Monkey D. Luffy)...in the setting of mythical pirate times; enter the imaginative oddity called: ONE PIECE. Maybe some of you have heard of it. It is probably the most famous ANIME and MANGA among teens in Japan now adays, and its name is One Piece. This Manga done by Eiichiro Oda and is Dragon Ball Z meets Alice in Wonderland meets the X-Men once upon a time, somewhere over the rain-bow, and it's anything but Kanas. What I mean to say is, it is so strangly original in the artistic sense that you can't help but keep turning page after page. Sure enough, the story is the same old duke it out in Street Fighter/Goku with a bad hair day/Ultimate kung-fu style, but it is told in a quirky and often offbeat way. Sometimes you have to keep puting the book down to dry your eyes from all the tears of laughter. However, sometimes the humor is dark, and other times just too bizarre, but I will say that it is one of the most entertaining and consecutively enjoyable Manga series I have ever read. I bought the entire 32 collected issues last week, and will continue to buy the ongoing. Oda's art is anything but traditional. His characters don't look anime but have a mix between Tim Burton sketches and Alice and Wonderland drawings. They're is this morbid yet wonderful energy in the art that dazzles you with the strangeness of its own design, that you can't help but fall in love with it. Originally I avoided one piece at all costs. Just like a Pokemon plague, I was refusing to get sucked into the consumer market just because it is some popular trend. But I caved in, and now I am peniless and in love. Extremely dynamic and action packed, constantly laugh out loud funny, with odd situations, strange occurances, and even stranger characters that would give Lewis Carol a run for his originallity... enter the bizarre world of One Piece. Now if you don't mind me, I'm going to go watch One Piece anime on TV and read my One Piece manga at the same time, and polish my One Piece DVD's.
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