brunoafh wrote:Devil fruit, best show ever... go on...
I myself am not a qualified Xeogred, but I can definitely put up a recommendation for One Piece.
The most general way to describe One Piece is as an enormous, grand adventure. The story follows the cast of heroes as they sail across the world to find the "One Piece", left behind by Gold Roger king of the pirates (who is said to have attained all this world has to offer). Along the way, they explore a vast world full of different places, people, cultures, and history.
The first thing to note about One Piece is that, while most long-running Shonen Jump shows get worse and worse with age, One Piece continually manages to get better and better. The world that Eiichiro Oda creates is amazingly deep and detailed. Additionally, everything feels thoroughly planned out and structured. You'll see the characters mention or see something in one episode, and then literally hundreds of episodes later you'll realize that it foreshadowed something important in the series. It's so precise and yet out there I literally can't tell if Oda had it all planned from the very beginning. For example:
The depth of the world is genuinely impressive. To take one example: the way the World Government and Navy work. The Navy stands for absolute justice and protection of the weak, making them in at least some sense a figure of good. Often times they fight against malicious groups of pirates. However, they have a policy of "absolute justice" that can blind them and cause them to tip the scale and fall into wickedness themselves, which is a very realistic and human thing even seen in our own world. Some of the characters in the Navy simply assign "justice" to their action to make them seem righteous in their own minds, and believing the evils that they do as necessary actions for good (see: CP9 arc). The Government isn't transparent with its citizens, and takes part in morally gray actions. The various philosophies within the Navy also have different outlooks and opinions on what it really means. The character Don Quixote Doflamingo (who's one of the Navy sponsored warlords of the sea) has one of my absolute favorite qoutes about this in a battle later in the series:
Don Quixote Doflamingo wrote:Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!
And all of this is only about 1 single entity in the One Piece universe.
Besides all of that, this show just has everything going for it. The cast is thoroughly likable and sympathetic, the way that the characters' unique powers and abilities work is fascinating and very refreshing from Shonen jump norms; and the outside world and its cultures, societies, principles, and beliefs are all extremely immersive. The show has humor, drama, action,
everything. It's amazed me what otherwise ridiculous images and situations that show has been able to make me take seriously.
I won't say that it's for everyone, but to me it's no mystery why this series has gotten so much attention and adoration.
