One Piece is up there with the likes of Naruto, Bleach and
more recently Toriko as one of the biggest titles in Japanese manga. Of course,
ask your average Westerner about it and they will likely recount the horror
stories of what 4Kids Entertainment did the series. Now, I don’t have nearly as
much issue with that version of the show (I’d even say that the much-maligned
theme song is pretty catchy in its own right) but then again I don’t have as
much experience with the title as a whole. I’ve read a volume or two of the
manga and I thought it was decent enough but it never really grabbed in the way
that other series like Death Note and Toriko did. Oh trust me, the new Death Note movie
review is coming up soon but, for right now, we’re dealing with the latest iteration
of the One Piece anime… and going from this alone, I think it’d be worth it to
go through those volumes again.
