Intro & Pilot

Intro

One Piece is the best selling manga in the history of the world and one of my personal favorites. In the last two weeks I have read 151 issues of this manga. I decided to take a break to review these issues. I plan to have these reviews done by the end of the summer and then write reviews as i read.

Pilot: Romance Dawn

One Piece has a rather strange pilot in the fact that it actually ties into the story, well sorta. The pilot introduces us to Luffy D. Monkey a strange boy floating alone at sea with four jolly roger sails on his tiny dingy. The pilot sets the idea for the manga as Luffy wanting to become the greatest peace main (good pirate) who has ever lived. His dream is told to have stemmed from his admiration for the peace mains who lived in his village when he was a child. Luffy also displays strange powers that are said to be the result of his eating a gomu gomu fruit. This pilot does a pretty good job of explaining the character of Luffy and does an even better job of explaining his back story. This was much better than the Naruto pilot where I was completely lost. In conclusion I enjoyed this pilot. The only issues I had with it were the discrepancies between it and the first issue but I will describe those in my next post. Until next time.

Chris Smith