I just watched Sanji and Zeff on the island and the desk scene at Arlong Park. Both of those moments really hooked me into the story reading the manga.
The story is seeming to do a great job mixing funny, serious, and sad moments in the right amounts to always keep you feeling something for the characters. It never stays one way for too long.
Lol exactly, another I never started for the same reason.
Interesting subject matter, but the article read like a transcript of a Tik Tok video with the robot voiceover.
Also study size was 8.
I'm in the Water 7 arc in the manga. They're chasing NR on the train.
In the anime I'm where Buggy met up with Alvida. I feel that's the first filler, but it was still fun. I think it was all the chapter title substory stuff.
I did see One Pace, but I've been taking my time with watching it so I don't catch up to my reading. I'll probably do that if I rewatch.
PS, thanks for making a post. I can't believe how dead the anime boards are on here compared to Reddit.
I'm fairly new to One Piece as well although I've watched anime for about 20 years. I generally avoid super long things because DBZ just made me feel anything that big had to have tons of filler, plus it's just a heck of a commitment. One of the guys at my work has read it and watched it all more than once and he says it's coming to an end in the near future, and he said as much of an anime fan as you are, you aren't curious to know what the One Piece is?
I looked at it, and the art didn't look great, and what bits I saw on Toonami just looked ridiculous and childish. I kept putting it off and putting it off. But I found a colored version of the manga and started reading from the beginning. It takes a good minute to get up to speed, but the characters are fun and you care about them, the world building is good. The battles have weight to them. It's really been a ton of fun. I'm excited to finish out this epic journey now, and I totally get why this is a classic.
From watching Skallagrim and Scholagladiatoria on YouTube, it's a pretty loaded question. As shields and armor evolved, so did the weaponry to counter them. Also, if you were primarily in horseback, you would have different weapons than a foot soldier. A large two handed sword would work for someone on foot with armor, because it wouldn't be too big to use while mounted and you don't need the other hand for reigns or a shield. So basically through history it's balancing what gear you have vs your enemy.
A Roman gladius has probably killed more people than most swords. It was used for a long time and looks pretty simple to produce compared to later swords. It was also used by well trained troops, not armies of random people. Not really Inigo Montoya style though.
Most of the pics I see of Estalian Diestro are using cup hilted rapiers, and falchions in some cases. A falchion (13-16 century )would come a bit before the rapier (15-17 century) if you have an early or later time period you're looking to emulate. If you want Inigo, that's the rapier.
I've had good luck with trakt.tv to find new things. I usually just sync up what I watched with it with the SeriesGuide app, but it does have very basic "popular" lists in that. The trakt site is good for various lists and searches and you can see lists made by other users. SeriesGuide also let's me know when a new season of a show I've watched is coming out. The 2 pair week with each other. Trakt has it's own app pretty recently, but I haven't tried it.
I've seen a few sources saying she's been dealing with lung cancer the last few years and that's she died of complications from that, but I've never heard of any of the sites before, so I won't vouch for how reliable that info is, but that's all I can turn up.
I don't block too many things, because there can occasionally be news related to a topic I have no interest in that is still interesting. Like I have no interest in sports, but if there's something big like a scandal or arrest or some great play it mistakes, it's fun to catch that stuff.
The main things I outright block are anything NSFW that is definitely not for me, but mostly it's just about all of the meme communities. The amount of material those groups churn out is overwhelming and so many just seem so low effort. Things like programming humor generally don't bother me much, but most are just meh.
Dang, with her and Bob Barker, my inner child is taking a beating this week. The premiere of The Animated Series is one of my clearest childhood memories, waiting for it to start and that theme kicks in. It always amazes me she was meant to be a that character and now she's such a big part of DC.
Yes, Vivi was great too. I like that after they win, there's still a good bit left of each arc where they take time to wrap things up and push the story forward. The boss fights are fun for sure, but the world building and the character development goes beyond whatever I would have ever expected for a story about a guy with rubber powers. The story feels real, even though everything is totally nuts.
Noland's story has probably been my favorite part so far. That everyone believed in their loved ones for so long despite all the bad things that happened, even with the big snake, I felt it was very powerful.
But more I keep remembering other moments like the guy that kept waiting for water in Alabasta and such. There's just so much good stuff in there!